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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:31 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Vernietigen of uitroeien.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:29 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende: [..] Dat is ok natuurlijk, maar ik vraag me wel af waarom je dacht wat je dacht? Niet ver genoeg terug gelezen? Iets verkeerd geinterpreteerd?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:35 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
En Extra Waskracht, seriously...

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:34 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Vanwege zijn hijgerige sprong op het leeftijdsargument denk ik

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:36 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ik ga dat de vogende keer ook aanvoeren bij EW: owh sorry. Of ik het meen of niet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:34 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Vanwege zijn hijgerige sprong op het leeftijdsargument denk ik

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Trump Freezes Funds for Syrian Recovery, Signaling Pullback

Order to State Department to hold off on spending jibes with president’s call for an early exit

Felicia Schwartz
March 30, 2018 6:40 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump froze more than $200 million in funds for recovery efforts in Syria as his administration reassesses Washington’s broader role in the protracted conflict there.

The White House ordered the State Department to put the spending on hold, U.S. officials said, a decision in line with Mr. Trump’s declaration on Thursday that America would exit Syria and “let the other people take care of it now.”

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:38 schreef Szura het volgende:
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Het is toch bizar, werkelijk niets op de grond en in de overige Amerikaanse communicatie wijst op een dergelijke move om op te hoepelen uit Syrië.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Je loopt heel hard tegen niks aan te argumenteren.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:39 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ja hoor, Barb doet een en is schattig en jij bent omgeturnd

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:40 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik weet niet eens waar je het over hebt.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:36 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ik ga dat de vogende keer ook aanvoeren bij EW: owh sorry. Of ik het meen of niet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:38 schreef Szura het volgende:
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Het is toch bizar, werkelijk niets op de grond en in de overige Amerikaanse communicatie wijst op een dergelijke move om op te hoepelen uit Syrië.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:38 schreef Szura het volgende:
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Het is toch bizar, werkelijk niets op de grond en in de overige Amerikaanse communicatie wijst op een dergelijke move om op te hoepelen uit Syrië.

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In private, Trump has mused about Syria pullout for weeks (APNews)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s unscripted remark this week about pulling out of Syria “very soon,” while at odds with his own policy, was not a one-off: For weeks, top advisers have been fretting about an overly hasty withdrawal as the president has increasingly told them privately he wants out, U.S. officials said.

Only two months ago, Trump’s aides thought they’d persuaded him that the U.S. needed to keep its presence in Syria open-ended — not only because the Islamic State group has yet to be entirely defeated, but also because the resulting power vacuum could be filled by other extremist groups or by Iran. Trump signed off on major speech in January in which Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out the new strategy and declared “it is vital for the United States to remain engaged in Syria.”

But by mid-February, Trump was telling his top aides in meetings that as soon as victory can be declared against IS, he wanted American troops out of Syria, said the officials. Alarm bells went off at the State Department and the Pentagon, where officials have been planning for a gradual, methodical shift from a military-led operation to a diplomatic mission to start rebuilding basic infrastructure like roads and sewers in the war-wracked country.

The officials weren’t authorized to comment publicly and demanded anonymity.

In one sign that Trump is serious about reversing course and withdrawing from Syria, the White House this week put on hold some $200 million in US funding for stabilization projects in Syria, officials said. The money, to have been spent by the State Department for infrastructure projects like power, water and roads, had been announced by outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at an aid conference last month in Kuwait.

The officials said the hold, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is not necessarily permanent and will be discussed at senior-level inter-agency meetings next week.

Trump’s first public suggestion he was itching to pull out came in a news conference with visiting Australian Prime Minister Alastair Campbell on Feb. 23, when Trump said the U.S. was in Syria to “get rid of ISIS and go home.” On Thursday, in a domestic policy speech in Ohio, Trump went further.

“We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now. Very soon — very soon, we’re coming out,” Trump said.

The public declaration caught U.S. national security agencies off-guard and unsure whether Trump was formally announcing a new, unexpected change in policy. Inundated by inquiries from journalists and foreign officials, the Pentagon and State Department reached out to the White House’s National Security Council for clarification.

The White House’s ambiguous response, officials said: Trump’s words speak for themselves.

“The mission of the Department of Defense to defeat ISIS has not changed,” said Maj. Adrian Rankine-Galloway, a Pentagon spokesman.

Still, without a clear directive from the president, planning has not started for a withdrawal from Syria, officials said, and Trump has not advocated a specific timetable.

For Trump, who campaigned on an “America First” mantra, Syria is just the latest foreign arena where his impulse has been to limit the U.S. role. Like with NATO and the United Nations, Trump has called for other governments to step up and share more of the burden so that Washington doesn’t foot the bill. His administration has been crisscrossing the globe seeking financial commitments from other countries to fund reconstruction in both Syria and Iraq, but with only limited success.

Yet it’s unclear how Trump’s impulse to pull out could be affected by recent staff shake-ups on his national security team. Tillerson and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, both advocates for keeping a U.S. presence in Syria, were recently fired, creating questions about the longevity of the plan Tillerson announced in his Stanford University speech in January. But Trump also replaced McMaster with John Bolton, a vocal advocate for U.S. intervention and aggressive use of the military overseas.

The abrupt change in the president’s thinking has drawn concern both inside and outside the United States.

Other nations that make up the U.S.-led coalition fighting IS fear that Trump’s impulse to pull out hastily would allow the notoriously resourceful IS militants to regroup, several European diplomats said. That concern has been heightened by the fact that U.S.-backed ground operations against remaining IS militants in Syria were put on hold earlier this month.

The ground operations had to be paused because Kurdish fighters who had been spearheading the campaign against IS shifted to a separate fight with Turkish forces, who began combat operations in the town of Afrin against Kurds who are considered by Ankara to be terrorists that threaten Turkey’s security.

“This is a serious and growing concern,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said this month.

Beyond just defeating IS, there are other strategic U.S. objectives that could be jeopardized by a hasty withdrawal, officials said, chiefly those related to Russia and Iran.

Israel, America’s closest Mideast ally, and other regional nations like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are deeply concerned about the influence of Iran and its allies, including the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, inside Syria. The U.S. military presence in Syria has been seen as a buffer against unchecked Iranian activity, and especially against Tehran’s desire to establish a contiguous land route from Iran to the Mediterranean coast in Lebanon.

An American withdrawal would also likely cede Syria to Russia, which along with Iran has been propping up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and would surely fill the void left behind by the U.S. That prospect has alarmed countries like France, which has historic ties to the Levant.

In calling for a withdrawal “very soon,” Trump may be overly optimistic in his assessment of how quickly the anti-IS campaign can be wrapped up, the officials said. Although the group has been driven from basically all of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and 95 percent of its former territory in Syria, the remaining five percent is becoming increasingly difficult to clear and could take many months, the officials said.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:41 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Nu ja, ik vind het een complete non discussie. In iedere staat en ook op federaal niveau kan men gewoon gun control invoeren. Zolang het geen totaalverbod is kan men gewoon ieder soort vuurwapen verbieden. Dat is al vaker gebeurd dus waarom nu niet? Volautomatische wapens zijn verboden. Dus waarom bump stocks en assault rifles niet?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:38 schreef Szura het volgende:
Crosspostje:

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Het is toch bizar, werkelijk niets op de grond en in de overige Amerikaanse communicatie wijst op een dergelijke move om op te hoepelen uit Syrië.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:45 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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#MAGA dus. Een belofte waargemaakt, met als resultaat dat Putin meer invloed krijgt in de regio.

Wat.

Een.

Idioot.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:43 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Wij zijn het niet oneens Barb

Maar volgens mij was je sarcastisch en volgens hem niet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:45 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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#MAGA dus. Een belofte waargemaakt, met als resultaat dat Putin meer invloed krijgt in de regio.

Wat.

Een.

Idioot.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:46 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Hij kan het ook echt nooit goed doen

Als hij in Syrië blijft is hij een war hawk gaat hij weg dan geeft hij Syrië cadeau aan Putin en Iran

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:45 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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#MAGA dus. Een belofte waargemaakt, met als resultaat dat Putin meer invloed krijgt in de regio.

Wat.

Een.

Idioot.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:47 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Dit overkomt mij vaker

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:48 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Oprotten uit Syrië zou z’n beste beslissing tot nu toe zijn.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:47 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Mbt Syrie zie ik -wrsch als enige - meer heil in een VS die zich er niet meer mee bemoeit. Idem voor EU-landen. Heb me er jaren geleden in verdiept, en die concusie staat wat mij betreft nog steeds.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:48 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Erm, nee. Ga je m'n vorige vragen nog beantwoorden?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:42 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Is een variant op dit AP artikel denk ik?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:51 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Waarom zou ik jouw domme straw man gaan beantwoorden? Waar heb ik geclaimd dat je zomaar een RPG of tank kunt krijgen? Dat heb ik niet geclaimd dus dat is een straw man.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:49 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Hoera, een medestander

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:53 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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For six fucking ways from fucking Sunday, you're so so fucking dumb. Just leave, you're lowering the iq of all of us.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:50 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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15 jaar geleden zou ik het met je eens zijn geweest. Helaas zijn we nu aan de donkere kant van de maan beland en moeten we het uitzitten vrees ik.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:52 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Dat zou weleens kunnen. Wat een crap staat daar richting het einde ook weer in . Amerikaanse tering frames die klakkeloos worden neergepend door onwetende Pentagon-volgers.

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An American withdrawal would also likely cede Syria to Russia, which along with Iran has been propping up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and would surely fill the void left behind by the U.S. That prospect has alarmed countries like France, which has historic ties to the Levant.

In calling for a withdrawal “very soon,” Trump may be overly optimistic in his assessment of how quickly the anti-IS campaign can be wrapped up, the officials said. Although the group has been driven from basically all of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and 95 percent of its former territory in Syria, the remaining five percent is becoming increasingly difficult to clear and could take many months, the officials said.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:54 schreef Szura het volgende:

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In het Syriëtopic vind je er nog veel meer ,

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik lees daar mss overheen?

De laatste 2 alinea's lijken me feitelijk gewoon juist, hoewel het wel geschreven is vanuit het perspectief van de VS:

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:54 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ga je er nog op in of ga je dom zitten lullen omdat je weet dat je domme straw man niet beantwoord gaat worden? Waar heb ik geclaimd dat je zomaar een RPG kon kopen?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:59 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Als jij niet op mijn vragen ingaat ga ik niet het fatsoen hebben om op jouw vragen in te gaan.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:55 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ok, niet het Syrie-topic, maar ff snel waarom ik dit vind: Assad is m.i. de minste vd kwaden, land was ondanks alles vrij progressief: hoofddoek niet verplicht, alcohol verkrijgbaar, moderne gezondheidszorg, veilig voor niet-moslims etc.
Niet dat Assad een fijne man is, maar m.i. wel de minst kwade vd alternatieven die reeele opties zijn..

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik lees daar mss overheen?

De laatste 2 alinea's lijken me feitelijk gewoon juist, hoewel het wel geschreven is vanuit het perspectief van de VS:

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Other nations that make up the U.S.-led coalition fighting IS fear that Trump’s impulse to pull out hastily would allow the notoriously resourceful IS militants to regroup, several European diplomats said. That concern has been heightened by the fact that U.S.-backed ground operations against remaining IS militants in Syria were put on hold earlier this month.

The ground operations had to be paused because Kurdish fighters who had been spearheading the campaign against IS shifted to a separate fight with Turkish forces, who began combat operations in the town of Afrin against Kurds who are considered by Ankara to be terrorists that threaten Turkey’s security.

“This is a serious and growing concern,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said this month.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:01 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Kerel wat snap jij niet aan een straw man? Oké dit begint nu echt idioot te worden.

1. Toon aan waar ik heb gezegd dat Joe de plumber zomaar een tank of rpg kan kopen?
2. Gaat je niet lukken want dat zei ik niet

Ga je daar nou nog op in of ga je het dodgen?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:05 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Je zei dat men een RPG of tank kon kopen. Waarop ik vroeg: hoe dan? Welke licenties en/of beperkingen? Welke je nu nog steeds ontwijkt.

Jij bent 15 of zo? Kom man, neem wat verantwoordelijkheid voor je eigen quotes.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:07 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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RPG's zijn niet verboden mits je de juiste vergunning hebt. Je mag zelfs een tank bezitten.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:06 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ik zei toch met de juiste vergunningen? Wtf zit jij te lullen dan.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:02 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Is een heel begrijpelijk punt. Ik ben alleen van mening: operation desert storm 2; the damage is done, so clean it up.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:58 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Je hebt je niet verdiept in dat conflict he?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:03 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:06 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:09 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Dat snapik op zich ook wel, maar ik zie juist nog radicaleen dan Assad diensplek opeisen dan. En dan wirdt het een epressuef moslimland. Wens ik niemand toe, en zeker niet de Syriers die al een bak elende over zich heen gehad hebben. Die moetenhun vrij liberale land terug (A, ik weet wat het Assad-regime deed. Dan nog)
Maar ok, off topic hier.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:08 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Laat eens zien dan, die vergunningen? Gaat de vergelijking met een AR-15 op qua verkrijgbaarheid?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:10 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Je komt echt heel pedant op me over. Inhoudelijk heb je vooralsnog niet veel aan de discussie toegevoegd, anders dan signaleren wat het juiste standpunt zou moeten zijn.

