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Nikki Haley complains about leaks; turns out Trump and fox news did the leaking 2017-08-09 02:00:49 Post No.165960
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Nikki Haley complains about leaks; turns out Trump and fox news did the leaking
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(U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley directs comments to the Russian delegation at the conclusion of a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the recent ballistic missile launch by North Korea at U.N. headquarters in New YorkThomson Reuters)
UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Tuesday slammed an apparent leak of classified details about US intelligence seeing North Korea load up anti-ship missiles onto a patrol boat.
"I can't talk about anything that's classified and if it's in the newspaper that's a shame," Haley said in an appearance on "Fox and Friends." "It's incredibly dangerous when things go out to the press like that."
"You're not just getting a scoop, you're playing with people's lives," said Haley.
But it looks like President Donald Trump had another reaction to the anonymous leak.
On Tuesday morning, the president retweeted the story before tweeting: "After many years of failure,countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by North Korea. We must be tough & decisive!"
The story, a scoop from Fox's Pentagon reporter Lucas Tomlinson, cited anonymous US defense officials as saying “North Korea is not showing any evidence it plans to halt its missile tests,” and describing "a trend that does not bode well for hopes of de-escalating tensions on the [Korean] peninsula.”
Tomlinson regularly publishes scoops from the Pentagon, often about breaking news or incidents at sea.
Trump's focus on North Korea comes after the UN Security Council unanimously voted to impose unprecedented sanctions on Pyongyang a month after the Hermit Kingdom first demonstrated an intercontinental ballistic missile.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nikki-haley-condemns-fox-news-133330251.html
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As president, Trump can declassify information as he sees fit, and he tweeted on Monday his dissatisfaction with much of the press' coverage of the sanctions on North Korea.
North Korea has tested ship-launched missiles in the past and relies on boats to receive data from missile tests that stray far from the mainland. The arming of a patrol boat could indicate preparations for another missile test by North Korea.
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New Internet Censorship Bill 2017-08-08 04:08:38 Post No.165811
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New Internet Censorship Bill
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2017-08-08 04:08:38
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There’s a new bill in Congress that would threaten your right to free expression online. If that weren’t enough, it could also put small Internet businesses in danger of catastrophic litigation.
Don’t let its name fool you: the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA, S. 1693) wouldn’t help punish sex traffickers. What the bill would do (PDF) is expose any person, organization, platform, or business that hosts third-party content on the Internet to the risk of overwhelming criminal and civil liability if sex traffickers use their services. For small Internet businesses, that could be fatal: with the possibility of devastating litigation costs hanging over their heads, we think that many entrepreneurs and investors will be deterred from building new businesses online.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/internet-censorship-bill-would-spell-disaster-speech-and-innovation
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Who give a fuck?
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So this would pretty much shut down 4chan and we'll all finally be free? Neato.
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>Free
Its a yotsuba image board, these things are piss easy to start and maintain. Kill 4chan and 30 others spring up in 48 hours. Many flock to infinitych@n or halfch@n, trash has u18.
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website started by former FBI agent tracks Russian propaganda bots in real time 2017-08-08 06:31:46 Post No.165690
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website started by former FBI agent tracks Russian propaganda bots in real time
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A new website is attempting to track the spread of Russian propaganda and themes on Twitter in real time.
The project is an attempt to undermine Russia's disinformation campaign in the United States and the West more broadly.
Researchers are continously monitoring roughly 600 Twitter accounts "selected for their relationship to Russian-sponsored influence and disinformation campaigns."
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http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
>A website launched on Wednesday by a former FBI special agent-turned disinformation expert claims to track Russian propaganda in near-real time, as it spreads via Twitter accounts that have been linked to Russian influence operations.
>Clint Watts, who garnered national media attention after testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russia's ongoing cyber and propaganda war against the West, spearheaded the project called Hamilton 68 — a hat tip to the founding father's Federalist Papers No. 68.
>"In the Federalist Papers No. 68, Alexander Hamilton wrote of protecting America’s electoral process from foreign meddling," the site reads, alluding to Russia's interference in the 2016 election. "Today, we face foreign interference of a type Hamilton could scarcely have imagined."
