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monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

 
 
Builder
 
  -3  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 03:33 am
@gungasnake,
Quote:
The issue of excessive dependency on global DNS has previously been addressed by Russia. In 2014, the Russian Communications Ministry conducted a major exercise in which it simulated the “switching off” of global internet services and used a Russian backup system to successfully support web operations inside the country.

However, when reporters asked Vladimir Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov if the country’s authorities had been considering disconnecting from the global internet in 2014, Peskov dismissed

“Russia’s disconnection from the global internet is of course out of the question,” Peskov told the Interfax news agency. However, the official also emphasized that “recently, a fair share of unpredictability is present in the actions of our partners both in the US and the EU, and we [Russia] must be prepared for any turn of events.”


This BRICS "web 2" concept has been floated before. Note the deadline set by Putin, as being August of this year. It was first mooted to be a sub-sea cable connection, and it was said to be made available to those nations that wanted it. We most certainly want it, because the usefulness of the existing one is almost totally over, for mine.

Even such a simple task as finding a street has gone backwards, to the point where I use a UBD street directory (it's a book of maps,, right)
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gungasnake
 
  -2  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 03:43 am
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36338148_10210816070669848_8751871119805382656_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=335c993c395db79d73f6bea1f96366ba&oe=5BE0C6F7
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Walter Hinteler
 
  4  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 04:38 am
@layman,
layman wrote:
I did offer my opinion that future historians would regard her as a traitor
Even future historians will have to look at
a) the Basic Law of Germany,
b) the German Criminal Code.

Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege scripta, praevia, certa et stricta:
The four individual principles of the principle of legality:
- Necessity for the written determination of punish ability (prohibition of customary law establishing a criminal offence, nulla poena sine lege scripta),
- Necessity of fixation before the offence is committed (prohibition of retroactive effect under criminal law, nulla poena sine lege praevia),
- Necessity of sufficient certainty of the law (principle of criminal determination, nulla poena sine lege certa)
- Prohibition of analogy to the detriment of the offender beyond the wording of the law (prohibition of analogy in criminal law, nulla poena sine lege stricta).


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hightor
 
  4  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 05:24 am
Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew
Quote:
The son of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was leading a real-estate division of Deutsche Bank as it gave President Donald Trump over $1 billion in loans to finance his real-estate projects when other banks wouldn't, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Justin Kennedy, the former global head of Deutsche Bank's real-estate capital markets division, was one of Trump's close business associates, The Times reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

Because of Trump's inconsistent track record in business, which included multiple bankruptcy filings and frequent lawsuits, most other major banks would not lend to him. Deutsche Bank loaned Trump the funds to construct and renovate skyscrapers and other developments in New York City and Chicago, The Times reported.

After Trump's first address to Congress, in February 2017, he reportedly stopped to chat with Anthony Kennedy, saying: "Say hello to your boy. Special guy."

BI

"Drain the swamp."
Builder
 
  -2  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 05:27 am
@hightor,
Quote:
Justin Kennedy, the former global head of Deutsche Bank's real-estate capital markets division, was one of Trump's close business associates, The Times reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.


This is from well before Trump became prez, right?

The business ties between the Bin Laden family and Bush family are no secret in the public sphere, even during Dubya's reign.

What point were you trying to make with this post?
layman
 
  -2  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 05:38 am
@Builder,
Builder wrote:

What point were you trying to make with this post?


It seems pretty clear to me, eh, Builda?

1. Trump knows the kid of some guy who was a Supreme Court Justice

2. That 82-old Justice just retired, so

3. Trump is a Nazi
Builder
 
  -3  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 05:56 am
@layman,
I reckon these people kinda failed at the old join-the-dots game.

Lots of maybes and could-haves involved. Much like HRC on her world tour spruiking about "Why I Lost"
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hightor
 
  6  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 06:06 am
@Builder,
Quote:
What point were you trying to make with this post?

I'm suggesting that the inter-connections between the real estate developer-in-chief, international banking, and the political establishment make the "drain the swamp" slogan a joke.
Builder
 
  -2  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 06:17 am
@hightor,
Quote:
I'm suggesting that the inter-connections between the real estate developer-in-chief, international banking, and the political establishment make the "drain the swamp" slogan a joke.


You'd have to specify which swamp. The federal reserve has admitted that their quantitative easing hasn't worked, but kept doing it.

The mass arrests of paedophiles, and the obvious scare that hollywood is experiencing right about now is the only "swamp" I'm interested in.