De reactie van Szura vind ik wel tof, daar kan ik wat mee. Om jouw vraag te beantwoorden: Nee, hoewel ik waarschijnlijk meer weet dan de gemiddelde persoon.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:12 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Is dat de claim? Nee. Straw man dus. Als je weet dat je iets fout zegt zeg het dan meteen ipv doen alsof je maar gelijk hebt.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:11 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Dat wens ik ook, maar ik vrees dat niet meer gaat lukken in hun eentje. Niet meer na 6 jaar oorlog. De VS kan zich niet meer zomaar terugtrekken nu, dan wordt het alleen maar erger.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:11 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Dat wens ik ook, maar ik vrees dat niet meer gaat lukken in hun eentje. Niet meer na 6 jaar oorlog. De VS kan zich niet meer zomaar terugtrekken nu, dan wordt het alleen maar erger.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:13 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Dat was dus jouw verdediging voor het 2nd amendment. Nou, bravo hoor.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:18 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Wat erger, het oorlogsgeweld? Je moet de feestelijkheden in Aleppo eens zien op dagen als deze (of met kerst ofzo): minderheden die de straat op kunnen om feest te vieren zonder te vrezen voor rondvliegende raketten en andere wapens die onder meer aan Al Qaeda-achtige clubs zijn geleverd door Golfstaten, de CIA, Turkije en weet ik het wat meer.

Let wel, ik heb het hier over oorlogsgeweld. Over de misdaden van het veiligheidssysteem van de Syrische overheid kun je weer een heel ander boek schrijven. De weg die gekozen is om dat regime te verwijderen is echter een heilloze gebleken, het maakt de landen die erachter zitten (oa dus de VS) net zo medeplichtig aan al het Syrische bloed dat is vergoten als de Syrische dictator en zijn bondgenoten die ze alles in de schoenen willen schuiven.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:03 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Ik doel met name op dit stuk

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Als die Pentagon-cheerleaders hun werk zouden doen en zich eens even in de kaartjes/bewegende frontlinies zouden verdiepen, kwamen ze erachter dat het oostelijke front van de SDF en de VS - ISIS al veel langer stilligt dan de start van de Turkse operatie in Afrin. Ze doen alsof het vertrek van Koerdische strijders vanuit Oost-Syrië naar Afrin ervoor zorgde dat de strijd tegen ISIS stilligt maar dat front is al veel langer bevroren.

Hell, die Amerikaanse ratten hebben duizenden ISIS-strijders uit Raqqa laten vertrekken naar die grensregio waarvandaan ze nu aanvallen blijven uitvoeren op Syrische troepen en hun bondgenoten. En die kunnen weinig doen omdat ze onder vuur worden genomen door Amerikanen als ze ook maar een voet over de Eufraat zetten . Dit is hoe het werkelijk zit: de Amerikaanse sneaks gebruiken de aanwezigheid van resterende ISIS-terroristen alleen maar om Assad/Iran/Rusland dwars te zitten en over de rug van de Koerden blijvend Syrische olievelden te koloniseren. Waarom? Minder inkomsten voor de Syrische staat en lekker Iran frustreren. Als die Amerikanen willen bombarderen ze die ISIS-lui binnen een paar weken aan gort.

Daarom ben ik zo sceptisch over die uitspraken van Trump, op de grond wijst helemaal NIKS erop dat de Amerikanen gaan vertrekken.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:21 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ik ben hier net ook op ingegaan, maar dat moeten we niet meer doen. Is off topic hier..

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:23 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Ja klopt wel. We gaan wel zien of Trump een keer ‘the money put where his mouth is’ want dit riep ie ook al in z’n campagne en desondanks besloot ie Tomahawks af te vuren op een Syrische luchtmachtbasis. Ik blijf sceptisch totdat het Amerikaanse materieel de grens naar Jordanië of Irak over rijdt.

twitter:

OrenDorell twitterde op vrijdag 30-03-2018 om 18:56:18 I asked @StateDept about this, and it's true. Trump's expulsion this week of 60 Russian diplomats does not require the Russia to reduce its staffing levels in the U.S. and vice versa. https://t.co/gQ22BeChH8 reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:35 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Nou vigen, omdat je je zo profieert. Voor NL-begrippen extreem conservatief.

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A federal court in Washington told the Trump administration Friday the government can't interfere with the ability of pregnant teens in the country illegally and being held in federal custody to obtain abortions.

The court issued an order Friday evening barring the government from "interfering with or obstructing" pregnant immigrant children in federal custody from accessing abortion counseling or abortions, among other things, while a lawsuit proceeds.

Lawyers for the Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for sheltering children who illegally enter the country unaccompanied by a parent, had said the department has a policy of "refusing to facilitate" abortions.

The American Civil Liberties Union brought a lawsuit, which U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan also Friday allowed to go forward as a class-action lawsuit.

We have been able to secure justice for these young pregnant women in government custody who will no longer be subject to the government's policy of coercion and obstruction while the case continues," said ACLU attorney Brigitte Amiri after the judge's order became public.

The government can appeal the judge's order. A Department of Justice spokesman didn't immediately respond to an emailed request for comment Friday evening.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Nog eentje die meldt dat de uitzetting van de Russen een wassen neus is

twitter:

OrenDorell twitterde op vrijdag 30-03-2018 om 18:56:18 I asked @StateDept about this, and it's true. Trump's expulsion this week of 60 Russian diplomats does not require the Russia to reduce its staffing levels in the U.S. and vice versa. https://t.co/gQ22BeChH8 reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 02:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Nog eentje die meldt dat de uitzetting van de Russen een wassen neus is

twitter:

OrenDorell twitterde op vrijdag 30-03-2018 om 18:56:18 I asked @StateDept about this, and it's true. Trump's expulsion this week of 60 Russian diplomats does not require the Russia to reduce its staffing levels in the U.S. and vice versa. https://t.co/gQ22BeChH8 reageer retweet

twitter:

dennisrodman twitterde op vrijdag 30-03-2018 om 16:07:36 Hoping for this after my two friends and leaders meet next month.#Peace #Love #NotWar #Diplomacy https://t.co/NEZijYzoLi reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 11:29 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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dennisrodman twitterde op vrijdag 30-03-2018 om 16:07:36 Hoping for this after my two friends and leaders meet next month.#Peace #Love #NotWar #Diplomacy https://t.co/NEZijYzoLi reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 11:33 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 11:39 schreef Falco het volgende:
Geef die Dennis Rodman de nobelprijs

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 11:38 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Dennis Rodman is een vriend van Kim Jung On
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en Donald Trump
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En hij hoopt dat zijn twee vrienden het ook goed met elkaar kunnen vinden en Kim een MAGA petje gaat dragen.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 11:40 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Dennis, Trump en Kim de nobelprijs voor de vrede na de denuclearization van het Koreaanse schiereiland.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 11:43 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Absoluut! Die kans is alleen ongeveer net zo groot als dat president 'spanky' Trump 8 jaar president blijft.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 11:45 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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99% zeker dus. got it.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 11:40 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Dennis, Trump en Kim de nobelprijs voor de vrede na de denuclearization van het Koreaanse schiereiland.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 12:39 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Volgens MSNBC staat Christopher Steele, van het Steele Dossier, op een hitlist van de Russen: https://www.msnbc.com/har(...)steele-1199128643505

Voor een 'nep' dossier zijn een hoop mensen aardig over de zeik vanwege het Steele dossier. Tot nu toe is er nog nauwelijks iets van ontkracht, het tegendeel eerder. Begin er steeds meer van overtuigd te raken dat er ergens een pee tape rondzwerft.

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Nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States — an estimated 14.7 million people a year — will be asked to submit their social media user names for the past five years, under proposed rules that the State Department issued on Friday.

Last September, the Trump administration announced that applicants for immigrant visas would be asked for social media data, a plan that would affect 710,000 people or so a year. The new proposal would vastly expand that order to cover some 14 million people each year who apply for nonimmigrant visas.

The proposal covers 20 social media platforms. Most of them are based in the United States: Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Myspace, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, Vine and YouTube. But several are based overseas: the Chinese sites Douban, QQ, Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo and Youku; the Russian social network VK; Twoo, which was created in Belgium; and Ask.fm, a question-and-answer platform based in Latvia.

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During his campaign, President Trump promised “extreme vetting” of people seeking to enter the United States, and last March the State Department directed consular officers worldwide to step up scrutiny of visa applicants.

But the new proposal would add a tangible new requirement for millions of people who apply to visit the United States for business or pleasure, including citizens of such countries as Brazil, China, India and Mexico.

Citizens of roughly 40 countries to which the United States ordinarily grants visa-free travel will not be affected by the requirement. Those countries include major allies like Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and South Korea.

In addition, visitors traveling on diplomatic and official visas will mostly be exempted.

As news of the plan emerged on Friday, so did criticism.

“This attempt to collect a massive amount of information on the social media activity of millions of visa applicants is yet another ineffective and deeply problematic Trump administration plan,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “It will infringe on the rights of immigrants and U.S. citizens by chilling freedom of speech and association, particularly because people will now have to wonder if what they say online will be misconstrued or misunderstood by a government official.”

Anil Kalhan, an associate professor of law at Drexel University who works on immigration and international human rights, wrote on Twitter, “This is unnecessarily intrusive and beyond ridiculous.”

Facebook said its position had not changed since last year, when it said: “We oppose any efforts to force travelers at the border to turn over their private account information, including passwords.”

Along with the social media information, visa applicants will be asked for past passport numbers, phone numbers and email addresses; for records of international travel; whether they have been deported or removed, or violated immigration law, in the past; and whether relatives have been involved in terrorist activities.

“Maintaining robust screening standards for visa applicants is a dynamic practice that must adapt to emerging threats,” the State Department said in a statement. “We already request limited contact information, travel history, family member information, and previous addresses from all visa applicants. Collecting this additional information from visa applicants will strengthen our process for vetting these applicants and confirming their identity.”

Millions of people each year complete the online application for a nonimmigrant visa, known as the DS-160. It takes about 90 minutes to fill out, according to the department.

The San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attack in 2015, which killed 14 people, focused attention on immigrants’ social-media use, after officials acknowledged that they had missed signs of online radicalization in an online-messaging platform used by the husband and wife who carried out the attack.

Last year, John F. Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security and is now Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, told members of Congress that his department was considering asking visitors for passwords and access to online accounts.

“We want to get on their social media, with passwords,” Mr. Kelly told members of the House Homeland Security Committee. “If they don’t want to cooperate, then you don’t come in.”

So far, the government has stopped short of demanding passwords, though travelers have reported being asked for them, on a sporadic basis, at airports and other ports of entry. By some measures, the number of international visitors to the United States has begun to slip, although foreign tourism to New York City set a record last year.

The new State Department requirements will not take effect immediately. The proposal set off a 60-day period for public comment, which ends on May 29.

On Sina Weibo, one of China’s largest social media platforms, several users were critical of the plan.

“Does it mean someone’s visa application will likely be rejected if he/she has been critical of the U.S.?” one wrote. “What about your sacred ‘freedom of speech?’”

Another user wrote: “We Chinese have learned well enough the lessons to be drawn from isolation. Now it’s America’s turn.”

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"We want to get on their social media, with passwords," Mr. Kelly told members of the House Homeland Security Committee. "If they don't want to cooperate, then you don't come in."

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 13:12 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Zo, kom maar op met je Fok!- Twitter- en Facebookwachtwoorden!

14 Million Visitors to U.S. Face Social Media Screening (NYTimes)

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 13:15 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Vraag me af wat de effecten daarvan zullen zijn voor toerisme en zakenreizen ... kan me niet voorstellen dat het heel positief is.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 14:55 schreef nostra het volgende:
Wat heeft die Bezos ooit geflikt bij Trump dat die man zo ongelooflijk berzerk gaat?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Wat ook wel zal meespelen is dat Bezos eigenaar is van The Washington Post en die liggen niet aan de leiband van Trump.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 14:53 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Maar dan heb je een geheime dienst tot je beschikking die met ultrahi-tech middelen achterlangs van iedere wereldburger de boodschappenlijstjes kan lezen en dan zadel je de immigratiedienst op met een bureaucratie van 14 miljoen maal weetikhoeveel nutteloze wachtwoorden, alsof het fokking 1998 is. Welkom01 in Amerika.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:16 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

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Denk niet dat dit “meespeelt. “

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-06-2017 om 15:06:14 The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 25-07-2017 om 04:36:17 Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly? reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:21 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoe bedoel je dit? Kan op meerdere manieren gelezen worden...

