wat dan?quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 14:56 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
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IS is daar maar een heel klein onderdeel van.
SAD echte wereld!quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 14:40 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
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Ten eerste valt dat wel mee en ten tweede denkt Trump nu dat Brexit helemaal niet zo fantastisch is omdat het banen in de VS zal gaan kosten, kortom, zoals gewoonlijk worden zijn uitspraken weer eens ingehaald door de echte wereld.
Natuurkunde. Haar echtgenoot is de scheikundige dacht ik.quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 14:34 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
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Je kan van Merkel veel vinden, maar ze is hoog intelligent (doctor in de Theoretische Scheikunde) en is naast haar studie politiek getraint in de FDJ.
Is handig geknipt door de Russenquote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 14:39 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
https://mobile.twitter.com/pacelattin/status/867949635028959232
Dit ziet er echt heel raar uit.
Maar wellicht out of context of ook fake.
twitter:MaineFirstMedia twitterde op vrijdag 26-05-2017 om 15:26:13 Watch: President Trump tells G7 Media Pool "Great Win In Montana" https://t.co/fz9Fh7jiN9 reageer retweet
Overigens, men zit altijd wel van Rusland fake news dit, Rusland dat, maar dit soort beelden zich echt alleen te vinden van de Russische kijkbuis. Misschien moeten onze eigen media eens wat minder lui worden.twitter:Ruptly twitterde op vrijdag 26-05-2017 om 15:12:59 G7 leaders meet for round table talks in Taormina https://t.co/ilXamDeqwo https://t.co/UPpY4i5Tv0 reageer retweet
Ik denk dat zij de Kroatische president is.quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 15:46 schreef Treinhomo het volgende:
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Goh, niemand heeft oog voor Trump.quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 15:43 schreef Nintex het volgende:twitter:MaineFirstMedia twitterde op vrijdag 26-05-2017 om 15:26:13 Watch: President Trump tells G7 Media Pool "Great Win In Montana" https://t.co/fz9Fh7jiN9 reageer retweet
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Dat het fragment voortijdig is afgeknipt is nou niet bepaald hetgene wat het raar maakt.quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 15:37 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Is handig geknipt door de Russen
https://ruptly.tv/vod/20170522-055
Meeting was voorbij, Trump wil weg lopen, maar krijgt nog weer wat vragen naar zijn hoofd geslingerd. Hij draait dan toch om om een antwoord te geven en nog even op de foto met Bibi te gaan.
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Is die blonde mevrouw met die rode jurk onze eigen Hennis ? [ afbeelding ]
Precies, die wezenloze gezichtsuitdrukking maakt het erg raar.quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 15:55 schreef Treinhomo het volgende:
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Dat het fragment voortijdig is afgeknipt is nou niet bepaald hetgene wat het raar maakt.
Als je de gezichtsuitdrukking van POTUS bekijkt bekruipt je het gevoel dat-ie ieder moment z'n laatstse stront gescheten kan hebben.
Dat passive-aggressive 'Oh, thank you.' is wel episch, inderdaad.quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 15:43 schreef Nintex het volgende:twitter:MaineFirstMedia twitterde op vrijdag 26-05-2017 om 15:26:13 Watch: President Trump tells G7 Media Pool "Great Win In Montana" https://t.co/fz9Fh7jiN9 reageer retweet
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Voor wat hoort wat? Trump heeft in het verleden verklaard dat de VS de Baltische staten enkel zou verdedigen als die meer geld uitgaven aan hun defensie. Maw, Trump ziet artikel 5, wat de basis is van de NAVO, en een verplichting is waar alle lidstaten aan moeten voldoen, als iets dat de VS kan negeren. Terwijl de VS als enige het artikel ooit hebben ingeroepen...quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 07:12 schreef Ringo het volgende:
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Nou ja, schofferen. Trump is recht voor zijn raap, bot en diplomatiek bepaald onhandig. Maar ik geloof dat ieder NAVO-land hier toch wel begrijpt wat Mr President bedoelt, hij heeft namelijk gewoon gelijk.
Er zijn maar 5 landen die zich aan de NAVO-norm van 2% houden: de Verenigde Staten, Groot-Brittanië, Estland, Polen en Griekenland.
Dat zijn dus óf landen aan de rand van Europa, met een verhoogd extern dreigingsrisico (de laatste 3) óf landen die het bij internationale conflicten van oudsher voor Europa mogen opknappen (de eerste 2).
Europa lijdt nog steeds aan het gebrokengeweertjessyndroom. Pacifistje spelen voor de bühne maar wel dik doen met het NAVO-bondgenootschap. Ik kan me voorstellen dat Trump daar korte metten mee maakt. Voor wat hoort wat, hé.
