J&J loses trial over claims linking cancer to asbestos in talc in New Brunswick , Nj. JNJ also has mega lawsuits on 2 bipolar medications called debakote, which causes fetal alcohol syndrome effects in pregnant and the drug churns your liver worse than drinking alcohol. The other mega lawsuit against JNJ is on drug risperdal which over time can make men's tits grow , and 40 percent of users treated have a hypoallergenic effect which causes self induced seizures in the victim. JNJ IS A CAN OF WORMS IF YOU ASK ME!

Novartis expands with acquisition, while
J&J loses trial over claims linking cancer to asbestos in talc
April 9, 2018
By Charles Graham aka Vanilla spilla

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) suffered its first trial loss in a lawsuit claiming its talc-based products including Johnson's Baby Powder contain cancer-causing asbestos, with a New Jersey jury on Thursday ordering J&J and another company to pay $37 million in damages.

The verdict of liability in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Brunswick came as J&J fights thousands of cases claiming its talc products can also cause ovarian cancer. The jury found J&J and another company liable after more than two months of trial.


The lawsuit was brought by New Jersey resident Stephen Lanzo, who said he developed mesothelioma after inhaling dust that was generated through his regular use of J&J talc powder products since his birth in 1972.

Mesothelioma is a deadly form of cancer closely associated with exposure to asbestos. It affects the delicate tissue that lines body cavities, most often around the lungs, but also in the abdomen and elsewhere.

The jury awarded Lanzo $30 million and his wife $7 million in compensatory damages. It found J&J was responsible for 70 percent of the damages and said a unit of France-based Imerys SA (IMTP.PA), its talc supplier, was responsible for 30 percent.

The jury will return on Tuesday for further proceedings to determine whether to award punitive damages, according to an online broadcast of the trial by Courtroom View Network.

J&J denied the allegations and says Johnson's Baby Powder does not contain asbestos or cause cancer.

J&J in a statement said it was disappointed but would withhold further comment until the trial's completion. Gwen Myers, an Imerys spokeswoman, said Imerys plans to appeal and is confident talc did not cause Lanzo's cancer.

The Lanzos did not respond to requests for comment.

J&J, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, faces talc-related lawsuits by 6,610 plaintiffs nationally, largely based on claims it failed to warn women about the risk of developing ovarian cancer by using its products for feminine hygiene.

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By Charles Graham aka Twin - c vanilla spilla
China has long faced doubts about the veracity of its economic data and concerns about its rapidly rising level of indebtedness. While defaults and individual incidents raised questions about debt discrepancies, there was no systematic evidence that the financial system faced systemic misstatement. The People's Bank of China changed that with a few sentences.

By some estimate, the widely watched debt-to-GDP metric in China has already surpassed 300% . While this is level is worrying given the financial stress associated with countries that reached similar levels, this is only half the story. There have long been suspicions that Chinese debt numbers are not entirely accurate, but data that would demonstrate a systemic difference from data has never emerged. However, every time a company collapsed, there would inevitably come out a mountain of undeclared debt. While this raised suspicions, there was never systematic evidence.

The Financial Stability Board (( FSB )), formed after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, aggregates data for major countries that includes a broader measure of assets by banks, insurance companies, and other major asset holders. According to their data , at the end of 2015, China financial system assets had already reached 401% of GDP. This put it only 51% behind Germany and 200-300% ahead of comparable emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India, and Mexico. By this measure, at the end of 2015, China was already worrying and a distinct outlier, but not completely absurd.


China itself gave us evidence that its financial data is wildly off. The annual PBOC Financial Stability Report with little fanfare more than doubled its estimates of financial system assets. In a little noticed paragraph, the PBOC noted that "the outstanding balance of the off-balance sheet of banking institutions... registered 253.52 trillion yuan." To provide some perspective, official on-balance sheet assets were only 232.25 trillion yuan.

The PBOC report matches extremely closely official data for the on-balance sheet portion of bank assets, but matches no known official data for the off-balance sheet portion of assets. Nor does the PBOC provide many clues as to what these off-balance assets are holding. It does note that roughly two-thirds of the 253 trillion yuan is held as "financial asset services," which may mean everything from structured products sold to clients who believe the bank will stand behind the product, special purpose vehicles holding non-traditional assets, or certain types of financial flows.

If we revise our earlier estimate of financial system assets-to-GDP based upon the new PBOC numbers, China's position changes dramatically. The FSB estimate of all financial systems published only in May 2017 jumps from 401% of nominal GDP to 653% of GDP at the end of 2016 for just banking system assets. If we take the FSB data, add in the new PBOC data, and estimate forward to 2016, Chinese financial system assets are equal to 833% of nominal GDP, ahead of Japan at 657% and behind only international banking center United Kingdom at 1008%.

