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Mr. Trump also came under fire at the press briefing for the expense of frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where he has spent most weekends since taking office and where he will host Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.

The trips to the club, which Mr. Trump has dubbed the “Southern White House,” have cost taxpayers an estimated $10 million to date for security and travel aboard Air Force One.

Mr. Spicer told reporters that is was “ironic” that the expense of going to Mar-a-Lago was brought up on a day when Mr. Trump put more than $78,000 back into the government coffers.

“The president just donated a significant amount of money of his salary back to the federal government. And so, you know, respectfully, at what point does he do enough? He just gave a very sizable donation,” he said.

Mr. Spicer bristled at a reporter saying the donation was a “small amount.”

“I think to be able to say that — I mean, he isn’t taking a salary. I think he’s stepped down from his business. He’s walked away from a lot,” said Mr. Spicer. “I think at some point, you know, he’s done quite a lot, quite a bit in terms of making a donation to government.”

That was nice of him he did not have to do that.

>>128478
No he really did have to do that. It's probably not anywhere near as much as he owes the IRS.

slanted headline version:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-rally-violence-court-incitemet
>Judge: Trump Incited Violence Against Protesters At Kentucky Rally

Commies deserves no protection from the Justice Trump will bring to the world.

This will be interesting. I wonder what the ramifications are for Donald Trump if he is convicted of inciting violence.

All of your genuine online activity will still be available to buyers and sellers, but it will be bundled up with so much automatically generated nonsense data, no one will be able to sort out what was really you and what was just noise.

The problem with these tools and strategies—which are undoubtedly well-intentioned—is that it’s actually pretty hard to generate convincingly realistic-looking noise. After all, most of our online searching doesn’t happen on a rigorously timed schedule of one search every 10 seconds.

These kinds of regularized, repeated patterns make it pretty easy for a search engine to figure out they’re not coming from an actual person, and flag and block them. Furthermore, most random combinations of common nouns or phrases strewn amidst a person’s genuine browsing history are likely to stand out as artificial and deliberate attempts at obfuscation.

That doesn’t mean there’s zero value to these tactics. If your goal is simply to make it a little harder for advertisers to figure out what sorts of things you might be interested in buying, then inserting even some fairly rudimentary random noise into your browsing habits may do the trick. But a slightly more sophisticated analysis algorithm—to say nothing of a person actually looking at your data—would likely be able to strip away the noise fairly easily.

Still, the challenge of generating realistic-looking noise is not an insurmountable one. People may yet improve on the existing tools and find ways of making the noisy data more persuasive and indistinguishable from your actual online activity. One strategy might be to have large groups of people all agree to merge each other’s online browsing histories—in other words, to use actual people’s online activity as your “noise” so it displayed the characteristics of genuine user behavior.

Should the strategy of making internet noise catch on, it is likely to face some fairly formidable adversaries. Search engines, though they are not impacted by the rules overturned by Congress, also have a vested interest in being able to collect accurate data on their users. They could pretty easily block many of these automated obfuscation efforts simply by using their existing tools to detect bots.

After all, search engines often make money by selling ads based on user data, too. And they tend to create and fine-tune their search algorithms based on what people search for and what they click on. So if everyone’s computers are performing lots of randomly generated searches and clicking on the results, that has the potential to skew search engine data and degrade the quality of search results for all their users.

It’s always encouraging to see people fighting for their online privacy, and to see smart people designing tools to address the mistakes of policy-makers. But these tools have limitations—which should be a reminder even the cleverest workarounds are no substitute for sensible policy.

>>128421
>Noisify, a Chrome extension
>Using a bot net and pretending to care about your privacy.

Normally I would assume the assault would be successful but Iran has recently increased their support to the Houthi's

It's a toss up now.

>>129009
Hype. Who exactly are the houthi? Im trying to decide who to root for and i usually root against the saudis

>>129362
>Im trying to decide who to root for
The non-combatants?

>>128102

The intelligence reports were summaries of monitored conversations -- primarily between foreign officials discussing the Trump transition, but also in some cases direct contact between members of the Trump team and monitored foreign officials. One U.S. official familiar with the reports said they contained valuable political information on the Trump transition such as whom the Trump team was meeting, the views of Trump associates on foreign policy matters and plans for the incoming administration.

Rice did not respond to an email seeking comment on Monday morning. Her role in requesting the identities of Trump transition officials adds an important element to the dueling investigations surrounding the Trump White House since the president's inauguration.

