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Trump planning biggest US Navy fleet expansion, will cost $5 Billion+ 2017-01-09 03:32:50 Post No.98272
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>BATH, Maine – With President-elect Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber-rattling China.
>The Navy's 355-ship proposal released last month is even larger than what the Republican Trump had promoted on the campaign trail, providing a potential boost to shipyards that have struggled because budget caps that have limited money funding for ships.
>At Maine's Bath Iron Works, workers worried about the future want to build more ships but wonder where the billions of dollars will come from.
>"Whether Congress and the government can actually fund it, is a whole other ball game," said Rich Nolan, president of the shipyard's largest union.
>Boosting shipbuilding to meet the Navy's 355-ship goal could require an additional $5 billion to $5.5 billion in annual spending in the Navy's 30-year projection, according to an estimate by naval analyst Ronald O'Rourke at the Congressional Research Service.
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http://www.janes.com/article/66762/cbo-highlights-budget-challenges-for-308-ship-us-navy
>The US Navy's (USN's) 2017 shipbuilding plan requires an extra 36% (USD18.9 billion as opposed to USD13.9 billion) in funding annually compared with the navy's historical average for new ship construction, according to a 4 January US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report.
>The US CBO estimates that average annual costs of new-ship construction under the USN's 2017 shipbuilding plan is more than the USN anticipated, and the cost gap widens over time.
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>Cutting other programs that actually help people to build more ships that will just sit at a dock and rust
Brilliant!
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>>98278
I understand what you're saying but China has been acting bold lately.
Look at what they're doing in Africa and the south china sea. We need to stay on top.
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>>98301
why?
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Woman Accused of Coat-Hanger Abortion Pleads Guilty to Felony 2017-01-12 12:30:18 Post No.99059
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Woman Accused of Coat-Hanger Abortion Pleads Guilty to Felony
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>A Tennessee woman jailed for more than a year after trying to use a coat hanger to abort her 24-week-old fetus pleaded guilty on Monday to one felony count in exchange for her immediate release from jail.
>The woman, Anna Yocca, 32, sought medical care at a hospital after attempting the at-home abortion in September 2015, according to National Advocates for Pregnant Women, an advocacy group that helped with her defense. She was later arrested and was initially charged with attempted murder. Under an agreement reached with prosecutors, she pleaded guilty this week to attempted procurement of a miscarriage and was given credit for time served.
>Her case has alarmed abortion-rights advocates concerned by increasingly strict state abortion laws and the election of Donald J. Trump, who has expressed support for overturning Roe v. Wade and once said during the presidential campaign that women who have abortions should be punished.
>“This case sends a dangerous message,” said Lynn M. Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, who called the prosecution of Ms. Yocca “a misuse of the existing criminal law system.”
>“Her plea cannot be seen as any kind of validation for the use of criminal law to address pregnancy or any kind of outcome of pregnancy,” Ms. Paltrow said. “It’s an example of how criminal law can be used to pressure and intimidate people into pleading guilty to crimes so they don’t spend even more years incarcerated.”
>Ms. Yocca’s lawyer, Gerald Melton, did not respond to an email seeking comment on Tuesday. Attempts to reach the Rutherford County district attorney by telephone on Tuesday were unsuccessful.
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>Ms. Yocca sought medical attention after her attempted at-home abortion because of heavy bleeding. While at the hospital, she gave birth to a premature baby boy by cesarean section. The baby was placed in foster care and later adopted.
>After Ms. Yocca’s arrest, The Murfreesboro Post reported that the boy weighed just 1.5 pounds when he was born and that he had a number of severe medical problems that may have been attributable to prenatal injuries caused by the hanger.
>But many of those ailments could have been caused by the baby’s premature birth, Ms. Paltrow said, and because the case did not go to trial, no evidence about the child’s medical condition was presented in court.
