Anonymous ID: 340277 Feb. 7, 2018, midnight No.292808   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2875

Many detainees remain very wealthy and have expressed their loyalty to the king and crown prince "because they understand the power dynamics of the country," said Ali Shihabi, founder of the Arabia Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based think tank that has links with the Saudi government.

 

He said the government sent a clear message to anyone indulging in high-level corruption that the old ways of doing business will no longer be tolerated.

 

"It was clearly a success. The objective was behavioral change," he said. "Now, will some people be bitter? You never know. … That's always a risk."

 

Just hours before his release, Prince Alwaleed voiced his support for the crown prince in an interview with Reuters from the hotel suite where he was held.

 

"My allegiance is not on the table … for the king, crown prince, Saudi Arabia, it's non-negotiable," he said, before later adding: "I can only say I'm supporting the king and crown prince in all the efforts they're doing to really have a new Saudi Arabia."

 

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Anonymous ID: 340277 Feb. 7, 2018, 12:04 a.m. No.292825   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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com/5ed5660b16714f059fa40898b2f45bbf/Sister-of-North-Korean-leader-to-come-to-South-for-Olympics

Anonymous ID: 340277 Feb. 7, 2018, 12:31 a.m. No.292940   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Their “There”

 

Strzok, who was removed from the probe after his anti-Trump comments came to light, expressed his qualms in a May 19 text message to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, his girlfriend at the time: “I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there’s no big ‘there’ there.”

 

https:// nypost.

com/2018/02/06/theres-still-no-there-there-in-the-russia-probe/amp/

Anonymous ID: 340277 Feb. 7, 2018, 1:11 a.m. No.293035   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>293026

In late October, just days before a different InfoWars-inflated conspiracy—about anti-fascist protesters plotting a civil war—was about to fizzle, a user identified as Q on the imageboard website 4chan started posting vague, portentous messages related to an approaching “storm.” The user claimed to be a high-level government operative, and the folks on /pol/, a subsection of 4chan with a history of spreading fake news, took notice—with some even believing it was President Donald Trump himself who was posting the messages on 4chan and on a similar website, 8chan.

Today, #Qanon (meaning Q, anonymous), also known as #TheStorm, is the web's fastest-spreading and most pervasive right-wing conspiracy theory. The ideas behind it are difficult for outsiders to understand—in part because it has come to be applied to almost anything by those who believe in its veracity—but here’s what you need to know about the biggest fake news story of 2018.

A meme celebrating a fake news story called #TheStorm. Twitter

 

A Trump quip gave life to #TheStorm

The date was October 5,a Thursday in an exhausting week in the news cycle. The Las Vegas mass shooting had claimed the lives of scores of innocent people days earlier, and no motives had been attached—pumping a whiff of conspiracy into the air. Trump, while speaking to his press pool and surrounded by military leaders for a photo-op, made cryptic remarks that have never been fully explained by the White House.

 

“Maybe it's the calm before the storm,” he said to the gaggle of reporters. “Could be. The calm before the storm. We have the world's great military people in this room, I will tell you that. And we're going to have a great evening. Thank you all for coming.”

 

A reporter requested clarification about what Trump said: “What storm, Mr. President?”

 

“You'll find out. Thank you, everybody,” the president said.

 

Trump’s tone sounded confident: Perhaps he was secure in the knowledge of some future revelation he couldn’t quite name—possibly something that could damage his political enemies. (The remark also came in the context of a heated back and forth with North Korea over that country's buildup of ICBMs, and could have been read to refer to that.) In reality, however, the remark just as easily could have been a troll carried out by a man with a documented history of playing games with the press. Still, some of his supporters took notice, and it cultivated a sense of expectation: When would the storm hit? What would it reveal?

Anonymous ID: 340277 Feb. 7, 2018, 2:10 a.m. No.293192   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https:// www

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Anonymous ID: 340277 Feb. 7, 2018, 2:15 a.m. No.293207   🗄️.is 🔗kun

They’re called the Little Barbies.

 

Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old.

 

This is America’s dirty little secret.

 

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