Pelosi Impeachment Inquiry

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Big AAPL, Sep 24, 2019.

  1. Black_Cat

    Black_Cat

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    #1601     Nov 15, 2019
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  2. easymon1

    easymon1

    #1602     Nov 15, 2019
  3. I am sure that things would, you like, well, you know, be you know fine if only we had a quality ambassador like, you know, Caroline Kennedy as ambassador to the Ukraine, and you know, Japan is an important country, so you know she has experience. You know this right?

    "while I was thinking about this in my own head"
    Ahhh, okay, versus where else, your kidney or something.

     
    #1603     Nov 15, 2019
  4. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    #1604     Nov 15, 2019
  5. easymon1

    easymon1

    I hope you're correct in your rebuttal, bugman, the depiction of Europe from the post above is hellish.

    here's the link you find questionable
    https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/s...and-crime-make-gothenburg-city-center-unsafe/

    Here's the text of the link you provided.


    Home » Voice of Europe
    Voice of Europe


    Has this Media Source failed a fact check? LET US KNOW HERE.

    [​IMG]QUESTIONABLE SOURCE
    A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence (Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact checked on a per article basis. Please note sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source. See all Questionable sources.


    • Overall, this site is Questionable due to extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories and poor sourcing.
    Detailed Report
    Reasoning: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Anti-Islam
    Country: Unknown

    History

    Voice of Europe is a far right website that publishes sensational stories. Although the website doesn’t list who runs the site, according to Whois the site’s registrant name is Annemiek Ploumen. According to Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer (independent Dutch weekly news magazine published in Amsterdam), Erik De Vlieger is the financier and founder of the site, although he will not confirm or deny this publicly, while Daan van Seventer is the technical person. Voice of Europe doesn’t have an about page, however according to their twitter profile information they describe their content as “Conservative news network delivering you breaking news, uncensored articles and must-see videos.”

    Funded by / Ownership

    Ownership is not disclosed, however Erik De Vlieger appears to be the financier and the website is primarily funded through online advertising.

    Analysis / Bias

    In review, Voice of Europe reports stories from European media and frames and spins them in a misleading way that always turns out negative for immigrants and the European Union: “Almost 98% of gang rapists in Sweden have a migrant background”, “Sweden reports highest number of murders in fifteen years” Voice of Europe also has a poor track record with fact checkers.

    Voice of Europe’s stories consist of sensational click bait headlines and focus on a variety of topics that are mostly anti-immigrant with emotionally loaded headlines and content such as “Swedish student suspended for telling the truth about migrant sex crimes.“ Voice of Europe frequently uses factually mixed sources such as Breitbart, Daily Mail, Gatestone Institute, and Sputnik News.

    Overall, this site is Questionable due to extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories and poor sourcing. (M Huitsing 4/8/2018) Updated (10/24/2018)

    Source: https://voiceofeurope.com/
     
    #1605     Nov 15, 2019
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  6. In other news Roger Stone has just been found guilty on all seven counts ,

    said he lied to congress to protect Trump.
     
    #1606     Nov 15, 2019
  7. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Could be worse,like having the vocabulary of a 3rd grader.
     
    #1607     Nov 15, 2019
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    #1609     Nov 15, 2019
  10. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

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    18 U.S.C §1512—Tampering w/a witness, victim, informant
    42 U.S.C §3617—Interference, coercion, or intimidation
    18 U.S.C. § 1513(e) Retaliating against a witness, victim, or an informant

    AP FACT CHECK: Trump Portrays Ex-Ambassador as Wrecking Ball
    By The Associated Press

    • Nov. 15, 2019Updated 3:16 p.m. ET
    • WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested Friday that a U.S. diplomat was responsible for Somalia’s descent into chaos decades ago, a tweet that Democrats branded witness intimidation.

    Trump’s attack on Marie Yovanovitch came as she testified to the House Intelligence Committee about her service as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and her dismissal by Trump.

    Yovanovitch served as a low-level diplomat in Somalia in her first foreign tour after joining the foreign service in her 20s. She had nothing to do with the 1984 famine that preceded her arrival in Somalia and contributed to that country’s unraveling, nor anything to do with the government’s collapse and the onset of anarchy after she left.

    And while she served in Somalia, she had decidedly limited influence in a junior post.


    TRUMP: “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go?”


    THE FACTS: There’s no credence to the notion that countries “turned bad” when Yovanovitch went to them.

    “I don't think I have such powers, not in Mogadishu and Somalia and not in other places,” she said when asked about Trump’s tweet.

    Of the seven countries where Yovanovitch served U.S. interests, five were designated hardship posts. In that sense, they were “bad” to begin with.

    Mogadishu, Somalia, was her first tour after she joined the foreign service in 1986. She was a general-services officer with little clout, before she moved to other countries in increasingly senior positions.

    The Somali civil war began in earnest in 1988, leading to a collapse in law and order by 1990, the overthrow of the government in 1991 and eventually to the ill-starred, U.S.-led United Nations peacekeeping intervention in 1992.

    By then, she had moved on. After several years in Somalia, she went to Uzbekistan to help open the post-Soviet-era U.S. Embassy in Tashkent.

    After a series of promotions from both Republican and Democratic administrations, Yovanovitch worked from 2001 to 2004 as the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Ukraine before being named ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, then to Armenia.

    She took over in Kyrgyzstan during a turbulent time in the Central Asian country. In what became known as the Tulip Revolution, protesters drove out a president they accused of corruption and he fled to Russia.

    The new president, under pressure from Russia, threatened to expel the U.S. from a military air base that was being used to support the war in Afghanistan. But the U.S. reached an agreement with Kyrgyzstan during her ambassadorship that allowed U.S. troops to stay.

    Yovanovitch arrived in Armenia in the fall of 2008, several months after the government had violently cracked down on protests that followed a contentious presidential election. Her efforts to push for the fair treatment of jailed protesters led her colleagues to choose her for a State Department award given to an ambassador who shows extraordinary commitment to defending human rights.

    She returned to Ukraine after President Barack Obama nominated her to be U.S. ambassador in 2016.
     
    #1610     Nov 15, 2019