United States President Barack Obama has announced a coordinated series of punishments against Russia over hacking allegations, expelling dozens of diplomats and naming intelligence operatives.

US President-elect Donald Trump's transition team have released a letter that they say was sent to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"A very nice letter from Vladimir Putin; his thoughts are so correct," Mr Trump said about the note, which is dated 15 December 2016.

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NBC News is now pushing a story that unnamed “senior intelligence officials” told them that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in hacking the US election.

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on the wrong side of history...

The Western side of things is getting out of hand and deliberatly one sided, slanted, biased and idiotic. There is a stupid article in Der Speigel that says:

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The previous record for the hottest December night in Sydney was set in 1868, when a minimum temperature of 26.3 degrees Celsius was recorded across the night.

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Telling Vladimir what to do would be like selling freezers to esquimos. But under the rahrah in the USA, one has to be aware that a new tack by the Trump administration does not mean that the USA has given up on trying to muck up Russia. Presently Russia is demonised for a) saving Aleppo from terrorists (true) and b) for having interferred with the USA elections (false) and other false indictments. 

In the mean time, what the USA cannot get by sanctions, distrust and petty sabre-rattling, the USA could get under the doonah in Moscow and tear the place apart for PROFIT. That's on the card...

trump's cabinet so far...

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