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Obama Blames Social Media As Russian PM Blasts "Irresponsible US Policy" For Strengthening ISIS

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"The Islamic State has grown that strong due to the irresponsible policy of the United States," exclaimed Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev this morning, demanding that "really consolidated efforts" are needed to counter ISIS' terrorist threats. This comes just hours after President Obama toughened his rhetoric, vowing that the global coalition formed to destroy ISIS "will not relent," adding, rather oddly, that the group responsible for the Paris terror attacks is "a bunch of killers with good social media."

 

Obama toughens up...

Obama was hit with a wave of criticism in the wake of the terrorists' attacks in France and Lebanon, which left hundreds dead, having described that burst of violence as a "setback" in the battle against ISIS. So now, as CNN reports, U.S. President Barack Obama toughened his rhetoric against ISIS at a weekend press conference in Malaysia...

The group responsible for the Paris terror attacks is "a bunch of killers with good social media," he said. "They are dangerous and they've caused great hardship to ... an overwhelming majority of people."

 

The global coalition formed to destroy ISIS "will not relent," he vowed. "We will not accept the idea that terrorist assaults on restaurants and theaters and hotels are the new normal, or that we are powerless to stop them."

 

Obama's stronger language on ISIS came after days of criticism for his response to the tragedy in Paris but did not signal a policy shift by the administration.

 

"They can't beat us on the battlefield, so they try to terrorize us into being afraid, and changing our patterns of behavior, and panicking, and abandoning our allies and partners, and retreating from the world," Obama said. "As president, I will not let that happen."

 

It's "absolutely false" that "we are somehow at war with an entire religion," he said. "The United States could never be at any war with any religion because America is made up by multiple religions. We're strengthened by people from every religion, including Muslim Americans. So I want to be as clear as I can on this -- prejudice and discrimination helps (ISIS) and undermines our national security."

But while President Obama never mentioned the 'success' of the Russians on ISIS' local turf, The Economist hints strongly that Islamic State may be lashing out abroad because it has been weakened nearer home...

It may be a coincidence that plots to murder hundreds in Paris, blow up an aircraft over Sinai and kill indiscriminately on the streets in Beirut all came to fruition so close together. They may have been long planned; similar attempts earlier may have been thwarted.

 

 

But it may also be a considered response to challenges that IS faces closer to home.

And Russia is not holding back any punches, as ITAR-TASS reports, in its efforts to apportion blame and seek a stronger coalition...

Really consolidated efforts are needed to counter terrorist threat, with no discrimination among the allies into one’s own or somebody else’s, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told journalists on Sunday, commenting on the U.S. president’s pronouncements about Russia’s role in the Syrian conflict.

 

"The Islamic State (a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia) has grown that strong due to the irresponsible policy of the United States. Instead of focusing common efforts on countering terrorism, the United States and its allies plunged into struggle against Syria’s legitimate President Bashar Assad," Medvedev said before flying to Phnom Penh.

 

"Reasonable policy in the countries of the Middle East, whether it be Syria, Egypt or Iraq, for all countries, including the United States, is to be in supporting the legitimate authorities capable of ensuring the state’s integrity but not in shaking the situation.

 

In his words, there were sad examples of such irresponsible policy. "Once, the United States was behind Al Qaeda growth that led to the 9/11 tragedy. These lessons only prove that consolidated efforts are needed against terrorist threat, without dividing allies into one’s own and somebody else’s," he stressed.

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With talk like that, any 'coalition' of the capable is increasingly unlikely... and furthermore, 'accidental' collisions more likely.

 

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Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:10 | 6824757 junction
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Obama needs to cut down on his coke intake, he looks drugged these days.  And investigate the attempted Spencer Stone assassination, the guy who prevented the Thalys train massacre.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:11 | 6824762 Francis Marx
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He looks more burned out from too much reefer

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:50 | 6824910 sam i am
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Germany and EU refugee crisis sitrep

 

http://thesaker.is/november-22-2015-germany-eu-sitrep-by-c/

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:41 | 6825038 SWRichmond
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We social media'd some folks.

