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State Department Confirms Authenticity Of Intercepted Ukraine Phone Call: Accuses Russia Of Dirty Tricks

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If there was any doubt whether the intercepted "Fuck the EU" phone call between Assistant Secretary of State Nuland and the US Ambassador to the Ukraine Pyatt was authentic, it can now be laid to rest: in an earlier response to questions from reporters, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not dispute authenticity of recording and essentially confirmed it was real "I didn’t say it was inauthentic."

However, in the tried and true fashion of assigning blame elsewhere, the world learned that it was really all Russia's fault and the released intercept was a "new low of Russian tradecraft." Psaki added that there are moments "in every diplomatic relationship" when you disagree, Psaki says. But the absolute punchline: "It’s concerning that private conversation was recorded."

Perhaps maybe the NSA can opine on the concernability of a private conversation being recorded.

Then again in a world in which only the NSA is allowed to record every single private conversation, one can easily see why the State Dept thought it was safe to discuss its state subordination strategy over what appears to have been an unencrypted landline. At least the CIA used to communicate by encrypted redlines.

Finally, while Russian "tradecraft" may have hit a new low, so did US reputation and standing abroad, however offset by the humiliation and embarrassment of US foreign policymakers which has never been higher.

 

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Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:29 | 4409936 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Some Americans use the F-word after every third word they say.

Fucken A, bubba, you know that shit's true. Fuck.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:38 | 4409961 nmewn
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Oh, I thought he meant frrrrreeeee! ;-)

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:24 | 4409907 nmewn
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Foreign relations seems to be one continuous selfie these days. I believe you're right, I think they purposely embarrass themselves to distract attention from the domestic shit storm they've created here.

Moar idiots in clown suits please!

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:35 | 4409951 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Moar idiots in clown suits please!

Yes! And make them drive around in those little Shriner parade cars!

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:32 | 4409948 DollarMenu
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They don't have to.

They live in another world, the one they took from the rest of us.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:09 | 4409841 surf0766
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They can spy on us but no one dare spy on them. Piss off  !!

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:13 | 4409857 beaker
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OOOOhhh boy!!  you cant make this stuff up.  Fact is stranger than fiction...

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:14 | 4409858 tarsubil
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Is this an act or is this girl really as dumb as a highschool Bieber fan?

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:20 | 4409888 OwnSilverPlayMusic
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After watching the daily State Dept. briefing during the run up to our "disciplinary" action against Syria (remember when that was so important?)  I can safely say, yes she is that dumb!  Not bad on the eyes though..her and that blonde with the glasses...if they only had a brain.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:14 | 4409862 ptoemmes
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Considering the subject matter and content of the phone conversation, Fuck the EU was not the most...uhh...controversial thing said.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:07 | 4410082 object_orient
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But that's what grabs headlines and the attention of half the posters here. Reading comprehension and critical thinking are in very short supply. And this one's easy, FFS.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:15 | 4409869 esum
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but i thought my obamaphone was secure 

gosh i hope they dont put the selfie of me and hitlary and humma

oh well ... i can always go back as a dorm monitor at choate or i could give head at the lincoln tunnel

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:27 | 4409874 BullyBearish
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Lying sacks of $hit.  What a bunch of limp dicks...this is really getting old.  Is there not one person of virtue and character that can bring us back from terminal arrogance to become a force for good instead of evil?

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:08 | 4410087 object_orient
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I would much prefer they stop being a force...period.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:17 | 4409876 loveyajimbo
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Jesus, can't they find a State Dept rep who is not asshole ugly?  Guess Hillaroid laid down the law... to protect her glam image... any bitches better looking than a gorilla with a yeast infection are OUT...

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:28 | 4410360 Catullus
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Haven't been to the DC bars I see. Pickings are slim in a totally ass ugly kind of way. Just think, the women who take these government jobs are the nerdy girls in high school who gave too much of a shit about other people's lives and it never amounted to shit.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:15 | 4409877 Karl von Bahnhof
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Dirty dicks?

NEVA! In myyy liffe!

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:16 | 4409878 SgtShaftoe
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Is Baghdad Butt-Cunt blushing?

Whatever happened to old Baghdad Bob? Is he rotting in a prison somewhere? These people should be reminded what their likely future fate will be. Tomorrow always comes eventually.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:22 | 4409885 ebworthen
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I hate to say this but the "war on terror" fuel tank is running low.

What if they enter into another pact with Bandar Bin Sultan to sacrifice some U.S. Athletes and Citizens at Sochi?

Make Russia look bad while stoking the home fires of war, enlistments, and MIC funding so they can stay in Afghanistan and move on to Syria, etc.?

