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This is huge.
Chokepoint was one of Obamas most illegal and evil attacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58CtrH82rVY

>>170434
Everything Obama did was evil.

Can someone who isn't a radical conservative or liberal explain what this actually did?

Ryan Gariepy, founder of Clearpath Robotics said: “Unlike other potential manifestations of AI which still remain in the realm of science fiction, autonomous weapons systems are on the cusp of development right now and have a very real potential to cause significant harm to innocent people along with global instability.”

>>170034
>>170035
They're not wrong. Even if you keep the AI boogeyman firmly locked in the closet, does an automated US army controlled by a handful of tech giants sound safe to you? Soldiers are loyal to their country; robots are loyal to their programmers.

>>170039
>Soldiers are loyal to their country; robots are loyal to their programmers.
I don't think that's mutually exclusive considering how easy it would be to pervert the senses of """"""""patriots"""""""

russian spy

>>170508
There are already too many russian snow niggers here

russian meme

>>170442
>"It looks like the US still doesn't want to put an end to its longest war. Instead of understanding the facts and realities, (Trump) still shows pride for his power and military forces," the statement said, vowing Taliban forces would keep fighting to free Afghanistan of "American invaders."

>Afghan President Ashraf Ghani welcomed Trump's statement and his "affirmation of support for our efforts to achieve self-reliance and for our joint struggle to rid the region from the threat of terrorism."

>"The US-Afghan partnership is stronger than ever in overcoming the threat of terrorism that threatens us all," Ghani said in a statement Tuesday, adding the "objective of peace is paramount."

>Washington has long accused Islamabad of not doing enough in efforts to stabilize Afghanistan.

>In July, Secretary of Defense James Mattis informed Congress the US was withholding $50 million in funding from Pakistan because he was unable to certify that Islamabad "has taken sufficient action against the Haqqani Network," a branch of the Afghan Taliban.

>US officials believe that much of the Haqqani leadership is based in Pakistan and some analysts believe eliminating their safe havens is critical to stabilizing Afghanistan.

>Trump seemed to reference this in his speech Monday, saying that "Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in Afghanistan (and) much to lose from harboring criminals and terrorists."

>Pakistan was designated a major US non-NATO ally by President George W Bush in 2004, in recognition for Islamabad's contributions to the anti-al Qaeda fight, but relations between Washington and Islamabad have long been strained over Afghanistan.

>"Pakistan has ironclad immutable strategic interests which dictate maintaining ties to groups like the Taliban," said Michael Kugelman, deputy director and senior associate for South Asia with the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

>>170443
>"It sees them as useful tools to keep Pakistan's enemy, India, at bay in Afghanistan."

>Taking a tough line on Pakistan "is not a new idea" said Lahore-based defense analyst Hasan Askari Rizvi, "(Trump) just appears to be more categorical and clearer than previous administrations."

>In 2009, President Barack Obama announced a "comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan"

>"The future of Afghanistan is inextricably linked to the future of its neighbor, Pakistan," Obama said, calling on Islamabad to "demonstrate its commitment to rooting out al Qaeda and the violent extremists within its borders."

>Eight years later, however, little has changed. A report earlier this year by the conservative Hudson Institute found "Pakistan never changed its policy of supporting certain militant groups that fight Afghan and coalition forces, thus making it impossible for the United States to achieve its objective of keeping Afghanistan from reverting to a safe haven for international terrorism."

>Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 attack planner Osama bin Laden was hiding out in Pakistan when he was assassinated by US soldiers in May 2011 -- the White House did not inform Islamabad about the raid until it was over, embarrassing the country's military and raising questions over the two nations' security relationship.

>Trump repeatedly mentioned the 9/11 attack as the reason for US action in Afghanistan during his speech.

>However, what the President will do to ensure Pakistan does change its behavior is unclear, said Kugelman. Tactics could include cutting aid and curtailing military assistance to Islamabad, he added.

>"A review of whether Pakistan should be considered a state sponsor of terrorism -- a draconian measure -- should not be ruled out if conditions don't improve," Brookings Institution Pakistan analyst Bruce Riedel said in February.

>Concerns in Islamabad will be heightened not only by Trump's criticism of Pakistan, but also his reaching out to India.

>>170445
>In June, Trump called India a "true friend" following a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said relations between the two countries have "never been stronger ... never been better."

>But Trump seemed to indicate that friendship would not be without conditions Monday. "India makes billions of dollars in trade from the United States, and we want them to help us more with Afghanistan," he said.

>Trump had similar expectations for other powers. "We will ask our NATO allies and global partners to support our new strategy with additional troop and funding increases in line with our own," he said.

>"Since taking office, I have made clear that our allies and partners must contribute much more money to our collective defense, and they have done so."

>In a statement Tuesday, India's Ministry of External Affairs said New Delhi welcomed Trump's "determination to enhance efforts to overcome the challenges facing Afghanistan and confronting issues of safe havens and other forms of cross-border support enjoyed by terrorists."

