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Manolo

stephieboy has been talking to her:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/dem-lawmaker-tweets-get-ready-for-impeachment/ar-BByyKjR?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=mailsignout

Waters has been pushing for Congress to quickly impeach Trump if evidence is produced proving collusion with the Russian government.
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March 22, 2017 10:08am
- Paulus
  
  What a lot of convoluted left wing crap – cannot these experts remember that Hillary did not win the election, to the appalling led feminist media horror. Trump won in full accordance under the US Constitution. So change the Constitution then.
  It was not that Trump won but what candidates the US had to offer. Both dreadful.
  Sadly I can only see a sad ending as the left wing politicos and the media go crazy for real revenge at any cost to the US as a nation.
  They are making fools of themselves – just what Putin wanted. So Putin hated the Clintons – particularly Hillary.
  There are so many cross talks, obfuscations and outright lies being told it is quite sad really.
  This is the bullshit currently in the US – more bullshit less people will actually understand.
  Not the FBI, not the Secret Service not the, not the highly sophisticated security NSA.
  Not me must be somebody else – would I tell you a lie ? – only to save my skin.
  Sad, Sad.
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:17am
  - All_on_Red
    
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7dLjQUU4AAY58s?format=jpg&name=large
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:39am
  - SPC
    
    Two matters in play.
    
    1. Russian dislike of the Clinton’s foreign policy activism. Bill (and Hillary) Clinton on the side of states leaving Yugoslavia and the USSR.
    
    And the subsequent post 2000 PNAC (neocon) super power unilateralism. Which Obama moderated but not reversed, sufficient at least for Russia to have the room to make its Syria play.
    
    But they were not sure about continuity under Clinton (she backed the original Iraq regime change in 2003 where Obama did not).
    
    2. Trump’s less internationalist approach offered Russia hope of an end to western hegemony/containment of Russia as a foreign policy objective of NATO.
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:43am
    - All_on_Red
      
      SPC
      You might like this interview.
      EU Foreign Policy chief talks US EU relations.
      http://video.foxnews.com/v/5367502350001/?#sp=show-clips
      
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      March 22, 2017 1:43pm
Lucia Maria

Donald Trump’s White House Is Pushing Kremlin Storyline

The threat to the West posed by Kremlin lies—what is properly termed disinformation—is something that I and a few other specialists have raised the alarm over for years. After 2016, when Moscow weaponized disinformation to influence our presidential election, this problem is finally getting the public attention it merits, not least because identical Russian espionage techniques are currently aimed at France and Germany, which have their own elections coming up.

The previous administration ignored this rising problem, shuttering a tiny State Department effort to counter Russian propaganda only months before the Kremlin lie machine went into overdrive against President Obama’s own party. As I’ve pointed out, Obama and his White House bear part of the blame for the Russian havoc wrought last year on Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, thanks to their abject unwillingness to confront Vladimir Putin. By refusing to seriously confront Kremlin disinformation and deception, President Obama got more of both.

The Democrats aren’t “Chicken Little”, they are just too little too late.
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March 22, 2017 10:09am
- Shunda barunda
  
  What a load of nonsense. That Russia may have preferred one candidate over the other is irrelevant. The argument basically runs like this “look!!! Russia has independent opinions and foreign policy!!! therefore they influenced our election!!”
  
  Which of course is nothing but scapegoating behavior from those that had a messiah complex over Obama and just can’t quite get their heads around the fact that he was actually a pretty shit president that did almost nothing to improve the lives of his core constituency.
  But by all means, blame the Russians if it makes you feel any better.
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:38am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    No, Shunda,
    
    It’s more than, ““look!!! Russia has independent opinions and foreign policy!!! therefore they influenced our election!!””
    
    Part of what is being investigated is collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian Government to get Trump elected. Part of what the Trump campaign did, and this is not disputed, is changing the Republican language on Ukraine. Potentially in exchange for the Russians to release Hillary’s emails.
    
    See Republicans adopted pro-Russia stance on Ukraine as Trump officials met with Russian ambassador
    
    It’s going to get more and more interesting as all the bits are uncovered …
    
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    March 22, 2017 10:56am
    - Manolo
      
      Lucia Maria, are you a distant relative of Joe McCarthy?
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:59am
      - Lucia Maria
        
        No. But my mother grew up in Communist/Russian-controlled Poland, and my Dad (when he was a child, with his entire family), was transported by train to Siberia from Poland, after the Russian invasion in 1939, because his family were considered “Enemies of Communism”. And then half were murdered by starvation because they were left in Kazakhstan rather than being allowed to leave after the amnesty for Polish political prisoners.
        
        I’m immune to Russian disinformation, to a certain extent, because of my background and reading interests.
        
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        March 22, 2017 11:04am
      - Shunda barunda
        
        “No. But my mother grew up in Communist/Russian-controlled Poland, and my Dad (when he was a child, with his entire family), was transported by train to Siberia from Poland, after the Russian invasion in 1939, because his family were considered “Enemies of Communism”.”
        
        So I imagine that you would be quite happy that Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” is now required reading in Russian high schools?
        
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        March 22, 2017 11:11am
      - ztev
        
        Its only excerpts of the Gulag.
        Remember the Communist party is still a major party, 2nd largest after Putins party. 12 mill votes in last presidential election. Cant let the past become nostalgia.
        
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        March 22, 2017 11:29am
      - Shunda barunda
        
        “Its only excerpts of the Gulag.”
        
        Even if true, that’s still more freedom of speech than present in western universities after the lib-prog purge.
        
        “Remember the Communist party is still a major party, 2nd largest after Putins party. 12 mill votes in last presidential election. Cant let the past become nostalgia.”
        
        The communist party is also the second largest party in NZ, what’s your point? Do you hate the Russians because they’re no longer run by communists?
        
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        March 22, 2017 1:35pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        So Lucia, you’d of course be all over Ted Kennedy for his actual treason in trying to get the Soviet Union to intervene in US politics ? And all over Obama for his “hot mike” comment about having “more flexibility” ? After all, the Russians did extremely well out of Obama’s incompetent actions over the past 4 years, is that the “more flexibility” Obama was promising ? Shouldn’t Obama be investigated ?
        
        And it should be noted, that the very worst “crime” the Russians can be accused of is intentionally hacking John Podesta’s emails and the DNC emails and releasing them (via Wikileaks supposedly) unredacted and unaltered. Personally that’s damn near a public service in my book.
        
        Interestingly enough, about a year before the election the Russians also hacked the White House email system (yes, THAT White House as occupied by one Barack Obama) and the then administration’s reaction…..crickets, obviously not serious. The Chinese before that, hacked a whole heap of confidential information on people who had sought security clearances, and again, no official response from Obama, obviously not actually important (obviously didn’t contain his presidential executive order sealed scholastic records eh ?). So on a much smaller scale, two private organisations had their private eMails hacked and released showing how much their public and private positions varied, and that’s a national crisis ?
        
        Cry me a river already, OK ?
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:07pm
- EAD
  
  Lucia Maria – seriously, get a grip of yourself.
  