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:47 | 4409992 layman_please
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imagine all the high frame rate cameras with telephoto lenses ready on site to capture every second in slow motion...

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:53 | 4410413 Ness.
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I'll take the hot Russian bobsledder, in the Olympic mess hall... with the tube of toothpaste.

 

CLUE!     Bitchez.

 

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 03:23 | 4410860 flyingcaveman
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Canadian figure skater in the ice rink with a man hole cover.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 08:07 | 4411019 GCT
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Eb what scares me is you may well be right.  Our media is doing its best to make Russia look bad. I guess when Russia upstaged the USA on the world stage with recent diplomatic wins, the USA media along with this administration is doing its best to make this olympics look mediocre.  We should never turn the Olympics into a bashing of the host.  All countries including our has its problems trying to put on a show of this magnitude.

Once the rhetoric started and topping it off with the toothpaste bomb reported in on TV, something may well indeed happen.  Our media talks about inadequare security and I have never seen so much security at this event in my lifetime. 

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:20 | 4409896 Apostate2
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Presented with no comment:

2000 lb.US bomb uncovered in Happy Valley. Thousands of HK residents removed for safety.

(Well, just one: LOL)

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:19 | 4409897 22winmag
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Toss these chicks back in the kitchen and the bedroom where they belong.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:31 | 4409941 ebworthen
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Obama?  He prefers bath houses and can't cook.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 07:13 | 4410988 Urban Redneck
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Keep 'em. I prefer women with a modicum of proficiency or skill in my kitchen and bedroom. When you reach the point of "If you want something done right, do it yourself" - it's time to reconsider your associations.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:22 | 4409900 OwnSilverPlayMusic
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I would love to see this collection of mental midgets explain their opinions to Vitali Klitschko in person

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 23:53 | 4410581 Volkodav
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Klitschko has been caught agitating violence to the radicals when thinking no witnesses around..

Two faced also...

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:28 | 4409925 Berspankme
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Fuck this Nuland bitch- another obama loving pigslut. fuck her

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:28 | 4409933 tony wilson
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the femine toss off.

tossed off by a red head type 2.

 

7.10 in she says i am done arshad turns away,

turns her back on the man that can dismantle her.

toss off  and flicks her hair across the room to the folks with the easier questions.

arshad mohammed from reuters he must hate us because he does not love freedom.

his questions mean nothing and are not worth reply because he maybe an arab or at the least an iran type.

arshads very act of thinking is anti semetic and a danger i would say he has a mental illness.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 23:19 | 4410498 Blano
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Dude lay off the blow.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 09:49 | 4411279 tarsubil
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No, please don't.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:28 | 4409934 the not so migh...
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The good thing is it just started, the proof obama blowing little toddler boys will come out and then the DHS and Al quaida employees will be lined up against the wall and shot for the betterment of humanity.  These mongrols are not even americans just banker employees within the state department. 

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 23:51 | 4410571 Volkodav
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actually turkie mongols..

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:41 | 4409967 walküre
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Front page news in Germany and across Europe

http://www.spiegel.de/

Nix friends

 

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:48 | 4409993 Overfed
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Bwahahahahhahah!!!!! Awesome!

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:14 | 4410112 Blano
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Ingles por favor.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:39 | 4410175 Joseff Stalin
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Obama's main advisor Europe should the U.S. frustration of Europeans soften, instead, it heats it seem rather new to. In a YouTube video she insulted the European Union audible roughly related to the situation in Ukraine. Gregor Peter Schmitz, Brussels  more ...  Forum  ]

Use Google chrome browser. Choose translate from German to English. Word order is not the same as English word order, so you have to rearrange the words to get the meaning.

 

 

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 02:50 | 4410834 walküre
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"FUCK THE EU" is not English? Get on with the program.

FUCK is making headlines across the world and FUCK is related to the US government. A word that is always blurred out or made inaudible. Now out in the open. I think it's a pretty good reflection of how the world perceives America and why much of the world hates America. Holier than thou, caught on tape. Wire tapped by another spy agency because NSA legalized tapping of everyone, everywhere.

Think about that for just a minute. Gig is up.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:43 | 4409976 buzzsaw99
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spying and droning is only to be done BY the usa bitchez

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:11 | 4409986 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://www.whale.to/m/disin.html

Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation

Note: The first rule and last five (or six, depending on situation) rules are generally not directly within the ability of the traditional disinfo artist to apply. These rules are generally used more directly by those at the leadership, key players, or planning level of the criminal conspiracy or conspiracy to cover up.

Rule number 1 has been breached

1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.  Regardless of what you know, don't discuss it -- especially if you are a public figure, news anchor,  etc. If it's not reported, it didn't happen,  and you never have to deal with the issues.