The connection between the Clintons and the Saudis and Israhell, and HRC's promise to nuke Iran on Netanyahu's say-so is another swamp that needed draining.
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revelette1
 
  2  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 07:43 am
@hightor,
Think Progress has a lot more details and observes some coincidences between Kennedy siding with conservative since Trump became President. Moreover, Trump still owes money to Deutsche Bank.

Quote:
Trump’s latest financial disclosure revealed he still owes up to $175 million to Deutsche Bank. The New York Times reported that special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed information about the loans.
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layman
 
  1  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 07:54 am
@hightor,
hightor wrote:

the "drain the swamp" slogan a joke.


Aint no joke. Trump's plan is to drain the swamp. Not to eliminate the swamp. Just to eliminate all his competitors so that he will emerge as the only critter left in the swamp.
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layman
 
  -3  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 08:21 am
Some excepts from Trump's latest tweets:

The Donald wrote:
I never pushed the Republicans in the House to vote for the Immigration Bill...we need more Republicans to win in Nov.

Republicans want Strong Borders and no Crime. Dems want Open Borders and are weak on Crime!

We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!


Democrats have screwed themselves yet again, eh? They have refused to act on immigration because they want to keep the issue alive and think they will win on their "abolish ICE" platform in November.

Trump has outfoxed them again. Now he no longer wants to address the issue either, because he knows the Dems will lose votes in November over it.

As one republican congressman recently said: "Let's vote!"

izzythepush
 
  2  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 08:26 am
Last Leg puts video on Twitter inviting Trump onto show, According to his diary he will be free and in the UK when it's on.

https://twitter.com/TheLastLeg/status/1012818076885225472

He won't go though, too scared.
layman
 
  -1  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 08:38 am
Quote:
Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Trump’s Position on Immigration, Compared With Obama’s ‘Catch-and-Release’ Policy

Only 19 percent of the American people support the Democrat position,” said Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, citing a new Economist/YouGov poll. “Catch and release” is the controversial practice where illegal immigrants are released from custody and told to show up to a court hearing at a designated later date. But Republicans contend that the vast majority do not appear for their hearings, which usually occur three to five years later.



https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/06/22/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-support-trumps-position-on-immigration-compared-with-obamas-catch-and-release-policy/
layman
 
  -3  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 08:45 am
@layman,
the ultra liberal NPR wrote:
Given the choice between "open borders" — a position that no mainstream political leaders are proposing — and a "secure border," which is current U.S. policy, 79 percent of Americans agreed that the U.S. needs "secure borders."

It is true that 68 percent of Americans said they oppose "the lottery that randomly picks 50,000 people to enter the U.S. each year for greater diversity." And in fact, even more (79 percent) favored merit-based immigration over family-based migration, based on a question asking whether "immigration priority for those coming to the U.S. should be based on a person's ability to contribute to America as measured by their education and skills or based on a person having relatives in the U.S."


"...a position that no mainstream political leaders are proposing"<----Not anymore. Now it's "No borders, no nations!"

Let's vote!

As Trump recently noted, the Democratic call is "Let's make America weak again!"

That's MAWA for short, to fit on blue ballcaps.
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layman
 
  -1  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 09:24 am
If you want exclusive news, like extended interviews with Trump, ya gotta go here:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/01/trump-speaks-to-scotus-pick-dems-push-to-end-ice-in-exclusive-fox-news-interview.html

There's a brief clip (about immigration), followed by a ten minute clip where he's talking about various issues like NK, Supreme Court pick, Iran, FBI withholding documents, confronting Putin, Clinton's emails, Sanders' ostracism, etc.
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georgeob1
 
  -4  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 10:14 am
@hightor,
hightor wrote:

Quote:
What point were you trying to make with this post?

I'm suggesting that the inter-connections between the real estate developer-in-chief, international banking, and the political establishment make the "drain the swamp" slogan a joke.


The post of Layman's, to which you are responding here, very well illustrates the absurdity the "point" you are making.
coldjoint
 
  -2  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 11:18 am
@izzythepush,
Quote:
He won't go though, too scared.

Anyone else too scared to say or do anything that you know of? Teenage girls are scared too. They are not scared of Trump, but they are scared no one will protect them and so far they are right. Handle your own debilitating fear first, and then get back to us.

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hightor
 
  3  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 11:33 am
@georgeob1,
Be patient.

(And, to be accurate, I was responding to Builder.)
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izzythepush
 
  2  
Sun 1 Jul, 2018 11:43 am
The last time Donald Trump appeared on The Last Leg he ran scared from a tuba. Yes, a tuba!

 

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