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Leading Democrat alleges joint effort to distract from Trump-Russia inquiry 2017-04-03 04:17:22 Post No.127997
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>Intelligence chair Devin Nunes helped White House sideline claims he is meant to be investigating, says Adam Schiff, as Trump claims surveillance ‘scandal’
>Donald Trump’s White House and a Republican congressman who is supposed to be investigating Russian interference in the US election conspired to divert attention from Moscow’s actions, a senior Democrat alleged on Sunday.
>Adam Schiff accused Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, of colluding in an “attempt to distract” the public from concerns over potential links between Trump and Russian meddling.
>Schiff, the committee’s top Democrat, said on CNN’s State of the Union that Nunes and the White House had made an “effort to point the Congress in other directions, to basically say, ‘Don’t look at me, don’t look at Russia, there’s nothing to see here’.”
>Nunes threw his investigation into chaos last month by announcing, without consulting committee members, that he had received evidence that members of Trump’s presidential campaign were swept up in electronic surveillance of foreigners by the Obama administration.
>The congressman’s announcement gave a boost to efforts by Trump and his backers in the rightwing media to reframe Obama-era investigations of Russian interference – and possible collusion with Trump associates – as nothing more than politically motivated surveillance of the Republican presidential campaign.
>It then emerged last week that two White House officials were actually involved in supplying Nunes with the evidence of “incidental” surveillance of Trump staff, suggesting intelligence materials may have been used for political purposes. Nunes viewed the documents during a mysterious late-night visit to the White House.
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Jesus, I'm no Trump fan, but duuuuh, ya think? This isn't exactly news to anyone no matter who you believe. Schiff comes off as an attention whore. He's been all over the Sunday talking head shows today like he can do something about it when he knows as well as they do that the press is focusing on the Senate committee investigation and that his committee isn't going to be seriously investigating much of anything anytime soon with Nunes as chair.
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>Massive ‘Big Maple Leaf’ gold coin worth millions stolen from German museum
>The 221-pound “Big Maple Leaf” gold coin, which was stolen from Germany’s Bode Museum, could be worth almost $4.5 million (U.S.) at market prices.
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ITS PAYDAY MOTHERFUCKERS
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https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0327/Humongous-gold-coin-stolen-from-Berlin-museum
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Michael Flynn left Russian speaking fees off initial financial disclosures 2017-04-02 02:29:41 Post No.127820
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>President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, did not include receiving thousands of dollars in speaking fees from three Russian companies in initial financial disclosures to the Office of Government Ethics, copies of the reports show.
>Flynn's initial disclosures, which he submitted in mid-February, left out that he received money from Russia's state-funded television network, RT, for a speech in Moscow and from air cargo company Volga-Dnepr Airlines and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Government Security Solutions Inc. for speaking engagements in the United States.
>Flynn included the speaking fees in disclosure forms he filed Friday, according to the documents. Both sets of filings were made public as part of a White House release of financial disclosures of 180 White House officials.
>Flynn attorney Robert Kelner said Flynn "had only just begun the financial disclosure filing process at the time he left the White House.
"He filed a draft form explicitly listing his speakers bureau contract, and he expected to engage in the usual process of consultations with the White House Counsel's Office and OGE (Office of Government Ethics) regarding what he was expected to disclose. That process was suspended, however, after he resigned. When the White House asked him this week to complete the process and to itemize the specific speaking events, he did so," Kelner said.
>CNN has reported extensively on the RT speech, but the existence of the other two speaking engagements was disclosed last month by House Democrats.
>Flynn resigned just days after the date of the initial financial disclosure after it became public that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak.
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>The disclosure forms show Flynn made as much as $1.5 million last year. According to his financial snapshot, Flynn received $827,055 in salary and bonus from his firm, Flynn Intel Group, alone.
>The retired lieutenant general listed a speaking engagement for "RT TV," the Russian TV network, when asked in the form to disclose "compensation exceeding $5,000 in a year," but did not specify the amount.
>CNN previously reported that Flynn, according to a top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, was paid more than $45,000 by RT, formerly called Russia Today, for a speech in Moscow in December 2015. The US intelligence community has long assessed RT to be a propaganda tool of the Kremlin, writing in a January report on Russian interference in the US election that the organization had participated in disinformation campaigns aimed at the US. Flynn initially said he was paid by his speakers bureau for the talk.
>The forms say Flynn received "compensation exceeding $5,000 in a year" from the Russian airline and cybersecurity company for speaking engagements in the United States. House Democrats last month also revealed the existence of those two speeches, saying Flynn received $11,250 from the airline and $11,250 from the cybersecurity firm.
