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Speaking of bad depictions of violence, I'm watching this new Power Rangers movie. I would love this movie so much if I was...12?
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:01 |
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GobiasIndustries posted:i for one am excited that we have a new thread because I can start over and make insightful, meaningful posts instead of constantly shitposting
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
Epic High Five posted:im the scholar sneaking up on that scholar about to give them a wedige for being a huge Jeb! sympathizing nerd wow geez are you one of my actual reviewers?
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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gently caress
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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New trump threads are like new underwear, at first their stiff and constrictive, but soon they become a part of you
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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Addamere posted:still wanna know what high_elf.gifv is from Just Google "movie with elf girl smoking bong"
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/875935850990895105 wapo soon to run articles advocating heroin as an alternative to marijuana that should be legalized, as opposed to Demon Weed
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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i want my posts back
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GobiasIndustries posted:i for one am excited that we have a new thread because I can start over and make insightful, meaningful posts instead of constantly shitposting ive never reported a post before but this one got me close
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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old thread we'll always have the fyre festival thou
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GobiasIndustries posted:i for one am excited that we have a new thread because I can start over and make insightful, meaningful posts instead of constantly shitposting piss
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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I legit thought Lowtax took CSPAM out to the woods and shot it. Also, first 💀DEATH CREW💀
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:02 |
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dont worry i think ive already hosed everything up
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Origami Dali posted:new trump thred, what'd you do you absolute madmen?! Nite crew culture is pretty terrible and will inevitably metastasize into the cancer that kills this subforum.
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:03 |
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GobiasIndustries posted:i for one am excited that we have a new thread because I can start over and make insightful, meaningful posts instead of constantly shitposting its a new dawn its a new day its a new life~
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:03 |
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GobiasIndustries posted:i for one am excited that we have a new thread because I can start over and make insightful, meaningful posts instead of constantly shitposting http://i.imgur.com/NZXfodS.gifv
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:03 |
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anyone have that summary someone wrote up in the last thread about rosentreft and Mitch McConnell funded through Russian super pacs
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:03 |
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yes, thank you, i go now to watch a german webseries
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:03 |
GobiasIndustries posted:i for one am excited that we have a new thread because I can start over and make insightful, meaningful posts instead of constantly shitposting this is absolutely what i plan to do-do (like poop)
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:03 |
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Conservatives are surprisingly chill
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Baloogan posted:Conservatives are surprisingly chill about a literal assault on the free press.
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Homeless Friend posted:Nite crew culture is pretty terrible and will inevitably metastasize into the cancer that kills this subforum. good edit related: 💀DEATH CREW💀
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:04 |
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MadJackal posted:💀DEATH CREW💀
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GobiasIndustries posted:dont worry i think ive already hosed everything up
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Speaking of bad depictions of violence, I'm watching this new Power Rangers movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6EBlVOdGPM here's a movie you'll love if you were..... 18?
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:04 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/875935850990895105 WaPo is still 98% ruining the POTUS' life, so I'm cool with them letting Sessions shitpost once in awhile.
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JosefStalinator posted:wow geez are you one of my actual reviewers? these goddamned low flow toilets allow way too much back talk and sass, makes my job as a terrorizing jock soooo much harder
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:04 |
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Escape From New York is extremely nite crew
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this makes the backs of my knees sweat
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Homeless Friend posted:Nite crew culture is pretty terrible and will inevitably metastasize into the cancer that kills this subforum. otoh nite crew is the only good left in this world
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 06:05 |
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Baloogan posted:
i'm not jeb but i think of jeb!