What a fucking douchebag.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:44 | 6825051 Latina Lover
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"The Islamic State (a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia) has grown that strong due to the irresponsible policy of the United States. Instead of focusing common efforts on countering terrorism, the United States and its allies plunged into struggle against Syria’s legitimate President Bashar Assad," Medvedev said before flying to Phnom Penh.

In one sentence, Medvedev succinctly sums up why ISIS is so strong.   Our USSA deep state created ISIS to overthrow Assad and threaten anyone else in the ME or Central Asia who dares not submit to the Wall Street and City of London Banksters.

Keep blowing up those ISIS head chopping fucks, Putin.  Most of the world is cheering you on, especially, in secret, most of the USSA captive poodle states.  Even worse than to be an enemy of the USSA, is to be  their ally.

 


Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:08 | 6825106 LikeyMikey
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It ain't drugs!!

 

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/10/report-eu-government-believes-ob...

 

These stories are all over the Internet and growing.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:28 | 6825173 doctor10
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Sounds like we're headed for Congressional Hearings.

Did'nt Hillahrea try to blame a silly-ass YouTube video for her Benghazi screw-up?

didn't work so hot for her-wonder why POTUS thinks it will for him?

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:10 | 6824761 _ConanTheLibert...
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1..2..3.. FUCK YOU BARRY !

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:12 | 6824766 l8apex
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WTF does Obama mean by "caused great hardship to an overwhelming majority of people"?  I'm pretty sure none of my neighbors has been the victim of a CIA terrorist attack.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:12 | 6824773 Francis Marx
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Same old bullsh't the mainstream crowd drinks up..

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:23 | 6824818 Socratic Dog
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Bullshit washed down with liberal quantities of kool aid.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 18:21 | 6825501 turnoffthewater
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Exactly BS

"U.S. President Barack Obama toughened his rhetoric"

rhetoric - language that is intended to influence people and that may not be honest or reasonable.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:13 | 6824775 i_call_you_my_base
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"The United States could never be at any war with any religion because America is made up by multiple religions."

The US is all about money, nothing else, but this statement is so stupid.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:27 | 6824838 Dinero D. Profit
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This is on my bucket list: To see all churches, cathedrals, synagogues and mosques bulldozed flatter than hammered spit. 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:13 | 6824777 silverer
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"Obama blames..."  where have I heard or read that phrase before?

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:14 | 6824778 DOGGONE
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Mr. President Obama:
Please do this timely, please.

Thwart terrorists!
End this deception by omission now!
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Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:15 | 6824783 HoserF16
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Social Media? You are such a Fucking Moron Barry. Go smoke some Dope your last year in office. Better yet, smoke some Cock you flaming homo... Putin, good luck in Syria. Thanx for stepping in.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:16 | 6824789 Salah
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Barack O'Bama = why America's in a funk: no confidence in this fraud as a leader.  It's why all the bullshit ZIRP et al, isn't working....

Seriously, WHO HAS [ANY] CONFIDENCE IN THIS FRAUDULENT FUCKHEAD?

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:29 | 6824842 Socratic Dog
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Trouble is, he, and the silver-sppon loser before him, are perfect reflections of the state of the union and the sheeple who comprise it.  USSA got what it asked for, wanted, and deserves.  Go police state USSA!

A smooth-talking, talentless, affirmitive-action homo, and a spoiled rich brat of a talentless mummy's-boy.  Apparently we can't do any better than that.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:46 | 6825246 Salah
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I concur.  The Bush Family Crime Cartel (so named in Russ Baker's book) is the "Cleaner" for the globo-elitists.

They're like "Mr. Wolf" in Pulp Fiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4lrVIpbvo

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:18 | 6824790 JustObserving
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A bunch of killers with good social media?  Is he talking about himself?

Obama is a liar and a war criminal who has bombed 7 countries, destabilized Ukraine, droned women and children and wedding parties regularly, destroyed freedom by signing NDAA, assassinated US citizens including teenagers without trial and is still the most admired person in this world in Gallup polls.

