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In the dim corner, we have Trump! In the dictator corner, we have Kim! Or is that mixed up?

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TheClaws · 04/09/2017 08:30

....aand we're expecting a dirty, unfair fight.

Old thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3015872-Trump-yes-we-have-no-Steve-Bannon

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cozietoesie · 14/09/2017 21:23
Wink
OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 14/09/2017 23:09

Donald Trump just defended his response to Charlottesville. Again.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/09/14/politics/trump-antifa-charloteesville/index.html

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 14/09/2017 23:11

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
Roger Stone tells NBC News he will voluntarily appear before the House Intelligence Committee on September 26.

In the dim corner, we have Trump! In the dictator corner, we have Kim! Or is that mixed up?
lionheart · 14/09/2017 23:17

Ooh.

This is horrible.

www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enabled-advertisers-to-reach-jew-haters

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 14/09/2017 23:19

It is awful

lettuceWrap · 14/09/2017 23:19

Fuck. Another missile has just flown over Japan.

lionheart · 14/09/2017 23:24

FFS.

cozietoesie · 14/09/2017 23:33

I just saw that. 'In an easterly direction' the report said.

lettuceWrap · 14/09/2017 23:36

It's reportedly splashed down 2000km to the east.

saffronwblue · 15/09/2017 00:10

DD's friend is on a two week school trip to Japan. Parents were edgy about letting her go.

cozietoesie · 15/09/2017 00:41

I can understand that - I'm glad she went though. (Assuming she gets back safely.)

TheClaws · 15/09/2017 00:41

Steve Herman ✔ @W7VOA
Earlier today when we were aboard Air Force One @POTUS said he was working on something new to secure the homeland from #DPRK threats.
9:31 AM - Sep 15, 2017

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cozietoesie · 15/09/2017 00:42

He was working?

TheClaws · 15/09/2017 00:44

From www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/15/north-korea-launches-missile-over-japan-live-updates

Japanese officials have said the missile was launched at 6.57am Japan time (9.57pm GMT) and flew over Hokkaido before landing in the Pacific nine minutes later 2,000 kilometres east of the northern island’s Cape Erimo.

Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said Japan would take appropriate and timely action at the UN and elsewhere, and stay in close contact with the United States and South Korea.

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TheClaws · 15/09/2017 00:45

He was working "on something" Cozie Grin

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cozietoesie · 15/09/2017 00:45

I'm sure they will - there's little else they can do. Sad

AcrossthePond55 · 15/09/2017 01:07

'He was working' = telling someone else to take care of it and then claiming the credit himself.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/09/2017 07:07

From the guardian link:

Tillerson: China and Russia must 'take direct action'

The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has condemned the missile launch, saying China and Russia must do more to put pressure on Kim Jong-un:

North Korea’s provocative missile launch represents the second time the people of Japan, a treaty ally of the United States, have been directly threatened in recent weeks.

These continued provocations only deepen North Korea’s diplomatic and economic isolation.

United Nations security council resolutions, including the most recent unanimous sanctions resolution, represent the floor, not the ceiling, of the actions we should take. We call on all nations to take new measures against the Kim regime.

China supplies North Korea with most of its oil. Russia is the largest employer of North Korean forced labor.

China and Russia must indicate their intolerance for these reckless missile launches by taking direct actions of their own.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/09/2017 07:11

Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Retaliation

<a class="break-all" href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/world/europe/russia-finland-nato-trolls.html?referer=t.co/Li1gJarHhk?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/world/europe/russia-finland-nato-trolls.html?referer=t.co/Li1gJarHhk?amp=1

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/09/2017 07:15

It's not particularly illuminating

boingboing.net/2017/09/14/facebook-statement-on-allowing.html/amp

Facebook statement on allowing advertisers to target "Jew haters"

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/09/2017 07:18

GOP senator drafting subpoenas for FBI agents after Trump’s DOJ blocks them from testifying in Russia probe

www.rawstory.com/2017/09/gop-senator-drafting-subpoenas-for-fbi-agents-after-trumps-doj-blocks-them-from-testifying-in-russia-probe/amp/

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/09/2017 07:18

The Hill
The Hill @thehill
#BREAKING: California makes history, passes bill requiring presidential candidates to release tax returns: hill.cm/OeReuBt

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/09/2017 07:20

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Call for ESPN to Fire Jemele Hill

www.thewrap.com/sarah-huckabee-sanders-hit-with-ethics-complaint/

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/09/2017 07:36

Caroline O. @RVAwonk
Trump's statement on the signing of the Charlottesville Resolution doesn't mention white supremacists.

Nor does it mention Heather Heyer.

In the dim corner, we have Trump! In the dictator corner, we have Kim! Or is that mixed up?
OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/09/2017 07:39

On tiny Barbuda, a 300-year-old civilization has been ‘extinguished’

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/15/on-tiny-barbuda-a-300-year-old-civilization-has-been-extinguished/

"For the first time in 300 years," he said, "there's not a single living person on the island of Barbuda — a civilization that has existed on that island for over 300 years has now been extinguished."

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