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Сегодняшняя историческая экскурсия будет в сравнительно недавнее время - март 2015. В этом месяце сконцентрировались события, значения которых трудно было оценить сразу, но которые определили ход дальнейшей мировой истории.
В России этот месяц начался с похорон Бориса Немцова. Лозунг «Россия будет свободной» продолжает звучать на марше памяти Немцова, но его исполнение отодвигается на неопределенное будущее.
Незадолго перед смертью Немцов начал работу над докладом «Путин. Война» о преступно развязанной войне в Украине, но не успел его закончить.
2 марта 2015 New York Times публикует разоблачительное расследование про то, что Хиллари Клинтон использовала личный емайл во время работы госсекретарем.
“Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.
Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.
It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary’s post in early 2013.
Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach.“
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html
Это даст повод республиканскому руководству комиссии по Бенгази послать Клинтон повестку на ее электронные письма и породит псевдоскандал, который будет раскручен прессой и продлится вплоть до выборов в ноябре 2016. Крики “Lock her up!” продолжаются на трампингах до сих пор.
4 марта 2015 Путин выступает на расширенном заседании коллегии МВД.
“Нужно избавить наконец Россию от позора и трагедий наподобие той, которую мы совсем недавно с вами пережили и видели, имею в виду дерзкое убийство Бориса Немцова прямо в центре столицы. <...>
Экстремисты отравляют общество ядом воинствующего национализма, нетерпимости и агрессии. К чему это может привести, мы хорошо знаем по примеру соседней страны – Украины.
В прошлом году в соответствии с судебными решениями признаны экстремистскими и закрыты 8 организаций. Усилена уголовная ответственность за призывы к экстремизму и ряд конкретных преступлений в этой сфере, в том числе за финансирование экстремистской деятельности и организацию экстремистских групп. Новые статьи против экстремизма включены в Кодекс об административных правонарушениях.
Вместе с тем действия экстремистов становятся всё более изощрёнными. Сталкиваемся мы и с попытками использовать так называемые «цветные технологии» – от организации незаконных уличных акций до открытой пропаганды вражды и ненависти в социальных сетях. А цель очевидна – спровоцировать гражданские конфликты, ударить по конституционным основам нашего государства, по суверенитету страны в конечном итоге.“
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/47776
5 марта 2015 Путин внезапно перестает появляться на публике и отменяет все запланированные встречи. Также внезапно он снова появляется через 10 дней. Временное исчезновение не находит внятного объяснения, но порождает сплетни и слухи http://cyclowiki.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B2_2015_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83
6 марта 2015 обанкроченное казино Trump Taj Mahal, некогда флагман бизнес-империи Трампа, оштрафовано на $10 миллионов за многолетнюю практику нелегального отмывания денег.
Про The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today imposed a $10 million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort (Trump Taj Mahal), for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). In addition to the civil money penalty, the casino is required to conduct periodic external audits to examine its anti-money laundering (AML) BSA compliance program and provide those audit reports to FinCEN and the casino’s Board of Directors.
Trump Taj Mahal, a casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, admitted to several willful BSA violations, including violations of AML program requirements, reporting obligations, and recordkeeping requirements. Trump Taj Mahal has a long history of prior, repeated BSA violations cited by examiners dating back to 2003. Additionally, in 1998, FinCEN assessed a $477,700 civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal for currency transaction reporting violations.
"Trump Taj Mahal received many warnings about its deficiencies," said FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery. "Like all casinos in this country, Trump Taj Mahal has a duty to help protect our financial system from being exploited by criminals, terrorists, and other bad actors. Far from meeting these expectations, poor compliance practices, over many years, left the casino and our financial system unacceptably exposed."
Trump Taj Mahal admitted that it failed to implement and maintain an effective AML program; failed to report suspicious transactions; failed to properly file required currency transaction reports; and failed to keep appropriate records as required by the BSA. Notably, Trump Taj Mahal had ample notice of these deficiencies as many of the violations from 2012 and 2010 were discovered in previous examinations.
https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-trump-taj-mahal-casino-resort-10-million-significant-and-long
Трамп продолжает отмывать деньги неизвестного происхождения, но уже через другие предприятия, в частности гольф-клубы. В марте 2015 завершались работы над публичным полем для гольфа в Бронксе (Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point), контракт на который Трампу удалось выбить у мэрии Нью-Йорка. В прошлом году это вложение денег предсказуемо перестало приносить доход и ушло в отрицательный баланс.
