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Botany

Botany's Journal
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October 24, 2018

This "Fear the Caravan" is just right wing manufactured hype/spin but we have all seen this ....

.... movie before and in 2014 it was called EBOLA. We were bombarded with ebola stories
24/7 and we all learned that we needed to be afraid of this external threat to America but
on election day and afterwards we almost never heard about ebola again. The "fear the caravan"
hype is just ebola 2.0.

In 2014 I had a right winger in my neighborhood and he used to have a sign up that said
stop ebola seal the borders. The day after the election in 2014 the sign was gone.

Now how do we stop this bullshit and the selling of fear? One word. VOTE!

October 21, 2018

Saudis do not know how Khashoggi was killed: foreign minister

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian officials do not know details of how dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in their consulate in Istanbul or where his body is, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Sunday.

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“He was killed in the consulate. We don’t know in terms of details how. We don’t know where the body is,” Jubeir said. “We are determined to uncover every stone. ... We are determined to punish those who are responsible for this murder.”

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Jubeir called the killing of Khashoggi a terrible mistake and offered condolences to his family. The journalist has relatives still living in Saudi Arabia and three children who hold U.S. citizenship.

“This is a terrible mistake. This is a terrible tragedy. Our condolences go out to them. We feel their pain,” Jubeir said in the interview. “Unfortunately, a huge and grave mistake was made and I assure them that those responsible will be held accountable for this.”



Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi-jubeir/saudis-do-not-know-how-khashoggi-was-killed-foreign-minister-idUSKCN1MV0PO



Big mistake, the Crown Prince had nothing to do with it, they don't know how it happened,
and no idea where the body is too.
October 19, 2018

Trump just admitted to getting Russian help. And he did on CNN too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017516274 thanx to DUer Miles Archer for posting this video.


If nothing happened then why would it be Obama's fault that he didn't "lift a finger" because he thought
Hillary was going to win?

Trump just admitted to getting Russian help. I hope Bob Mueller was taking notes.
October 16, 2018

People from Wisconsin and Minnesota are nice

Just a random thought .... I just ordered some native wildflower and grass seed from two
nurseries one in Westfield Wisconsin and one in Winona, Minnesota and the people were
very nice.

BTW I am planting spring beauty, bloodroot, trout lily, bluebells, white trillium, heuchera richardsoni, and
bottle brush grass from seed and some ginger and lindera plants. I am making a forest floor ecosystem.

October 14, 2018

Does anybody have any links to the story about Kushner giving up Jamal Khashoggi to the Saudis?

I am hearing on MSNBC that Kushner took our intel and gave it to the Saudis
and they used that info to murder Jamal Khashoggi. And now Trump Jr. is trying
to link Jamal Khashoggi to al Qaeda and bin Laden?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211277507

October 11, 2018

Can't we all be friends?

October 9, 2018

Infamous St. Petersburg 'Troll Factory' Set on Fire

Source: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/infamous-st-peters

The office of Russia's infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia's information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight.

An investigation revealed last year that the secretive troll factory had rebranded itself as a media conglomerate with 16 news websites generating more than 30 million pageviews every month. Its operational hub, a website called FAN (Federal News Agency), is based a stone's throw from the troll farm's original location in northern St. Petersburg.

The Fontanka.ru news website cited police as saying that an unknown suspect broke the agency's ground-floor window and threw a Molotov cocktail inside at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday.

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The troll farm is believed to be run by billionaire restaurateur Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as President Vladimir Putin's "cook." A U.S. special counsel indicted Prigozhin and 12 other Russians this year on charges of defrauding the U.S. government by interfering with its political process.



Read more: Moscow Times



Putin is covering his tracks.



Nothing burns like cinder block and stone.

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