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Speaking of which, Im still amazed at how Kelly was allowed to lie outright about Congresswomen Wilson with VIDEO EVIDENCE..unbelievable how the story was just forgotten:
After Video Refutes Kelly’s Charges, Congresswoman Raises Issue of Race
Speaking of which, Im still amazed at how Kelly was allowed to lie outright about Congresswomen Wilson with VIDEO EVIDENCE..unbelievable how the story was just forgotten:
After Video Refutes Kelly’s Charges, Congresswoman Raises Issue of Race
Yep. Amazing how people glossed over video evidence and took the word of the white man over the black woman...oh wait... I forgot that white people have been seeing video evidence since the Rodney King beating, and they still choose to believe their 'alternative facts'
I gotta recommend this before 75% of the content posted here.
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Our favorite twitter team compiled all their information using every piece of reported information in the last 40 years to prove, Trump is a mob affiliate.
This is fukking damning.
Read every page. Click every link. Watch every video.
I can't recommend this enough. It will blow your mind now detailed it is.
They got video of Semion Mogilevich and Putin in the same room...5 years after the US and Europe call him the most dangerous man in the world...
If you read nothing else this weekend, make this ( Citizen Journalists Consortium ) it.
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Page 1 - CJConsortium
Our favorite twitter team compiled all their information using every piece of reported information in the last 40 years to prove, Trump is a mob affiliate.
This is fukking damning.
Read every page. Click every link. Watch every video.
I can't recommend this enough. It will blow your mind now detailed it is.
They got video of Semion Mogilevich and Putin in the same room...5 years after the US and Europe call him the most dangerous man in the world...
If you read nothing else this weekend, make this ( Citizen Journalists Consortium ) it.
@DonKnock @SJUGrad13 @88m3 @Menelik II @wire28 @smitty22 @Reality @fact @Hood Critic @ExodusNirvana @Blessed Is the Man @THE MACHINE @OneManGang @dtownreppin214 @JKFrazier @tmonster @blotter @BigMoneyGrip @Soymuscle Mike @Grano-Grano @.r. @GinaThatAintNoDamnPuppy! @Cali_livin
Russia looks to prospect of future without Vladimir Putin
'There can be no second Putin': Russia looks to prospect of future without Vladimir as sources say he has considered quitting
Saturday 18 November 2017 17:45 GMT
- Oliver Carroll Moscow Correspondent
Speculation remains about whether Russia’s leader will run again for the presidency Getty
For a long time, it has seemed that the only person unsure he will run in the presidential elections next March is Vladimir Putin.
The people expect it, his opponents are sure of it, his entourage is convinced of it. But Russia’s President is delaying.
When Mr Putin chooses to run, he will win, and handsomely. The President remains popular with his base and possesses a well-oiled political machine that, as dependable as the rotation of the sun and the movements of the tide, will deliver a result between 60 per cent and 70 per cent in his favour.
But behind the scenes things are less predictable. From interviews with academics, government and near-government players, some anonymous, The Independent can reveal a picture of intense uncertainty at the heart of power.
It is a picture that shows the President’s grip on the Kremlin to be as strong as ever – but only because it needs to be.
Vladimir Putin is, sources say, tired. And he is reluctant to engage in a major national election – again. The campaign will be reduced to a bare minimum; there will be no repeat of the exhausting test of the 2011-2012 elections, when Mr Putin declared his candidacy six months early.
His decision to swap jobs with Dmitry Medvedev provoked an unexpected wave of protest. By the time of election day, the result was not in question. But Mr Putin invested a lot in winning – emotionally and psychologically.
The absolute deadline for registration depends on whether Mr Putin runs as an independent or on a party platform. But most expect a declaration no earlier than mid-December.
A short campaign brings with it other benefits. It will offer a sense of drama to what otherwise promises to be a sterile contest. Likewise, opponents will also have the shortest time possible in which to challenge him.
The opposition, unable even to agree on a unity candidate, is of course unlikely to make a breakthrough. The controversial candidacy of TV personality Ksenia Sobchak has split the anti-Kremlin vote. Whether she will be allowed to participate is still, sources say, under discussion. The technocratic head of Putin’s administration, Sergei Kiriyenko believes her presence would add sparkle; others are less convinced.
Nemtsov and Navalny opposition parties join forces against Putin in Russia
Authorities will also almost certainly bar leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from registering his candidacy. Russia’s Election Commission says that an embezzlement conviction makes him ineligible – it’s a conviction that has been ruled provisionally unfair by the European Court of Human Rights.
Mr Navalny has surprised the Kremlin with his persistence this year. From declaring presidential ambitions in December, he has consistently outflanked the government. His YouTube expose of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s alleged corruption – which Mr Medvedev denies – was watched by tens of millions. His call to the streets in March saw the largest protests Russia has seen since 2012. Mr Navalny has captured the language of a new, young protest demographic; the Kremlin, to some extent, is still playing catch-up.