At Ferry Point, he's made about $500K per year, after paying expenses. That number's likely to shrink next year, tho: until now, Trump hasn't had to pay NYC a *dime* to operate a course on public land. Next yr, tho, a fee of several hundred thousand kicks in. https://t.co/LqdSQPnKu5
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) May 16, 2019
Before last year, the Bronx golf course had managed to turn a profit of about $500,000 per year — helped by the city paying its water bills and not asking for rent.
Last year, however, the club’s expenses rose faster than its revenue, according to the Trump Organization’s filing. It fell into the red.
“He’s managed to do the impossible: Get this amazing gift from the city, and lose money,” said Geoffrey Croft, of the watchdog group NYC Park Advocates. He said one major problem was “the terrible reputation of the Trump name” in New York, after Trump’s rise as a hard-right politician. Croft also blamed the Trump club’s high greens fees, which top out at $224 per round. Most of the city’s other public courses charge $53 at most.
Trump’s clubhouse is now fully open, which could bring in more revenue for next year.
But now, Trump’s company faces a new challenge in the Bronx: Its four years of free rent are over. Next year, the club will have to pay the city at least $300,000 in fees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-golf-course-in-the-bronx-lost-money-last-year-city-documents-show/2019/07/26/f36d03da-afa8-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html
7 марта 2015 Обама вместе с Бушем принимает участие в праздновании 50-летия Марша от Сельмы до Монтгомери в Алабаме и произносит одну из самых ключевых речей своего президентства. Он говорит о том, что американский патриотизм включает в себя неудовлетворение достигнутым и продолжение борьбы за справедливость ради осуществления американского принципа равенства прав человека.
The Americans who crossed this bridge, they were not physically imposing. But they gave courage to millions. They held no elected office. But they led a nation. They marched as Americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence, countless daily indignities –- but they didn’t seek special treatment, just the equal treatment promised to them almost a century before. (Applause.)
What they did here will reverberate through the ages. Not because the change they won was preordained; not because their victory was complete; but because they proved that nonviolent change is possible, that love and hope can conquer hate.
As we commemorate their achievement, we are well-served to remember that at the time of the marches, many in power condemned rather than praised them. Back then, they were called Communists, or half-breeds, or outside agitators, sexual and moral degenerates, and worse –- they were called everything but the name their parents gave them. Their faith was questioned. Their lives were threatened. Their patriotism challenged.
And yet, what could be more American than what happened in this place? (Applause.) What could more profoundly vindicate the idea of America than plain and humble people –- unsung, the downtrodden, the dreamers not of high station, not born to wealth or privilege, not of one religious tradition but many, coming together to shape their country’s course?
What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals? (Applause.)
That’s why Selma is not some outlier in the American experience. That’s why it’s not a museum or a static monument to behold from a distance. It is instead the manifestation of a creed written into our founding documents: “We the People…in order to form a more perfect union.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” (Applause.)
These are not just words. They’re a living thing, a call to action, a roadmap for citizenship and an insistence in the capacity of free men and women to shape our own destiny. For founders like Franklin and Jefferson, for leaders like Lincoln and FDR, the success of our experiment in self-government rested on engaging all of our citizens in this work. And that’s what we celebrate here in Selma. That’s what this movement was all about, one leg in our long journey toward freedom. (Applause.)
The American instinct that led these young men and women to pick up the torch and cross this bridge, that’s the same instinct that moved patriots to choose revolution over tyranny. It’s the same instinct that drew immigrants from across oceans and the Rio Grande; the same instinct that led women to reach for the ballot, workers to organize against an unjust status quo; the same instinct that led us to plant a flag at Iwo Jima and on the surface of the Moon. (Applause.)
It’s the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what is right, to shake up the status quo. That’s America. (Applause.)
That’s what makes us unique. That’s what cements our reputation as a beacon of opportunity. Young people behind the Iron Curtain would see Selma and eventually tear down that wall. Young people in Soweto would hear Bobby Kennedy talk about ripples of hope and eventually banish the scourge of apartheid. Young people in Burma went to prison rather than submit to military rule. They saw what John Lewis had done. From the streets of Tunis to the Maidan in Ukraine, this generation of young people can draw strength from this place, where the powerless could change the world’s greatest power and push their leaders to expand the boundaries of freedom.
They saw that idea made real right here in Selma, Alabama. They saw that idea manifest itself here in America.