  You talk as if the Russians are somehow running the American Government despite no evidence at all, just desperate fake news and hearsay
  
  Look closer to home – see really who is funding the campaign coffers of both sides:
  
  http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2016/09/27/us-jews-contribute-50-of-all-donations-to-the-democratic-party-and-25-to-the-republican-party/
  
  note these numbers exclude all the Jewish law firms and international banking houses like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Warburg, Klein etc.
  
  But yeah – go back to Lucia world where the facts don’t mean anything.
  
  http://nwioqeqkdf.blogspot.com/2017/03/white-like-us-david-aaronovitch-vs.html?m=0
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:53am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    EAD,
    I don’t think I’m the one that needs to get a grip.
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:01am
    - hmmokrightitis
      
      Careful LM, dont tell him to grip any tighter, it’ll come off…
      
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      March 22, 2017 11:23am
      - Lucia Maria
        
        LOL! I needed that. 🙂 🙂
        
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        March 22, 2017 11:27am
  - Kea
    
    EAD, check out her hate/conspiracy site for a laugh. She reckons the Russians are behind radical Islam and based on her responses to my posts (from the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post), the Jews are in on it too.
    
    Aren’t those Russians cunning ? They even got the Muslims and Jews working together to ummm…. errrrr….aaaaahhhhh…. well something evil I’m sure 🙂
    
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    March 22, 2017 5:32pm
- paul scott
  
  any actual facts Lucia [10.07] /?
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:26pm
Lucia Maria

An important article from Politico: The Road to a Free Europe Goes Through Moscow

For a specter is haunting Europe—the specter of populist nationalism. Ideologically indeterminate, it manifests across the Continent in the form of France’s right-wing National Front, the post-communist German Left party and the Italian Five Star Movement, which defies any traditional political label. While these parties, and the intellectual currents to which they give voice, may not align on everything, they are invariably anti-establishment, opposed to the European Union, and hostile to America. They are also all supported—either materially or through other, less tangible instruments—by Russia.

This is not incidental. As Europe’s political stability, social cohesion, economic prosperity and security are more threatened today than at any point since the Cold War, Russia is destabilizing the Continent on every front. Indigenous factors – whether long-extant nationalism, design flaws in the Eurozone lack of a common foreign policy, or incapability at assimilating immigrants – certainly lie at the root of these crises. But all are exploited by Moscow and exacerbated by its malign influence. Fomenting European disintegration from within, Russia also threatens Europe from without through its massive military buildup, frequent intimidation of NATO members and efforts to overturn the continent’s security architecture by weakening the transatlantic link with America. If a prosperous and democratic Europe is a core national security interest of the United States, as it has been for the past 80 years, then the Russian regime is one to be resisted, contained and ultimately dethroned. For none of the existential problems Europe faces will dissipate until the menace to its East is subdued. The road to a Europe whole, free and at peace, in other words, goes through Moscow.

This Russian story is bigger than the Democrats, John. They just happen to be caught up in it.
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March 22, 2017 10:16am
- Shunda barunda
  
  And this is more than a load of nonsense Lucia, it is an outright cry for world war 3.
  These ideologues in Europe just can’t quite get their heads around the fact that THEY are responsible for the structural/political problems now emerging in Europe and, like the Dems in the USA, are looking for a scapegoat – Russia.
  So while the Russians have made Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago,” REQUIRED READING for all high school students, the Union of United European Socialists are readying themselves for war with the east based on nothing but their own hubris and blinkered ideological blindness.
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:55am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Shunda,
    
    It’s going to be brutal once you start cool-aid withdrawal.
    
    So while the Russians have made Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago,” REQUIRED READING for all high school students
    
    If that is true, and I doubt it, then it should have heralded a massive shift in Russian society where monuments to the dead, to those killed unjustly by a monstrous regime, should have sprouted up everywhere. Something akin to an Austwitcz at the very least. Some sort of apology to all those people in different countries who were also killed, deported, kept enslaved etc. And reparations.
    
    Not. Really. Heard. Of. This. Happening. At. All.
    
    Anyway, what’s more likely is this attitude is still prevalent: It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past
    
    Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the Communist experience has not been undertaken, and millions of victims of Soviet Communism are all but forgotten. In this book David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent and longtime writer on Russia and the Soviet Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia’s great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia’s failure fully to appreciate the value of the individual in comparison with the objectives of the state.
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:24am
- paul scott
  
  Politicio is insane socialist fantasy Lucia [10.16] /? relevant facts at all or just dogma / ?
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:29pm
oldpark

Lucia Maria,sems you have a problem with the facts. Crooked Hillary Clinton ,signed of a 20% allocation of American Uranium ore to Russian .At the same time her impeached Husband ,known as Bill ,was giving lectures in Moscow. Crooked Hillary in conjunction with her also ran boss ,guy called Obama ,were also in favour of the Uranium deal. There was no mention by the fake news media, saying anything. Seems it is alright when the corrupt Democrats do it.
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March 22, 2017 10:29am
- s.russell
  
  Ohh look! A curiously-shaped banana!
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:34am
- jms
  
  Crooked Hillary Clinton
  
  That much is true.
  
  signed of a 20% allocation of American Uranium ore to Russian
  
  That’s fake news.
  
  Seems it is alright when the corrupt Democrats do it.
  
  Both sides are behaving like: “it’s OK when we do it”.
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:34am
  - ztev
    
    Yes the ‘ore’ never left the USA.
    And the buyout of a private company went through many official signoffs. State department was one of about a dozen, doubt if Clinton even knew about it as its a routine bureaucratic thing.
    meanwhile Trumps aides links to Russia- much much more real, as money was involved.
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:34am
    - Ross12
      
      ztec
      
      You seriously do not believe that Clinton and the State Department did not take a very hard look at something that involved uranium. We are not talking about a few pork bellies !
      If what you say is true, then it shows how incompetent Clinton and the State Department officials were in this instance.
      
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      March 22, 2017 12:57pm
      - ztev
        
        The actual circumstances started out like this
        
        “Russia’s nuclear power agency purchasing a majority stake in a Toronto-based energy company between 2009 and 2013. The company had mines and land in a number of US states with huge uranium production capacity ”
        So the actual export of uranium was un-affected, plus it was ‘capacity’ not production.
        There is no legal right to export to Russia. The main reason for the deal was to buy he companys mines in Kazahstan. The US uses all its U ore and would be unlikely to allow export
        
        “The State Department was one of nine federal agencies and a number of additional independent federal and state regulators that signed off on the deal. Committee on Foreign Investment In the United States (CFIUS)”
        
        official who was the State Department’s representative on CFIUS at the time, Jose Hernandez, told Time magazine that Clinton did not participate in the evaluation of this deal: “Secretary Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter,” he said.
        
        Much more compelling are links between Russia and Trumps aides, rather than ore that stayed in the ground in US
        
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        March 22, 2017 1:45pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Interesting you omit the donations to the Clinton Foundation from interested parties…
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:02pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      “Doubt if Clinton even knew of it…”
      
      Hey ztev, I have this bridge for sale, going remarkably cheap, sounds like your in the market for that sort of thing…..
      
      (BTW, I think you should first check how much money went to the Clinton Foundation first before opining about that !)
      