Ik dacht dat Betsy juist zo LGBT-vriendelijk was?quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 15:39 schreef Re het volgende:
http://www.slate.com/blog(...)to_discriminate.html
Betsy houdt niet van zwarten en trans/homoseksuelen
[BNW komt naar je [POL] toe deze zomer]quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 16:02 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Precies, die wezenloze gezichtsuitdrukking maakt het erg raar.
FDJ-Sekretärin für Agitation und Propaganda...quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 14:34 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
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Je kan van Merkel veel vinden, maar ze is hoog intelligent (doctor in de Theoretische Scheikunde) en is naast haar studie politiek getraint in de FDJ.
quote:This week’s bombing in Manchester, England, was another gruesome reminder that the threat from radical Islamist terrorism is ongoing. And President Trump’s journey to the Middle East illustrated yet again how the country central to the spread of this terrorism, Saudi Arabia, has managed to evade and deflect any responsibility for it. In fact, Trump has given Saudi Arabia a free pass and a free hand in the region.
The facts are well-known. For five decades, Saudi Arabia has spread its narrow, puritanical and intolerant version of Islam — originally practiced almost nowhere else — across the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden was Saudi, as were 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists.
And we know, via a leaked email from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in recent years the Saudi government, along with Qatar, has been “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to [the Islamic State] and other radical Sunni groups in the region.” Saudi nationals make up the second-largest group of foreign fighters in the Islamic State and, by some accounts, the largest in the terrorist group’s Iraqi operations. The kingdom is in a tacit alliance with al-Qaeda in Yemen.
The Islamic State draws its beliefs from Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi version of Islam. As the former imam of the kingdom’s Grand Mosque said last year, the Islamic State “exploited our own principles, that can be found in our books. . . . We follow the same thought but apply it in a refined way.” Until the Islamic State could write its own textbooks for its schools, it adopted the Saudi curriculum as its own.
Saudi money is now transforming European Islam. Leaked German intelligence reports show that charities “closely connected with government offices” of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait are funding mosques, schools and imams to disseminate a fundamentalist, intolerant version of Islam throughout Germany.
In Kosovo, the New York Times’ Carlotta Gall describes the process by which a 500-year-old tradition of moderate Islam is being destroyed. “From their bases, the Saudi-trained imams propagated Wahhabism’s tenets: the supremacy of Shariah law as well as ideas of violent jihad and takfirism, which authorizes the killing of Muslims considered heretics for not following its interpretation of Islam. . . . Charitable assistance often had conditions attached. Families were given monthly stipends on the condition that they attended sermons in the mosque and that women and girls wore the veil.”
Saudi Arabia’s government has begun to slow many of its most egregious practices. It is now being run, de facto, by a young, intelligent reformer, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who appears to be refreshingly pragmatic, in the style of Dubai’s visionary leader, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. But so far the Saudi reforms have mostly translated into better economic policy for the kingdom, not a break with its powerful religious establishment.
Trump’s speech on Islam was nuanced and showed empathy for the Muslim victims of jihadist terrorism (who make up as much as 95 percent of the total, by one estimate). He seemed to zero in on the problem when he said, “No discussion of stamping out this threat would be complete without mentioning the government that gives terrorists . . . safe harbor, financial backing and the social standing needed for recruitment.”
But Trump was talking not of his host, Saudi Arabia, but rather of Iran. Now, to be clear, Iran is a destabilizing force in the Middle East and supports some very bad actors. But it is wildly inaccurate to describe it as the source of jihadist terror. According to an analysis of the Global Terrorism Database by Leif Wenar of King’s College London, more than 94 percent of deaths caused by Islamic terrorism since 2001 were perpetrated by the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other Sunni jihadists. Iran is fighting those groups, not fueling them. Almost every terrorist attack in the West has had some connection to Saudi Arabia. Virtually none has been linked to Iran.
Trump has adopted the Saudi line on terrorism, which deflects any blame from the kingdom and redirects it toward Iran. The Saudis showered Trump’s inexperienced negotiators with attention, arms deals and donations to a World Bank fund that Ivanka Trump is championing. (Candidate Trump wrote in a Facebook post in 2016, “Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays. Hillary must return all money from such countries!”) In short, the Saudis played Trump. (Jamie Tarabay makes the same point.)
