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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Azor....something for you....

    .@realDonaldTrump invents fake news as he talks about fake news.

    Ever truly notice Trump cannot carry a complete thought to the end..he gets sidetracked after 4 or 5 words and repeats things over and over ....

    Trump has no earthly idea what "fake news" really is....
    Episode number 116 of the StopFake project hosted by @PaulNiland - a must watch
    #StopFakeNews #Russia #RuFakeNews
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78uV3t9ORLU#

    Trump needs to have his very own fact checker sitting next to him.....

    "I wasn't even there..got up and left" << Fact check: arrived in Moscow Nov 8.
    This photo was taken Nov 11, 4 am

    Azor....if he lies here he has lied in the past.....this is referencing the Hungarian model statements that you wiped away as fake.....NOTICE his witnesses are "rich people".....BUT not a single name does he name does he???

    NOTICE he refers to Steele as an UK diplomat not a MI6 field agent speaking Russian and working in Moscow...


    BTW...still have not seen that letter he is referring to here......
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    Russian statement concerning their reduction of nuclear weapons in exchange for lifting of sanctions as so stated by Trump.......

    Kremlin spokesman says reduction of nuclear arsenal not under discussion. Of course not: it's the cornerstone of Russia's national defense.

    So just how does explain a possible meeting if no weapons reduction ...fighting IS...well Russia is not helping there at all in Syria....

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    Schuble on Trump: Protectionism can afford short-term advantages but is almost always damaging in the long term.
    http://www.wsj.com/articles/german-f...565184?tesla=y

    Trump sides with Le Pen, Wilders, Farage & seeks overthrow of European peace & security, according to Putin's wishes
    https://www.ft.com/content/1f7c6746-...c-be108f1c1dce

    "Iran maintaining #Assad Regime is empowering al-Qaeda's narrative". Agree. #Iran (and #Russia) have made AQ stronger.
    BUT WAIT...Trump thinks working with Assad and Putin will defeat AQ....
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    AGAIN another example of the uninformed/uneducated Trump on NATO...BTW..UK has not fulfilled either their 2% and are actually still cutting their forces....

    What an utterly sinister non sequitur.
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ne...9sr09d#…

    PLEASE read this response and then tell me what he actually said...????

    BTW...his number of NATO members is basically wrong.....
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    Default Precedents for "honey traps"

    Some historical perspective by a British academic:https://theconversation.com/whether-or-not-trump-claims-are-true-russia-is-still-using-sex-for-spying-71293?

    Which ends with:
    The claims in the dossier are lurid and unproven, but they draw on very real precedents.
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    Casually threaten close US allies. That's the ticket to a successful presidency.

    Can someone truly explain this to me....German auto manufacturers making cars in the US for US consumption and exporting up to 65% from the US.....if you think about it...next to Mexico the US is a cheap labor country....if 65% of a particular manufacturer is actually exported...does that improve the actual worker earnings not really as these plants ae non union and in lower cost of living states...usually the South....

    BTW...the higher end cars produced by German companies inside the US cannot be largely afforded by many Americans to begin with thus being exported to areas who can afford them....BUT Trump does not see that small issue....

    So by slapping a 35% tariff on German cars will lead to more and or less German investment into their US plants?

    So German investments into Mexico are to be simply written off because a US President turns to being a bully and attempting to damage their brands and stock prices....sure.....

    SO WHY did GM attempt to drive their plants in Germany straight into the ground due to poor management....poor quality and faulted designs????

    U.S President-elect Donald Trump warned German car companies he would impose a border tax of 35 percent on vehicles imported to the U.S. market, a plan that drew sharp rebukes from Berlin and hit the automakers' shares.
    In an interview with German newspaper Bild, published on Monday, Trump criticized German carmakers such as BMW (BMWG.DE), Daimler (DAIGn.DE) and Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) for failing to produce more cars on U.S. soil.

    "If you want to build cars in the world, then I wish you all the best. You can build cars for the United States, but for every car that comes to the USA, you will pay 35 percent tax," Trump said in remarks translated into German.

    "I would tell BMW that if you are building a factory in Mexico and plan to sell cars to the USA, without a 35 percent tax, then you can forget that," Trump said.
    At 1155 GMT (6:55 a.m. ET), BMW shares were down 2.2 percent, while Volkswagen's (VW) and Daimler's were both down 2 percent.

    Under pressure to deliver on campaign promises to revive U.S. industrial jobs, Trump has turned his fire on carmakers that use low-cost Mexican plants to serve the U.S. market.

