FANGS Maybe Hucked?....

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......and other news media stocks may also take a beating?

Okay, Netflix is okay because it's not social media; I read recently almost half of young ppl wish there were none. Which is just one of the problems Facebook, Google and others are facing. 

It's no secret that CNN fed a certain candidate questions during the presidential run in 2016. However, new footage has emerged of a meeting at Google after the 2016 election that is disturbing to say the least.‎ Since then there has been a concentrated effort by media outlets to frame a narrative, and any voices questioning this narrative have been essentially labeled Nazis. Which is of course ironic because controling the narrative through media and "silencing" anyone who spoke against the narrative is exactly what the National Socialist Party did.

  The narrative of President Trump and Russian collusion is looking ‎thin. The following is a great article outlining what is known so far, and from the last comments in the article this author would not seem to be a Trump fan: The Mueller Investigation Is Sending People to Jail—but Not for Collusion

The article clearly outlines CNNs willingness to ignore the truth.

Further, after Manafort pleaded, NPR news reported it as bad news for Greg Craig, Tony Posdesta and their firms.‎ Which is exactly what happened; Greg Craig was the first name mentioned as being investigated from Manafort's plea. Now, this gets really interesting because both Craig and Posdesta actually tied into the previous administration. This trouble because the following article does a great job explaining how the evidence thus far is pointing to big problems for the previous administration: Christopher Steele Worked For Sanctioned Russian Oligarch While Composing Sham Dossier: Solomon

So, not only have Facebook, Google, CNN, and others been pushing what appears to be a false narrative; it also appears the party which they would be most likely to be pushing this narrative for; could be guilty of treason.

Facebook=Byespce? DuckDuck away from Google? #AmericanNewsMediaHasBeenAJokeForYearsAndTheWorldKnowsIt

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Interesting tidbits keep filtering through, to put it mildly. It's easy to forget; but Cory Fedlman was the first to come forward, which inspired Rosario Dawson, etc... River Phenoiex had an "interesting" childhood, and that was a feeder program for MK Ultra type programs; and said programs where run by a known Satanist.... The web of BS that appears to be coming unglued.

Tech icon envisions prosperous new world 'after Google

In Life After Google,” George Gilder contends the age of the “Big Data” tech giants and their centralized, top-down hierarchical world is about to end, largely because their “neo-Marxist, deterministic” worldview is “fundamentally flawed.”

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In an interview with WND, Gilder – whose 1981 book “Wealth and Poverty” was Ronald Reagan’s guidebook for his economic revolution and whose 1994 book “Life After Television” predicted the current digital world with astounding specificity – spoke of a frontier of free enterprise that will look more like the original internet of limitless possibilities but be bolstered by a new architecture called the “cryptocosm.”

-IRS Officials – “You Should Give Increased Scrutiny” to Conservative Groups, “… I don’t give a s**t if that is a crime”
-Soros and Tech Moguls Paid $50 Million to Fund Private Russia Probe

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Very !

-“I WAS DEVASTATED”: TIM BERNERS-LEE, THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB, HAS SOME REGRETS Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
-Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.

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This ties into the news media/treason problem discussed in the OP...

Top FBI lawyer Baker offers 'explosive' testimony on 'abnormal' handling of Russia probe into Trump campaign: lawmakers

the Russia probe was handled in an "abnormal fashion" reflecting "political bias," according to two Republican lawmakers present for the deposition....

...handling of the probe into alleged coordination between Russian officials and the Trump presidential campaign was "a reflection of inherent bias that seems to be evident in certain circles." The FBI agent who opened the Russia case, Peter Strzok, FBI lawyer Lisa Page and others sent politically charged texts, and have since left the bureau.

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This is another one that should probably be filed under a different perspective on the deep state, as it literally outlines what I have been saying about foreign enemies, propaganda, etc. However, it fits nicely in this thread as it clearly outlines which political party has aligned themselves with these foreign entities.. aka, treason.

And just in case it seems far fetched, because the writer has some interesting conclusions; lets not forget which political leaning crows about ppl just wanting to eat sandwiches, universal basic income, and literally giving up control to the UN(carbon taxes, etc, etc).