So what is rule number 2

2. Become incredulous and indignant.  Avoid discussing key issues and instead focus  on side issues which can be used show the topic  as being critical of some otherwise sacrosanct group or theme. This is also known as the  'How dare you!' gambit.

...

This what happens when the US government is overrun with state re-education dog obedience trained EEO AA human fidos as opposed to critically thinking human beings.

God forbid the Psaki fido goes off script and and shows some critical thinking. With that said I'd give her a bone....

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:33 | 4410382 samsara
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Love it.  Keep posting which ones they use/break in every article.  I will try to post them if you miss one.

They are so easy to spot if you know the 25.

(and the 8 traits.....)

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:58 | 4410433 Cleveland Steamer
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Love your posts DCH. Keep up the good work.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 07:51 | 4411007 I Am Not a Copp...
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No mention of this on any of the US news sites.  Not even FOX who you would think to be all over this.  Trying to bury it as we speak.  Rule 1 in full effect!

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:48 | 4409994 Seasmoke
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Sure looks like she has the answers to the questions already written Down.....either way, I am tired of looking at fucking ugly looking cunts today. ....... please Tyler, STOP IT !!!

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:49 | 4410002 DarthVaderMentor
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She is an ugly arrogant know it all cunt, isn't she?

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:48 | 4409995 DarthVaderMentor
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We may have the lead in technology, but we are mere rank amateurs when it comes to tradecraft when compared to the Russians and even the British. Our state department adds to the incompetence with their arrogance and all of that is before we get to our incompetent executive and congressional branches of government.  

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 02:53 | 4410837 walküre
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Cowboys, shoot first and ask questions later.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:49 | 4410008 ThroxxOfVron
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That was an SNL skit, right?

Somebody please tell Me that this was just an SNL skit.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 23:05 | 4410443 tony wilson
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listen son.

shut up and listen to an old broke back cowboy speaks.

eye not queer dat hollywood jewish stuff

dat show was no snl skit.

yes it full of what us cowboys call chromatic aberration softness at the edge of frame area.

it is a higly complex render see.

do you think something that looks this cheep can be done cheap opposite my friend.

this has about 120 different pieces of fx work.

do not ask me what is human or what is not but this is way beyond green screen this new technology is so bad and so expensive do not ask me to de code it any more without payin me.

in the future story from pre-start-mid-end-government solution will all be done by the click of a keyboard.

even my god damn horse will be cgi.

what a world

what a world.

 

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:49 | 4410010 Blano
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A US government official complaining about a recorded conversation?  The irony of it all.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:58 | 4410429 NEKO
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I laughed when I saw the headline! Lolli lolli LOL.

You could not make this shit up.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:53 | 4410029 Joseff Stalin
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"...our incompetent executive and congressional branches of government.  ..."

It was prophesized:

 

Timothy chptr 3:

 

 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, acovetous, boasters,bproud, blasphemers, cdisobedient to parents, dunthankful, unholy,

 Without anatural baffectionctrucebreakersdfalse accusers,eincontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 20:58 | 4410048 Old Poor Richard
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As a US citizen who does not want to go to war with Russia, my thanks go to Pres. Pooty for leaking this call.  The US' moronic scheme to fuel protests in Ukraine in the hopes of installing a Western-friendly government is not going to accomplish anything but getting the protesters arrested or killed. 

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:02 | 4410067 RaceToTheBottom
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Did the NSA mistakedly sell the taped phone conversation to Russia again?

Oopps

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:07 | 4410088 Seasmoke
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Somewhere tonight Eric Snowden is drinking vodka and chuckling too himself.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:51 | 4410160 DarthVaderMentor
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Here is tradecraft at its best. They have taken a run of the mill NSA defector and traitor and through a complete understanding of our national psyche and our history and other subleties, they have turned him and the theft of our data into a political act which actually makes him look good to the masses of Americans. We can't even touch this level of tradecraft. To the average American, the executive branch, Congress and the US intelligence community look more like the uneducated thugs we claim the FSB are in this sordid affair.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:30 | 4410365 samsara
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You're putting out some great stuff DVM.  Your stuff stands on it's own though.  You don't need to bold it all, all the time..

The stuff is powerful without it.... (just a thought.)

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:52 | 4410418 NEKO
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Tradecraft, private calls.... Baloney, this is about interference in the affairs of a foreign state... and it stinks!

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:12 | 4410098 BullyBearish
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“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”

W.H. Auden, Collected Poems

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:15 | 4410113 Andre
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Zimmerman Telegram

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:35 | 4410171 DarthVaderMentor
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Amen, except the Brits and the Germans knew how to do it and how to react when it went to the dogs. 

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 11:00 | 4411595 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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If I didn't know better it wasn't the Russians that intercepted the call but the Brits and coordinated with the Russians to leak it.