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      March 22, 2017 2:11pm
    - paul scott
      
      So we have no wire taps ztev [ 11.43] from Islamobama, but we have evidence of , oh gosh, no, they were speaking to Russians. How do they know ztev ? Wire taps from the heavens ztev/? ztev? are you there ztev ?
      
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      March 22, 2017 2:33pm
stephieboy

oldpark,

“Hillary Clinton ,signed of a 20% allocation of American Uranium ore to Russian..”

???

” No, Hillary Clinton did not “give Russia 20 percent of the uranium” in the US”

Trump is misleading the public on her Russia policy because he’s afraid of looking like Putin’s stooge.

http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/17/14649980/trump-clinton-russia-uranium
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March 22, 2017 10:34am
s.russell

The most appropriate bird here is the ostrich, as Right-wing Trump supporters are burying their heads in the sand over this issue. They are allowing their petty political feuds to trump (heh!) issues of both national interest and the interests of the whole Western democratic system.
This is not a Left v Right or Democrat v Republican issue. It is more important than that. All parties should be concerned about what the Russians are doing.
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March 22, 2017 10:38am
- paul scott
  
  So just what are the Russians doing s russell [ 10.38 ] its ok, we can handle it, you can tell us, it is ok.
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:35pm
gump

We know that Trump’s Campaign Director was laundering Russian money to fund his campaign:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/new-documents-say-trump-aide-hid-payments-from-pro-moscow-ukraine-party/2017/03/21/92ec85f2-0e11-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html

Trump’s house of cards is starting to fall apart.
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March 22, 2017 10:45am
- All_on_Red
  
  “His campaign”?
  Not Trumps. The article is talking about Viktor Yanukovych’s campaign.
  
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  March 22, 2017 1:40pm
Simon

24 OCTOBER 2016 • 12:03PM
Hillary Clinton is so far ahead of Donald Trump in the race for the presidency that she no longer even feels the need to pay attention to the Republican nominee.

But sources inside the operation have said Clinton strategists are quietly considering the possibility of a landslide victory.

In a sign of that confidence Mrs Clinton told journalists this week that her campaign was shifting its attention to trying to take back control of a Republican majority congress, by helping Democratic politicians get elected in state races.

“We’re going to be emphasising the importance of electing Democrats down the ballot,’ Mrs Clinton said

The strategy has even been embraced by Barack Obama.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/23/hillary-clinton-so-far-ahead-in-polls-that-doesnt-even-think-abo/

Brains were scrambled with Trump’s easy victory.

Russians were invented as a mechanism by MSM & Dem leadership to attempt to undermine Trump’s draining of the swamp and to make the brainless Dem base angry.

Very corrupt.
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March 22, 2017 10:46am
- Bullion
  
  You make it seem like this Russia controversy was invented post the fact of Trump’s victory when the very same publication you quoted noted Russia’s possible meddling 3 months prior to the article you posted:
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/27/russia-denies-meddling-in-us-election-campaign/
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:43pm
  - paul scott
    
    How many votes did the Russians fix and fiddle in Minnesota, anyone ? anywhere anyone?
    
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    March 22, 2017 2:40pm
    - axeman
      
      None. As Comey testified two days ago.
      
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      March 22, 2017 4:20pm
Lucia Maria

Some strange signals from the US Secretary of State that have unsettled US allies, when Tillerson decided not to meet with NATO allies, but now has changed his mind (or someone talked to him and explained how it looked).

U.S. reverses course and offers new dates for NATO talks

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson proposed new dates on Tuesday for a NATO meeting, the State Department said, after he initially decided to skip the talks and rebuffed the alliance’s efforts to reschedule them.

Tillerson’s decision to miss his first meeting with NATO foreign ministers, set for April 5-6 in Brussels, unsettled European allies who worried it reopened questions about U.S. President Donald Trump’s commitment to the alliance.

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“No matter how you spin it, this is unfortunate symbolism,” said one senior European diplomat of Tillerson’s plan to skip the April 5-6 NATO Brussels meeting, saying it undid the work of Trump’s vice president and defense minister, who visited NATO headquarters in February to provide reassurances after Trump’s criticism of the alliance.

Considering that Tillerson was initially just going to stay in the US for the Chinese President’s visit and then go to Russia … well, you know

– The Russians, the Russians!!

The Russians are actually real, and there’s some odd stuff going on with Trump and his people and the Russians.
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March 22, 2017 10:48am
- SPC
  
  Tillerson is going to the G7 in Italy and then onto Russia.
  
  The NATO foreign ministers are gathering after the G7 gathering.
  
  Seems to me the Russians sought to meet with him after the G7 meeting knowing this would clash with the NATO foreign ministers meeting.
  
  No Secretary of State has missed a NATO foreign ministers meeting since 2003.
  
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39339431
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:27am
  - SPC
    
    update/correction.
    
    Tillerson is going to the G7 in Italy (as is Trump) and then onto Russia.
    
    The NATO foreign ministers are meeting before the G7 meeting, but Tillerson is not there because he is staying in DC for the China’s Presidents visit.
    
    No Secretary of State has missed a NATO foreign ministers meeting since 2003.
    
    The concern is the meeting with the Russians before one with the NATO foreign ministers. There are now efforts to re-schedule the NATO foreign ministers meeting.
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:22pm
    - paul scott
      
      My God in heaven SPC 12.22 you mean they are going to talk to Russians . .This has to be stopped.
      
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      March 22, 2017 2:42pm
- virtualmark
  
  Tillerson is missing that one NATO meeting because Xi is in Washington at the same time. That’s a sensible piece of prioritising.
  
  But Tillerson is part of the NATO meeting in the next few weeks in Washington, so he will meet with NATO foreign ministers before the scheduled April 5-6 meeting in Brussels.
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:58am
  - SPC
    
    Mr Tillerson will meet Nato diplomats this week in Washington for a conference on defeating the Islamic State group.
    
    Not sure if they are foreign ministers though.
    
    The NATO foreign ministers meeting is only 2 weeks away.
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:15pm
ROJ

Putin is old school KGB. They ran programmes to sow distrust in the West for Soviet ends for decades, they are still employing those skills for the General Secretary’s replacement in the Kremlin.
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March 22, 2017 10:51am
- ROJ
  
  No need to infer conspiracy where stupidity is a simpler explanation. Trump (and wider American politics) is merely an opportunity.
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:54am
AgentBallSack

Boney M put it best.

Ohhhh, those crazy Russians.
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March 22, 2017 10:59am
dime

the russians are bad ass!!

they obviously get to decide who should be president.

so they chose the guy who wants to do the biggest ramp up in military spending since reagan.

he wants to build more nukes

he wants to grow their economy

the US has already seen 3 billion added to the stock market

he wants to rebuild their infrastructure

tighten borders/ stop illegal immigration

cut the number of refugees

fuck, please please Mr Putin, can you choose our next govt???

#putinknowsbest
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March 22, 2017 11:06am
- B.L.Zeebub
  
  Exactly,the Rooski is so all powerful I`m gonna get Cyril down the road to teach me Cyrillic so I can communicate with our new overlords, already I`ve dumped Johnny , Jack and Jim for Stoli.
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:16am
- virtualmark
  
  dime, you need to read more stuff that doesn’t have nude pics.
  