Mr Putin’s people believe the battle for Mr Navalny’s youth will be won not on the streets, but on screens. There will be no repeat of Nashi-style pro-Kremlin mass youth movements of the past. Instead, insiders report a beefed-up internet department inside the presidential administration. There are expanded news-making desks thinking up sexy digital narratives – like Mr Putin’s demonstrative visit to Russia’s search engine giant Yandex. Other desks concentrate on using bots, trolls and other creatures of the Russian digital space to form a “new, positive youth agenda”.
The aim is clear and unambiguous: Mr Putin offers opportunity; he continues to be the future.
Squaring the digital narrative with the analogue reality of an ageing leader is where things get difficult. The recession may be over, but most Russians have experienced four years of declining real terms income. There has been a fundamental shift in public mood that, according to polls, favours change over stability.
The Kremlin has not been able to agree on a serious programme of reform in response, says Valery Solovei, a professor of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. Indeed, the election offer has already been scaled back. Rather than projecting a confident future, the promise is now on improving productivity and efficiency.
“There is a growing sense that this election is less about the future, as it is about the end,” said Mr Solovei.
Gleb Pavlovsky, a former Kremlin advisor and head of the Effective Politics Foundation, told The Independent that the regime was entering a “terminal” phase. “Whichever way you play it, this campaign is about transitioning to a post-Putin Russia,” he said.
Already, a battle is under way over who will head government following the March elections. This, according to the constitution at least, is the second most important position in Russian politics.
In October, Bloomberg suggested the current Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, would become a necessary sacrifice. Bloodied by Mr Navalny’s assault, the Prime Minister was considered a spent political force. Names such as the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina and industry minister Denis Manturov were mentioned as possible replacements.
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But, say sources, the Prime Minister has “recuperated psychologically” since then and may well stay in position. The dismissal of Medvedev would need to be seen as a strong move, says political commentator Konstantin Gaaze. At the moment, “it would not resolve much”.
One high-level source told The Independent that Putin was likely to stay with what he knew best. The President was a “conservative man” when it came to appointments, and would try not to change things if he doesn’t have to. Besides, if something looks obvious from the outside, it won’t happen: “Mr Putin likes the unexpected; and when he makes changes, he will confer with no one.”
The sense of a man out on his own, trusting no one, was repeated several times in interviews. Mr Putin has not made his intentions clear even to his closest colleagues, said Mr Pavlovsky: “He’s a tragic character, someone who is forced to organise his own special operation.”
Mr Putin’s inner circle – “not so much a cabinet, but a Tsarist court” – is notoriously protective of their man. It does not want to let him go.
“They need Putin much more than he needs them,” says Mr Pavlovsky. “The first day they are left without him, the questions will begin. Where’s the money come from? And who are they exactly?”
Guarantees about what will happen come March have not been forthcoming from the President, says Mr Gaaze. This has created “enormous tensions” at the heart of government, he says: “Even if Putin manages to delay announcing until December, you will see the beginning of a huge turf war, with compromising material being flung between various parts of the government; it’s already beginning, in fact.”
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Three separate sources told The Independent that Mr Putin apparently considered leaving the presidency in autumn last year. He instructed his administration to draw up possible scenarios for his exit.
One of the ideas was a snap presidential election in December. Other possibilities included constitutional reform – from instituting a new vice-presidential position to transferring executive power to a more collegiate body, akin to the Soviet Politburo. The plan was to steal a march on the expected hardline Russia policy that a Clinton presidency would have brought with it.
Donald Trump’s unexpected victory changed the calculus somewhat. But more fundamentally, there was no obvious person to hand the baton to. One figure touted at the time was Alexei Dyumin, a career officer and currently governor of Tula Oblast. His main credentials for the job, one source said, were that “Putin trusts him”.
Others suggested Mr Dyumin was being used to sow unrest among the Tsar’s “out-of-control” boyars. “Dyumin isn’t from the inner circle, so his very appearance is frightening to them,” said Mr Pavlovsky.
The competing groups are unlikely to agree on a successor. Vladimir Putin has carved out a unique role over nearly two decades, and sits at the top of a balanced, highly personalised system. His exit, when it comes, will be profound.
“There can be no second Putin. When the man goes, the system goes,” says Mr Solovei. “All the informal communications, the glue that holds things together, that will go too.”
The appointment of inexperienced technocrats to governor positions nationwide could exacerbate the pressures, he says: “There’s no money, so there may come a point where you can’t resolve local problems, then the strikes start, then Moscow gets involved. Protest, mass actions – you can’t predict any of this.”