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:26 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

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Dat het niet meespeelt, maar dat het juist daarom draait. De WP is een uitstekende krant. Een kwaliteitsstandaard in de VS op het gebied van politieke journalistiek en zeer kritisch naar trump

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Behind the president's thinking: Trump's wealthy friends tell him Amazon is destroying their businesses. His real estate buddies tell him — and he agrees — that Amazon is killing shopping malls and brick-and-mortar retailers.

• Trump tells people Amazon has gotten a free ride from taxpayers and cushy treatment from the U.S. Postal Service.
• “The whole post office thing, that's very much a perception he has,” another source said. “It's been explained to him in multiple meetings that his perception is inaccurate and that the post office actually makes a ton of money from Amazon."
• Axios' Ina Fried notes: The post office actually added delivery on Sunday in some cities because Amazon made it worthwhile.
• Trump also pays close attention to the Amazon founder's ownership of The Washington Post, which the president views as Bezos’ political weapon.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ah ja, kan goed zo zijn. Dit artikeltje geeft nog een andere reden: dat zou zijn dat dankzij Amazon retailers en real estate bedrijven geld verliezen:

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Maar om deze reden had hij bv. ook achter Walmart aan kunnen gaan, wat hij niet doet.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Wat ook wel zal meespelen is dat Bezos eigenaar is van The Washington Post en die liggen niet aan de leiband van Trump.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:18 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Ik zie nergens staan dat het om wachtwoorden zou gaan.

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"We want to get on their social media, with passwords," Mr. Kelly told members of the House Homeland Security Committee.

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Be clear: We will NEVER accept any settlement, regardless of the amount of money, that does not include Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump coming 100% (meaning 100%) clean with the American people. People that say this is about money haven’t been paying attention.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:37 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:41 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ah, ik zag het in het NYT stuk zo snel niet staan.
Het is in mijn ogen vooral een zoveelste barrière tegen migratie.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 16:55 schreef BlackLining het volgende:
Sowieso was de Amerikaanse douane altijd al geen pretje Ik heb me nog nooit zo crimineel gevoeld als daar, man man man.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 17:06 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Laura Ingraham heeft een weekje vrij gekregen van Fox. Het is ijdele hoop, maar het zou toch mooi zijn als de Hannity's van deze wereld dit als een waarschuwing zien.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 16:55 schreef BlackLining het volgende:
Sowieso was de Amerikaanse douane altijd al geen pretje Ik heb me nog nooit zo crimineel gevoeld als daar, man man man.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Wat ook wel zal meespelen is dat Bezos eigenaar is van The Washington Post en die liggen niet aan de leiband van Trump.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 18:16 schreef Szura het volgende:
@Extra Waskracht
Hier heb je nou zo’n klootzak die ik gisteren bedoelde met Pentagon-cheerleaders, al is het dan een columnist en geen nieuwsjournalist.

https://www.washingtonpos(...)-to-give-it-to-iran/

Echt zo’n lul die blind de Pentagon-frames volgt en als het moet de wardrums bespeelt zoals warmongers McCain en Graham in het congres. En zie hier, hij volgt ook precies de motieven die ik gisteren al aanhaalde: olie jatten uit Syrië en Iran dwarszitten.

Bah wat kots ik op die kliek in Washington van Congresleden, denktanks en hersenloze medeplichtige ‘journalisten’ die in de Amerikaanse oorlogszucht voorzien en daarmee andere landen verneuken .

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 18:16 schreef Szura het volgende:
@Extra Waskracht
Hier heb je nou zo’n klootzak die ik gisteren bedoelde met Pentagon-cheerleaders, al is het dan een columnist en geen nieuwsjournalist.

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The oil belongs to Syria, not the US or Iran. Both US and Iran have an abundant of oil reserves. Neither want Syria's oil. Rogin has been advised by his AIPAC friends to write a column in justifying the US going to war with Russia in Syria. Mind you, only the Saudis and Israelis want America boys and girls to fight and die in Syria.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 19:07 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat is wel erg kort door de bocht. Syrië is een aardig zooitje met vele strijdende partijen. Turkije, Iran, Assad, Rusland, de Koerden, IS en de VS zitten er allemaal.
De vraag is wat een vertrek van de VS op gaat leveren. Turkije zou veel agressiever de positie van de Koerden kunnen gaan mijden, Assad en de Russen zouden hun aanvallen veel rücksichtsloser kunnen uitvoeren, IS zou weer kunnen opkrabbelen al lijkt dat niet heel waarschijnlijk en ga zo maar door.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:21 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoe bedoel je dit? Kan op meerdere manieren gelezen worden...

Anyway, ter herinnering:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-06-2017 om 15:06:14 The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS! reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 25-07-2017 om 04:36:17 Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly? reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 14:45:41 While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars. The Failing N.Y. Times reports that “the size of the company’s lobbying staff has ballooned,” and that... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 14:52:59 ...does not include the Fake Washington Post, which is used as a “lobbyist” and should so REGISTER. If the P.O. “increased its parcel rates, Amazon’s shipping costs would rise by $2.6 Billion.” This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 19:51 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Als de US Post trouwens geld verliest op een brief die Trump stuurt, is dat dan ook de schuld van Trump.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 19:51 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Als de US Post trouwens geld verliest op een brief die Trump stuurt, is dat dan ook de schuld van Trump.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 19:54 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik snap de hele gedachtenkronkel niet die hij maakt. Waar heeft hij het in vredesnaam over als hij claimt dat Amazon misbruik maakt van de pakjesbezorger?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 19:54 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik snap de hele gedachtenkronkel niet die hij maakt. Waar heeft hij het in vredesnaam over als hij claimt dat Amazon misbruik maakt van de pakjesbezorger?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 20:11 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Trump mag Bezos gewoon niet. Dat is de hele reden van deze rant. En dat Trump dommer is dan het achtereind van een varken en niet begrijpt hoe de dingen werken, ook niet als ze 10 keer aan hem uitgelegd worden.

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The Pinocchio Test: Three Pinocchios

Amazon’s tax strategies have rankled the president, but you would know this only from his tweets and comments because the tax bill he signed in 2017 gives the online retailer a $789 million windfall.

Trump says Amazon pays “little or no taxes” to state and local governments, but the facts say otherwise. The online retail giant clearly leverages many tools to keep the taxman at bay. That doesn’t erase its state and local tax bills. These are larger than Trump allows.

The president says the United States loses money because Amazon relies on the Postal Service for the last leg of its package deliveries. The Postal Service reported a net loss in 2017, and it does offer Amazon cut rates. But that’s not the whole story. In fact, e-commerce deliveries are one of the post office’s few thriving lines of business.

Amazon is one of the biggest companies in the world, and its financials are fair game for critics, but Trump’s distortions don’t add up and are worthy of Three Pinocchios.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 19:54 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik snap de hele gedachtenkronkel niet die hij maakt. Waar heeft hij het in vredesnaam over als hij claimt dat Amazon misbruik maakt van de pakjesbezorger?

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:00:58 I gave an interview with Columbia Univ. researchers yesterday and said all indications are that Trump's 2019 impeachment will be (by DC standards) bipartisan. Right now we're in an investigative lull; on the other side of this are months of revelations that will rock the country. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:00:58 I gave an interview with Columbia Univ. researchers yesterday and said all indications are that Trump's 2019 impeachment will be (by DC standards) bipartisan. Right now we're in an investigative lull; on the other side of this are months of revelations that will rock the country. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:06 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Ik vind het wel echt moeilijk om Seth nog serieus te nemen. Ik vertrouw zijn feiten wel maar hij voorspelt dat alles bizar, wereldschokkend, nooit eerder gezien en/of uniek is.

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If Cohen paid off Daniels without Trump’s consent, Abrams said, “this violates New York's Rule of Professional Conduct 1.8(e) which prohibits an attorney from providing his client financial assistance in connection with contemplated litigation, with exceptions which do not apply here. If Trump did not know about the payments, it would probably violate Rule 1.2, which prohibits an attorney from settling a matter without client consent, and probably Rule 1.4, which requires the attorney to communicate with clients as reasonably necessary under the circumstances.”

“On the other hand, if Trump is the source of the money for Cohen's payments, then Cohen is lying about it, which would violate Rule 8.4, which covers dishonesty,” he added.

“Based on the information so far publicly known, there appear to be several areas of possible misconduct,” agreed James Milles, who teaches legal ethics at the University of Buffalo School of Law.

“If, as Cohen has claimed, he paid the $130,000 settlement to Ms. Daniels out of his own funds rather than transmitting the money from his client Trump, he probably violated [Rule 1.8(e)]. While it may seem like a trivial violation, attorney misconduct with respect to clients' finances is taken extremely seriously as an abuse of trust, and is one [of the] types of misconduct most likely to result in disbarment,” Milles said.

Albany Law School professor Vincent Bonventre added: “If he advanced funds on behalf of his client, Trump, or made a monetary gift to him, that is also ethical misconduct. The only exception would be for actual litigation expenses, and only if the funds were repaid. If he paid Stormy Daniels on behalf of his client — i.e., an advance or loan or gift — that would be disciplinable ethical misconduct.”

And if that’s not the case, Bonventre said Cohen could face punishment "if he lied or in any way misrepresented what he did in representing Trump or handling the Stormy Daniels matter. And it would not matter if the lies or misrepresentations were in response to an official inquiry or to the press or to anyone else. Lying, deception, misrepresentation is disciplinable ethical misconduct for lawyers no matter the context.”

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dit is wel wat vaag. Nu geeft hij in dit geval aan dat hij denkt dat Trump impeached wordt in 2019, maar heb je nog meer voorbeelden van dit type voorspellingen?

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 23-03-2018 om 19:15:05 40/ Trump knows he's toast, which is why he's preparing for two wars: a war on the rule of law here at home, and a senseless war abroad, in either North Korea or Iran. All of it is to save himself—he thinks—by delaying what at this point is inevitable: his fall from power. {end} reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 13-02-2018 om 17:07:02 2/ This is *very* serious. If Trump is knowingly telling lies about the CIA to vindicate himself in the Mueller probe, he's actively working against U.S. national security due to being under criminal investigation. This is the harm that Trump said Clinton would bring if elected. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:24 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Tja ach. He has the best talk, bigly talk with great words en zo. Nu lezen mensen zijn analyses tenminste. Als het wat minder sappig geschreven zou zijn valt hij niet op naast andere analisten.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:26 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Dat is wellicht waar. Ik lees zijn analyses alsnog graag (wellicht daarom dat het me zo opvalt ook).

Maar denken jullie echt dat Trumps val onvermijdelijk is? Het lijkt me optimistisch. We hebben geen idee hoe lang Muellers onderzoek nog gaat duren, hoe lang de juridische strijd daarna nog in beslag gaat nemen, of er (grond)wettelijke problemen zijn om Trump zijn misdaden aan te rekenen, etc. En dan moet de GOP ook nog maar mee gaan met een afzettingsprocedure waar ze tot nu toe totaal niet toe bereid lijken.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:26 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Dat is wellicht waar. Ik lees zijn analyses alsnog graag (wellicht daarom dat het me zo opvalt ook).

Maar denken jullie echt dat Trumps val onvermijdelijk is? Het lijkt me optimistisch. We hebben geen idee hoe lang Muellers onderzoek nog gaat duren, hoe lang de juridische strijd daarna nog in beslag gaat nemen, of er (grond)wettelijke problemen zijn om Trump zijn misdaden aan te rekenen, etc. En dan moet de GOP ook nog maar mee gaan met een afzettingsprocedure waar ze tot nu toe totaal niet toe bereid lijken.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het is de combi van Rusland, zijn zeer schimmige financiën -een paar Staten zijn naar de rechter gestapt- en het verder escalerende Stormy Daniels verhaal dat hem waarschijnlijk ook nog Cohen gaat kosten.

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therealroseanne twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 03:17:43 President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt-4 now. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:35 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Het ziet er slecht uit, dat zeker. Alleen tussen slecht en een onvermijdelijke ondergang zit nog wel behoorlijk wat licht. Zeker omdat het niet om jou of mij gaat, maar om de president van de VS.

Ik kan gewoon niet meer inschatten of het een realistische inschatting is of wensdenken. Al sinds hij aangetreden is roepen commentatoren dat hij af moet gaan treden maar concreet is er echt nog niets bereikt (waar wij van weten).

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 30-03-2018 om 22:20:11 According to pools reports, Trump spent 5 hours and 27 minutes today at Trump International Golf Club in FL. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:15:01 According to pool reports, Trump spent 6 hours and 52 minutes today at Trump International Golf Club in FL. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:47 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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De President van Amerika:

Gisteren:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 30-03-2018 om 22:20:11 According to pools reports, Trump spent 5 hours and 27 minutes today at Trump International Golf Club in FL. reageer retweet

En vandaag:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:15:01 According to pool reports, Trump spent 6 hours and 52 minutes today at Trump International Golf Club in FL. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:46 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Omdat het om de president gaat denk ik niet dat ze hem gaan impeachen oid ze zouden het lachertje van de hele wereld worden. Ok dat zijn ze nu ook al maar presidenten komen en gaan. Het beste zou zijn dat Mueller hem een deal doet. Aftreden wegens gezondheidsredenen en geen vervolging ofzo.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:45 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dafuq?