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cheese eats mouse posted:anyone have that summary someone wrote up in the last thread about rosentreft and Mitch McConnell funded through Russian super pacs https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3820719&pagenumber=3626&perpage=40#post473458829 I saved it. I don't have his in-text links. Many new links added and a few additions to the timeline. As always, as-yet-unverified information now appears in italics, and please feel free to correct/clarify me on any details or dates, or suggest new pieces to add. The Players Leonard Blavatnik is a Ukraine-born American businessman. He made his fortune through diversified investments in myriad companies through his conglomerate company, Access Industries. In 2015, he was named Britain's richest man with an estimated net worth of £17.1 billion as of April 2015. He and a friend from university, Viktor Vekselberg, joined with Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group to form the AAR venture, which in 2011 was responsible for stopping the BP merger with Rosneft Oil, the Russian state-owned petrocorp (1). In March 2013, at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, there was a transfer of nearly $28 billion in U.S. currency from an account controlled by Rosneft, to one controlled by four Russian billionaires: Blavatnik, Vekselberg, Mikhail Fridman, and German Khan (2). Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin, often described as Russia's second-most-powerful man, was the central figure behind the deal. In addition to funding Trump's inauguration party, Blavatnik has long funded Mitch McConnell's super-PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund; see FEC filings showing donations of $1M in December 2015, $500k in April 2016, and $1M on October 25 2016; note that AI Altep is a shell company of Access Industries (3). Also notice that Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone shows up for more than $2M on the October 25 filing, having also given $370k just one week prior. In October 2016, the dark-money super-PAC One Nation donates $11M to the Senate Leadership Fund, with which they share an office. Following his election, Trump appointed as Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao -- who is Mitch McConnell's wife and donated $42k to campaigns of Senators who would later vote on her confirmation, including her husband. During the Obama-Trump transition, McConnell had raised doubts about the CIA's report that Russian hacking affected the election, and made clear that "he would consider any effort by the Obama White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics" (4). In mid-2016, McConnell's brother-in-law Jim Breyer (husband of Chao's sister Angela, the CEO of the Bank of China, and a billionaire investor in his own right) joined the board of Schwarzman's Blackstone Group. Almost a year later, following a $110B+ arms deal brokered with Saudi Arabia by Jared Kushner, the Saudis subsequently announced a $20B+ investment into Blackstone Group for U.S. infrastructure. Blackstone, especially the real estate arm led by Jonathan Gray, has long been involved with Kushner's enterprises. A handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine in 2016 with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. Ukrainian investigators called it evidence of off-the-books payments from a pro-Russian political party. Financial records confirmed that at least $1.2 million in payments listed in the ledger next to Manafort’s name were actually received by his consulting firm in the United States in 2007 and 2009 (5). Manafort's political ties to former Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovich have been well documented. The Timeline On June 14 2016, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Speaker Paul Ryan have separate meetings with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman, in which Groysman talks about Russia's financial support of populist politicians and their efforts to undermine democratic governments in Eastern Europe. The next day, McCarthy joked to Ryan and other GOP leaders that he thinks "Putin pays…Trump", after which Ryan laughs and tells the group not to leak the conversation (read the transcript here). In August 2016, CIA Director John Brennan informs Congressional leadership (the Gang of Eight, as well as Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan) that Russia is intervening in the American election on behalf of Trump. On August 4 2016, Brennan confronts the head of Russia's FSB about the matter. According to the famous "Steele Dossier" that comes to light in December 2016, one of Steele's inside sources describes the July 2016 meeting between Igor Sechin and Carter Page, Trump policy adviser from his campaign and foreign policy team. (In October, Russian experts would conclude that the inside source was probably a former KGB general, Oleg Erovinkin. In late December 2016, Erovinkin is found dead in his car.) According to the dossier, Sechin offers to broker a 19% sale of Rosneft to Trump's associates in return for the lifting of economic sanctions on Russia (image). Page has an audio recording of Trump promising to fulfill his end of the bargain. During the months of the general election, Trump's campaign has at least 18 undisclosed meetings/contacts with Russian officials. On Election Day 2016, Stephen Schwarzman's housekeeper is pushed under a subway train (image, bottom]). Following Trump's victory in November, the transition team quickly began moving to develop sanction relief for Russia, causing alarmed State Dept. officials to urge legislation codifying the sanctions. In early December, Kushner has a meeting with the Russian ambassador/spymaster Sergey Kislyak at Trump Tower, in which the men discuss the possibility of a secret back-channel for communications between the Trump team and the Kremlin. In January 2017, 19.5% of Rosneft Oil is sold to a shell-of-shell-of-shell holding owned by (at the end of the chain) the trust company Intertrust [see the middle