>Watts worked on Hamilton 68 with JM Berger, a fellow with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism who studies extremism and propaganda on social media; Andrew Weisburd, a fellow at the Center for Cyber & Homeland Security; and Jonathon Morgan, the CEO of New Knowledge AI and head of Data for Democracy, a volunteer collective of data scientists and technologists.
>Laura Rosenberger, the director of the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy, was brought on by Watts as the project "moved from wish to reality," Berger told Business Insider on Wednesday.
http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-propaganda-website-tracker-2017-8
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>"I love working with all these folks, so it was great fun for me to see them all come together on this project," Berger said. He added that he has been working with Watts and Weisburd on Russian influence operations, and with Morgon on social media influence analysis, for about three years.
>The project will attempt to monitor and illustrate the themes that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Americans to be thinking and talking about — namely, "the break up of the European Union, the dissolution of NATO and the failure of democratic governance in the United States specifically and in the West broadly," the site says.
>One of its objectives is to help journalists get better at recognizing disinformation and propaganda — especially given how fundamental Twitter is to many reporters' daily work.
>Russia's influence operations are not new, nor are they confined to the United States. But as former FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers testified in March, the operations intensified noticeably in the run-up to the 2016 election.
>At one point, Russia's infamous troll factories were likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media. Freelance journalist Adrian Chen, now a staff writer at The New Yorker, discovered the trend as he was researching Russia's "army of well-paid trolls" for an explosive New York Times Magazine exposé published in June 2015.
>Hamilton 68 is now working to expose those trolls — as well as automated bots and human accounts — whose main use for Twitter appears to be an amplification of pro-Russia themes.
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>The researchers say they are taking a holistic approach to tracking the propaganda efforts in an attempt to avoid a slippery slope toward censorship. For instance, rather than monitor accounts individually, the project will focus on analyzing groups of accounts that appear to be pushing out Russian themes in a synchronized way. Of the 600 accounts in the network the site says it is monitoring, moreover, none are explicitly named.
>The analysts are also not attempting to define "fake news," Berger said.
>"We're not deciding what news and stories to highlight. We're just showing what accounts linked to Russian influence operations are tweeting about."
>Rosenberger, who is leading the project on the German Marshall Fund's side, made a similar point.
>"The approach we're taking is not about labeling anything as 'real' or 'fake', or exposing particular accounts," she told Business Insider on Wednesday. "We're simply using analytical tools to show what messages this network is promoting."
>Rosenberger noted that while some people "will want to continue to take those messages at face value," more will hopefully "pause and ask more questions about the source of the information they're seeing."
>"People need to transparently know where this information is coming from," she said, especially since Moscow's efforts to undermine institutions and ideas Putin disdains — in last year's case, the Democratic National Committee and its hawkish candidate, Hillary Clinton — went unnoticed until it was too late.
>"The reason the Russians were able to do what they did is because they had been seeding the ground for some time before that and building these influence networks," Rosenberger said. "They're still pushing these messages today that are often times not even related to Russia."
>Some of the content being pushed out by these accounts is "obviously false information or disinformation, such as Pizzagate or the Seth Rich conspiracy theories," said JM Berger.
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>The viral "Pizzagate" theory, which was quickly debunked, claimed that Democrats were operating a sex trafficking ring out of a Washington, DC, pizza joint. Seth Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer whose death last year has spawned right-wing conspiracy theories aimed at casting doubt on Russia's election interference.
>Tweets from some accounts, like those belonging to the state-owned Russian news agencies Russia Today and Sputnik, are displayed on the site's homepage because they are explicitly and openly linked to the Kremlin.
>Asked to respond to the new Hamilton 68 project positioning RT as propaganda arm of the Kremlin, an RT spokesperson remarked that the researchers "might be quite literally the last ones to jump on THAT bandwagon. Reminds us of the intelligence report that presented RT's programs from 2012 as evidence that we interfered in the 2016 election."
>The spokesperson was referring to the intelligence community's assessment that Russia Today "actively collaborated" last year with WikiLeaks, the organization that published documents and emails stolen from Democrats by Russian hackers.
>"With this level of intelligence and advisory – best of luck to everyone on the receiving end of it," the spokesperson said.
>The other accounts being tracked by Hamilton 68 "were selected for their relationship to Russian-sponsored influence and disinformation campaigns, and not because of any domestic political content," according to the site.