Both the House and Senate intelligence committees are probing any ties between Trump associates and a Russian influence operation against Hillary Clinton during the election. The chairman of the House intelligence committee, Representative Devin Nunes, is also investigating how the Obama White House kept tabs on the Trump transition after the election through unmasking the names of Trump associates incidentally collected in government eavesdropping of foreign officials.

Rice herself has not spoken directly on the issue of unmasking. Last month when she was asked on the "PBS NewsHour" about reports that Trump transition officials, including Trump himself, were swept up in incidental intelligence collection, Rice said: "I know nothing about this," adding, "I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that account today."

Rice's requests to unmask the names of Trump transition officials does not vindicate Trump's own tweets from March 4 in which he accused Obama of illegally tapping Trump Tower. There remains no evidence to support that claim.

cont.

>>128104

But Rice's multiple requests to learn the identities of Trump officials discussed in intelligence reports during the transition period does highlight a longstanding concern for civil liberties advocates about U.S. surveillance programs. The standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything. This suggests Rice's unmasking requests were likely within the law.

The news about Rice also sheds light on the strange behavior of Nunes in the last two weeks. It emerged last week that he traveled to the White House last month, the night before he made an explosive allegation about Trump transition officials caught up in incidental surveillance. At the time he said he needed to go to the White House because the reports were only on a database for the executive branch. It now appears that he needed to view computer systems within the National Security Council that would include the logs of Rice's requests to unmask U.S. persons.

The ranking Democrat on the committee Nunes chairs, Representative Adam Schiff, viewed these reports on Friday. In comments to the press over the weekend he declined to discuss the contents of these reports, but also said it was highly unusual for the reports to be shown only to Nunes and not himself and other members of the committee.

Indeed, much about this is highly unusual: if not how the surveillance was collected, then certainly how and why it was disseminated.

FIN

>>128102
>anonymous sources say
Yawn. Wake me up when there's actual evidence and not something Trump's NSC guys leaked to the one rightwing guy at Bloomberg.

Yea, they really sold us out

>The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale

Members who own AT&T Inc shares: 42
Members who own Comcast Corp shares: 30
Members who own Verizon Communications shares: 40
Sauce: opensecrets.org

This will enable the government to spy on everyone LEGALLY without having to bother with courts or warrants.

It's not just a "republican" problem.
Democrats only protected net neutrality because of public outrage.
Neither side is the peoples ally, they just convence people that that "the other side is so bad that you should ally with us"
Both sides screw us.

Likely this thread will either slide or be bombarded by ISP or Government shills.
>https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

>>128165
>Democrats only protected net neutrality because of public outrage.
That's a little disingenuous, Anon. Net neutrality is part of the Democrat party platform. Meanwhile, the GOP says net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet because regulations on the free market = bad, no matter what.

>>128166
>>Democrats only protected net neutrality because of public outrage.
>That's a little disingenuous, Anon. Net neutrality is part of the Democrat party platform.

Plus, at the end of the day Dems defended NN and privacy altogether, whereas the GOP even managed to convince its Randroids to sell out for raw cash.

I don't know anything about Antonio Razzi but that hairpiece has got to go...

>>128874
kid in the top right looks like that one picture of Christian bale in the machinist

>>128874
assad never did chemical attack its an invention of thr west

>U.S. officials said the FBI has been scrutinizing the Seychelles meeting as part of a broader probe of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and alleged contacts between associates of Putin and Trump. The FBI declined to comment.

>The Seychelles encounter, which one official said spanned two days, adds to an expanding web of connections between Russia and Americans with ties to Trump — contacts that the White House has been reluctant to acknowledge or explain until they have been exposed by news organizations.

>“We are not aware of any meetings, and Erik Prince had no role in the transition,” said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary.

>A Prince spokesman said in a statement: “Erik had no role on the transition team. This is a complete fabrication. The meeting had nothing to do with President Trump. Why is the so-called under-resourced intelligence community messing around with surveillance of American citizens when they should be hunting terrorists?”

>Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security firm that became a symbol of U.S. abuses in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which the company’s guards were accused — and later criminally convicted — of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the firm, which was subsequently re-branded, but has continued building a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He now heads a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group.

>Prince would probably have been seen as too controversial to serve in any official capacity in the Trump transition or administration. But his ties to Trump advisers, experience with clandestine work and relationship with the royal leaders of the Emirates — where he moved in 2010 amid mounting legal problems for his American business — would have positioned him as an ideal go-between.
...

>The Seychelles meeting came after separate private discussions in New York involving high-ranking representatives of Trump with both Moscow and the Emirates.

>The White House has acknowledged that Michael T. Flynn, Trump’s original national security adviser, and Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, in late November or early December in New York.