    He has also warned Japan's Toyota (7203.T) it could be subject to a "big border tax" if it builds its Corolla cars for the U.S. market at a planned factory in Mexico.

    All three German carmakers have invested heavily in Mexico, but also pointed out on Monday that they manufacturer in the United States as well.
    BMW executive Peter Schwarzenbauer told reporters the company was sticking to plans to invest around $1 billion in a new plant in Mexico, which is due to go into production in 2019 and create at least 1,500 jobs.

    SERIOUS WARNING
    "The president's powers are considerable. He can legally impose tariffs of up to 15 percent for 150 days. Trump is not constrained by Congress," said Simon Evenett, professor of international trade at Switzerland's University of St Gallen.

    "Even if foreign companies object and seek to challenge the legality of tariffs, it will take at least 18 months to get decided. Corporate strategies will be disrupted by then."

    While investing in Mexico, German carmakers have quadrupled light vehicle production in the United States over the past seven years to 850,000 units, more than half of which are exported from there, Germany's VDA automotive industry association said.

    "In the long term, the United States would be shooting itself in the foot by imposing tariffs or other trade barriers," VDA President Matthias Wissmann said in a statement.

    German carmakers employ about 33,000 workers in the United States and German automotive suppliers about 77,000 more, the VDA said.

    Speaking in tabloid newspaper Bild, German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that rather than trying to penalise German carmakers, the United States should instead respond by building better and more desirable cars.

    Norbert Roettgen, head of Germany's foreign affairs committee, said Berlin needed to take Trump's comments seriously. "He seems to be absolutely focused on short-term job interests and security interests ... not that he is looking for free trade so much, but more for protection," he told Reuters.

    MEXICAN PLANS
    Daimler's Mercedes-Benz and BMW already have sizeable factories in the United States where they build higher-margin sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for export to Asia and Europe.

    Around 65 percent of BMW's production from its factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina is exported overseas. BMW builds the X3, X4, X5 and X6 models in the United States
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    "It is surprising that Trump singles out the carmaker that exports more vehicles from the United States than any other manufacturer," Evercore ISI analysts said.

    A BMW spokeswoman said the planned plant in the central Mexican city of San Luis Potosi would build the BMW 3 Series from 2019, with the output intended for the world market. The plant would be an addition to existing 3 Series production facilities in Germany and China.

    In June last year, BMW broke ground on the plant, pledging to invest $2.2 billion in Mexico by 2019 for annual production of 150,000 cars.
    Daimler has said it plans to begin assembling Mercedes-Benz vehicles in 2018 from a $1 billion facility shared with Renault-Nissan (RENA.PA) (7201.T) in Aguascalientes in Mexico. A spokesman for Daimler declined to comment on Trump's remarks.

    Last year, VW's Audi division inaugurated a $1.3 billion production facility with 150,000 vehicle production capacity near Puebla, Mexico. Audi said it would build electric and petrol Q5 SUVs in Mexico.

    Audi declined to comment on Monday. [B]VW also declined to comment on Chevrolet sales have fallen sharply in Europe since parent company General Motors (GM.N) in 2013 said it would drop the Chevrolet brand in Europe by the end of 2015. Since then, GM has focused instead on promoting its Opel and Vauxhall marques..

    Trump called Germany a great car producer, saying Mercedes-Benz cars were a frequent sight in New York, but claimed there was not enough reciprocity. Germans were not buying Chevrolets at the same rate, he said, calling the business relationship an unfair one-way street.#
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    Russian government spokesman says Russia agrees with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that NATO is obsolete.

    Let's spell this out: the United States President-elect is actively working to increase the risk of military escalation and war in Europe.

    Not a partisan comment: no politician who has ever held a history book in their hands—Rep or Dem—should consider such behavior acceptable.

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    SHOT:
    http://observer.com/2017/01/trump-ad...ns-plagiarism/

    CHASER:

    TOP foreign policy adviser Monica Crowley said Monday she will relinquish the senior job she’d been poised to take in the Trump White House.

    Ms. Crowley, who had been tapped to be senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council, had been dogged in recent weeks by questions about whether she lifted portions of her past written work from other writers. Her move seemed designed to keep that from becoming a distraction as the Trump team prepares to take office.

    “After much reflection I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities and will not be taking a position in the incoming administration,” she said in a statement. “I greatly appreciate being asked to be part of President-elect Trump’s team and I will continue to enthusiastically support him and his agenda for American renewal.”