Consider this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26068994

That sort of article doesn't get published in the BBC especially one that highlights secret government agreements by the BBC unless the British Intelligence community approved it in the first place. BBC is British state run media. Everything the way it is shaping up looks like the Brits and Russians are pissed at the US for violating agreements and destablizing the Ukraine in the process to get their way. Sounds like a typical dry British way of saying keep it up and when the Russians roll in the tanks we are going side with them on this issue making you look weak on the world stage using that agreement as political cover.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:24 | 4410136 NoWayJose
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Don't mess with the Russian bear - US warns travelers of toothpaste bombs and other gels. Russian bear says "no Chobani yogurt allowed, even if it is an Olympic sponsor." Hundreds of cases sit in New Jersey....

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:31 | 4410154 Fix It Again Timmy
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If you cross a border with PM's, the last place you would want ot do it is on a road....

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 21:45 | 4410199 Joseff Stalin
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The police kept searching because the family looked worried.

Lesson 1.  Don't worry, be happy!

 

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU&feature=kp

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:26 | 4410351 Goldilocks
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There's No Place Like Home - The Wizard of Oz (8/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZSb0JCWcXk (2:23)

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:26 | 4410354 TNTARG
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I would say your powerful women definitely need sex. And your men too.

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 22:31 | 4410367 dark pools of soros
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the red head is going to have a great porn career... i'll buy a year membership

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 23:21 | 4410508 Joebloinvestor
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Wait till they release Hillary's Benghazi phone conversations.

"Fuck the ambassador".

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 23:32 | 4410534 Sizzurp
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She is trying her little heart out to spin this POS anyway she can, only she can't. What a disgrace.  

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 23:58 | 4410588 alfred b.
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    ....obamer & nulend walk into a bar, and the waiter says:   "what u guys smokin' ? "

 

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 01:58 | 4410791 TNTARG
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I'd say this stuff deserves our concern better:

Record-high 10 Million Bq/liter of strontium-90 & beta emitters finally revealed in Fukushima plant groundwater — 1,000% more than Tepco has claimed for last 6 months

F-Diary - Enenews.

UC Berkeley Nuclear Prof.: My wife’s “very concerned” about Fukushima impact in U.S., my children are also concerned, as is public… I am too — His ‘Kelp Watch’ Co-founder: “We’d all be better off if this material didn’t exist and wasn’t coming over, but… nothing we can do about it” (AUDIO)

Enenews.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 02:24 | 4410816 Joe A
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The NSA listens into the private telephone conversations of leaders of friendly countries such as Merkel and Schröder but it are the Russians who are the villains here. Never mind the meddling in the affairs of a foreign country.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 10:08 | 4411391 Ban KKiller
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" I thought this was a private line...I mean we don't have anything to hide,,but,,but,,,but" 

Bet you NEVER say anything on the phones again!

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 13:18 | 4412100 ThisIsBob
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The Taliban and Al Queda picked up on that a number of years ago, and post-Snowden, so has the whole world.  I guess State isn't in the loop yet.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 02:29 | 4410824 Alternative
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OMG, I think she is my neighbors daughter!

 

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 02:47 | 4410827 JuliaS
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Looking at youtube comments, it feels like half the US government is on there running damage control.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 05:54 | 4410939 Johnny Cocknballs
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The following is basically a perfect symbol of the Ukraine riots.

 

http://ajewishisrael.com/jew-carries-captured-flagpole-ukrainian-president/

 

 

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 06:43 | 4410973 Cryogenic
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FFS, can she please stop to say "uhm" and fiddling with her hair.

To me these are signs of nervousness and/or talking BS.

 

Anybody language experts care to comment?

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 08:02 | 4411016 glaucon was right
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You do not have to be an expert to see this.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 08:48 | 4411072 RazvanM
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Fuck whole EU, or she just want to fuck one EU citizen at a time? What about US citizens? They can get a piece of the action?

There is no dirty trick intercepting the dirty involvement of US in the internal issues of Ukraine. And there is no dirty trick for making public these machinations. It's a dirty trick for US to officialy state one thing and in reality doing the opposite. Fuckers, you like to spy on others - how it is now that you are spied too?

I do not suggest that Russia involvement is better. They are for sure involved in crimes against Ukrainians. But for Ukraine being the playground for two aggressive hulks (maybe more) is not a good thing. Living in Romania, I do not like to see our neighbour being put in a state of chaos by US, Russia and whatever others are involved.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 09:15 | 4411107 TalkToLind
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Fuck the EU, I came here for the thitties on the tumbnail.

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 16:47 | 4413044 NZ Watcher
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This made my day - made my year actually !!!!

 

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