This level of asset accumulation imposes real costs. Whereas Japan and Europe have close to zero or negative interest rates, China has significantly higher rates. If we make the simple cheap assumption that these assets earn the short-term interbank deposit rate of return of 3.5%, it would imply a financial servicing cost to the economy of 29% of nominal GDP. Conversely, Japan, with financial assets of 657% of GDP but using the higher long-term loan rates of 1% instead, would need only 6.6% of GDP to service its asset costs. Prof. Victor Shih at the University of California, San Diego, wrote in a recent report that, "Total interest payments from June of 2016 to June of 2017 exceeded incremental increase in nominal GDP by roughly 8 trillion RMB."

What makes this disclosure concerning is how extreme the numbers are. Even the FSB placed China among developed country financialization and well outside the range of other emerging markets. The new numbers place the country on the extremity of all major economies, behind only a major international banking center, and even in front of Japan, which has run strongly expansionary monetary policy for years to try and push inflation.

Many analysts have raised concerns about asset bubbles and debt growth in China, but even the most bearish would have had trouble believing this level of financialization. Even the risks are more than hypothetical. In bankruptcies or defaults, it is common to find enormous amounts of undisclosed debts or asset management products sold by banks to clients they are expected to make good , even if technically off-balance sheet.

There are a handful of key points to remember:

We do not know what these assets hold other than three broad categories comprised of guarantee, commitment operations, and financial asset services, which even then only comprise 79% of the total 253 trillion yuan.
These are not simply bank to bank flows. It is likely this number includes some financial to financial flow, but a significant amount clearly out in the real economy. The PBOC includes under these assets entrusted loans as well as guarantee operations, both of which indicate real economy activity.
Even if the off-balance sheet assets are just bank to bank flows, this actually makes the banking system worse. This happens because that means official bank borrowing is much higher than official data indicates, lowering already strained capital adequacy rates to very concerning levels. Total on-balance sheet bank capital is 15.5 trillion yuan, or 6.1% of the 253 trillion in off-balance sheet assets. If any sizeable amount of the 253 trillion yuan in off-balance sheet assets is lent to the banks for on-balance sheet activities, this destroys the bank's capital base. In fact, depository corporations in China only list 28.6 trillion yuan in liabilities to either depository or financial corporations. So either the off-balance sheet assets are not flowing to banks in large amounts, or official on-balance sheet financial figures for the country are wildly wrong with disastrous consequences. I personally lean to the idea that most of these assets are not flowing to banks, but do want to emphasize that if you are going to make the counter argument, the implications are probably even larger and worse.
There are two primary ways in China that assets end up off balance sheet. First, the Enron model. In this scenario, accounting sleight of hand is used so that SPVs are used, so that an entity does not have to consolidate finances of entities it effectively controls. It should be noted that this does not mean that the bank or other institutions have done anything technically illegal, only that while control may legally lie elsewhere and finances are not consolidated up to a known parent, the financial risk never leaves. Many bad debt management schemes are where a major bank acts as manager but holds less than the controlling amount so that they can claim the debt is off their balance sheet. In some instances, they work with other banks which contribute the capital required to ensure the manager is not aggregating financials upwards. I even know of some instances where the banks are buying debt from other banks, where the clients who are the bad debtor are contributing the majority of capital as the bank buys bad debt from other banks as the manager of a fund. The key point is that Chinese banks are technically meeting accounting requirements to move debt off balance sheet but not transferring the risk.
The second most likely source is banks selling asset management products to other clients. These products are widely spread throughout the economy, from corporate China looking to store cash for 30 days, wealth management firms, or individual bank clients. What is important to note is that in this case, the bank typically does not technically/legally carry the legal risk of the product purchased by clients. Most of the products are unguaranteed. However, pragmatically, this simply is not an accurate assessment of the reality. Take an extreme example. Assume a significant portion of these off-balance sheet assets sold, even say 10%, defaulted and went to zero. This would cause a major problem. Where we have seen large losses attempt to be imposed on retail-type investors, they have almost always been bailed out. Beijing and defenders can claim all day long that neither Beijing nor the state-owned banks guarantee these products, but when Beijing starts imposing large losses on investors rather than bailing them out, then I will believe it. To date, that has not happened.
It is important to note that given the size of these off-balance sheet assets, this obfuscation of financial data has been occurring for many years. Even China does not go from 0 to 253 trillion RMB in one year. This implies that we need to rethink the entirety of Chinese development and finance since probably about 2000. One truism has been that when true pictures of financial health are obtained, typically in a default, there is always an enormous amount of undeclared liabilities. We can no longer exclude that these are not isolated cases, but, as the PBOC has admitted, the norm rather than the exception.
We do have some scant evidence of how rapidly this off-balance sheet side of the banking system has grown. In the 2015 FSR , the PBOC listed off-balance sheet assets at the end of 2014 as equal to 70.44 trillion RMB or equal to 40.87% of "Chinese banks aggregated balance sheets." In the 2016 FSR , the PBOC said it was equal to 82.36 trillion RMB and equal to "42.41% of the total on-balance sheet assets." The reason the 2017 figure exploded to 253 trillion RMB was because "Starting in the first quarter of 2017, the PBC would count the off-balance-sheet wealth management products in banks' total credit in the MPA framework, which would urge the banks to strengthen off-balance-sheet risk management, so that the macroprudential framework would be more effective when conducting countercyclical adjustment and guiding the economic restructuring." Put another way, it knew the risks were there before, but it was not reporting them. This means we can assume the on- and off-balance sheet assets are two distinct pools of capital/assets and not overlapping, as it might be rightfully asked. This means the on- and off-balance sheet assets for Chinese banks total 232 trillion plus 253 trillion RMB.
The absolute size and growth of assets imply there will be enormous (as in Biblical) costs to deleverage. Let me give you a simple example. Let's assume a flat rate of economic financialization, by which I mean that nominal GDP and systemic financial asset growth are equal. For our case here, I'm going to use similar but round stylized numbers. In our world, financial system assets are equal to eight times nominal GDP. Now, let's assume that both financial system assets and nominal GDP grow at 10%. In this stylized but similar world, financial system assets will have grown by an amount equal to 80% of GDP. If both nominal GDP and financial system assets grow at 10%, by 2025, China will have financial system assets equal to approximately 1,900% of nominal GDP. Because total banking system assets are so much larger than nominal GDP, simply growing both at the same pace will continue to lever up the economy.
This might actually explain one unique data point which no one has a good explanation for, including myself. For a number of year, fixed asset investment in China has been above 80% of GDP. Through the first three quarters of 2017, it is only 77.3%. It has been puzzling to many how FAI could top 80% of GDP even with the growth in debt that we saw. That was simply an amazing number. Well, if there was unseen asset growth of equal to twice official banking system assets, this would explain how FAI could comprise that amount of GDP. However, this implies that China has been much, much more dependent on credit and money growth to drive GDP than anyone, even myself, could have believed.
This further implies that much of this economic boom has been driven by a hidden expansion of money and credit. As research has noted, it is much easier to stimulate activity with hidden monetary loosening than with expectations. If the numbers the PBOC notes are real, this would imply many years of hidden loosening.
This further implies there is a large (read Biblical) asset bubble. At first glance, this seems to match the data. If we look at the data on the major asset for households, real estate in tier one cities is the most expensive in the world, and even the average tier two and tier three city has higher per square foot price than most of the United States. The median price in the United States for real estate is $139 per square foot. Tier two cities in China are currently at $170, with tier three cities at a more pedestrian $110. Using conservative extrapolations of national housing prices in China yields a current average price per square foot of $191 per square foot. To provide some perspective, residential real estate in China is 38% more expensive on a price per square foot basis, but nominal per capita GDP in the United States is 608% higher. We could point to a variety of other assets which appear vastly overvalued, but given the increase in financial assets appear prone to a significant revaluation.
This also has significant implications for foreign exchange policy. It implies that China will maintain strict capital control measures in place for the quite some time. Let's take a simple example that we could expand to other sectors of the country's economy. Assume that markets have pressure to equalize prices. Chinese citizens and firms have a very real interest in switching into similar foreign assets, while foreigners have very little interest in switching into Chinese assets. I have long noted that there is fundamentally, absent controls, a much larger structural non-cyclical interest in the Chinese purchasing foreign assets than in foreigners purchasing Chinese assets. Unless China is willing to accept a much lower value for the RMB, it cannot allow a change to its foreign exchange policy.
Though I am always loath to bring politics into discussions about Chinese economic and financial policy because politics is too unknowable in China, I think there is a little worth commenting on here, though this is mostly speculation. This nugget of information was dropped in the middle of a report in an almost off-handed way. However, the magnitude of the revelation is akin to saying over dinner, "I just killed five people before I arrived, would you mind passing the salad dressing?" The reason this matters is that PBOC head, Zhou, has been making the rounds talking about a variety of things like Minsky moments and slowing corporate debt growth. I don't think it was any coincidence that this nugget of information was dropped into conversation as Zhou appears to be heading out the door and making the rounds using language he knows will raise concern. While it is fair to question his reformist intent, how long he will stay, and other issues, he clearly knows that discussing these issues in this manner and dropping this piece of information raise concern. If I can speculate, it appears Zhou is trying to raise the pressure to reform without burning it down. It does make one think that the information was released to pressure Beijing.
There is way too much we do not know about the details of this revelation. However, it is without a doubt the largest and most altering revelation to come out of the Chinese economy probably this decade. It will require a major rethink to what we think we know about the Chinese economy, how it developed, and what the future holds.

I would like to thank Chris Aston, who originally tweeted about this in July from the Chinabankingnews.com website, and the author of the appropriately named Deep Throat blog, who wrote about this topic and does great work on a variety of issues, and who drove me to revisit this issue. I originally chose not to write about this topic because the numbers were so outlandish, I figured I had to be seriously missing something that caused them to be much more normal.

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Preparing For Ground Invasion Of North Korea

BREAKING: U.S. Forces 

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Charles Graham aka Vanilla Spilla

U.S. military forces reportedly began training for a mission involving a ground invasion of North Korea, with the objective of deactivating all their nuclear weapons.