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The Final Truth of Russia-gate As the hoax unravels, the real story of “foreign collusion” comes out

So here we have it at last, the final truth of Russia-gate: yes, there was indeed foreign collusion in the 2016 election, but it came from the opposite direction than the media are telling us. We weren’t attacked by Russia: a few thousand dollars in Facebook ads that nobody saw did not put Trump in the White House. Our democratic process was undermined, not by the supposedly omnipotent Vladimir Putin but by the intelligence agencies of some of our more beloved “allies.” We were attacked by a tag -team, both foreign and domestic, intent on ousting a democratically-elected President by any means necessary.

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A different perspective on the deep state, leads to the death of socialism, which is being brought on by the players outlined on this thread. A better article to sum up how....well if there is, I will post that one too.

Is Cultural Marxism America's New Mainline Ideology?

cultural Marxism.” This theory says that the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat — but the intellectuals. While Marxism has largely disappeared from the workers' movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media. This “cultural Marxism” goes back to Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and the Frankfurt School. The theorists of Marxism recognized that the proletariat would not play the expected historical role as a “revolutionary subject.” Therefore, for the revolution to happen, the movement must depend on the cultural leaders to destroy the existing, mainly Christian, culture and morality and then drive the disoriented masses to Communism as their new creed. The goal of this movement is to establish a world government in which the Marxist intellectuals have the final say. In this sense, the cultural Marxists are the continuation of what started with the Russian revolution..

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The Russian Revolution was not the result of a labor movement but of a group of professional revolutionaries...

...These considerations brought the leading Marxist thinkers to the conclusion that a different strategy would be required to establish socialism. Communist authors spread the insight that the socialist dictatorship must come in disguise. Before socialism can succeed, the existing culture must change. Control of the culture must precede political control....

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....The way toward the rule of the cultural Marxists is the moral corruption of the people. To accomplish this, the mass media and public education must not enlighten but confuse and mislead. The media and the educational establishment work to put one part of the society against the other part. While group identities get more specific, the catalog of victimization and history of oppression becomes more detailed. To turn into a recognized victim of suppression is the way to gain social status and to obtain the right to special assistance, of respect and social inclusion.

The demand for social justice creates an endless stream of expenditures deemed essential — for health, education, old age, and for all those people who are "needy," "persecuted" and "oppressed," be it real or imaginary. The flood of never-ending spending in these areas corrupts the state finances and produces fiscal crises. This helps the Neo-Marxists accuse "capitalism" of all evils when, in fact, it is the regulatory state that provokes the systemic failures and when it is the excess of public debt that causes the financial fragility.

Politics, the media, and the judiciary never pause at waging the new endless wars: the war on drugs or against high blood pressure or the campaigns that assert the endless struggle against fat and obesity. The list of the enemies grows every day whether racism, xenophobia, and anti-Islamism. The epitome of this movement is political correctness, the war against having one's own opinion. While the public tolerates disgusting expositions of behavior, particularly under the cult of the arts, the list of prohibited words and opinions grows daily. Public opinion must not go beyond the few accepted positions. Yet while the public debate impoverishes, the diversity of radical opinion flourishes in the hidden.

The cultural Marxists drive society morally into an identity crisis by the means of the false standards of a hypocritical ethics. The aim is no longer the "dictatorship of the proletariat," because this project has failed, but the "dictatorship of political correctness" whose supreme authority lies in the hands of the cultural Marxists. As a new class of priests, the guardians of the new orthodoxy rule the institutions whose power they try to extend over all parts of the society. The moral destruction of the individual is a necessary step to accomplish the final victory.....

.....The workers have never been the perpetrators of socialism but always its victim. The leaders of the revolution have been intellectual party politicians and military men. It was up to the writers and artists to conceal the brutality of the socialist regimes through articles and books and by films, music, and paintings, and to give socialism a scientific-intellectual, aesthetic and moral appearance. In the socialist propaganda, the new system appears to be both fair and productive.

The cultural Marxists believe that someday they will be the sole holders of power and be able to dictate to the masses how to live and what to think. Yet the neo-Marxist intellectuals are in for a surprise....

....As the successors of the New Left, the "democratic socialists" of the present time propagate a hodgepodge of contradictory positions. Because of the character of this movement as a promoter of group conflict, neo-Marxism is ineffectual to serve as an instrument of gaining coherent political power as it were necessary for a dictatorship. Yet this does not mean that the neo-Marxist movement has no impact. On the contrary: because of its inherent contradictions, the ideology of cultural Marxism is the main source of the profound confusion that has grabbed almost every segment of the modern Western societies and which is about to swell into even more dangerous proportions.

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The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government's position.[2]...

