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  • Jabu_Rule
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    AP Editor Admits Tweet On Clinton Foundation Was ‘Sloppy’ And Wrong, Still Won’t Delete It
    https://thinkprogress.org/ap-executive-editor-admits-tweet-on-clinton-foundation-was-sloppy-and-wrong-still-won-t-delete-913d23f49297#.bah0kjgq8


    The AP analysis includes only 154 meetings. It excludes all meetings with domestic and foreign government officials — the people who a Secretary of State spends most of her time meeting.
    Clinton actually participated in over 1700 meetings as secretary of state during that time period. That means, in truth, fewer than 5% of Clinton’s meetings as Secretary of State were with Clinton Foundation donors. (The AP’s story also does not allege that any of those meetings were improper.)



    -Non Story



  • Jabu_Rule
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    riddlerap wrote: »
    Jabu_Rule wrote: »
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    those cigarette lungs aint healthy bruh

    I found this interesting list on Reddit.
    42-year-old Teddy Roosevelt, who boxed with sparring partners several times a week as president, and then, after a boxing injury, took up judo.
    54-year-old George W. Bush, who regularly ran 5K in workouts in somewhere between 18 and 22 minutes, depending on whom you believe. George W. Bush had run the Houston Marathon in 3:44:52 almost exactly eight years before he became president.
    46-year-old Bill Clinton, who ran four miles almost every day at a nine-minute-per-mile pace.
    47-year-old Barack Obama, known as an enthusiastic pickup basketball player.
    52-year-old Jiimmy Carter, who did collapse during a six-mile road race in the second half of his presidency, but turned out to be fine. He was an avid runner throughout his seventies.
    54-year-old Herbert Hoover, who played Hooverball with a six-pound medicine ball every morning.
    61-year-old Gerald Ford; the Secret Service had to recruit a skier to keep up with him.
    64-year-old George H.W. Bush, who regularly ran half an hour.
  • stringer bell
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    http://www.mediaite.com/online/black-trump-supporting-pastor-tweets-cartoon-of-clinton-in-blackface/
    Black Trump-Supporting Pastor Tweets Cartoon of Clinton in Blackface


    Pastor Mark Burns is a major supporter of Donald Trump and one of his top surrogates making his case to black voters. And today he tweeted out a Hillary Clinton blackface cartoon:

    The cartoon comes from A.F. Branco, who has all his work up on the site Comically Incorrect. Branco, as you can imagine, is no fan of Clinton and has done cartoons mocking #NeverTrump Republicans for being too stubborn.

    Burns, you may recall, was browbeaten by Mika Brzezinski last week over whether some of Trump’s attacks have been racist, which led to Trump demanding she apologize.

  • 1CK1S
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    HuffPo Terminates Journalist, Deletes Story Questioning Hillary’s Health

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhNr5jeTIw

    Communist-style state-run journalism is alive and well in the United States. We’ve seen the Trumpeters at Breitbart and Drudge make a mockery of their “conservatism” by hopping on the Trump train hard. We’ve seen CNN this week fire Dr. Drew after he questioned Hillary Clinton’s health. Now, Huffington Post has joined the attack on dissenting views by terminating David ? and removing his stories that also questioned Hillary’s health.

    For the record, I am not a Donald Trump supporter. I’m also not a Hillary Clinton supporter. Lastly, I’m not one who has bought in fully to Clinton’s failing health conspiracy theory. With that said, I’m also not blind to the fact that her coughing and odd behavior should warrant an independent health evaluation (which, to me, should be a requirement for every Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate, but I digress).

    With all of the appropriate disclaimers out of the way, let’s look at the censorship occurring at the Huffington Post. This isn’t the first time it’s happened. They censored a review of Vaxxed and have been prolific in their use of Orwellian comment controls. They’ve deleted many stories in the past, though this one is arguably the most perplexing since it addresses an issue that’s vibrant right now. Whether you believe that Hillary is in good health or not, it’s valid to question it.

    For posterity, we will post the article that was deleted. We do not own the rights to the article and if ? would like us to take it down, I’d gladly do so and link to wherever he ends up posting it instead. I just don’t want it to be lost in the dungeons of HuffPo’s trash folder for nobody to see. After the article, I’ll continue with my commentary as well as show a video with the journalist’s reaction.
  • BobOblah
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    riddlerap wrote: »
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    Replace Hillary with Trump and you have the real quote that was said. Smh
  • riddlerap
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    CNN editing Trump tweets to not call Hillary "Crooked" lol wow
  • tupacfan12
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    BobOblah wrote: »
    riddlerap wrote: »
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    Replace Hillary with Trump and you have the real quote that was said. Smh
    The original quote was about Trump, some right-wing poster replaced his name with Hillary's like Trump is the better choice lmao.
  • Mr.LV
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    FBI to publicly release Clinton email report.
  • scoop1215
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    1CK1S wrote: »
    HuffPo Terminates Journalist, Deletes Story Questioning Hillary’s Health

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhNr5jeTIw

    Communist-style state-run journalism is alive and well in the United States. We’ve seen the Trumpeters at Breitbart and Drudge make a mockery of their “conservatism” by hopping on the Trump train hard. We’ve seen CNN this week fire Dr. Drew after he questioned Hillary Clinton’s health. Now, Huffington Post has joined the attack on dissenting views by terminating David ? and removing his stories that also questioned Hillary’s health.

