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Het is ook een businessmodel, als mensen dit soort gekkigheid geloven dan heb je een markt te pakken voor spullen voor preppers, anti vaccers, gasmaskers en goudstaven.quote:Op maandag 10 december 2018 17:30 schreef heywoodu het volgende:
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Ik weiger te geloven dat mensen zo raar zijn dat ze dit serieus menen en nemen.
De pitbull die zich tegen het baasje keerde
Trumps ex-advocaat hoort deze week hoelang hij de cel in moet. Het liefst zou hij de president meesleuren in zijn val.
Als Mueller dit soort mailtjes heeft, en kan laten zien dat Trump er vanaf wist...
Trumps ex-advocaat hoort deze week hoelang hij de cel in moet. Het liefst zou hij de president meesleuren in zijn val.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws(...)asje-keerde-a3060062quote:De informatie toont wederom hoe dicht de Russen Trump genaderd waren terwijl ze tegelijkertijd via sociale media probeerden de uitkomst van de Amerikaanse verkiezingen te beïnvloeden. Hoe groots de vergezichten bij sommige betrokkenen waren bleek ook uit een e-mail van de Russische contactpersoon van Cohen, Felix Sater, die al eerder bekend werd via The New York Times. Op 3 november 2015 mailde Sater aan Cohen: „Makker, onze jongen kan president van de VS worden en wij kunnen dat voor elkaar krijgen. Ik zal heel Poetins team aan boord krijgen, ik ga dit managen.”
Als Mueller dit soort mailtjes heeft, en kan laten zien dat Trump er vanaf wist...
Galantly he chickened out...
The tale of Sir Robin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8
The tale of Sir Robin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8
Zoals vriend Alex Jones met zijn ingestraalde rozijnen die je dna versterken.*quote:Op maandag 10 december 2018 19:37 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
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Het is ook een businessmodel, als mensen dit soort gekkigheid geloven dan heb je een markt te pakken voor spullen voor preppers, anti vaccers, gasmaskers en goudstaven.
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Hahah wat een oude zooi haalt het NRC weer naar boven.quote:
De pitbull die zich tegen het baasje keerde
Trumps ex-advocaat hoort deze week hoelang hij de cel in moet. Het liefst zou hij de president meesleuren in zijn val.
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https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws(...)asje-keerde-a3060062
Als Mueller dit soort mailtjes heeft, en kan laten zien dat Trump er vanaf wist...
Ze vergeten ook de passage waarin men suggereert dat Ivanka op de stoel van Putin gaat zitten.
Maar hij geeft hier dus wel toe dat het hele Stormy Daniels verhaal echt gebeurd is. Minder dan een jaar geleden waren het allemaal nog keiharde leugens. De huidige president heeft dus een affaire met een porno actrice gehad, terwijl zn vrouw net een kind had gekregen. En heel conservatief Amerika loopt weg met deze manquote:twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 10-12-2018 om 12:46:11 “Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun...No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,... reageer retweetWhat did Trump smocke this morning?twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 10-12-2018 om 13:00:00 ....which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s - but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT! reageer retweet
“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun...No Collusion.” @
Conservatief Amerika is de hypocrisie al ver, ver voorbij.quote:
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Maar hij geeft hier dus wel toe dat het hele Stormy Daniels verhaal echt gebeurd is. Minder dan een jaar geleden waren het allemaal nog keiharde leugens. De huidige president heeft dus een affaire met een porno actrice gehad, terwijl zn vrouw net een kind had gekregen. En heel conservatief Amerika loopt weg met deze man
Mulvaney, Meadows, Ayers en Mnuchin willen geen Chief of Staff worden.
Gaat een korte shortlist worden zo.
Gaat een korte shortlist worden zo.
