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The alert came in from Valentia Coastguard at 09:29 this morning.
The Baltimore RNLI lifeboat crew were launched within minutes of the alert but the little boy was unresponsive when they arrived.
He was immediately stretchered aboard the the lifeboat where he was constantly monitored on the journey back to Baltimore.
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Shocking to see him side with Putin against his own FBI.
Democrats and Republicans should follow through on this sentiment in Congress, and strengthen sanctions on Russia. With an economy the size of New York with about 10% of the US defense budget, Trump has given far too much time and credit to Russia.
@Jurgen Remak: couldn’t really care less. The US has been interfering in everyone else’s elections for the last 100 years, organising coups to oust governments they don’t like and directly overthrowing others. Are we supposed to feel any sympathy why someone gives them a bit of their own medicine. It’s been boring me for the last two years and will continue to do so. As someone else said to me, whilst America fights with itself the rest of the world can feel a little safer and I agree. Long may the infighting go on, for world peace and a few less international deaths anyway.
@Ivan Connolly: I don’t care that the Russians interfered because as you say, the US has been doing it for years. But for an American president to side with the Russians against his own security services? That’s a new one. They must have something on him after all.
@Ivan Connolly: Sure thing Ivan. I like your exaggeration about interfering in ‘everyone else’s elections’. That’s quite a feat.
@Ivan Connolly:
You are obviously a smart guy Ivan. Your actual surname wouldn’t be “The Terrible”?
Seriously though you seem to be missing the point completely. This is happening in real time.
@Jurgen Remak: I’m going to just assume you aren’t familiar with history at all. I’ll leave it to you to take the time to learn about it. Or perhaps I’ll just mention all of South America or as the US like to call it, their backyard. Perhaps I should mention Mossadegh in Iran, first democratically elected leader there, overthrown by CIA. Sukarno in Indonesia, again ousted by CIA. Greek gov after WW2, again the Americans didn’t like them so installed military junta. Same goes for Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Haiti. We won’t even mention Iraq, Libya, and their efforts in Syria. I’ll stop there as I’m sure none of this means anything to you. It’s safe to say that anywhere there is someone leading a country the Americans don’t like they believe it’s their prerogative to install someone else.
@Anton Dec: ahah, well spotted. Yes I am indeed a Russian because my name is Ivan. Shame I can’t deduce what country you come from because you won’t share your name. Or perhaps that’s just a ridiculous assumption on my part. Or was it yours?
By definition Everything is happening in real time. Nothing happens in the past or is happening in the future so I’m really not sure what you are saying. Try again.
@Ivan Connolly:
Why? Argument for the sake of it is your choice, not mine. I don’t care what you have to say because you don’t.
Sometimes you need to be drunk to appreciate the delicious wit of the fop at the dinner party.
I haven’t had breakfast yet.
@Dermot Lane: or perhaps his just doesn’t want to acknowledge something which may place into question his entire presidency. This is called self preservation. Again this is hardly new in American presidencies. He isn’t the first nor the last American president to choose to ignore his intelligence agencies. Some with good reason.
@Anton Dec: yeah I’m still none the wiser about what you are trying to say. Perhaps I should be drunk as well in order to enjoy your foppish humour which has clearly flown straight over my head. No arguments by the way. Merely debates.
@Ivan Connolly: “Are we supposed to feel any sympathy why someone gives them a bit of their own medicine”. Yep we do. Because somebody is Dictator who was murdering journalists, opposition leaders and forcible removing any treat to his “crown”. He cannot manage the economy (with the biggest natural resources in the world) and corruption is one of the worst in the world. The average wage is 400e per month were the ministers get 20k per month and a teacher get 300e.
@Ivan Connolly: I’m very familiar with history, which is why I asked why you said ‘everyone’ Ivan – not sure why you feel the need to exaggerate. You do realise that you exaggerated, right? That list you gave there isn’t everyone.
And hey, don’t worry about America being distracted. The Pentagon is doing just fine.
@Oleksandr Savitskyy: so your problem is not that Putin allegedly interfered with the American election but that he is a bad leader. I’m afraid there are plenty of them in the world, many of whom are best buds with America. It is up to the Russians to decide their future and who leads them or do you suggest that America or the west interfere in Russian politics, again.