  The Russians preferred Trump because he isn’t worried about keeping sanctions on them over the Ukraine. In fact Trump couldn’t care less if the Russians carve up the Ukraine like a ham.
  
  As for Trump’s yuuuge ramp up in military spending … not so much. Despite the Kool-Aid Trump has signalled less of a bump to the military budget than the military had asked for and that Obama had signalled he’d accept. Yes, the military budget will go up. But not by anything like as much as they wanted.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:01pm
  - dime
    
    i get it dude – trump = bad!!!!
    
    http://www.federaljack.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/because-russians-meme.jpg
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:09pm
    - virtualmark
      
      No Trump’s not bad. And personally I think America needs to re-think both NATO and its relationship with Russia. So I have some sympathy with where he’s coming from.
      
      But Russia is a malignant influence on Western society. Face it, you wouldn’t want to live there, and neither would I. So when Russia has undue influence over a US Presidential candidate and a US Presidential election then we should all be concerned.
      
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      March 22, 2017 12:16pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘The Russians preferred Trump because he isn’t worried about keeping sanctions on them over the Ukraine. In fact Trump couldn’t care less if the Russians carve up the Ukraine like a ham.’
    
    What a lot of shit. You clearly have no idea.
    The sanctions are still in place
    The Armored Division is still in Poland
    The Missile Sheild is still in Romania
    Warships have increased visits to the Black Sea.
    Trump has put the Marines into Syria.
    Trump has freed up Govt land and reduced Regs for Fracking. He has allowed the two new pipelines to go ahead- that really hurts Russia.
    Trump has castigated NATO members for not spending enough and wants them to do more for their defence.
    Trumps staff have made it quite clear they support NATO and always will. Trump is seeing the Sec Gen of NATO at the White House on April 12.
    
    Some friend of Putin!!!
    Wow. You have #TDS real bad.lol
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:36pm
    - ztev
      
      Thanks for pointing out the things Obama has done.
      Whats Trump been up to ?
      
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      March 22, 2017 1:49pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Err Fracking, NATO and Syria action are on Trump.
        He could have stopped the rest.
        You’re such a liar. Biggest one on KB
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:05pm
      - paul scott
        
        Good to see you here Red [ 2.05] Please be kind to ztev, he’s doing the best he can under sad circumstances
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:48pm
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Wed ,there in is the problem like gullible Trump and Trumpets like you who,
      
      ‘The Russians preferred Trump because he isn’t worried about keeping sanctions on them over the Ukraine. In fact Trump couldn’t care less if the Russians carve up the Ukraine like a ham.’
      
      What a lot of shit. You clearly have no idea”
      
      Of course given Putin’s grand designs with a nostalagic revival the old Soviet Union why not carve up the whole of Eastern Europe as well ?
      
      Like Putin what is the nostalgia for you?
      
      “Wow. You have #TDS real bad.lol” ?
      
      As per usual another very deep and reflective contribution.
      
      Pathetic !
      
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      March 22, 2017 1:55pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Russia is westernising.
        Fuck you’re thick.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:03pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Russia Westernising since 1991 .
        
        Wow !
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:16pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        The biggest single problem Putin has right now is economic; and that is because the Russian economy is fairly heavily reliant on the earnings from oil and gas exports. And those have suffered very badly from the price slump; and that price slump can be largely attributed to the additional US output produced by Fracking.
        
        Given that Trump was known to support Fracking and other related industries, why on earth do people think it would be in Putin’s interest to support that ? Clinton had already committed to blocking the Pipe project in Dakota and to placing restrictions on Fracking, she would have made things far easier for Putin. As it is, the Russian proposed military budget has been trimmed by 25%, a serious cut.
        
        What seems most likely is that Putin agreed to some minor interference, yes, truly minor, pot stirring, by allowing the hacking of accounts to go ahead (assuming the intel about this being firmly a Russian thing can be believed, Podesta’s emails – which had the most embarrassing revelations was hacked by such a low level exploit that probably 20% of NZ secondary school pupils could have done if they tried) and then simply had them allowed to go public with no emendation. That’s it, a bit of “truth in advertizing”. What he also calculated, correctly as it appears, is that a whole coterie of “useful idiots” would use this, exaggerate it, weaponize it, to destabilize US politics as much as p[ossible for such a minimal input.
        
        I find it hard to believe that Putin was so clever that he:
        
        (a) Believed back in mid 2016 that Trump would win (almost nobody did, so why back a loser ?);
        (b) Knew that a simple release of private but actually politically important information would swing the election;
        (c) Thought it would go un-noticed. The Russians would have no doubts at all that all their people in Washington (like the ambassador) would have all their non-diplomatic conversations recorded; they do it too I’m sure, why would they imagine the US would not do the same ?
        
        So the obvious conclusion is, if Putin did meddle, he did so with the intention of unsettling the almost inevitable Clinton victory; that ALL they did was release information that, face it, we are all better off for having seen; that the Russian impact on the election was negligible but the impact post election on the US political stability has been immense because the defeated side in the election have seized upon it to do Putin’s work for him.
        
        I think Putin must be laughing himself sick the way it has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams and all because of the cupidity and stupidity of the self absorbed US leftist establishment.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:29pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Ed Snack,
        
        Putin has 4 major problems.
        
        (1) With oil at US$50-ish a barrel his oil & gas revenues aren’t enough to pay for his social programmes & defence modernisation,
        (2) Russian demographics are a medium-term time bomb,
        (3) Russia is indefensible if the Ukraine is on the adversary’s side,
        (4) Sanctions imposed because of Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine are personally crippling to him and to his oligarch coterie.
        
        Oil’s at $50 because of fracking. But there’s nothing he, the Saudis, or anyone else can do to change that. It’s just the new global reality.
        
        Demographics is another thing he can’t change. It’s his Russian reality.
        
        The Ukraine is something he can try to change. And seems to have done. My bet is Trump won’t pressure Russia over their presence in the Ukraine, and NATO is now distracted and splintered. Personally I think the realpolitik is Obama & Clinton pushed far too hard on Russia over the Ukraine and backed him into a corner. They have paid for that now.
        
        Sanctions are another thing Trump might yet help him with. He loosened them a little at the beginning of Feb. Let’s wait & see what else he may do there.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:49pm
      - paul scott
        
        Stephanie you’re so strong minded for a girl.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:51pm
    - virtualmark
      
      All_on_Red,
      
      From that left-wing scandal rag “Business Insider”:
      
      The Trump campaign’s national-security policy representative for the Republican National Convention, J.D. Gordon, told CNN on Thursday that he pushed to alter an amendment to the GOP’s draft policy on Ukraine at the Republican National Convention last year to further align it with President Donald Trump’s views.
      
      Gordon’s remarks represent a dramatic shift from previous comments. In January, Gordon told Business Insider that he “never left” his “assigned side table” nor spoke publicly at the GOP national security subcommittee meeting, where the amendment — which originally called for “providing lethal defence weapons” to the Ukrainian army to fend off Russian-backed separatists — was read aloud, debated, and ultimately watered down to “providing appropriate assistance” to Ukraine.
      