>The researchers say they monitored the datasets "for months" and concluded that these 600 accounts participated "in specific disinformation campaigns synchronized with Russia Today and Sputnik News, linked to users who self-identified as promoting pro-Russian viewpoints, or were bots providing support to members of the first two categories."
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Tillerson refuses $80 million allocated by Congress to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda 2017-08-03 04:29:48 Post No.163736
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Tillerson refuses $80 million allocated by Congress to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda
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The secretary of state won’t tap funding approved by Congress despite pleas by the State Dept., angering officials.
>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation.
>It is highly unusual for a Cabinet secretary to turn down money for his department. But more than five months into his tenure, Tillerson has not issued a simple request for the money earmarked for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, $60 million of which is now parked at the Pentagon. Another $19.8 million sits untouched at the State Department as Tillerson’s aides reject calls from career diplomats and members of Congress to put the money to work against America’s adversaries.
>The $60 million will expire on Sept. 30 if not transferred to State by then, current and former State Department officials told POLITICO.
>The struggle over the money is a case study in Tillerson’s approach to managing the State Department and the frustration it is engendering among American diplomats. Current and former U.S. officials call it the latest example of a severe slowdown in department decision-making; of Tillerson’s reliance on a coterie of political aides who distrust State’s career staffers; and a casualty of President Donald Trump’s intention to slash State's budget, which has Tillerson looking for ways to reshape the department and spend less money, not more.
>Sources cited another sensitive factor at play: Russia. At one point during the discussions, Tillerson aide R.C. Hammond suggested the money is unwelcome because any extra funding for programs to counter Russian media influence would anger Moscow, according to a former senior State Department official.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/02/tillerson-isis-russia-propaganda-241218
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>"This is an extraordinary example of the dysfunction that is ripping through the State Department," said Brett Bruen, a former U.S. diplomat in contact with State employees involved in the funding fight. "What we're seeing is a small group of people with very thin knowledge making all the decisions in a very centralized and isolated process. It causes unnecessary delays and confusion."
>Hammond said the funding issue is receiving prompt attention and that officials seeking the money had not presented a clear plan for how to spend it—an assertion denied by the former senior State Department official.
>The Global Engagement Center is an interagency unit based at the State Department that was created in spring 2016. It replaced the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, and its staff of about 80 is responsible for coordinating governmentwide efforts to counter the online messages of terrorist groups such as the Islamic State.
>A Pentagon spending bill signed into law by former President Barack Obama in December broadened the center's mandate to include battling state-sponsored disinformation campaigns by countries such as China, North Korea and Russia. U.S. intelligence officials say Moscow used fake news reports and malicious Twitter accounts to influence the 2016 election, and lawmakers in both parties have called for a more robust U.S. response.
>Aside from its governmental coordinating work, the center also partners with the private sector to test novel ways to defeat false information spread by U.S. adversaries. One project has employed guerrilla marketing tactics to place anti-terrorism videos in the Facebook feeds of young people showing an interest in jihadi media. To help pay for such efforts, the legislation in December authorized the Defense Department to send the State Department $60 million in fiscal year 2017 and $60 million in fiscal year 2018, but the secretary of state needs to request the money from the Pentagon.
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>"Over the last five to 10 years, there's been a tsunami of disinformation and anti-American propaganda around the world," said Rick Stengel, who, as a former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, oversaw the center. "The Global Engagement Center is one of the few, if only, areas in the U.S. government that could be tasked with countering and rebutting disinformation against America."
>State Department officials began urging Tillerson to seek the first $60 million from the Defense Department soon after he took office in February, according to the former senior State Department official.
>But they quickly found themselves mired in a new, confusing and bottlenecked decision-making process imposed by Tillerson's top aides. For example, officials involved with the center first put in their request in an "action memo," the standard document sent to the secretary of state when a decision is required. Tillerson's aides retorted that he "didn't like being told what to do," the former senior State official said, and ordered that the request be refashioned as an "information memo."
>Further stalling the request were staffing shifts among Tillerson's top aides. Eventually, the officials' request reached Hammond, a former public relations professional who served as a spokesman for Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign. At the State Department, Hammond serves as a spokesman for Tillerson—but is also a member of the department’s policy planning staff, making decisions on substantive issues.
