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Working thread ahead of the putin-trump summit in helsinki on july 16 [Upated w/ almost surreal fallout]

Updates at the end of comments.

What we know (as opposed to Darth Cheney’s known unknowns) is that yesterday, Friday July 13 (Not april fools day, however), Deputy AJ Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 Russian members of GRU, a military intelligence agency, and that they had “corresponded with several Americans through the internet”, including an associate of the Trump campaign (assumedly Roger Stone).

Business Degrees Are Bullshit

I communicate with my grandmother via email from time to time. In the last email exchange we had we talked about my long-term joblessness situation and returning to college. She actually suggested I go into something more 'marketable' like 'business'. I told her database work and programming are some of the few things I'm actually decent at.

OPCW findings regarding Douma nerve gas attack: Grim reading for Western ideologues

We’re being very stupid and arrogant in the way we’re treating RUSSIA! and I imagine they’re getting pretty sick anc tired ofit all.

OPCW findings regarding Douma nerve gas attack: Grim reading for Western ideologues

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NYT: Trump Invited the Russians to Hack Clinton. Were They Listening?

This country has gone full-bore crazy. One side is just a little less certifiable than the other. Obviously one thing that is most distressing to me (us) is that it’s the ‘Left’ that is on the side that is noticeably more unstable, more willing, eager even, to push us into a confrontation with RUSSIA!l. Hell, they’re even calling for public confrontations of political figures by us filthy plebs. The Dims are now LINOs. (Left In Name Only).

The Logos of Poseidon

The crash of the wave shakes the very earth
and the sea rises to embrace the man as he falls
washing clean the crimes and the blood of friend and foe
Upon your great ships you prepare to embark

A sacrifice each will pay, a toll for crossing into my domain
for you often take from me what is mine, and it is just
that you repay me with offerings of that which you have borrowed.
A toll upon the road which embraces the world

Big Win For Julian Assange

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights based in Costa Rica has ruled that the British government has to let Assange leave the Ecuadorian embassy without harassment or threat of arrest and let him go to Ecuador where he was granted citizenship. The big question is will they allow this to happen? The bigger question is that if he is allowed to board a plane what will the US ask its allies to do?

Where else are they going to go?

Everywhere you look these days you see worry over how the move to the left by the democrats base will turn off moderates.
The universal consensus remains that you must go to the center.

Funny how that never applies to conservatives.
For decades the attitude for democrats to the left went, "Where else are they going to go?"

Where they went is not to the polls.

Voter turnout ranged between 60% to just 40% on non-presidential elections.

Give It Up For Robert Scheer: Russian Red Herring Hysteria Is A Dangerous Farce, And The Warmongering Democrats Need To Be Called On It.

Not many have chanced to stick their neck up and yell above the corporate calliope of the Russian Red Herring Circus Show. Add Scheer to a very exclusive roll call of truthtellers.

I found this at Truthdig yesterday (published on the 11th). Here's a link to the full text, and then some blockquote excerpts:

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