>The White House acknowledged in March that Trump's transition team was aware before Flynn was tapped to serve as national security adviser that he had engaged in work that would likely require him to register his consulting firm as a foreign agent.
>Flynn's Justice Department filing last month raised questions when it revealed that Flynn's firm worked on behalf of a Turkish-owned company, Inovo BV, to improve US confidence in Turkey's business climate.
>Flynn Intel Group received $530,000 in payments from the company and acknowledged in its registration as a foreign agent that the work may have benefited the Turkish government.
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>The White House has many advisers who earned millions of dollars last year, including President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, whose assets combined with her husband's could exceed $700 million.
>Ivanka Trump and her husband, senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner, collected about $195 million in income, according to a new financial snapshot of about 180 of the men and women serving in Donald Trump's White House.
>Other Trump aides with lucrative histories include Trump's top economic adviser Gary Cohn, the former president of banking giant Goldman Sachs, who netted up to around $75 million in the previous year. White House chief strategist Steve Bannon made up to $2.5 million.
>The newly released financial disclosure forms list the assets the Trump aides held when they walked in the doors of the White House in January -- before administration counsel advised them to resign from various postings, divest certain holdings or recuse themselves from future decisions. But the documents nevertheless offer a portrait into the lives of several key White House aides, especially those who came from Wall Street or have other ties to the financial industry.
Kushner, like Trump, a prominent real estate titan, held a position in 267 separate entities, ranging from the Trump transition team to dozens of property holdings in New York and New Jersey.
>Ivanka Trump, who just this week formally said she would join the West Wing after serving as an informal adviser to her father, has yet to file her own disclosure forms. But the White House said earlier on Friday that her documents would look largely similar to her husband's.
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>Bannon's forms reveal numerous ties to various conservative organizations and sources funded by the family of influential Trump donors Bob and Rebekah Mercer, such as Breitbart News, which he led as executive chairman, and Cambridge Analytica, a data firm used by many Republican clients. Other income sources for him are Bannon Strategic Advisors, a consultancy firm valued at as high as $25 million, along with Affinity Media Holdings, which could have awarded him capital gains of as high as $1 million last year.
>Bannon is also in the process of selling some of his stake in Cambridge Analytica and Glittering Steel, another Mercer-backed entity, according to the forms.
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Why Intolerant Swedish Feminist don't feel safe in migrant areas 2017-04-01 02:31:19 Post No.127248
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> Nalin Pekgul is a self-described feminist ... claims Muslim fundamentalists have taken over and she doesn’t feel she can visit the centre of Tensta without being harassed, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
>Dagli described Husby as having self-appointed “morality police” who attempt to control women’s behavior in the area.
>Aggression toward feminists, in particular, became an issue she said. “There were rumors that we wanted to take away women’s veils,” she said. “They said that I should keep myself, and then I did not feel so safe anymore.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/31/swedish-feminists-flee-suburbs-due-islamic-fundamentalists/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20170331
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>breitbart
But in all honesty, what the fuck happened to Sweden? They once had an empire that could have defeated Russia. But now they've decided to go out with a whimper instead of a bang.
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>Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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>>127256
>what happened to Sweden
Socialism, and leftist politicians in general. It turns out importing hordes of uncivilized barbarians while trying to run a welfare state is a bad idea.
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Thousands of American workers are fired and replaced 2017-03-31 04:43:08 Post No.127090
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-jobs-headed-mexico-once-100000109.html
Spread this news as the globalist are trying to kill it. Read the stories, scary stuff and then sign the petition to stop it.
60 minutes (real news)
http://twitchy.com/wa-37/2017/03/19/digging-your-own-grave-60-minutes-and-michelle-malkin-take-a-look-at-the-h1b-visa-program/
CBS NEWS (real news)
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/youre-fired/
PBS NEWS (real news)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/the-bogus-high-tech-worker-shortage-how-guest-workers-lower-us-wages/
CNN NEWS (real news)
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/21/technology/h1b-visa-program-flawed/
Human trafficking (our government as a source)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdms/pr/twelve-defendants-plead-guilty-marriage-and-visa-immigration-fraud
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There is literally nothing wrong with globalism.
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This is outright fraud and corruption. Read the links.
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I am an h1b from India. They hire us because we are smarter. In the USA you eat too much meat and then get fat and your brain slows. Don't blame us for working smarter. India is a great country. Do the needful and respect us now. https://www.quora.com/Will-India-surpass-the-economy-of-the-USA-in-the-future
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Atlanta Bridge Collapse 2017-04-02 01:01:00 Post No.127795
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>smokes crack under bridge
>starts fire burning PVC hot enough to destroy supporting structures
>creates traffic nightmare
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Nuggers, am I right?
