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1 minute ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Donald Trump Jnr has got the virus.

 

Another one who I wont give a fuck about if he carks it.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55024888

Was having this discussion today - none of the people you would like to see croak are. Which is part of the problem, it just emboldens the cranks.

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On 09/08/2017 at 20:20, Red Phoenix said:

Extract from Consortium News :

 

A New Twist in Seth Rich Murder Case

 

With U.S.-Russia tensions as dangerously high as they’ve been since the worst days of the Cold War, there is potential new evidence that Russia was not behind a hack of the Democratic National Committee, although Congress and the U.S. mainstream media accept the unproven allegation of Russia’s guilt as indisputable fact.

 

The possible new evidence comes in the form of a leaked audiotape of veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in which Hersh is heard to say that not Russia, but a DNC insider, was the source of the Democratic emails published by WikiLeaks just before the start of the Democratic National Convention in late July 2016.

 

Hersh said on the tape that the source of the leak was former DNC employee Seth Rich, who was murdered on a darkened street in a rough neighborhood of Northwest Washington D.C. two weeks before the Convention, on July 10, 2016. But Hersh threw cold water on a theory that the murder was an assassination in retaliation for the leak. Instead, Hersh concurs with the D.C. police who say the murder was a botched robbery.

 

Mainstream news outlets have mocked any linkage between Rich’s murder and the disclosure of the DNC emails as a “conspiracy theory,” but Hersh’s comments suggest another possibility – that the murder and the leak were unrelated while Rich may still have been the leaker.

 

In dismissing the possibility that Rich was the leaker, mainstream media outlets often ignore one of the key reasons why some people believe that he was: Shortly after his murder, WikiLeaks, which has denied receiving the emails from the Russian government, posted a Tweet offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the solution of the mystery of who killed Rich.

 

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and publisher, brought up Rich’s murder out of context in an interview with Dutch TV last August. “Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks,” Assange said. “As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington.”

 

Pressed by the interviewer to say whether Rich was the source of the DNC emails, Assange said WikiLeaks never reveals its sources. Yet, it appeared to be an indirect way of naming Rich, while formally maintaining WikiLeak’s policy. An alternative view would be to believe that Assange is cynically using Rich’s death to divert the trail from the real source.

 

But Assange is likely one of the few people who actually knows who the source is, so his professed interest in Rich’s murder presents a clue regarding the source of the leak that any responsible news organization would at least acknowledge although that has not been the case in many recent mainstream articles about the supposed Seth Rich “conspiracy theory.”

 

More here : https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/08/a-new-twist-in-seth-rich-murder-case/

Guess fucking what? Another conspiracy theory backed by the usual suspects proved to be bollocks. 
 

https://news.yahoo.com/fox-paid-seven-figures-to-settle-lawsuit-over-bogus-seth-rich-conspiracy-story-003236858.html

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On 10/08/2017 at 19:06, Red Phoenix said:

Russian hacking of the US election has been a year long conspiracy theory that's been covered more than almost any other story by the US media (general Trump/Russia collusion covered more), and still not one shred of proof has been presented.

 

But...but...the hacking.

The irony...

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12 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

The first of many no doubt.

 

 

 

The founding fathers didn't quite think the American system through did they?

 

"Checks and balances! We'll have none of that despotism here!"

 

Cue creating a role that is leader of the executive branch, head of state and commander in chief all rolled into one, and who can hire and fire whoever he wants and invade whoever he wants, do whatever he wants and then absolve anyone - including himself - of any crimes.

 

Some bourbon being consumed at the signing of the constitution I'd wager.

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3 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

The founding fathers didn't quite think the American system through did they?

 

"Checks and balances! We'll have none of that despotism here!"

 

Cue creating a role that is leader of the executive branch, head of state and commander in chief all rolled into one, and who can hire and fire whoever he wants and invade whoever he wants, do whatever he wants and then absolve anyone - including himself - of any crimes.

 

Some bourbon being consumed at the signing of the constitution I'd wager.

That Sam Harris podcast says something along the lines of ‘we need laws to protect us from a psychopath in the White House’ 

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4 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

The founding fathers didn't quite think the American system through did they?

 

Some bourbon being consumed at the signing of the constitution I'd wager.

They must have started out with good intentions and just all got twatted beyond belief. 

 

'Hey George, what the fuck happened last night ?'

 

'Fucked if I know Benjamin. Only thing I remember was Jefferson threatening to bare his arms to Sam Adams'

 

Ha, ha, yeah I vaguely remember that too. Ah well, no harm done than eh. Fancy a curer ?

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On 14/11/2020 at 16:06, Section_31 said:

What's the score with Giuliani? He helped bring down the mob and drive down crime rates in NY didn't he? He wasn't always utterly insane. He's like a cartoon character now. Is that just how he makes money?

Quite a lot of that legacy was through evictions and forced relocation of neighbourhoods that had developed following property crashes on the Lower East Side. It wasn't some cutting edge social advance, he basically brought the Pinkertons in to clear out the squats and then lined his pockets during the ensuing development boom (with quite a lot of restoration having been done by squatters).

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21 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

Guess fucking what? Another conspiracy theory backed by the usual suspects proved to be bollocks. 
 

https://news.yahoo.com/fox-paid-seven-figures-to-settle-lawsuit-over-bogus-seth-rich-conspiracy-story-003236858.html

 

RP being a big conspiracy gobshite? Well, I never.

 

The Rich family are suing Fox News over their campaign of harrassment. Hope they get to kick that fat slug, Hannity, with a spiked boot as part of the inevitable settlement.

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