In other news, Russia, Iran and Turkey have put together a plan whose implementation could spell the end of the war in Syria. With a little help from Trump on the sidelines, the Astana group has agreed to create four "de-escalation zones" in Syria. Once more, the U.S. played no major role in the negotiations, though Putin did speak to Trump about it over the phone, and Lavrov says they used some of the Americans' ideas. Are things looking better for Russian-US relations, and a coming end to 6-year dirty war in Syria?
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hitting Bahrain. You got to love this world more and more each day.
The alternative determine what the rational outcome of an election should be i.e. based on what they see as going on.
This process will result in a particular candidate or outcome being hailed as the objective will of the people. Then usually, some if not most of all results go the other way. In the past, this was explained by labelling the masses as sheep for voting the wrong way. Now however, its simply explained as saying the results were rigged.
So therefore, results are rigged if they don't go the way of the alt... if they do go their way, then the rigging wasn't enough to quash the absolute majority. If the results go the wrong way e.g. like to Macron, then clearly heavy rigging and manipulation went on.
This has become the modus operandi in our new and crazy world. Election or referendum vote announced... all parties decide beforehand what the outcome should be and present it to their respective audiences... alt to the alt crowd and mainstream to their crowd.
Drama ensues, multiple stories published, candidates attacked or hailed etc... then results announced. One party then cries foul whilst the other celebrates from the mountain top or vice versa depending on how it went.
Both sides also do there absolute best to keep their audience in a state of constant fear. The mainstream says the neo nazis are pretty much on your doorstep. Terrorists can attack at any point. Russia is ready to invade Europe at a moments notice. There's a refugee flood. The constant left vs right scaremongering. Etc.
The alt say that the neoconservatives will kill us all through nuclear conglomeration. If not them, rocks from space. If you still manage to avoid those, aliens abducting you in the middle of the night. If you still avoid that, your local politician who's a devil worshipping pedophile. If you avoid that, the countless chemicals in everyday products and food that big corporations try their best to hide. If you manage to avoid all these... then your childhood will get you.
Thank God summer is coming.... I need a vacation from all these. Somewhere sunny with no internet will do it.
Don't mean to show off, it took me years to earn my freedom, freedom doesn't come free and revenge is a plate best eaten cold. Tell me where you live and I'll tell you where to go for your vacation. .
I sincerely hope that some day, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are once again habitable. What? - I hear someone ask - People live there now, and have lived there continually since the supposed nuclear attacks! (Not to mention, the plant life on Bikini atoll is flourishing, despite 23 nuclear tests).
Oh? And how is that possible? What about uranium and plutonium and half-lives of their isotopes being millions of years?
Nukes are a mad evil fantasy, a technological bogey-man meant to keep you in fear and anxiety. Remember this, the next time you are told to be deathly afraid of insignificant North Korea.
No nukes is good news. Don't be afraid.
The number of French voters doing any one of these things = Macron's vote.
You are Hollande v2.0. People hated him. You have nothing to offer. Good luck buddy. In France, they hang you,