    For the record, I am not a Donald Trump supporter. I’m also not a Hillary Clinton supporter. Lastly, I’m not one who has bought in fully to Clinton’s failing health conspiracy theory. With that said, I’m also not blind to the fact that her coughing and odd behavior should warrant an independent health evaluation (which, to me, should be a requirement for every Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate, but I digress).

    With all of the appropriate disclaimers out of the way, let’s look at the censorship occurring at the Huffington Post. This isn’t the first time it’s happened. They censored a review of Vaxxed and have been prolific in their use of Orwellian comment controls. They’ve deleted many stories in the past, though this one is arguably the most perplexing since it addresses an issue that’s vibrant right now. Whether you believe that Hillary is in good health or not, it’s valid to question it.

    For posterity, we will post the article that was deleted. We do not own the rights to the article and if ? would like us to take it down, I’d gladly do so and link to wherever he ends up posting it instead. I just don’t want it to be lost in the dungeons of HuffPo’s trash folder for nobody to see. After the article, I’ll continue with my commentary as well as show a video with the journalist’s reaction.

    He was interviewed on alex jones he said he will hire him.
  • scoop1215
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    Trumps going to Mexico tomorrow to talk with the Mexican president.
  • Swiffness!
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    Jabu_Rule wrote: »
    riddlerap wrote: »
    Jabu_Rule wrote: »
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    those cigarette lungs aint healthy bruh

    I found this interesting list on Reddit.
    42-year-old Teddy Roosevelt, who boxed with sparring partners several times a week as president, and then, after a boxing injury, took up judo.
    54-year-old George W. Bush, who regularly ran 5K in workouts in somewhere between 18 and 22 minutes, depending on whom you believe. George W. Bush had run the Houston Marathon in 3:44:52 almost exactly eight years before he became president.
    46-year-old Bill Clinton, who ran four miles almost every day at a nine-minute-per-mile pace.
    47-year-old Barack Obama, known as an enthusiastic pickup basketball player.
    52-year-old Jiimmy Carter, who did collapse during a six-mile road race in the second half of his presidency, but turned out to be fine. He was an avid runner throughout his seventies.
    54-year-old Herbert Hoover, who played Hooverball with a six-pound medicine ball every morning.
    61-year-old Gerald Ford; the Secret Service had to recruit a skier to keep up with him.
    64-year-old George H.W. Bush, who regularly ran half an hour.

    Gerald Ford was the best athlete to become POTUS. Dude was a team MVP Linebacker & Center and turned down a NFL career with the Packers. Then the ? stumble once on camera and suddenly everyone believes Chevy Chase jokes about him being a klutz. Lol. Meanwhile he was murdering ppl on the golf course and the Secret Service had to recruit a world class skiier to keep up with him on the slopes.
  • Jabu_Rule
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    Trump Used Illegal Migrant Models.
    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration#testb
    Trump Model Management, has profited from using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not permit them to work here, according to three former Trump models, all noncitizens
    Canadian-born Rachel Blais spent nearly three years working for Trump Model Management. After first signing with the agency in March 2004, she said, she performed a series of modeling gigs for Trump's company in the United States without a work visa
    the agency never obtained work visas on their behalf, even as they performed modeling assignments in the United States.
    even unpaid employment is against the law for foreign nationals who do not have a work visa.
    Two of the former Trump models said Trump's agency encouraged them to deceive customs officials about why they were visiting the United States and told them to lie on customs forms about where they intended to live.

  • BobOblah
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    Trump in Mexico with the president today, should be interesting. A lot of Mexicans think the president is ? up by even acknowledging Trump on that level and treating him like a potential statesman after he, ya know, called them all rapists. He coulda said why tf would I meet Donald Trump
  • Mr.LV
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    U.S. Embassy warned Donald Trump against Mexico trip.
  • ThaNubianGod
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  • Angeles1son85
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    Lol nieto talkin about work together and cartel when hes on there payroll and lmao trump look like he gonna fall sleep and fall forward
  • infamous114
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    Lol that whole event was unnecessary
  • scoop1215
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    Lol that whole event was unnecessary

    I dont think so. say if he does win he already opened the door for future talks and partnership. The Mexican president reached out to both hillary and trump last night. Trump agreed and made it his first thing to do today.
  • Lord Ether
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    http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/06/09/whos-the-fascist-barack-obama-donald-trump-or-hillary-clinton/

    Who’s The Fascist? Barack Obama, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?