The United States has now signed up for Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy — a relentless series of battles against Shiites and their allies throughout the Middle East. That will enmesh Washington in a never-ending sectarian struggle, fuel regional instability and complicate its ties with countries such as Iraq that want good relations with both sides. But most important, it will do nothing to address the direct and ongoing threat to Americans — jihadist terrorism. I thought that Trump’s foreign policy was going to put America first, not Saudi Arabia.
quote:It's Time to Get Rid of Donald Trump
Donald Trump has transformed the United States into a laughing stock and he is a danger to the world. He must be removed from the White House before things get even worse.
A DER SPIEGEL Editorial by Klaus Brinkbäumer
Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it. He doesn't read. He doesn't bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities. His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees.
He is a man free of morals. As has been demonstrated hundreds of times, he is a liar, a racist and a cheat. I feel ashamed to use these words, as sharp and loud as they are. But if they apply to anyone, they apply to Trump. And one of the media's tasks is to continue telling things as they are: Trump has to be removed from the White House. Quickly. He is a danger to the world.
Trump is a miserable politician. He fired the FBI director simply because he could. James Comey had gotten under his skin with his investigation into Trump's confidants. Comey had also refused to swear loyalty and fealty to Trump and to abandon the investigation. He had to go.
Witnessing an American Tragedy
Trump is also a miserable boss. His people invent excuses for him and lie on his behalf because they have to, but then Trump wakes up and posts tweets that contradict what they have said. He doesn't care that his spokesman, his secretary of state and his national security adviser had just denied that the president had handed Russia (of all countries) sensitive intelligence gleaned from Israel (of all countries). Trump tweeted: Yes, yes, I did, because I can. I'm president after all.
Nothing is as it should be in this White House. Everyone working there has been compromised multiple times and now they all despise each other - and everyone except for Trump despises Trump. Because of all that, after just 120 days of the Trump administration, we are witness to an American tragedy for which there are five theoretical solutions.
The first is Trump's resignation, which won't happen. The second is that Republicans in the House and Senate support impeachment, which would be justified by the president's proven obstruction of justice, but won't happen because of the Republicans' thirst for power, which they won't willingly give up. The third possible solution is the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which would require the cabinet to declare Trump unfit to discharge the powers of the presidency. That isn't particularly likely either. Fourth: The Democrats get ready to fight and win back majorities in the House and Senate in midterm elections, which are 18 months away, before they then pursue option two, impeachment. Fifth: the international community wakes up and finds a way to circumvent the White House and free itself of its dependence on the U.S. Unlike the preceding four options, the fifth doesn't directly solve the Trump problem, but it is nevertheless necessary - and possible.
No Goals and No Strategy
Not quite two weeks ago, a number of experts and politicians focused on foreign policy met in Washington at the invitation of the Munich Security Conference. It wasn't difficult to sense the atmosphere of chaos and agony that has descended upon the city.
The U.S. elected a laughing stock to the presidency and has now made itself dependent on a joke of a man. The country is, as David Brooks wrote recently in the New York Times, dependent on a child. The Trump administration has no foreign policy because Trump has consistently promised American withdrawal while invoking America's strength. He has promised both no wars and more wars. He makes decisions according to his mood, with no strategic coherence or tactical logic. Moscow and Beijing are laughing at America. Elsewhere, people are worried.
In the Pacific, warships - American and Chinese - circle each other in close proximity. The conflict with North Korea is escalating. Who can be certain that Donald Trump won't risk nuclear war simply to save his own skin? Efforts to stop climate change are in trouble and many expect the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Agreement because Trump is wary of legally binding measures. Crises, including those in Syria and Libya, are escalating, but no longer being discussed. And who should they be discussed with? Phone calls and emails to the U.S. State Department go unanswered. Nothing is regulated, nothing is stable and thetrans-Atlantic relationship hardly exists anymore. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Norbert Röttgen fly back and forth, but Germany and the U.S. no longer understand each other. Hardly any real communication takes place, there are no joint foreign policy goals and there is no strategy.
In "Game of Thrones," the Mad King was murdered (and the child that later took his place was no better). In real life, an immature boy sits on the throne of the most important country in the world. He could, at any time, issue a catastrophic order that would immediately be carried out. That is why the parents cannot afford to take their eyes off him even for a second. They cannot succumb to exhaustion because he is so taxing. They ultimately have to send him to his room - and return power to the grownups.
Roepen ze op tot een coup in een bevriend land?quote:
Ik zie coup niet als een van de vijf opties staan. Nee dus. Dat gezegd, als dit nog twee jaar doorgaat wordt het bijna onvermijdelijk.quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 16:29 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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Trump is Democratisch gekozen door het Amerikaanse volk.
Nee, wel goed lezen he.quote:Op vrijdag 26 mei 2017 16:29 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Roepen ze op tot een coup in een bevriend land?
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