Yeah, that sounds about right.

-Carter page sues DNC for alleged defamation stemming from Steele dossier
-NSA Director Rogers Disclosed FISA Abuse Days After Carter Page FISA Was Issued

And on the FANG side of things; while Google has now admitted they are working on a censorship project for China, which ties into the information on Google after the 2016 elections above... Netflix's earnings were shocking. The only company that is destroying profitable busineses with as much cash burn as Netflix, is the fraud cult known as Tesla.

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While the continual false statements made by E. Warren may only be boarder line illegal; it points to a continued pattern by the mucky mucks of the party that has committed treason outlined in this thread. The following story - while not directly related to "spygate" - corroborates the false claims, and paints a better picture of who was leading this treason. Who has the power to direct the FBI, NSA, FISA courts... Well the former POtuS of course. Interesting times indeed.

State Department provided 'clearly false' statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, 'shocked' federal judge says

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Yuuuup! Just like the man said and was ridiculed for; the Obama administration was using the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign... I wonder who for.? Couldn't have been the candidate whom also was fed questions by CNN, whom had the DNC essentially squash her competition for nomination. Nah...

FBI ACKNOWLEDGES USING MULTIPLE INFORMANTS IN INVESTIGATION OF TRUMP CAMPAIGN AIDE

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Media matters.....

-Two Stories from the Propaganda War
-This money-flow chart shows that Amazon and Netflix are in dangerous territory
-As Facebook is called ‘digital tobacco,’ advertisers’ loyalty is biggest question

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More rough water for Facebook as Facebook Revenue, Daily Users Miss, FCF Drops As Operating Costs Soar.

More interesting though; With Just Days to the Midterms, Russiagate Is MIA.

The anti Trimp story which replaced Russiagate has just had a new spin though; video evidence of how this "caravan" has been traveling so quickly. (Have to wonder how long before YouTube pulls it for offense content...) Stay

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Then the video evidence of who could be paying for those buses surfaces. Also interesting to note how there is talk of food and airplanes; now the distance traveled stars making more sense.

Gee, I wonder why ppl think Democratic Supporters that have been kicked out of Hungary for trying to push mass migration like George Soros has could be funding something like this.....



I'm so happy I was off on the exact date the acknowledgment that we are in WW3 was; we are truly getting to see who is behind the curtain and after the dust settles you can be certain these Satanic pricks are going to be nowhere in sight.

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I'm sure this is the only incident of things of this nature... Even though we know for a 100% fact it is not! MBS is going to let women drive! (We hate MBS now because of a reporter) Islam is a religion of peace! Sharia courts, no go zones, not real! Unreal how much selling out has go on the last 30-40 years. All in the name of "progressive."

As I mentioned on the "Death of Socalism" thread; Islamic/Socalist propeganda working in lock step...pushed by our media outlets; which ties directly back into the OP. Stay

Saudis demanded good publicity over Yemen aid, leaked UN document shows

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And now from the WSJ...

Burying the Other Russia Story Adam Schiff will shut down the probe that found FBI abuses.

The Democrat says his top priority is re-opening the Trump-Russia collusion probe, but more important may be his intention to stop investigating how the FBI and Justice Department abused their power in 2016. So let’s walk through what we’ve learned to date.

Credit for knowing anything at all goes to Intel Chairman Devin Nunes and more recently a joint investigation by Reps. Bob Goodlatte (Judiciary) and Trey Gowdy (Oversight). Over 18 months of reviewing tens of thousands of documents and interviewing every relevant witness, no Senate or House Committee has unearthed evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the presidential election. If Special Counsel Robert Mueller has found more, he hasn’t made it public.

But House investigators have uncovered details of a Democratic scheme to prod the FBI to investigate the Trump campaign. We now know that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee hired Fusion GPS, which hired an intelligence-gun-for-hire, Christopher Steele, to write a “dossier” on Donald Trump’s supposed links to Russia.

Mr. Steele fed that document to the FBI, even as he secretly alerted the media to the FBI probe that Team Clinton had helped to initiate. Fusion, the oppo-research firm, was also supplying its dossier info to senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, whose wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion.

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House investigators have also documented the FBI’s lack of judgment in using the dossier to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against former Trump aide Carter Page. The four FISA warrants against Mr. Page show that the FBI relied almost exclusively on the unproven Clinton-financed accusations, as well as a news story that was also ginned up by Mr. Steele.