According to military sources who spoke to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, hundreds of U.S. and South Korean soldiers conducted an exercise dubbed “Warrior Strike,” preparing them to “infiltrate North Korea and remove weapons of mass destruction in case of conflict.”

Photos published on the unit’s Facebook page show armed soldiers training with night vision equipment, gas masks, helicopters and expensive weaponry.

“On December 15, 2017, Bravo Company, 1-5 CAV converged on a subterranean tunnel for training,” a description of the post reads. “Check out these photos and stay tuned for more coverage of BlackJack soldiers in action.”

The exercises concur with a recent analysis by the Pentagon that determined a ground invasion of North Korea would be the “only way” to fully disarm the country of its nuclear arsenal.

“The only way to ‘locate and destroy—with complete certainty—all components of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs’ is through a ground invasion,” wrote Rear Admiral Michael Dumont on behalf of the Pentagon Chiefs of Staff.

Last week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reiterated that it is not the White House’s desire to send troops into North Korea, and it remains one of “four no’s” which the U.S. is hoping to avoid.

“We are not seeking the collapse of the North Korean regime. We are not seeking regime change. We are not seeking the accelerated reunification of the Korean Peninsula. And we are not seeking an excuse to send our military north of the [border with South Korea],” said Tillerson’s spokesperson Heather Nauert.

“The most important thing to us would be securing those nuclear weapons they’ve already developed and ensuring that nothing falls into the hands of people we would not want to have it,” she continued.

The training exercises come as the rogue communist state continues to aggressively advance its nuclear program while threatening the U.S. and prominent allies such as South Korea and Japan with total destruction.

Last month, the U.S. and South Korea also held a series of large-scale military exercises across the Korean peninsula, which mainly involved showcasing their most powerful fighter jets and stealth bombers. Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said was “aimed at enhancing the all-weather, day and night combined air power operation capabilities of South Korea and the U.S.”

Tillerson himself recently confirmed that he had discussed military action with Chinese counterparts and any action would involve soldiers immediately returning to South Korea through the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ.)

“We have had conversations that if something happened and we had to go across a line, we have given the Chinese assurances we would go back and retreat back to the south of the 38th Parallel when whatever the conditions that caused that to happen.”

"This demonstration of effective end-to-end system performance in a realistic ballistic flight environment marks another on-time achievement for the B61-12 Life Extension Program,” said Brig. Gen. Michael Lutton, NNSA’s principal assistant deputy administrator for military application. “The successful test provides critical qualification data to validate that the baseline design meets military requirements. It reflects the nation's continued commitment to our national security and that of our allies and partners."

 NNSA said that in conjunction with the US Air Force, it had completed the first qualification flight test of B61-12 gravity nuclear bomb on March 14 at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada."

Four months later, and just as concerns over North Korea's provocative launches have send shockwaves across global markets - again - the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced another successful flight test of B61-12 gravity nuclear bombs in Nevada. The second qualification flight test for the nuclear bomb was carried out by the NNSA and the US Air Force.

According to the NNSA press release, two B61-12 gravity bombs (without a nuclear warhead) were dropped from F-15 fighter jets on August 8 at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, and were designed to test the "non-nuclear functions and the aircraft’s capability to deliver the weapon." These tests are part of a series over the next three years to qualify the B61-12 for service. As we noted at the time, the first qualification flight test occurred in March.

“The B61-12 life extension program is progressing on schedule to meet national security requirements,” said Phil Calbos, acting NNSA deputy administrator for Defense Programs. “These realistic flight qualification tests validate the design of the B61-12 when it comes to system performance.”

According to the editor-in-chief of National Defense magazine, Igor Korotchenko, the second test of the nuclear bomb could indicate that Washington is speeding up its rearmament program. "The fact of the test of this modification of the nuclear bomb indicates that the US continues an accelerated rearmament program of its tactical nuclear arsenal in Europe, as well as that both Washington and Brussels are considering the scenario of a limited nuclear war in Europe," he said.

Furthermore, as RT reminds us, the test comes two months after Politico reported that US senators were pushing legislation to compel President Donald Trump to take steps to develop new missiles which would be “the first steps to jettisoning what is known as the INF treaty.” Moscow said that such a move would be “ridiculous” and would damage America itself as well as its European allies.  In July, Republican Senator Tom Cotton, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, suggested bypassing the milestone treaty that bans the testing, production and possession of land-based intermediate-range missiles by both Moscow and Washington. He urged the White House to “facilitate the transfer of cruise missile technology to our (American) allies,” explaining that “only the US and Russia have signed this treaty. No other country did.”

After the announcement of the plans to upgrade the B61 nuclear weapon, Russia expressed its concerns that the move could destabilize global security. “This means that the armaments threshold could in theory have been lowered, which of course will destabilize the situation to a certain extent,”said the deputy head of Russia’s Foreign Ministry, Sergey Ryabkov, in August 2016.  The program, started under President Obama means that over the next 30 years Washington could spend up to $1 trillion to modernize the US nuclear arsenal. Shortly after his election, president Trump called for the US to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability,” though he criticized the Obama administration’s costly modernization program during the election campaign.

