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I wish I had you as a student in 9th grade civics so I could give you an "F".
Should Trump repeal the Magnitsky Act?
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I'll repeat. The inept dipshit can't even control his own kid and son-in-law, much less get anything of substance accomplished.
Now, illiterate fuck, what that means is this fucker can't organize a trip to the shitter, much less herd any meaningful legislation through Congress.
Stupid little turd, aren't you?
Russiagate and the Magnitsky Affair, Linked Again
Natalia Veselnitskaya being at the center of this week's explosive revelations is the latest indication that Russiagate didn't begin last year – but almost a decade ago
http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...siagate-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-w492290
It should be noted that support of the Magnitsky law was not unanimous in the Western business community.
A common concern was that in Russia, you never know whether things are being executed on orders from the very top, or merely by self-motivated crooks operating under the krysha, or protection (literally, "roof"), of higher-ranking officials. Those who lived there long enough knew the amounts of money taken in the Browder case weren't enough to raise the pulse rate of the king thieves who run the Russian state. In fact, sanctioning Russia's leaders for having committed these crimes was sure among other things to anger them on the level of being an insult to their professionalism.
Some American business interests also quietly grumbled that the Magnitsky rule would derail the fragile relations between the two countries – the commercial relations, particularly – and that Browder might have achieved a moral right at the expense of irreversibly angering the Russians and queering lucrative business interests.
Hillary Clinton herself went so far as to oppose the Magnitsky rule at one point in time. Her opposition, as reported by the Wall Street Journal and others, coincided with a trip to Moscow by Bill Clinton in which he was paid $500,000 to give a speech by Renaissance Capital, a firm that Sergei Magnitsky himself had claimed was part of the tax fraud perpetuated against Browder.
The Obama administration, too, originally opposed the Magnitsky rule in favor of a "reset" and a continuation of a nervous détente with Putin, one that among other things would include further nuclear arms reductions. Obama at the time was pushing the idea of "nuclear zero," a world without nuclear weapons. But there was considerable opposition to this concept in the Senate, and the Magnitsky act became a vehicle for consolidating legislative opposition to the "reset."
Eventually, Obama relented and the Magnitsky law passed. The predictions that it would drive the Russians ape proved immediately true. Russian government officials were infuriated and felt unfairly maligned by the law. The general tenor of the Russian complaints that I remember hearing went something like this: We're not the only vicious kleptocracy in the world, and naming your human rights abuse/extortion law after Magnitsky makes it seem like we are.
Natalia Veselnitskaya being at the center of this week's explosive revelations is the latest indication that Russiagate didn't begin last year – but almost a decade ago
http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...siagate-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-w492290
It should be noted that support of the Magnitsky law was not unanimous in the Western business community.
A common concern was that in Russia, you never know whether things are being executed on orders from the very top, or merely by self-motivated crooks operating under the krysha, or protection (literally, "roof"), of higher-ranking officials. Those who lived there long enough knew the amounts of money taken in the Browder case weren't enough to raise the pulse rate of the king thieves who run the Russian state. In fact, sanctioning Russia's leaders for having committed these crimes was sure among other things to anger them on the level of being an insult to their professionalism.
Some American business interests also quietly grumbled that the Magnitsky rule would derail the fragile relations between the two countries – the commercial relations, particularly – and that Browder might have achieved a moral right at the expense of irreversibly angering the Russians and queering lucrative business interests.
Hillary Clinton herself went so far as to oppose the Magnitsky rule at one point in time. Her opposition, as reported by the Wall Street Journal and others, coincided with a trip to Moscow by Bill Clinton in which he was paid $500,000 to give a speech by Renaissance Capital, a firm that Sergei Magnitsky himself had claimed was part of the tax fraud perpetuated against Browder.
The Obama administration, too, originally opposed the Magnitsky rule in favor of a "reset" and a continuation of a nervous détente with Putin, one that among other things would include further nuclear arms reductions. Obama at the time was pushing the idea of "nuclear zero," a world without nuclear weapons. But there was considerable opposition to this concept in the Senate, and the Magnitsky act became a vehicle for consolidating legislative opposition to the "reset."
Eventually, Obama relented and the Magnitsky law passed. The predictions that it would drive the Russians ape proved immediately true. Russian government officials were infuriated and felt unfairly maligned by the law. The general tenor of the Russian complaints that I remember hearing went something like this: We're not the only vicious kleptocracy in the world, and naming your human rights abuse/extortion law after Magnitsky makes it seem like we are.
plenty of other banks in the world.
Here. Let me ask you again there numbnuts. What does your little man rant have to do with the fact that you obviously do not even know basic civics?
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Truthmatters
we had them by the balls
why did Sessions hand it back to the russians?
can you say tit for tat