A majority of the interviewees suggested that Russia was on the verge of a major political crisis – the system has “exhausted itself”, and was “teetering at the edge of an era”.
“The last time I felt like this was at the end of the Soviet Union,” says Mr Solovei. “And, worryingly, people who were around at the time are telling me they feel exactly the same.”
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Page 1 - CJConsortium
Our favorite twitter team compiled all their information using every piece of reported information in the last 40 years to prove, Trump is a mob affiliate.
This is fukking damning.
Read every page. Click every link. Watch every video.
I can't recommend this enough. It will blow your mind now detailed it is.
They got video of Semion Mogilevich and Putin in the same room...5 years after the US and Europe call him the most dangerous man in the world...
If you read nothing else this weekend, make this ( Citizen Journalists Consortium ) it.
Jesus....
I mean seriously start reading this shyt.
If trump is connected to Mogilevich...we may ultimately be disappointed in Mueller's probe
I get the impression that exposing Trump will cause the FBI to lose all their progress toward bringing down the much-higher-valued Mogilevich. If that's the case, then we'll never know the truth.
READ THIS shyt: Why FBI Can’t Tell All on Trump, Russia - WhoWhatWhy
At the end of 2015, the Justice Department’s criminal division, headed by Leslie Caldwell — the former Eastern District prosecutor and later Sater’s attorney — removed Mogilevich from the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, an extremely rare occurrence. Suspects are usually removed from the list for only two reasons: arrest or death.
Peep this also about Sater. This was written in the middle of 2015 about suspiciously why Sater's whole case was concealed. This is 2015 people.
Secret Prosecutions And The Erosion Of Justice - Law360
Trump IS the mob.
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If trump is connected to Mogilevich...we may ultimately be disappointed in Mueller's probe
I get the impression that exposing Trump will cause the FBI to lose all their progress toward bringing down the much-higher-valued Mogilevich. If that's the case, then we'll never know the truth.
READ THIS shyt: Why FBI Can’t Tell All on Trump, Russia - WhoWhatWhy
At the end of 2015, the Justice Department’s criminal division, headed by Leslie Caldwell — the former Eastern District prosecutor and later Sater’s attorney — removed Mogilevich from the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, an extremely rare occurrence. Suspects are usually removed from the list for only two reasons: arrest or death.
Peep this also about Sater. This was written in the middle of 2015 about suspiciously why Sater's whole case was concealed. This is 2015 people.
Secret Prosecutions And The Erosion Of Justice - Law360
Trump IS the mob.
@DonKnock @SJUGrad13 @88m3 @Menelik II @wire28 @smitty22 @Reality @fact @Hood Critic @ExodusNirvana @Blessed Is the Man @THE MACHINE @OneManGang @dtownreppin214 @JKFrazier @tmonster @blotter @BigMoneyGrip @Soymuscle Mike @Grano-Grano @.r. @GinaThatAintNoDamnPuppy! @Cali_livin
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This is long as fukk, but Felix Sater and Donald Trump have been dodging justice for a long time. This is incredibly damning IMO. This is a reputable source and by the lawyers who sued him for defrauding people. This is incredible and from 2015.
Secret Prosecutions And The Erosion Of Justice - Law360
@DonKnock @SJUGrad13 @88m3 @Menelik II @wire28 @smitty22 @Reality @fact @Hood Critic @ExodusNirvana @Blessed Is the Man @THE MACHINE @OneManGang @dtownreppin214 @JKFrazier @tmonster @blotter @BigMoneyGrip @Soymuscle Mike @Grano-Grano @.r. @GinaThatAintNoDamnPuppy! @Cali_livin
Secret Prosecutions And The Erosion Of Justice - Law360
@DonKnock @SJUGrad13 @88m3 @Menelik II @wire28 @smitty22 @Reality @fact @Hood Critic @ExodusNirvana @Blessed Is the Man @THE MACHINE @OneManGang @dtownreppin214 @JKFrazier @tmonster @blotter @BigMoneyGrip @Soymuscle Mike @Grano-Grano @.r. @GinaThatAintNoDamnPuppy! @Cali_livin
I mean seriously start reading this shyt.
If trump is connected to Mogilevich...we may ultimately be disappointed in Mueller's probe
I get the impression that exposing Trump will cause the FBI to lose all their progress toward bringing down the much-higher-valued Mogilevich. If that's the case, then we'll never know the truth.
READ THIS shyt: Why FBI Can’t Tell All on Trump, Russia - WhoWhatWhy
At the end of 2015, the Justice Department’s criminal division, headed by Leslie Caldwell — the former Eastern District prosecutor and later Sater’s attorney — removed Mogilevich from the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, an extremely rare occurrence. Suspects are usually removed from the list for only two reasons: arrest or death.
Peep this also about Sater. This was written in the middle of 2015 about suspiciously why Sater's whole case was concealed. This is 2015 people.
