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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: libertybele on June 07, 2015, 07:25:12 AM
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Oh boy! I look for Barry to screw this one up (he has with everything else). I find it laughable that he is expected to urge his counterparts to extend sanctions targeting Russia's economy. Really? So far that has accomplished what? Meanwhile, Putin is laughing in his face, Germany is less then pleased with him, Greece is on the verge of economic collapse (who's leader isn't even at the summit) Iraq wants money and Barry is making light of the situation with a couple of jokes while drinking some very good German beer. Sounds about right for him; I'm surprised it wasn't reported he decided to play a few rounds of golf while he was at it.
Obama attends G-7 summit in Germany
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — President Obama on Sunday joined leaders of the world's major industrial economies for a two-day summit in Bavaria where the diplomatic discussions were expected to be dominated by the simmering conflict in eastern Ukraine and Greece's last-minute attempts to resolve its debt crisis.
Leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan attended the Group of Seven, or G-7, meetings in Germany's Alpine region near the border with Austria. The European Union is also represented. Russia is excluded from the talks for the second year in a row for backing Ukrainian separatists — an allegation it denies.
Greece's leader Alexis Tsipras is not at the summit...
...The summit is taking place 25 years after the reunification of Germany and 70 years after World War II ended.
Amid a few joking references to lederhosen and beer — he said he forgot to bring his German leather breeches, and urged the crowd to partake of the latter — Obama said the G-7 meetings would seek to achieve consensus over standing up to Russian aggression in Ukraine, combating violent extremism, climate change and trade.
"It was a very fine beer. I wish I was staying," the president said as he was leaving Kruen.
Merkel said the U.S. was an "essential partner" for Germany but also alluded to occasional "differences of opinion."
Obama is expected to urge his counterparts to extend sanctions targeting Russia's economy and banks, even as Washington has admitted the measures have not dramatically shifted Russian President Vladimir Putin's thinking on Ukraine.
On Monday, the president will meet with Iraqi President Haider-al-Abadi, who may press the United States and its allies for more military support as his beleaguered nation struggles in the face of territorial advances by the Islamic State.
Tsipras, Greece's prime minister, has so far been unsuccessful in his attempts to break a deadlock between Greece and its creditors from the EU and International Monetary Fund. Representatives from the EU and IMF are at the summit.
Ahead of the G-7 summit, there were minor clashes between police and protesters in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a town a few miles away from the Schloss Elmau hotel where the heavily guarded event is taking place. Demonstrators said they would attempt to get closer to the summit site Sunday but with thousands of police in the area, it was not clear if that would happen.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/06/07/g7-summit-germany/28638255/
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Of course they hold this at the location of the only Armed Forces Recreation Area in Germa.y. The place has been put off limits to any soldiers except those stationed there until the summit is over...and ruining not only business for the resort but the plans for hundreds of families who wanted to go there the first weekend the kids got out of school.
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Of course they hold this at the location of the only Armed Forces Recreation Area in Germa.y. The place has been put off limits to any soldiers except those stationed there until the summit is over...and ruining not only business for the resort but the plans for hundreds of families who wanted to go there the first weekend the kids got out of school.
That doesn't surprise me at all. The way this administration has treated soldiers as useful dupes or serfs to do their every bidding. And the 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others' mentality is disgusting.
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Of course they hold this at the location of the only Armed Forces Recreation Area in Germa.y. The place has been put off limits to any soldiers except those stationed there until the summit is over...and ruining not only business for the resort but the plans for hundreds of families who wanted to go there the first weekend the kids got out of school.
I can't blame Barry and his thugs for this particular dumbass decision. That one belongs right on Merkel's lap.
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I can't blame Barry and his thugs for this particular dumbass decision. That one belongs right on Merkel's lap.
Good point. I has assumed they were using the Marshall Center but they are in a German resort town near Garmisch.
I stand corrected on that.
But it still put that entire area off limits and screwed up plans for people heading out on vacation the first weekend school let out.
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Good point. I has assumed they were using the Marshall Center but they are in a German resort town near Garmisch.
I stand corrected on that.
But it still put that entire area off limits and screwed up plans for people heading out on vacation the first weekend school let out.
Yep, and that's the inevitable fallout when these G7/G8 pukes decide it's time to waste yet more taxpayer money on dumbass conferences, grip 'n grin sessions, speeches, and other political gestures that mean absolutely nothing.
The UN, G8, NATO and the rest of the dumb**** "international warm 'n fuzzy" organizations aren't worth the powder to blow 'em to hell.