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Ronald Reagan’s Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon

...In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations.

...The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his frustration at the delegates who had sided against the United States. “Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did,” Reagan said. “Yeah,” Nixon interjected. Reagan forged ahead with his complaint: “To see those, those monkeys from those African countries—damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!” Nixon gave a huge laugh.

Re: TheSubliminalKid (Post 6879099)
Baldimo is a transphobic bigot, don't waste your breath.

US President Donald Trump's trade war with China is backfiring and impacting the US economy, according to his former chief economic adviser.

The tariff battle has had a "dramatic impact" on US manufacturing and capital investment, Gary Cohn told the BBC.

The trade war was "a very convenient excuse" for China to slow down its overheated economy, he added.

Mr Cohn, a free trade advocate, resigned from the Trump administration in March 2018.

The 59-year-old former president of Goldman Sachs bank was an unusual hire for Mr Trump because he was a Democrat in a Republican administration.

He also focused on economic internationalism, while the president was set on economic nationalism.

Mr Cohn served as director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration from January 2017 to April 2018, announcing he was resigning after Mr Trump decided to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminium.

"I think the Chinese economy is driven by credit and credit availability," Mr Cohn told the BBC's Today programme.

"Credit and credit availability is determined by the central government. And they can turn it on and they can turn credit off."

"I think the Chinese economy was going to slow down with or without a trade war," Mr Cohn said.

The idea that tariffs would solve trade imbalances between the US and China was a "long-time view" of Mr Trump's, Mr Cohn added.

However, he said Mr Trump was right to try to tackle China's theft of US intellectual property and blocking of US companies' access to Chinese markets.

"That has to be fixed," he said.

But he warned: "I think everyone loses in a trade war. We are an 80% service economy. The service side of the economy is doing very well, because, guess what, it's not being tariffed."

Mr Cohn said the tariffs had made it expensive to import vital products from China, counteracting the effects of Mr Trump's tax cuts, which were designed to stimulate the US economy.

He said: "When you build plant equipment, you're buying steel, you're buying aluminium, you're buying imported products and then we put tariffs on those, so literally the tax incentive we gave you with one hand was taken away with the other hand.

"So we are not seeing the manufacturing job creation. And I think if we get through this tariff situation, there's a real opportunity to see it here in the United States."

Sound of blatham clearing his throat.

This place might just be popping for the reader's digest award for incestuousity 2020.

So you think concentration camps that literally starve children to death are fine but going against them isn't?

People didn't leave concentration camps unless it was ashes.

Your people would be the experts on such things.

We got taught about it at school, in history lessons.
Don't they teach the history of the Holocaust and Nazis in the USA, so you think that those, who have learnt and know about it, are experts?

People didn't leave concentration camps unless it was ashes.

I think you are refusing to answer a simple question. I'll answer it for you, no one was released from those camps after 20 days to roam free. They didn't leave the camps at all.

It's almost as if he were trying to effect (sic) the behavior of other countries (allies in this case) by trying to terrify them. You know, like terrorists do.

Effect as a verb means to bring about. It usually shows up with nouns like “change” or “solutions".

You mean like Obama did to Libya's people?

Anyone who thinks they landed that thing on the moon, and then dropped it back in the ocean of Earth, isn't too bright.

It's pretty funny that people still think this **** actually happened.

North Korea has fired two projectiles which South Korean officials say appear to have been a new type of short-range missile.

The launch, the third in just over a week, came from North Korea's east coast early on Friday.

The string of tests are being seen as reaction to planned military exercises between South Korea and the US.

On Thursday, the UK, France and Germany called on North Korea to engage in "meaningful" talks with the US.

After a closed-door meeting at the UN Security Council, the countries said international sanctions needed to be fully enforced until Pyongyang had dismantled its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.

The latest launches happened at 02:59 (17:59 GMT Thursday) and 03:23 local time from the Yonghung area in South Hamgyong province into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

It said the missiles flew very low - at about 25km (15 miles) - and travelled about 220km. Analysts said they appeared to have been unusually fast.

A spokesperson from South Korea's presidential office said there was a high possibility they were a new type of short range ballistic missile, similar to those fired last week.

The launch site appeared to have been a new one, said Ankit Panda, adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.

However US President Donald Trump said he was not worried with the recent spate of launches, as they were "very standard" and not part of recent talks with Kim Jong-un.

On Wednesday, the North launched two missiles that flew 250km and reached a height of 30km before landing in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, according to South Korea.

The South identified the missiles as a different type from previous models. But on Thursday, Pyongyang gave a different assessment, saying it had tested a new rocket launcher system, without providing details.

On 25 July, the North had fired two other missiles, one of which travelled about 690km.

That launch was the first since Mr Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held an impromptu meeting in June at the demilitarised zone (DMZ), an area that divides the two Koreas, where they agreed to restart denuclearisation talks.

North Korea has recently voiced anger over planned US-South Korea exercises, an annual event which the allies have refused to cancel but have scaled back significantly.

North Korea sees the drills as preparation for war and has called them a "violation of the spirit" of the joint statement signed by Mr Trump and Mr Kim at their first face-to-face talks in Singapore last year.

Pyongyang had warned the exercises could affect the resumption of denuclearisation talks.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that he hoped these talks could start "very soon", but that there were no further summits planned.

Last year, Mr Kim said North Korea would stop nuclear testing and would no longer launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Nuclear activity appears to be continuing, however, and satellite images of North Korea's main nuclear site last month showed movement, suggesting the country could be reprocessing radioactive material into bomb fuel.

Pyongyang also continues to demonstrate its abilities to develop new weapons despite strict economic sanctions.

It conducted a similar short-range missile launch earlier in May, its first such test since its intercontinental ballistic missile launch in 2017.

North Korea also showed off a new submarine recently, which South Korean officials have determined is capable of carrying up to three ballistic missiles.