>Ms. Yocca was arrested in December 2015 and held at the Rutherford County jail because she was unable to put up the $200,000 bond for her release. Ms. Yocca’s case ricocheted from one indictment to another over the course of a year as she remained in jail.
>The attempted murder charge was dismissed in February 2016, but Ms. Yocca was then re-indicted on a charge of aggravated fetal assault under a controversial 2014 law intended to target pregnant drug abusers whose babies were harmed by their drug use. Ms. Yocca was never accused of illegal drug use.
>The state’s fetal assault law expired in July 2016, and legislators declined to re-enact it. Ms. Yocca remained in jail until prosecutors charged her with three new felonies in November: aggravated assault with a weapon — in this case, a coat hanger — and two laws enacted in the 19th century, attempted criminal abortion and attempted procurement of a miscarriage.
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>Abortion is tightly regulated in Tennessee. State law permits abortion after 24 weeks only if there is a risk to the woman’s health or life, but women seeking an abortion must get in-person counseling from an abortion provider, wait 48 hours, then return for the procedure.
>A state constitutional ballot measure passed in 2014 established that “nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.” There are abortion clinics in only four of the state’s 95 counties, and Rutherford County is not one of them.
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Wow the baby actually survived? That's impressive. Pretty sure if it was able to survive it was past the first trimester anyway.
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Trump to CNN: "You are Fake News"
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2017-01-12 02:25:06
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Here's the link and CSPAN video:
http://www.worldnewsglobal24.com/2017/01/video-trump-to-cnn-you-are-fake-new
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Lots of media ethics issues with all this
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U.S. Military Successfully Demonstrates Microdrone Swarm 2017-01-10 01:56:59 Post No.98520
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U.S. Military Successfully Demonstrates Microdrone Swarm
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>In one of the most significant tests of autonomous systems under development by the Department of Defense, the Strategic Capabilities Office, partnering with Naval Air Systems Command, successfully demonstrated one of the world’s largest micro-drone swarms at China Lake, California. The test, conducted in October 2016 and documented on Sunday’s CBS News program “60 Minutes”, consisted of 103 Perdix drones launched from three F/A-18 Super Hornets. The micro-drones demonstrated advanced swarm behaviors such as collective decision-making, adaptive formation flying, and self-healing.
>“I congratulate the Strategic Capabilities Office for this successful demonstration,” said Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who created SCO in 2012. “This is the kind of cutting-edge innovation that will keep us a step ahead of our adversaries. This demonstration will advance our development of autonomous systems.”
>“Due to the complex nature of combat, Perdix are not pre-programmed synchronized individuals, they are a collective organism, sharing one distributed brain for decision-making and adapting to each other like swarms in nature,” said SCO Director William Roper. “Because every Perdix communicates and collaborates with every other Perdix, the swarm has no leader and can gracefully adapt to drones entering or exiting the team.”
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>Protoss Carrier has arrived
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>>98520
Just wait till the computers take over the world. just wait.
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>>98600
They already have. We just haven't realized it yet. This stuff is going to be used against civilians, it's what they're designed for.
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Anonymous Bomb Threats Rattle Jewish Centers Across Eastern U.S. 2017-01-10 01:28:56 Post No.98511
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>The morning rush at the Jewish community center in Columbia, S.C., had subsided when the phone rang on Monday. The caller, an elderly-sounding woman, “in a loud screaming voice kept saying there’s a bomb,” said Barry A. Abels, the center’s executive director.
>At roughly the same time, a woman dialed the Jewish community center in Rockville, Md., nearly 500 miles away, and said there was a bomb. Not long after, a man called a Jewish organization in Wilmington, Del. He, too, warned of a bomb.
>Similar threats, which turned out to be unfounded, were reported all over the Eastern United States on Monday, at as many as 16 Jewish community facilities, one advocacy group estimated. Time and time again, the police responded, buildings were evacuated and, after tense waits, the centers and schools reopened.
