Fake news, propaganda, and censorship. NOW (2022) with a Ministry of Truth!
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scrambled narratives
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-r
eport-russia/index.html
Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.
These senior intelligence officials also included the synopsis to demonstrate that Russia had compiled information potentially harmful to both political parties, but only released information damaging to Hillary Clinton and Democrats. (However, considering that both Assange, who vetted and published the DNC leaks, and Murray, who physically received the files from a known DNC insider, BOTH state the information didn't come from Russia, the claim of a Russian source puts the entire narrative in CNN into question.)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber-rnc-idUSKBN14U2DD
Russia hacked Republican state campaigns but not Trump's: FBI head
Russia hacked into Republican state political campaigns and old email domains of the Republican National Committee but there is no evidence it successfully penetrated President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday.
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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I just have to put the whole "golden showers dossier" discussion here
Trump: Prostitutes, Golden Showers and 'Kompromat'
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http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=61303
and its debunking
Leftwing Newsmedia loons fall for prank?...publish FakeNews as real news...dishonest political spin?
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=61301
Here is what I think 
I can't imagine anything that epitomizes fake news more than that topic, except maybe Iraq's "WMD" and Libya's "massacre" of civilians. If fake news weren't so consequential and if people were just a little more skeptical about what they read and hear, fake news would be a lot funnier overall.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
"If you aren't aware, Texans don't have much concern for the well-being of Yankees or Californians, even Yankee factory workers in Indiana "- SECOND
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Originally posted by SIGNYM: If fake news weren't so consequential and if people were just a little more skeptical about what they read and hear, fake news would be a lot funnier overall. =SIGNY
I get all my "funny news" from zero hedge and RT - they are frellin' hi-larious. =GSTRING
GSTRING posts "fake news" of his own.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
"If you aren't aware, Texans don't have much concern for the well-being of Yankees or Californians, even Yankee factory workers in Indiana "- SECOND
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Quote:published fake news of their own
Trump Aides Deny Plan For Summit With Putin In Reykjavik
According to Reuters, two top aides to President-elect Donald Trump denied a published report on Saturday that he is planning to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin weeks after taking office. The Sunday Times of London
Quote:Sunday Times of London = another fake news publication.
reported that Trump had told British officials that such a summit was being planned, possibly to be staged in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik.
"The story is a fantasy," one Trump aide told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another said the report was not true.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
"If you aren't aware, Texans don't have much concern for the well-being of Yankees or Californians, even Yankee factory workers in Indiana "- SECOND
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Trump Aides Deny Plan For Summit With Putin In Reykjavik
According to Reuters, two top aides to President-elect Donald Trump denied a published report on Saturday that he is planning to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin weeks after taking office. The Sunday Times of London
... published fake news of their own
reported that Trump had told British officials that such a summit was being planned, possibly to be staged in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik. "The story is a fantasy," one Trump aide told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another said the report was not true.
Sunday Times of London = another fake news publication.= SIGNY
Or did Trump cancel it after the shit storm it started rolled through? Like when they backed down from gutting the Office of Ethics? Do you know? (sorry, that's a joke!).= GSTRING
It may be a joke, but jokes only funny when they're on-target, and this is just stupid. I just had to preserve this for posterity. It was CONGRESS that wanted to going to gut the Ethics Committee, and TRUMP which made them stop that plan. Not a case of "Trump backing down".
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
"If you aren't aware, Texans don't have much concern for the well-being of Yankees or Californians, even Yankee factory workers in Indiana "- SECOND
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Quote:There are three ethics offices. The one that has power over Trump is being attacked by Trump’s allies. But not enough power to force Trump to obey the rules.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It may be a joke, but jokes only funny when they're on-target, and this is just stupid. I just had to preserve this for posterity. It was CONGRESS that wanted to going to gut the Ethics Committee, and TRUMP which made them stop that plan. Not a case of "Trump backing down".
"If you aren't aware, Texans don't have much concern for the well-being of Yankees or Californians, even Yankee factory workers in Indiana "- SECOND
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-conflict-of-interes
t-chaffetz/513131/
1) The United States Office Of Government Ethics prevents conflicts of interest in the Executive Branch.
www.oge.gov/
2) The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) of the U.S. House of Representatives
https://oce.house.gov/
3) U.S. Senate Select Committee On Ethics
www.ethics.senate.gov
The nonpartisan director of the federal Office of Government Ethics (#1 on the above list) ripped into President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for his businesses in an unusually public and blisteringly critical speech Wednesday afternoon. Walter Shaub went so far as to say that Trump’s conflicts of interest put democracy at risk, break with decades of tradition, and call into doubt whether Trump’s own patriotism stands up to history.
Trump’s plan to step back from his businesses day to day is “meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective,” Shaub said in his remarks at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
“Every president in modern times has taken the strong medicine of divestiture,” Shaub said.
The Office of Government Ethics has hammered out hundreds of divestiture agreements involving federal officials. They have had to “divest assets, break open trusts, and dissolve businesses,” Shaub said, and taking those steps can be expensive and painful.
But, Shaub said, “their basic patriotism usually prevails as they agree to set aside their personal interests to serve their country’s interests.” When officials were reluctant to take the required steps, the ethics office’s demands were backed up by “the unwavering example of presidents who resolved their own conflicts of interest.”
Trump’s lawyers did NOT run their plans past Shaub. If they had, he said, he would have told them it was very possible for the president to sell his real estate assets, and that other officials in the past have done so.
As for Trump’s justification — that the president “can’t have a conflict of interest” — that’s nonsense, Shaub said.
“A conflict of interest is anything that creates an incentive to put your own interest before the interests of the people you serve,” Shaub said, quoting a Supreme Court decision from 1961 that called conflicts of interest “an evil which endangers the very fabric of democratic society.”