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It can be very difficult to separate the art from the artist. In the case of Roseanne Barr and her critically acclaimed television show based on her life, it is nearly impossible. I wasn’t going to watch the reboot because I find Ms. Barr noxious, transphobic, racist and small-minded. Whatever charm and intelligence she brought to the first nine seasons of her show, a show I very much loved, are absolutely absent in her current persona, particularly as it manifests on Twitter. She tweets conspiracy theories, rails against feminism and shares Islamophobic opinions.

Where once she was edgy and provocative, she is now absurd and offensive. Her views are muddled and incoherent. She is more invested in banal and shallow provocation than engaging with sociopolitical issues in a thoughtful manner. No amount of mental gymnastics can make what Roseanne Barr has said and done in recent years palatable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)ne-reboot-trump.html

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 22:43 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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therealroseanne twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 03:17:43 President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt-4 now. reageer retweet

En dan zeggen zijn medestanders onironisch dat zijn tegenstanders last hebben van een "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

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therealroseanne twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 07:35:40 i thought today was a good day to talk about freeing kids from sex slavery, since it is Passover. I didn't realize that so many were not aware of it. Anyway, no more opinions from me on twitter, it invites bullying. Moving on. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:53 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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For six fucking ways from fucking Sunday, you're so so fucking dumb. Just leave, you're lowering the iq of all of us.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 23:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Je zou haast denken dat het ironisch bedoeld was. Maar blijkbaar niet:

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therealroseanne twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 07:35:40 i thought today was a good day to talk about freeing kids from sex slavery, since it is Passover. I didn't realize that so many were not aware of it. Anyway, no more opinions from me on twitter, it invites bullying. Moving on. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 15:41 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Ah, ik zag het in het NYT stuk zo snel niet staan.
Het is in mijn ogen vooral een zoveelste barrière tegen migratie.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 01:00 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Maar die Rosanne show word op late night shows (anti-trump allemaal) gepushed, is dit niet gewoon een gimmick om trump minded kiezers te trekken en ze later af te serveren?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 23:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Oh, nee, het is zeer zeker niet ironisch van haar. Ze is gewoon ongemeen dom tot het punt dat je zou wensen haar door het scherm te kunnen trekken om haar toe te kunnen schreeuwen dat het Moses was en dat die geen reet met Pasen te maken heeft.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 01:21 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Wat dacht je van Pesach?

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 01:24 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Zij is niet Joods.

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Barr was born in Salt Lake City, to a working-class Jewish family. She is the oldest of four children born to Helen (née Davis), a bookkeeper and cashier, and Jerome Hershel "Jerry" Barr, who worked as a salesman.

Her father's family were Jewish emigrants from Russia, and her maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Austria-Hungary and Lithuania, respectively. Her paternal grandfather changed his surname from "Borisofsky" to "Barr" upon entering the United States.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 01:28 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Jazeker wel.
Maar maakt dat uit?
Het verhaal van Mozes' uittocht uit Egypte staat centraal tijdens Pesach.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 00:38 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Het resultaat van het opkopen van lokale tv-nieuws-kanalen door Sinclair, waar ze gesommeerd worden om propaganda uit te zenden (pro-Trump / pro-GOP):

Sinclair's script for stations

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 09:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://thehill.com/homene(...)m-a-bully-is-a-bully

Ingraham had dus echt niet moeten fucken met die scholier. Hij hangt haar haar eigen hypocrisie om haar nek en trapt haar vervolgens de plomp in.

Priceless.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 10:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het gaat op een patroon bij dat hypocriete takkewijf.

En bovendien zeik je als volwassen professional geen kinderen af op nationale TV of voor miljoenen volgers op social media. Ze dacht dat wel even te kunnen doen. Lekker makkelijk scoren.

En nu raakt ze haar baan kwijt. Mooi. Weg met dat onfatsoenlijke giftige tuig van Fox.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 10:19 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Het is Fox, dat is een voorwaarde om er te werken.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 01:00 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Maar die Rosanne show word op late night shows (anti-trump allemaal) gepushed, is dit niet gewoon een gimmick om trump minded kiezers te trekken en ze later af te serveren?

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‘Roseanne’ Reboot Part Of ABC Plan To Lure Trump Voters (NYTimes)

On the morning after the 2016 election, a group of nearly a dozen ABC executives gathered at their Burbank, Calif., headquarters to determine what Donald J. Trump’s victory meant for the network’s future.

“We looked at each other and said, ‘There’s a lot about this country we need to learn a lot more about, here on the coasts,’” Ben Sherwood, the president of Disney and ABC’s television group, said in an interview.

They began asking themselves which audiences they were not serving well and what they could do to better live up to the company name — the American Broadcasting Company. By the meeting’s end, they had in place the beginnings of a revised strategy that led the network to reboot a past hit centered on a struggling Midwestern family, a show that had a chance to appeal to the voters who had helped put Mr. Trump in the White House.

On Tuesday night, the strategy proved more successful than the executives had hoped: “Roseanne” premiered to the highest ratings for any network sitcom in almost four years.

meer hier: POL / [AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #483 Pardon me....

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Turns out Donald Trump’s timing was off for his vicious dig at California Gov. Jerry Brown for pardoning five immigrants who were facing possible deportation.

Trump, relying again on name-calling, lashed Democrat “Moonbeam” Brown Saturday for pardoning immigrants who had been convicted of crimes — even though they finished serving their sentences years ago.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 14:53:01 Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want? reageer retweet

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But the president slammed the pardons the day after he proclaimed April “second chance month” — which Brown’s press office was only too happy to point out. The California tweet clapped back with the president’s own words, highlighted on the White House web site. The president celebrated “those who have exited the prison system and successfully reentered society ... we encourage expanded opportunities for those who have worked to overcome bad decisions ... and emphasize our belief in second chances.” Trump could have been describing the pardoned Californians.

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GovPressOffice twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:15:01 “This month, we celebrate those who have exited the prison system & successfully reentered society. We encourage expanded opportunities...& emphasize our belief in second chances for all who...turn their lives around.” reageer retweet

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Brown granted 56 pardons and reduced 14 sentences on Good Friday and Passover. All of those granted pardons served their sentences “years ago,” and “earned” their pardons, said a statement from Brown’s office. Each of the five immigrants lived “law-abiding” lives after serving their time, and were assets to their communities and families, according to information from Brown’s office. Two of the immigrants came to America as child refugees. The pardons won’t necessarily save the men from deportation, but they may help.

The Trump slam was the latest in an increasingly heated feud between the White House and pollution-battling, immigrant-protecting California. Trump likely slammed California in his latest tweet because Brown was attacked for the pardons early Saturday on “Fox and Friends.”

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 23:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Oh, nee, het is zeer zeker niet ironisch van haar. Ze is gewoon ongemeen dom tot het punt dat je zou wensen haar door het scherm te kunnen trekken om haar toe te kunnen schreeuwen dat het Moses was en dat die geen reet met Pasen te maken heeft.

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BelPatty twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 00:17:07 @therealroseanne From the man who supported Roy Moore? Nice try. reageer retweet

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The Trump White House’s Intern Program Is Once Again Very, Very White

The White House is yet again facing fierce criticism over the lack of diversity of the participants in its intern program. A photograph released Friday shows President Donald Trump posing with the spring intake, who are overwhelmingly white.

“The White House intern photo is like a Where’s Waldo for a non-white person — in a country that is about 40% non-white,” tweeted political scientist and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas. “Diversity this ain’t,” added France 24 correspondent Philip Crowther.

Other tweeters shared similarly biting comments:

"America: •38% People of Color •31% White Women •31% White Men
White House Interns: •2% POC •25% WW •73% WM
This's what "#MAGA" looks like"

"The Trump White House interns could be the whitest group I’ve ever encountered.
And I’m including the Nantucket Yacht Club."

"The Spring 2018 White House Interns! I see a theme here!"

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RESCUING BORIS

THE SECRET STORY OF HOW FOUR U.S. ADVISERS USED POLLS, FOCUS GROUPS, NEGATIVE ADS AND ALL THE OTHER TECHNIQUES OF AMERICAN CAMPAIGNING TO HELP BORIS YELTSIN WIN

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In a little-known quirk of post-cold war history, the 1996 re-election campaign of Putin’s mentor, Boris Yeltsin, was secretly managed by three American political consultants who on more than one occasion allegedly received direct assistance from Bill Clinton’s White House.

There’s even a movie about it.

The 2003 comedy film Spinning Boris dramatises the true story of three American consultants who were hired to manage Yeltsin’s 1996 re-election campaign. The film stars Liev Schreiber as Joe Shumate, a Republican data analysis expert, Jeff Goldblum as George Gorton (who later became the campaign manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger), and Anthony LaPaglia as Richard “Dick” Dresner, a highly skilled political consultant who in the early 1980s helped elect Bill Clinton governor of Arkansas.

Dresner was a close associate of Dick Morris, a top political advisor in the Clinton White House who in 1996 was in the midst of managing Clinton’s own re-election campaign.

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'Dialogue of the deaf'? Iran deal talks persist as Trump looks poised to kill it

None of Trump’s serial deadlines is likely to be more consequential than the one looming on 12 May. That is the day on which he must sign a presidential waiver on sanctions on Iran, or violate a landmark multilateral agreement on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme signed in 2015 with European allies, the UK, France and Germany, Russia, China and Iran itself. Trump has threatened to keep his signing pen in his pocket.

The dramatic tension over what he will decide is fast diminishing. The greatest uncertainty now is over how rapidly it will be followed by a slide towards a new conflict in the Middle East.

Trump has repeatedly stated his hostility towards the nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), made impossible demands for the deal to be changed, and named hawks to two top positions in the past month – Mike Pompeo for secretary of state and John Bolton for national security adviser. Both have devoted much of their careers to vilifying the agreement.

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“I think the Bolton appointment is another nail of the coffin of the Iran Deal,” said Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association.

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“We have given up hoping. He wants to tick the JCPOA off, another thing he said he would do in the campaign, that he did,” a senior European diplomat said. In that regard, he added, the transatlantic talks were “a dialogue of the deaf”.

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European diplomats refuse to speculate about a “Plan B” of what to do if and when Trump restores sanctions, claiming all their resources are focused on “Plan A”: trying to bridge the gap with the Oval Office.

Trump’s vocal hostility to the deal has contributed to a drying up of western capital and trading partners, which in itself represents a violation of the JCPOA.

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James Mattis, the defense secretary and a Marines veteran previously considered a hawk on Iran, is fast emerging as the lone pacifist of the administration, urging diplomacy on the Iranian and North Korean fronts. If Trump carries out his threat on 12 May, it might be that a retired general who has sometimes (reluctantly) gone by the nickname “Mad Dog” ends up the last best hope of staving off another Gulf conflict.

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Remarkably, some seem to be confused as to what "100% clean" means. It DOES NOT mean being honest with America just about the sex. It means being 100% truthful about the relationship, threats, intimidation, agreement, $130k payment, and cover-up. THAT is what it means. #basta

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[BREAKING] Trump taps Roseanna Barr for unspecified cabinet post (Guardian)

This is a developing story. Check back for updates...

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 14:14 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Je kon er op wachten... hij trekt ze nog steeds letterlijk uit zijn TV...

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 14:27 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Je bedoelt: je hoopt dat het een 1 aprilgrap is.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 14:27 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Je bedoelt: je hoopt dat het een 1 aprilgrap is.

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Amid the hoopla over the reboot of “Roseanne” last week, people were scratching their heads over actress Roseanne Barr’s bizarre tweet hailing Donald Trump for freeing “hundreds” of children a month from their pimps. The president has “broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” Barr tweeted Friday.

Barr, who’s no stranger to promoting right-wing conspiracy theories, was apparently referring to a fantasy birthed on the anonymous online message site 4Chan last year. The conspiracy theory claims that Trump is secretly busting satanic child sex rings linked to high-level Democrats. Barr retweeted posts and links backing the “untold story” that shares similarities with the “Pizzagate” hoax that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza shop in Washington, D.C.

