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  • So Exxon is applying for waiver from sanctions just after Tillerson's (medal of "Friend of Russia recipient) visit. Nothing smells here right?


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    • Originally posted by snapper View Post
      So Exxon is applying for waiver from sanctions just after Tillerson's (medal of "Friend of Russia recipient) visit. Nothing smells here right?
      Not sure what the fake news item is here.

      In any case, didn't there use to be an "alternative theories" section around here somewhere, or am I thinking of another board perhaps? Regardless, it seems we need one lately... that and the eyeroll emoji back.
      Last edited by Wooglin; 20 Apr 17,, 15:50.

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      • Originally posted by snapper View Post
        So Exxon is applying for waiver from sanctions just after Tillerson's (medal of "Friend of Russia recipient) visit. Nothing smells here right?

        US Treasury department denied the request today after a review that included consultation with the president. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/b...=business&_r=0
        To be Truly ignorant, Man requires an Education - Plato

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        • The Rachel Maddow Show’s Fake News on Venezuela
          By: Max Radwin - Apr 21, 2017, 11:11 am

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          Someone needs to fire the research interns on The Rachel Maddow Show, or tell her to at least get better fact checkers. (MSNBC)

          Venezuelans swarmed the streets this week in protest of a brutal dictator who has led the country into a humanitarian crisis without food or medicine, freedom of speech or democratic government.

          They were certainly not protesting Donald Trump, despite what MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow may tell you.

          Maddow tried to claim on her show Thursday night that the streets of Venezuela had exploded with protests and marches in response to recent news surrounding a subsidiary of a major Venezuelan oil company that donated half a million dollars to the Trump campaign.

          Read More: Repression in Venezuela Targets Protesters to Prevent March Even Taking Place

          Seriously? It’s pretty clear the citizens of Venezuela had other priorities, like making sure their children do not die of hunger or illnesses.

          April 19 marked 207 years of Venezuelan independence from Spanish colonialism, and with that date in mind, both the political opposition and President Nicolás Maduro planned rallies that ultimately clashed and, the next day, saw military force used against unarmed citizens.

          Yet the banner caption running on MSNBC read, “Unrest In Venezuela Over Trump Donations” — what many following the events in Venezuela criticized as sloppy reporting to the point of fake news.

          No argument there.

          “Venezuela is a country in intense turmoil right now,” Maddow said. “The sanctions that the US put on Venezuela were put there in 2014 after 43 people got killed while participating in anti-government protests. Another three people got killed just yesterday. There have been protests for weeks and weeks and weeks. And today Venezuelans are enraged anew by this brand new FEC filing from The White House.”
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          The Rachel Maddow’s amazing chyron led its readers to believe Venezuelans were protesting over Donald Trump, of all issues plaguing the socialist country. (MSNBC)

          Undoubtedly, there were some rage in response to the news that the country’s oil company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) had contributed more to Trump’s presidential run than Google and Ford Motor Company — raising doubts about the new US administration’s willingness to support intervention in the dictatorship.

          Venezuelan State-Run Oil Company Donated Half a Million Dollars for Trump Inauguration https://t.co/4dGCloy3Wf

          — Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 21, 2017

          But consider the never-ending sequence of disastrous policy decisions Maduro and his socialist party have made in recent months:

          Last week, he sent helicopters to drop tear gas on peaceful protests. This week, he announced he would be arming one million untrained militia loyalists, which incited international criticism from the European Union and neighboring countries like Colombia.

          A month prior, the country’s packed Supreme Court ruled the country’s legislative body, the National Assembly, had been compromised by political opposition, and overrode its authority.

          Doesn’t all of that seem a bit more motivating for protesters than a FEC campaign donation filing?

          Read More: New York Times Apology: As A Venezuelan I Accept It – About Time!

          Not to mention that opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), had officially announced and tweeted repeatedly about the point of the march days before the PDVSA donation made headlines.

          Someone needs to fire the research interns on The Rachel Maddow Show, or tell her to at least get better fact checkers.
          https://panampost.com/maxwell-radwin...-on-venezuela/
          To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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          • Fox News ranked third in prime time for five straight days behind CNN and MSNBC, the latter of which was the No. 1 cable news network in both the target 25-54 demographic and in total viewers for a full week.

            But back to Fox News: This is its longest stretch in third place in 17 years.
            https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...y-may-23-2017/
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            • If you wanna have some sort of accurate idea about fake news and the Russia stuff I would recommend the FPRI audio broadcast on it.

              http://www.fpri.org/multimedia/2017/...on-operations/

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              • Strange what I observed in the photo or Rex and Vladimir in post # 346.
                "RWT" (pic Tillerson's left sleeve cuff)...who the heck wears dress shirts with monogramed cuffs ?
                Quite a fashion statement for a dapper and exceedingly wealthy man. Surely "DT" does, eh.