      So the Trump campaign changed the Republican’s policy from providing lethal weapons for the Ukraine to use in defending itself from pro-Russian separatists and the Green Men … to instead just “providing appropriate assistance”.
      
      Elsewhere the Steele report, which I suspect is largely-but-not-wholly true said:
      
      according to Steele’s Russian sources, the campaign was offered documents damaging to Hillary Clinton which the Russians would publish through an outlet that gives them deniability like WikiLeaks.
      
      The hacked documents would be in exchange for a Trump administration policy that de-emphasizes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and instead focuses on criticizing NATO countries for not paying their fair share.
      
      Hey, remind me, what’s Trump policy on the Ukraine again? And on NATO?
      
      As you said yourself … some friend of Putin!!! See, every now and then you get something right!
      
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      March 22, 2017 2:35pm
  - Shunda barunda
    
    ” In fact Trump couldn’t care less if the Russians carve up the Ukraine like a ham.”
    
    As opposed to George Soros carving up the Ukraine like a Ham?
    Wait, do you still think the Ukrainian revolution was organic? wow.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:41pm
SGA

If it were just some Democratic politicians questioning the extent of Russian involvement in the USA’s electoral process, then the cartoon might be a fair representation. But major US intelligence agencies are also expressing concern, and I find that more difficult to dismiss so casually.
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March 22, 2017 11:17am
- Andrei
  
  What do you think the USA does in other countries fool?
  
  They meddle and interfere with internal political processes and even organize violent coups as the bastards did in Ukraine
  
  All this crap is just projection accusing others of what they themselves do
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:38am
  - SGA
    
    And where do I claim that the USA has always been persil white in this regard? That wasn’t the point of my comment (which I suspect you are smart enough to know).
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:42am
Andrei

This is nothing to do with Russia or Russians – this is the pathological American political system eating itself and using Russia as a scapegoat

American citizens need to take their country back from the deadshit parasites who inhabit Washington and fill their heads with bullshit
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March 22, 2017 11:35am
- ROJ
  
  I agree with all you say Andrei … with the exception of your first words.
  Just because the Americans are dysfunctional, doesn’t mean the Russians aren’t gleefully stirring where they can. And the same applies in Europe.
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:48am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Absolutely. Putin hates Clinton and was meddling to mess with her and embarrass her- maybe get information on her…
    99% never thought Trump would win. Right up to that moment the results came in.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:39pm
stephieboy

Andrei , it never will happen until Putin gives up his deluded grandiosity and pretensions to revive the old Soviet Union ,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-23/putin-says-soviet-union-s-collapse-wasn-t-inevitable
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March 22, 2017 11:43am
virtualmark

So, all you right wingers. Tell me …

(1) What would Ronald Reagan have said about Russian’s interfering in US elections? What would he have made of a Presidential candidate & campaign with very murky ties to Russia?
(2) What would you have said about Russia interfering in a US election say, 10 years ago?

I’m amazed about the extent to which you will all sell your souls for Trump. Frankly you are all sell-outs with no principles.
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March 22, 2017 12:04pm
- dime
  
  bahahaha jesus dude. try going to a US website and attacking people who can actually vote there.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:11pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Well that argument cuts both ways dime. Plenty of people here at Kiwiblog with hard-ons for Trump but who can’t actually vote for him.
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:19pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  What a childishly naive thing to say…
  
  How about why did Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Obama have:
  – Secretaries of State?
  – Embassies?
  – Foreign policies?
  
  If it wasn’t to interfere in the internal politics of other sovereign states?
  
  Why was Obama bugging Merkel’s phone?
  
  Is there a country on Earth where the US hasn’t interefered with a sovereign state’s internal politics at one time or another.
  
  So do you think the US hasn’t had spies in high places in Russia?
  
  Why did Hillary have such huge campaign contributions from muslim countries? Surely not because those countries DID NOT want to influence US sovereign interests?
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:40pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Absolutely the US has interfered in plenty of countries over the years.
    
    Secretaries of State, embassies etc are fine … they have an overt and clear role with well-understood behaviours.
    
    I’d point more to the US (mainly via the CIA) directly interfering with democratic elections. Sure, in some cases I think that can righteous, where you’re trying to free people from totalitarian states (say the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe). But in other cases I think it can be dastardly, where you’re wiping an election you didn’t like (say engineering coups in Iran, Chile etc etc).
    
    Doesn’t make it right just because the US does it.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:03pm
- virtualmark
  
  I’ll tell you what I’m worried about Dime.
  
  I worry that this guy is going to do long-term harm to genuine conservative causes, and that it will take more than a decade to undo that damage.
  
  Trump is going to badly damage the Republican voter base before the 2018 mid-term elections, and crash it into the ground before the 2020 Presidential election. Result being the Dems get a lock on House in 2018, and marry that up with the Presidency in 2020.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:43pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    sigh
    The Dem Senators coming up in 2018 are the ones who are worried because they are in States Trump won.
    – I would qualify that by saying it’s all on the line with the Healthcare Bill adjustments. That’s so important.
    Dimes right. You really know fuck all.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:48pm
    - virtualmark
      
      All_on_Red,
      
      So when Gallup have Trump already down to a 37% approval rating after just 2 months in office you’re confident the 2018 election is going to go swimmingly well?
      
      And then this week with the hits yesterday from the FBI and NSA, and then later this week with a difficult healthcare vote … you think the pressure on those numbers is upwards or downwards?
      
      Hey, we’ll just have to wait and see what the 2018 election brings us. But Trump’s coattails ain’t what they were in November 2016.
      
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      March 22, 2017 2:07pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        50% today on Rasmussen who were the most accurate during the Election.
        But hey keep clinging to those Polling companies who got it wrong. That’ll work out fine for you.
        Trump has a difficult job. But at least they are trying. Obamacare is failing. Billions wasted.
        As for hits, the only thing which the hearings have shown to be illegal is those who leaked the Flynn conversation.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:14pm
- Ross12
  
  The question I have for you virtualmark, is how long is it going to take before you accept the many intelligence agencies and experts saying there was no Russian influence in the USA elections. It’s being repeated over and over again –from Clapper to Comey etc. but the MSM still keeps clinging to straws.
  Even in the first link given by Lucia above, by Schindler, he goes on about how the belief by Trump & co that he was “wire tapped” by the Obama administration being debunked by the agencies which he is happy to believe but he doesn’t accept the assurance by the same people that there was not interference in the USA elections by Russia.
  There is clearly all sorts of games being played in DC to , in my view, stop certain things coming out and to under mine President Trump ( because he is not beholden to anyone –they can’t “control” him). But maybe this is just DC business as usual, but we have had it open display as much until recently. ( or maybe I haven’t taken much notice of it in the past)
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:46pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Ross12,
    
    how long is it going to take before you accept the many intelligence agencies and experts saying there was no Russian influence in the USA elections
    
    You did follow Comey and Roger’s testimony yesterday right? Drink less Kool-Aid. Read more.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:05pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Watch this interview with Clapper
      1:53 No collusion.
      No wiretaps and No FISA.
      That means NYT, The Guardian, BBC, Heat St etc have all made fake news reporting wiretaps and collusion- probably to smear Trump.
      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TD69e5ySFGw
      
      If you and Lucia can’t accept watching Clapper actually say the words then you are too far gone.
      