@Jurgen Remak: oh I am sorry. Dramatic license perhaps. Let me make the necessary correction. Nearly everyone’s. How’s that? Pentagon fine, got that too. And sure why wouldn’t they be. Dropping bombs and orchestrating wars all over the place from the safety of Virginia. Of course they are fine. I’ll get the word out for everyone to stop worrying if those at the pentagon are fine. Cheers for the heads up.
@Ivan Connolly: Ahh, still can’t let it go Ivan, I’m sure your that kind of guy who just can’t admit to being wrong. You are at home in comments section so!
Dramatic licence? No – just lies Ivan. Now changed to ‘nearly everyone’ – still lies. Fake history from Ivan.
You get the word out – I’m sure they hang on every word from a famous Journal.ie account less than a year old. Keep it real buddy!
@Jurgen Remak: It’s pretty telling that the only point you chose to debate was semantics. The fact that the US routinely interferes in the politics and elections of other countries, the point I clearly made so poorly, is the issue I was trying to highlight.
@Ivan Connolly: you are sounding remarkably like the Donald. Doing background checks on people who bother you too. Not sure what relevance my less than a year old account has to do with anything but then when you don’t have anything to counter with I guess you have to grasp at whatever you can. I won’t be able to tell you how long you have been commenting because to be honest I just don’t care.
@Ivan Connolly: Nope. As a typical paid and trained Putin’s troll you are twisting my words. Special for you: My problem is that person like Putin interfering into US and European elections. And doing this by the methods of what i call Informational Terrorism. Basically trolls like you create hate. Creating fake Black Live Maters websites, fake online personas with “conservative” views etc. And the problem is even that if the Russians are happy with him, he is trying to carry hate on which his power based in Russia abroad and specifically to the Western World.
@Ivan Connolly: No issue at all with your original point Ivan re interference in elections. The US clearly has interfered in and overthrown govts. I am pointing out your gross exaggeration which you variously dismiss as ‘dramatic licence’ and now ‘semantics’. Your ‘semantics’ are clear lies, when there was no need when you have a very valid point.
And you’re still defending it. Fake history.
@Ivan Connolly: exactly, and this whole Russia nonsense is distracting Democrats and media while Republicans transfer the nations wealth further away from the masses.
That’s the thing about liberals, they are easily distracted.
@Jurgen Remak: I don’t think it’s an exaggeration stating that the US interfere in every country’s political process. Didn’t we just experience them interfering in ours with the Occupied Territories Bill?
@niall: indeed. That damn liberal media broadcaster that is FOX News…wait!
@Oleksandr Savitskyy: a whole lot of accusations there which I won’t even bother with but you seem to be very confused with regard to this discussion which for my part was around whether we should care if the Russians interfered in US elections. This was not as you seemed to believe a debate on the virtues of either man. So you can save your blind vitriol for someone who might have an interest in that kind of thing. I was discussing hypocrites, you actually are one. But you undoubtedly don’t see the irony.
@Jurgen Remak: fair enough Jurgen. Certainly can’t argue with that. I acknowledge that in dealing with the facts my “dramatic license” was indeed an exaggeration. I retract. The US has most likely not directly interfered in everyone’s politics. I’ll be more conscious of my wording in future.
He sides with a foreign power that’s run by a man that’s basically a dictator instead of his own country, that’s very disturbing.
At the same time he does this he also refers to the Europe as his foe. People should be very worried and should be working on getting this nutcase out of the White House.
@Barry Somers: Ha! It’s just that sided with the wrong dictator that the American intelligence wouldn’t like him to as it doesn’t serve their interests. Sure it’s not like the US has ever supported dictators and despot leaders now for their own gains, right? *cough*
@Barry Somers: thinks ireland is in the UK also. Langer
Wow. Fox/RT giving Putin a platform. Surely even the trailer trash that watch that muck must be feeling uncomfortable?
Fox ‘News’, would be more credible if they went on Nickleodeon.
One way to get to the truth of certain matters, is to expose any lies. Interesting that the US and Brits point the finger of acqusation without any evidence! Is it perhaps they who are spinning the lies…
@Arthur O’Neill:
Utter nonsense. What does that even mean? Nebulous statement followed by a bïzarrely ridiculous question.
Why bother to post anything? The first in a rush of trölls to avoid the actual topic.
@Anton Dec: well there is some truth to the statement. Neither the Brit’s of the yanks have offered Russia a book of evidence. It’s usually he case that the accused is allowed to see the evidence against them but all we ever hear from the US or Britain is that it’s all too top secret. Well I’m not saying I don’t trust them but with their record I think we are entitled to see evidence rather than just take their word for it. Any faith in either country has long been expended. Now I’m sure they don’t care whether they are believed but personally I need more than the assurance of proven liars.