How Team Obama Justifies the Killing of a 16-Year-Old American

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justi...

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html

America's deadly double tap drone attacks are 'killing 49 people for every known terrorist in Pakistan'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208307/Americas-deadly-double-t...

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:16 | 6824793 Flagit
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They hate us for our incompetence.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:46 | 6824898 DaveyJones
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...and we hate it when they're right

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:20 | 6824984 Flagit
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I have this old small group of friends that I used to play games with.

I have been trying to expose them to the Syria situation. The common response, "There is nothing I can do about it. I just want to come home from work and watch some TV and play on the internet. When people start getting shot at the grocery store, I'll worry about it."

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 18:47 | 6825598 Killdo
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I've had more luck (with Europeans)

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:22 | 6824805 Grimaldus
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Everything Obirdbrain says is a lie....standard progressive policy.

I still can't figure how is he not arrested and shot?

 

 

 

Grimaldus

 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:37 | 6824861 Dinero D. Profit
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Actually, Nixon makes the Bushs' and Obama look like pikers.

 

60,000 (rounded) us soldiers dead.  2 million Charlies, and a couple more million Cambodians.

 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:45 | 6824895 booboo
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um, you forget about Johnson or are you intentionally being numb.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:59 | 6824941 XitSam
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Lying to the American people isn't a crime. The politicians made absolutely sure of that.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:20 | 6824806 Savyindallas
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as usual the Russians are right. This country has become such an embarrasment. I fear there is a dear price for us to pay for our sins -not just those of our leaders, but the American people who put up with such psychopaths and who chose to remain ignorant while they hve been conned on every front  -foreign policy, economic policy, a controlled and corrupt media, academia, a corrupt and criminal Wall Street, and thoroughly corrupt politicians in DC. 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:20 | 6824807 Lorca's Novena
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Fuck off Barry you ass bandit. We are sick of your shit.

<----- Obama blames social media

<------ Oboma blames Bush

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:21 | 6824809 Skateboarder
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So blames the gay who supposedly watched in real-time as a bunch of now dead Navy Seals killed OBL.

His mouth is a sewer.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:48 | 6825054 Haole
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"as a bunch of now dead Navy Seals killed OBL."

 

...and the former is true because the latter is a lie.

There are much more tolerable sewers BTW...

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:22 | 6824815 Bernard_2011
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What a total bunch of BS from Obama:  The prejudice of certain Americans against Muslims has been helping ISIS.  It is the racism of Americans that is promoting ISIS.  

 

Enough of this politically-correct guilt-tripping!  There is a very large part of America that is fed up with being fed all this brainwashing garbage.  

 

No, it is your protection of the ISIS oilfields that has been helping ISIS.  You have been helping them and no amount of your BS is going to hide this fact.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:23 | 6824999 Flagit
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Enough of this politically-correct guilt-tripping!  There is a very large part of America that is fed up with being fed all this brainwashing garbage. 

Apparently not enough.

It's going to take private Death Squads to fix this.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 17:54 | 6825426 cheech_wizard
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I was just thinking about this earlier. When the inmates are running the asylum, isn't it time to get rid of the inmates?

 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:23 | 6824816 great_scot
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Straight-talking common sense from the Russians as usual = dangerous aggressive commie and threat to national security.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:26 | 6824836 farmboy
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So does this means that FB shares are not supported by the FED anymore ?

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:26 | 6824837 thunderchief
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It's tough killing ones own children. 

Just close your eyes and keep swinging that bat Barry. 

It helps if you grew up torturing small animals in your backyard,  but unfortunately Jeffrey Dommer isn't around to consult the White House today. 

Just keep swinging team USA, hopefully you'll keep missing in Syria. 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:28 | 6824840 Seasmoke
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Obama is wearing no clothes. Soon we will see Mr. Yellen isn't wearing any either.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:35 | 6824855 Max Steel
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Is that your flexibility ? 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:17 | 6824979 Baby Bladeface
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Obama's flexibility is the marionette with arm and leg joints articulated.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:37 | 6824864 Bernard_2011
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Obama is now playing wordgames to effectively imply that anyone that opposes taking in the Syrian refugees is racist and also helping ISIS.  