Secret Prosecutions And The Erosion Of Justice - Law360
Trump IS the mob.
@DonKnock @SJUGrad13 @88m3 @Menelik II @wire28 @smitty22 @Reality @fact @Hood Critic @ExodusNirvana @Blessed Is the Man @THE MACHINE @OneManGang @dtownreppin214 @JKFrazier @tmonster @blotter @BigMoneyGrip @Soymuscle Mike @Grano-Grano @.r. @GinaThatAintNoDamnPuppy! @Cali_livin
Mueller got moglivech in his sights too.. the moment trump is removed and sessions out of office Moglivech is going right back on that most wanted list
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The Zuckerberg delusion
Facebook founder is a digital superstar, but he has poor human skills
AnastasiaNovember 15, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg takes a selfie with a group of entrepreneurs. The Facebook co-founder personifies the myopia of America’s coastal elites: they wish to do well by doing good © AP
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Here is what Mark Zuckerberg learned from his 30-state tour of the US: polarisation is rife and the country is suffering from an opioid crisis. Forgive me if I have to lie down for a moment. Yet it would be facile to tease Mr Zuckerberg for his self-evident observations. Some people are geniuses at one thing and bad at others. Mr Zuckerberg is a digital superstar with poor human skills.
Facebook’s co-founder is not the first Silicon Valley figure to show signs of political inadequacy — nor will he be the last. But he may be the most influential. He personifies the myopia of America’s coastal elites: they wish to do well by doing good.
When it comes to a choice, the “doing good” bit tends to be forgotten.
There is nothing wrong with doing well, especially if you are changing the world. Innovators are rightly celebrated. But there is a problem with presenting your prime motive as philanthropic when it is not. Mr Zuckerberg is one of the most successful monetisers of our age. Yet he talks as though he were an Episcopalian pastor.
“Protecting our community is more important than maximising our profits,” Mr Zuckerberg said this month after Facebook posted its first ever $10bn quarterly earnings result — an almost 50 per cent year-on-year jump.
When a leader goes on a “listening tour” it means they are marketing something. In the case of Hillary Clinton, it was herself. In the case of Mr Zuckerberg, it is also himself. Making a surprise announcement that Mr Zuckerberg would be having dinner with an ordinary family is the kind of thing a Soviet dictator would do — down to the phalanx of personal aides he brought with him.
This is not how scholars find out what ordinary families are thinking. Nor is it a good way to launch a political campaign.
Ten months after Mr Zuckerberg began his tour, speculation of a presidential bid has been shelved. Say what you like about Donald Trump but he knows how to give the appearance of understanding ordinary people.
More to the point, Facebook has turned into a toxic commodity since Mr Trump was elected. Big Tech is the new big tobacco in Washington. It is not a question of whether the regulatory backlash will come, but when and how.
Mr Zuckerberg bears responsibility for this. Having denied Facebook’s “filter bubble” played any role in Mr Trump’s victory — or Russia’s part in helping clinch it — Mr Zuckerberg is the primary target of the Democratic backlash. He is now asking America to believe that he can turn Facebook’s news feed from an echo chamber into a public square. Revenue growth is no longer the priority. “None of that matters if our services are used in a way that doesn’t bring people closer together,” he says.
How will Mr Zuckerberg arrange this Kumbaya conversion? By boosting the community ties that only Facebook can offer. Readers will forgive me if I take another lie down. Mr Zuckerberg suffers from two delusions common to America’s new economy elites. They think they are nice people — indeed, most of them are. Mr Zuckerberg seems to be, too. But they tend to cloak their self-interest in righteous language. Talking about values has the collateral benefit of avoiding talking about wealth. If the rich are giving their money away to good causes, such as inner city schools and research into diseases, we should not dwell on taxes. Mr Zuckerberg is not funding any private wars in Africa. He is a good person. The fact that his company pays barely any tax is therefore irrelevant.
The second liberal delusion is to believe they have a truer grasp of people’s interests than voters themselves. In some cases that might be true. It is hard to see how abolishing health subsidies will help people who live in “flyover” America. But here is the crux. It does not matter how many times Mr Zuckerberg invokes the magic of online communities. They cannot substitute for the real ones that have gone missing. Bowling online together is no cure for bowling offline alone.
The next time Mr Zuckerberg wants to showcase Facebook, he should invest some of his money in an actual place. It should be far away from any of America’s booming cities — say Youngstown, Ohio. For the price of a couple of days’ Facebook revenues, he could train thousands of people. He might even fund a newspaper to make up for social media’s destruction of local journalism. The effect could be electrifying. Such an example would bring a couple more benefits. First, it would demonstrate that Mr Zuckerberg can listen, rather than pretending to. Second, people will want to drop round to his place for dinner.
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