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The latest test was the second in a series that will be conducted over the next three years to qualify the B61-12 for service. Three successful development flight tests were conducted in 2015.

"This demonstration of effective end-to-end system performance in a realistic ballistic flight environment marks another on-time achievement for the B61-12 Life Extension Program,” said Brig. Gen. Michael Lutton, NNSA’s principal assistant deputy administrator for military application. “The successful test provides critical qualification data to validate that the baseline design meets military requirements. It reflects the nation's continued commitment to our national security and that of our allies and partners."

"The flight test included hardware designed by Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories, manufactured by the Nuclear Security Enterprise plants, and mated to the tail-kit assembly section, designed by the Boeing Company under contract with the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center," the NNSA statement said.

Phil Hoover, an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, shows off a flight test 
body for a B61-12 nuclear weapon

The B61-12 consolidates and replaces four B61 bomb variants in the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The first production unit is scheduled to be completed by March 2020.

The original B61 gravity bomb is the mainstay of the Air Force’s nuclear arsenal and one of the legs of the so-called nuclear triad, along with the intercontinental ballistic missiles deployed from either ground-based silos or oceangoing submarines. The B61 nuclear gravity bomb, deployed from U.S. Air Force and NATO bases, has almost 50 years of service, "making it the oldest and most versatile weapon in the enduring U.S. stockpile." Numerous modifications have been made to improve the B61’s safety, security, and reliability since the first B61 entered service in 1968, and four B61 variants remain in the stockpile: the 3, 4, 7, and 11. However, the aging weapon system requires a life extension to continue deterring potential adversaries and reassuring our allies and partners of our security commitments to them.

The B61-12 LEP will refurbish, reuse, or replace all of the bomb’s nuclear and non-nuclear components to extend the service life of the B61 by at least 20 years, "and to improve the bomb’s safety,  effectiveness, and security" according to the NNSA. The B61-12 first production unit will occur in FY 2020. The bomb will be approximately 12 feet long and weigh approximately 825 pounds. The bomb will be air-delivered in either ballistic gravity or guided drop modes, and is being certified for delivery on current strategic (B-2A) and dual capable aircraft (F-15E, F-16C/D & MLU, PA-200) as well as future aircraft platforms (F-35, B-21).

President Trump has endorsed the ambitious and expensive plan to modernize the US nuclear triad, begun under his predecessor.

The August test of the B61-12 was the second in a series with the final design review due in September 2018 and the first production unit scheduled for completion by March 2020. Once the bomb is authorized for use in 2020, the US plans to deploy some 180 of the B61-12 precision-guided thermonuclear bombs to five European countries as follows:

• Belgium - 20;
• Germany -20;
• Italy - 70;
• Netherlands - 20;
• Turkey -50;

... although in light of the recent deterioration in relations between Washington and Ankara, it will likely consider reassessing the Turkish deployment.

A New Tool to Track Russian Disinformation on Twitter. Alliance for Securing Democracy» project it has launched- Gaining a Leg UP ON Russian- Propaganda Machine. The proliferation of belligerent Soviet gangs from enslaving the entire Usa into service to the Communistic Soviet robot operators and jobless titles as the dealing deathblow to weaken the West ..i'm personally horrified at the aspect that my once bountiful insurance is not gratuitously turned to toilet paper while the RUSSIAN maffia lives high on the hog as first class citizens..there are too many shitty things going on that need reversing which will send millions into the gutters. Yes. that's what i said. if you followed my campaign, i tracked their communist activities of money laundering and campaign finance fraud since the pre -Obama regime it's a matter of time before they are emboldened enough to start the Bolshevik romanov style genocide campaign to steel the rest of the money entitlements and intellectual properties from the non communists constituents. but the pentagon has assured me they stand to defend the USA from enemies foreign and domestic. and according to the constitution, your citizenship is revoked t he minute you conspire to commit a felony. and that's several felonies. so like i said. it will look like a nuclear terrorist attack with *"MASS DEATH***" and all that. i'm going to change that from " the communists" (which itself, is a term that is very ambiguously defined) to "bureaucrats" which is what they are. a self anointed fundamentalist regime that steals from the hard working leaders of out society and anoints itself as "Leaders" which they clearly are not .

‘The German Marshall Fund, Through its strangely Soviet-sounding »Alliance for Securing Democracy» project it has launched something called «Hamilton 68: A New Tool to Track Russian Disinformation on Twitter». --  EXPLORE THE TOOL CREATED TO TRACK RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION (600 RUSSIAN Twitter dISINFO from Putin (the AntiChrist) tracked

‘This project monitors 600 Twitter accounts that the German Marshall Fund claims are «accounts that are involved in promoting Russian influence and disinformation goals».

\Russia and China, and their systems’ struggles for survival, in the upcoming second volume of The Origins of Political Order.


