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EXCLUSIVE: Former Clinton and Obama Economist and Harvard President, Larry Summers, Took Flight to
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 8/12/2019 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/12/2019 8:41:54 PM PDT by bitt

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To: Chickensoup

>>> However if you are playing croquet and your enemy is playing war, you had better man up.

If we insert “conventional weapons” and “chemical/Biological weapons” into your statement, the merits of the statement kind of falls apart, and further illustrates my point.


41 posted on 08/13/2019 7:43:50 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Safrguns

>>> However if you are playing croquet and your enemy is playing war, you had better man up.

If we insert “conventional weapons” and “chemical/Biological weapons” into your statement, the merits of the statement kind of falls apart, and further illustrates my point.
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However if you are playing “conventional weapons” and your enemy is playing “chemical/Biological weapons”, you had better man up and use chem/bio weapons or nuclear ones.

Doesnt seem to fall apart to me.


42 posted on 08/13/2019 8:57:24 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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It’s a biblical principle....

Do not answer evil with evil.


43 posted on 08/13/2019 9:44:35 AM PDT by Safrguns
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It’s a biblical principle....

Do not answer evil with evil.

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Probably, but not everyone is meant for martyrdom.


44 posted on 08/13/2019 12:05:36 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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Summers was a key figure in the Clinton administration's involvement in Russia's financial crisis: "In 1993, Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs and later in the United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under his long-time political mentor Robert Rubin. In 1999, he succeeded Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury. Much of Summers's tenure at the Treasury Department was focused on international economic issues. He was deeply involved in the Clinton administration's effort to bail out Mexico and Russia when those nations had currency crises.[20] Summers set up a project through which the Harvard Institute for International Development provided advice to the Russian government between 1992 and 1997. Later there was a scandal when it emerged that some of the Harvard project members had invested in Russia, and were therefore not impartial advisors.[21] Summers encouraged then-Russian leader Boris Yeltsin to use the same "three-'ations'" of policy he advocated in the Clinton Administration – "privatization, stabilization, and liberalization."[22] ": Lawrence Summers More detail here: The Harvard Boys Do Russia: H.I.I.D. had supporters high in the Administration. One was Lawrence Summers, himself a former Harvard economics professor, whom Clinton named Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs in 1993. Summers, now Deputy Treasury Secretary, had longstanding ties to the principals of Harvard’s project in Russia and its later project in Ukraine. Summers hired a Harvard Ph.D., David Lipton (who had been vice president of Jeffrey D. Sachs and Associates, a consulting firm), to be Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. After Summers was promoted to Deputy Secretary, Lipton moved into Summers’s old job, assuming “broad responsibility” for all aspects of international economic policy development. Lipton co-wrote numerous papers with Sachs and served with him on consulting missions in Poland and Russia. “Jeff and David always came [to Russia] together,” said a Russian representative at the International Monetary Fund. “They were like an inseparable couple.” Sachs, who was named director of H.I.I.D. in 1995, lobbied for and received U.S.A.I.D. grants for the institute to work in Ukraine in 1996 and 1997. . .Andrei Shleifer, a Russian-born émigré and already a tenured professor of economics at Harvard in his early 30s, became director of H.I.I.D.’s Russia project. Shleifer was also a protégé of Summers, with whom he received at least one foundation grant. Summers wrote a promotional blurb for Privatizing Russia (a 1995 book co-written by Shleifer and subsidized by H.I.I.D.) declaring that “the authors did remarkable things in Russia, and now they have written a remarkable book.” . .Western policy-makers like Morningstar and Dine have depicted [Anatoly] Chubais as a selfless visionary battling reactionary forces. In the spring of 1997, Summers called him and his associates a “dream team.” On a related note (related in this way: HOW MARC HELPED PLUNDER RUSSIA: “Marc Rich ended up being a mentor to all these young kids who came out of the Communist Party establishment, and who made billions off these schemes themselves,” Klebnikov charges. . .), Marc Rich partner Felix Posen was in Epstein's black book, and by coincidence: Posen Foundation Hit by Madoff Fraud. The March Rich pardon was assisted by Epstein mentor Les Wexner's Mega Group associate Michael Steinhardt, son of Meyer Lansky associate Sol Frank Steinhardt aka Red McGee--Lanksy being originally from Belarus.
45 posted on 08/13/2019 3:59:23 PM PDT by Fedora
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