                Is this so the laundry or dry cleaners don't misdeliver or lose items of clothing ?
                What about monogramed socks, underwear, pajamas and such ?
                Wouldn't a bar code be sufficient ?

                Back on topic...Who needs false news when the real news is so unbelievable ?
                Who styles Kim Jung Un's hair ?...or Trump's ?
                Real eyes realize real lies.

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                • Originally posted by PeeCoffee View Post
                  Strange what I observed in the photo or Rex and Vladimir in post # 346.
                  "RWT" (pic Tillerson's left sleeve cuff)...who the heck wears dress shirts with monogramed cuffs ?
                  Quite a fashion statement for a dapper and exceedingly wealthy man. Surely "DT" does, eh.

                  Is this so the laundry or dry cleaners don't misdeliver or lose items of clothing ?
                  What about monogramed socks, underwear, pajamas and such ?
                  Wouldn't a bar code be sufficient ?

                  Back on topic...Who needs false news when the real news is so unbelievable ?
                  Who styles Kim Jung Un's hair ?...or Trump's ?
                  The monogram indicates (a) it is custom made, not off-the-rack; (b) it cost something in the region of $200 - $2,000; and (c) "I'm one of the rich guys, in case you hadn't known."
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                  • Originally posted by DOR View Post
                    The monogram indicates (a) it is custom made, not off-the-rack; (b) it cost something in the region of $200 - $2,000
                    You can order custom monogrammed dress shirts for around 50 bucks online (or less - there's places that sell 'em for 30). And the monogram on the cuff is like 10% of that price.

                    Other than (c) it's also tacky. Especially on the cuff, almost as much as on the breast pocket. On a proper dress shirt the monogram goes on the left side just above the belt.

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                    • The First Amendment doesn't call for "supremacy of the press" or "submission to the press." Turning off the cameras isn't a threat to democracy or free speech, but it will deal with some grandstanding.

                      Angry White House reporter: 'I can't take it anymore!'

                      by Pete Kasperowicz | Jun 28, 2017, 7:26 AM
                      http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/an...rticle/2627291
                      The reporter who lashed out at the Trump administration on Tuesday said Wednesday that reporters have to stand up and fight President Trump's effort to dismiss the media, and said he blew up at spokeswoman Sarah Sanders because he "can't take it anymore."

                      "For the government to sit there and undermine essentially what [are] very essential checks and balances in the system, it's disheartening, it's unnerving," said reporter Brian Karem, who writes for Playboy, on MSNBC.

                      "I can't take it anymore," he said.


                      Karem on Tuesday complained to Sanders that she was purposefully saying "inflammatory" things to make the media look bad, and to say anything the press writes against Trump amounts to fake news.

                      On MSNBC, Karem complained that Sanders' mission on Tuesday was to berate the press, even though the first three questions Sanders was asked dealt with media, including Karem's complaint.

                      "She took the opportunity first thing off the bat to go after the media," he said. "She was trying to go after CNN specifically and the media in general. We've been called the enemy of the people from that White House, we've been told that we're fake news."

                      "We are bullied and browbeaten every day, and I pretty much have had enough of it," he said. "We can't take the bullying anymore. It's undermining the fourth estate, it's undermining the first amendment."

                      Karem also agreed with a panelist that undermining the press appears to be one of the Trump administration's ongoing plans.

                      "It's one of the few strategies I've seen from this White House, and it has been ongoing," he said.

                      "He's inflaming the very people who got him into office. He's speaking to his base, and he's trying to undermine the very essence of what we do," Karem said. "And that's not good for this republic, it's not good for this country

                      To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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                      • CNN’s Acosta has meltdown number 3, incensed that ‘WH takes questions from conservatives’

                        June 28, 2017 | Samantha Chang |  Print Article




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                        CNN moonbat Jim Acosta hijacks daily White House press briefings to make himself the story. (Image: screengrab)

                        CNN hack Jim Acosta thinks conservative media are un-American and should be censored at White House press briefings. Just like they were under the Obama administration.

                        That’s what he suggested in an inane tweet as part of his daily anti-Trump whine-fest. Acosta has repeatedly violated a key rule in journalism, which is: Never make YOURSELF the story.

                        For the past two weeks, Acosta has trolled White House press secretary Sean Spicer and deputy secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in person or on Twitter every single day.

                        Last Friday, Acosta was smacked down by Sanders after he complained incessantly about new White House rules drastically limiting on-camera pressers in a bid to cut down on reporter showboating on live TV.

                        Playboy White House reporter berates Trump spokeswoman: ‘Come on! You’re inflaming everybody!’

                        On Monday, Acosta hijacked a White House presser by repeatedly shouting at Sean Spicer to turn the cameras back on. While doing this, he rudely interrupted reporters from other media outlets who were patiently waiting their turn to ask questions.