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      March 22, 2017 1:54pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red , naturally you conveninetly omitt the point where Clapper states that as far he was aware Trump’s libelous claim that Obama had Trump’s phones wire tappped are untrue .
        
        The President needs to apologise or face censure . Better impeachment proceedings need to be intiated !.
        
        Trump is gutless !
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:04pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I said “no wiretaps” in my comment.
        You are so dumb. Lol
        Maybe Trump relied on The NYT, the Guardian, BBC etc
        See yesterday’s GD for copies of their articles.
        Nice of you to realise they are fake news
        Bwahhahahahaha ha.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:08pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Yes, Clapper said in January that the intelligence report given to Obama and Bush on 6 January had no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians. However, that report was focused on Russia’s cyber operations and propaganda to try to help Trump’s election chances and hurt Clinton’s and wasn’t tasked with looking at/for collusion between Trump & the Russians.
        
        Clapper came out earlier this week saying that he could not account for intelligence or evidence that may have been gathered since Trump’s inauguration on January 20th.
        
        Meanwhile Comey yesterday clearly said the FBI was investigating links between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Comey wouldn’t talk about individuals, but it was clear that there is an investigation. We just have to wait and see what that investigation comes up with.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:17pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Ross,
    
    debunked by the agencies which he is happy to believe but he doesn’t accept the assurance by the same people that there was not interference in the USA elections by Russia.
    
    That’s not correct: watch Comey here: Why FBI Russia Investigation Could Take Years | Morning Joe | MSNBC less than 6 minutes, but Comey is in the first couple.
    
    The investigation is ongoing, Ross. Not completed, but ongoing.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:06pm
    - Ross12
      
      To both virtuemark and Lucia.
      For a start Comey went around in circles throughout the hearing, in some case contradicting himself.
      After months and months of trying they still have do not come up with a speck of evidence. Do you really something is going to come out now after all this time ?
      
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      March 22, 2017 1:33pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        After months and months of trying they still have do not come up with a speck of evidence.
        
        Errr, whatever evidence they have, they’re keeping very quiet on it until the investigation is over. I don’t know where you are getting the idea that there isn’t a speck of it, when there are so many of them in the news that look pretty damning.
        
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        March 22, 2017 1:50pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘What evidence they have they are keeping quiet’
        
        BwahahahahHahahah. They started last July.
        Have you forgotten Comey confirming Clinton was still being investigated?
        Wow. You’re deluded. It’s hilarious.
        
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        March 22, 2017 1:57pm
      - virtualmark
        
        I’m interested in Comey’s contradictions. Tell me more.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:18pm
      - Ross12
        
        Lucia
        If there was any evidence it would have been in huge bold headlines in the NYT and WP within seconds !
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:38pm
      - Ross12
        
        virtualmark
        
        Firstly I didn’t watch the full five plus hours nor have I seen a full transcript.
        
        But here are a couple of instances I read about :
        
        “Late in the summer they concluded based on the polling that a lot of people were reading that Mr. Trump didn’t stand a chance,” said Comey, although it was not clear just how the FBI knew what the Russians “concluded” as of last summer.
        
        The FBI director’s extrapolations then continued: “let’s just focus on undermining her,” Comey says of Russian thinking at the time, which however was also confusing as earlier in his testimony Comey said “we saw no efforts aimed at the vote itself.”
        
        Then this:
        
        “Responding to a question from Rep. Jim Himes about the president’s Twitter post that “The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process,” Comey said: “We’ve offered no opinion, have no view and have no information on potential impact because it’s never something we looked at.”
        Comey was then pressed on whether it was “too far of a logical leap to conclude that the assertion that you have told the Congress that there was no influence on the electoral process is not quite right” to which Comey responded “It certainly wasn’t our intention to say that today.”
        
        “Because we don’t have any information on that subject. That’s not something that was looked at.”
        
        Comey then again seemed to contradict himself when he said that “we saw efforts to penetrate the voter registration databases.”
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:42pm
- Ed Snack
  
  Probably something relatively folksy and half witty….and looked at the evidence for what actually occurred and dimissed it as inconsequential. Why, what do YOU think he would have done ? Is it still “Ronnie the Fascist Cowboy” in your head ?
  
  Had the Russians done the same to undermine McCain’s campaign, who knows, probably they did but Obama certainly wouldn’t want you to know that.
  
  As you know very well, it cannot be suggested that Obama won for any reasons other than his innate brilliance and wonderful cleverness. Anything else would be racist. So if the Russians did interfere in 2008, it certainly would have been impossible to suggest that they had any influence or you would have been persecuted and probably physically attacked.
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:34pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Really? The Republican party of the 1980s would have just dismissed any Russian meddling in a Presidential election as inconsequential?
    
    Nah. The Republican party of the 1980s saw the USA and Russia locked in an existential fight.
    
    And I strongly suspect all the people here now apologising for Russia spent most of the last 20+ years arguing why the Americans should be more prepared to nuke them.
    
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    March 22, 2017 2:55pm
swan

Surely this was drawn before Comeys revelations? Looks kind of stupid now.
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March 22, 2017 12:17pm
DifferentPerspective

It’s OK when socialists do it

All this BS about Russia is just a front for what is increasingly starting to look like a sort of “House of Cards” coup plot-line, the Democrats don’t like democracy (well they do when it suits them – like all totalitarian inclined bullies).

They all know Russia -blaming is just plain-old dog-whistling to distract from losing when their candidates were owned by muslim petro-dollars. It’s the height of hypocrisy to suggest that this is a bad thing – if so, then why has the US been doing this sort of shit around the world? Why did Obama and Hillary do their bit to topple ‘firewall’ regimes in Egypt, Libya etc? If interfering in other countries politics was so bad – why does the US have an embassy in every nation worth spitting at? Embassies exist so that you CAN interfere in a sovereign nation’s politics!

As a dude called Hussein Obama so eloquently put it when his (Republican) opponent suggested Russia was a big threat “The 80s called – they want their foreign policy back!” to much laughter and hilarity.

If only they could laugh at themselves now.
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March 22, 2017 12:28pm
- jms
  
  It’s OK when socialists do it
  
  That’s how they think, it’s also exactly how Trumpkins think.
  
  I’ve never seen an election that has been so rich in hypocrisy, double standards, and political 180s from both sides.
  
  Great TV, and there should be lots more to come.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:36pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Yes, Trump is a TV reality star.
    