    She was to have worked for National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general.

    “The NSC will miss the opportunity to have Monica Crowley as part of our team. We wish her all the best in her future,” Gen. Flynn said in a statement.

    A report by CNN earlier this month found passages in Ms. Crowley’s 2012 book “What the (Bleep) Just Happened” closely tracked with others’ work. A separate story by Politico, a website for political insiders, said it found more than a dozen instances of what it deemed plagiarism or insufficient attribution in her 2000 dissertation.

    HarperCollins, the publisher of the 2012 book, withdrew the digital version of the book from circulation last week amid the accusations.

    Ms. Crowley was also formerly a columnist and online opinion editor for The Washington Times. Executive Editor Christopher Dolan said the paper would review her work, though no charges of plagiarism were lodged against her during her time at the paper.

    Ms. Crowley was an assistant to former President Nixon from 1990 to 1994.

    The job she was slated for in the White House is held in the current administration by Ben Rhodes, a speechwriter and long-time close adviser to President Obama. Mr. Rhodes was instrumental in brokering restoration of diplomatic relations with the Castro dictatorship in Cuba.


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    GERMANY: Responding to Trump's comments that there are no Chevrolets in Germany, Vice Chancellor says the US should 'build better cars'

    Painful because true

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    Azor...here we go again...AND BTW he is front and center inside the Palantir link analysis.....

    Former Putin aide, Mikhail Lesin found dead in a DC hotel room had a falling out with "Putin's banker" Yuri Kovalchuk


    SMALL SIDE NOTE
    Former Gen. Michael Flynn worked for Lesin at Russia Today.
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    WikiLeaks Verifizierter Account
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    NOTE: No present WikiLeaks staff, including our editor, have medical, psychological or drug conditions which could lead to sudden death.


    APPEARS WLs is getting a tad concerned with so many sudden deaths around the Steel reports....

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    Dear Allies: If you're confused since new SECDEF AND SoS strongly backs NATO but new POTUS does not, so are all Americans with an above-room-temp IQ

    Hard to say how Trump's talking points on NATO, EU & Russia would be different if they were actually written by the Kremlin.

    They'd be in Russian. Otherwise identical. As in verbatim.

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    NOTICE the last paragraphs referencing Trump's election......

    THE TIMES
    Vladimir Putin’s murky plot to cleave Balkans from West

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...c9f5efd3fc4bc0

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    In the ill-lit back room of an Orthodox church richly decorated with bone-white marble, a burly priest poured another shot of homemade brandy as he railed against attempts by the Montenegrin government to throw in its lot with the West.

    “NATO is nothing but an occupying force,” said Momcilo Krivokapic, 71, dressed in black robes and with a large silver crucifix dangling at his chest.

    Krivokapic, a senior cleric, is one of a colourful cast of characters who have turned his Mediterranean homeland into the flashpoint of a dangerous new Cold War that pits a resurgent Kremlin against a weakening West.

    It has emerged that the multiple tentacles of Russian interference, which also includes a plot to overthrow the Montenegrin government — and to prevent the country’s planned accession to NATO next year — extended into Krivokapic’s church of St Nicholas in the port city of Kotor.

    In a curious ceremony the priest, who sports a long white beard, gave his blessing to a shadowy Russian-backed paramilitary organisation, the Balkan Cossack Army, as members of President Vladimir Putin’s favourite motorcycle gang and a self-styled Russian “general” looked on.

    Kotor’s deepwater port, which was built for large battleships and is coveted by the Kremlin and NATO, is one of the reasons this picturesque Mediterranean nation of just 620,000 people is at the centre of a tug of war between Russia and the West.

    The Kremlin’s interest in the country is part of wider Russian muscle-flexing across southeastern Europe where it is sponsoring political parties, staging military manoeuvres and developing a mysterious “humanitarian” centre in Serbia that NATO suspects is a cover for espionage. In a further boost for the Kremlin, pro-Russian candidates won presi#dential elections last month in Moldova and Bulgaria.

    Western concerns at the Kremlin’s activities in the Balkans, long seen as Europe’s weak underbelly, have been highlighted by a confidential report adopted by NATO last week that sounded the alarm about Russia’s “destabilising” activities in the region.

    The report accuses Russia of forging ties with elites in targeted countries, supporting anti-Western groups and buying its way into the energy and media sectors. “As part of Russia’s effort to reassert itself on the world stage, there’s been an increase in activities in the western Balkans, including destabilising behaviour,” the report states.