of image for holdings flowchart from Reuters, and tracing through shells from QHG to Intertrust]. Intertrust's major shareholder is Blackstone Group and therefore Stephen Schwarzman, who had been named chairman of the strategic and policy forum by Trump in December (he was offered a full-time role in the administration, but declined). Schwarzman now controls around 19% of Rosneft, as promised by Sechin, and has been seen with Trump at Mar-a-lago and many public events (image, bottom]). He remains a constant advisor to Trump. On January 10 2017, Susan Rice, (Obama’s NSA), consults Michael Flynn about a plan to retake Raqqa from ISIS with the help of Syrian Kurdish forces. (The plan would have been executed under Trump, so Obama’s team wanted Flynn’s approval.) Flynn’s decision is to forestall the attack, an answer that happens to conform to the wishes of the Turkish government, which was benefiting from his lobbying work for which Flynn was paid at least $500,000. While Trump would eventually approve the military plan, Flynn’s decision 10 days before Trump took office delays the operation by several months. Flynn informs the Trump transition team that he is under investigation by the FBI for having been a foreign agent. On January 27 2017, Donald Trump invites FBI Director James Comey to the White House for a private dinner, in which he asks for Comey's loyalty and assurances that there is no Russia investigation. The memos written by Comey regarding this and other conversations with Trump substantially corroborate his testimony before Congress. In February, Trump asks Pence and Sessions to leave the Oval Office before pressuring Comey again to drop the Flynn investigation; Comey writes a detailed memo about this conversation. In March, Trump asked the director of national intelligence and the director of the National Security Agency to make statements confirming that the investigation had cleared him. In late March, Flynn requests immunity from the Senate Intelligence Committee and the FBI in return for his testimony; his lawyer claims he has "a story to tell". On April 1 2017, this request is denied. On April 27 2017, the "Mayflower Meeting" is held, shortly before Trump's first foreign policy speech, having been organized by his campaign chair Paul Manafort and Kremlin-think-tank coordinator Jacob Heilbrunn. In the room are Jeff Sessions (photo), Jared Kushner, and Manafort, along with ambassadors from Russia, Singapore, and the Philippines, and unidentified representatives from Rosneft. Trump's Secretary of Commerce is Wilbur Ross. He is the former vice-chair of the Bank of Cyprus, of which Vekselberg is the major shareholder. Ross, Schwarzman, Blavatnik, and McConnell/Chao would put together an $1T infrastructure plan that would depend on foreign money, as Chao admitted to Sean Hannity on Fox News on March 1 2017. On May 9 2017, James Comey is fired as FBI Director, the week after he visited the "rocket docket" in federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and just days after he requested more resources for the Trump/Russia investigation. On May 10 2017, Trump meets with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Russian ambassador/spymaster Sergey Kislyak, in the Oval Office, without American press allowed but in the presence of Russian state media. At this meeting, Trump divulges code-word classified information from an Israeli intelligence source regarding the ISIS laptop-bomb plot; this source is said to be the most important double agent now working in ISIS, according to the Israeli Directorate of Military Intelligence (Aman). Trump also refers to Comey as a "nut job", and claims to the Russians that the investigation will be over now that Comey is gone (6). The same day of the Oval Office meeting with Russian diplomats, a federal grand jury in EDVA hands down multiple subpoenas for business/lobbying associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, regarding his foreign contacts in Turkey (Ekim Alptekin) and Russia (David Zaikin). On May 11 2017, the Strategic Campaign Group's office is raided in Annapolis by the FBI and U.S. Marshals following the warrants handed down by EDVA from two separate grand juries, corresponding to ~25 indictments regarding money-laundering and many other charges. Less than a week later, former FBI Director Robert Mueller is appointed by the Deputy Attorney General to oversee the Russia investigation. In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on May 23 2017, former CIA Director John Brennan verified that in August 2016 he had informed the Gang of Eight and others (including Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan) that Russia was intervening in the election on Trump's behalf. In late May, Jared Kushner is revealed to be among the targets of the FBI's Russia probe. On June 2 2017, Mueller assumes control over the federal grand jury criminal investigations of Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn. James Comey testifies before the Senate Intel Committee on June 8 2017. The following week, Mueller's team confirms that they are investigating the president in part for obstruction of justice with respect to Comey and the Russia probe; as a result, Senate Intel agrees to avoid pursuing that aspect. References: 1. Yenikeyeff, Shamil, "BP, Russian billionaires, and the Kremlin: a Power Triangle that never was", Oxford Energy Comment, November 23, 2011 2. Vardi, Nathan, "The Four Horsemen of Russia's Economic Apocalypse", Forbes, February 9, 2015 3. SEC statement identifying Al Altep as a shell of Access Industries 4. Entous et al. "Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House", Washington Post, December 9 2016 5. AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout 6. Apuzzo et al. "NYTimes, May 19 2017
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please do not eat the mandalas
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i'm knight crew
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glad to be here in new piss thread
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