StrangeSox Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Paul manafort received over a million dollars from a Russian backed Ukrainian political party http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/manafort-fi...ger-payout.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFan2003 Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 12:38 PM) Putin opts not to meet with Tillerson. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39573744 What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 04:32 PM) DeVos dials back consumer protections for student loan borrowers And she has money in a collection company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 01:19 PM) http://www.cbsnews.com/news/betsy-devos-se...r-eight-months/ Threats to DeVos make her a very expensive cabinet member. They are all expensive. Pruitt is apparently asking for a 10 person security detail to protect him against threats and "the left" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Manafort expected to register as foreign agent for past Ukraine work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Trump's flipped on three campaign promises today: -Won't label China a currency manipulator -Supports the Import-Export Bank -Calls NATO the "bulwark of international peace" (he had called it obsolete) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Nobody knew it could be so complicated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Hurtin Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Trump pondering? Al-Assad is a pimp..., but I didn't realize until this day, it was Putin all along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 04:58 PM) Nobody knew it could be so complicated. This is why you don't elect Thanksgiving rant Uncle who thinks everything can be solved with "common sense" and"it's really simple" to be president. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 (edited) QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 03:15 PM) Trump's flipped on three campaign promises today: -Won't label China a currency manipulator -Supports the Import-Export Bank -Calls NATO the "bulwark of international peace" (he had called it obsolete) And another, former senior White House staffer now going to work as a lobbyist https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles...-lobbying-group Ended up being a grand total of six campaign promises walked back or changed today. https://t.co/KBh33jaU4I Edited April 13, 2017 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Don't forget KT McFarland quietly disappearing as well from her post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 After Campaign Exit, Manafort Borrowed From Businesses With Trump Ties https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/us/po...nald-trump.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Conway said she didn't think most journalists had made an adequate effort to understand why Americans elected Trump president and that they hadn't started talking to those people either. "Don't keep getting it wrong by covering the president the way you covered him as a candidate," Conway said. "What's the noise versus what's the news? ... Remember, he's taken dozens and dozens of executive actions, and there's one that's gotten coverage." ... "You can turn on the TV ... and people literally say things that just aren't true," she said. The crowd laughed at that, presumably because in February, Conway cited a nonexistent "Bowling Green massacre" as justification for Trump's immigration ban. She later had to clarify she meant to say "terrorists" instead of "massacre," and apologized for her mistake. CNN has since declined to interview Conway in part because of "serious questions about her credibility." Maybe because he's STILL running campaign rallies despite already being the elected president? https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/im-not-d...-163506998.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/ap...am-links-russia Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told. GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added. Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said. The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence – known as sigint – included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the “Five Eyes” spying alliance, which also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said. Another source suggested the Dutch and the French spy agency, the General Directorate for External Security or DGSE, were contributors. It is understood that GCHQ was at no point carrying out a targeted operation against Trump or his team or proactively seeking information. The alleged conversations were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of Russian intelligence assets. Over several months, different agencies targeting the same people began to see a pattern of connections that were flagged to intelligence officials in the US. The Guardian has been told the FBI and the CIA were slow to appreciate the extensive nature of contacts between Trump’s team and Moscow ahead of the US election. This was in part due to US law that prohibits US agencies from examining the private communications of American citizens without warrants. “They are trained not to do this,” the source stressed. “It looks like the [uS] agencies were asleep,” the source added. “They [the European agencies] were saying: ‘There are contacts going on between people close to Mr Trump and people we believe are Russian intelligence agents. You should be wary of this.’ “The message was: ‘Watch out. There’s something not right here.’” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target. via Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Abreu Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) U.S. drops 'mother of all bombs' edit- BigSqwert beat me to it but I'll keep the link since it's different Edited April 13, 2017 by Jose Abreu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 What I'd do to see the beautiful footage of this bomb exploding. Brings up Leonard Cohen verses in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwritecode Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 12:22 PM) U.S. drops 'mother of all bombs' edit- BigSqwert beat me to it but I'll keep the link since it's different Reading that headline made me think of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Well, there's only one step after dropping that bomb. Trump will happily deploy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 That bomb to blow up a handful of ISIS guys cost $16m but remember there's no money in this country for meals on wheels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 01:38 PM) That bomb to blow up a handful of ISIS guys cost $16m but remember there's no money in this country for meals on wheels It's all part of Trump's brilliant plan to quickly destroy ISIS. He knows way more than any General. He's like really smart. He went to Wharton you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 02:36 PM) Why is the media hyping this so much? In 2016 the Pentagon averaged 3x the amount of weight of that bomb everyday. And that's a conservative estimate. It's a not a good idea to allow Trump to think the media will be nice to him if he wages war. They will be nice to him if he wages war. They will praise him, they already are. See what the media has done the past 20 years for reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettie4sox Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 02:36 PM) Why is the media hyping this so much? In 2016 the Pentagon averaged 3x the amount of weight of that bomb everyday. And that's a conservative estimate. It's a not a good idea to allow Trump to think the media will be nice to him if he wages war. I think it sets a dangerous precedent. Dropping that type of arsenal does what exactly? Maybe some other countries will feel the need to flex their muscles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 New Bomb Capable Of Creating 1,500 New Terrorists In Single Blast via The Onion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 It's getting some coverage because it's the first use of the "largest noon nuclear bomb ever" and it seems like a weird use of it, but year ultimately if they had dropped the exact same amount of explosives but spread over smaller individual bombs, no one would have noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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