Twitter didn’t give Barr a pass. Shortly after her Trump tweet, she apologized for posting it but didn’t deny that Trump is freeing hundreds of child sex slaves. “I have worked with victims of trafficking for decades & supported the fight against it,” she tweeted. “Sorry to have mentioned it here. It’s not the place.” Barr then posted another tweet saying she didn’t know so many were “not aware” of child sex slavery:

i thought today was a good day to talk about freeing kids from sex slavery, since it is Passover. I didn’t realize that so many were not aware of it. Anyway, no more opinions from me on twitter, it invites bullying. Moving on. — Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 31, 2018 (DELETED)

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ETodes twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:47:16 As someone who has worked to pass 33 Anti-human trafficking bills in the Michigan Legislature, literally nothing in your tweet is remotely true. He has not done anything above and beyond what our country normally does reageer retweet

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SalKrinkle twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:05:09 trump has actually done none of these. This must all be in that dream sequence. reageer retweet

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JeffKimchijones twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 22:25:33 Has he done this while drinking Diet Coke and grabbing them by the meow? He sounds like a superhero! Or does FoxNews flash a distress signal in the sky?? reageer retweet

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BelPatty twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 00:17:07 From the man who supported Roy Moore? Nice try. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 14:27:02 HAPPY EASTER! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 15:56:34 Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 16:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 14:27:02 HAPPY EASTER! reageer retweet

En kennelijk geen DACA "deal" meer, wat hij zelf heeft afgeschaft:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 01-04-2018 om 15:56:34 Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL! reageer retweet

Trump on Dreamers " I have a love for these people"

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Former Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, who has a long history of sparring with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over species listings, has been appointed to a key Trump administration post overseeing policy for the wildlife agency and national parks.

The Austin American-Statesman first reported the news on Thursday. Combs, also a former state representative and Texas’s first female agriculture commissioner, once likened proposed Endangered Species Act listings to “incoming Scud missiles” headed for her state’s oil and gas-rich economy.

President Donald Trump tapped Combs in July to serve as his assistant secretary of the Interior Department’s Office of Policy, Management and Budget, where she would have influence over the agency’s decisions on finance, policy, management and environmental affairs. But her nomination has remained stalled in the Senate.

Perhaps frustrated with the delay, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has reportedly named Combs to temporarily serve as acting assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks. In that role she will guide policy decisions at both the Fish and Wildlife Service, one of two federal agencies that administer the Endangered Species Act, and the National Park Service.

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Signed in 1973, the ESA is among America’s bedrock conservation laws, intended to safeguard threatened species and the habitats critical to their survival.

The Interior Department did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment Saturday.

However, Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift told E&E News on Friday that “Combs is highly qualified, and we are more than confident that she will be an effective manager at Fish and Wildlife and Parks while she patiently awaits her Senate confirmation.”

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1990s, Combs championed legislation prohibits state wildlife officials from gathering endangered species data from private lands without permission, according to the Austin Chronicle. It also sought to restrict the state from sharing endangered species data with the Fish and Wildlife Service.

In 2011, as Texas comptroller, she fought against the federal government’s proposal to list the dune sagebrush lizard, a species found in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. She ultimately proved successful in protecting Texas landowners, namely fossil fuel interests, negotiating a voluntary conservation plan that ultimately kept the species off the endangered species list.

After retiring from public office in 2015, Combs led three groups in petitioning to have federal protections removed for the golden-cheeked warbler, an endangered songbird native to central Texas. She argued that studies show the agency was “wrong in its original conclusion that the warbler species is rare” and that the songbird should not have been listed as endangered in 1990. The Fish and Wildlife Service ultimately rejected Combs’ petition.

Following her nomination in July, some 70 conservation groups sent a letter to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee urging members to reject her confirmation. They described Combs as someone who “built her career favoring big corporations and special interests over the needs and survival of imperiled species.”

Unsurprisingly, her new appointment also has environmentalists seeing red.

Stephanie Kurose, endangered species specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity, compared it to “appointing an arsonist as the town fire marshal.”

“Combs will only work to strip away critical protections for our most vulnerable animals, not protect them,” Kurose said in a statement.

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Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says he was fired from his position last week, defying the White House’s statement Saturday that he resigned. “I came to fight for our veterans, and I had no intention of giving up,” Shulkin told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet The Press” Sunday. “There would be no reason for me to resign.”

Shulkin, whose departure as head of the Department of Veteran Affairs was announced Wednesday on Twitter by President Donald Trump, said he never offered his resignation nor was he asked to submit a letter of resignation. A day earlier, White House spokeswoman Lindsey Walters told Politico that Shulkin had “resigned from his position.”

“Our statement still stands,” Ninio Fetalvo, assistant White House press secretary, told HuffPost in an email Sunday when asked for comment about Shulkin’s insistence that he was fired.

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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly alerted Shulkin of his termination “shortly before” Trump tweeted about it Wednesday, Shulkin added. He said his dismissal was “somewhat of a surprise,” especially since “President Trump and I actually spoke the day that he sent the tweet out, just a few hours before.”

“We had set up a meeting for the very next day where I was going to meet with him at 11:00 in the morning,” Shulkin told Todd.

Trump intends to replace Shulkin, who had served in the department under the Obama administration, with Ronny L. Jackson, the presidential physician, he tweeted Wednesday. Shulkin’s ousting followed weeks of speculation that Trump wanted to remove him.

Shulkin was the subject of an inspector general’s investigation in February, which found he committed ethics violations on a trip to Europe last summer. His extravagant 10-day trip to London and Copenhagen was planned under the guise of business travel but included only 3½ working days while costing the VA at least $122,334, the report found.

Shulkin denied any “ethical violations” during his tenure as the Veteran Affairs secretary on Sunday and suggested his termination had little to do with the inspector general’s findings. He has pushed back against conservative administration officials who believe veterans’ health care services should be increasingly privatized.

“I do not believe there was any misuse of government funds,” Shulkin said. “I do believe that there were no ethical violations here, that this was being used in the political context to exploit the situation. And I do believe that the issue at hand is the future of VA and whether it’s going to be privatized or not.”

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 10:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Waarom sturen ze haar dan op vakantie?

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 17:07 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Only the best people... ("It’s like appointing an arsonist as the town fire marshal”)

Foe Of Endangered Species Act Lands Gig Overseeing — You Guessed It — Wildlife (HuffPo)

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 23:06 schreef Freak188 het volgende:

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Dat is gewoon een doorsnee GOP benoeming. Gewoon doorgaan met afmaken van dieren omdat je r zogenaamd niks aan hebt. Zelfde als die Pruitt.

Dat verwonderd me wel van die Amerikanen. Leven alsof er geen limiet is. Wonen in de woestijn? Maakt niet uit hoe maar we halen ergens water vandaan. Slurpende auto’s? Waarom niet, benzine is toch 4 dollar per gallon. Prachtig land maar een groot deel van de mensen is onwetend.

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Trump adviser’s Russian contact closely linked to Putin family (Financial Times)

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater private security group and a close campaign adviser to Donald Trump, met a Russian financier with direct ties to Vladimir Putin's family in the weeks leading up to Mr Trump's inauguration, according to multiple people briefed on the talks.

Although Mr Prince's meeting with Kirill Dmitriev in the Seychelles, which is being examined by special counsel Robert Mueller, has been previously disclosed, Mr Dmitriev's ties to the Putin clan have not been widely known. According to six people close to Mr Dmitriev, his wife is close friends with Mr Putin’s younger daughter.

The close links to Mr Putin's family are likely to raise new questions about whether Mr Prince was seeking a back-door communications route to the Kremlin on behalf of Mr Trump following earlier press reports that Mr Mueller was pursuing this line of inquiry.

Mr Dmitriev’s wife Natalia Popova was in the same year at Moscow State University as Yekaterina Tikhonova, Mr Putin’s younger daughter, and is the deputy director of her technology foundation, Innopraktika.

Ms Popova’s close friendship with Ms Tikhonova helped secure Mr Dmitriev’s job running the Kremlin’s $10bn Russia Direct investment Fund and has made him a powerful figure in the Kremlin, according to three people who work with Mr Dmitriev, a state banker, a fellow private equity executive and a person who knows him socially.

Mr Dmitriev is a member of Innopraktika’s board and a former board member of petrochemicals giant Sibur, where Ms Tikhonova’s husband Kirill Shamalov is a senior executive. RDIF gave Sibur a $1.75bn loan in 2015, when Mr Shamalov owned 21.4 per cent of its stock. (He reduced his share to 3.9 per cent in 2017.)

Mr Dmitriev regularly attends Ms Tikhonova’s performances in acrobatic rock and roll dancing alongside Mr Shamalov, according to the parent of another contestant.

Mr Mueller wants to determine whether Mr Prince — whose sister is US education secretary Betsy DeVos — was attempting to negotiate a back-channel with the Kremlin on behalf of the incoming Trump administration at their meeting in January 2017, according to reports in the New York Times and Washington Post. The emergence of close links to the family adds weight to that line of inquiry. Mr Dmitriev “rose to the top because he is part of the family,” a person who works on deals with RDIF said.

George Nader, an adviser to Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nayhan, the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates, has told Mr Mueller’s team that Mr bin Zayed set up the meeting between the two men as a way to discuss US-Russia relations informally, the newspapers reported earlier this month. Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala state investment company has a $2bn joint fund with RDIF that has invested in strategic Russian businesses. Mr Prince told congressional investigators in November that he met Mr Dmitriev by chance while discussing other deals with UAE officials in the Seychelles and left after drinking one beer.

Mr Dmitriev, who has degrees from Stanford and Harvard universities, was appointed to run RDIF when the Kremlin set it up in 2011 as an attempt to attract more foreign private equity investment in Russia.

His marriage to Ms Popova appears to have helped him secure the job after the preferred candidate dropped out when he refused to give up his French passport, three of the people said. Unlike most sovereign wealth funds, RDIF focuses on partnering with foreign investors to invest in Russian companies. The fund has mostly worked with Middle Eastern and Asian investors since it was placed under US sanctions in 2014. Mr Prince has declined to comment. Mr Dmitriev has not responded to requests for comment.

Last year, Ms Popova presented documentaries on state television about Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia in which she interviewed Mr Dmitriev’s business partners, officials who praised RDIF’s work with Middle Eastern investors, and Mr Dmitriev himself. The films were produced by a company owned by Arkady Rotenberg, Mr Putin’s childhood judo sparring partner.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 19:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Bij een resignation mag Trump een vervanger kiezen. Bij ontslag moet de hele procedure worden gevolgd.

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Op zondag 1 april 2018 21:53 schreef Szura het volgende:
milieuverkrachter Pruitt

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The other day, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, took yet another step to muzzle the scientific inquiry that for years has informed sound policy at an agency he seems determined to destroy. He told his subordinates that they could no longer make policy on the basis of studies that included data from participants who were guaranteed confidentiality. Over the years, such studies have been crucial to establishing links between mortality and pollution, led to regulations and saved many lives. Limiting policymakers to only those studies with publicly available health data greatly narrows the field of research.

This got us to searching again (we’ve been here before with Mr. Pruitt) for the word that best describes the Trump administration’s hostility to scientific inquiry. “Disdain” jumps to mind. Fourteen months into his term, President Trump has yet to name a director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or any of the four associate directors authorized by Congress — jobs that have provided presidents for decades with unbiased counsel.

There’s another word: Fear.

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From the top down, the people who run this government seem absolutely terrified of scientific inquiry and the ways in which it could threaten Mr. Trump’s promise to ease regulations on fossil fuel companies and increase their profits, no matter the cost to public health and the planet. Think of it from Mr. Trump’s point of view. Why would he want a science adviser telling him that the link between climate change and the burning of fossil fuels is incontrovertible, that he should stick with the Paris agreement on climate change, that it’s a grave mistake to repudiate every one of President Obama’s efforts to slow the dangerous warming of the earth’s atmosphere?

Far better to stick his head in the sand, ostrichlike; do that, and the need for policies regulating greenhouse gas emissions or dangerous pollutants like soot and mercury magically disappears. Which is certainly Mr. Pruitt’s modus operandi. As Gina McCarthy, a former E.P.A. administrator, and her deputy for air quality, Janet McCabe, said in a recent Times Op-Ed: “Mr. Pruitt’s goal is simple: No studies, no data, no rules.”

Mr. Pruitt has been averse to science and fact from Day 1. Last fall, he announced that scientists who receive or had received federal research grants would be barred from serving on the agency’s nearly two dozen scientific advisory committees. The purpose, he said, was to eliminate conflicts of interest; the real purpose, it soon became clear, was to create vacancies that he could fill with industry experts and state officials pushing for lax regulations — people whose own conflicts of interest would be left unexamined. As Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists noted at the time, Mr. Pruitt’s claim that federal funding should exclude scientists from an E.P.A. advisory board while industry funding should not exclude them was on its face absurd.

Though the E.P.A. is the epicenter of denial, avoiding inconvenient truths is common practice elsewhere in the administration. Last year, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reassigned Joel Clement, the department’s director of policy analysis and top expert on the impact of climate change in the Arctic, to an accounting job (Mr. Clement resigned in protest). Mr. Zinke also ordered the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine to cancel two studies that conflicted with the administration’s goal of expanding domestic fossil fuel production. One was examining the health risks of people living near surface coal mining sites in Appalachia; the other sought ways of strengthening the department’s oil and gas safety inspection program.

