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The attractiveness of consumer-driven healthcare and the failure of Obamacare's insurance products — on price and quality — will drive Trump's plan forward. Name-calling and dire predictions will not survive contact with reality, or be remembered two Novembers from now.

Passage of Trump's repeal of Obamacare means the baseline for revenue — against which tax reform must be compared for it to pass inside reconciliation — is about $1 trillion lower. This means that the tax cut/tax reform package will also pass as the power of the lower business tax rate, the immediate full business expensing, and the abolition of the Death Tax and AMT will drive House and Senate members to pass the bill that will spur economic growth in time for the 2018 and 2020 election.

The CBO score makes the passage of Obamacare repeal possible and likely. Obamacare repeal makes it easier to pass the tax cut/reform.

Lower tax rates, full expensing, and trillions in lower taxes will drive economic growth to Reagan-era rates. Such growth wins elections.

Not news. Opinion pieces are banned in the sticky.

>>123197
I reported it, in the unlikely event the mods decide to show up to this forsaken board

At the end of 2016, after U.S. intelligence agencies determined Russia had made attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, Barack Obama issued an executive order related to cybersecurity. The order leveled sanctions against several Russian companies, agencies and officials. It also named two civilians: Belan and Bogachev.

A White House fact sheet laid out the reasons for their inclusion in Obama’s order:

Aleksey Alekseyevich Belan engaged in the significant malicious cyber-enabled misappropriation of personal identifiers for private financial gain. Belan compromised the computer networks of at least three major United States-based e-commerce companies.

Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev is designated today for having engaged in significant malicious cyber-enabled misappropriation of financial information for private financial gain. Bogachev and his cybercriminal associates are responsible for the theft of over $100 million from U.S. financial institutions, Fortune 500 firms, universities, and government agencies.

The current whereabouts of Belan have not been reported. The FBI says Bogachev is currently living in Anapa, Russia, and that he often boats to various locations along the Black Sea.

>>123149
>RUSSIA IS RECRUITING THE FBI’S MOST-WANTED HACKERS

to get it right. Russians are dong the same, what CIA, Mossad and NSA were doing for decades?

Lol
He looks confused

>>121874

The funny thing is women don't even give a shit about this. (((Feminists))) just want them to.

. But that's just his opinion, man

>>121911
No, women are smaller and weaker. Are you an idiot?

>>120182
Because this whole "lead shot poisons animals" thing is based upon samples taken at fixed shooting ranges where lead shot can accumulate for years in the same exact spot, not the thousands of miles of land where hunting occurs.
Also non-lead shot is more expensive, and in some cases can be harmful to the gun in the long run. (Shooting steel bullets will most definitely erode all of the rifling out of your barrel, for example.)

>>120183
If you want sources for all this or want more info, hit up /k/ and between all the "shall not be infringed" you should be able to find a kind anon who will verify this.

Lead has been used for shooting ever since we graduated from basic tubes loaded with gunpowder and rocks, several centuries in fact.

Personally I think this lead ban legislation was only introduced and passed as a "See, we're fighting the NRA!" measure by senators to show their liberal constituencies that they're doing -something- during a time where normal gun-control legislation is, let's just say, "unlikely".

>>120183
Steel bullets? What the fuck are you talking about? Bullets are copper jacketed.

Oh yes, hundreds of thousands of shotgun barrels are worn out every year using steel shot. *rolls eyes*

Sounds to me like you've been eating too much lead infused water fowl. So i'm going to play Devil's advocate & ask for legit sources to your claim about "studies" of lead samples taken from fixed shooting ranges because I think you're full of shit.

Sweden Yes!

No comments to defend Sweden ha Libtards?

Libs are cowards, but it makes them better survivalists... They will all pray Allah one day!

Gorham acknowledged seniors display an eagerness to get seated in a desired location, to ensure they'll enjoy their spot during the hours-long event, but she said she is unfamiliar with the situation as described by Rodriguez.

"They just want to get in there and sit down," she said. "She's putting that way out of hand. It is not that bad. I am there 90 percent of the time and I have not seen that."

City councilors have weighed in to say that while poor behavior obviously is unacceptable, the whole idea of the senior center is to address the needs of the elderly. They said they will read the schedule of events and activities at the facility to ensure that remains the case.

Rodriguez responded to a request from The Republican for further comment by emailing this statement Wednesday night:

"I know seniors are frustrated. We, the staff and the board of directors, have tried to address the issues with Friday bingo administratively for over two years. Our guiding principle is that programming at our senior center is decided by our seniors. It's difficult to have to go in this direction."

Bingo is held on Friday at 1 p.m. and draws 75 to 80 people who enjoy socializing and playing the game, said Gorham, a lifelong Holyoke resident.

It costs 25 cents per bingo card, with three games per card. The average player spends $4 to $6 on an afternoon of bingo cards. The prizes are $23 to $27 in cash each time someone's card registers bingo, she said.

Gorham has circulated a petition that will be sent to city officials demanding that bingo every Friday remain the norm.