    NATO, it argues, should work with the EU to counter “Russian disinformation” and help Balkan nations increase their “resilience” to the Kremlin’s malign influence.

    With just 2000 men under arms, Montenegro — the smallest of the six republics that once made up the socialist former Yugoslavia — will contribute little to NATO, many of whose members are under pressure from US president-elect Donald Trump to increase military spending to 2 per cent of their gross domestic product.

    But the political and strategic significance of its accession — coupled with a parallel attempt to join the EU — is huge.

    Montenegro is the only country on Europe’s Mediterranean coast outside NATO; a government source called it the “last piece” of “unclaimed real estate” left from Lisbon to the Syrian port of Latakia.

    “The western Balkans could be Europe’s next conflict,” said Adam Thomson, until last month Britain’s ambassador to NATO and now director of the European Leadership Network, a think tank.

    The importance to Russia of a friendly Mediterranean port became clear in October as its aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov struggled to find a berth to refuel en route from Russia to Syria.

    It was against this background that the Balkan Cossack Army, made up of Russian paramilitaries and locals who fought in the Balkan civil wars of the 1990s and the present conflict in Ukraine, came to Krivokapic for a blessing.

    The Night Wolves, a Russian motorcycle gang beloved of Putin, travelled almost 3000km from Moscow to attend the event, presided over by Viktor Zaplatin, a self-styled Russian general who fought in several murky conflicts instigated by the Kremlin.

    He addressed the crowd in the name of Alexander Borodai, a suspected Russian war criminal targeted by international sanctions for his involvement in Ukraine.

    Soon after the creation of the paramilitary outfit, which is now under investigation by authorities, Montenegro was shaken by claims of a Russian-backed plot to seize government institutions after parliamentary elections on October 16.

    Two Russians, Eduard Shirokov and Vladimir Popov, who allegedly worked for GRU, Russia’s military intelligence, have been charged with plotting a coup.

    Investigators claim the pair operated from Belgrade, capital of neighbouring Serbia, from where they are accused of masterminding a conspiracy to infiltrate fighters among Montenegrin police and security personnel on election night and cause bloodshed that would lead to a takeover by the pro-Russian opposition.

    Their aim, it was alleged, was to capture or kill the then prime minister, Milo Djukanovic, who is credited with orchestrating Montenegro’s NATO application, and replace him with a Russian crony.

    “We face an aggressive power which initiated this (plot) to stop the expansion of NATO,” thundered Djukanovic, who has since stepped down in favour of a close confidant, amid speculation he is contemplating a run for the presidency.

    The Kremlin has warned Montenegro against joining the alliance but denies any involvement in the plot, which has led to the arrest of 20 people there and in Serbia.

    Western officials, however, see the episode as a further sign of Putin’s determination to use a mixture of soft and hard power in Europe to weaken democratic governments and test Western resolve by expanding Moscow’s zone of influence.

    A source in the Montenegrin cabinet claims the paramilitary groups and the attempted coup are part of an “unequivocal message” from the Kremlin that amounts to: “We are back and you belong to us.” The EU, he claims, has given up on integrating the Balkans because of concerns about migration, leaving a vacuum that Putin sees as an “open invitation”.

    Montenegro’s prosecutors initially charged Aleksandar Sindjelic, a convicted criminal from Serbia who fought with Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, with leading the coup. He has since been declared a “protected witness” so he can testify against the Russians.

    Sindjelic, who was deported from Serbia to Montenegro in dubious legal circumstances, told prosecutors of his links to the Russian defence ministry; he also recalled how the two Russian agents had hosted him in a luxury apartment in central Moscow and gave him €200,000 ($283,000) in cash to prepare logistics.

    A cache of weapons was found in Serbia, from where the Russians operated, but Montenegro’s authorities failed to link it to the alleged coup. With no weapons yet found in Montenegro, prosecutors are being ridiculed by opposition and critics in the media who claim the plot was invented by Djukanovic.

    The revelations have embarrassed Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s pro-Western Prime Minister, who is said to have known nothing about the plot, even though his secret service reportedly was aware of it.

    Serbia, which maintains military neutrality but aspires to join the EU, has steered a pro-Western course since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, its former leader and a staunch Moscow ally who died while on trial for war crimes in the conflicts that raged through the region in the 90s.

    “The secret service monitored the Russians throughout their operation but Vucic was never told,” said a top Montenegrin government source who has been working with Serbian authorities. “When he found out he was furious … Serbia’s Prime Minister does not have his secret services under control.”