Because of campaigns like this, a Voting Rights Act was passed. Political and economic and social barriers came down. And the change these men and women wrought is visible here today in the presence of African Americans who run boardrooms, who sit on the bench, who serve in elected office from small towns to big cities; from the Congressional Black Caucus all the way to the Oval Office. (Applause.)
Because of what they did, the doors of opportunity swung open not just for black folks, but for every American. Women marched through those doors. Latinos marched through those doors. Asian Americans, gay Americans, Americans with disabilities -- they all came through those doors. (Applause.) Their endeavors gave the entire South the chance to rise again, not by reasserting the past, but by transcending the past.
What a glorious thing, Dr. King might say. And what a solemn debt we owe. Which leads us to ask, just how might we repay that debt?
First and foremost, we have to recognize that one day’s commemoration, no matter how special, is not enough. If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. (Applause.) The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.
Selma teaches us, as well, that action requires that we shed our cynicism. For when it comes to the pursuit of justice, we can afford neither complacency nor despair.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/07/remarks-president-50th-anniversary-selma-montgomery-marches
10 марта 2015 в Сенате США проходят слушания на тему “U.S. Policy In Ukraine: Countering Russia and Driving Reform”.
Сенатор Боб Коркер, председатель комиссии по международным отношениям, и многие его коллеги из обеих партий критикуют администрацию Обамы за отказ поставлять оружие Украине.
“Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken argued last week in Berlin that no amount of lethal military assistance for Ukraine would be sufficient to defeat the rebels and their Russian sponsors.
But our objective is not to provide Ukraine with enough weapons to overwhelm the Russian military in a direct confrontation.
Rather, the provision of lethal assistance aims to increase Ukraine’s defense capabilities in a way that will give Kyiv the ability to produce conditions on the ground favorable to a genuine peace process.
By equipping Ukraine with the means to impose a greater military cost on Russia, the United States will be contributing to a quicker, fairer, and more stable settlement of the conflict.”
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/release/corker-opening-statement-at-hearing-on-us-policy-in-ukraine-countering-russia-and-driving-reform
Боб Менендез, лидер демократов в комиссии :
“Now, we all want a diplomatic solution, but I believe this can only come about when Putin believes that the cost of continuing to ravage Ukraine is simply too high. Providing nonlethal equipment like night vision goggles is all well and good, but giving the Ukrainians the ability to see Russians coming but not the weapons to stop them is not the answer. The night vision goggles are one thing, but providing antitank and antiarmor weapons, tactical troop-operated surveillance drones, secure command and communications equipment would be far better.”
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03%2010%2015%20US%20Policy%20in%20Ukraine%20Countering%20Russia%20and%20Driving%20Reform.pdf
Вопрос горячо дебатируется в администрации. Некоторые советники, включая военных и Байдена, выступают за поставки оружия. Обама тем не менее решает проявить осторожность, чтобы не провоцировать эскалации конфликта. Помощь Украине увеличена, но оружие в неё не включено.
The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would provide another $75 million in nonlethal aid to Ukraine’s military. It also imposed sanctions against a handful of pro-Russian separatists and others blamed for fomenting the civil war that has torn apart Ukraine’s eastern regions.
The new aid does not include the weapons that Ukraine has sought and that many administration officials and members of both parties in Congress have urged President Obama to provide. Instead, the United States will send more radios, first-aid kits, surveillance drones, countermortar radar systems and military ambulances. Mr. Obama also agreed to send 30 armored Humvees and 300 unarmored Humvees.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine to tell him about the additional aid. The White House cited reports that Russia and its proxy fighters in Ukraine were not fully abiding by a cease-fire negotiated last month in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It said Russian military personnel were still fighting alongside the separatists, additional weapons had been sent across the border, and monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had been blocked.
“We do continue to have concern about the commitment of the Russians and the Russian-backed separatists to live up to the commitments they made in Minsk,” said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary. “That failure on their part only puts Russia at greater risk of facing additional costs.”
Critics said the announcement simply underscored the fecklessness of Mr. Obama’s approach because it ignores the pleas for arms like antitank weapons.
“This aid will be completely ineffective,” said Cory Fritz, a spokesman for the House speaker, John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio. “The Ukrainians are begging for help, and the Congress is begging the administration to provide the defensive lethal assistance we authorized in December. Our allies deserve better.”
Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were unified on Tuesday in urging Mr. Obama to send arms and expressed disappointment that he so far has refused to.
But Mr. Earnest said that “the president’s very mindful of the potential risk associated with providing additional lethal military assistance to the Ukrainians.”