>Federal law enforcement officials did not definitively link the threats, but the episodes rattled nerves, and raised deep concern and little doubt that the phone calls had been orchestrated.
>“My personal take is it’s a statement of where we are in this country,” said Michael Feinstein, the chief executive of the Bender Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, in Rockville. “There’s some thought amongst some people that hate speech and hate crimes are O.K. and anti-Semitism is O.K., and I think that is reflective of sort of the political discourse that we’ve had in this country.”
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>Mr. Feinstein said about 300 people had been in the Rockville center when the threat was made, including about 200 preschoolers. After the threat in Delaware, parents were called to pick up preschool and day school students. In South Carolina, Mr. Abels said staff members and patrons attending exercise classes had to leave. About three hours later, he said, the authorities said it was safe to return, leaving many to wonder what had happened.
>“It could be anything from hate groups to a terrorist situation,” Mr. Abels said. “I think it’s probably more on the hate group side, because it was just a scare.” He said he believed it was “designed to be psychologically disorienting and scary and just disruptive.”
>Jerry Silverman, the president and chief executive of the Jewish Federations of North America, said the threats were part of a disturbing trend toward normalizing hate speech. It was less than three years ago that a former Ku Klux Klan leader killed three people outside Jewish facilities in Overland Park, Kan. And in November, after the presidential election, the Anti-Defamation League posted a warning about a reported uptick in hate speech and anti-Semitism.
>Some members of the alt-right, a far-right fringe movement that embraces elements of anti-Semitic, racist and anti-immigrant positions, perceived the victory of President-elect Donald J. Trump as validation for their cause and have become increasingly visible in recent months. Mr. Trump, who has a Jewish daughter and son-in-law, has disavowed the alt-right.
>Mr. Silverman said Monday’s cases were part of a broader “coordinated effort” to intimidate Jews. He said that Jewish organizations nationwide had instituted emergency protocols, and that leaders were communicating with one another on Monday as the threats were reported.
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>“We’ve seen this at Jewish community centers over the last year,” Mr. Silverman said. “We’ve seen it at Jewish day schools. We’ve seen it at synagogues.”
>“It’s all about training and preparedness,” he added.
>Law enforcement agencies in Nashville; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Tenafly, N.J., were among those confirming on Monday that they had responded to and cleared bomb threats at Jewish centers. An F.B.I. spokeswoman said the bureau was “aware of bomb threats” and had been in touch with the local police.
>“We understand there were similar threats around the country,” said Tzipora Cohen, of the Jewish Community Center in Tenafly. “I guess these are the times we live in.”
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dirty jews making phony threats to get security grant shekels
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Law firm helping Trump won 'Russia Law Firm of the Year' award in 2016 2017-01-12 12:18:42 Post No.99056
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Law firm helping Trump won 'Russia Law Firm of the Year' award in 2016
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>A global law firm that has spent months helping President-elect Trump separate his personal business from the office of the president was recognized last year for its "high-profile" work in Russia.
>Sheri Dillon, a well-respected tax controversy attorney, was given significant airtime during Trump's press conference on Wednesday to discuss how the real estate tycoon will avoid business conflicts while serving in the Oval Office. Dillon works at the Washington, DC office of Morgan Lewis, which was named "Russia Law Firm of the Year" last spring by the law profession directory Chambers & Partners.
>"Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP just scooped up the Russia Law Firm of the Year award #ChamEuroAwards," Chambers & Partners tweeted on April 22.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/672733/law-firm-advising-trump-business-conflicts-named-russia-law-firm-year-2016
>While Trump defended himself against allegations he'd colluded with Russia to win the presidential election and denied rumors that Russia has amassed damning information about him, a lawyer from Russia's law firm of the year was standing by his side.
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>"Russia Law Firm of the Year"
I refuse to believe this is a real award. This would be like if someone said Bernie's wife won a "Communist Olympics" trophy. Or if Hillary's secretary had a "Richard Nixon Award of Excellence" medal.
