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| − | '''Rex Tillerson''' stated in 2017 that military action against [[North Korea]] was “on the table” if the country continued to develop its weapons program.<ref>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/rex-tillerson-military-action-against-north-korea-table-n734771</ref> | + | '''Rex Tillerson''' stated in 2017 that military action against [[North Korea]] was “on the table” if the country continued to develop its [[nuclear weapons]] program.<ref>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/rex-tillerson-military-action-against-north-korea-table-n734771</ref> |
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| + | In 2017, the ''[[Washington Post]]'' stated that "most of his interactions are with an insular circle of political aides who are new to the State Department. Many career diplomats say they still have not met him, and some have been instructed not to speak to him directly — or even make eye contact."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-spends-his-first-weeks-isolated-from-an-anxious-bureaucracy/2017/03/30/bdf8ec86-155f-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.5c0ba6c76b79</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 09:58, 6 May 2017
 Rex Tillerson       (politician) | |
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| Born | Rex Wayne Tillerson 1952-03-23 Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Texas, Austin |
| Spouse | Renda St. Clair |
| Party | Republican |
Rex Tillerson stated in 2017 that military action against North Korea was “on the table” if the country continued to develop its nuclear weapons program.[1]
Extreme Privacy
In 2017, the Washington Post stated that "most of his interactions are with an insular circle of political aides who are new to the State Department. Many career diplomats say they still have not met him, and some have been instructed not to speak to him directly — or even make eye contact."[2]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2007 | 24 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | Switzerland | Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2009 | 23 January 2009 | 27 January 2009 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2011 | 26 January 2011 | 30 January 2011 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality". |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:How did the US rename a terror group to work with it | Article | 24 January 2018 | Murat Yetkin | So Mr Tillerson, contrary to what CENTCOM and Brett McGurk keep telling you, the Syrian Democratic Forces are not a “truly multi-ethnic” group of freedom fighters uniting against ISIL barbarism. The handful of Arab tribes in the SDF are there for cosmetic purposes only, as part an effort to cover up cooperation between US forces and a group that your administration official designates a “terrorist group.” |
| Document:Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels | Article | 28 April 2016 | Eric Zuesse | The commercially-controlled media won’t inform the public when a US Secretary of State, and her boss the US President, are the persons actually behind a sarin gas attack they’re blaming on a foreign leader the US aristocrats and their allied foreign aristocrats are determined to topple and replace. Is this really a democracy? |
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References
- ↑ http://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/rex-tillerson-military-action-against-north-korea-table-n734771
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-spends-his-first-weeks-isolated-from-an-anxious-bureaucracy/2017/03/30/bdf8ec86-155f-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.5c0ba6c76b79