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>Hammond threw up objections to the request on multiple fronts, the former senior State official said. Hammond indicated to officials involved with the Global Engagement Center that with the department facing potential budget and staffing cuts, it didn't make sense to take an infusion of new funds, the former senior State official said. Hammond also questioned why the U.S. doesn’t ask other governments, particularly in Muslim countries, to play a larger role in the information battle.
>Hammond further expressed hesitation about needling the Russians at a time when Tillerson was trying to find common ground with the Kremlin on sensitive matters such as the war in Syria. The Kremlin-backed news outlet Sputnik has compared the Global Engagement Center to George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.
>"Hammond said the secretary is in the process of working through disagreements with Russia, and this is not consistent with what we're trying to do," the former senior State official said.
>Most of the people interviewed for this story requested anonymity, either to protect their own jobs or to safeguard others they are in touch with at the State Department and the White House. And few issues are as sensitive as Trump’s relationship with Russia. The president has questioned the intelligence community's belief that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help him, while Tillerson, a former ExxonMobil CEO who has long known Russian President Vladimir Putin, has sought to improve relations with Moscow.
>Despite speculation that Tillerson may wish to overhaul or eliminate the Global Engagement Center, Hammond told POLITICO that there are “no plans” to do so.
>"Regarding Russia," he added, "we have not sought to reduce efforts to spotlight and combat Moscow’s 'active measures' or information activities."
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Trump chief agriculture scientist has no scientific credentials, called progressives "race traitors" 2017-08-08 07:49:39 Post No.165717
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Trump chief agriculture scientist has no scientific credentials, called progressives "race traitors"
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Donald Trump's pick for chief scientist at the Department of Agriculture previously ran a blog where he described progressives as "race traitors" and called former president Barack Obama a "dictator."
Sam Clovis, a former economics professor and radio talk show host, wrote the blog for his Impact with Clovis show.
He has been criticised for his lack of a scientific credentials and his "scepticism" of climate change.
Although the website has been taken down, archived pages are still available.
In one post from September 2011, Mr Clovis said Mr Obama was "brought up by socialists to be a socialist" and "has designs on being a dictator."
He wrote: "His associations were socialists or worse, criminal dissidents who were bent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
"He has no experience at anything other than race baiting and race trading as a community organizer."
A month earlier, he denounced progressives as "liars, race traders and race traitors."
He also accused "progressives, socialists and fellow travellers" of keeping minorities "enslaved to government."
He also said the civil rights leader WEB Du Bois was "the first race trader" for endorsing Woodrow Wilson.
According to CNN, a spokesperson for the Department of Agrilcutre defended Clovis, describing him as "a proud conservative and a proud American."
“All of his reporting either on the air or in writing over the course of his career has been based on solid research and data. He is after all an academic.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-sam-clovis-chief-scientist-department-agriculture-race-traitors-progressives-a7874961.html
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https://web.archive.org/web/20111007230747/http://www.impactwithclovis.com/index.php?start=25
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> called progressives "race traitors"
That's all I need to know. I love this guy.
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How can I be a traitor to something I never had allegiance to in the first place? If you want a homeland for our people, go back to where your ancestry comes from and make it there.
I'm here because I don't want any part of that. I just wanna vet people as individuals on the basis of their talent, ideas, civility, and sociability.
These guys talk about being socially responsible and then complain their taxes might be going to help other people who are part of our country. They talk about the importance of individual rights and then rail against our most fundamental rights of association while fearmongering that folks who simply disagree with them are anti-national. These things apparently sound romantic to some folks but are totally contradictory, have no substance.
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>I just wanna vet people as individuals on the basis of their talent, ideas, civility, and sociability.
Problem is if you do that honestly you will find that 99.99% of Niggers are worthless.
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DOJ Releases Lynch-Clinton Meeting Emails After Comey Said No Records Existed 2017-08-07 07:11:41 Post No.165404
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DOJ Releases Lynch-Clinton Meeting Emails After Comey Said No Records Existed
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DOJ Releases 400-Plus Pages of Lynch-Clinton Meeting Emails – After Comey’s FBI Said No Records Existed
>The Department of Justice on Friday released 413 pages of emails related to a controversial private meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the FBI’s investigation into then-presidential-candidate Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi emails. The FBI said earlier such records did not exist.