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Flynn Sees Russia as Ally in Fight Against Islamists 2017-01-10 05:19:24 Post No.98577
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Flynn Sees Russia as Ally in Fight Against Islamists
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>WASHINGTON — Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, traveled to Moscow about a year after he took charge of the Defense Intelligence Agency to cultivate what he saw as natural allies in the fight against Islamist militants: Russia’s spy agencies.
>It was June 2013, a briefly optimistic moment for both the Americans and Russians, and Mr. Flynn hoped to take advantage of it. During the trip, he met with the chief of the Russian military intelligence unit known as the G.R.U. — the same agency that has since been implicated in interference in the 2016 presidential election — and held an hourlong discussion with midranking officers at its headquarters.
>Relations with Moscow have soured significantly since then, yet Mr. Flynn has grown only more vehement about the need for the United States to cultivate Russia as an ally. He even returned to Moscow in 2015, a year after he was forced into retirement from the Defense Intelligence Agency, to give a paid speech for RT, the Russian English-language news organization, which American intelligence agencies have deemed a propaganda tool in the Russian election-meddling.
>During that trip he also tried repeatedly to meet officers at the C.I.A’s station in Moscow — housed inside the American Embassy — to press for closer ties with Russia’s spies. But C.I.A. officers in Moscow, who have an adversarial relationship with Russia, declined to meet with him.
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>Now, as Mr. Flynn, 58, prepares to play a leading role in setting national security priorities in the Trump White House, his pro-Russian tilt stands in striking opposition to the judgments of the intelligence agencies he will help oversee. In an extraordinary report released last week, the agencies bluntly accused the Russian government of having worked to undermine American democracy and promote the candidacy of Mr. Trump.
>The report is likely to renew questions about Mr. Flynn’s avowed eagerness to work with Russia, and his dismissal of concerns about President Vladimir V. Putin, which have at times exceeded even that of Mr. Trump himself. Neither has shown any indication of being swayed by the intelligence report on Russian meddling, and the two will within weeks be in a position to reorder American priorities in favor of closer ties with Moscow.
>Any shift toward Moscow would very likely put the new administration in direct conflict with senior military commanders and intelligence officials, as well as powerful Republicans, like Senator John McCain of Arizona, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. It may also rankle some of Mr. Trump’s own cabinet nominees — Gen. James N. Mattis, his choice for defense secretary, and Representative Mike Pompeo of Kansas, the nominee for C.I.A. director, pushed the Obama administration to take a harder line on Russia.
>It appears unlikely they will get that from a Trump White House. Mr. Flynn, who is seen as particularly close to Mr. Trump and will serve as a crucial gatekeeper to the president, has said that building ties with Moscow is a strategic necessity to win what he considers a “world war” against Islamist militants.
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>“What we both have is a common enemy,” Mr. Flynn said in an interview in October. “The common enemy that we have is radical Islam.”
>But Mr. Flynn is not always slavishly pro-Russian. He grouped Russia among the enemies of the United States in his book, “The Field of Fight,” which was published in July. In the October interview, which was conducted after American officials first accused Russia of meddling in the 2016 election, he said, “Do I want Russia to influence our election? Absolutely not.”
>But Mr. Flynn, who has not responded to requests for comment since the election, then took a tack straight from Mr. Trump’s playbook: He quickly shifted to questioning the evidence of Russian meddling before dismissing it.
>The real problem, he said, was that Mr. Putin respects only strength, and that the United States had behaved like a weakling under President Obama.
>That would change under Mr. Trump, Mr. Flynn said. Mr. Trump understood that the danger posed by “radical Islamic terrorism” was paramount, and that Russia could help bring Iran into line and stabilize the Middle East, Mr. Flynn said.
>Concerns about Russia’s dismemberment of Ukraine, its indiscriminate bombing of Syrian cities and its crackdown on political dissent were “besides the point,” he said.