    Rob Muldoon criticised the American mentality to life in general, and politics in particular as “mush” courtesy of the all-pervasive influences of TV, advertising and Hollywood. Trump is the full development of that trend. Mind you, in his own way so too was Obama. And loved the way the Kiwi “can’t be bothered” mentality saw past the hype of ‘Dirty Politics’ last time, despite the ~~best~~ worst efforts of the local MSM
    
    Not sure we are immune as in Muldoon’s day, dancing cossacks and all 😉 . I know our elections are now “presidential” but maybe our Westminster system is a safeguard against some of the worst excesses.
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  DP, as I suggested ( 11 43 am ) all that needs to happen is for Putin to give up his aspirations and nostalgia for reviving the old Soviet Union and all will be well.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:37pm
  - Andrei
    
    You are full of nonsense as usual Stephiebot
    
    Nobody is reviving the Soviet Union
    
    What is required by the Godless Evil Empire is that Vladimir Putin hand over control of all Russia’s natural resources to Western Oligarchs – nothing less will do
    
    And have Satanic gay pride parades in Red square to show allegiance to the Imperial God
    
    Russia has more natural resources than any other nation on the world and the majority of the world’s population, who manufacture the majority of the worlds consumer goods live in the far East and that is the real threat to the West that consume these goods and pay for them with borrowed money
    
    Already Chinese goods are being transported to Europe by rail which is two weeks quicker and cheaper than transporting them by sea – for now the capacity is not there but it is being developed and as it develops the USA (which is bankrupt BTW) becomes a backwater
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:47pm
    - jms
      
      And out come the straw men.
      
      Oh well, if that’s all you’ve got, you might as well use it.
      
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      March 22, 2017 12:50pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Russia is westernising. There is no going back.
    Andre is right about Putin at war with the Oligarchs. It’s one of the reasons the people still support him- in spite of everything.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:59pm
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Red , suggesting you try stop sucking Putin ‘s and Trump’s teats .
      
      Russia has enournous economic problems including an overeliance on oil and gas , endemic corruption , inefficient industries ( a legacy of the old Soviet Union ), poor productivity etc, etc )
      
      https://news.vice.com/article/russias-economy-is-a-mess-and-its-problems-arent-going-away
      
      What war with the Oligarchs ?
      
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      March 22, 2017 2:10pm
Bullion

It’s not Russie per se, it’s the possible collusion of the Trump campaign with Russia as Comey stated:

“That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts”
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March 22, 2017 12:36pm
Kea

The predicted Anti-Slavic hatred from someone who runs an anti-Russian conspiracy and hate site.

The same person who supports Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups and denies the findings of Holocaust researchers, first hand accounts, and historical facts, of the Catholics Churches involvement in the Croatian Holocaust.

Here is what the Jerusalem Post has to say about it:

Jerusalem Post Diaspora
LOCAL JEWS IN SHOCK AFTER UKRAINIAN CITY OF KONOTOP ELECTS NEO-NAZI MAYOR

“we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children” and “Heil Hitler”; replaced the picture of President Petro Poroshenko in his office with a portrait of Ukrainian national leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Ukrainian-Jews-shocked-after-city-elects-neo-Nazi-mayor-437975
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March 22, 2017 12:47pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Back to trolling so soon, Kea.
  Last ban for this identity is permanent.
  
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  March 22, 2017 1:09pm
  - mikenmild
    
    He has his other identities though.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:16pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Yes. I’ve told DPF about them, but he doesn’t seem that interested. Or it’s too much bother to look into them.
      
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      March 22, 2017 2:05pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        It’s the Russians!!!!
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:09pm
Fentex

The Democrats are trying to make the Russia issue their Benghazi – something to hammer on endlessly in the hope that a small nugget which will taint the Republicans in general and Trump in particular will be sieved out.

Unending harassment over Benghazi led to Hillary’s email server, Democrats obviously hope that keeping pressure on Russian ties will uncover something in particular and / or just keep a miasma of suspicion alive.

For Republicans to criticise it is pure hypocrisy.
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March 22, 2017 12:52pm
- PhilBest
  
  I think it entirely possible that the whole thing is nothing more than a contrived slander, and that there was no collusion at all; and even that it was not “the Russians” who did the hacking.
  
  General Flynn “talked to the Russian Ambassador”, so did Senator Roger Sessions; oh for Pete’s sake. So did numerous people on the Dems side. It was “stuff that goes on in normal world affairs”. It is worse than a yawn, it is the Left including the entire MSM, making stuff up out of whole cloth again. Anything is all right when the Left do it, including collusion with foreign powers, and fabrication of slanders that are put out as “news”.
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:17pm
  - Fentex
    
    Flynn, it has been revealed, was a paid for advocate of multiple foreign governments.
    
    That creates intolerable conflicts of interest if he were to be employed as an agent of the U.S government.
    
    The perfectly correct and proper forcing of his resignation is one of the things that keeps people interests in foreign connections alive – it has one scalp, it ought to have Session’s as well (an Attorney General who lies under oath should be intolerable to anyone who believes in the rule Of Law).
    
    Some Democrats seem to think the most that can be wrung out of the issue has been, but Republicans have demonstrated how hammering on less consequential things can have big future pay-offs, so why shouldn’t Democrat activists keep it up? It’s straight from the Republican play book, and if kept alive will be a constant well-spring to draw from with every little scandal to suggest a question mark over Republican allegiance.
    
    If Republican’s don’t like that, well – irony.
    
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    March 22, 2017 3:20pm
    - PhilBest
      
      Look, any ordinary man in the street who actually hears the Confirmation Hearing question levelled at Sessions, and his reply, will be quite clear that he answered that question truthfully.
      
      The Left loves to do the Stalinist Show Trial thing, where the victim has no chance of a fair hearing, evidence, rule of law, etc. The MSM’s fake news again and again goes as far as being faked charges against good men. I hope their day is over for good. Alternative media is around now, that deploys such things as actual video footage that ordinary people can view and make up their own minds – including the fact that the MSM and the Left are lying scum and cannot help themselves.
      
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      March 22, 2017 6:43pm
      - Fentex
        
        Leahy: Several of the President-Elect’s nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?
        
        Sessions: No.
        
        Make up your own mind if the conversations he was later revealed to have had involved discussion of the upcoming election.
        
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        March 22, 2017 7:48pm
- MCos
  
  Benghazi, eh!
  I haven’t been paying much attention lately. How are those nine inquiries coming along now that Hillary Clinton has exited stage left?
  
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  March 22, 2017 5:15pm
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    It was worth noting the point made by Trey Gowdy in the 9th inquiry, “how did the first 8 inquiries miss so many witnesses who wanted to be heard”?
    
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    March 22, 2017 6:45pm
Kea

Times of Israel
January 12, 2017

Brazilian neo-Nazis recruited to fight Ukrainian civil war

Police say pro-Kiev militia offtered young right-wing extremists money, training to fight against pro-Russian rebels

http://www.timesofisrael.com/brazilian-neo-nazis-recruited-to-fight-ukrainian-civil-war/
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March 22, 2017 12:52pm
Kea

Jewish Times
Ukrainian marchers in Kiev chant ‘Jews out’Demonstrators celebrate the birthday of WWII Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, who fought against Soviet army
BY JTA January 3, 2017, 9:33 pm

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-marchers-in-kiev-chant-jews-out/
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March 22, 2017 12:55pm
Kea

There is a vocal and hysterical Neo-Nazi supporter on this thread. See if you can find them folks, and become a real life Nazi-hunter.
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March 22, 2017 1:00pm
- stephieboy
  
  Kea ,
  
  “Russia’s neo-Nazis unmasked — by Israeli Jewish filmmaker”
  
  Trying to solve a brutal murder, an ex-elite IDF soldier disguises himself as skinhead to gain access and win the trust of extremist leaders
  
  “A former elite Israeli soldier infiltrated a group of Russian neo-Nazis, posing as one of their own in order to document their activities and try to solve a gruesome murder.
  
