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AutomaticEarth<>Debt Rattle May 16 2017

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:25 am



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• White House: Report Trump Shared Classified Info With Russians is ‘False’ (RT)

• Trump’s Classified Disclosure Is Shocking But Legal (BBG)

• The ‘Soft Coup’ of Russia-Gate (Robert Parry)

• China’s Silk Road Vision: Cheap Funds, Heavy Debt, Growing Risk (R.)

• China Banking Regulator Tightens Rules On WMPs, Flags More Curbs (R.)

• New Zealand Housing Market Most at Risk of Bust – Goldman (BBG)

• Snowden & Chomsky Lead Calls To Drop DOJ Case Against WikiLeaks (RT)

• Large Hedge Funds Moved Out Of Financial Stocks In First Quarter (R.)

• Ford To Cut North America, Asia Salaried Workers By 10% (R.)

• How High Should Congress Let Flood Insurance Rates Rise? (USAT)

• Macron Wins Merkel Backing For Bid To Shake Up Europe (AFP)

• Germany Must Decide: Budget Rigour Or Europe’s Future (R.)

• The Euro Area – A Simple Model Of Savings, Debt & Private Spending (Terzi)

• Greek Economy Pays for Drawn-Out Talks With Return to Recession (BBG)

And here we are: The WaPo, left with almost zero credibility after so many anti-Trump and anti-Russia opinions more often than not disguised as factual reports, can only find a willing ear anymore inside its echo chamber. As usual, the WaPo article is based on anonymous sources. America is trapped inside it own narrative.

White House: Report Trump Shared Classified Info With Russians is ‘False’ (RT)

Multiple White House officials, including National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, are refuting a Washington Post story claiming that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian officials in the Oval Office last week. But some believe McMaster’s statement contained holes. On Monday evening, National Security Advisor McMaster called a report published earlier in the day by the Washington Post “false.” The report that went viral cited unverifiable sources, unnamed current and former US officials, who claimed that Trump disclosed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak “code-word information” relating to Islamic State during a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office at the White House.

The intelligence was reportedly from “a US partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement” and not authorized to be shared with Russia, US allies or even within much of the US government. “I was in the room. It didn’t happen,” McMaster told reporters outside the White House. Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell also called the story “false” Monday. “The president only discussed the common threats that both countries faced,” Powell said. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was also at the meeting, denied the allegation. McMaster told reporters that Trump did discuss civil aviation threats with Lavrov and Kislyak. [..] The Russian Embassy in DC had no comment on the media claim, according to a representative.

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