                        On Tuesday, Acosta threw another childish tantrum by tweeting his outrage that Sarah Huckabee Sanders took several questions from conservative media at a press briefing he didn’t even attend. Acosta’s CNN colleague Jeff Zeleny went in his place.

                        “Does this feel like America?” Acosta bleated on Twitter. “Where the White House takes q’s from conservatives, then openly trashes the news media in the briefing room.”





                        Conservative editor Curtis Houck immediately shut Acosta down by reminding him that Sanders had also fielded questions from liberal media outlets NBC, CBS, NPR, and Bloomberg.



                        Acosta’s latest outburst came just hours after an explosive undercover video showed a veteran CNN producer admitting that CNN is relentlessly pushing the fake Trump-Russia hoax purely for ratings.

                        The CNN producer, John Bonifield, admitted that many of his colleagues know there’s no evidence to support the fake-news narrative, but CNN is promoting the propaganda around the clock because it’s a ratings cash cow.

                        The irony is that despite these shameless stunts, CNN’s ratings still lag far behind that of its rivals Fox News and MSNBC.

                        cnn ratings versus fox msnbc june 26


                        Despite its best efforts, CNN gets crushed by Fox News and MSNBC every day, in every time slot. (Adweek)

                        Jim Acosta’s daily whining has become so unhinged and shrill that Fox News anchor Sean Hannity smacked him down in a segment on his show Tuesday night. “One of the top pushers of fake news is combative and whiny senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta,” Hannity said.




                        Earlier this week, three CNN reporters were fired after publishing a bogus story linking former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci to the Russia investigations. Scaramucci had threatened to a file a $100 million lawsuit before CNN decided to can its reckless reporters.

                        Meanwhile, Twitter had a field day skewering Acosta by reminding him that it was just two weeks ago that he pushed a fake news story claiming President Trump did not visit Congressman Steve Scalise in the hospital after he got shot by a crazed leftist gunman. Acosta’s claim was 100% false.

                        Given these monumental lapses in journalistic ethics, Acosta should be grateful that CNN’s White House press credentials haven’t been revoked yet.
                        http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/06/...vatives-507658
                        To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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                        • so no one gonna talk about how 3 cnn employees got kicked out over fake news and how one of its producer got caught on the tape admitting the russian story is all BS?

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                          • No, NASA is not hiding kidnapped children on Mars


                            “We actually believe that there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride,” Robert David Steele said Thursday during a winding, conspiratorial dialogue with Jones about child victims of sex crimes. “So that once they get to Mars they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony.”

                            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e242203bdf0b
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                            • Originally posted by drhuy View Post
                              so no one gonna talk about how 3 cnn employees got kicked out over fake news and how one of its producer got caught on the tape admitting the russian story is all BS?
                              An internal investigation by CNN management found that some standard editorial processes were not followed [which isn't exactly the same as creating fake news wholesale] when the article was published, people briefed on the results of the investigation said.

                              http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/26/medi...cle/index.html

                              The story, which reported that Congress was investigating a "Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials," cited a single anonymous source.

                              In a staff meeting Monday afternoon, investigative unit members were told that the retraction did not mean the facts of the story were necessarily wrong. Rather, it meant that "the story wasn't solid enough to publish as-is," one of the people briefed on the investigation said.

                              On Friday, one of the people named in the story, Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci, disputed Frank's reporting and said, "I did nothing wrong."

                              Friday night, once it was determined that editorial processes were not followed, CNN deleted the story from CNN.com. Soon thereafter, the story was officially retracted and replaced with an editor's note.

                              The piece "did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted," the note said. "Links to the story have been disabled."
                              The editor's note also included an apology to Scaramucci.

                              "CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted," Scaramucci tweeted the next morning. "Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on."
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                              • Originally posted by DOR View Post
                                An internal investigation by CNN management found that some standard editorial processes were not followed [which isn't exactly the same as creating fake news wholesale] when the article was published, people briefed on the results of the investigation said.

                                http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/26/medi...cle/index.html

                                The story, which reported that Congress was investigating a "Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials," cited a single anonymous source.

                                In a staff meeting Monday afternoon, investigative unit members were told that the retraction did not mean the facts of the story were necessarily wrong. Rather, it meant that "the story wasn't solid enough to publish as-is," one of the people briefed on the investigation said.

                                On Friday, one of the people named in the story, Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci, disputed Frank's reporting and said, "I did nothing wrong."

                                Friday night, once it was determined that editorial processes were not followed, CNN deleted the story from CNN.com. Soon thereafter, the story was officially retracted and replaced with an editor's note.

                                The piece "did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted," the note said. "Links to the story have been disabled."
                                The editor's note also included an apology to Scaramucci.

                                "CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted," Scaramucci tweeted the next morning. "Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on."
                                wait, you did not expect cnn to publicly admitted that it created fake news, did you?

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