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Cornuck wrote: Yes, the media down here is a joke. That's what's led the country to this point.
Were they really duped? No more than a hooker left on the side of the road with a bad taste in her mouth.
This won't be over soon enough...
But.... still, you have to admit, it's clickbait.
The real clickbait is the infamous birth certificate in the first placeCornuck wrote:Are fish left in that there barrel, Doc?
Yes, the media down here is a joke. That's what's led the country to this point.
Were they really duped? No more than a hooker left on the side of the road with a bad taste in her mouth.
This won't be over soon enough...
But.... still, you have to admit, it's clickbait.
Hard to believe for a man generally known for his discipline and dignity. But that was before the explosive release of his hacked emails, in which he rips into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, then proceeds to insult her mate, Bill Clinton.
“I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year-old person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still -icking bimbos at home,” he wrote.
I refuse to spell Powell’s vulgarity out in full — the National Post is not a rap video, and coarseness should not be amplified by needless repetition. However, for the benefit of our many unworldly readers, I will give a hint as to the missing letter. It is one of the alphabet’s first three consonants, it rhymes with “C,” and is not “B.” I hope that helps.
The word “-icking,” however, is not the worst part of his outburst — the description of Bill Clinton’s putative partners as “bimbos” is. Is this how a renowned statesman speaks of young, sexually empowered women who are willing to minister to the twilight carnality of no less than a former president? Is this how he perceives the women willing to oblige the aging stag who once romped with the best of the herd, in his fuller days as governor of Arkansas, and later stalked the padded carpets and convenient cubicles of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
The modern woman makes her own choices. “Bimbos” is a frightful, slut-shaming slur directed at their independence and empowerment. Can Powell have forgotten the feminist lessons of the Monica Lewinsky saga?
You make it sound like the Russian people are living in caves and running from wild dogs and yetis.Per wrote:Election in Russia today.
Putin rescheduled it to an earlier date to throw the opposition off.
And we all know who will win.
As Stalin once said:
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin quotes from BrainyQuote.com.
I think you are a little naive when it comes to Russia.micky107 wrote:You make it sound like the Russian people are living in caves and running from wild dogs and yetis.Per wrote:Election in Russia today.
Putin rescheduled it to an earlier date to throw the opposition off.
And we all know who will win.
As Stalin once said:
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin quotes from BrainyQuote.com.
Give them some credit.
If they suspect fowl play, you can bank on there being unrest.
That could and probably will lead to something.
I believe Ovetchkin has facebook.
You should tell him your fears.
He'll quite likely, respond. You never know, amirite....
As I've stated before, there is no longer any independent media in Russia. It's all controlled by Putin.micky107 wrote:You make it sound like the Russian people are living in caves and running from wild dogs and yetis.Per wrote:Election in Russia today.
Putin rescheduled it to an earlier date to throw the opposition off.
And we all know who will win.
As Stalin once said:
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin quotes from BrainyQuote.com.
Give them some credit.
If they suspect fowl play, you can bank on there being unrest.
That could and probably will lead to something.
I believe Ovetchkin has facebook.
You should tell him your fears.
He'll quite likely, respond. You never know, amirite....
The journalists at Novaya Gazeta must be the clumsiest in the world. They keep falling victim to fatal accidents.In Russia, the state controls most of the TV, radio and print media market, either directly, or through companies with exclusive or majority state ownership. Using a variety of tactics, the authorities had effectively marginalized two of Russia’s last remaining independent TV stations by January 2015. Tomsk’s TV 2 failed to get a new broadcasting license. All major cable and satellite providers stopped transmission of Moscow based TV Dozhd (TV Rain).
The leading radio station critical of the authorities, Echo Moskvy, is majority-owned by a subsidiary of Gazprom – the state gas giant. As a result, its editorial board is inevitably careful about what to broadcast and how. Daily and weekly newspapers adhere to the Kremlin line with the exception of the daily Kommersant, business daily Vedomosti and bi-weekly Novaya Gazeta. Each of these have had run-ins with the law and five journalists of No- vaya Gazeta have been killed since Putin first became President in 2000.
https://www.civilrightsdefenders.org/fi ... sland2.pdfOnline access has expanded rapidly in Russia. The Internet penetration rate increased from 2% in 2000 to 60% by 2014. In a recent book, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, who run agentura.ru, a website monitoring the intelligence services, described how the Internet developed as a pioneer of freedom in the early 1990s. Today, authorities are incrementally adding more restrictions on Internet freedom, increasingly reminiscent of how the Soviet KGB and its affiliates established control of phone lines and copying machines back in the Soviet days. In April 2014 Putin ominously stated that the internet had emerged as a CIA project.
