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Russia

Russia expels US diplomats in tit-for-tat row bbc v

On Friday, the US State Department said their move came after a Russian policeman attacked a US diplomat near the US embassy in Moscow.

US Glitch; Accommodate or...; SSM Acceptance Rising; Signing the Gals Away; The Synthetic Human Project; Origami Robot With a Purpose; Hyundai's Iron Man; Bio-Glass; Magnetic Explosions; Islam-land; Turkey's Anti-Terror Problem; Entitled

Of course today we have the government's bathroom...policy. Also, the US is trying to explain a second video 'glitch'. And if those stories aren't enough, check out the meeting held earlier this week to talk about creating a completely synthetic human genome.

US Goverment

State Department keeps saying that erased video of tough question from Fox News reporter was a ‘glitch’ washingtonpost

Undercovered media story of the week: Fox News correspondent James Rosen revealed that video of him asking a tough question of a State Department spokesperson disappeared from the agency’s video archive. Poof! Where the exchange once existed, a flash of white light replaced it.

At issue was Iran. Let’s turn back the clock. In February 2013, Rosen pressed then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on whether the United States was carrying on “secret, bilateral” discussions with Iranian leaders. No, Nuland said.

What I find interesting, and why I'm relaying this, is there was another video 'glitch' a little over a month ago: OBAMA CENSORS HOLLANDE'S 'ISLAMIST TERRORISM' REMARK (if you can handle David Wood's particularly sarcastic brand of apologetics, he has a good layered verion of that glitched, then magically found, videos on YouTube that really calls into question the 'glitch')