    JUNE 9, 2016 BY STUART HOOPER 4 COMMENTS

    Margaret Kimberly

    Global Research

    The U.S. public loves fascists; they elect them, constantly. Donald Trump, who “says he would raise the minimum wage and stop the endless efforts at regime change,” is called a fascist by some. But Hillary Clinton “is happy to bomb Libya or Syria or any other country,” and played a major role in mass Black incarceration. Barack Obama is the war-maker and deporter-in-chief. “All of the major party candidates fit the F word description in some way.”
    Donald Trump is the ill spoken, boorish, graceless version of every American president in modern history. He differs from them only in his unconcealed appeals to white nationalism. But Democrats aren’t much better. They pretend to work on behalf of human, civil and economic rights but those claims are lies. They are meant to hide their partnerships with corporate America, very wealthy individuals and the worldwide imperialist project.
    If Trump is a fascist then he will fit in nicely with the pantheon of horrific men we are told to respect and venerate. Barack Obama charges and convicts whistle blowers with the little used espionage act from the era of Woodrow Wilson. He claims and has exercised an invented right to ? Americans. His predecessor invaded and occupied Iraq but he continues the ? deed there and in Afghanistan. He tries to fool the public by assassinating “al Qaeda number two,” over and over again. Al Qaeda certainly doesn’t lack for plan B staffers.
    Bush the younger cut tax rates for rich people but Obama didn’t change that. Under the guise of compromising with intransigent Republicans he did the same thing. When he and the Democrats controlled Congress in 2009 and 2010 they raised the minimum wage a paltry 70 cents.
    Conversely, Donald Trump says he would raise the minimum wage and says he would stop the endless efforts at regime change. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Bernie Sanders have questioned that fundamental premise of American foreign policy. Hillary Clinton has already proven herself to be particularly blood thirsty. She is happy to bomb Libya or Syria or any other country. Her so-called expertise amounts to nothing more than an expansion of state sponsored terror committed by the United States.
    Trump says he wouldn’t cut Social Security while Barack Obama famously declared that he and his 2012 Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, agreed on the need to cut this program that was once called the “third rail” of politics.

    Every president since the 1980s has grown the horrific mass incarceration industry. Using wars on drugs as a pretext they have locked up 2 million people, half of whom are black. No one comes into office with any intention of undoing America’s leadership as the world’s worst jailer.
    American history teaches black people to be, at the very least, wary of public officials who are beloved by red necks as much as Trump is. When Trump speaks of preventing Muslim immigration or deporting all of the estimated 11 million undocumented people in this country he is making inherently racist appeals.
    That is why he is protested and rightly so. But the protesters have already missed the mark by giving a pass to equally questionable policy actions and statements coming from Democrats.
    It is a Democratic president who brought back a cold war against Russia and recklessly brought troops to the edge of that country’s borders.
    This scenario was unheard of during the worst days of the cold war and now risks nuclear confrontation. That is because George W. Bush unilaterally abrogated the missile defense treaty with Russia. Perhaps he can be called a fascist also.

    The trade deals passed by American presidents with congressional connivance grow worse. There is no longer any pretense that their goal is to help corporations maximize profits and minimize everyone else’s rights. Not even members of Congress were allowed access to the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership legislation.
    If Trump is protested, Obama ought to be as well. He is spending his last year in office on an imperialism tour. He goes to Hiroshima for photo opportunities with atomic bomb survivors while building more nuclear warheads than any other president. He tells endless lies about Russian “aggression” but he is the provocative head of state.
    Trump should be disliked by Latinos and everyone else when he says that Mexican immigrants are rapists and murderers. But Obama is the deporter in chief, sending a record number of Latino immigrants out of the country with dubious rationales, devastating them and their families.
    Apparently all of the major party candidates fit the F word description in some way. Trump’s bombast and ignorance make him the easiest to pick out of the crowd but appearances are deceiving. It seems that if a politician has the right establishment credentials and knows how to give prepared speeches he or she can get away with committing any outrage.
    In just the last 40 years American presidents or their allied partners in crime have killed people in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Congo, Somalia, Haiti, Grenada, Gaza, Kosovo, Serbia, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Yemen. What do they have to do to be called fascists? Showing bad manners seems to be the only thing that sets off expressions of outrage among Americans.
    There is already fascism in the White House, the Justice Department, the State Department and Congress. The only question is who will be the next person to keep that sick machinery running.
  • Lord Ether
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    http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/08/26/unholy-alliance-hillary-clinton-saudi-sponsors-support-terrorism-extremism/

    UNHOLY ALLIANCE: Hillary Clinton’s Saudi Sponsors Support Terrorism, Islamist Extremism

    Amid the tossing and turning of media hit pieces and partisan mud slinging in advance of the US presidential vote in November, very little focus is given on the actual record and policies of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.