The authorities have used a mix of restrictive laws and their arbitrary implementation by various officials, and state propaganda, in the clampdown. The legal harassment encroach on internet freedom at different levels. Several laws granted the power to the courts and increasingly to different state bodies, acting without prior judicial oversight, to block online content, for example because it contains child pornography, constitutes copyright violations, promotes suicide or drugs, is extremist or calls for unauthorized public activities (for example, a demonstration that has not been approved by the competent authority). Popular online media Grani.ru and Ezhedelnyy Zhurnal were blocked in March 2014. One of the key control agencies is the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications – commonly referred to as RosKomNadzor. A group called RosKomSvoboda maintains a website of all blocked sites and offers step by stepadviceonhowtofightagainstblocking. It argues that many websites are blocked arbitrarily and even more websites are blocked accidentally by the authorities.
As technologies to circumvent blocking have become widely available, the authorities have increasingly turned to requesting the removal of content they view as illegal, including news critical of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, LGBT-issues, cartoons from Charlie Hebdo and coverage of the trial of opposition activists. In December 2014 MediaZona, an online news portal specializing in political trials, was one of four media outlets to get an official warning for publishing statements of opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Aleksey Navalny, that allegedly undermined the constitutional order of the Russian Federation. “A second warning within one year gives RosKomNadzor the power to request a court to shut us down. So we are still appealing the decision and if needed will go all the way to the European Court of Human Rights,” said Sergey Smirnov, the editor in chief of MediaZona.
In recent years several new provisions were added to the Criminal Code, imposing prison sentences for online jus- ti cation of terrorism, inciting hatred or calling for extremism or separatism. For example in December 2015, a court in Krasnodar sentenced left-wing activist Darya Polyudova to 2 years’ imprisonment for allegedly making extremist and separatist statements, including “No war in Ukraine but a revolution in Russia.” Polyudova appealed against the verdict. In 2012 Putin re-criminalized defamation less than two years after his predecessor had decriminalized it.
Mrs C and Mrs Weiner as the face of America??http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/09 ... /1969.html
As President, Hillary Clinton will appoint Huma Abedin as Secretary of State. This according to leaked e mails between Abedin, Mrs. Clinton, and Clinton's former chief of staff Cheryl Mills.
Abedin, 40, would be the first Moslem Secretary of State, and one of the youngest ever. She would not, however, be the first foreign born Secretary of State. Henry Kissinger, 93, has that distinction, having been appointed by Richard Nixon.
Huma Mahmood Abedin, 40, served as vice chairwoman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for President. Prior to that, she served as the deputy chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 2009 to 2013.
Abedin parlayed a 1996 Whitehouse internship into a role as Mrs. Clinton's Right Hand Man, or Woman.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is listed as the supervisor certifying Abedin's designation as a "special government employee. This classification allowed Abedin to work for an outside consulting firm and the Clinton Foundation, at the same time that she advised then Secretary of State Clinton.
The Clinton campaign reiterated Sunday that Clinton did not personally sign documents for Abedin, or other employees. Hillary Clinton's name was listed in print, but the signature underneath was redacted by the State Department. The document caused a stir and led to media reports Clinton had lied about not having been involved..
Clinton had said on TV weeks ago that she "was not directly involved" in Abedin's SGE status, a position that is currently under investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee for potential conflicts of interest.
She is married to Anthony Weiner, a former U.S. Representative from New York. Weiner has been a major embarrassment to the Clintons. Weiner has a penchant for sending partially clothed photos of himself to women he's met on the internet.
Despite having grown up in different countries, Abedin and Clinton have a lot more in common then husbands with a history of philandering. It makes sense that Clinton would want to appoint Abedin to her old job leading the State Department. Secretary of State is third in line to the president, under the US Constitution. It also makes sense that Clinton would want her right hand woman to back up herself and Vice President Tim Kaine in that way as well.
Did Alexander Haig write this?Secretary of State is third in line to the president, under the US Constitution.
Reefer2 wrote:Doc you need a life, you spend too much time here.
Also just a little secret I would like to share with...... not everything you read on the internet is true.