>This discharge of information is the result of a lawsuit filed against the DOJ by the American Council for Law and Justice (ACLJ) in November 2016.
>The newly-released emails mostly include DOJ officials’ conversations with reporters, who were seeking comment on the meeting between Lynch and the former president on an airport tarmac in Phoenix, Ariz. in June 2016.
>The encounter raised concerns about the impartiality of the DOJ’s investigation into the Hillary Clinton episode, and became a significant issue in the presidential campaign.
>The ACLJ notes that under the leadership of then-Director James Comey the FBI had originally denied the existence of such records.
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what more cooking recipes? Why are republicans obsessed with little old ladies cooking?
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So where are the felony charges? How are the democrats going to be able to spin this around to fit their narrative?
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The democrats killed their email leaker and blamed it on Trump and Russia. They can get away with anything.
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Mayor demands a tougher stance from internet on videos encouraging knife crime 2017-08-08 02:11:16 Post No.165780
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Mayor demands a tougher stance from internet on videos encouraging knife crime
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YouTube must crack down on videos pushing violence & knife crime. Social media platforms must take tough action to crack down on videos that encourage gang violence and knife crime.
https://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall-blog/youtube-must-crack-down-videos-pushing-violence-knife-crime?utm_source=LondonGovUK&utm_medium=MoLTwitter&utm_campaign=Policing
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan says:
Internet giants have policies in place around violent content, but they do not go far enough. Google, YouTube and other platforms have a responsibility to the millions of young people using their sites every day, and it is vital that they toughen up their guidelines, remove breaches immediately and work with partners to help ensure such horrific videos do not reappear. Lives could depend on it.
The Mayor has made tackling knife crime and serious youth violence a top priority: investing £7million in knife and gang projects, targeting lawbreakers and supporting communities and victims.
He believes social media organisations can also help put a stop to these crimes by putting stricter rules in place and acting quickly to taking down content that fuels violence.
The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime is already working with YouTube and Google to tackle online hate crime and want to join forces again on this important issue.
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And I want Shit Khan to take a tougher stance on the terorism his buddies are commiting but I guess that is just part and parcel, right?
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BIN
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FBI Leaked Classified Flight Plan of AG Loretta Lynch to Set Up Bill Clinton’s Tarmac Ambush 2017-08-08 01:57:08 Post No.165644
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FBI Leaked Classified Flight Plan of AG Loretta Lynch to Set Up Bill Clinton’s Tarmac Ambush
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FBI agents are pointing their collective finger at Bureau brass for leaking sensitive intelligence to Bill Clinton to set up and stalk former Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport tarmac in June 2016.
Lynch was taken aback and reportedly physically shaken by Clinton’s seemingly impromptu June 27, 2016 visit just one week before a scheduled FBI interrogation of his wife Hillary Clinton. While the meeting between President Clinton and Lynch is now widely known, questions about how Clinton knew exactly where and when the Attorney General would be have been grossly overlooked by the media.
Until now.
The question is who in the FBI breached and leaked the classified information to the Clintons? Was it fired former director James Comey? Deputy Director Andew McCabe? Or FBI General Counsel James Baker who is believed to be under investigation for leaks. McCabe’s wife received almost $700,000 to run for office in Virginia from Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a well known Clinton family consigliere who is also under FBI investigation. McCabe is currently the target of departmental inquiries for misconduct linked to Hillary Clinton as well.
The troubling revelations the FBI leaked the classified flight plan of Lynch serves as a double blow for the embattled Bureau, especially since an elite unit of the FBI is tasked with the security detail of the Attorney General. Therefore, senior FBI officials are privy to the Attorney General’s travel itinerary at all times. The Attorney General flies on a chartered, unmarked jet. Very few in the Bureau have access to the Attorney General’s classified flight plans, sources confirmed. While the Secret Service was on board Clinton’s chartered jet in June protecting the former president, Lynch’s security detail was elite FBI agents trained in executive protection.
https://truepundit.com/exclusive-fbi-leaked-classified-flight-plan-of-ag-loretta-lynch-to-set-up-bill-clintons-tarmac-ambush/
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The same unit also protects and travels with the FBI director. FBI sources said Clinton’s Secret Service detail knew the exact tail number of Lynch’s private jet, another tell-tale sign of a high-placed breach in the FBI.