Even the official vocabulary of global warming has changed, as if problems can be made to evaporate simply by describing them in more benign terms. At the Agriculture Department, for instance, staff members are encouraged to use terms like “weather extremes” instead of “climate change.” Web pages about global warning have been removed, edited or buried throughout the government. Last week, lest there be any confusion in the hinterlands, E.P.A. staff members in regional offices received a list of talking points instructing them to tell people that “clear gaps remain including our understanding of the role of human activity” on global warming. This is vintage Pruitt: Sow doubt whenever possible about established science.

Mr. Trump’s economic advisers have reinforced this bias. His latest budget called for big funding cuts and in some cases elimination of programs aimed at protecting human health and building resilience against the effects of climate change — among them the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s coastal research program and the Energy Department’s energy efficiency and advanced technology programs. Congress wisely denied these cuts, thanks to hard work by Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leaders of the Senate and House. Whether their efforts do anything to change the mind-set of Mr. Trump and his lieutenants remains to be seen.

Mr. Pruitt is widely believed to be positioning himself for a run for governor in his home state, Oklahoma; he also seems to covet the attorney general’s office, and, astoundingly, is said to harbor presidential ambitions. But he and Mr. Zinke are unlikely to go anywhere soon, and as long as they have the support of the denier in chief, we can expect more disrespect for science and its practitioners.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 00:14 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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At Pruitt’s E.P.A.: No Studies, No Data, No Rules (NYTimes editorial)

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 02:18 schreef Szura het volgende:
China slaat terug:

https://nos.nl/artikel/22(...)ngen-in-voor-vs.html

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More than 200 former U.S. ambassadors and veteran diplomats have signed a letter expressing alarm over the slide in U.S. leadership in the world and urging senators to grill Mike Pompeo about his plans to reverse the corrosion of the State Department if he is confirmed as secretary of state.

The letter is addressed to the Republican chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is expected to hold confirmation hearings for Pompeo next month. The CIA director has been tapped to replace Rex Tillerson, who was unceremoniously fired by President Trump two weeks ago.

The letter does not mention Trump or Tillerson by name, but says Pompeo’s nomination is an opportunity to focus on “the urgent need to restore the power and influence of American diplomacy.” It was organized by Foreign Policy for America, a nonpartisan advocacy group.

Nicholas Burns, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs and ambassador to NATO, called the letter a “cry from the heart” for diplomats who have watched despairingly as the State Department has been marginalized and undercut during the Trump administration.

“There’s a hope maybe a strong secretary like Mike Pompeo, with a good record at the CIA supporting career people, will decide it’s time to rebuild the State Department,” said Burns, who was among those who signed the letter. “What Tillerson tried to do was a disaster for the Foreign Service.”

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Word of the letter’s existence spread quickly in the foreign policy community, and it gathered signatures in less than a week as people who have served in both Republican and Democratic administrations raced to sign. They span generations, with some signatories at the end of their diplomatic careers and others who resigned somewhere in the middle.

The signatories included many former State Department luminaries, including William J. Burns, a onetime deputy secretary of state who is now president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Nancy McEl­downey, who used to head the Foreign Service Institute and now teaches aspiring diplomats at Georgetown University; Wendy Sherman, who as undersecretary of state for political affairs was the lead negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal; and Thomas Pickering, a retired former ambassador to Russia and the United Nations who is so esteemed that a foreign affairs fellowship is named in his honor.

The letter asks Congress to reject the White House proposal to cut the State Department’s budget by $20 billion, or almost a third, and keep it at the same level as last year.

In early budget hearings, there has been bipartisan support for keeping funding levels even.

The letter also expresses concern over the high number of senior leadership positions that are vacant, though acting officials are temporarily doing the work.

Eight of the nine senior positions are unfilled, as are 50 ambassadorships and 16 of the 22 assistant secretary positions.

Senators also were urged to ask Pompeo for his views on diplomacy’s “critical mission” in advancing American interests and values.

The fact that the letter spells out such a fundamental principal is a sign of the mounting concern among former diplomats as Trump has pulled out of the Paris climate accord and the Trans-
Pacific Partnership, threatened to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal and driven a wedge between Washington and many European capitals.

Their concern grew as Tillerson imposed a hiring freeze and then launched a redesign that left many employees uneasy, even though it turned out to be mainly about improving computer systems. As diplomats felt pressured to resign or retired early to escape the demoralizing atmosphere, morale has sunk to the lowest level in anyone’s memory.

“The letter is a product of profound concern about the broad attitude of dismissiveness to diplomacy, the marginalization of professional diplomats and the corrosion of the institution,” said William Burns, who served under 10 secretaries of state and five presidents.

Burns cited the recent expulsion of Russian diplomats, not only from the United States but from more than 20 allied countries, as a classic example of good diplomacy requiring a lot of diplomats working in coordination.

Many veteran diplomats hope Pompeo’s close relationship with the president and similar views will give him the clout to demand more money and a greater role for the State Department.

Tillerson, in contrast, was known for pushing back against some of Trump’s positions, which was one of the main factors in his dismissal.

In the end, policy is determined at the White House, not at Foggy Bottom. It remains to be seen whether the administration and the diplomats share any worldviews whatsoever. Trump is the president who said that when it comes to foreign policy, “the one that matters is me.”

The letter was signed by people who remember the remark, down to the month he said it and in which interview.

“When Trump talks America first, it sounds like America alone,” McEldowney said. “Many of the decisions Trump has taken, like walking away from international agreements and rushing to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, have caused us to be more and more isolated.

“But the letter itself is not advocating any policy position. It’s advocating for a robust international engagement with allies and dialogue across the board, to achieve whatever policy ends up being.”

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• Russia-linked Twitter accounts are rallying in support of Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she drew scorn for mocking Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg’s grades on Twitter.

• According to one website that tracks Russian propaganda on Twitter in near-real time, the hashtag #istandwithlaura saw a 2800% jump in 48 hours.

• Another website that monitors Russia’s disinformation campaign found that @ingrahamangle, @davidhogg11, and @foxnews were among the top six Twitter handles that Russia-linked accounts have tweeted at in the last 24 hours.

• Companies have pulled their ads from her show, and& Ingraham announced this weekend she will take a “pre-planned vacation” amid the exodus.

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As companies yank their ads from Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham’s show in droves, she continues to draw support from one key Twitter demographic: Russian bots.

The advertiser exodus comes after Ingraham insulted Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg’s grades on Twitter. The Fox News host announced Saturday that she would be taking a “pre-planned vacation” amid the controversy.

On Saturday evening, #istandwithlaura was the top trending hashtag among Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations, according to Hamilton 68, a website launched last year that tracks Russian propaganda campaigns in near-real time.

Per the site’s data, the frequency with which the accounts tweeted the hashtag jumped by 2800% on Friday and Saturday.

Meanwhile, according to the website botcheck.me, which says it tracks 1500 “political propaganda bots,” @ingrahamangle, @davidhogg11, and @foxnews were among the top six Twitter handles Russia-linked accounts tweeted at over the last 24 hours. The top two-word phrases were “David Hogg” and “Laura Ingraham.”

Ingraham tweeted an article earlier this week that said Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, had been rejected from several California universities.

Hogg has emerged as a frequent target for prominent conservatives since the shooting, who have criticized him for his gun-control activism.

“David Hogg Rejected by Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.)” Ingraham tweeted.

Hogg and several other students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas responded by calling for an advertising boycott of Ingraham’s show and tweeting a list of companies people could contact to demand they pull their ads.

Since then, roughly a dozen companies have announced plans to pull their commercials from her show, despite an apology from Ingraham on Thursday.

Upon reading the news on Saturday that Ingraham would be taking time off from the show, Hogg tweeted, “Have some healthy reflections this Holy Week.”

Russian bots stir division

Russian-linked accounts’ capitalization on the Ingraham controversy comes after they flooded Twitter with messages and disinformation related to the Parkland school shooting, which claimed 17 lives in February.

In the days immediately following the shooting, propaganda trackers found that the top hashtags among Russia-linked accounts were #Parkland, #guncontrolnow, #Florida, and #guncontrol.

Botcheck.me said almost all the top two-word phrases used on Twitter the day after the shooting had to do with the attack. The outlier was “President Trump.”

The content that Russia-linked accounts spread on Twitter is not necessarily produced by Russian government operatives and does not always align with Russia’s views, though that is sometimes the case, according to Hamilton 68.

Instead, the influence operation’s main goal is to sow discord and spread junk news related to divisive political topics in the US and Europe. The strategy was a key tenet of Russia’s effort to sway the 2016 US election in Trump’s favor.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 00:37 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Is er dan echt niemand die hem kan vertellen dat als we op het huidige pad doorgaan dat mar el lago 0 dollar waard is als het wegzinkt in een moeras. Of blijft hij luisteren naar mensen die zeggen; kijk weer een northeaster winter is coming. iedereen will straks naar florida als new york in de zomer bevriest.

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The author of a new book on the current state of affairs in the White House claims that Kellyanne Conway is the "number one leaker" in President Donald Trump's White House.

In a Sunday interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," Ronald Kessler, the author of "The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game," claimed that the President's counselor and former campaign manager leaks more information to the press than any other individual working in the White House.

Kessler told Tapper that in at least one interview with Conway, she forgot that they were on-the-record as she ripped into her fellow colleagues. According to Kessler, Conway said some of the most "mean, cutting and honestly untrue" things about former chief of staff Reince Priebus, and also "dissed" Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the President's senior advisor and son-in-law.

"So if you wonder why there are so many leaks out of the White House, one reason is Kellyanne Conway is the number one leaker," Kessler said.

The White House did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

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Claiming his book contains many "juicy tidbits" about the White House, Kessler also said that Trump understands that Ivanka Trump and Kushner are "problems."

In his book, Kessler writes: "In the end, Jared and Ivanka would push the most disastrous and foolish decisions of Trump's presidency ... they had no understanding of the basic fundamentals of how government works, how a campaign works, how politics works. Most of all, they had no understanding of the political consequences of their actions."

Kessler told Tapper that the pair "pushed the firing of Comey, which was disastrous," and were instrumental in the hiring of Anthony Scaramucci, the White House's former communications director, which Kessler called "the most absurd hire in the history of the White House."

But Kessler said that although the President sees the two as "problems," it's unlikely that they, too, will leave the White House because firing family members would be an unusual move for Trump.

The book is set to be released Tuesday.

Author: Kellyanne Conway is the No. 1 leaker

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 02:18 schreef Szura het volgende:
China slaat terug:

https://nos.nl/artikel/22(...)ngen-in-voor-vs.html

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 04:58 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Author: Kellyanne Conway is the No. 1 leaker

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LarrySchweikart twitterde op zondag 18-03-2018 om 21:53:03 1) Folks this is the nub: McCabre's lawyer said he hasn't seen many of the docs because he can't have access to ongoing GRAND JURY info.Get it? reageer retweet

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 10:41 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Eind vorig jaar 9000+ sealed indictments.
https://www.theepochtimes(...)ctments_2401511.html

Intussen zijn het er blijkbaar meer dan 24.000, aldus de mensen die dit constant in de gaten houden via pacer.gov.

Nu blijkt er dus ook achter de schermen al een grand jury te zijn.
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LarrySchweikart twitterde op zondag 18-03-2018 om 21:53:03 1) Folks this is the nub: McCabre's lawyer said he hasn't seen many of the docs because he can't have access to ongoing GRAND JURY info.Get it? reageer retweet

En zo zijn er wel meer geluiden te vinden dat er op de achtergrond een grand jury bezig lijkt te zijn. Ben stiekem wel erg benieuwd waarmee.

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Trump supporter Malloch says he will testify to Mueller grand jury (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American academic who supports U.S. President Donald Trump and is a strong advocate of Britain’s exit from the European Union will testify next month before the federal grand jury considering evidence in the investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s 2016 election campaign and Russia.

Theodore Malloch, the author of a forthcoming pro-Trump book and an ally of Nigel Farage, a former leader of Britain’s UK Independence Party, said in a statement emailed to Reuters on Friday by the book’s publisher that he was questioned by FBI agents when he landed at Boston’s Logan International Airport on Tuesday after a flight from London and served with a subpoena to appear before the grand jury.

Malloch “is scheduled to testify in Washington D.C. on April 13th under Robert Mueller’s Grand Jury investigation,” Hector Carosso, a representative of Skyhorse Publishing, said in a separate email.

Malloch’s book, “The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President,” is scheduled for publication on May 1.

Mueller is investigating possible illegal coordination between Trump and his 2016 campaign and Russia. Trump and Russia have denied any collusion. The FBI and Mueller’s team had no comment on Malloch or events at the airport in Boston.

Malloch said in his email that the FBI presented him with a document authorizing the agents to seize his cellphone. He said he handed it over and later was told the FBI had to send it to Washington for a “full assessment.”

He also said the FBI questioned him for about an hour about his career, government security clearances, and academic credentials. He said the agents then asked him about his role in the Trump campaign, which he said was informal and unpaid.

He said they also questioned him about his contacts with Trump supporter and political consultant Roger Stone, the WikiLeaks website and Jerome Corsi, a contributor to conspiracy theory websites.