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The West should be particularly concerned about the future of these two models of the centralized state. The impact that Russia and China have on global security and the world economy is not the only cause for concern. More importantly, both authoritarian systems have found a way to exploit liberal democracy, and both have been quite successful at doing this. Since the fall of Communism, Russia’s personalized regime has been able to use the West as an important guarantor of its stability. It has also been sponging off liberal democracies, in the form of its elite’s personal integration into Western society. This integration has led to the creation of powerful pro-Kremlin lobbying structures that are undermining the normative foundation of liberal democracy (in fact, the Western politicians often don’t even recognize that this is what is happening). It is unclear how the Putin regime will survive, now that it has embarked on the path of consolidating itself by rejecting the West and treating it as an enemy

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reputed to be the sixth richest man in Britain – gave a £75 million, or $119 million, donation to Oxford
University to open what is now called Blavatnik School of Government (BSG). BSG’s ultimate idea is to
compete with Kennedy’s School of Government, Harvard University on a global scale. In spring 2012,
Blavatnik was praised at a lavish reception at Waldorf Astoria as a “one of the global leaders of the 21st
century” and in October 2012 Blavatnik received an exceptional award from Chris Patten, Chancellor of
Oxford University, called Sheldon Medal.165
 In 2007 Blavatnik together with New York Academy of
Sciences has also sponsored “Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists” for young postdoctoral and faculty
scientists who work in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut.
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President Viktor Yanukovych and Russia’s Gazprom, made a number of donations to the University of
Cambridge.167 Reportedly, Firtash made most of his money through opaque gas trade schemes between
Russia and Ukraine which has been questioned by FBI, Ukrainian and Russian opposition. In 2011 he
actually filed a libel lawsuit against a Ukrainian paper the Kyiv Post, citing his donations to the University
as one of the reasons he has chosen to pursue the case through the British Courts.168
In 2011, Boris Jordan, an American businessman of Russian origin, gave a grant to New York
University to establish what is now The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This center
often holds panels that discuss freedom of press and media in Russia. Paradoxically, in 2001-2003 Jordan
who had close connections with Russian financial elite and government, was the Director General of the
Russian TV channel NTV and also the Director General of Gazprom Media, a subsidiary media holding of
Gazprom (now of Gazprombank) that owned NTV. Unlike US media and NYU, Russian opposition still
remembers vividly that on 3 April 2001, Gazprom Media conducted a shareholders’ meeting with
violations of procedures and removed the lawful director Evgeniy Kiselyov from the NTV Director
General position. On 14 April 2001, Gazprom took over NTV by force and brought in its own

165 http://www.campaign.ox.ac.uk/news/blavatnik_medal.html
166 http://blavatnikawards.org/about/
167 http://www.cambridgetrust.org/partners/dmitry-firtash
168 http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/3112
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management team, headed by Boris Jordan. Many leading Russian journalists, including Yevgeniy
Kiselyov, Svetlana Sorokina, Viktor Shenderovich, Vladimir A. Kara-Murza, Dmitry Dibrov, left the
company because of this violent suppression of the lawful media outlet. Citizens concerned by the
threat to the freedom of speech in Russia argued that the financial pressure on NTV was inspired by the
Vladimir Putin’s government, which was often subject to NTV’s criticism. Some tens of thousands of
Russians rallied to the call of dissident NTV journalists in order to support the old NTV staff in April 2001.
Within the next couple of years, two independent TV channels which absorbed the former NTV
journalists, TV-6 and TVS, were also shut down. At the end of 2001, the Washington Post article argued
that after the new management headed by Jordan forced its way into NTV, the channel ceased to be
independent and became a loyal outlet for Kremlin.169
Conclusions.
Summary and policy suggestions
The overwhelming negligence that we, in general, see in regard to the Russian regime and its
affiliates on the political agenda of US, UK and Western European countries is occurring because Russia
is seen as difficult but relatively stable state, trying as always to maximize its influence but playing
generally from a weak hand (or at least it is perceived as such).170 US and European policy makers have
other concerns and they are simply not interested in Russia while national parliaments lack knowledge
about Russian corrosive practices. At the same time US and UK do not want to antagonize Russia on
issues that are seen as secondary to the objectives of securing regional security in certain conflict zones
of the world and enhancing solely economic cooperation based on large business and trade.
At the time when Obama’s “Re-set” policy is considered dead171, Russian press-secretary almost
publicly mocks Britain, the little island, as diplomatically irrelevant172, and Russian security and

169 http://www.newsru.com/russia/07dec2001/jordan_ntv.html
170 http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/57953.html
171 http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2013/05/24/n_2930037.shtml
172 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10290243/Russia-mocks-Britain-the-littleisland.html
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diplomatic corps are increasingly distancing themselves from joint security173 and political treaties with
the West, US and UK administrations should finally realize what type of regime and legacy they are
dealing with. In USSR there was a Communist party rule, where Politburo members held KGB and other
security forces under control. Now the regime is controlled by former KGB members themselves without
any party control and they are ready to employ all mechanisms in the security and political spheres that
KGB was good with in Soviet times for their current global business interests, ranging from energy to all
other possible industries.174 In this task ex-KGB ruling elite is hugely enhanced on global stage through
hands of extremely wealthy and mostly loyal tycoons, who often have questionable track record
(carefully recorded by the Kremlin and FSB) and are fearful to lose their assets and connections in
Russia. These tycoons are helping to extend questionable practices and values of the Russian political
and economic system in all walks of western life. In the table below we have summarized all different
layers of corrosion export mentioned in this article with their characteristics, effects on US and UK and
possible policy suggestions.