If anything, Shaub said, it’s more important for presidents to avoid conflicts of interest: “The potential for corruption only grows with the increase in power.”
www.vox.com/2017/1/11/14243146/trump-conflicts-office-government-ethic
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Just to remind you - you signed on to the fake news 'watersportsgate'.
I will keep reminding you, individually and plural, of that. You believed it because it was in the 'news' purveyed by 'reliable sources', and because you all suffer from a severe case of confirmation bias.
The fact that you all signed onto this demonstrates you're all EXTREMELY gullible, and make exactly zero effort to check what you read. You just react. And that makes you the perfect target of propaganda. And you all just demonstrated what perfect, willing, obedient little targets you are - not only signing on to propaganda, but endorsing it, spreading it, embellishing it, and defending it.
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kpo: Watersportsgate.
SECOND: ... http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/bbcs-paul-wood-there-are
-four-sources-possible-trump-russia-blackmail
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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Quote:1kiki, Kevin Drum wrote something a little different, actually a whole lot different, from what you are implying: "That's four sources, though obviously we don't know if they're all getting their information from the same place. Nor do we know if any of this is true. It might still all be baseless innuendo."
Originally posted by 1kiki:
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Just to remind you - you signed on to the fake news 'watersportsgate'.
I will keep reminding you, individually and plural, of that. You believed it because it was in the 'news' purveyed by 'reliable sources', and because you all suffer from a severe case of confirmation bias.
The fact that you all signed onto this demonstrates you're all EXTREMELY gullible, and make exactly zero effort to check what you read. You just react. And that makes you the perfect target of propaganda. And you all just demonstrated what perfect, willing, obedient little targets you are - not only signing on to propaganda, but endorsing it, spreading it, embellishing it, and defending it.
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kpo: Watersportsgate.
SECOND: ... http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/bbcs-paul-wood-there-are
-four-sources-possible-trump-russia-blackmail
Today, Kevin Drum has continued on:
"The more I read about this stuff, the harder I find it to believe. It just seems wildly ridiculous, the kind of thing that would barely pass muster on a TV potboiler, let alone in real life. The truth is that I'd probably dismiss it entirely if it weren't for the vast amount of very public and very strange evidence that Team Trump and Team Putin are very close.
I don't know. This is all completely outlandish, and I can hardly bring myself to credit it. And yet, there's an awful lot of evidence that points in the direction of it being true—or at least partly true, anyway. Strange days."
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/evidence-bizarre-trump-russia-t
ies-continues-ooze-out
If Trump would behave himself better, these stories would run out of gas, but he keeps adding more fuel.
Clinton emails. Trump admitting sexual assault. Clinton emails. Trump charity fraud. Clinton emails. Trump calls for nuclear proliferation. Clinton emails. Trump calls for national stop and frisk. Clinton emails. Trump violates trade embargo with Cuba. Clinton emails. Trump sued over Trump U fraud. Clinton emails. Trump bribes Florida DA. Clinton emails. Trump doesn't pay taxes for 20 years. Clinton emails. Trump employs campaign manager involved in illegal corruption with Russia. Clinton emails. Trump calls for ban of an entire religion from entering US. Clinton emails. Trump lied about support for Iraq War over and over in debate. Clinton emails. Trump in court for rape of a minor. Clinton emails. Trump unaware of Russia's Crimea occupation. Clinton emails. Trump unaware of situation in Syria. Clinton emails. Trump penalized for racist housing discrimination. Clinton emails. Trump files for bankruptcy 6 times. Clinton emails. Trump goes 0-3 in debates by showing scant knowledge of world politics. Clinton emails. Trump slams people for being POWs. Clinton emails. Trump calls Mexicans rapists. Clinton emails. Trump questions judge's integrity because of parent's heritage. Clinton emails. Trump deletes emails involved in casino scandal. Clinton emails. Trump commits insurance fraud after Florida hurricane. Clinton emails. Trump has dozens of assault victims and witnesses come forward with allegations of abuse. Clinton emails. Trump attacks former Ms America for being overweight. Clinton emails. Trump tweets about sex tapes at 3am. Clinton emails. Trump calls for US citizens to be sent to Gitmo. Clinton emails. Trump calls for more extreme forms of torture to be used. Clinton emails. Trump asks why can’t we u
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Just to remind you - you signed on to the fake news 'watersportsgate'.
I will keep reminding you, individually and plural, of that. You believed it because it was in the 'news' purveyed by 'reliable sources', and because you all suffer from a severe case of confirmation bias.
The fact that you all signed onto this demonstrates you're all EXTREMELY gullible, and make exactly zero effort to check what you read. You just react. And that makes you the perfect target of propaganda. And you all just demonstrated what perfect, willing, obedient little targets you are - not only signing on to propaganda, but endorsing it, spreading it, embellishing it, and defending it.
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kpo: Watersportsgate.
'G': So - show of hands: who thinks the president elect p*ssy grabber didn't get up to some naughty sh*t while being wined and dined in Russia? If that goofy elf from Entertainment Tonight can get him on tape anyone can. I bet it is epic stuff.
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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"I just had to preserve this for posterity."
You and KikiBullShitDumbAsDirtDumbShit seem to have gotten the same directive. You and It are threatening to "preserve" posts for some kind of future Kremlin tribunal. Is that your new mandate? = GSTRING
You are, as 1KIKI posted, extremely gullible. And since you seem incapable of self-reflection (for example, incapable of realizing that you've been snookered time and time again) it seems that someone needs to hold up a mirror for you once in a while.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
"If you aren't aware, Texans don't have much concern for the well-being of Yankees or Californians, even Yankee factory workers in Indiana "- SECOND
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