Duidelijke uitleg Maddow mbt de plea deal Maria Butina:twitter:NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 11-12-2018 om 00:25:42 ABC got a copy of the Maria Butina plea agreement, which says she and an unnamed “person 1” (likely Erickson) conspired with a Russian government official —and at least one other person—for Butina to act” as a Russian agent. https://t.co/UOiCpkHZPO reageer retweet
ABC got a copy of the Maria Butina plea agreement, which says she and an unnamed “person 1” (likely Erickson) conspired with a Russian government official —and at least one other person—for Butina to act” as a Russian agent. 
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“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
twitter:nycsouthpaw twitterde op maandag 10-12-2018 om 22:01:50 Paul Manafort does not want to come to court tomorrow to answer for his alleged "crimes and lies" in Mueller's Friday evening filing. He cites the "time involved in having the U.S. Marshal Service transport me to and from the courthouse." https://t.co/2SEbHCYWDv reageer retweet
Paul Manafort does not want to come to court tomorrow to answer for his alleged "crimes and lies" in Mueller's Friday evening filing. He cites the "time involved in having the U.S. Marshal Service transport me to and from the courthouse."
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Volgens Reuters is de SC niet zo happig op de vele (maatschappelijk gevoelige) zaken die de Trump-administratie er doorheen probeert te jassen.
Reluctant U.S. Supreme Court on collision course with Trump
Reluctant U.S. Supreme Court on collision course with Trump
quote:The U.S. Supreme Court’s reluctance to take up new cases on volatile social issues is putting it on a collision course with President Donald Trump, whose Justice Department is trying to rush such disputes through the appeals system to get them before the nine justices as quickly as possible.
That tension could come to head in 2019 if the court continues to avoid cases that the Republican president’s lawyers are aggressively trying to bring to the justices. The court’s 5-4 conservative majority includes Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.
While Trump has suffered a series of setbacks in lower federal courts since taking office last year, he has collected major victories at the Supreme Court. Most notably, the court in June upheld in a 5-4 ruling Trump’s travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries, with Gorsuch casting a pivotal vote, after lower courts had blocked the policy.
But since Kavanaugh joined the bench in October after a bitter Senate confirmation fight, the court has declined to take up appeals by conservative-leaning states seeking to deny public funds to women’s healthcare and abortion provider Planned Parenthood, while postponing action on a dispute over federal employment protections opposed by Trump’s administration for gay and transgender people.
At the same time, the administration has been seeking to leap-frog more liberal-leaning lower courts to get cases on divisive questions over immigration, transgender rights and the U.S. census before the justices more rapidly.
“The court seems to be in go-slow mode at the moment when it comes to big cases. The court appears content to focus on meat-and-potatoes cases rather than blockbuster ones,” said Kannon Shanmugam, a lawyer who regularly argues cases before the justices.
Trump has frequently railed against the lower courts, especially the liberal-leaning San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, that have ruled against him in some major cases including the travel ban.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
twitter:mkraju twitterde op maandag 10-12-2018 om 22:38:27 Hatch dismisses allegations of Trump crimes over hush money.Asked if he had any concerns, Hatch said: “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Told it was alleged by SDNY, Hatch told me: “Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President” reageer retweet
Hatch dismisses allegations of Trump crimes over hush money.Asked if he had any concerns, Hatch said: “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Told it was alleged by SDNY, Hatch told me: “Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President” SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.twitter:OrrinHatch twitterde op vrijdag 19-11-2010 om 00:22:38 "We conservatives. . . believe in the rule of law, the enforcement of our law, and the Constitution as written." http://is.gd/hnxGx reageer retweet
"We conservatives. . . believe in the rule of law, the enforcement of our law, and the Constitution as written."
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Trump Prepares to Unveil a Vast Reworking of Clean Water Protections
quote:The Trump administration is expected on Tuesday to unveil a plan that would weaken federal clean water rules designed to protect millions of acres of wetlands and thousands of miles of streams nationwide from pesticide runoff and other pollutants.