 

No, these opponents are only being prudent given the fact that your own director of the FBI explicitly indicated that the US government does not have an effective method of conducting background checks on the Syrian refugees to ensure that none of them belong to ISIS.

 

Given this fact, it Obama that is once again HELPING ISIS by insisting on bringing in the Syrian refugees.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:41 | 6824884 Lorca's Novena
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Blatant manipulation. But your a rayciss if you oppose bomb wearing rag heads.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:58 | 6824939 DaveyJones
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word games are the only games he knows how to play

and he's getting worse  

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:19 | 6824981 Baby Bladeface
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Teleprompter overdue for the code to upgrade.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:38 | 6824869 Lumberjack
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Take credit for your own work (read failures).

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:40 | 6824883 buyingsterling
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President Pimp

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 19:49 | 6825774 Noplebian
Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:46 | 6824899 Bernard_2011
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And if Obama is truly concerned at all with ISIS (or al Qaeda for that matter) executing an attack against America, why has the Mexican border been left wide open (with so many illegals able to move so freely across it)?  

 

Obama is a total fraud.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:51 | 6824913 Himins
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"Support our Troops" is an IQ screening test:

"Support our troops" (Noun): meaning send Rabble Goyim off to an early grave. Destroy the lives of others, and the planet we need for our children.

 

Synonymous with "War Of Terror".(Noun) meaning War on a (Noun).

 

Synonymous also with "Patriot Act", (Noun) Loss of all freedoms and Liberty to support umm... "Freedom Democracy" aaaand Liberty

 

Synonymous also with "Police state", (Noun) send rabble goyim to the killing fields to support NSA, TSA, DHS, Pentagon, Washington Beltway, and the profits made from Military Contractors.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:54 | 6824923 I Write Code
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Watching Charlie Rose the last couple of nights purportedly talking about the Paris attacks but also more widely about ISIS, and the talking heads this morning on CBS, the idea is never discussed that we have always been and remain today ambivalent about ISIS, as are Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

One chowderhead was talking about the progress we've made, "cutting off ISIS from their 75-mile border with Turkey".  SAY WHAT?  Let's stop and parse this out, shall we?  OMG.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:56 | 6824933 Footprint
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It is evident that Obama is tired of listening to his own crap and does it out of his sense of "duty" to lie and misdirect every time he opens his mouth.  He relies on the subservience of western media that never question his counterfactual statements about Assad's Legitimacy and popularity. He again relies on the spineless pundits to never question the perfectly illogical "campaign against ISIS" that never achieved anything but the buttressing of ISIS. He talks to the uninformed speaking of the "moderate opposition" that only exists on paper. That muppet is ready for retirement. In hindsight, that bow to the king of Saud betrays more about him than we give it credit for.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:57 | 6824936 Herdee
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Obama is a useless ASS.It's a National Disgrace to the United States that Obama would let this terrorist organisation grow to this extent while he turned a blind eye to it.U.S. General Allen played a significant role on behalf of the CIA in allowing their financing to continue through numerous methods they were trained in.They were trained by the CIA in money laundering,economic methods to generate income such as drug dealing and production of drug chemicals and military training and financing.The goal of the United States was to use this terrorist organisation to overthrow governments around the globe on their behalf.That was until Russia and China said NO MORE to this.It's high time for the world to wake up to the United States and Saudi Arabia along with Qatar as being the principle financiers of terrorism worldwide under Obama's instructions.Obama and Bush-Cheney need to be brought to justice.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 14:58 | 6824937 SillySalesmanQu...
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Ochooma needs better spin doctors to serve this steaming pile of horseshit he keeps dumping out of his stall at the WH.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:08 | 6824958 MedicalQuack
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Ok so is this why Obama started his own personal Facebook page to fix this:)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/obama-starts-personal-face...