>"We are committed to supporting the government and the people of Afghanistan in their efforts to bring peace, security, stability and prosperity in their country," the statement said. "We have been steadfast in extending reconstruction and development assistance to Afghanistan in keeping with our traditional friendship with its people."

>However, Rizvi in Lahore warned giving India a bigger role in Afghanistan could backfire on Washington by reducing Islamabad's willingness to contain terror groups based in Pakistan.

>"Under the present circumstances, tensions between India and Pakistan will increase," he said.

>Greater Indian involvement in Afghanistan doesn't only put it in competition with Pakistan, but also China, which has been investing heavily in both countries as part of its "One Belt, One Road" economic program.

>“Can we ever trust such a country as an ally? As a security partner? As a trusted partner in trade? Of course, the answer is no,”

>>170419
>capitol

I can't tell if this is fake news tho, is this pro or anti trump speech?

>>170414
Or maybe not pull an Obama an allowed another terrorist nation to be built (isis) liberal cut and run amways fails.

Simply letting the military do what they want is an amazing strategy.
Why hasn't anyone thought of that sooner?

Can he do that? Just allow the army to kill as many Afghans as they want?
This is just wrong.

“We had several leaks sent to Wikileaks, including the Russian hack. It would have exposed Russian activities and shown WikiLeaks was not controlled by Russian security services,” the source who provided the messages wrote to FP. “Many Wikileaks staff and volunteers or their families suffered at the hands of Russian corruption and cruelty, we were sure Wikileaks would release it. Assange gave excuse after excuse.”

The Russian cache was eventually quietly published online elsewhere, to almost no attention or scrutiny.

In the months leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of potentially damaging emails about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign, information the U.S. intelligence community believes was hacked as part of a Kremlin-directed campaign. Assange’s role in publishing the leaks sparked allegations that he was advancing a Russian-backed agenda.

Back in 2010, Assange vowed to publish documents on any institution that resisted oversight.

WikiLeaks in its early years published a broad scope of information, including emails belonging to Sarah Palin and Scientologists, phone records of Peruvian politicians, and inside information from surveillance companies. “We don’t have targets,” Assange said at the time.

But by 2016, WikiLeaks had switched course, focusing almost exclusively on Clinton and her campaign.

Approached later that year by the same source about data from an American security company, WikiLeaks again turned down the leak. “Is there an election angle? We’re not doing anything until after the election unless its [sic] fast or election related,” WikiLeaks wrote. “We don’t have the resources.”

Anything not connected to the election would be “diversionary,” WikiLeaks wrote.

“WikiLeaks schedules publications to maximize readership and reader engagement,” WikiLeaks wrote in a Twitter message to FP. “During distracting media events such as the Olympics or a high profile election, unrelated publications are sometimes delayed until the distraction passes but never are rejected for this reason.”

WikiLeaks’s relationship with Russia started out as adversarial. In October 2010, Assange and WikiLeaks teased a massive dump of documents that would expose wrongdoing in the Kremlin, teaming up with a Russian news site for the rollout. “We have [compromising materials] about Russia, about your government and businessmen,” Assange told a Russian newspaper.

“We will publish these materials soon,” he promised.

“Russians are going to find out a lot of interesting facts about their country,” WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said at the time.

In November 2010, WikiLeaks began to release documents from its cache provided by Chelsea Manning, which included cables from U.S. diplomats around the world, including Russia.

WikiLeaks partnered with the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, but only a handful of stories were published out of almost a quarter of a million files from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Novoya Gazeta paid for exclusive access to the documents, according to John Helmer, a foreign correspondent in Moscow writing for Business Insider.

WikiLeaks says there was no financial aspect to the publishing partnership with Novaya Gazeta, which did not respond to a request for comment. “We do not have insight into the publication decisions of [Novaya Gazeta],” WikiLeaks told FP.

Meanwhile, Assange’s position on Russia was evolving. Assange in 2012 had his own show on the Kremlin-funded news network RT, and that same year, he produced episodes for the network where he interviewed opposition thinkers like Noam Chomsky and so-called “cypherpunks.”

Questions about Assange’s links to Russia were raised last year, when the Daily Dot reported that WikiLeaks failed to publish documents that revealed a 2 billion euro transaction between the Syrian regime and a government-owned Russian bank in 2012. Details about the documents appear in leaked court records obtained by the Daily Dot, which were placed under seal by a Manhattan federal court.

A WikiLeaks spokesperson told the Daily Dot that no emails were removed from what the organization published. The spokesperson also suggested the Daily Dot was “pushing the Hillary Clinton campaign’s neo-McCarthyist conspiracy theories about critical media.”

Assange believes that U.S. officials hoping to damage his reputation leaked the court records, according to the messages provided to FP.

“There’s a passing claim that the ‘500 pages’ comes from the US government’s investigation into Wikileaks,” one message from WikiLeaks reads. “If true, the US government appears to be leaking data on the Wikileaks investigation, which fabricated or angled to help HRC. Huge story that everyone missed.”