Environmentalists say the proposal represents a historic assault on wetlands regulation at a moment when Mr. Trump has repeatedly voiced a commitment to “crystal-clean water.” The proposed new rule would chip away at safeguards put in place a quarter century ago, during the administration of President George H.W. Bush, who implemented a policy designed to ensure that no wetlands lost federal protection.
“They’re definitely rolling things back to the pre-George H.W. Bush era,” said Blan Holman, who works on water regulations with the Southern Environmental Law Center. Wetlands play key roles in filtering surface water and protecting against floods, while also providing wildlife habitat.
President Trump, who made a pledge of weakening a 2015 Obama-era rule one of his central campaign pledges, is expected to tout his plan as ending a federal land grab that impinged on the rights of farmers, rural landowners and real estate developers to use their property as they see fit.
Under the Obama rule, farmers using land near streams and wetlands were restricted from doing certain kinds of plowing and planting certain crops, and would have been required to apply for permits from the Environmental Protection Agency in order to use chemical pesticides and fertilizers that could have run off into those water bodies. Under the new Trump plan, which lifts federal protections from many of those streams and wetlands, those requirements will also be lifted.
A spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency, John Konkus, declined to comment on the plan.Interior Dept. officials downplayed federal wildlife experts' concerns about Trump's border wall, documents showSPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
Secretary Ryan Zinke wanted to 'support the border security mission,' an official said in one emailquote:Federal government scientists raised red flags last year about President Trump's proposed wall for the U.S.-Mexico border, suggesting that it could harm the habitats of imperiled species living in the ecologically diverse region. Constructing a physical barrier in southern Texas, some said, should be avoided if possible.
But a number of those concerns did not make it to border officials considering the wall's construction.
Interior Department officials stripped from a key letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection a number of warnings by career biologists and wildlife managers about the potential impacts of the border wall on the area's rare cats and other animals, according to new documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The deletions from a letter that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ultimately sent in 2017, shown in documents provided to the environmental group Defenders of Wildlife, are the latest example of the Trump administration brushing aside career wildlife officials' recommendations when their conclusions clash with political priorities.
In emails months before the letter was crafted, a key Interior Department official made it clear to Fish and Wildlife Service officials that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke "has indicated we are to support the border security mission."SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
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Targets of U.S. Sanctions Hire Lobbyists With Trump Ties to Seek Relief
quote:On a July evening, Trump administration officials and allies, including the president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, gathered with investors atop the Hay-Adams hotel overlooking the White House for a cocktail reception featuring a short presentation by the Democratic Republic of Congo’s special envoy to the United States.
An invitation for the reception billed it as an opportunity to learn about “the role Africa plays in gaining access to critical minerals, such as cobalt” and to discuss “the strategic relationship” between the United States and the nations of Africa.
In fact, the reception was part of an aggressive $8 million lobbying and public relations campaign that used lobbyists with ties to the Trump administration to try to ease concerns about the Congolese president, Joseph Kabila, whose government was facing threats of additional sanctions from the Trump administration for human rights abuses and corruption.
The lavish cocktail party was one example of a lucrative and expanding niche within Washington’s influence industry. As President Trump’s administration has increasingly turned to sanctions, travel restrictions and tariffs to punish foreign governments as well as people and companies from abroad, targets of those measures have turned for assistance to Washington’s K Street corridor of law, lobbying and public relations firms.
The work can carry reputational and legal risks, since clients often come with toxic baggage and the United States Treasury Department restricts transactions with entities under sanctions. As a result, it commands some of the biggest fees of any sector in the influence industry. And some of the biggest payments have been going to lobbyists, lawyers and consultants with connections to Mr. Trump or his administration.
“People overseas often want to hear that you know so-and-so, and can make a call to solve their problem,” said Erich Ferrari, a leading Washington sanctions lawyer who said he has tried to disabuse prospective clients of such notions.
It is a perception that matches up with the pay-to-play mind-set that defines politics in many parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the former Soviet states. As politicians and executives from those regions have increasingly been targeted by sanctions, they have sought to apply that approach — backed by huge sums of cash — to navigating Washington, lobbyists and former government officials say.
