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    Amazing: Lavrov admits Russia is a combatant in Eastern Ukraine, despite years of pretending otherwise
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Amazing: Lavrov admits Russia is a combatant in Eastern Ukraine, despite years of pretending otherwise
    Rus. The original words were "we chose to meddle in the conflict", but "join the fight" is the official traslation into english


    Slight change in meaning is it not?????

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    Rex Tillerson berates White House aide over blocked State Department staffing nominees:

    http://washex.am/2s3GSUK

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    HAS the President of the Us finally and completely reverted to a true THREE year old...???

    President Trump shared a video Sunday on Twitter of himself slamming WWE President Vince McMahon to the ground and punching him with the CNN logo superimposed over McMahon’s head, escalating his recent attacks aimed at the news media.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-twe...145733032.html

    The footage, taken from “WrestleMania 23” in 2007, shows Trump approaching McMahon outside of the ring, using a clothesline move to knock him down, and punching him in the head before turning to walk away. The altered clip mocking CNN recently appeared on a Reddit.com message board.
    The president’s tweet included a pair of disparaging hashtags: “#FraudNewsCNN” and “#FNN.”
    “It is a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters,” the network said in a statement. “Clearly, [White House press secretary] Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied when she said the president had never done so.
    The network added: “Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, ‎dealing with North Korea and working on his health care bill, he is involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his.”
    Donald J. Trump

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    #FraudNewsCNN #FNN
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    ON THIS DAY THESE EVENTS OCCURRED.......


    On this day in 1776, Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States"

    On this day in 1862, President Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges.

    On this day in 1890, Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act, a landmark federal statute in U.S. antitrust law.

    On this day in 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed a joint congressional resolution declaring the end of war with Germany.

    On this day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law.

    On this day in 2017, President Donald Trump posts a meme about his wrestling and CNN on Twitter.

    AND this is the President of the US?????

    Maybe actually just the President of a third world country
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    Donald J. Trump‏
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    My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!
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    Response from US Congressman...

    Ted Lieu

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    Dear dumb as a rock @realDonaldTrump: The news media LOVES that you use social media. It jacks up their ratings & helps Special Counsel.

    As @dlippman has reported in the past, some news orgs have quietly been ramping up security over past year. Trump tweet is partly why.

    @SHSanders45 3 days ago: "The President in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence."
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    BUT WAIT.........appears it is OK for the President of the US to "act out"....this is the work of a juvenile...not even an adult.....

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    Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert on Trump's CNN tweet: "No one would perceive that as a threat. I hope they don't."

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    Those of us journalists who live and work in Eastern Europe have a pretty good idea of where this is headed if it continues.

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    .@ananavarro on Trump's CNN tweet: "It is an incitement to violence. He is going to get someone killed in the media."

    WELCOME to the new Trump world of dismantling US democracy and he is on the way of achieving this main goal in the name of Russian non linear war against the US...
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    "Some WH advisers said that they were frustrated the Brzezinski feud overtook the president’s fight with CNN."
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...67af8b#…

    Backdrop this against POTUS aides insisting he wants to talk about policy and media isn't interested
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    NOW Trump and his supporters are openly preaching "a social war".....

    The head of the NRA said: "academic elites, political elites, and media elites. These are America’s greatest domestic threats"

    BUT WAIT..I thought it was those "radical Islamic terrorists"....

    1. Mao bragged, "Emperor Shih Huang of the China Dynasty.. had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000 scholars."

    2. The Khmer Rouge murdered anyone who wore eyeglasses on the assumption that they could read and were an intellectual

    3. Franco was violently anti-intellectual, which is why your favorite writers were all off fighting the Spanish civil war.

    4. The Night of the Long Batons where libraries were burnt, and academics ousted from housing ushered in Onganía's dictatorship in Argentina

    5. "When I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver." (By Nazi playwright Hanns Johst.)

    6. Lenin's regime began by exiling 220 prominent intellectuals on "philosopher's ships."
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    Russian TV still sympathetic to Donald Trump. Anchor Dmitry Kiselev says POTUS is suffering "ferocious pressure" & "unprecedented hounding".
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    A Foreign Service Officer just told me "Tillerson is tired, frustrated and very unhappy.

    It's not a question of if he leaves but when".

    WHY.....US FP is being driven by Bannon and Trump's son-in-law.......

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    Someone should do an analysis of American companies doing business in Russia, especially in energy, and donating to House GOP leadership and to the Trump campaign.

    The list would be rather long and would surprise a lot of people as well as the sheer amounts of money beig passed around....

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    Trumps meme actually came from Reddit.....REALLY worth reading ..........

    Trump's CNN body-slam video appears to have gained traction from a controversial Reddit user
    http://www.businessinsider.de/trump-...ffer&r=US&IR=T

    On Sunday morning, the Reddit user celebrated that Trump had tweeted out his meme: "Wow!! I never expected my meme to be retweeted by the God Emporer himself!!!"

    Many in the subreddit, which has over 441,000 members, took it as validation that the president reads the pro-Trump community that has long promoted alt-right views attacking Islam, minorities, and immigrants. HanA--holeSolo is a frequent participant of such conversations.
    In the past, r/The_Donald's have aggressively gamed Reddit's algorithms to see pro-Trump content rise to the top of the site, and have sometimes engaged in abusive behavior against the volunteer moderators and members of other communities on the site — causing significant disruption. In December, Reddit promised reforms to crack down on its most abusive members in the wake of attacks on its CEO.
    Reminder: 28 people were injured in a shooting at an Arkansas club.

    POTUS has attacked the media again. He remains silent on the shooting.

    This is the guy who created the meme Trump tweeted out today. Trump's making him a celebrity in his online circles.
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    AND the Trump ME FP is again what......

    BREAKING - Saudi government sources state there are internal demands to invade Qatar to "liberate it from the al-Thani family rule"

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    Trump has brilliantly changed the subject from “Is he a Russian intelligence asset” to “Is he a dangerously violent lunatic?"

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