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These "limousine liberals" care only about power. They don't live in ghettos, so it aint their problem.

Their only concern is enriching themselves and enhancing their power. They actually cater to large lobby groups, not social minorities. They serve corporate, not individual, interests because, well, because that's where the money is.

Notice that I aint sayin the republicans are much different--they're just not hypocritical frauds--they'll tell you exactly what they're up to.

"There’s a slight madness to thinking you should be the leader of the free world,” Obama admitted before he went ahead and ran for President. But even after Richard Nixon’s anti-Semitic rants and Ronald Reagan’s astrology-influenced daily schedule, we are at a new level of strangeness with Donald Trump—something that his biography had always suggested.

Trump emerged from neither a log cabin nor the contemporary meritocracy. He inherited his father’s outer-borough real-estate empire—a considerable enterprise distinguished by racist federal-housing violations—and brought it to Manhattan. He entered a world of contractors, casino operators, Roy Cohn, professional-wrestling stars, Rupert Murdoch, multiple bankruptcies, tabloid divorces, Mar-a-Lago golf tournaments, and reality television. He had no real civic presence in New York. A wealthy man, he gave almost nothing to charity. He cultivated a kind of louche glamour. At Studio 54, he said, “I would watch supermodels getting screwed . . . on a bench in the middle of the room.” He had no close friends. Mainly, he preferred to work, play golf, and spend long hours at home watching TV. His misogyny and his low character were always manifest. Displeased with a harmless Palm Beach society journalist named Shannon Donnelly, he told her in a letter that if she adhered to his standards of discretion, “I will promise not to show you as the crude, fat and obnoxious slob which everyone knows you are.” Insofar as he had political opinions, they were inconsistent and mainly another form of performance art, part of his talk-show patter. His contributions to political campaigns were unrelated to conviction; he gave solely to curry favor with those who could do his business some good. He believed in nothing.

The Frogs don't wanna "build upon your actions," fool. You just guaranteed millions of additional votes for Le Pen.

I guess they aint heard that all the mainstream, traditional parties and polticians have already been thrown out of the race by the voters, eh?

A member of the Russian parliament is outraged after his son was handed down a sentence of 27 years in prison for computer hacking crimes in the US.

Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, 32, was convicted in August for stealing credit card data from US restaurants, causing nearly $170m (£132m) in damages.

Russian MP Valery Seleznev said the sentence was "passed by man-eaters" and that his son was "abducted".

Seleznev made millions by selling the data on the dark web, US officials say.

Mr Seleznev, a member of the lower house of the Russian legislature known as the Duma, is an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reports.

"My son was tortured because being in jail in a foreign country after abduction is torture in itself. He is innocent," he told RIA Novosti news agency.

Mr Seleznev, a member of the the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), said it was a life sentence because his son would never survive 27 years in prison.

Between 2009 and 2013, Seleznev hacked into retail point-of-sale systems and installed malicious software that enabled him to steal millions of credit card numbers from more than 500 American businesses and 3,700 financial institutions, according to the Justice Department.

He then sent the data to servers he controlled in Russia, Ukraine and McLean, Virginia, and sold the information on criminal "carding" websites, where users bought them for fraudulent purchases, officials said.

Seleznev was taken into custody in July 2014 in the Maldives. His laptop at the time contained more than 1.7m stolen credit card numbers.

Evidence showed he raked in tens of millions of dollars from the scheme.

Many of the businesses he targeted were small businesses, including Broadway Grill in Seattle, which was forced into bankruptcy following the cyber-attack.

"Today is a bad day for hackers around the world," said US Attorney Annette L Hayes. "The notion that the internet is a Wild West where anything goes is a thing of the past.

"Whether the victims are multi-national banks or small pizza joints, we are all victims when our day-to-day transactions result in millions of dollars ending up in the wrong hands."

The Frogs don't wanna "build upon your actions," fool. You just guaranteed millions of additional votes for Le Pen.

Earlier this year, when Rupert Murdoch and senior executives at Fox News’s parent company signed Bill O’Reilly to a new multiyear contract, they knew something the rest of the world didn’t: The star host had been accused of sexual and verbal harassment by women at Fox five times over the preceding 15 years.

They knew it because the company, 21st Century Fox, had paid money to settle two of the complaints. They also knew that the public was unlikely to find out because attorneys for O’Reilly and the company had signed his accusers to agreements binding them to confidentiality. In exchange for their silence and a promise not to sue, the women received payments totaling $3 million from 21st Century Fox.

Those settlements came on top of some $10 million that O’Reilly himself had paid earlier to three other women who had complained about his behavior while working at Fox...

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Runoff poll, conducted tonight for French TV: Macron 62%, Le Pen 38%.
1:12 PM - 23 Apr 2017

Democrats are frauds who pander to minority and "oppressed" groups, such as women, for the sole purpose of getting votes. If they actually cared about, for example, blacks, the inner cities which have been controlled by Democrats for many decades would not be in such a mess.

Democrats are frauds who pander to minority and "oppressed" groups, such as women, for the sole purpose of getting votes. If they actually cared about, for example, blacks, the inner cities which have been controlled by Democrats for many decades would not be in such a mess.

The irony of it all — Republicans criticizing inner city residents for electing Democrats while simultaneously working to disenfranchise those same inner city voters...

The Environmental Protection Agency's Open Data Web service – which stores information on climate change, life cycle assessment, health impact analysis and environmental justice – is to have its funding removed and will no longer be in operation, according to people working on the plan. A pop-up on the site appears to confirm the shutdown, with anyone visiting the Open Data page told that the site will not be operational from Friday.

Since this story was first published, that message has been updated to read: "The data on this Web site will continue to be available on April 28, 2017". The EPA also tweeted to say that the website wasn't going anywhere and that it is "open, working and not going anywhere", though it seemed to be experiencing occasional outages.

That means that the story was published (as fake news) and then when it was found out they put in an addendum.