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Kim Dotcom claims he worked with Seth Rich in a release of DNC emails to wikileaks
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/21/2017 15:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I always suspected Kim was the brains behind the Illary leaks.

he hates her as she was bought by hollywood to take his business down.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/21/2017 15:39 Comments || Top||

#2  He Finnish? That's PRACTICALLY A RUSSIAN! TRUMP IS DOOMED! [snicker]
Posted by: Bobby || 05/21/2017 16:36 Comments || Top||

#3  It would sell better if he had said anything about this prior to two days ago...
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/21/2017 16:57 Comments || Top||

#4  seth rich died in July 2016 and Kim is only now telling us this stuff

does not compute
Posted by: lord garth || 05/21/2017 19:55 Comments || Top||

#5  When someone tells you this is a crazy conspiracy theory and not even remotely possible, just consider what sort of people we are talking about. Is Hillary, for example, just above this sort of thing?
Posted by: Iblis || 05/21/2017 22:09 Comments || Top||


Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's Campaign Disbursed Nearly $10K For Super Bowl Tickets
[Free Beacon] The campaign of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee disbursed nearly $10,000 of its funds for Super Bowl LI tickets, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

This year's Super Bowl between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots, which took place on Feb. 5, was held at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Jackson Lee represents Texas's 18th Congressional District, which includes most of the central Houston area.

The congresswoman's campaign committee is shown to have made two separate transactions pertaining to Super Bowl tickets days before and after the event.

On Feb. 3, just two days before the Super Bowl, Jackson Lee's campaign committee paid $4,900 to 21st Century Fox, Government Relations for ’Super Bowl LI Tickets,' according to the filings.

On Feb. 8, three days after the Super Bowl, Gerald Womack, the congresswoman's campaign manager, was reimbursed $4,900 for Super Bowl tickets, filings show.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/21/2017 11:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm curious--how many tickets does that buy?
Posted by: james || 05/21/2017 16:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm confused: if the campaign paid $4,900, then was reimbursed $4,900, didn't it pay a net of zero?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/21/2017 18:48 Comments || Top||

#3  donations have limits and purposes. It's a little too quid pro quo
Posted by: Frank G || 05/21/2017 19:26 Comments || Top||


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Twitter Co-Founder 'Sorry' if Social Network Helped Trump to Become President
Posted by: Gleth Hupoling7723 || 05/21/2017 06:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So social media is only to be used to elect left wing candidates?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/21/2017 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  We on the right appreciate the positive impact however you are profoundly unprofessional like so many business leaders these days. And since you lie to your advertisers repent or be smited with ransomeware.
Posted by: Zorba Bumble4052 || 05/21/2017 23:47 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Study Reveals Trump Media Bias - Unexpectedly!
[HeatStreet] A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump.

Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets.

They found that the tone of some outlets was negative in as many as 98% of reports, significantly more hostile than the first 100 days of the three previous administrations.
Charts at link. WaPo (83%) and NYT (87%) pretty close.
Only Fox News, which features some of Trump's most enthusiastic supporters and is often given special access to the President, even came close to positivity.
52% negative, 48% positive. Pretty close to fair and balanced.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/21/2017 11:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like the coverage of his first speech in Saudi. CNN and MSNBC id not cover it live. MSN has yet to cover it and CNN finally compared it Obamas speech. Np bias here...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/21/2017 12:48 Comments || Top||

#2  The media has operated unchallenged in my opinion since Vietnam. They have told their lies for so long they believe they can continue to do so. The people know them for what they are. Oh a small number support them. Some work for them in the background. They will always fail. Every generation has its saboteurs. The new media is taking over. The old media voices will grow ever fainter.
Posted by: Dale || 05/21/2017 13:26 Comments || Top||

#3  They have told their lies for so long they believe they can continue to do so.

Actually, it's worse - they no longer understand these are lies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/21/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump might get a fairer shake from the Christian Science Monitor but not many others--maybe some of the foreign news media. Doesn't look like the European media are much fairer than our MSM.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/21/2017 14:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Biased MSM media? That is why so many are going to the internet and alt news sources.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/21/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't believe anything the WaPo or NYT puts out and CNN,MSDNC is even worse
Posted by: Frank G || 05/21/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Even Faux News is impossible to listen to on satellite radio, let alone watch. Blech...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/21/2017 18:08 Comments || Top||

#8  I've always maintained that any and all reporters are liars, traitors and enemies of humankind until proven otherwise. Which will not happen until the heat death of the universe.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/21/2017 19:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Trust the MSM's "reporting"? If the MSM "reports" the sun rose in the East this monring, I'll step outside to make sure myself.
Posted by: Barbara || 05/21/2017 19:49 Comments || Top||

#10  ...cause the Sun doesn't rise. The earth rotates.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/21/2017 22:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Russian and Comey catch a break - Hildebeest now blames loss on Twitter
[Michelle Malkin] Hillary Clinton now knows another reason why she wasn’t 50 points ahead: Damn you, Twitter! Twitter co-founder Evan Williams apologized for the role Twitter may have played in electing President Trump.

In an interview published Saturday in The New York Times, Williams discussed the president’s March claim to Fox News that "I think that maybe I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Twitter."
"It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that," Williams told the Times. "If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry."
If anybody needs me, I’ll be spending the rest of the day trying to figure out how Twitter kept Hillary out of Wisconsin and made her pledge to put coal country out of work.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/21/2017 13:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Besoeker || 05/21/2017 13:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Guess they'll keep floating these until one sticks.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/21/2017 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  or as the scooby boo villains say,

'I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXUqwuzcGeU
Posted by: lord garth || 05/21/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't be Twitter, because us mouth breathing, drooling reprehensibles have no opposable thumbs.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/21/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Anything to divert attention from the vast damage her private email server did to security

Witness China demolishung our network in China and Taiwan
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 05/21/2017 14:33 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2017-05-21
  Police arrest knife-wielding 14-year-old girl in West Bank
Sat 2017-05-20
  Saudi Arabia confirms Yemen’s missile strike on Riyadh
Fri 2017-05-19
  ICJ orders Pakistan to stay Jadhav execution
Thu 2017-05-18
  Blasts heard inside Afghan state TV compound in Jalalabad after gunmen attack
Wed 2017-05-17
  Female Bombers Attack NE Nigeria Village, Kill Two
Tue 2017-05-16
  Accused bomber Rahimi seeks reduced charges in New Jersey case
Mon 2017-05-15
  Kurdish forces reach the northern gates of Raqqa after liberating four more villages
Sun 2017-05-14
  Iraq: ISIS leaders killed during ‘meeting’ in al-Qaim
Sat 2017-05-13
  Syrian Army Makes Gains in Rebel Area of Damascus
Fri 2017-05-12
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Thu 2017-05-11
  Jakarta’s Christian governor jailed for blasphemy
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  US ignores Turkey’s objection, approves arming Kurdish forces in Syria
Tue 2017-05-09
  Egypt issues life sentence for Muslim Brotherhood chief
Mon 2017-05-08
  Confirmed: Head of ISIS In Afghanistan Killed In Raid By 50 U.S. Special Ops, 40 Afghan Commandos
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  Ismail Haniyeh elected new head of Hamas

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