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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news…
IRELAND
INTERNATIONAL
#BERLIN: A US double agent has been arrested for ‘spying’ in Germany.
#PALESTINE: A teenager was burned alive after being kidnapped from Jerusalem.
#POLAND: A fluorescent green statue of Lenin urinating has received a mixed response.
INNOVATION
PARTING SHOT
One of our very brave reporters went out with the Irish Coast Guard helicopter crew. Check out the helicopter, the views and how she got winched out of the chopper. [TheJournal.ie]
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Were the Americans not spying on Merkel and other European leaders quite recently, but we are to believe they would not spy on each other. And if he does have the Russian connections the Democrats claim, then why were they not keeping a tab on his conversations?
@Paul Fahey: True, but should there not be some semblance of proof (or at least someone inside or outside the administration who agrees) before an accusation is made?
@Kevin McDonnell: I agree, but the greatest indicator of future behaviour is past behaviour and the US and the UK have a history of keeping very close tabs on business men with political inclinations. The US even kept tabs on Lennon and Dylan, because of paranoia about Russia and communists so why not Trump. Ultimately, I don’t care if they did or didn’t, but I am one to the idea that they would.
Can’t spy on your own without a fisa warrant which must be got from a judge. Anyway the almost daily lies told has seriously damaged the credibility of that office.
I feel greatly comforted that the opinion of the new US administration is so reliant on Fox News.
So let’s get this straight – the same White House that is continually going on about ‘fake news’ is now citing a random Fox News report as “evidence”. Bizarre times indeed….
To summarize: When the Trump administration says British spies were involved in spying on Trump it is ridiculous. When Buzfeed and CNN run with a story from work by a former British spy it is credulous. When the MSM were attacking Trump it was useful to say there were wiretaps on Trump. When the MSM are attacking Trump it is useful to say there is no evidence for wiretaps.
MSM have no credibility. They are partisan. They are biased. Reporting is selective to push agendas. Thejournal is very much up to it’s eyeballs like the rest of the MSM in this. Attack article after attack article on Trump and right wingers.
Zzzzz you would be in favour of trump pulling your healthcare and giving billionaires massive tax cuts and destroying environmental agency’s tasked with keeping your country and air clean. You have it nice sitting in your little Irish pedestal cacooned from this man’s ridiculous decisions spurred on by your ultra white wing tendencies . Well done you.
@Mike: I would myself and many on here would consider me a “Right of Center Conservative”. I have no love for the Political Left. But Trump has gone beyond Left-Right Politics and has entered the realm of insanity. He makes wild and unsubstantiated claims that the Security Services are out to get him. It was he began the war with the media. It is he that thinks the Office Of President sets him above the Law and gives him the powers of an absolute Monarch to govern as he sees fit. His underlings like himself have been caught lying multiple times. And when taken to task for those lies have referred to them as “Alternative Facts”. He has made open and undisputed promises to the American People and then turned around and told them he didn’t mean it. Prime example is the Wall with Mexico. He said they would pay for it. Now he say the American Taxpayer has to pay. He said about the Oil Pipeline. It would be built with from Pipes made of American Steel. Now he says he didn’t mean that Pipeline (which will use pipes from China). He said he would stop Islamic Terrorism coming to America by Banning certain countries. And he can’t even get that right (Twice). He claimed he would unite all Americans. It hasn’t been this divided since the civil war. He has insulted practically all the US’s allies and praised many of its enemies.
@Mick Jordan: I find myself on the opposite side of the political spectrum to you. Despite this, I absolutely agree with all you just said. Trump is a nut and is bloody dangerous no matter which way you approach it. The Republicans are slowly beginning to realise they’ve got a tiger by the tail with no safe way to let go.
@scoop delivery: Looks like you choose to miss my point. This article is calling Trumps accusations of spying on him as ridiculous. Seeing as you don’t challenge my assertions I say you concede their merits.
@Mick Jordan: It feels a bit condescending for me to say but you seem to have missed my point. The MSM are saying that it is ridiculous for Trump to claim that he was under state surveillance while also saying earlier that he was under surveillance. There are dozens or articles in the MSM with writing about intercepted communications with Trump and his associates, intelligence services investigating Trump and his associates etc. Here is an example on nytimes.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html?_r=0
@Mike: But yet when pressed to produce any evidence to back up his claim we get “Well I didn’t mean they literally eavesdropped on me” And when pressed even more he comes out with an even more outrageous claim that it was the US allies that were spying on him on the Democrat’s behalf. He complains about the MSM using “unverified sources” but yet praises Breitbart and Fox and takes stories from them as gospel. The nature of a Free Media is to ask awkward questions. To push and probe a governments/political leaders actions. With Trumps narcissistic tenancies, he can’t abide having his actions or his motives questioned by anyone. He needs the constant adoration that these media outlets seem to provide. He looks a Putin and his total and unquestioned control of the Media, Judiciary and Parliament and like a spoilt child wants it too.
And now we see the White House making a formal apology to the UK Government of the accusation. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/us-makes-formal-apology-britain-white-house-accuses-gchq-wiretapping/
@Mick Jordan: WTF? Do you not get that you are hardly alone in hating Trump? I get it, I hear it day in day out. I’m talking about the media trying to have it both ways, that is all. Do you understand that? You don’t have to educate everyone to what a narcissistic moron Trump is, at every opportunity.
GCHQ great bunch of lads spying on every form of communication, and every individual available communication since the 1840s! They have had numerous rebranding over the years!
This is getting utterly ridiculous now. With no evidence to prove his allegation against US Intelligence he is now trying to blame Allied Intelligence Agencies but again without a single shred of evidence to the contrary. A Paranoid Narcissist.
As he was President Elect this accusation would mean GCHQ were neddling in the American election. So why, anyway, did Trump blame Obama? Obama was in cahoots with the British to frustrate his election…..?……which never happened or failed?! Can The Donald get any more bizarre in his twittering? What a dope!
Trump is a bozo and he makes things up he is dangerous
True. I’m starting to think he is incredibly smart. Well to make billions even as a millionaire is smart going but he must know what he can and can’t be sued on. I’ll throw this out there and see if it sticks gecause it can have zero legal comeback on me and my idiot supporters will gelieve anything.
Also interesting I saw a friend post to Facebook about an encounter yesterday in ny state. Store employee was saying the news of a big snowstorm to last was a mainstream media lie and because it didn’t last the media were trying to cover up their first lie. Seriously, that country is in bother.
We have the journal issuing “weather alerts” and scary storm stories every week of winter, most of which just resembles wintry weather. Sensationalising the banal is also fake news
Wonder when the movie comes out
He’s really starting to reach a Howard Hughes level of irrationality and paranoia ain’t he…
Why is their building the shape of an eye ?
I’m seeing doughnut
It’s based in Skye, the architect liked puns so it’s the eye in the Skye, it can see everything
MSM are no longer ‘news’ agencies! They are propaganda vehicles for the dissemination of skewed and slanted views solely dependant on the political/ economic of the controlling owners of those vehicles.
Just have a look at who really controls our MSM!!!!
@M Bowe: Trump and Murdoch are very good friends apparently that’s why he’s so fond of Fox News.
It’s official, A lunatic has taken over the asylum and his patients follow him.
Well if they did, They certainly wouldn’t admit it…
trump is a loony, plain and simple
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