It's like a meme irl
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>>127795
>place a chair on top of a shopping cart, reach under the shopping cart and ignite it
How the fuck
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>>127828
A plastic chair isn't enough material to burn a bridge down. They say it's possible if it burns long and hot, but a chair doesn't burn long.
We'll never know what burned.
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How the Cabinet plotted to exploit EU’s fear 2017-04-02 03:51:09 Post No.127835
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How the Cabinet plotted to exploit EU’s fear
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the Telegraph has obtained an official account of a meeting of cabinet ministers last month which discussed how security could be used to full advantage in Brexit talks.
Mr Davis, the Brexit Secretary, is noted as saying: “I agree that Britain has high cards and a very strong hand [on security].”
“The UK is in a strong position and there is a degree of panic within Europe over defence policy and cooperation.” He is said to have added that the UK should not “underplay” its hand.
Mr Hammond, the Chancellor, said that the EU would not offer an economic relationship which deterred Britain from co-operating on defence. He added the UK should make that “clear” during talks.
Theresa May, the Prime Minister, also attended the meeting and summed up at the end. She is understood to have said that defence and security were a “defining issue for the EU” and that the UK is in a “strong position”.
"Our position is simply a statement of fact – if we leave with no agreement in place, the arrangements we currently have will lapse.
"We are not bargaining security with anyone – we want to maintain the degree of cooperation on these matters that we have currently."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/revealed-cabinet-plotted-exploit-eus-defence-fears/
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What is so bad about the British using this to their advantage?
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Flynn made $1.3 million for lobbying, speeches, other work 2017-04-02 04:05:18 Post No.127839
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>WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn has disclosed that he earned more than $1.3 million for work for technology firms, political groups and government contractors as well as for speeches to Russian companies and lobbying for a firm owned by a Turkish businessman.
>The new disclosures contained two filings, one made last February and a second dated Friday. The earlier disclosure omitted payments to Flynn for three speeches that he made to Russian companies, while the second filing disclosed those payments. In response to questions about the differences in the filing, Flynn's lawyer said the first filing included the speaking fees in bulk. He noted that the initial filing was a draft and was not followed by consultations with federal ethics officials because Flynn left the administration just days after turning it in.
>Flynn's recent financial history, made available Saturday by the White House, comes amid his effort to win immunity from congressional probers in exchange for his cooperation with official inquiries into contacts between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign in 2016.
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Badger Observed Burying an Entire Cow by Itself 2017-04-02 02:57:08 Post No.127681
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsHiOwR7cfc
Video has Benny Hill music running in the background as the badger buries the cow.
University of Utah biologists have observed an American badger burying an entire cow carcass by itself. This is the first time a badger has been documented burying something larger than itself. The scavenger behavior was observed in January 2016 in Utah's Great Basin Desert.
Badgers are known to cache food stores and the researchers suggests the observations indicate that "badgers may have no limit to the size of animal they can cache."
Ethan Frehner, first author of the research paper, says in the announcement, "We know a lot about badgers morphologically and genetically, but behaviorally there's a lot of blank spaces that need to be filled. This is a substantial behavior that wasn't at all known about."
University of Utah biologist Evan Buechley placed seven calf carcasses in Utah's Grassy Mountains as part of the study. A camera trap was setup nearby each carcass. The study was intended to observe vultures and other avian scavengers but ended up capturing the badger's burying skills.
Buechley also says, "There's not a lot of resources out there. A large dead ungulate can provide a ton of resources. So far on the carcasses we've put out, we've had turkey vultures, golden eagles, many ravens, bobcats, kit fox and coyote, so there's a lot of animals that could be using this resource, and the badger just monopolizes it."
A research paper on the study was published here in the journal, Western North American Naturalist. Here is the video of the badger burying the calf carcass which weighed about 50 pounds.
http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/badger-observed-burying-an-entire-cow-by-itself-40120171
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neat
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What the fuck is wrong with your badgers America?
It's got some sort of retarded raccoon face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
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Man breaks Guinness World Record for most hamburgers eaten in a minute 2017-04-02 03:19:08 Post No.127687
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Filipino Ricardo "Rix Terabite" Francisco has gobbled his way to a new Guinness World Record for the most hamburgers eaten in one minute.
Francisco, 24, polished off five burgers at the hamburger eating contest at Zark's Burgers in Manila last Monday.
Asked how he felt after breaking the record, Francisco shouted, "Still hungry!"