Among other things, he said, it could lead to an escalation of violence rather than an end to it. “It’s likely to lead to greater bloodshed,” he said. “We’re trying to avoid greater bloodshed.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/us/us-imposes-sanctions-on-pro-russian-separatists-in-ukraine.html
Другое столкновение между Обамой и Конгрессом происходит по вопросу торгового договора TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership). Договор призван сыграть ключевую роль в обуздании растущей агрессивности Китая путём укрепления связей США с другими странами региона.
Против TPP выступают не только самые отвязные из республиканцев, но и левое крыло демократов вместе с Элизабет Уоррен и независимым социалистом Берни Сандерсом, который готовится запрыгнуть в президентскую гонку.
9 марта 2015 Сандерс объясняет:
“I also strongly oppose the trade agreements written by corporate America and again supported by Democratic and Republican presidents, a grievance like NAFTA, CAFTA, permanent normal trade relations with China and other trade agreements which have cost us millions of decent paying jobs, and have led this country to a race to the bottom. And needless to say, I strongly oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?324736-1/senator-bernie-sanders-i-vt-remarks-national-press-club
Обама впервые за много лет позволяет себе критику демократов за политиканство:
“She’s absolutely wrong,” Barack Obama said, before I could even get the question out of my mouth.
He was talking about Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and populist crusader whom Obama helped elevate to national prominence. Warren generally reserves her more acid critiques for Republicans and Wall Street, but in recent weeks she’s been leading a vocal coalition of leftist groups and lawmakers who oppose the president’s free-trade pact with 12 Asian countries.
This past week, as I had just reminded Obama, Warren launched her heaviest torpedo yet against the trade deal, alleging that some future president might use it as an excuse to undo the reregulation of Wall Street that Obama signed into law in 2010. In fact, as the White House quickly pointed out, language in the pact would expressly prevent that unless Congress voted to allow it.
Three days after that broadside, when we sat down at Nike’s headquarters outside Portland, Ore., Obama still seemed unusually irritated.
“Think about the logic of that, right?” he went on. “The notion that I had this massive fight with Wall Street to make sure that we don’t repeat what happened in 2007, 2008. And then I sign a provision that would unravel it?
“I’d have to be pretty stupid,” Obama said, laughing. “This is pure speculation. She and I both taught law school, and you know, one of the things you do as a law professor is you spin out hypotheticals. And this is all hypothetical, speculative.”
Obama wasn’t through. He wanted me to know, in pointed terms, that for all the talk about her populist convictions, Warren had a personal brand she was trying to promote, too.
“The truth of the matter is that Elizabeth is, you know, a politician like everybody else,” he said. “And you know, she’s got a voice that she wants to get out there. And I understand that. And on most issues, she and I deeply agree. On this one, though, her arguments don’t stand the test of fact and scrutiny.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-obama-is-happy-to-fight-elizabeth-warren-on-118537612596.html
12 марта 2015 экономисты пишут в защиту TPP:
There are several reasons to support the TPP despite globalization concerns. First, the TPP — which seeks to govern exchange of not only traditional goods and services, but also intellectual property and foreign investment — would promote trade in knowledge-intensive services in which U.S. companies exert a strong comparative advantage. Second, killing the TPP would do little to bring factory work back to America. Third, and perhaps most important, although China is not part of the TPP, enacting the agreement would raise regulatory rules and standards for several of China’s key trading partners. That would pressure China to meet some of those standards and cease its attempts to game global trade to impede foreign multinational companies.
Since 2000, America has lost 5 million manufacturing jobs. Regions that specialized in apparel, footwear, furniture, home electronics, toys and sports equipment — industries in which China achieved explosive growth — have seen factories close and wages for local workers flatten. Our research indicates that rising import competition from China accounted for 21 percent of the overall decline in U.S. employment in manufacturing industries during the 1990s and 2000s. The wave of automation that replaced middle-class jobs available to workers without a college education added to those losses. We sympathize with the regions and families that suffered, but halting TPP would not assist U.S. manufacturing or benefit U.S. workers. The reality is that the globalization of manufacturing is a fait accompli. Those manufacturing jobs are not coming back.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/12/why-obamas-key-trade-deal-with-asia-would-actually-be-good-for-american-workers/
Но у политиков-популистoв своя повестка. Нападки Сандерса на TPP и Клинтон помогут Трампу, у которого похожая позиция, и добавят ему шансов на победу на выборах в штатах вроде Огайо, жители которых пострадали от переезда промышленного производства в Китай в результате торговых соглашений прошлого.