 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:08 | 6824959 rwe2late
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according to the article

regarding Obama's statement:

adding, rather oddly, that the group responsible for the Paris terror attacks is

"a bunch of killers with good social media."


Obama's statement is neither "odd" nor unexpected if seen as an

attempt to justify more surveillance and a crackdown on internet use.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:29 | 6825008 Sergeiab
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"Tell lies, a lot of lies, and nothing but lies"

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 15:35 | 6825031 Chris Valenzuela
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When is he going to come out of the closet and fes up to being either Sunni or Shia?

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 20:11 | 6825831 mijev
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None of the above CV. Those fuckers can fight like badasses.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:07 | 6825103 LikeyMikey
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It ain't drugs!!

 

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/10/report-eu-government-believes-ob...

 

These stories are all over the Internet and growing. 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:21 | 6825148 Charming Anarchist
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Try as they might.  Whoever owns the air-space will ultimately own the narrative. 

 

Sheeple KeyWords: <<good social media>> 

 

The snake is eating its tail. 

Eventually, the sheeple will get bored of the same old predictable pre-packaged good social media and will demand real-time action.  Whoever owns the air-space will deliver what the sheeple want. 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:25 | 6825158 Sudden Debt
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Social media is the wet dream of the NSA.

He doesn't mind that his secret services spy on American in order to create a totalitarian state.

And social media is as American as it gets, if they really wanted to destroy their own ISIS department, they could just track all their posts and send a drone to all those locations to blow the shit of them.

And the US has enough drones! They have over 50.000 just to spy on their evil citizens! So maybe if the US would use some of those on ISIS, the problem would be solved pretty fast.

All this bullshit is just bullshit because if they would want to solve it, it would have been solved. Instead, more American citizens are being shot on a daily basis then ISIS goverment employees.

 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:29 | 6825175 Bazza McKenzie
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Obama has a bad case of social media envy.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:34 | 6825197 Raul44
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What a fucking liar. He said in video majority fight against Assad in Syria. When we know well that more than 80-90% population supported him. There are plenty of vids to prove that if you watched events unfold since war started.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 17:10 | 6825305 moneybots
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It's "absolutely false" that "we are somehow at war with an entire religion," he said. "The United States could never be at any war with any religion because America is made up by multiple religions. We're strengthened by people from every religion, including Muslim Americans. So I want to be as clear as I can on this -- prejudice and discrimination helps (ISIS) and undermines our national security."

 

Who has been claiming we are at war with an entire religion?  Radical Islam is not an entire religion, but Obama refuses to say the words Radical Islam, to specify who he is at war with.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 17:50 | 6825414 Goldilocks
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Cracker Barrel Cheese Commercial (HD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10iscOFW8V0 (0:29)

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 17:52 | 6825418 cheech_wizard
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I always wondered the following because I am not a legal expert. Is the punishment any different for killing an ex-President vs. a sitting one?

Standard Disclaimer: I know I'm just being mentally lazy today. But my brain needs some down time.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 19:13 | 6825672 Anunnaki
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Careful. They are watching and reading this site when the clapdown comes you dont want a knock on your door

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 19:32 | 6825728 Joebloinvestor
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Barry is a fucking dope.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 01:25 | 6826498 KashNCarry
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Obama needs to get outta the way with the ragtag coalition of Gulf State, Turkish, Jordanian, ISIS supporters, and let Putin & Iran finish the job... Won't happen though. The Powers That Think They Be want that Qatar pipeline, and Iraq & Syria parceled up...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 02:43 | 6826597 dogismycopilot
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What is interesting is that now the USSA is taking credit for the work Russia is doing. There is a lot of real politik happening now. From the US using footage of Russian bombers (and claiming they are US) to Obama saying phrases like, "Russia should join us in the fight against ISIS".

The US Federal Government has crossed the Rubicon. Next, the US Federal Government will turn its attention to Americans - whom they know they can push around. Obama is a gang leader and like all gang leaders, when he gets bitch slapped he goes home and slaps his own bitch to transfer the pain.

Wake Up America. 

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