Francisco's consumption of five burgers beats the previous Guinness record of four burgers set by Peter "Furious Pete" Czerwinski, of Toronto, in July 2013.
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/01/man-breaks-guinness-world-record-for-most-hamburgers-eaten-in-a-minute
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For those curious, this is 5 quarter pound patties on a plain white bun. Not to take away from the record, it is still pretty crazy.
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I think I could do the first one in 12 seconds but I know I couldn't keep up that rate for 5 burgers.
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Chicago Teens Livestream Rape Of 15-Year-Old Girl. No One Calls 911. 2017-03-22 03:35:02 Post No.124089
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This makes me fucking livid.
>A group of boys allegedly raped a 15-year-old Chicago girl, streamed the attack live on Facebook, while roughly 40 people watched the savage assault live and did nothing about it.
>Fox News reports that police only discovered what had happened after the girl’s mother approached Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson as he was leaving a news conference at the 10th District police station in the Lawndale neighborhood late Monday.
>The girl’s mother showed Johnson screenshots of the alleged assault, according to Johnson’s spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Johnson told WGN-TV, “What’s even more disturbing, more than the fact that they did this, there were so many people that saw this and they didn’t pick up the phone and dial 911. That’s just not right and (we’re) working on it and try to bring it to a successful resolution.”
>Johnson ordered an investigation; the police department asked Facebook to pull the video off the Internet. Her mother showed WGN News four screens grabs that WGN reported are too graphic for TV.
>The Chicago Tribune stated that the girl, a Lane Tech freshman, was reported missing after she didn’t return to her Lawndale home after going to the store. The girl’s uncle reportedly saw the Facebook Live video showing the boys raping his niece. The girl wasn’t found until Tuesday morning; police said she appeared to be in “good condition” and was returned to her mother.
>On Monday, before the girl was found, the mother said, “I just want her home. I just want to make sure she’s ok cause I know she’s probably scared and embarrassed. I just want her back home.”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/14635/chicago-teens-livestream-rape-15-year-old-girl-no-hank-berrien
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U sure its real
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>>124090
I mean, the police are investigating it.
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In stories like this they always describe the people involved i.e. Caucasian male, African American male. Except when it's black on white crime. I would bet money this was a group of black/Latino gang members going for a trophy rich white girl. Fuck Chicago. One of the highest Latino/black populations and unsurprisingly one of the highest crime rates
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Facial STD from necrophiliac tinder date
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She got a rash after a guy she met on tinder. Her doctor said it could only come if this guy had sex with animals or dead peoples.
After a little research she found that he worked at a morgue.
New relayed by several clickbait sites of course
http://elitedaily.com/social-news/dead-people-rash-morgue-worker-tinder/1789866/amp/
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Twitter being the only source and the parasites nor the STI in question are even named. I call bs.
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Do you really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
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Something tells me it's real.
Nice world we have here!
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Marco Rubio says Russian hackers targeted his presidential campaign staff twice, attacks continue 2017-03-31 01:16:03 Post No.126945
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>WASHINGTON — Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio said hackers using an Internet provider from an unknown location in Russia tried twice to access internal information from former members of his presidential campaign team, including as recently as Wednesday.
>The remarkable revelation on Thursday was made even more extraordinary by the setting in which it was disclosed: a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing looking into Moscow’s role in the 2016 presidential campaign and President Trump’s victory. Rubio told committee members that both tries were unsuccessful.
>Rubio divulged the attempted hack following comments from an national security expert that Russian operatives tried to undermine the campaigns of presidential candidates viewed as hostile to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
>“Russia’s overt media outlets and covert trolls sought to sideline opponents on both sides of the political spectrum with adversarial views toward the Kremlin,” Clint Watts, a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute Program on National Security at George Washington University, told the panel.
>“They were in full swing during both the Republican and Democratic primary season and may have helped sink the hopes of candidates more hostile to Russian interests long before the field narrowed,” Watts continued. “Senator Rubio, in my opinion, you anecdotally suffered from these efforts.”
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>Rubio abandoned his presidential run in March after losing the Florida primary to Trump. In June, he reversed his pledge not to run for a second term on Capitol Hill.
>Then, “in July of 2016, shortly after I announced that I would seek re-election to the United States Senate, former members of my presidential campaign team who had access to the internal information of my presidential campaign were targeted by IP addresses with an unknown location within Russia,” Rubio said at Thursday’s Intelligence hearing. “That effort was unsuccessful.”
>The Florida senator went on to say that at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, a second attempt to hack those former presidential campaign staffers was also made.
“That effort was also unsuccessful,” he told the committee.
>Rubio’s office said they would have no comment beyond the senator’s remarks.