@Anton Dec: He’s right though in the case of Britain at least – there has been no evidence that Russia was behind the Salisbury incident. All they know is that the chemical was originally engineered by Russia. The conclusion was that it was “probably” Russia.
@Ivan Connolly:
It’s more than likely “all too top secret”.
It doesn’t diminish the fact that the commander in chief of the United States Armed forces has just categorically undermined his own people. Something he does regularly with his allies.
Or has he……?
Of course he has.
@Anton Dec: Seems to be a lot of talk of Deep State business these days, whose philosophy must be along the lines of – conflict is our growth motor without conflict we fail. We must create and increase conflict to thrive for without conflict we can’t sell arms and security domestically and internationally. We must maintain conflict and undermine those who seek peace.
@Arthur O’Neill:
Again nebulous clap-trap.
You don’t have to have a side to support when you post. You can deliberately muddy the waters which seems to be your sole agenda.
Much and all as it might suit the point that you are making, that is not the point of the article. You know, the one above this? Doesn’t matter what the Deep State are doing. The President of the United States has just undermined it. All of it.
@Anton Dec: so your assertion is that regardless of the intelligence services agenda the president must do as they advise. This article is not as shocking as you suggest. American presidents do not always do as their IS advise. You just assume it’s big news because you aren’t familiar with it happening before. So perhaps we could clear the air by acknowledging that this is big news to you
@Ivan Connolly: Couldn’t have said it better Ivan.
@Ivan Connolly:
Thanks for that Ivan. I assert nothing. You’re here to debate. Find someone else to talk to.
@Arthur O’Neill:
By “it” you mean precisely what? The original comment you made was simply to undermine the article in a backhanded way.
Or was it?
If he survives this it’ll be a miracle. Seriously. I’ve never hear a US president being described as a traitor by anyone. To all intents and purposes undermining his own security services is traitorous, particularly pertaining to Russia.
Either way this is the pinnacle of his self-interest. If his supporters don’t see it now then it’s all basically downhill from here.
@Anton Dec: you just haven’t been listening for long enough. Nixon was accused of being a traitor when he did a deal with the North Vietnamese that undermined Johnson costing him the presidency and winning it for Nixon. Same allegation against Reagan who did almost the exact same thing with the Iranians against carter. That’s just recent enough presidencies. So it’s nothing new for people to allege presidents have preformed traitorous acts and nothing to get too excited about. You may not have heard it before but possibly you just haven’t informed yourself.
@Ivan Connolly:
Taken out of context you are correct.
You are aware that this is unprecedented? A sitting president standing beside an enemy of his country undermining his own security services?
Just to be sure that being a pedant about language and history is not your only agenda in this case.
@Anton Dec: not at all. My agenda here is to ensure that people like yourself who think it’s pedantic to know history don’t make comments that flout it. Think of me as a learned friend to keep you honest. Again this is not unprecedented and neither is your lack of historical knowledge so we will try not to get to excited about either.
@Anton Dec: “traitor” is one of those words people like to bandy about, and many would like to see used, however, I’m not sure a serving President can be charged with treason. Also it is extremely hard to make stick. Subjectively people may call him a traitor, but objectively, legally there is a burdon of proof which just is not there (yet). I suspect there will be other charges…eventually, then the real power in the WH can step up front and centre…MR. Pence…then we’ll see the darkness :-)
One of the few times the word intelligence will be used in the same sentence as the words Donald Trump. He doesn’t even know what the UK is.
“You have different names,” said Donald Trump. “You can say ‘England’, you can say ‘UK’, you can say ‘United Kingdom’”.
@Dermot Lane:
“If you looked in the dictionary under the word “idïot”, do you know what you would find?’
‘Er, a picture of me?’
‘No!’
‘You’d find the definition of the word “idïot”! Which you are.’
I read your post and it reminded me of this exchange from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Ominously unfunny in the current circumstances.
@Anton Dec: choosing to argue now are you?