"I got 72 signatures (on Friday), which means I didn't get everybody," she said.

The bingo curtailment came without explanation, she said, which seems to conflict with what Rodriguez said in her email.

"Nobody could understand why," Gorham said. "What they're doing should not be done. This is just unfair, totally unfair."

Rodriguez said the decision to halve the number of bingo Fridays came after "much deliberation" with staff and COA board members.

"We have been dealing with inappropriate behavior at Friday bingo since before we moved to our new senior center. For some reason, it seems to bring out the worst in people," Rodriguez said.

The $8.1 million Senior Center opened on Dec. 3, 2012. Hailed as a jewel for the city's elderly, the venue came after senior center facilities languished for years in a windowless space in the basement of the War Memorial building at Appleton and Maple streets.

City Councilor at Large Daniel B. Bresnahan and Council President Kevin A. Jourdain asked whether the majority of senior citizens will be getting deprived of weekly bingo because some are rude.

Bresnahan questioned what activity would occupy the slot occupied by by the popular bingo and whether Senior Center staff contact police when problem behavior occurs.

"The intent of this (Senior Center) is these people who are in their golden years have a place to hang out," Bresnahan said.

Jourdain said in an email to Rodriguez Tuesday that the city response should be to figure out a solution instead of reducing bingo for senior citizens

"This group tremendously looks forward to this activity. We built that facility for them and they want bingo once per week. They shall have their bingo once per week as they have had it. They are the bosses in the chain of command. We are the servants," Jourdain said.

>Pahrump
Damn place is radioactive from the all the nuke tests to the east in the 50s and 60s. It's no surprise this kind of character would turn up there. Art Bell was right to leave.

>>122886
She can't get consensual sex apparently.

>>122886
"Hey little boy, let's go to McDonald's"

"No, I think you could use a break from fast food, lady."

>The Daily News story said that information on the stolen laptop includes evacuation protocols and floor plans of Trump Tower, which contains the Manhattan residence of President Donald Trump, and the place where his wife Melania and their son Barron still live full-time.

>But the Secret Service, in a statement confirming the laptop theft that was issued after the News posted its story, said agency-issued "laptops contain multiple levels of security including full disk encryption and are not permitted to contain classified information."

>The case came to light a day after it was revealed that the Secret Service is investigating allegations that two of its agents assigned to protect one of Trump's grandsons took selfie photographs with the eight-year-old boy as he slept.

>And on March 10, a 26-year-old man was arrested after jumping the fence at the White House and getting close to the White House itself, while carrying two cans of Mace and a letter to Trump he had written.

>CNN reported on Friday that the man, Jonathan Tran, was on the White House grounds for 15 minutes, and possibly more, before he was spotted and detained by a Secret Service office.

>The Daily News reported that the laptop thief, who may have gotten to the agent's home in an Uber, was seen on surveillance video walking away from the agent's car with a backpack.
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>Items including coins and a bag carrying a Secret Service insignia were later recovered. But the laptop remains missing.

>When contacted by CNBC, the New York Police Department referred questions about the case to the Secret Service.

>"The U.S. Secret Service can confirm that an employee was the victim of a criminal act in which our Agency issued laptop computer was stolen," the agency said, before noting the multiple levels of security and encryption in its laptops, as well as their lack of classified information.

>"An investigation is ongoing and the Secret Service is withholding additional comment until the facts are gathered," the agency said. "The Secret Service requests anyone with information regarding this crime to please contact the New York Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service New York Field Office."

>The agency is also probing claims that last week two agents assigned to protect Donald Trump III began taking selfies with him as they drove him from Westchester County, New York, to Manhattan.

>The president's grandson "woke up and, as the source framed it, 'freaked out,' " according to a story about the probe published Thursday by Mother Jones.com.

>"Upon return to Manhattan, he shared the experience with his mother, Vanessa Trump, who relayed her concerns to his father, Donald Trump Jr.," Mother Jones' story said. "The issue was quickly escalated to top management of the Secret Service. The two agents were ordered to report to the Secret Service Office of Professional Responsibility in Washington, DC."
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>A source told Mother Jones that the agents do not face a criminal probe, but instead questions about whether they abandoned their post while protecting the boy.

>A Secret Service spokesman emailed a statement to CNBC on Friday when asked about that probe.

>"The U.S. Secret Service is aware of a matter involving two of our agents and one of our protectees," the agency said. "Our Office of Professional Responsibility will always thoroughly review a matter to determine the facts and to ensure proper, long-standing protocols and procedures are followed."

>"The Secret Service would caution individuals to not jump to conclusions that may grossly mischaracterize the matter," the statement said. "Secret Service Agents around the country are dedicated to protecting those under their charge."

>The group last year attacked at least eight monetary authorities, including the Dutch Central Bank, the Bank of Greece, and the Bank of Mexico, the two people said. In a change of tack, it is also considering plans to sell on any confidential information it obtains, according to one of the people.