>Flynn and Kushner were joined by Bannon for a separate meeting with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who made an undisclosed visit to New York later in December, according to the U.S., European and Arab officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

>In an unusual breach of protocol, the UAE did not notify the Obama administration in advance of the visit, though officials found out because Zayed’s name appeared on a flight manifest.

>Officials said Zayed and his brother, the UAE’s national security adviser, coordinated the Seychelles meeting with Russian government officials with the goal of establishing an unofficial back channel between Trump and Putin.

>Officials said Zayed wanted to be helpful to both leaders, who had talked about working more closely together, a policy objective long advocated by the crown prince. The UAE, which sees Iran as one of its main enemies, also shared the Trump team’s interest in finding ways to drive a wedge between Moscow and Tehran.
...

>Zayed met twice with Putin in 2016, according to Western officials, and urged the Russian leader to work more closely with the Emirates and Saudi Arabia — an effort to isolate Iran.

>At the time of the Seychelles meeting and for weeks afterward, the UAE believed that Prince had the blessing of the new administration to act as its unofficial representative. The Russian participant was a person whom Zayed knew was close to Putin from his interactions with both men, the officials said.

>Scrutiny over Russia

>When the Seychelles meeting took place, official contacts between members of the incoming Trump administration and the Russian government were under intense scrutiny, both from federal investigators and the press.

>Less than a week before the Seychelles meeting, U.S. intelligence agencies released a report accusing Russia of intervening clandestinely during the 2016 election to help Trump win the White House.

>The FBI was already investigating communications between Flynn and Kislyak. The Washington Post’s David Ignatius first disclosed those communications on Jan. 12, around the time of the Seychelles meeting. Flynn was subsequently fired by Trump for misleading Vice President Pence and others about his discussions with Kislyak.

>Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador in Washington, declined to comment.

>Government officials in the Seychelles said they were not aware of any meetings between Trump and Putin associates in the country around Jan. 11. But they said luxury resorts on the island are ideal for clandestine gatherings like the one described by the U.S., European and Arab officials.

>“I wouldn’t be surprised at all,” said Barry Faure, the Seychelles secretary of state for foreign affairs. “The Seychelles is the kind of place where you can have a good time away from the eyes of the media. That’s even printed in our tourism marketing. But I guess this time you smelled something.”
...

get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration.”

Farkas sought to walk back her comments in the weeks following: “I didn’t give anybody anything except advice.”

Col. (Ret.) James Waurishuk, an NSC veteran and former deputy director for intelligence at the U.S. Central Command, told TheDCNF that many hands had to be involved throughout the Obama administration to launch such a political spying program.

“The surveillance initially is the responsibility of the National Security Agency,” Waurishuk said. “They have to abide by this guidance when one of the other agencies says, ‘we’re looking at this particular person which we would like to unmask.'”

“The lawyers and counsel at the NSA surely would be talking to the lawyers and members of counsel at CIA, or at the National Security Council or at the Director of National Intelligence or at the FBI,” he said. “It’s unbelievable of the level and degree of the administration to look for information on Donald Trump and his associates, his campaign team and his transition team. This is really, really serious stuff.”

Michael Doran, former NSC senior director, told TheDCNF Monday that “somebody blew a hole in the wall between national security secrets and partisan politics.” This “was a stream of information that was supposed to be hermetically sealed from politics and the Obama administration found a way to blow a hole in that wall,” he said.

Doran charged that potential serious crimes were undertaken because “this is a leaking of signal intelligence.”
“That’s a felony,” he told TheDCNF. “And you can get 10 years for that. It is a tremendous abuse of the system. We’re not supposed to be monitoring American citizens. Bigger than the crime, is the breach of public trust.”

Waurishuk said he was most dismayed that “this is now using national intelligence assets and capabilities to spy on the elected, yet-to-be-seated president.”

“We’re looking at a potential constitutional crisis from the standpoint that we used an extremely strong capability that’s supposed to be used to safeguard and protect the country,” he said. “And we used it for political purposes by a sitting president. That takes on a new precedent.”

>>128336
There's already a thread. Check the catalogue, dingus. Also,
>dailycaller

GREAT! we don't need her anymore.

Democrat here. I'm okay with this. Glad we can all agree on something.

>>128476
Fucking. Good.

>>128881
https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-sector-reports-stronger-than-expected-boost-to-payrolls-in-march-1491397601

Private-sector hiring this year remained strong as employers reported adding more workers to their payrolls in March than expected, according to a report released Wednesday.