>“We can’t do what we want to do unless we work with Russia, period,” Mr. Flynn said.
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>A Trump administration would not be the first to try to reset relations with Russia. President George W. Bush and Mr. Obama sought to do the same early in their presidencies, though both approached the issue with more skepticism. Neither succeeded.
>Russia in the meantime has grown far more aggressive. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. of the Marine Corps, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Paul J. Selva of the Air Force, the vice chairman, have said that Russia potentially poses an existential threat to the United States, and that Islamist militants do not.
>Nevertheless, Mr. Trump and Mr. Flynn have offered a far more positive view of working with Russia than their predecessors. As recently as this summer, Mr. Flynn spoke glowingly of his visit to the G.R.U. headquarters.
>“I had a great trip. I was the first U.S. officer ever allowed inside the headquarters of the G.R.U.,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post in August.
>“I was able to brief their entire staff. I gave them a leadership OPD,” he added, using a military abbreviation for a professional development class. He and the G.R.U. officers “talked a lot about the way the world’s unfolding.”
>Brig. Gen. Peter Zwack, a retired Army officer who was the American military attaché in Moscow at the time of the visit, said Mr. Flynn was not blind to the pitfalls of forging closer ties to Russia. He saw areas of mutual interest, as did many others in the United States at the time, but was always firm in advancing the American position in areas where there was disagreement, General Zwack said.
>“There was nothing kumbaya about these talks at all,” he said. “It was a question of finding common ground on this big, complex, fractious and increasingly dangerous planet.”
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Where is anonymous when you need them?
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2017-01-11 01:55:05
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So let's be honest, those 4 guys are dead.
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Schumer is using McConnell's own words against him regarding Trump nominees 2017-01-10 01:13:16 Post No.98506
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Schumer is using McConnell's own words against him regarding Trump nominees
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>In 2009, McConnell wrote a letter to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, telling him the Republicans had a set of "standards" that President Obama's Cabinet nominees had to meet, and if they didn't complete background checks, ethics reviews, or financial disclosure statements, the GOP would not allow votes. On Monday, Democratic House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he was going to send the letter back to McConnell, with McConnell's name replacing Reid's and Schumer's signature overriding McConnell's. "Our requests are eminently reasonable, shared by leaders of both parties," he tweeted. "I'll return this letter to [McConnell] with the same requests."
>Confirmation hearings are set to start Tuesday, even though some of the nominees haven't even undergone ethics reviews yet. McConnell isn't letting that stop him from pushing the hearings through at breakneck speed; on Sunday, he said Democrats aren't worried over the lack of information from the nominees, but have "frustration" over having lost.
>That's not true, Schumer said Monday from the Senate floor. "Bear in mind President-elect Trump's nominees pose particularly difficult ethics and conflict of interest challenges," he said. "They come from enormous wealth, many have vast holdings and stocks, and very few have experience in government, so they have not been appropriately vetted for something like a Cabinet post before. What had been standard practice for the vast majority of nominees — the completion of a preliminary ethics review before their nomination — was skipped over for the vast majority of President-elect Trump's nominees."
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>>98506
This. This is how you do quid pro quo. Simple and direct, no he-said-she-said. Now it's up to the rest of us to demand that this standard be upheld.
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>>98506
So he proves that Democrats and the Republicans are hypocritical when it comes to their own party vs the other.
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>>98506
So now we can add plagiary to Schumer's long list of crimes.
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Has anyone seen the names or know of the identity of the KKK members who interrupted Jeff Sessions yesterday?
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/10/watch-code-pink-protesters-dressed-as-kkk-members-tossed-from-sessions-confirmation-hearing/
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>theblaze.com
Fuck off, Glenn
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Say goodbye to Yahoo!: will rebrand itself as "Altaba", CEO Mayer to leave board after Verizon deal 2017-01-10 02:29:51 Post No.98524
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Say goodbye to Yahoo!: will rebrand itself as "Altaba", CEO Mayer to leave board after Verizon deal
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>Yahoo Inc said Monday that it would rename itself Altaba Inc and Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer would step down from the board after the closing of its deal with Verizon Communications Inc.