Забегая вперёд, можно было видеть, как в процессе захвата контроля над республиканской партией Трамп одновременно развернул на 180 градусов отношение республиканцев к договорам о свободе торговли. В первый же день своего президентства он разорвет договор TPP, делая тем самым подарок не столько трампистам, сколько Китаю.
Дальнейшие игры с Китаем в торговые пошлины не принесут обратно в Америку утерянного промышленного производства, но станут разменной монетой в борьбе Трампа за перевыборы. Небольшой отрывок из книжки Болтона:
Trump spoke with Xi Jinping by phone on June 18, ahead of 2019’s Osaka G20 summit, when they would next meet. Trump began by telling Xi he missed him, and then said that the most popular thing he had ever been involved with was making a trade deal with China, which would be a big
plus politically. They agreed their economic teams could continue meeting. The G20 bilateral arrived, and during the usual media mayhem at the start, Trump said, “We’ve become friends. My trip to Beijing with my family was one of the most incredible of my life.”
With the press gone, Xi said this is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. He said that some (unnamed) political figures in the United States were making erroneous judgments by calling for a new cold war, this time between China and the United States. Whether Xi meant to finger the Democrats, or some of us sitting on the US side of the table, I don’t know, but Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats. He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.
Но в марте 2015 все это было ещё только в зародыше.
14 марта 2015 Радио "Свобода" публикует разоблачительный репортаж о фабрике троллей на улице Савушкина под названием "Они любят Путина 12 часов подряд".
Уже третий год, вначале под Петербургом – в поселке Ольгино, а затем в самом городе, на улице Савушкина, в доме №55 существует таинственная организация, официально имеющая название Общество с ограниченной ответственностью "Интернет Исследования", а неофициально прозванная самими ее сотрудниками, так называемыми "кремлевскими троллями" – "Министерство правды".
https://www.svoboda.org/a/26899521.html
К кремлеботам в российских социальных сетях все тогда уже привыкли, но о полном масштабе работы троллей на зарубежную аудиторию никто еще не подозревает.
THE DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE-http://t.co/WARAdFgrrF
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2015
18 марта 2015 Трамп объявляет о создании “exploratory committee”. Это пока ещё не вступление в президентскую гонку, но уже первый шаг в этом направлении.
В разговоре с британским таблоидом Daily Mail Трамп немедленно хвастается своим знакомством с Путиным и полученным от Путина подарком.
Billionaire Donald Trump has officially put himself on a path toward running for president, announcing the launch of an exploratory committee on Wednesday.
If the 2016 presidential election is a referendum on America's future foreign policy, Trump says he's ready.
He and his chief political operative cite a wealth of presidents, kings and prime ministers he's met – approaching or passing the numbers claimed by anyone else in the field other than former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
In a telephone interview, Trump boasted of his international portfolio – both business- and relationship-wise.
'I've met so, so many,' he said of his connections with presidents, prime ministers and royalty.
'Just a year ago, we had the Miss Universe contest in Moscow,' he said, noting that he received 'a gift from Putin – an award and a beautiful letter.'
Rumors flew in 2014 that Trump had met the Russian president personally during that trip; he wouldn't confirm it.
'the relationship is great, and it would be great if I had the position I should have,' he insisted, with a nod toward the Oval Office.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2998186/Trump-launches-presidential-exploratory-committee-pushes-foreign-policy-bona-fides-s-met-50-world-leaders-got-gift-year-Vladimir-Putin.html
Шансы на республиканскую номинацию маленькие, потому что по опросам почти 75% республиканцев относятся к Трампу отрицательно.
“I have a great love for our country, but it is a country that is in serious trouble. We have lost the respect of the entire world. Americans deserve better than what they get from their politicians — who are all talk and no action!” Trump said in a statement.
In addition to the committee, which will help Trump decide whether to officially announce a run for president, the Republican has “made several key hires” of staff with roots in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and hired additional advisers based in New York.
In his announcement, Trump touted his experience building his company and creating jobs throughout the Trump Organization, with “very little debt.”
“Our real unemployment rate is staggering while our manufacturing base is eroding on a daily basis,” Trump said. “We must rebuild our infrastructure, control our borders, support local control of education, greatly strengthen our military, care for our veterans and put Americans back to work!”
Trump has publicly toyed with running for president in the past, including announcing in 2010 that he was interested in a possible 2012 bid.