>The actions by non-state hacking and hacktivist groups such as Anonymous “are a wake-up call that should alert us to the critical weaknesses of global financial systems,” said Stefano Zanero, a professor of computer security at Italian university Politecnico di Milano.
Central Targets

>A successful cyber-security attack on the U.S. banking system is “one of the most significant risks our country faces,” Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said in testimony before the congressional Joint Economic Committee in November.

>The most notable hack on a central bank so far resulted in a manhunt involving Interpol and the FBI, launched last year, to help solve the cyber-heist from Bangladesh’s central bank, where hackers used Swift, the interbank messaging system, to steal $81 million.

>“The Bangladeshi bank case last year really brought the focus on payments systems within central banks,” said Adrian Nish, head of threat intelligence at BAE Systems Plc. “The realization that central banks can be targeted this way for profit has become a greater concern since Bangladesh.”

>Poland’s financial regulator was targeted in January by a suspected “watering hole” attack, where hackers target an often-used website, according to research from BAE Systems. In this instance, the hack originated from the website of Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), where code was planted that would serve malware to certain visitors of the site. The malicious code was selectively targeted at financial institutions, and multiple banks were compromised via their users simply browsing the KNF website.
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>The authority said last month in a statement that it had identified external attempts to hack its website and it was in contact with representatives of supervised industries.

>Similar code was also believed to be present on the website of the state-owned Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay, and the National Banking and Stock Commission of Mexico in late 2016, according to analysis from BAE Systems and U.S. software company Symantec Corp.

>Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay and the National Banking and Stock Commission of Mexico did not respond to requests for comment.
Spotting Gaps

>“Cyber attacks have become military attacks,” said Biagio De Marchis, senior vice president in the security and information systems division of Italian defense and security company Leonardo SpA, which offers cyber-security services to clients which span from financial institutions to large companies to the NATO alliance.

>In response, central banks and related agencies have been busy attempting to stem the increasing number of attacks. In June Swift hired BAE Systems and U.K. cybersecurity adviser NCC Group Plc in a bid to improve its security defenses. BAE has since helped Swift analyze whether it needs to flag potential issues to correspondent banks.
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>The number of warning flags raised due to concerns about a potential security issue BAE Systems has examined are in the “double digits.”

>The problems range from system crashes due to software update errors, to intruders hacking into banking platforms.

>The Bank of England is even scooping up startups to help it battle online threats. It is currently running an accelerator, launched in June 2016, and is to start working with Anomali in order to “hunt and investigate cyber security intelligence data in a highly automated fashion,” according to a case study published in February by the Bank.

>Limor Kessem, a consultant at IBM Security Systems, says greater vigilance on the part of central banks makes sense in the face of the increased attacks they’re seeing. She said she has identified several groups targeting banks, and expects more to jump in this year.

>“If overall cybercrime activity on that sector is any indication,” Kessem said, “attacks on central banks are also likely to increase.”

>>122747

It's hard times but we must endure.

Let's work together to get out of this

>>122881
Are you a Peruvian? I'd donate if I had any money to give. This is worse than an earthquake or flood put together!

>>122893

yes, I am. I was talking about Peruvian people to unite but to foreign anons, thanks for your concern.

>>122744
>Donald Trump III
God help the future.

>>122744
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In Louisiana, Capt. Clay Higgins, nicknamed the “Cajun John Wayne,” talks directly to criminals.

“We’re going to identify you, arrest you and put you in a small cell. After that, I’m gonna have a cheeseburger here,” Higgins said on “St. Landry Parish Crime Stoppers.”

The YouTube sensation led to multiple arrests.

Ivey’s favorite show was “Ladies Night.” But critics object that his approach is nothing more than public shaming.

“It reinforces the public’s blood lust for seeing people punished. It also reinforces the offenders’ sense of being rejected and excluded from society,” Jeffrey Butts of John Jay College of Criminal Justice said.

Strassmann asked Ivey if there’s public shaming involved.

“If you don’t want to be on the ‘Wheel of Fugitive,’ don’t commit a crime in Brevard County. Don’t be a fugitive in Brevard County, because our team is going to come after you, our community is going to come after you,” Ivey said.

based. Reminds me of that prison Warden in Texas that makes his inmates wear pink.

Don't like it, stop breaking the law faggots.

>>122392
Well I guess the crimes solve themselves in Italy. No need for police patrols.

That's Rome, NY. I lived there for a bit. Don't park on the street overnight. Get a decent lunch at Mazzaferro's if you can.

>>122679
They had a special last week, Meatball 6 inch subs for $2.

I expect Trump to lie, it doesnt really matter what the president says anymore.

>>120934
Stay butthurt


>TRUMP LIED ABOUT SOME SHIT THAT DOESN'T MATTER
>why isn't anybody listening?

When I watched that video, I was pretty amazed. The press secretary was basically admitting to the press corps that the president can not (and by implication, should not) be taken by his word.
I mean, this had already been obvious to pretty much everyone but to have his most senior and most important communications delegate admit it is still remarkable.