>Yahoo has a deal to sell its core internet business, which includes its digital advertising, email and media assets, to Verizon for $4.83 billion.
>The terms of that deal could be amended - or the transaction may even be called off - after Yahoo last year disclosed two separate data breaches; one involving some 500 million customer accounts and the second involving over a billion.
>Verizon executives have said that while they see a strong strategic fit with Yahoo, they are still investigating the data breaches.
>Five other Yahoo directors would also resign after the deal closes, Yahoo said in a regulatory filing on Monday.
>The remaining directors will govern Altaba, a holding company whose primary assets will be a 15 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and 35.5 percent stake in Yahoo Japan.
>The new company also named Eric Brandt chairman of the board, effective Jan. 9.
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Alt-aba or Al-taba?
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Fossil fruit from 52 million years ago revealed 2017-01-06 04:01:47 Post No.97516
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Fossil fruit from 52 million years ago revealed
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>A fossilised fruit dating back 52 million years has been discovered in South America.
>The ancient berry belongs to a family of plants that includes popular foods such as potatoes, tomatoes and peppers.
>The plant family's early history is largely unknown as, until now, only a few seeds have been found in the fossil record.
>Scientists say the origins of the class go back much further than previously thought, by tens of millions of years.
>The plant, a type of Physalis, was found in a fossilised rainforest in Patagonia.
>It belongs to the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family of flowering plants, which includes crops, tobacco, medicinal plants and garden flowers such as the petunia.
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Yes, but how does it taste?
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Mira donde me tengo que enterar de las cosas de mi propio pais, genial la noticia igual!
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>>97520
Like Freezerburn y' goon.
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Comey mum on possible FBI inquiry into any Trump connection to Russia hacking 2017-01-10 10:10:14 Post No.98667
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>FBI Director James Comey declined to answer Tuesday whether the bureau was investigating links between President-elect Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.
Comey's refusal to comment during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing drew a perplexed response from Sen. Angus King, who noted the "irony" of Comey's lack of comment given that he shook the 2016 campaign by telling Congress the FBI was reviewing emails thought to be related to Hillary Clinton's private server.
>"You didn't say one way or another whether even there was an investigation underway?" King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, asked Come
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/russia-hacking-probe-campaigns-kremlin-233419
>Comey was pressed on the issue by Sen. Ron Wyden who pointed to past statements by a senior Russian diplomat that there were contacts between Moscow and the Trump campaign. The Oregon Democrat urged Comey to provide an unclassified response on the issue before Inauguration Day.
>“I think the American people have a right to know this,” Wyden said. “And if there is a delay in declassifying this information and releasing it to the American people, and it doesn’t happen before January 20th, I’m not sure it’s going to happen.”
>Comey indicated he likely would not be able to say anything publicly before then.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/10/senate-intelligence-committee-review-russian-hacking-report-sources/96398330/
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>Comey declined to answer questions from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., about whether the FBI is investigating possible contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the presidential campaign.
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Everyone thinks Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. In actuality, I wrote it, suckers!
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Fuck off RT
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New Twitter wars turning ridicule into a virtue — for now 2017-01-06 10:02:15 Post No.97611
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New Twitter wars turning ridicule into a virtue — for now
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Wendy’s, the fast-food chain, has been having a lot of fun on Twitter lately — almost as much fun, one might say, as president-elect Donald Trump.
In case you missed the hilarity, non-fans of Wendy’s hamburgers have been met with some serious attitude from the company’s corporate account in the past week or so.
One hapless Tweeter, known as @NHride, found this out after accusing Wendy’s of false advertising when its boasts of using “fresh, never frozen” meat in its hamburgers.