Totally agree that a president should never side with a foreign state against their own. It is shocking. However, can’t understand why there is no focus on the Mercer family and their financing of Bannon and Farage’s current campaign to break up the EU. Bannon is currently in London getting huge amounts of radio time to spew his bile. He has been in Europe for a while now helping LePen, Orban, the Poles and the Italians challenge the hegemony of the EU. It’s all being financed by the Mercer family for whom Farage also works. The BBC world radio even did a documentary last year on US alt-right interference in the French elections. Whilst Putin may be enjoying the chaos, the money, strategies and agents behind this are US
@Anne Marie Devlin: This. Add the Koch brothers to the list of global elites staging a right wing coup against anything that interferes with their project.
@Anne Marie Devlin: So True.
Rednecks across the US are queuing up for Putin tattoos.
The new world order is nigh.
I just have to laugh at all the comments on here. People cannot hide their personal hatred for Donald Trump and start spouting all types of over the top calls for impeachment and removal from office. The same type of hysterical fanfare about Putin. What do people want? A full scale war, a return to a cold war? Try to look beyond your ridiculous views of these two leaders and get a bit of cop on. Imagine if Regan had of listened to his intelligence officers about Gorbhachev there would probably have been a full scale war. And to all on here criticising this meeting due to their views on Trump the last people to lisen to the intelligence agencies were Bush and Blair but most on these threads probably were to young to remember that and its consequences.
It’s in his own interest to say Russia was not involved. Why would he acknowledge a sabotage that elected him. It’s essentially admitting he should never has been elected.
Poor ‘Dumb as a rock’ will be seen scaling Mount Rushmore with his hammer and chisel..So sad.Too bad..
Yet if he sided with some Middle Eastern dictator I’m sure Washington wouldn’t be up in arms about that. The problem for them isn’t that he sided with a despot leader but with the wrong one as it doesn’t benefit the US.
The fact they avoided a News station and went to Fox shows you Putin is playing America like a fiddle.
@Rob Cahill: So is CNN…
Trump did not even try to describe his attributed support for Russia over his own secret service as ” fake news “.
Could there be anything more disturbing?
What hold does Russia and Putin have over Trump? Clearly it’s something very damaging that would make a sitting US president side with enemies of his country.
It’s time for action against Trump in America. There is too much ineffective social noise about him.surely there’s some law in America that can be used to stop this self absorbed maniac before it’s too late. Yes, America needs to be made great again but first, get rid of the disease that’s causing it’s meteoric fall…Trump and his children’s TRUMP CAGES.
@Gerry Caden: Trump is after Putin to expand the Trump Dynasty into Russia but Putin isn’t after Trump. The US media is playing those cards because the news there is read by actors and written by a pro Democratic party liberal force who worship Operation Mockingbird. When one side like Trump is evil then it doesn’t say that the other side must be good, the opposite side of evil isn’t always good in politics. It is just similar to be in politics. Trump isn’t the cause of the US fall, he has just shown what has been wrong with the US for years and that is greed, lies and lobbyists. Trump has rubberstamped racism and stupidity, he didn’t create it. The trouble with the US is their political system as the US was set up for slave owners to do well out of slavery and nothing represents slavery as well as the second amendment. As in the right to own guns and that was put in for slave owners…
The US talks about Democracy and its not democratic, it uses Gerrymandering for votes that is used for the college of Electorals, people who can change their vote on President, remember Al Gore and G. W. Bush… There is no equality in the US, the poor are non white while the Whites have the power and money. All the US has is world oil being traded in dollars and an army in most countries in the world and a media that lies about what Americans are and what America is and that is called propaganda. The US has shanty towns, an opioid epidemic, prisons using inmates to make things for businesses, poverty, a police force that tortures and kills innocent people, corrupt system of government and judiciary… But it has propaganda and a mouthpiece for that through Hollywood and through the TV.
Putin needs to carry out a full review of his cyber operations, in order that they remain effective for the upcoming US mid term elections, also if there is another Brexit poll.
It is important that the operation is widened and made more multi faceted to stay ahead of the west.
The US is cracking apart and they need an enemy to keep the same old corrupt system going. Trump is an eejit in my view and I don’t like him but Russia didn’t effect the election and that was proved. What created all this was Hillary, she seems not to be able to accept defeat and couldn’t fact up to the fact that the US voters didn’t like or want her. So she then has to blame Russia, the 2016 vote wasn’t on popularity but on voting for the least worst candidate and that’s how Trump won as well as the Republican party using Gerrymandering to stack the votes in their favour which no one says a word about. All this hatred towards Russia is about trade, gas and raw materials like those in Iran and Syria as well as who can get them?
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