But he has a steep hill to climb with Republican voters. In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll from March 11, 74 percent of Republicans said they viewed Trump in a negative way — more than any of the 14 other candidates discussed in the poll.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/donald-trump-2016-presidential-bid-116176
22 марта 2015 Мария Бутина сообщает о плане поехать на апрельский съезд NRA, где Торшину посчастливиться перетереть с Трампом.
"Я собираюсь в этом году посетить съезд крупнейшей ассоциации сторонников гражданского оружия в мире (ок. 4 500 000 человек) – NRA, который пройдет в Нашвилее, Теннессии, США."
https://butina.livejournal.com/1031173.html
24 марта 2015 Бутина пишет Полу Эриксону (U.S. Person 1), предлагая себя в качестве "второго Познера" со скромным бюджетом в $125 тысяч на неформальную дипломатию между российскими интересами и республиканской партией (POLITICAL PARTY 1) с помощью контактов в NRA (GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION).
On or about March 24, 2015, BUTINA emailed U.S. Person 1 with the subject line of "The Second Pozner."1 The body of this email also contained a project proposal. BUTINA noted to U.S. Person 1 in the email that she was sending the "Google Translator text. Maybe I could translate it myself but it would take at least a day because the text is very specific." She went on to note that she "will be happy to answer to any your questions [sic] and follow your recommendations before a [sic] finally send it." The first line of the proposal reads, "Project Description 'Diplomacy."' It goes on to state that a major U.S. political pa1ty [hereinafter "POLITICAL PARTY 1"], would likely obtain control over the U.S. government after the 2016 elections; that POLITICAL PARTY 1 is "traditionally associated with negative and aggressive foreign policy, particularly with regards to Russia. However, now with the right to negotiate seems best to build konstruktivnyh [sic] relations;" and that "[c ]entral place and influence in the [POLITICAL PAR1:Y 1] plays the [GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION]. The [GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION] [is] the largest sponsor of the elections to the US congress, as well as a sponsor of The CPAC conference and other events."
The March 24, 2015 email further highlighted BUTINA's relationship with the GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION's leadership, including her attendance at events in the United States and BUTINA's and the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL's connections to officials of the GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION. BUTINA described recent visits to the United States, including references to instances when she was introduced to POLITICAL PARTY 1 leaders as a "representative of informal diplomacy" of the Russian Federation. BUTINA's project proposal concluded by noting, "[t]he resulting status needs to be strengthened is in the current time interval, before the presidential election in 2016," and requesting a budget of $125,000 for BUTlNA to participate in "all upcoming major conferences" of POLITICAL PARTY 1.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1080766/download
22 марта 2015 в Петербурге проходит съезд ультраправых экстремистов разных стран под названием Международный русский консервативный форум.
Америку представляют патентованные расисты Джаред Тэйлор и Сэм Диксон.
American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor and Sam Dickson, Council of Conservative Citizens member and lawyer for the Ku Klux Klan, joined some of Europe’s most extreme right-wing fringe at the International Russian Conservative Forum in St. Petersburg last weekend.
The event, which took place at a Holiday Inn on Sunday, centered around the preservation of “national identity and culture” by embracing Christian traditions and denouncing globalism, multiculturalism and American influence. But in reality, it was further evidence of a strengthening alliance between American extremists and their European counterparts.
Sharing the dais with Taylor and Dickson were more than 30 representatives from groups including Greece’s Golden Dawn, the National Democratic Party of Germany, Italy’s Forza Nuova, the Russian Imperial Movement, as well as the former head of the British National Party (BNP), Nick Griffin.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/03/24/americans-abroad-dickson-taylor-attend-russian-white-nationalist-conference
A motley crew of representatives of fringe right-wing political organizations in Europe and the United States used a conference here on Sunday to denounce what they called the degradation of white, Christian traditions in the West. Their hosts used the conference to advance Russia’s effort to lure political allies of any stripe.
Railing against same-sex marriage, immigration, New York financiers, radical Islam and globalization, among other targets, one speaker after another lauded Russia and President Vladimir V. Putin as a pillar of robust, conservative, even manly values. <...>
The United States, as the main adversary, attracted the most hostility, but a couple of American speakers received warm applause by painting Washington as an aggressor trying to export its misguided new values.