Private payrolls across the nation rose by 263,000 last month, said payroll processor Automatic Data Processing Inc. and forecasting firm Moody’s Analytics. This was much better than a gain of 180,000 expected by economists polled by The Wall Street Journal. In February, ADP’s report showed the private-sector added 298,000 jobs. The report is based on data collected from ADP clients in addition to lagged behind government figures.

“The gains are broad based but most notable in the goods producing side of the economy including construction, manufacturing and mining,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics.

Goods-producing industries, which include construction and manufacturing, added 82,000 jobs. Meanwhile, service-providing sectors such as hospitality added 181,000 jobs in March.

Most of the job gains came from small businesses, defined by ADP as companies with 49 or fewer employees. These firms added 118,000 jobs. Midsize firms with 50 to 499 employees added 100,000 workers, while large businesses added 45,000.

“Consumer dependent industries including health care, leisure and hospitality, and trade had strong growth during the month,” said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research Institute.

The Labor Department’s job report for March is expected on Friday. Economists surveyed by the Journal expect employers to have added 175,000 nonfarm jobs.

So it's just like every other jobs report from the last 9 years. Got it. So much for Trump's 3%+ GDP growth.

All of these sources were "fake" when Obama was president and jobs were being added

Oh, how I want, what would be the plans of the Camera was limited to only desire to trade. Most likely - this is another part of an overall strategic plan for the destruction of Russia as a unified state. On 11 September, the initial part of entering into the underbelly of Russia and the States of the post-Soviet period. Drugs is an element of the decomposition of people, as well as food products of the West (GMOs, etc.) Before the Anglo-Saxons used infected blankets, for the mass extermination of the Indians. We now have drastically increased and rejuvenated diseases (diabetes, cancer, stroke, and often people are not drinking) almost taking epidemic proportions. The defeat of Russia trying to apply, in all directions, or otherwise harmful. Don't forget that GMO working military laboratory developing biological, chemical weapons. But the above provocation - domestic Western consumption (to create a more aggressive image, "the ENEMY of the HUMAN race" - Russia) unfortunately, the priorities of the enemy in the "cold war", as she has not changed, only increased salivation, by weakening the military potential of Russia.

>>128310
>and often people are not drinking
Nice try Vlad, but I don't think anyone is going to buy this.

+1 for effort though
I particularly liked:

>"the ENEMY of the HUMAN race" - Russia

>>129250
The irony is, if this* is true, they could be.
Along with the rest of the AGW deniers.

>* Mathematical Modelling of Plankton–Oxygen Dynamics Under the Climate Change
http://archive.is/YWXTX

>>128266
related
>>127836

update:
22 advertisers have pulled out now
http://abcnews.go.com/US/22-companies-pull-advertising-oreilly-factor/story?id=46579346

Pftagahah get fukt fox

Rice certainly wasn’t politically naive about the political uses of intelligence information. She was, after all, the Obama official who famously made the rounds spouting the false “Our intel says it was about the video” line on the Benghazi attack back during the 2012 campaign.

All of this puts the actions of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes in clearer perspective. After viewing the Rice requests at the White House, he disclosed that Trump officials had been caught up in incidental surveillance.

All of which is a reminder that two issues are in play here: Russian meddling in the election, about which the nation already knows plenty — and the Obama team’s efforts to sabotage Team Trump.

wtf does "Russia meddling in the election" mean and why is this viewed as inherently a bad thing by so many

So "team Trump"'s argument boils down to this:
There might be political motivations behind the dissemination of this information.

I am confused. How does this take away from the urgency or of the information? How does it make a scandal into a "scandal"? The information is real. The fact that it was illegally leaked changes nothing about the information itself. To be outraged about the leaks but not the information is hypocrisy.

>>128447
Sovereign states usually don't like other states interfering with their internal civic affairs. It's basically an act of bad faith.

Of course, the US did much of this themselves, installing and toppling governments at will in other countries, but that doesn't take away from the fact that doing this shit is fundamentally anti-democratic.

>>127852
Uh oh, Mccain trying to cast magick.

Don't worry. If you hear Trump's words, the centipede is nothing to fear.

McCain needs to go back to the Hanoi Hilton. McCain will never be elected again in AZ, unless he runs as a Libtard. I would love to see someone punch that cuck in the throat.

>>127886
>McCain will never be elected again in AZ

Say panicked Republicans, alternating far-right and far-left, for the 5th cycle so far. (They said it previously after McCain broke with W, after McCain picked Palin, after his 1980s scandals, his various "Gang of" compromises, etc.)