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Elizabeth Warren lost by copying Hillary's victim act

Miranda Devine
New York Post
Sun, 08 Mar 2020 10:23 UTC

There's a moment in the new Hillary Clinton hagio-documentary on Hulu when the former presidential candidate complains that it took her an hour every day to have her hair and makeup done during the 2016 campaign.

"It's a burden, believe me," she says in Episode 2 of 'Hillary.'"

"I calculated it, and I spent 25 days doing hair and makeup, and I knew that the men I was running against don't have to do any of that. Get up, take a shower, shake their head, they were ready to go."

Trump escalates fight against press with libel lawsuits

Justin Wise
The Hill
Sun, 08 Mar 2020 06:02 UTC

The Trump campaign's libel lawsuits against The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN mark a dramatic escalation in the president's long fight with the media.

Legal experts have said the suits are dead on arrival, failing to meet the high bar to prove defamation of a public figure, but they fear an environment in which powerful elected officials try to use the courts to intimidate the press.

"The concern here is not that one of these suits would win on the merits — it's the chilling effect that it has on public discussion of political affairs," Jonathan Peters, the Columbia Journalism Review's press freedom correspondent and a University of Georgia media law professor, told The Hill.

Comment: While the above piece spins it as Trump interfering with the press and trying to silence dissent against him, the real issue brought up by these lawsuits is how accountable should the press should be to what they publish? The Russiagate narrative has been so full of holes from the get-go that no journalist who isn't bogged down by Trump Derangement Syndrome could reasonably believe it. Yet the press has been publishing every lie they can get their hands on.

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Hillary Clinton: 'Facebook part of vast right-wing conspiracy against me!'

RT
Mon, 09 Mar 2020 06:54 UTC

Comment: Isn't this excuse getting a little old?

2016: Clinton blasts 'vast right-wing conspiracy' at town hall

1998: Hillary Clinton blasts 'vast right-wing conspiracy' against her husband

Despite numerous accusations of censorship from conservatives, Hillary Clinton is claiming right-wing outlets have "mastered" Facebook and use it against her.

In a Sunday interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Clinton was asked about a Vox article presenting research claiming the story on Facebook to receive the most interactions on Super Tuesday was one about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

"Fox and the sort of right-wing echo chamber has mastered Facebook, aided and abetted, might I say, from Facebook," Clinton responded.

She claims "algorithms" used by Facebook are keeping negative stories about her alive and feeding them to "millions and millions of people."

The former secretary of state even managed to blame the "echo chamber" right-wing media and Facebook for her 2016 loss to Donald Trump.

Comment: And after all that Facebook and the rest of Silicon Valley and the intel agencies - foreign and domestic - have done for her, sheesh!

Who just told the world 'NO'? Russia did!

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'n Guns
Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC

There is real power in the word "No."

In fact, I'd argue that it is the single most powerful word in any language.

In the midst of the worst market meltdown in a dozen years which has at its source problems within global dollar-funding markets, Russia found itself in the position to exercise the Power of No.

Multiple overlapping crises are happening worldwide right now and they all interlock into a fabric of chaos.

Between political instability in Europe, presidential primary shenanigans in the U.S., coronavirus creating mass hysteria and Turkey's military adventurism in Syria, the eastern Mediterranean and Libya, markets are finally calling the bluff of central bankers who have been propping up asset prices for years.

But, at its core, the current crisis stems from the simple truth that those prices around the world are vastly overvalued. Western government and central bank policies have used the power of the dollar to push the world to this state. And that state is, at best, meta-stable.

But when this number of shits get this freaking real, well... meeting the fan was inevitable. And all it took to push a correction into a full-scale panic was the Russians saying, "No."

Why do the US and its allies hide certain facts from the public?

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC

The latest are document-dumps and accompanying detailed explanations and translations of the revealed documents, and are from Bonanza Media. That's a Finland-based website. Their "Bonanza Leaks" on 24 February 2020 shows photos of the official transcriptions of the witnesses' testimony to the official Joint Investigative Team (JIT) which the U.S-allied Dutch Government operates in order to convict Russia for the shoot-down of the MH17 Malaysian airliner on 17 July 2014 above the civil-war zone in Ukraine. It includes an accompanying video presentation of these documents, from a day earlier, on February 23rd, titled "Bonanza Media Leaks Talk". That video includes this: "Australian police confirm that these are authentic documents" (in response to Bonanza Media's having supplied Australian police with the photos), and "these are original documents," which their video shows. Then, they showed their documents to the JIT's own office in Netherlands, which refused to comment.

China again rejects Trump's offer to join trilateral arms control talks with US and Russia

Sputnik
Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:20 UTC

China has not changed its mind and still has no intention to join any trilateral arms control talks with the United States and Russia, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday in the wake of Washington's renewed invitation for such negotiations. The ministry's spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said at a briefing:

"China has repeated many times that we have no intention to join the so-called trilateral arms control talks between Russia, China and the United States, and this stance is quite clear."

According to the diplomat, the US should first:

"respond to calls from the Russian side to extend the New START Treaty and reduce own nuclear arsenal to create conditions for other countries to join multilateral negotiations on nuclear disarmament".

China, in turn, keeps its nuclear arsenal at a "minimum level necessary to ensure national security" and will never join any arms race, Zhao noted.

Putin's new migration and citizenship policies increase transparency and unification

RT
Sun, 08 Mar 2020 18:16 UTC

President Vladimir Putin has approved fresh guidelines for Russia's migration and citizenship policy, entrusting the government with reforms expected to make procedures more transparent, unified, and digitalized.

A document outlining policies for the next five years has been rolled out by the Kremlin.