It's clear as crystal that the overwhelming composite for the distributor and fake news blitzer , without questions is in fact key industry Warner Record Label,   that you really want to know why? because people look to the us to defend them from eventualities.. and as you said. even people in the usa thought the usa was collapsing politically when obama shilled out an effective trillion to the bankrupted Russian covert gangsters.. it's horrifying to imagine them gaining control of the government and requiring the pentagon to erase them . it would be more convenient to oust them and say terrorists did it.. but if there was a strong enough nation, they could just step in and later say" excuse us"

If that makes you sick to your stomach, then you see that nobody is stopping the proliferation of belligerent Soviet gangs  from enslaving the entire Usa into service to the Communistic Soviet robot operators and jobless titles as the dealing deathblow to weaken the West ..i'm personally horrified at the aspect that my once bountiful insurance is not gratuitously turned to toilet paper while the RUSSIAN maffia lives high on the hog as first class citizens..there are too many shitty things going on that need reversing which will send millions into the gutters.
Yes. that's what i said. if you followed my campaign, i tracked their communist activities of money laundering and campaign finance fraud since the pre -Obama regime it's a matter of time before they are emboldened enough to start the Bolshevik romanov style genocide campaign to steel the rest of the money entitlements and intellectual properties from the non communists constituents. but the pentagon has assured me they stand to defend the USA from enemies foreign and domestic. and according to the constitution, your citizenship is revoked t he minute you conspire to commit a felony. and that's several felonies. so like i said. it will look like a nuclear terrorist attack with *"MASS DEATH***" and all  that. i'm going to change that from " the communists"  (which itself, is a term that is very ambiguously defined) to  "bureaucrats" which is what they are. a self anointed fundamentalist regime that steals from the hard working leaders of out society and anoints itself as "Leaders" which they clearly are not  .

A New Shape for a WORLD ORDER - A motion for the China-USA-Russian Strategic Alliance could be in the works.Now after a roundtable debate, THE USA has made a 180 degree turn, regarding Foreign Policy, this Stance is clear, It would be in America's interest to collapse ENGLAND and DEMOTE EUROPE.! This essentially would create a More Powerful New World Order of 2017 and Beyond .. would be an Order of Titanic Proportions...This requires, at long last, the completion of the US Revolution against the British imperial system, crushing that evil system within the US and worldwide, now, before they succeed in launching a war that would mean the immediate end of civilization as we know it.

Breaking news , tides have shifted , there has been a roundtable 180 Degree turn In American Foreign Policy, the United States is perhaps on the verge to A New Shape for a WORLD ORDER - A motion for the China-USA-Russian Strategic Alliance. It would be in America's interest to collapse ENGLAND and DEMOTE EUROPE.! This essentially would create a More Powerful New World Order of 2017 and Beyond .   

It perhaps, is no longer in America's Favor to prop up a rather abysmal United Kingdom, a sorry excuse for an ally these days. Analyzing the economic data today, it is clear that The United Kingdom is really the Divided Kingdom, he says, calling the U.K. a broken growth model - dependent on imports, weak public finances, high household leverage, stagnant productivity, growing social imbalances.

The takeaway: Go short long-dated Gilts, which currently yield more than 200 basis points less than 10-year inflation expectations. Then there's the cost of Brexit - 7% of GDP over the next few years.

Notable U.K. ETFs:  profiting on the expected U.K. collapse , FXB, EWU, GBB, EWUS, FKU, DXPS, DBUK, QGBR, HEWU

A New Shape for a WORLD ORDER - A motion for the China-USA-Russian Strategic Alliance / One possible way to do this would be for Trump to propose replacing “little” NAFTA with “big” NAFTA—the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, which would bring the United Kingdom directly into a post-EU Anglo-Atlantic sphere, while at the same time delivering on Trump’s anti-Mexican (though not anti-Canadian) election pledge. At the same time, Trump could credibly apply pressure on other NATO members to increase their currently risible defense budgets. Finally, he and Putin could work together to help continental populists such as Marine Le Pen to win the elections of 2017. As Roosevelt put it in 1906: “France ought to be with us and England—in our zone and our combination. It is the sound arrangement economically and politically.”The 

-U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) intends to 

extend by July 16, 2017 the current no-action relief to Shanghai Clearing 

House for six months, with further extensions amounting to up to three years, 

if appropriate and consistent with the conditions set forth in the no-action 

relief. The People’s Bank of China and the CFTC are to work towards a 

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) concerning the cooperation and the 

exchange of information related to the oversight of cross-border clearing 

organizations.