Wendy’s didn’t take this lying down, flatly telling @NHride the criticism was wrong, and a Twitter battle ensued. “So you deliver it raw on a hot truck?” @NHride asked.
Wendy’s fired back: “Where do you store cold things that aren’t frozen?” When @NHride then raised the name of McDonald’s, as an apparently superior product, Wendy’s Twitter account replied: “You don’t have to bring them into this just because you forgot refrigerators existed for a second there.”
Mentioning McDonald’s, incidentally, seems to be a red flag to the person (or persons) posting on Wendy’s account. The official Twitter voice for Wendy’s has also advised people to “find new friends” if facing peer pressure to dine at McDonald’s, and posted a picture of a trash can in reply to someone asking for directions to the nearest McDonald’s outlet.
The Business Insider website reported this week that it asked Wendy’s whether its account had been hacked; a corporate spokesperson said that was not the case. (Still, the Twitter battle seems to have disappeared from the main Wendy’s account, but can be viewed on various media screen shots and Twitter searches.)
A year ago, many people might have predicted that Twitter’s influence was waning in the private and public sphere.
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Of course, these might have been the same people who predicted that Trump, the Twitter addict, would never win the U.S. presidency.
In fact, almost single-handedly, Trump seems to be reviving Twitter’s relevance in the public sphere. If you want to know what the president-elect is thinking, whether on foreign policy or his reaction to the latest Saturday Night Live spoof, Twitter has become the go-to place.
It’s even becoming a medium of record, of sorts.
Just this week, Bernie Sanders, the former Democratic presidential contender, arrived at the Senate with a huge, poster-sized prop: a blow-up of a May 2015 tweet from Trump which promised “no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.”
Sanders put the poster on an easel behind him as he stood to speak during the Senate debate on the future of Obamacare.
Here in Canada, the campaign manager for Conservative leadership contender Kellie Leitch admitted this week to posting false information on Twitter, to “make the left go nuts.”
Nick Kouvalis, seemingly taking a page from Trump, was using the medium to generate some attention — which he received. “They are fun to play with,” Kouvalis posted on Twitter later. “Free entertainment.” He also took a swipe at the Prime Minister’s principal secretary, Gerald Butts (also a frequent Twitter user/arguer), for wading into the fray.
Somewhere, someone may be dreaming up a way to turn all this Twitter usage into a workshop about best practices for the fast-moving, 140-character-at-a-time medium.
But that would be a mistake.
What all these high-profile uses of Twitter prove is that it has become the place to break the rules, at high risk and in real time. The rewards of attention go to those who fly in the face of conventional wisdom, as Trump has been doing — every day, often in the middle of the night.
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The genius of the Wendy’s tweets, for instance, was that they didn’t follow the old, “customer-is-always-right” rules. No earnest pandering, no “thanks for your feedback,” — just straight-up ridicule. It’s kind of refreshing, really, to see a corporation willing to tell surly consumers that they’re being idiots.
But it’s unsustainable as a working principle. A few more weeks of edgy attitude from Wendy’s might cost it some business.
Similarly, it’s far more interesting to see political advisers mixing it up on social media rather than speaking in bland, boilerplate talking points. Whether or not you’re a fan of Kouvalis, or Butts, their candour on Twitter is a departure from politics as usual.
But as a long-term practice, that Twitter pugilism could start reflecting badly on the people for whom they work.
Many times over the past year, I’ve been tempted to leave Twitter — as many others have — finding that it’s simply a roiling roster for angry and intemperate reactionaries.
But thanks to Trump, and maybe those hilarious folks at Wendy’s, it is worth sticking around on Twitter, fast emerging in 2017 as the place for public-relations professionals to knock down all the rules of the business.
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>turning a normie meme into a political message
2017 shaping up to be just like 2016
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Where is Eric Braverman? 2017-01-11 02:24:08 Post No.98725
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you can't testify, if you're dead