Jared Taylor, who runs a website called American Renaissance, said the descendants of white Europeans risked being swept away by a wave of Africans, Central Americans and Asians. The United States, which he said worshiped diversity rather than Christianity, “is the greatest enemy of tradition everywhere.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/world/europe/right-wing-groups-find-a-haven-for-a-day-in-russia.html
Воющих в Украине на форуме представлял нацист Алексей Мильчаков по прозвищу Фриц, командир диверсионно-разведовательной группы "Русич". Другой частник форума Константин Крылов делится впечатлениями:
"Увы или ура, но ни одного фашиста, нациста или хотя бы религиозного фундаменталиста я среди них не обнаружил. Ни по смыслу, ни даже стилистически. Никто не впадал в раж, не кричал о превосходстве белой расы, не отрицал Холкост (увы, но эта важная тема была как-то забыта), и вообще ничего такого-этакого не выдавал. Речи их были гладкими, красивыми, обтекаемыми, касались в основном нынешнего состояния Европы и российско-европейских отношений. Острых мест присутствовало ровно два: очень тёплое отношение к Путину и крайне холодное – к гомосексуалистам и прочим половым хулиганам. Впрочем, тут надо делать скидку на то, что Путин им-то лично ничего плохого не сделал, а вот половые хулиганы, видимо, чем-то достали. Однако российским участникам форума проповедь традиционной нраственности показалась чересчур навязчивой, так что ведущий даже спросил у одного из выступавших (кажется, того же Криса Романа), точно ли на Западе происходят те сексуальные ужасы, о которых в России так наслышаны. Крис вроде бы подтвердил наличие таковых, но как-то невнятно. Зато пообещал, что в будущем на Западе можно будет жениться на пингвине. Это прозвучало хлёстко, но всю хлёсткость портило будущее время."
https://krylov.livejournal.com/3428272.html
На выборах 2016 Джаред Тэйлор, разумеется, поддержит Трампа, увидев в нем родственную душу.
Taylor: Donald Trump is the only candidate in the last 50 years of whom I could realistically imagine his tossing off to a group of journalists a question such as, “Well, what’s wrong with white people wanting to remain a majority in their own country?” I can imagine him saying that. He will not necessarily, but I can imagine it. I cannot imagine any other candidate ever saying such a thing.
I can even imagine him saying, “Well you know, ultimately, you just can’t expect as many blacks per capita to be in the advanced placement courses because they’re just not as smart.” I mean I can imagine that with a little bit greater difficulty than the remark about being majorities, but that too is not an utterly inconceivable thing for Donald Trump to say. And if the president of the United States makes remarks of that kind, they simply cannot be brushed aside.
I mean, I’ve been making that kind of remark, as I say, for 25 years. I can be ignored by the mainstream. The president cannot. And he is a person who is actually, I think, perhaps capable of saying such things. <...>
If there actually is a Trump presidency, he will attract, at all sorts of levels in his administration, people who do think the way we do. Even though they’re not publicly associated with racial dissidents, or white advocacy. He will attract people who read our web pages, who listen to our podcasts, and they will work in all sorts of very, very useful ways in all levels of his administration to bring about sensible policies.
I think I can also imagine that some of them, they will be caught out, oh, saying rude things about blacks or rude things about Mexico, and there will be little scandals here and there. But there will be a great number who will infiltrate his administration, his campaign, his advisers in ways that cannot but be extremely useful both to Trump and to us.
https://angrywhitemen.org/2016/05/22/jared-taylor-imagines-a-white-nationalist-trump-administration/
Wow. Indianapolis Star devotes tomorrow's front page to editorial on "religious freedom" law: "Fix This Now" pic.twitter.com/NgXblMsJnn
— Matt Viser (@mviser) March 31, 2015
26 марта 2015 Майк Пенс, губернатор Индианы, приобретает скандальную известность, подписав Religious Freedom Restoration Act - закон, который позволяет бизнесам, ссылаясь на религию, отказывать в обслуживании представителям сексуальных меньшинств.
QUESTION: Do you regret having signed this bill?
PENCE: Absolutely not.
Religious liberty is vitally important in the life of our nation, and to ensure that Hoosiers have the same level of scrutiny when they believe their religious liberty is intruded upon in our state courts that they already have in our federal courts, and that 30 other states have already had for some time, was simply the right thing to do. It’s that important. And I was pleased to have signed it and I stand by the law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/31/full-text-of-indiana-gov-mike-pences-news-conference-on-rfra/
Скандал прокатывается по всей стране. Различные компании объявляют о бойкоте Индианы. Мэры и губернаторы ведущих городов и штатов присоединяются к бойкоту, запрещая своим сотрудникам поездки в Индиану за счет налогоплательщиков. Арнольд Шварцнеггер пишет об опасности для репутации всей республиканской партии:
"I want to be absolutely certain that all of my fellow Republicans everywhere got the message. What happened in Indiana should be a teachable moment for us.