  Documentarist Vladi Antonevicz, an alumnus of Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, told Channel 2 on Friday that his journey into the dark heart of Russia began after he saw a 2007 internet video of an execution-style double murder committed by neo-Nazis….”
  
  http://www.timesofisrael.com/russias-neo-nazis-unmasked-by-israeli-jewish-filmmaker/
  
  Soviet Aggression and Collaboration
  with the Germans in World War II
  
  “A Little Glasnost on History”
  
  “If the government fears the people, you can have a good government, but when the people fear the government, you have tyranny. The federal government is our servant, not our master!”
  
  (Thomas Jefferson
  
  http://uralica.com/eastbalt.htm
  
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  March 22, 2017 1:19pm
PhilBest

Ann Coulter nailed this in her last column:

http://humanevents.com/2017/03/15/lets-make-russia-our-sister-country/?utm

“…Now Democrats are hypersensitive to a Russian leader’s flaws?

Liberals were cool with the show trials, the alliance with Hitler, the gulags, the forced starvations, the shooting down of American planes and goose-stepping through Eastern Europe.

But that was when the Russian leader was Joseph Stalin or Nikita Khrushchev — not the beast Putin!

Back then, liberals were spying for Stalin (Julius Rosenberg’s code name: “Liberal”), the U.S. president was calling the bloodthirsty dictator “Uncle Joe,” and The New York Times was covering up Stalin’s infamous crimes. In the storied history of fake news, the Times’ Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for his false reports denying the Ukrainian famine, in which more than 7 million people were deliberately starved to death.

As far as the Times is concerned, those were Russia’s halcyon days!

Back when Russia was actually threatening America with nuclear annihilation, Jimmy Carter warned Americans about their “inordinate fear of communism.”…

“…Russia’s loss of the left’s esteem happened very quickly. In 2008, The New York Times editorial page demanded that Obama “signal to the Russians that he wants better relations,” and complained of the “alarming” deterioration of “Russian-American relations” under Bush.

It was considered the height of statesmanship when Obama was caught on a hot-mic in 2012, telling Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility. I understand you.”

To hoots of laughter at the Democratic National Convention, Obama said: “You don’t call Russia our number one enemy — not Al-Qaida, Russia — unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War mind warp.”

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow couldn’t contain her hilarity over the GOP offering “an extra bonus of threatening Russia.”

But today, Democrats (and two especially showboating Republicans) are horrified that Trump wants to get along with Russia…”

Do read the whole thing…
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March 22, 2017 2:11pm
- Kimbo
  
  She loses points for failing to mention Alger Hiss 😉
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:15pm
- stephieboy
  
  The irrepressiblele Ann Coulter who, amongst many , many things ,wanted Bill Clinton executed , wanted the US to invade Canada , a hardball neo Confederate revsionsist , thought Joe McCarthy was just fabulous etc, etc ,
  
  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter#Sandy_Hook_massacre
  
  A coupe of famous quotes ,
  
  “My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that’s because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.” – On MSNBC, February 8, 1997
  
  “The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet – it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars – that’s the Biblical view.” – October 12, 2000[25]
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:32pm
  - PhilBest
    
    “I’m a gay New Yorker — and I’m coming out as a conservative”
    
    By Chadwick Moore February 11, 2017
    
    http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/im-a-gay-new-yorker-and-im-coming-out-as-a-conservative/
    
    “…for the first time in my adult life, I was outside of the liberal bubble and looking in. What I saw was ugly, lock step, incurious and mean-spirited.
    
    Still, I returned to the bar a few nights later — I don’t give up easily — and hit it off with a stranger. As so many conversations do these days, ours turned to politics. I told him that I’m against Trump’s wall but in favor of strengthening our borders. He called me a Nazi and walked away. I felt awful — but not so awful that I would keep opinions to myself.
    
    And I began to realize that maybe my opinions just didn’t fit in with the liberal status quo, which seems to mean that you must absolutely hate Trump, his supporters and everything they believe. If you dare not to protest or boycott Trump, you are a traitor.
    
    If you dare to question liberal stances or make an effort toward understanding why conservatives think the way they do, you are a traitor.
    
    It can seem like liberals are actually against free speech if it fails to conform with the way they think. And I don’t want to be a part of that club anymore.
    
    It used to be that if you were a gay, educated atheist living in New York, you had no choice but to be liberal. But as I met more Trump supporters with whom I was able to have engaging, civil discussions about issues that impact us all, I realized that I like these people — even if I have some issues with Trump himself…
    
    “…I’ve made some new friends and also lost some who refuse to speak to me. I’ve come around on Republican pundit Ann Coulter, who I now think is smart and funny and not a totally hateful, self-righteous bigot. A year ago, this would have been unfathomable to me…”
    
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    March 22, 2017 6:49pm
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    Thanks for the LOL quotes BTW
    
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    March 22, 2017 6:54pm
Kea

So Lucy… sharing reports in Israeli news services of Jewish persecution by far right neo nazi are “trolling”.

Do you think the Jews are lying about their concerns ?

Do you think they are part of the vast Russian conspiracy (along with the Muslims) ?

Why write to DPF when I cut and pasted straight from the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel. Why not write to them and complain ?
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March 22, 2017 5:21pm
Kea

Jewish Journal

‘Jews Should Flee Ukraine’ Says Chief Ukrainian Rabbi

the leading political parties leading the protests has far-right neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic roots. As the BBC has noted, in 2005 Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of Svoboda, signed an open letter to Ukrainian leaders, including President Yushchenko, entitled Stop the Criminal Activities of Organised Jewry, the comments of which the BBC summarized as follows:
• Calling for the government to halt the “criminal activities” of “organised Jewry”
• Lists Jewish businessmen who got rich in the 1990s, and claims they control Ukrainian media
• Describes Zionism as “Jewish Nazism” and warns of “genocide” through the impoverishment of Ukrainians
• Demands investigation into the activities of Jewish organisations headed by people “suspected of serious crimes.”

Read more: http://boston.forward.com/articles/183232/jews-should-flee-ukraine-says-chief-ukrainia/#ixzz4c1eV7R00
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March 22, 2017 5:27pm
Kea

Times of Israel – Jewish Times

Jewish pilgrims attacked at Ukraine tomb of revered Hasidic rabbi

Worshipers at grave of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav in Uman teargassed by assailants described as neo-Nazis; fake blood and pig’s head left at site

http://www.timesofisrael.com/vandals-desecrate-ukraine-tomb-of-revered-hasidic-rabbi/

[ Neo nazis feel free to type “troll” and down vote. I want to know who you are and what type of bottom feeders are hanging out here on KB]
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