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WORLD-TYRANT WORLD 08 15 14 2 

Aug 15, 10:20 AM EDT 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOREIGN_HOLDINGS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-15-10-20-01

FOREIGN HOLDINGS OF TREASURY DEBT TOP $6 TRILLION [Excerpts] 

[ Another HINT ! ] 

Foreign demand for Treasury debt is expected to remain strong this year, helped by a congressional agreement to avoid a new fight over the U.S. [Worl Tyrant] debt ceiling until March 2015. 

A standoff in August 2011 rattled financial markets and the political gridlock led the credit rating firm Standard & Poor's to downgrade its AAA rating of U.S. [World Tyrant] debt for the first time in history. 

Aug 15, 9:42 AM EDT 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_HUNGARY_RUSSIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-15-09-42-40

HUNGARY: SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA MORE DAMAGING TO WEST [Excerpts] 

Hungary's prime minister said the West is "shooting itself in the foot" with inadequately thought through economic sanctions against Russia. 

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday that the European Union's sanctions policy needed to be reassessed and that Russia's response was hurting Hungary's export-based economy.  Orban said he was looking for allies within the bloc to change the policy. 

Aug 15, 3:08 AM EDT 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_POLICE_SHOOTING_MISSOURI_POLICE_RESPONSE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-15-03-08-17

POLICE IMAGES FUEL OUTRAGE IN ST. LOUIS AND BEYOND [Excerpts] 

The images were reminiscent of a war zone: Helmeted officers pointing weapons from armored trucks, flash grenades lighting the night sky and tear gas exploding in crowded streets. 

The ugly clashes between police and protesters in this St. Louis suburb fueled a torrent of criticism and raised questions about whether the officers' tactics were inflaming the same violence they aimed to suppress after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. 

The repeated scenes of police officers wearing military-style camouflage and gas masks and training their rifles on unarmed civilians —-some holding their hands up —- looked to critics more like *an Army trying to quell a revolution* than a police department trying to keep the peace in a small suburb [Ferguson]. 

Meeting with President of Finland Sauli Niinisto 

15 August 2014, 17:00, Sochi 

http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/news/22825/print 

Vladimir Putin met in Sochi with President of Finland Sauli Niinisto to discuss, in particular, possibilities for settling problems that have arisen in bilateral trade and economic relations.  The two presidents also discussed the situation in Ukraine. 

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Mr President, friends, it is a great pleasure to welcome you to Sochi. 

Russia and Finland have always had very good and business-like relations.  Finnish business has made big investments in the Russian economy and I hope that Finnish investors feel at ease here in general in Russia. 

There are Russian investors too. I think that our two countries are developing good relations in the shipbuilding sector, and Helsinki has received orders from Russia for another three ships to be built at the shipyards there.  Russia remains one of Finland’s top economic partners in terms of the volume of trade and economic ties. 

Sadly, our trade turnover has dropped slightly of late, falling by around 8 percent.  This is not just the result of political difficulties, but is also linked to purely economic causes. 

We are therefore especially pleased to see you and your colleagues here, Mr President, so as to have the chance to discuss the full range of our relations. 

PRESIDENT OF FINLAND SAULI NIINISTO (retranslated): Thank you for giving me the chance to come here and visit Sochi once again.  The weather is completely different now to what it was last time. 

Yes, we do have traditionally good bilateral relations.  We have many common affairs in economic and political areas, and of course our people on each side of the border also have very close contacts. 

Of course the political events and the political climate that reigns right now do have an impact on our relations, especially our economic ties.  Our relations have traditionally shown steady growth, but the picture has changed a little now. 

It is true that we were still feeling the consequences of the financial crisis, but the changing political circumstances have put us in a new situation.  The disaster that is taking place in Ukraine affects all of us and concerns all of us, and its impact goes far beyond just local consequences. 

As a result of these events, the traditionally good relations between the European Union and Russia have suffered a blow.  For this reason too, changes have taken place at the global level.  Some are talking of the start of a new ‘Cold War’, or suggest that we are on the way towards a new ‘Cold War’. 

It is therefore good to have this chance to discuss the possibilities we have for finding a way of settling the situation in Ukraine, stopping this negative spiral of events and helping to stabilise the situation, because this really is something that affects us all.