If the Republican Party wants the next generation of voters to listen to our ideas and solutions to real problems, we must be an inclusive and open party, not a party of divisions. We must be the party of limited government, not the party that legislates love. We must be the party that stands for equality and against discrimination in any form."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/03/schwarzenegger-indianas-religious-freedom-law-is-bad-for-america-and-bad-for-republicans/
Редакционная статья ведущей газеты Индианы под броским заголовком "Fix This Now" призывает Пенса принять дополнительный закон, который защищал бы права меньшинств:
"Governor, Indiana is in a state of crisis. It is worse than you seem to understand.
You must act with courage and wisdom. You must lead us forward now. You must ensure that all Hoosiers have strong protections against discrimination."
https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2015/03/30/editorial-gov-pence-fix-religious-freedom-law-now/70698802/
В конце концов Пенс идет на попятный. Скандал роняет его шансы на переизбрание губернатором, но, закрыв одну дверь, господь вскоре откроет другую.
30 марта 2015 телеканал Comedy Central объявляет о плане заменить Джона Стюарта, ведущего сатирической передачи "The Daily Show", на южноафриканского комика Тревора Ноа.
In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States.
“I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa,” he said with a smile. “It kind of makes me a little nostalgic for the old days, back home.”
Now, after only three appearances on that Comedy Central show, Mr. Noah has gotten a huge and unexpected promotion. On Monday, Comedy Central announced that Mr. Noah would be the new host of “The Daily Show,” succeeding Mr. Stewart after he steps down later this year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/arts/television/trevor-noah-to-succeed-jon-stewart-on-the-daily-show.html
В течении многих лет передача Стюарта служила развлекательным источником новостей для многих либеральных зрителей и одновременно - противоядием против пропаганды Fox News. Развлекательные дебаты Джона Стюарта и Билла О'Райли в 2012 смогли оказать некоторый эффект на исход президентских выборов https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rumble_in_the_Air-Conditioned_Auditorium
С уходом Стюарта передача станет несколько более беззубой и во время избирательной кампании 2016 не будет иметь прежнего влияния, несмотря на отдельные удачные шутки.
31 марта 2015 кабинет министров Украины одобряет пакет законов о декоммунизациии, в том числе «О доступе к архивам репрессивных органов коммунистического тоталитарного режима 1917—1991 годов» и «Об осуждении коммунистического и национал-социалистического (нацистского) тоталитарных режимов в Украине и запрете пропаганды их символики». Законы будут позже приняты Радой и подписаны президентом Порошенко.
Соседняя страна движется в противоположном направлении. Опрос россиян, проведенный Левада-центром, отмечает существенный рост положительного отношения к Сталину и одобрения идеи установление памятников Сталину.
Москва. 31 марта. INTERFAX.RU - Отношение россиян к Иосифу Сталину за последние 15 лет изменилось: стало меньше тех, кто относится к нему с неприязнью и отвращением (14% против 27% в 2001 году), а также страхом (6% против 16%), сообщили "Интерфаксу" в "Левада-Центре".
При этом, выросла доля респондентов, которым личность Сталина безразлична (30% против 12% в 2001 году), показал опрос, проведенный 20-23 марта среди 1600 человек в 134 населенных пунктах 46 регионов России.
"Если в начале нулевых годов преобладало негативное отношение к его (Сталина - ИФ) личности, то в настоящее время большая часть опрошенных (39%) оценивает её положительно. Из них 30% испытывают уважение, 7% - симпатию, 2% - восхищение", - рассказали "Интерфаксу" во вторник эксперт "Левада-Центра" Карина Пипия. <...>
19 марта газета "Коммерсант" рассказала о планах коммунистов увековечить память Сталина к 70-летию Победы установкой памятников, мемориальных досок и переименованием улиц в городах РФ. В ходе опроса "Левада-Центра" выяснилось, что к идее установки памятника 37% россиян относятся положительно, 25% отрицательно, а 29% этот вопрос безразличен. Каждый десятый (10%) затруднился с ответом.
https://www.interfax.ru/russia/433230
В этот день на Лубянской площади, где когда-то возвышался поваленный в августе 1991 памятник Дзержинскому, после многолетнего ремонта открывается Центральный детский магазин.