"[The] standing migration rules are not clear and unified enough. The level of digitalization in the fields of government services and state control of migration remains low," it reads.

These flaws make many migrants - those coming to work in particular - seek illegal ways of getting into the country, as well as working without proper permits. The planned reforms aim to change the situation.

Under the new rules, entrepreneurs seeking to hire foreign workers will be able to do so through a special state-supervised information system. The candidates will be provided by state employment agencies - an apparent attempt to eradicate the existing shady schemes in the distribution of foreign workers.

A residency permit will become the main document defining the status of immigrants in Russia. The existing 'temporary residency permits' will be effectively abolished, since they have proven to be ineffective - often simply leading to more bureaucracy.

Facing concerns over cognitive deterioration, the former VP casts himself as an 'Obidenbama Democrat'

RT
Sun, 08 Mar 2020 10:29 UTC

Some of Joe Biden's critics say his constant gaffes on the campaign trail have gone beyond his usual antics and into the realms of senility. The former VP seemed determined to troll them (or prove them right).

If you want to believe Biden is not fit for the presidency due to a deteriorating mind, there is plenty of evidence to support the theory. At times he has acted quite bizarrely on the campaign trail, telling voters to elect other candidates if they don't like him as he is, and even insulting his critics - like when he jokingly called a woman questioning his poor Iowa performance "a lying dog-faced pony soldier." At other times he has seemingly failed to remember basic things, like the name of President Obama or the wording of the Declaration of Independence.

The awkward question of Biden's cognitive capacities has been carefully avoided by the mainstream media for months, but not by social media users. And if Biden wanted to convince people he was mentally fit during his latest rally speech in St. Louis on Saturday, he chose a strange way to do it. Touting one of his electoral strengths - his having served in the Obama administration - the former vice president described himself as an "Obidenbama Democrat."

Casting aspersions on Turkey partnering with Russia, US benefits if Idlib gets out of control

Sputnik
Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:42 UTC

While Russia and Turkey have once again managed to figure out a mutual solution in the Idlib standoff, the US is casting doubt on the longevity of the newly-struck ceasefire, seeking to reinstate itself as a major player in Syria and at the same time boost relations with Ankara, political analysts say.

On 5 March, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan struck an agreement that envisages a ceasefire in Syria's Idlib province beginning 6 March.

However, US Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey threw the rationale of the truce into doubt, claiming that Turkey is the only power that should draw a hard line in the conflict over Idlib. According to the ambassador, the US should throw its weight behind Turkey since the Turks "cannot back down" if the standoff reignites, "or they will have 3 million new refugees".

Comment: US still considering that 'handful of things'

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the United States was still assessing Turkey's request for help in its operation in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.
"The Turkish government has asked us for a handful of things, we are evaluating all of those requests," Pompeo told reporters in a press briefing.
Pompeo also commented on Thursday's meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Erdogan, saying "our requirement is that they move back to the Sochi agreement back from 2018, that they too enter into a ceasefire in the region."

The secretary of state said the United States is attempting to determine the best way to reduce violence in Syria and stop the enormous humanitarian crisis that continues to take place.
"We had two of our senior leaders from the State Department on the ground there yesterday. I think it was... Ambassador [Kelly] Craft and Ambassador [James] Jeffrey were both there working to see how we can bring American and European resources to better mitigate this humanitarian crisis on the ground in Idlib and then the southern parts of Turkey."
On Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara had asked Washington for help with ammunition amid Turkey's operation in Syria's Idlib. US ambassador to Turkey David Satterfield told reporters that the United States was considering providing Patriot air defence systems to Turkey.

Trump Administration reassigning 500 ICE agents to assist sanctuary city arrests

Isabel van Brugen
The Epoch Times
Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:43 UTC

© ICE
ICE agents apprehend individuals with prior criminal convictions ranging from sexual abuse to rape, in Long Island, N.Y., on Nov. 4, 2019.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is intensifying its operations in 10 sanctuary cities, deploying approximately 500 special agents to increase surveillance around the homes and workplaces of undocumented immigrants.

ICE has started its 24-hour-a-day surveillance operations as part of its enhanced arrest campaign. It has requested the transfer of hundreds of special highly-trained agents who typically work on long-term investigations involving human trafficking and dangerous criminals, the New York Times reported on March 5.

In the coming weeks, the additional officers have been instructed by officials to "flood the streets" and operate in unmarked cars to ramp up arrests in the sanctuary cities where local law enforcement agencies refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

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- Carroll Quigley

Height & Weight for this tyrannical pile of shit? Gotta know these things ahead of time.

DeliciousTears

Send Newsom & co. to unload the ships.

ROEL

Pfizer are pushing their new scientific data proving we should trust their product and get the booster shot Pfizer said its trial of 10,000 people...

HashAttack2

I bet the Phoenicians and Chinese beat the Vikings to Turtle Island.

bbrebozo

.. .. "beheaded and eviscerated"? How's he doing?

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Puppet Masters

Elizabeth Warren lost by copying Hillary's victim act

Trump escalates fight against press with libel lawsuits

Hillary Clinton: 'Facebook part of vast right-wing conspiracy against me!'

Who just told the world 'NO'? Russia did!

Why do the US and its allies hide certain facts from the public?

China again rejects Trump's offer to join trilateral arms control talks with US and Russia

Putin's new migration and citizenship policies increase transparency and unification

Facing concerns over cognitive deterioration, the former VP casts himself as an 'Obidenbama Democrat'

Casting aspersions on Turkey partnering with Russia, US benefits if Idlib gets out of control

Trump Administration reassigning 500 ICE agents to assist sanctuary city arrests

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