WikiLeaks again told FP that “the story is false” but did not elaborate.

When Novaya Gazeta reported in April 2016 on the 11.5 million documents known as the Panama Papers, which exposed how powerful figures worldwide hide their money overseas, Assange publicly criticized the work. He suggested that reporters had “cherry-picked” the documents to publish for optimal “Putin bashing, North Korea bashing, sanctions bashing, etc.” while giving Western figures a pass.

In fact, news outlets involved in publishing leaks reported on a number of Western figures, including then-British Prime Minister David Cameron.

a shame barely any people come to /news/

/pol/ is too crowded and filled with edgy kids

>>169210
Is it confirmed he is ETA or ISIS?

>>169210
I rather keep this board free from bias from both sides.

It has begun. The Nigger and Commie hordes are tearing down everything that looks remotely white.

PROTESTERS IN ATLANTA VANDALIZE ‘PEACE MONUMENT’ AFTER MISTAKING IT FOR CONFEDERATE SYMBOL
http://archive.is/1GsCg#selection-383.1-383.91

>>169101
liberals will get the bullet.

>>169101
/pol/ was right again!

>>168519
>Its just a passive aggressive letter to entitled fag-hags
And here I was hoping the revolution for the glorious Homo-topia had started

This shit is stupid. If you're gay you can't be an asshole to women. Unless you want to be a hypocrite. it's because of woman and straight guys, etc, made LGBT rights possible. Ty to them.

>>168587
So women should also not be assholes to men since men made womens rights possible right? Someone tell the feminists. Fag-hags are trash.

>>162450
>He said it was not fun keeping up with the never-ending news cycle.
Did they say something wrong here? A lot of people feel that way about this trainwreck of a political system, it almost feels like so much dirt is getting dug up to wear us out so when the real shit hits the fan nobody will want to give a shit anymore.

>>162455
Actually. If you STILL don't get it. Let me explain. Trump was elected to be the human nuclear bomb. We sent him to washington to destroy them. Both the democrats and the repuclians.
Trump is doing everything 100% as I expected and I love every second of it.

>>162450
>there’s so much more hate and resentment than we possibly could have imagined … This man didn’t come out of nowhere.
>out of nowhere
Perhaps look into the mirror from time to time and you might realize that it does not come out of nowhere but from something very real.

Ah yes the (((adl))). So if they say it then it's gospel.

Ted Nugent did something similar when Obama was in office. Stupid people are going to say stupid things.

I have seen evidence to support it, but I like to think that in this case, she was legitimately not thinking and is sorry. The kind of sincere remorse for a stupid thing and not the "got caught" or "more the consequences" type.

>>170195
>have seen

have NOT seen

>>170180
how do you even react to this? i mean come on belgium, hasn't it gone far enough?

>>170208
For the liberals it hasn't gone far enough until the whole european culture is abolished and replaced by islam.

>>170208
just look at the news. Every single day Muslims in Europe go on mass killing sprees.
In the last three days alone there were 5 Muslim terror attacks.
No one cares, no matter how many they kill. The European has been fully demoralized. The worst possible crime he can possibly imagine is self defense.
On the other hand being slaughtered by a Muslim is a badge of honor how tolerant you are.

>>169636

“And so the notion of free speech is shifting at the companies that run the internet. Facebook had a reckoning after false stories on its News Feed—free speech, in a sense—may have helped elect Donald Trump,” they continued. “Perhaps not coincidentally, the company changed its mission statement this past June.”

“To Systrom, it’s pretty simple: Freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to shitpost,” Wired proclaimed. “His network isn’t a public square; it’s a platform people can choose to use or not.”
When Systrom was asked about free speech, the CEO reportedly replied: “Is it free speech to just be mean to someone?”

Nicky Jackson Colaco, Instagram’s director of policy, also claimed, “If toxicity on a platform gets so bad that people don’t even want to post a comment, they don’t even want to share an idea, you’ve actually threatened expression.”

On Tuesday, Instagram suspended popular conservative commentator and author Lauren Southern before restoring her account around seven hours later.

The account was only restored after Breitbart Tech reached out to Instagram for comment, prompting a spokesman for the company to claim they had “mistakenly suspended her account.”

Instagram’s parent company Facebook, however, haspreviouslysuspended Southern in “error,” while Patreon alsobannedthe commentator last month, claiming her work could potentially get people killed.

FIN

>>169636

I'd imagine the tech industry severely overestimated the intelligence of the American populace. We still have 25% signaling "strong support" for President shit-for-brains. It's amazing these people have the cognitive function to automatically breath let alone continue existing for more than 72 hours.

>>169640
There is a significant portion of our population who just don't care about politics, all that matters is if they're going to be employed or not. Lazy niggers don't even care if said employment will be garbage like coal mining because they can't be bothered to get the education/training required for a decent job. Working class gonna working class.