 -By July 16, 2017, China is to issue any further necessary guidelines 

and allow wholly U.S.-owned suppliers of electronic payment services (EPS) 

to begin the licensing process. This should lead to full and prompt market 

access. China is to continue to allow Chinese banks to issue dual brand-dual 

currency bankcards that allow U.S. EPS suppliers to process foreign currency 

payment card transactions.

-The applicable U.S. federal regulatory authorities remain committed 

to apply in the United States the same bank prudential supervisory and 

regulatory standards to Chinese banking institutions as to other foreign 

banking institutions, in like circumstances and in accordance with U.S. law.

China is to issue both bond underwriting and settlement licenses to 

two qualified U.S. financial institutions by July 16, 2017.

-The United States recognizes the importance of China’s One Belt and 

One Road initiative and is to send delegates to attend the Belt and Road 

Forum in Beijing May 14-15. 

-The United States welcomes direct investment by Chinese 

entrepreneurs as it does by entrepreneurs from other countries. The United 

States welcomes Chinese participation in the SelectUSA Investment Summit 

that will be held June 18-20 in Washington D.C. read full report http://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/secretaryrossbriefing.pdf

To Stop the War Party, Shut Down the British System

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, the United States' most powerful non-nuclear bomb was recently used in Afghanistan by the Trump administration. [defense.gov]

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The majority of the world’s nations and peoples are in a state of shock, and fear, that the recent 180 degree turn by President Donald Trump -- from his rejection of "regime change" and a commitment to work with Russia and China for peace and development, to a criminal and unwarranted military attack on Syria and a threat to preemptively attack North Korea -- could provoke a global nuclear war at virtually any moment. This fear is fully justified, but to prevent such an existential disaster for mankind, they must finally come to terms with the fact, long identified by Lyndon LaRouche, that the source of this crisis is the British Empire and the British System.

Not only did the London Guardian brag on April 13 that Britain's GCHQ (the UK's NSA equivalent) first notified the US intelligence services of so-called suspicious contacts between Trump campaign personnel and Russians deemed to be "suspected intelligence agents" – as if contact with Russians were a bad thing – but they openly complained that the United States was prohibited by law from spying on their own citizens -- so the Brits had to do it for them.

Through their influence over political and media networks in the U.S., and their primary asset George Soros, the British used a totally fake dossier fabricated by "former" MI6 agent Christopher Steele to create a "color revolution" movement against the Trump presidency over supposed ties to the Russians. Then, using fake intelligence reports from their terrorist-connected "White Helmet" assets in Syria, the British surrounded Trump with the lie that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against their own population – an absurdity, since it served no military purpose, and the Syrian government was already clearly winning the war against ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists with Russian help. Recall that it was Tony Blair who provided the fake intelligence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, drawing GW Bush into the war on Iraq that launched the current Hell of terror and mass refugees across the Middle East.

This British complicity was made public on April 12th in the UN Security Council, when Russian Deputy Envoy to the Security Council, Vladimir Safronkov, turned directly to the British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, who had just denounced Russia for backing Bashar al Assad in Syria (and who had earlier been an aid to Tony Blair when the British launched the criminal war on Iraq). Safronkov correctly identified the British motive in their lies and war mongering: "You are afraid that we might work with the U.S. This is what you lose sleep over."

This is exactly the British purpose. The British have used the United States as their "dumb giant" to fight their colonial wars ever since the assassination of John F. Kennedy – from Vietnam to Iraq to Libya and Syria, and now perhaps North Korea, which would bring all of Asia and the world into a nuclear holocaust. The British are willing to risk global nuclear war in order to prevent the U.S. from breaking the imperial division of the world into conflicting East and West, from uniting the entire world behind mutual peace and development, and ending Empire once and for all.

LaRouche's Schiller Institute demonstrated the way out of this disaster on April 13-14 in Manhattan, in a conference titled "U.S.-China Cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative and Corresponding Ideas in Chinese and Western Philosophy." Speaking at the conference were leading Chinese and Russian diplomats and professionals, presenting the urgency that President Trump join with China and Russia in the New Silk Road projects now bringing win-win development, rather than war, to every part of the world. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, addressed both the urgency of this cooperation as the necessary "war avoidance" policy, but also the need to bring the cultural traditions of all great nations – and especially those of the Chinese Confucian culture and the Western Renaissance culture – into harmony as the basis for meeting the common aims of mankind.

This requires, at long last, the completion of the US Revolution against the British imperial system, crushing that evil system within the US and worldwide, now, before they succeed in launching a war that would mean the immediate end of civilization as we know it.

Every citizen, of every nation, must act on the basis of their true humanity at this moment of crisis of civilization, to join with the LaRouche movement and other like-minded citizens of the world, to crush the British system, and bring into being a new paradigm represented by the New Silk Road process of peace through development.

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche's keynote address to the April 13-14th conference, "U.S.-China Cooperation on the Belt & Road Initiative," exploring the corresponding ideas in Chinese and Western thought.