The FBI told the FISA court that Mr. Steele was “credible,” despite Mr. Steele having admitted to Mr. Ohr that he passionately opposed a Trump Presidency. The FBI also failed to tell the FISA court about the Clinton campaign’s tie to the dossier.

This abuse of the FBI’s surveillance powers took place as part of a counterintelligence investigation into a presidential campaign—which the FBI also hid from Congress. Such an investigation is unprecedented in post-J. Edgar Hoover American politics, and it included running informants into the Trump campaign, obtaining surveillance warrants, and using national security letters, which are secret subpoenas to obtain phone records and documents.

Mr. Nunes and his colleagues also found that officials in Barack Obama’s White House “unmasked” Trump campaign officials to learn about their conversations with foreigners; that FBI officials exhibited anti-Trump bias in text messages; and that the FBI team that interviewed then Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn reported that they did not think Mr. Flynn had lied about his Russian contacts. Mr. Mueller still squeezed Mr. Flynn to cop a guilty plea.

All of this information had to be gathered despite relentless opposition from Democrats and their media contacts. Liberal groups ginned up a phony ethics complaint against Mr. Nunes, derailing his committee leadership for months. Much of the media became Mr. Schiff’s scribes rather than independent reporters. Meanwhile, the FBI and Justice continue to stonewall Congress, defying subpoenas and hiding names and information behind heavy redactions.

There is still much more the public deserves to know. This includes how and when the FBI’s Trump investigation began, the extent of FBI surveillance, and the role of Obama officials and foreigners such as Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese academic who in spring 2016 supposedly told Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that Russia held damaging Clinton emails. When he takes over the committee, Mr. Schiff will stop asking these questions and bless the FBI-Justice refusal to cooperate.

Aka. an attempted cover-up of treason looks to be in the cards... With two more years of FUD without focus. It didn't work in 2016, half as good as expected during the midterms, and should go over real well by 2020...

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All about the OP, and now FB is finding out what happens when the mainstream turns on ya.

-Apple’s stock tumble makes it unanimous — the FAANG bull market has ended
-It's time to stop lumping Netflix in with the other FAANG stocks, says analyst
-Facebook has been accused of peddling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories to promote its brand

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And this is filed under the.........and other news media stocks may also take a beating?

It may also be the definition of irony; Khashoggi: How US Media Is Losing Its Moral Compass by Feeding Off Conspiracy Theories

And the reason the whole Russiagate story fell apart:

QUESTIONS GROW ABOUT FBI VETTING OF CHRISTOPHER STEELE’S RUSSIA EXPERTISE

In other words, the CIA believed Putin was going nowhere and was planning to flex his muscles even more.

(Global War, thanks Putin!)

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all ya can do is... ... And it was lapped up by the #neverTrumpers as gospel. Which is probably the worst part. No, scratch that. The worst part is how Zerohedge is becoming more reputable than many mainstream ENTERTAINMENT outlets.

The Guardian Faceplants As Manafort's Passport Stamps Don't Match "Fabricated" Assange Story

Greenwald Goes Ballistic On Politico "Theory" Guardian's Assange-Manafort Story Was Planted By Russians

Why do attacks on the US media - calling it "Fake News" - resonate so widely? Because of utterly fabricated and reckless articles like this one from @politico, by a former *CIA officer allowed to write under a "pen name"*. The whole thing is a fraud: ..

.The only point of the article is to *invent out of whole cloth* a wild conspiracy theory: that perhaps Russia-controlled operatives caused the @guardian to publish a false story - its viral Assange/Manafort story - in order to discredit Luke Harding for his Russia reporting.

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Well, this isn't the best news. Secret Facebook documents show company allegedly gave advertisers special access to user data and Facebook Was Fully Aware That Tracking Who People Call and Text Is Creepy But Did It Anyway.

This is an interesting take on Netflix:

Netflix Is Going To Be Horrible In 2019

So what's the plan? Simple, Netflix wants to start streaming more original shows and movies and focussing less on acquiring programs they did not produce. That means they are taking away the very reason why most of us subscribed to Netflix in the first place and they'll eventually become just a really expensive glorified TV channel.

Enjoy it while you can, because by the end of 2019, Netflix is going to be horrible.

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As Feds received whistleblower evidence in 2017 alleging Clinton Foundation wrongdoing; I think it's important to remember No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists. Especially because, FBI EMAIL CHAIN MAY PROVIDE MOST DAMNING EVIDENCE OF FISA ABUSES YET.