This has been encouraged, they say, by the willingness projected by Mr. Trump and his team to make deals around sanctions and tariffs exemptions. Previous administrations had worked to wall off politics from those processes, which are supposed to be overseen primarily by career officials and governed by strict legal analyses.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
CREW SUES FBI FOR GIULIANI LEAK RECORDS
quote:The FBI is in violation of the law for failing to turn over documents related to the FBI’s investigation into the leak of information to Rudy Giuliani in October 2016 that then-FBI Director James Comey was going to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email system, according to a lawsuit filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
Two days before Comey announced that the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton’s emails, Giuliani went on Fox News and said, “I do think that all of these revelations about Hillary Clinton are beginning to have an impact. He’s got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next two days.” He later admitted to getting advanced information about the FBI, saying, “Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it. And I can’t even repeat the language that I heard.”
An investigation was later launched into who leaked the information to Giuliani, which would violate the law. In April, CREW requested copies of all records of the investigation into the source of the leak, but has yet to receive any.
“The FBI legally has to give us these records or explain why they cannot,” CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said. “It is important for the public to have all of the information that the law requires be made available.”
Last week, Comey testified before Congress that an investigation was started into the leak after Giuliani’s comments, which appeared to stem from his communications with people in the FBI’s New York field office.
“The American people should have the information they need to evaluate whether there was wrongdoing before the presidential election,” Bookbinder said. “The FBI must live up to its legal obligations.”
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Kushner: White House has shifted from Khashoggi killing to Israeli-Palestinian peace
How the Kushners are using a law to help economically distressed areas
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quote:Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, his father-in-law, said on Monday that the American intelligence community was still “making their assessments” regarding the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but that the administration was “focused now on the broader region” in the Middle East.
“I think our intelligence agencies are making their assessments, and we’re hoping to make sure that there’s justice brought where that should be,” Kushner said during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. “We’re focused now on the broader region, which is hopefully figuring out how to bring a deal together between the Israelis and the Palestinians.”
Following the October killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, by a team of Saudi operatives, Kushner has come under increased scrutiny for his close relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is widely believed to have directed the assassination.
Kushner’s comments on Monday followed a report by The New York Times over the weekend that he has “continued to chat informally” with the crown prince since Khashoggi’s death, and has even advised the young royal on how best to “weather the storm” of international condemnation bearing down on Riyadh.
Kushner also told Hannity that the administration was hopeful that its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan would be released “in the next couple of months,” but cautioned that “not every side is going to love” the proposed agreement.
“There’s enough in it and enough reasons why people should take it and move forward,” Kushner said. “And this plan will keep the Israeli people safe and give them a good future, but also give a real opportunity and hope for the Palestinian people so that they can live much better lives.”
How the Kushners are using a law to help economically distressed areas
quote:The family of Trump senior advisor Jared Kushner could possibly be benefiting from the Trump tax law that was designed to encourage investment in poor neighborhoods. Stephanie Ruhle and Bloomberg News financial investigator Caleb Melby break down how the Kushners might be profiting.