    Asked about the plot during a visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels late last month, Vucic appeared to want to send a message to Russia. “Serbia will never be a stage for preparing criminal acts against other countries,” he said. During the visit Vucic sought help to combat the Kremlin’s “enormous pressure”, diplomats say.

    Days after the story of the alleged coup attempt emerged, Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s security council and a close aide of Putin, arrived on a sudden visit to Belgrade, offering an informal deal on security co-operation. Diplomats and local officials described the visit as “crisis management”.

    NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has pledged not to accept “any interference” in Montenegro’s accession to NATO, which needs the ratification of all 28 member states.

    “I welcome the open investigation both in Montenegro and Serbia related to the attempted … coup,” he said during Vucic’s visit last month, urging alliance members to speed up the ratification process.

    NATO officials had hoped the process could be completed before Trump took office next month, but the US Senate failed to ratify it before its legislative session ended last week. Trump’s admiration for Putin has alarmed Western #officials but delighted pro-Russian activists in the Balkans.

    “The election of Donald Trump was a blessing — as if God extended his hand over us,” said Krivokapic, voicing hopes the new president will strike a deal with Putin and abandon the Balkans to Russia.


    Continued.....
    WHY did the Republican controlled Senate fail to ratify.....??????
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    The British spy behind the Trump dossier helped the FBI bust FIFA

    By the foremost journalist covering the Russian security organs, @AndreiSoldatov
    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...P=share_btn_tw

    The Kremlin has dismissed the stories about Donald Trump’s alleged dealings with Russia as “pulp fiction”. Even a superficial glance at the dossier on his relationship with Moscow supposedly compiled by a former M16 counter-intelligence officer and published by BuzzFeed reveals a confusion that raises questions about its credibility at the very least.
    Donald Trump dossier: intelligence sources vouch for author's credibility
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    For example, the FSB unit named as responsible for gathering material on Hillary Clinton – Department K – has nothing to do with eavesdropping or cyber investigations. It was, however, much in the Russian news recently because it was tasked with “supervising” the banking and financing system and its officers were involved in a major scandal that ended with an Interior Ministry official jumping out of a window during interrogation. There is another Department K in the Interior Ministry and it is this that is in charge of cyber investigations. The dossier names Igor Diveikin, a senior official in the political department of Putin’s office, as tasked to deal with the US election. He was indeed in charge of elections, but in Russia, not the US. Last October, a month before the US elections, he was moved to the apparatus of the state Duma.

    Beyond the factual detail, there are problems too with the document’s analysis: as in a classic conspiracy, Putin’s decisions in 2016 to fire prominent officials, including the all-powerful Sergei Ivanov, a head of the presidential administration, are explained via the ups and downs of Russia’s interference in the American election.

    But Putin had plenty of other reasons to start selective repressive acts against his elites – 2016 was also a year of the Duma elections and there is palpable anxiety in Moscow about the presidential elections in 2018. There are big questions too about the sources: high-placed Kremlin officials seem a little too keen to talk to a former British spy, and feed him damaging information about the most sensitive Kremlin operation in the 21st century – right in the middle of the operation.

    Though many of the report’s elements appear hastily compiled, overall it reflects accurately the way decision-making in the Kremlin looks to close observers. There’s been much focus on the shakier elements but what is plausible about this episode? The leaked document paints a picture of groups of hackers all over the world hired to attack western targets. And that sounds about right. I have been covering the Russian secret services since 1999 and have spent the last five years researching Russian cyber activities. Outsourcing sensitive offensive operations is the Kremlin’s way to lower risk and create deniable responsibility. It was used in Crimea, Ukraine and Syria with Russian “volunteers” and private military companies, while in cyberspace it has been the Kremlin tactic since the mid-2000s.

    The dossier suggests that Putin personally supervised the operation, with the Foreign Ministry playing only a minor role. This is exactly what has been observed since the annexation of Crimea – that the Foreign Ministry is no longer in charge of defining policy for Ukraine or Syria, so decision-making is likely to be more capricious. It also fits with the assessment of many experts that the hack of the US Democrats was prompted by the Panama Papers exposé, which was seen in the Kremlin as a personal attack on Putin.
    Media and intelligence agencies attacked by Trump over Russia claims
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    Finally, the dossier states that the Kremlin extensively borrowed its methods for dealing with Trump from the KGB playbook. For instance, it claims the Russian secret services were eager to collect dirt on Trump during his trips to Russia to explore whether a recruitment was feasible. The evidence is questionable, but the idea looks entirely plausible – after all, the KGB even had a special terminology for this kind of operation: it was called razvedka s territorii or “gathering intelligence from the territory”, meaning recruiting foreigners once they come to Russia. For that purpose every regional department of the KGB had a “first section” tasked to deal with foreigners once they get to the “territory” of the region, and Putin himself spent a few years in this section in St Petersburg.