The most ironic part of the mounting evidence against the last administration is had they not trumped up a bunch of charges; right now they would have a domestic issue to hang their hat on in the fact President Trump's lawyer paid off women to stay silent during the 2016 campaign.

As the Clinton's continue to lose mass market appeal(see their recent tour for details) it sould be interesting to see who end up under the bus.

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, and bit more now on the whole, No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists thing; with a Muller cherry on top.

FBI’s 37 secret pages of memos about Russia, Clintons and Uranium One

I was the reporter who first disclosed last fall that a globetrotting American businessman, William Douglas Campbell, managed to burrow his way inside Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear giant, Rosatom, in 2009 posing as a consultant while working as an FBI informant.

Campbell gathered extensive evidence for his FBI counterintelligence handlers by early 2010 that Rosatom’s main executive in the United States, Vadim Mikerin, orchestrated a racketeering plot involving kickbacks, bribes and extortion that corrupted the main uranium trucking company in the United States. That is a serious national security compromise by any measure.

The evidence was compiled as Secretary Clinton courted Russia for better relations, as her husband former President Clinton collected a $500,000 speech payday in Moscow, and as the Obama administration approved the sale of a U.S. mining company, Uranium One, to Rosatom.

The sale — made famous years later by author Peter Schweizer and an epic New York Times exposé in 2015 — turned over a large swath of America’s untapped uranium deposits to Russia.

Mikerin was charged and convicted, along with some American officials, but not until many years later.....

....Campbell tells me his FBI handlers assured him they had briefed Obama and then-FBI Director Robert Mueller, now the Russia special prosecutor, on Rosatom’s criminal activities as part of the president's daily briefing and that agents suggested to him that “politics” was the reason the sale was allowed to go through.

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I don't think Politics had anything to do with it. MONEY did. LOL

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Amen! That's the BIG issue here. Speaking of money in politics: British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the Democrat-financed anti-Trump dossier, said in a court case that he was hired by a Democratic law firm in preparation for Hillary Clinton challenging the results of the 2016 presidential election.

More on that guy who was investigating Campbell: government phones issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office to Strzok and Page had been wiped completely clean after Strzok was fired from the Russia probe.

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This just keeps getting more interesting:

The #DeleteFacebook Movement Is Swelling After The Platform’s Latest Alleged Privacy Breach Surfaces

Facebook granted access to data from its 2 billion users to fellow technology giants. Netflix and Spotify (as well as the Royal Bank of Canada) were allowed to read users’ private messages while Amazon was able to access user contact info via friends. Likewise, Microsoft could access users’ friends without permission to do so, and Yahoo was allowed to view friends’ posts in stream format. Some of these breaches allegedly occurred as recently as summer 2018.

Plus: Google slammed in federal complaint for ‘disturbing’ children’s games

Also a nice reminder that the BS dossier which started this whole mess off was a bipartisan effortJohn McCain's Associated Gave Dossier to Buzzfeed

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Great story Hansel.

"Election Meddling" Enters Bizarro World As MSM Ignores Democrat-Linked "Russian Bot" Scheme

For over two years now, the concepts of "Russian collusion" and "Russian election meddling" have been shoved down our throats by the mainstream media (MSM) under the guise of legitimate concern that the Kremlin may have installed a puppet president in Donald Trump. 

Having no evidence of collusion aside from a largely unverified opposition-research dossier fabricated by a former British spy, the focus shifted from "collusion" to "meddling" and "influence." In other words, maybe Trump didn't actually collude with Putin, but the Kremlin used Russian tricks to influence the election in Trump's favor. 

To some, this looked like nothing more than an establishment scheme to cast a permanent spectre of doubt over the legitimacy of President Donald J. Trump. 

Election meddling "Russian bots" and "troll farms" became the central focus - as claims were levied of social media operations conducted by Kremlin-linked organizations which sought to influence and divide certain segments of America. 

And while scant evidence of a Russian influence operation exists outside of a handful of indictments connected to a St. Petersburg "Troll farm" (which a liberal journalist cast serious doubt over), the MSM - with all of their proselytizing over the "threat to democracy" that election meddling poses, has largely decided to ignore actual evidence of "Russian bots" created by Democrat IT experts, used against a GOP candidate in the Alabama special election, and amplified through the Russian bot-detecting "Hamilton 68" dashboard developed by the same IT experts. 