>Rubio, an advocate for human rights, has been one of Moscow’s fiercest critics in Congress. He’s called Putin a “thug,” pushed for tougher sanctions against Kremlin leaders and often highlighted human rights abuses in Russia.
>An hour before attending the Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday morning, the senator was at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, criticizing the arrest Sunday of hundreds of protesters who assembled for an anti-Putin demonstration in Moscow.
>“This is only the latest incident that reminds of how critical it is that the United States stands with the Russian people in their fight against a brutal, corrupt and repressive regime,” he said.
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lol nobody cares about lil' Marco
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“The Russian government meddled in the 2016 presidential election”. So what? What’s the problem? That is exactly what the CIA have been doing in Third World countries for the last 60 years. Thank you, Russia for giving to these hypocrites a taste of their own medicine.
If Congress really were to investigate meddling by anyone, they’d be perpetually investigating their own government. This is all so ridiculous. And actually a bit hilarious considering self-described “exceptionalism”. So exceptional the US thinks only it has the right to coup, assassinate, interfere, etc. If someone else does? Aghast! Shock! My word!
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Scotland votes for second Indepence referendum
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/28/indyref2-debate-vote-nicola-sturgeon-watch-live/#update-20170328-1711
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>voting to vote
It doesn't get more meta than that
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Democracy was a mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJBzhcSWTk
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Not against democracy, but sees the need to segregate votes based on the knowledge of the voter.
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Can Big Bird survive Trump? 2017-03-16 03:29:45 Post No.122421
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Can Big Bird survive Trump?
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2017-03-16 03:29:45
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-budget-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-236125
>President Donald Trump overcame more than a dozen Republican opponents, Hillary Clinton, an array of scandals and daunting electoral math to land in the Oval Office. But now, he may have finally met an opponent he cannot slay: Big Bird.
>The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a budget proposal that would entirely eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the publicly funded radio and television entity that includes NPR, PBS and about 1,500 affiliated stations. The move would save about $485 million — about 0.0137 percent of total federal spending.
>“When you start looking at places that we reduce spending, one of the questions we asked was can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no,” Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday morning. “We can ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
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>(“Actually coal miners pay little in federal taxes,” Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler pointed out on Twitter.)
>The CPB, established under President Lyndon Johnson in 1967, has long been a target for conservatives. The conservative Heritage Foundation regularly calls for its elimination in budget proposals, and Mitt Romney famously called out Big Bird in a 2012 presidential debate.
>“I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS, I love Big Bird. Actually like you, too,” Romney said to PBS anchor Jim Lehrer, who was moderating the debate. “But I'm not going to -- I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.”
>(While Sesame Street is now in a deal with HBO, its episodes are still made available for free through PBS — an option that would conceivably be eliminated if PBS were unable to survive.)
>Republicans argue that they do not want to see the demise of the stations, only the demise of taxpayer funding for them.
>“The idea is that it can be privately financed,” said Paul Winfree, the White House’s director of budget policy and a Heritage Foundation alum.
>The CPB was quick to defend itself Thursday, and push back against the notion that federal dollars are not necessary to preserve the station.
>“There is no viable substitute for federal funding that ensures Americans have universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services. The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media’s role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions – all for Americans in both rural and urban communities,” said CPB President Patricia Harrison in a statement.
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>Some experts tend to agree, arguing that private financing would not be universally available. It would not be the stereotypical NPR listeners in Boston, Brooklyn and Washington who would suffer the consequences.
>The “money that really makes a difference goes to areas where the public radio and TV stations cannot survive on donations,” said David Wessel, the director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the non-partisan Brookings Institution.
>Wealthy metropolitan areas would likely be able to continue to support their public stations, while poorer rural areas — places that lack access to quality news programming to begin with — would lose out. That could give pause to a number of Republican representatives.
>The move also illuminates a problem Wessel sees with the entire budget proposal.
>“This is budgeting by bumper sticker slogan. It gives the president some applause lines for his rallies: We are going to stop sending your tax money to National Public Radio. We are cutting foreign aid,” he said. “This approach obscures the facts: The U.S. government’s debt, swollen by the Great Recession, will grow to historically unprecedented levels not because of increases in annually appropriated discretionary spending, but because of rising federal spending on retirement and health programs, largely driven by the aging of our society.”
>The universality of public broadcasting that supporters argue make it so crucial also make it tougher to eliminate for purely political reasons. There are many federal programs with far fewer fans — and far smaller budgets — whose elimination would be more politically palatable.
>Big Bird can likely rest easy — he survived Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and both Presidents Bush. He will probably endure Trump, too.
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