    With this week’s damning revelations regarding Gulf Arab monarchs buying access into the US State Dept via the Clinton Foundation, a clearer picture is now emerging about how the sponsorship of religious extremism, as well as geopolitical instability in the Middle East and beyond – links directly back to the Clinton global network of international oligarchs.

    If the West in general and the United States in particular, left the Arab and Muslim world alone and in peace, we would most likely never see all those terrorist attacks, which are rocking the world from Indonesia to France. There would be no Mujahedeen and its mutation into al-Qaeda; in Afghanistan or elsewhere. There would be no traces of the ISIS (or ISIL or I.S. or Daesh or however you choose to call it), in Syria, Iraq, Libya or anywhere else.
    And the super-conservative Wahhabi Islam, that outdated, freak Saudi mutant, would remain in the religious schools of the ultra-regressive Kingdom, instead of gaining ground all over Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
    Secular Islam
    But the West embarked on a brutal, Machiavellian path: it decided to destroy socialist Islam – that (historically) moderate, compassionate and progressive religion. It smashed once secular Egypt; it overthrew the government in socialist Iran and then in near-Communist Indonesia, implanting in all these places horrifically degenerate and fully outdated religious concepts. It used extremists to destroy healthy patriotism and socialism. Like the Brits in the 19th Century (“You can control people’s brains, while we will control your natural resources”), the West embraced Wahhabi teaching, because it was able to guarantee full obedience, dictatorial (pro-Western) governance and oppressive feudalism.
    Islam has been used and abused, manipulated and virtually stripped of its essence. The process has gone so far that two leading Iranian scholars, during my visit last-year to Tehran, declared to me: “In so many parts of the world, the West created an absolutely new religion. We don’t recognize it, anymore. It has nothing to do with Islam.”
    “If the West in general and the United States in particular, left the Arab and Muslim world alone and in peace, we would most likely never see all those terrorist attacks, which are rocking the world from Indonesia to France…”
    Correct. Like a naughty, spoiled and heartless child, the West, after destroying the Soviet Union, painstakingly constructed its new enemy – “militant Islam” – so it could continue indulging in its favorite activity, which is perpetual conflict, endless wars and plunder.
    It is as simple as that.
    The greatest oppressors of the Muslim people, those in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Indonesia have all been closely allied to the West. The most terrible terrorist “Muslim” organizations, from Al-Qaida to ISIS, have been created, armed and supported by the West and its cronies.
    In Europe and in the United States, the “fear of terrorists” is fully exploited by the Western regime — a global class alliance of plutocrats, in actuality, with headquarters in Washington, where the main military and media muscle reside. It still clings to power mainly thanks to such fear implanted in the brains of ‘ordinary people’.And what about the “War on Terror”? Yes, there really is such war, but the West is not the one who fights it. As this goes to print, the war against terrorism is being fought by Russia, Iran, China, Syria, Hezbollah and their allies!
  • Lord Ether
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    The West is still closely collaborating with the terrorists. It miraculously ‘avoids targeting them’ when ‘fighting wars against them’; it financially supports some and trains others. It criticizes and antagonizes those who are actually fighting the extremist militant groups.
    Extremists have been unleashed, like Rottweiler fighting dogs, against almost all progressive governments in the Middle East, but also against China and Russia. Extremist Muslims, extremist Christians, even extremist Buddhists!
    In turn, the politicians in the United States are regularly supported, financially, by the regimes (including those of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, etc.) that are spreading, relentlessly, throughout the world, the most intolerant and grotesquely violent religious concepts.
    Despite their essential servility and cowardice, even some North American mainstream media outlets are now actively discussing various schemes involving the financing of the Clinton Foundation by Saudi Arabia (alongside several leading transnational corporations and Wall Street’s largest banks).
    On its “Breaking News”, as far back as in 2008, CNN reported:
    The donations to the William J. Clinton Foundation include amounts of $10 million to $25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and real estate mogul Stephen Bing, a personal friend of the Clintons.
    The Clintons came under intense pressure during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to release the names of donors to both the Foundation and to the Clinton presidential library in Arkansas.
    Bill Clinton agreed to the release of the list after President-elect Barack Obama nominated Hillary Clinton to become Secretary of State.
    The governments of Kuwait and Qatar are also on the list, as is Saudi businessman Nasser Al-Rashid, who has close ties to the Saudi royal family. Saudi Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi, reputed to be one of the richest men in the world, is among the donors as well. Both Saudis contributed in the $1 million to $5 million range. A group called Friends of Saudi Arabia and the Dubai Foundation appear in the same category.
  • Angeles1son85
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    Lol trump sellin a dream he gonna make all gangs disappear