In his statement, Malloch said he knew nothing about WikiLeaks, which published emails U.S. intelligence officials concluded last year were hacked from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign by the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency.

Sources familiar with Mueller’s investigation say one avenue of inquiry is how the hacked emails made their way to WikiLeaks from Russia, and whether any Trump allies ever handled them.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange declined to comment directly on any possible contacts with Malloch when contacted by Reuters.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 10:41 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

En zo zijn er wel meer geluiden te vinden dat er op de achtergrond een grand jury bezig lijkt te zijn. Ben stiekem wel erg benieuwd waarmee.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 10:41 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Eind vorig jaar 9000+ sealed indictments.
https://www.theepochtimes(...)ctments_2401511.html

Intussen zijn het er blijkbaar meer dan 24.000, aldus de mensen die dit constant in de gaten houden via pacer.gov.

Nu blijkt er dus ook achter de schermen al een grand jury te zijn.
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LarrySchweikart twitterde op zondag 18-03-2018 om 21:53:03 1) Folks this is the nub: McCabre's lawyer said he hasn't seen many of the docs because he can't have access to ongoing GRAND JURY info.Get it? reageer retweet

En zo zijn er wel meer geluiden te vinden dat er op de achtergrond een grand jury bezig lijkt te zijn. Ben stiekem wel erg benieuwd waarmee.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 11:22 schreef Montov het volgende:
Pizzagate natuurlijk.

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Roseanne Barr capped a remarkable week of new media relevance with a tweet that seemed to fly out of nowhere — unless you're a close observer of far-right media.

On Friday night, the star of ABC's revived smash-hit sitcom began rounding up praise for President Trump on the very specific issue of child trafficking. “He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” Barr tweeted. “Notice that.”

Over the next few hours, Barr retweeted supportive tweets and links to articles about the “untold story” of how the administration was breaking up “pedophile rings.”

One link, to the little-known site the Liberty (“committed to spreading peace and happiness [throughout] the world"), claimed that “by the second month of Trump’s presidency, police had arrested 1500 criminals nationwide who are connected with these pedophile rings” and that “there are suspicions that not only Hollywood is involved in the pedophile rings, but also politicians.” The same sort of information popped up in Barr's reply thread, in convenient meme form, with the hashtags #Pedogate and — wait for it — #Pizzagate.

How, in March 2018, are we still talking about the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory? After how that ended, are there still people who think that a huge legal conspiracy has protected a child sex slavery network used by the country's most powerful people, from former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on down?

Absolutely, yes.

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As the Hill's Will Sommer quickly explained, Barr had echoed a relatively new theory that grew out of Pizzagate — that the president is quietly cracking down on the pedophilia network and that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's probe of foreign meddling in the 2016 election is an extremely effective distraction from his real investigation of the Democrats tied to that network. We know this, or “know” this, because “Q,” an anonymous account on the 4chan message board, says so and claims to be a government operative with the highest level of security clearance.

Why has this caught on with some fringe far-right media organizations? I can't sum it up better than Paris Martineau did in her late 2017 explainer of #QAnon.

In this fantasy world, all of the far right’s wildest dreams come true: Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or just about to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally paid for by Clinton and Obama; and that the Las Vegas massacre was most definitely an inside job connected to the Saudi-Clinton cabal.

Barr did not mention #QAnon in her tweet, but she has repeatedly tweeted or retweeted links about the theory and asked whether QAnon could contact her via direct message. Most recently, on March 23, Barr retweeted a summary of Q-based theories of how the just-passed omnibus spending bill would unleash law enforcement on the pedophile ring.

Here is what the post says:

1. Bill passes, immediately releasing funds to our military.
2. Swamp drain begins, military seizes TRILLIONS in cabal assets, returning them to the people.
3. IG report drops showing just how f---ed up this swamp really is, revealing pedophilia, extortion, murder, treason and SEDITION. Punishable by DEATH.
4. Panic? No panic. This has been planned so far in advance, very few understand how calculated every move is. The strings will be cut from the propaganda machine and the people will stop falling for the garbage MSM. They will be so appalled by the vileness and sliminess of these creatures it will make them SICK to their stomach.
5. Patriots take back our country.

It's a pretty typical product of the #QAnon genre, promising the final defeat of the president's enemies and engaging in some inventive ideas about how the military works.

That's why Barr's tweet rattled observers of far-right media. We've seen conspiracy theories jump into the mainstream before; we've even seen Barr tweet about them. As Amy Zimmerman reported last summer, when the White House celebrated the news that “Roseanne” was coming back to TV, Barr had “retweeted Infowars reports on the '5.7 Million Illegals' who they baselessly claim voted in the presidential election” and “shared a YouTube video titled, 'CONFIRMED: SCALISE IS AT THE SAME HOSPITAL THAT TOOK OUT SETH RICH,' as well as various other Seth Rich-related bulletins.”

Those tweets have been deleted, but Barr, like plenty of people, remains susceptible to bogus information that validates her worldview. Let's take #QAnon out of it. Barr's tweetstorm about child sex trafficking did not just thank Trump for his focus on the problem — it implied that he had grabbed hold of it after previous presidents ignored it.

Look again at the claim that came up again and again in the tweet thread, that law enforcement under Trump had freed more children from sex traffickers in one month than it did under any year of the Obama administration. It sounds incredible, because it's false, originating in a 2017 column by an obscure conservative writer named Liz Crokin. Her piece, titled “Why the MSM Is Ignoring Trump's Sex Trafficking Busts,” claimed that there had been a “staggering 1,500-plus arrests” of sex traffickers in Trump's first 30 days, compared with just 400 in 2014.

Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown made short work of that story. Not only was Crokin giving Trump credit for local law enforcement actions that had been planned before he took office, she was fudging the numbers. Few of the arrests she cited had anything to do with sex trafficking. The 2014 data was a rundown of state-level arrests in just half the country; Crokin had ignored more relevant information, such as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement statement published a month before her column announcing 1,952 federal arrests of human traffickers in 2016.

But the fake numbers got around. From newspaper letter pages to mainstream conservative sites, the “fact” of a Trump-era surge in sex-trafficking arrests has survived multiple debunkings. In 2017, ICE claimed 350 fewer arrests of human traffickers than the last year of the Obama administration. There have been high-profile arrests of sex traffickers, as there are every year, but no surge over what we saw under previous presidents.

Why claim otherwise? For Crokin, at least, the story was always a piece of the Pizzagate/QAnon puzzle. Crokin has claimed that the Parkland, Fla., shooting was a “blatant false flag” to distract from that story; that former DNC staffer Seth Rich may have been killed because “he read the Podesta emails, and he knew that sex trafficking was going on”; and that the #MeToo movement was largely a distraction from how Hollywood elites are involved in “eating babies, drinking blood, sacrificing, and that kind of stuff.”

On Saturday, Crokin tweeted her thanks to Roseanne Barr.

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LizCrokin twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 14:08:46 I worked in the White House & in Hollywood 4 20 years, NO 1 has publicly supported my fight to end child trafficking! Except for Roseanne! reageer retweet

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LizCrokin twitterde op zaterdag 31-03-2018 om 15:25:05 Retweet if you have faith in President Trump & Q. Has Trump ever let us down? No! Trust the plan. #QAnon #Pedogate #Pizzagate #WethePeople https://t.co/J5CgswKFoT reageer retweet

Barr is by no means responsible for what people tweet about her. Conspiracy theorists frequently use social media to bring celebrity attention to their causes. But if they think that Barr might be susceptible to their theories, they've been paying attention. With a hit TV show, praise from the president and free advertising on Fox News, Barr has one of the loudest megaphones in the country. So far, mainstream conservatives have argued that attacks on her more far-out tweets are motivated by a desire to silence her.

“Roseanne is not a conspiracy theorist like you would think,” Rush Limbaugh said Friday. “The conspiracies that she believes in are those that supposedly exist to destroy Trump.”

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Brussels, the European city Donald Trump labeled a ‘Hellhole,’ is picking a fight with the U.S. president in an area close to his heart: real-estate development.

The Belgian capital has taken action to block Washington’s plan to move the U.S. embassy from its current downtown location near Russia’s mission to a bucolic neighborhood adjacent an 11,000-acre forest on the city’s southern outskirts. The point of contention? The new building is too celebrated for what the Americans have planned for it.

The U.S. government -- which still doesn’t have an ambassador to either Belgium or the Brussels-based European Union -- purchased the site in 2016, with the intention of tearing down the existing building because it doesn’t meet its size requirements or modern environmental standards. But last year, the regional city government applied to have the building placed on a “safeguard list”, which would prevent any modification or destruction to the four-winged, copper- and glass-covered structure.

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The building, which formerly housed the ‘Royale Belge’ insurance company and more recently a local AXA SA outpost, “is part of the flagship heritage of our region,” said Lidia Gervasi, spokeswoman to the regional minister responsible for monuments and sites. “For many people living in Brussels, it’s an icon of modern architecture of the 1960s.”

And while the regional government has another year to make its formal decision, it intends to confirm the safeguard procedure and place the building on the monument list, Gervasi said.

Brussels is the world’s second-largest seat of diplomatic representations, hosting more than 200 embassies as well as the European institutions and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The Belgian row adds to the controversies Washington is navigating at its international missions, with Trump earlier this year canceling a visit to London to open a new embassy, saying the old site was sold for “peanuts” and the new building, in an “off location,” was a “bad deal.” Trump also complicated plans for Middle East peace talks last year when he said he’d move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, jeopardizing America’s role as a mediator in the region.

The Brussels-based real-estate investment trust Cofinimmo SA sold the site, made up of two buildings on Boulevard Souverain, to the U.S. government on the condition Washington would get the proper licenses and permits from the Brussels authorities. The location represents 1.6 percent of Cofinimmo’s property portfolio and was valued at 55 million euros ($67.8 million).
‘Insurmountable Issues’

“Acquisition of this property is on hold due to a ‘safeguarding’ procedure initiated by the government of Brussels to protect the current building on the site,” according to an emailed statement from the U.S. State Department. “The building presents multiple insurmountable issues relating to building size and capacity, environmental inefficiencies, and structure and safety.”

One of the issues with the location is that, at more than 50,000 square meters, “it was way too big for the U.S. embassy” and also “presents a problem of security,” said Thierry Wauters, director of the department of monuments and sites of the Brussels-Capital region. Discussions are ongoing to potentially find a solution not too far from the Souverain address, Wauters said.

But the U.S. State Department and Cofinimmo are still reviewing their options.

“We’re continuing discussions with the U.S. embassy in Brussels and with the Department of State in Washington because the U.S. government is very interested to move its embassies in Brussels to the Souverain site,” Cofinimmo Chief Executive Officer Jean-Edouard Carbonnelle said in a Feb. 9 earnings call.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 00:35 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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De treurnis

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An old fable says that if you quickly drop a “frog” into boiling water, it will realize it is in danger and jump out. But if you first put a “frog” into cool water and heat the water up gradually, the “frog” will stay in the water until it is boiled alive. #slowcooking #basta

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We will soon find out if Mr. Cohen is really willing to lose his license, perjure himself, and possibly face other charges, all to hide & save Mr. Trump. As this noose tightens, reality will set in and sleepless nights will occur. Especially at 1600... #pickedthewrongfixer #basta

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 12:31 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Nee, je vergeet bijna dat hij er is! Gelukkig laat hij op andere fronten nog wel iets van zich horen, bijvoorbeeld als hij een Europees monument wil slopen:

Trump Bid to Move ‘Hellhole’ Embassy Sunk by Architectural Icon (Bloomberg)

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 13:03 twitterde Michael Avenatti het volgende:
An old fable says that if you quickly drop a “frog” into boiling water, it will realize it is in danger and jump out. But if you first put a “frog” into cool water and heat the water up gradually, the “frog” will stay in the water until it is boiled alive. #slowcooking #basta

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As part of advancing science, several experiments observing the reaction of frogs to slowly heated water took place in the 19th century. In 1869, while doing experiments searching for the location of the soul, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but an intact frog attempted to escape the water when it reached 25 °C.

Modern scientific sources also report that the alleged phenomenon is not real. In 1995, Professor Douglas Melton, of the Harvard University Biology department, said, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot—they don't sit still for you." Dr. George R. Zug, curator of reptiles and amphibians at the National Museum of Natural History, also rejected the suggestion, saying that "If a frog had a means of getting out, it certainly would get out."

In 2002 Dr. Victor H. Hutchison, Professor Emeritus of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma, with a research interest in thermal relations of amphibians, said that "The legend is entirely incorrect!" He described how a critical thermal maximum for many frog species has been determined by contemporary research experiments: as the water is heated by about 2 °F, or 1.1 °C, per minute, the frog becomes increasingly active as it tries to escape, and eventually jumps out if the container allows it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 13:23 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 13:23 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Actually, no.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 13:23 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 13:43 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
"Fable" kan ook zijn: a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue

Nou, het is kort, het heeft een moraal en er zit een kikker + een pan in (En het wordt regelmatig op fora aangevoerd als De Waarheid, dus een beetje extra uitlag kan geen kwaad... toch? )

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 15:32 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Nog een aardig stukje over de TPP:
https://buff.ly/2J0oOUp

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 14:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En heeft iemand nog wat info over die staten die Trump voor de rechter willen krijgen?

