Daily Mail: Vladimir Putin is declared the winner of referendum five hours BEFORE polls close and will seize power until 2036 after 73% back him in 'rigged'vote
* Referendum will approve changes allowing Putin to run again in 2024 and 2030
* Russian officials issued 'preliminary results' showing 73% backing for the change
* Package of changes will also increase Putin's powers over parliament and courts
Vladimir Putin is clear to stay in power until 2036 after winning a referendum to prolong his rule - in a landslide victory declared before polls had even closed.
Russia's election commission issued 'preliminary results' this afternoon showing Putin on course to win 73 per cent of the vote.
The early announcement was the latest oddity in an election where Putin's victory was seen as a certainty following a massive state propaganda campaign, a prize draw offering cars and apartments to lure voters into taking part and reports of irregular turnout figures in the regions.
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WNU Editor: The vote in support for these constitutional changes is over 70%.
More News On Russia's Constitutional Referendum
Constitutional amendments vote in Russia: RT special coverage -- RT
Russians grant Putin right to extend his rule until 2036 in landslide vote, initial results show -- Reuters
Russia nears end of vote on extending Putin’s rule to 2036 -- AP
Putin takes part in vote on constitutional amendments -- TASS
Russia reforms: Early results suggest Putin victory in reform vote -- BBC
Putin seeks ‘irrefutable proof’ of support as Russian constitutional reform vote nears end -- France 24
Putin declared triumphant in referendum allowing him to rule until 2036 - five hours before polls close -- The Independent
Turnout in Russian constitutional vote now over 60%, first results coming in from Far East -- RT
Russia did pay extremists to attack US soldiers, Taliban sources say - Business Insider
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ReplyDeleteFred spotted on all blogposts relentlessly and mo·not·o·nous·ly posting the the same NYT hit pieces day after day.
The Trump administration is under pressure amid reports that the White House failed to take action after being briefed on intelligence showing that Russia paid Taliban-linked militants secret bounties to kill American troops.
ReplyDeleteThe White House pushed back on the reports, saying the president was never briefed on the intelligence because there was dissent within the intelligence community about its credibility.
The White House's claim that this information was not conveyed to Trump because there wasn't a consensus on its credibility is "horses---," Steve Hall, the CIA's former chief of Russia operations, told Insider.
If the White House claim is true, it would be a catastrophic failure on the part of the intelligence community and amount to "dereliction of duty," a former CIA analyst told Insider.
The other possibility, Hall said, is "whether the topic of Russia has become so radioactive in this administration, dating back to the 2016 election, that it can't even be raised with Trump because he just goes bonkers or shuts down."
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ReplyDeleteWELL, HERE WE ARE AGAIN. THE QUESTION hanging over Washington is whether President DONALD TRUMP will veto the National Defense Authorization Act -- the Pentagon policy bill that has been signed into law for 59 consecutive years.
ReplyDeleteAT ISSUE is whether the United States should consider stripping military bases of their Confederate namesakes. TRUMP says no. Congress looks like it will say yes, America should no longer honor these men. If it ends up in the bill -- which it will -- the president says he’ll veto it.
IN OTHER WORDS, the president says he will side with deceased former Confederate generals over expected bipartisan majorities in the Congress.
NOT TO MENTION: The NDAA includes a bump in soldier pay. So, if TRUMP vetoes it, he’s vetoing pay increase for military men and women.
ADD TO THIS -- as our colleagues ANDREW DESIDERIO and MARIANNE LEVINE note -- that the bill probably won’t get to the president until the fall, so why is he even discussing this now? It’s completely superfluous.
ONCE AGAIN WE ARE REMINDED how undisciplined the president is, and how scattershot his behavior is. Today he could be talking about the implementation of the USMCA. He could be focusing his messaging elsewhere -- jobs, economy, whatever -- as his aides and advisers have suggested he do. But instead, here we are, arguing about preserving reminders of the Confederacy.
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DeleteWell well looks like the parrot has added a James to his sock puppet parade!
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At the WNU blog we are subjected to a newsfeed from NYT/Washington Post/CNN to WNU blog by a tendentious (As one poster put it (Not me).), bigoted (i.e narrowminded; not well read) and functionally illiterate person.
This illiterate person has earned the sobriquet of parrot for an obvious reason.
"AT ISSUE is whether the United States should consider stripping military bases of their Confederate namesakes. "
ReplyDeleteA smart person could effect a transition over time. A stupid person full of hubris would be in-your-face lecturing and hectoring people.
Fun fact: Former union soldiers and confederate soldiers would march together on holidays after the Civil War.
So do the super wakey types want to censor those Union soldiers?
Sordid Fact: The ÜBER-woke cannot name African slave traders and definitely absolutely have no intention on ever censoring them.
Of course learning their names a person would have to have a genuine interest in history and read something besides liberal trash.
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When a Moscow couple turned up to cast their ballots in Russia's nationwide vote on constitutional amendments, they were surprised to learn from election officials that they had already voted.
They hadn't. Yet an election official at Lefortovo voting precinct No. 1403 was showing them that their names, passport information, and signatures were clearly registered in the voting logs indicating they had cast ballots.
The discussion revealed that the couple's daughter and son, who had not yet voted either, were also listed as having cast ballots that would help determine the outcome of a vote that would allow President Vladimir Putin to seek two more terms, potentially keeping him in the Kremlin until 2036.
Whether it was a mistake or a deliberate falsification is unclear.
POLITICO tracked down 16 relatives of eight Confederate military leaders who are memorialized with military bases or whose names adorn other prominent barracks or facilities. Most of these relatives have said little if anything publicly about how they view their forebears’ legacy. They are a diverse group—politically and geographically, if not racially, hailing from North, South, East and West. They are teachers, scientists, journalists, military veterans, financial advisers and a retired yoga and surfing instructor.
ReplyDeleteThey have a surprisingly consistent, though not unanimous, view. It is time for a change.
Most passionately believe their ancestors' names should, as one of the Senate bills stipulates, be excised from all military monuments, buildings, streets, ships, planes or paraphernalia. A minority of them are equally fervent that their ancestors deserve to be honored. And some who hold these diametrically opposing views are in the same family.
"They have a surprisingly consistent, though not unanimous, view. It is time for a change"
ReplyDeleteMeans what exactly?
If a newspaperman can track them down certainly a liberal activist can.
Often a journalist and activist are one and the same.
We have seen what liberal activists have done since the time of OWS. They have visited people at their homes by the busload, kept them up at night and general harassed people. So how do these people really feel? We do not know. The Wilder effect is for more than a problem with polling.
So what do you think that you have there 2:28 PM. We all know, who you are.
ReplyDelete"Post calls “the most exclusive, and arguably most important, daily meeting in Washington” — the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) — warning his successor that without the daily intelligence brief, “you are flying blind.”
This coming from the same person who skipped more than half of his daily intelligence briefings in his first term. "
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ReplyDelete"Post calls “the most exclusive, and arguably most important, daily meeting in Washington” — the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) — warning his successor that without the daily intelligence brief, “you are flying blind.”
This coming from the same person who skipped more than half of his daily intelligence briefings in his first term. "
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