    The goal, the dossier states, was to create kompromat on Trump. And kompromat, meaning compromising material, as a tactic to smear one’s opponents in the media, came into use in Russia in the late 1990s. It was a mix of intercepted phone calls and analytical profiles prepared by the oligarchs’ shadowy security agencies and government security services. In the 2000s and 2010s, kompromat was redirected against Russian opposition leaders, as well as western diplomats. Videos with kompromat were aired on state television and posted on the websites of pro-Kremlin media outlets.

    Unverifiable sensational details aside, the Trump dossier is a good reflection of how things are run in the Kremlin – the mess at the level of decision-making and increasingly the outsourcing of operations, combined with methods borrowed from the KGB and the secret services of the lawless 1990s. That is not the picture projected by the Kremlin externally – namely, that the Russian government is an effective bureaucracy, strategic in foreign policy planning and ruthless in execution. And that, whatever the truth of Putin’s connections with Trump, makes it all pretty scary.
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    Trump's Russian friend Putin is hard at work.....

    The Times of London ‏@thetimes

    Russia will arm Libyan general Khalifa Hiftar who is fighting western-backed Tripoli government
    http://thetim.es/2jQKDZ9

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    CNN to Sean Spicer: Jim Acosta 'has our complete support'

    The Trump transition team's calls for an apology from CNN correspondent Jim Acosta are being met by something else: a strong statement from CNN supporting Acosta.

    "Being persistent and asking tough questions is his job, and he has our complete support," the network said Monday morning.

    Acosta attracted President-elect Donald Trump's ire during a contentious press conference last Wednesday. After Trump criticized CNN from the podium, Acosta interjected and forcefully tried to ask a question.

    "I felt it was only fair that if our news organization is going to be attacked, that we get a chance to ask a follow-up question about what Donald Trump was talking about," Acosta said on television afterward.

    Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer has repeatedly said that Acosta should apologize.

    Speaking on Fox News on Sunday, Spicer said, "The idea that he took no responsibility for his behavior was highly unacceptable and inappropriate, and he does owe us and his fellow members of the press corps an apology for his behavior."

    Acosta and CNN have declined to apologize.

    The dispute is partly about what happened afterward, when Spicer warned Acosta about his behavior.

    Spicer claimed on Fox that Acosta mischaracterized the conversation.

    CNN responded in its statement on Monday: "As we have learned many times, just because Sean Spicer says something doesn't make it true. Jim Acosta is a veteran reporter with the utmost integrity and extensive experience in covering both the White House and the President-elect."

    What the two men agree on is that Spicer told Acosta, "If that happens again," at a future press conference, "I will have you removed."

    Spicer's argument is that Acosta's behavior was "highly unacceptable." Trump's conservative media allies agree. Acosta disagrees.

    The next day, he said on CNN's "New Day:" "I'm going to do the news. We're going to keep doing the news."
    Team Trump: Deny, conflate, confuse

    REMEMBER what the Russian SIX Ds of propasganda are......

    DISTORT...DEFLECT...DISMISS...DISMAY...ALL designed to create DOUBT and DISTRUST

    And Trump is really good at this......

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    "Newly Created #trump Bikers" a site to behold #kremlin KGB script injected in #MAGA cult
    https://youtu.be/SCq2v2Qkyxs
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    Trump's attack on BMW was not only ill-advised but ignorant: BMW makes more cars in the US than it sells there. They deserve a medal.
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    Priebus: Lewis wrong to question Trump's legitimacy Stephanopoulos: Trump questioned Obama for years

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    PERFECT EXAMPLE of the alt right FAKE NEWS......

    JUST a side note...the German government has given social media gaints FB..Instrgram..Twitter and company a heads up that a new law is coming that they must remove fake news and or hate speech comments when they are identified...immediately and without delay under the penalty of strong fines.....

    They all said yes they would but have not done a single thing since then and the German government is feed up with their delays...especially with the massive increase in Russian info warfare coming via social media aimed at Germany
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