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Donald Trump's campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group during the campaign to try and secure better media coverage, his son-in-law Jared Kushner told business executives Friday in Manhattan.

Kushner said the agreement with Sinclair, which owns television stations across the country in many swing states and often packages news for their affiliates to run, gave them more access to Trump and the campaign, according to six people who heard his remarks.

In exchange, Sinclair would broadcast their Trump interviews across the country without commentary, Kushner said. Kushner highlighted that Sinclair, in states like Ohio, reaches a much wider audience — around 250,000 listeners — than networks like CNN, which reach somewhere around 30,000.

“It’s math,” Kushner said according to multiple attendees.

John Oliver - Sinclair's Propaganda

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 02-04-2018 om 15:28:42 So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased. Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 16:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
December 2016:

Kushner: We struck deal with Sinclair for straighter coverage

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Gisteren:

John Oliver - Sinclair's Propaganda

Vandaag:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 02-04-2018 om 15:28:42 So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased. Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke. reageer retweet

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AndrewBeatty twitterde op maandag 02-04-2018 om 15:02:13 #BREAKING @AFP (Moscow) President Trump has invited President Vladimir Putin to visit the White House: Kremlin reageer retweet

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A former employee of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team sued the organization to nullify a non-disclosure agreement she signed as part of her job, saying it muzzled her from airing discrimination claims.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 16:27 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Wel goed dat er wat meer aandacht is voor Sinclair en wat voor invloed ze hebben op het Amerikaanse publiek. Dat de Trump-regering hierbij de kant kiest van de grote bedrijven is natuurlijk totaal niet verrassend maar wel - alweer- teleurstellend.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 17:14 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Hier een stukje over fake nieuws ik vind de aantallen nogal schokkend

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/02/poll-fake-news-494421

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 17:14 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Hier een stukje over fake nieuws ik vind de aantallen nogal schokkend

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/02/poll-fake-news-494421

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31 percent said they believe those media outlets spread "fake news" regularly and 46 percent said it happens occasionally.

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with 65 percent saying it applies broadly to the editorial decisions outlets make over what topics to cover and 25 percent more narrowly defining it to only apply to the spread of factually incorrect information.

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JoeConchaTV twitterde op maandag 02-04-2018 om 17:50:40 Trump hits 50 in Rasmussen approval. RCP -- the average of all major polls -- has him at 42. All trending upward regardless of number. Was at 37 in mid-December in RCP. https://t.co/RIobitAMtn reageer retweet

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 17:28 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Waarom schokkend? Totaal gestuurde vraagstelling. Bekijk het objectief:

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Objectief gezien is het antwoord op de vraag of CNN "occasionally" foute informatie verspreid gewoon waar. Geen enkele nieuwsinstantie is feilloos en als het goed is worden zulke dingen achteraf gecorrigeerd. En de brede definitie slaat volgens mij echt nergens op? Hoe kan onderwerpkeuze nou "fake news" zijn?

In elk geval, zo rolt er dus een percentage uit wat je kunt verpakken in een mooie kop als "77 percent say major news outlets report 'fake news'"

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 18:57 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Ik denk gewoon zelf zo niet, ik geloof gewoon niet dat zenders als CNN eropuit zijn om ons verkeerd voor te lichten.

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White House appears to shift explanation on whether Shulkin resigned or was fired


The White House appears to be shifting its explanation about the departure of former Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin, now saying he was offered “the opportunity to resign” after previously saying that he “resigned from his position.”

The changing narrative comes as Shulkin has refused to go quietly, saying he was fired and accusing the White House of politically knifing him.

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The dispute raises the stakes in an obscure, but potentially consequential debate over President Donald Trump’s ability to appoint Shulkin’s replacement. Trump bypassed Shulkin’s deputy when naming his interim successor, which potentially ran afoul of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. That law only gives the president broad authority to temporarily fill a vacancy at a federal agency with an acting official if the current office holder “dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office.”

https://www.politico.com/(...)esign-or-fire-495074

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 19:56 schreef Montov het volgende:

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De Trump admin heeft gelogen over het ontslag? Je verwacht het niet.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 22:20 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Wazzbeer ook weinig gezien hier de laatste tijd. Was wel benieuwd of hij al die prachtige ontwikkelingen op de beurs dankzij Trump nog een kon duiden.
https://www.bloomberg.com(...)ow-facebook-business

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 22:42 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Was toen hij het argument maakte ook al in het voordeel van Obama, maar dat is nog wat gegroeid:

rise in Dow Jones Industrial Average from presidential inauguration to first market day of April the following year:
--Obama: 37%
--Trump: 19%

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/980900978789675008

Maar goed, Obama kwam vanuit een recessie dus meer potentie voor groei, los van dat het me niet veel zegt.

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 18:23 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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JoeConchaTV twitterde op maandag 02-04-2018 om 17:50:40 Trump hits 50 in Rasmussen approval. RCP -- the average of all major polls -- has him at 42. All trending upward regardless of number. Was at 37 in mid-December in RCP. https://t.co/RIobitAMtn reageer retweet

50% approval rating voor The Donald

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Op maandag 2 april 2018 13:23 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Actually, no.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 08:02 schreef skysherrif het volgende:

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Wat dan? Rasmussen kan er enigszins naastzitten, maar ben wel benieuwd waarom hij nu ineens in de buurt van 50 zit.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 08:26 schreef Euribob het volgende:
Even de complottheorieën en vage linkjes opgeruimd.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 05:43 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Is het moment nu gekomen dat we Trump moeten gaan danken omdat de politie een aantal pedofielen heeft opgepakt, ergo; hun werk doet?

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 08:06 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Natuurlijke variatie, maar dat was het punt natuurlijk niet.

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Rasmussen’s practice of surveying only “likely voters,” rather than the full population, on all subjects earned criticism in 2010 from Scott Keeter, director of survey research at the Pew Research Center. While president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in 2010, Keeter told The Washington Post that this practice “paints a picture of an electorate that is potentially madder than it really is ... And potentially more conservative than it really is.”

In 2009, Noson Lawen Partners, now Rasmussen Reports’ majority investor, gave the firm the capital to expand its daily, automated tracking polls. In a 2010 profile, The Wall Street Journal described Scott Rasmussen as “America’s Insurgent Pollster,” crediting him with catching the shift toward tea party sentiment.

Ted Carroll, a partner at Noson Lawen, declined to elaborate on the nature of his company’s current disagreements with Scott Rasmussen, referring instead to the Rasmussen firm’s press release.

The release emphasized that “Mr. Rasmussen’s legacy remains intact” and said his “polling methodologies and protocols” would “continue to guide and inform the company’s public opinion survey techniques.”

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 09:00 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Ja en dan vooral voor de onderzoeken die al jarenlang liepen of zo want dankzij Trump zitten ze nu achter de tralies

Human traficking is volgens de rode pillen etende trumpanzees ook alleen maar pedofilie blijkbaar

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 09:29 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Iedereen weet al lang dat Rasmussen biased is. Iedereen weet ook al lang dat je niet naar één poll moet kijken, maar naar een gemiddelde van polls. Dan zie je dat ongeveer 41% van de Amerikanen Trump steunt momenteel. Dit hebben we al zo'n 1 miljoen keer gezegd.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 09:29 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Nou ja, dat Trump wilt dat de politie actiever achter mensenhandelaren aanzit is natuurlijk alleen maar toe te juichen. Maar om hem nu krediet te gaan geven omdat overheidsinstanties hun werk doen gaat wat ver imho

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 09:39 schreef Eficaz het volgende:
Gutfeld: 'Roseanne' has Hollywood shaking in their reboots

Gutfeld: 'Roseanne' has Hollywood shaking in their reboots

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 09:40 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Het probleem is dat Nintex gevangen zit in zijn eigen bubbel.
Dan kunnen we het misschien wel een miljard keer zeggen, het kwartje zal echt niet bij hem vallen.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 09:42 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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There's a sucker born every minute.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:14 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Robert Mueller zou eigenlijk onderzoek moeten doen naar de massamanipulatie van Fox News Network.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:14 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Robert Mueller zou eigenlijk onderzoek moeten doen naar de massamanipulatie van Fox News Network.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:17 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Indirect raken ze dat wel natuurlijk.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:29 schreef BlackLining het volgende:

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Nou ben ik geen jurist maar dat lijkt me erg moeilijk hard te maken. Zou dat opruiing zijn? Het lijkt me dat het brengen van gekleurd nieuws niet strafbaar is. Anders moet je als staat al zowat gaan vastleggen wat je wel of niet mag schrijven over de politiek en dat moet je denk ik niet willen. Zeker niet als het aan oom Trump is om dat vast te stellen

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:32 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Trump kakelt op het moment voornamelijk Fox News na. Hij neemt ook Fox mensen aan voor taken in het witte huis. Dat lijkt me erg verdacht.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:36 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Van welk strafbaar feit verdenk jij Fox dan? Moreel verwerpelijk is hun berichtgeving zeker, het heeft weinig meer met journalisme van doen. Maar illegaal? Dat zie ik niet direct in. Het staat iedereen vrij om vuil te spuien en zeker in de VS ligt die grens meer richting de absolute vrijheid van meningsuiting dan hier.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:40 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Bovendien stelt FOX dat ze geen nieuwszender zijn maar entertainment en daardoor dus ook niet gehouden aan journalistieke mores.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:36 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Van welk strafbaar feit verdenk jij Fox dan? Moreel verwerpelijk is hun berichtgeving zeker, het heeft weinig meer met journalisme van doen. Maar illegaal? Dat zie ik niet direct in. Het staat iedereen vrij om vuil te spuien en zeker in de VS ligt die grens meer richting de absolute vrijheid van meningsuiting dan hier.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:40 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Bovendien stelt FOX dat ze geen nieuwszender zijn maar entertainment en daardoor dus ook niet gehouden aan journalistieke mores.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:56 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Trump neemt Fox mensen aan voor taken in het witte huis.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:59 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ja, dus? Is dat verboden dan? Ik vind het problematischer dat hij mensen aanneemt die familie zijn.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 12:34:18 The Fake News Networks, those that knowingly have a sick and biased AGENDA, are worried about the competition and quality of Sinclair Broadcast. The “Fakers” at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done so much dishonest reporting that they should only be allowed to get awards for fiction! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 12:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 12:34:18 The Fake News Networks, those that knowingly have a sick and biased AGENDA, are worried about the competition and quality of Sinclair Broadcast. The “Fakers” at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done so much dishonest reporting that they should only be allowed to get awards for fiction! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 12:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 12:34:18 The Fake News Networks, those that knowingly have a sick and biased AGENDA, are worried about the competition and quality of Sinclair Broadcast. The “Fakers” at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done so much dishonest reporting that they should only be allowed to get awards for fiction! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 12:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 12:34:18 The Fake News Networks, those that knowingly have a sick and biased AGENDA, are worried about the competition and quality of Sinclair Broadcast. The “Fakers” at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done so much dishonest reporting that they should only be allowed to get awards for fiction! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 12:49:07 The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our “Weak Laws” Border, had better be stopped before it gets there. Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 12:41 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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En dat is minder schadelijk dan een medianetwerk die hele volksstammen én de president dermate manipuleren dat het land nu politiek op zijn gat ligt?

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 12:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Hij heeft slecht nieuws gekregen over het een of ander. Hij heeft weer een aanval.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 12:49:07 The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our “Weak Laws” Border, had better be stopped before it gets there. Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 13:08 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Waar heeft hij het nou over? Wil hij NAFTA afhankelijk maken van hoeveel mensen uit Honduras die "Weak Laws" grens weten over te steken?

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 13:13 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Waar heeft het woordje "caravan" nou weer opgepikt? (al is de vraag stellen, waarschijnlijk ook de vraag beantwoorden)

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 13:16 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Van een ons wel bekend nieuwsagentschap.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5762344964001/?#sp=show-clips

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 10:59 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ja, dus? Is dat verboden dan? Ik vind het problematischer dat hij mensen aanneemt die familie zijn.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 12:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Hij heeft slecht nieuws gekregen over het een of ander. Hij heeft weer een aanval.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 12:49:07 The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our “Weak Laws” Border, had better be stopped before it gets there. Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 13:18 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Wie had dat ooit gedacht

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 12:58:30 Check out the fact that you can’t get a job at ratings challenged @CNN unless you state that you are totally anti-Trump? Little Jeff Zuker, whose job is in jeopardy, is not having much fun lately. They should clean up and strengthen CNN and get back to honest reporting! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 13:08:51 Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50%, which is higher than Cheatin’ Obama at the same time in his Administration. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 03-04-2018 om 13:08:51 Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50%, which is higher than Cheatin’ Obama at the same time in his Administration. reageer retweet