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The start of this thread was roughly a week before the market top. While lots of gnashing has gone on since the top about tariff pain, Trump this and that; most ignore that the FAANG trade was one of the biggest drivers in the non fundamental bull run. Like Ty pointed out in the Asian crisis thread, Chinese people aren't snapping up phones "as they should" due to the mirage of a miracle; and the market doesn't like this reality. Good thing fundamentals are kicking in.

It’s time to FAANG investing in the trash

The origin of FAANG (short for tech stalwarts Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet/Google) could be hotly debated, but its underlying premise cannot. It’s a ridiculous byproduct of the post Great Recession bull market where tech stocks more often than not have gone up in value in unison. So why not group the most powerful tech companies in the world together and watch them roar ahead with each passing, somewhat predictable trading session?

Saying FAANG on business news TV and creating indexes and ETFs pegged to it has been cool as hell — it’s the ultimate indication of aggressive trading in an algorithmic world.

Unfortunately, acronym investing has always been borderline dumb. And investors were reminded of that in 2018 as many of the FAANG stocks were clobbered starting in the fall and continuing into year end.

Reality check: The average FAANG stock gained a meager 3% in 2018, which is akin to a down year for the once smoking hot group. Each stock tanked in the last six months of 2018 as investors questioned growth outlooks. FAANG’s first component, Facebook, had the worst year as it plunged 28% as it dealt with multiple PR crises.

What happened to FAANG is a two part process. First, hedge funds unwinded their overcrowded FAANG positions and dumped cash into health care and god knows what else with liquidity being sucked from the financial system. Remember, the magic behind the bullish FAANG trade was low interest rates and docile, predictable markets. The slowing momentum led to fund managers and retail investors, who were also too bullish on FAANG, to begin reassessing each tech giant’s business models and outlooks.

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FISA shocker: DOJ official warned Steele dossier was connected to Clinton, might be biased

When the annals of mistakes and abuses in the FBI’s Russia investigation are finally written, Bruce Ohr almost certainly will be the No. 1 witness, according to my sources.

The then-No. 4 Department of Justice (DOJ) official briefed both senior FBI and DOJ officials in summer 2016 about Christopher Steele’s Russia dossier, explicitly cautioning that the British intelligence operative’s work was opposition research connected to Hillary Clinton’s campaign and might be biased.

Ohr’s briefings, in July and August 2016, included the deputy director of the FBI, a top lawyer for then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and a Justice official who later would become the top deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller.....

.....At the time, Ohr was the associate attorney general. Yet his warnings about political bias were pointedly omitted weeks later from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that the FBI obtained from a federal court, granting it permission to spy on whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to hijack the 2016 presidential election...

..A redacted version of the FISA application released last year shows the FBI did not mention any connection to the DNC or Clinton. Rather, it referred to Steele as a reliable source in past criminal investigations who was hired by a person working for a U.S. law firm to conduct research on Trump and Russia....

..Such omissions are, by definition, an abuse of the FISA system.

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-What Bruce Ohr Told the FBI The Justice Department official’s testimony raises new doubts about the bureau’s honesty.

-IN A RARE MOVE, Mueller’s office denies BuzzFeed report that Trump told Cohen to lie about Moscow project

Fake dossier, based on fake statements, push through by crooked FBI agents, propped up by major media outlets. Now real story going under reported, while fake news runs through the echo chamber with glee!! While the true reporters out there are being harassed for printing the truth about this entire BS case (like the WSJ articles author) against a President who just made China say, okay will give you a TRILLION dollars.

#howMuchBsCanTheNeverTrumpSquadBuy

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Zerohedge has done a great job collecting into an article Doug Johnson Hatlem's tweets outlining the amount of propaganda since President Trump's election. A definitive list of over 50 major news stories

Worse yet though; more "fake news" over the weekend. This time involving a group of young people who were assembling peacefully, which they have they right to do.

The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran

But the rest of the video—nearly two hours of additional footage showing what happened before and after the encounter—adds important context that strongly contradicts the media's narrative.

Far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites, who were lurking nearby. The BHI has existed since the late 19th century, and is best describes as a black nationalist cult movement; its members believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites, and often express condemnation of white people, Christians, and gays. DC-area Black Hebrews are known to spout particularly vile bigotry.

The mainstream media still lives in a mindset(reality) where HD video isn't being recorded by 100+ ppl of any big event.