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“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Dan zit Mueller eigenlijk aardig op schema. Trump loopt nu gevaar dat hij voor zowel hinderen van de rechtsgang, invloed van buitenlandse inmenging in de campagnes, maar nu ook hoogverraad kan worden aangeklaagd. Ik hoop het laatste, daar hebben ze in de VS nog de doodstraf op. Het is het beste dat het kwaad volledig uitgeroeid wordt..quote:Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 00:33 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Duidelijke uitleg Maddow mbt de plea deal Maria Butina:twitter:NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 11-12-2018 om 00:25:42 ABC got a copy of the Maria Butina plea agreement, which says she and an unnamed “person 1” (likely Erickson) conspired with a Russian government official —and at least one other person—for Butina to act” as a Russian agent. https://t.co/UOiCpkHZPO reageer retweet
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
Binnen de Republikeinse partij woedt een veenbrand van een legitimiteitscrisis en dat gaat zichtbaar worden op het moment dat Trump vertrektquote:Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 04:28 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
twitter:mkraju twitterde op maandag 10-12-2018 om 22:38:27 Hatch dismisses allegations of Trump crimes over hush money.Asked if he had any concerns, Hatch said: “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Told it was alleged by SDNY, Hatch told me: “Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President” reageer retweetSPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.[ afbeelding ]twitter:OrrinHatch twitterde op vrijdag 19-11-2010 om 00:22:38 "We conservatives. . . believe in the rule of law, the enforcement of our law, and the Constitution as written." http://is.gd/hnxGx reageer retweet
Ach, lul toch niet zo slap man.quote:
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Dan zit Mueller eigenlijk aardig op schema. Trump loopt nu gevaar dat hij voor zowel hinderen van de rechtsgang, invloed van buitenlandse inmenging in de campagnes, maar nu ook hoogverraad kan worden aangeklaagd. Ik hoop het laatste, daar hebben ze in de VS nog de doodstraf op. Het is het beste dat het kwaad volledig uitgeroeid wordt..
Het zal hooguit leiden tot een impeachment die nergens heengaat vanwege de GOP, maar afgezien daarvan kun je toch niet met droge ogen beweren dat je de doodstraf voor zoiets acceptabel zou vinden?
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Goed verhaal over het sektegedrag binnen de GOP, trumpisten en natuurlijk Drumpf zelf:
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ja.quote:Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 09:11 schreef Monolith het volgende:
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Ach, lul toch niet zo slap man.
Het zal hooguit leiden tot een impeachment die nergens heengaat vanwege de GOP, maar afgezien daarvan kun je toch niet met droge ogen beweren dat je de doodstraf voor zoiets acceptabel zou vinden?
Nog geen maand geleden waren ze ( en jij ook) er hier net zo zeker van dat Mueller niks zou vinden.
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
Huh? De enigen die ik hier heb zien beweren dat Mueller niks zou vinden zijn Nintex, Refragmental en de stoelendans aan alt-rechtsgekkies die hier bij de en wijle de kop opsteekt.quote:
Nog geen maand geleden waren ze ( en jij ook) er hier net zo zeker van dat Mueller niks zou vinden.
Of hautaine betweters.quote:Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 09:28 schreef chibibo het volgende:
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Huh? De enigen die ik hier heb zien beweren dat Mueller niks zou vinden zijn Nintex, Refragmental en de stoelendans aan alt-rechtsgekkies die hier bij de en wijle de kop opsteekt.
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
Republikein zijn niet allemaal zo strikt. Er is een grote middengroep die zich de laatste paar jaar nauwelijks heeft geroerd. Je kunt dit vergelijken met de PvdA stemmers hier. dat is ook een groep kiezers die verloren staat toe te kijken en niet mee willen doen aan PVV radicalisatie maar ook niet aan de tiet van Rutte willen hangen. Die wachten simpelweg af.quote:Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 09:15 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Goed verhaal over het sektegedrag binnen de GOP, trumpisten en natuurlijk Drumpf zelf:
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
Je gedraagt je net zo extremistisch als nintex, refragmental en consorte.quote:
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Dan zit Mueller eigenlijk aardig op schema. Trump loopt nu gevaar dat hij voor zowel hinderen van de rechtsgang, invloed van buitenlandse inmenging in de campagnes, maar nu ook hoogverraad kan worden aangeklaagd. Ik hoop het laatste, daar hebben ze in de VS nog de doodstraf op. Het is het beste dat het kwaad volledig uitgeroeid wordt..
Het zo voor de VS en de wereld goed zijn als Trump geen president is, en als hij iets strafbaars heeft gedaan dan moet hij daarvoor berecht worden. Maar de doodstraf wensen gaat wel even 10 stappen te ver wat mij betreft.
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