The official Clinton-generated narrative to date has been that Bill’s charted jet just happened to be on the same tarmac in Phoenix AZ when Lynch’s jet was landing. But federal law enforcement sources now say that Clinton was in Phoenix to stalk Lynch. Clinton claimed he was in Phoenix on a scheduled stop to meet with Latino leaders to stump for his wife who was a Democratic presidential candidate and FBI target at the time. But federal law enforcement sources said they believed Bill Clinton’s jet was chartered from Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey the morning of the infamous tarmac sit down. That information clearly contradicts all the varying narratives offered by the Clintons to date.
Lynch’s original travel plans had also been scrubbed, federal law enforcement sources said. She was first scheduled to arrive in Phoenix the morning of July 28 to give a speech but those plans were changed to arrive in the evening of July 27th instead. So, how did Clinton know about the schedule change or did the FBI brass also change the schedule to accommodate the Clinton campaign and literally send Lynch into an ambush?
The encounter happened a week before Hillary Clinton was interviewed by FBI agents for her roles in losing classified emails, sending classified emails over non-government computer networks among other security breaches.
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Shit source m8
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It is an exclusive
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Toxic waste from U.S. pot farms alarms experts 2017-08-07 05:06:50 Post No.165384
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Toxic waste from U.S. pot farms alarms experts
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Pollution from illegal marijuana farms deep in California's national forests is far worse than previously thought, and has turned thousands of acres into waste dumps so toxic that simply touching plants has landed law enforcement officers in the hospital.
The volume of banned or restricted pesticides and illegally applied fertilizers in the woods dwarfs estimates by the U.S. Forest Service in 2014, when a top enforcement official testified that the pollution was threatening forest land in California and other states.
California accounts for more than 90 percent of illegal U.S. marijuana farming, with much of it exported to other states from thousands of sites hidden deep inside forested federal land, and more on private property, law enforcement officials said. The state is still developing a licensing system for growers even though legal retail sales of the drug will begin next year, and medical use has been allowed for decades.
Ecologist Mourad Gabriel, who documents the issue for the Forest Service as well as other state, local and federal law enforcement agencies, estimates California's forests hold 41 times more solid fertilizers and 80 times more liquid pesticides than Forest Service investigators found in 2013.
Growers use fertilizers and pesticides long restricted or banned in the United States, including carbofuran and zinc phosphide. In previous years, it was commonly sold fertilizers and pesticides that were used illegally, law enforcement officials said.
Exposure to the pesticides has sent at least five law enforcement officials and two suspects to hospitals with skin rashes, respiratory problems and other symptoms, court documents and state data show.
Use of any chemicals in national forests is against federal law, as pesticides have killed sensitive species and fertilizers can cause algae blooms and bacteria problems in rivers and streams.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/toxic-waste-u-pot-farms-alarms-experts-100944016.html
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According to unpublished data seen by Reuters, Gabriel, who has visited more than 100 sites in California and is widely considered the top expert on toxics at marijuana farms, calculated that federal land in California contains 731,000 pounds of solid fertilizer, 491,000 ounces of concentrated liquid fertilizer and 200,000 ounces of toxic pesticides.
If much of the pesticide and fertilizer were released into a single stream rather than scattered around the state in leaky containers, the volume would exceed the amount of chemicals spilled in 2014 into the Elk River in West Virginia, which left 300,000 residents without access to potable water.
"We're getting contamination over and over again at those locations," said Gabriel, as toxins move from unsafe containers into the soil and water.
At sites that state officials said they had cleaned up completely, his team found 30-50 percent of the chemicals were still there.
"They are like superfund sites," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Escobar, whose Fresno office has filed numerous marijuana-related environmental damage cases. Superfund sites are those targeted by the U.S. government for hazardous waste cleanup because of the risk to human health or the environment.
Federal prosecutors have also charged pot growers with environmental crimes in Alaska, Oregon and Washington.
The most toxic sites cost as much as $100,000 to clean up, leaving taxpayers with a bill that could reach $100 million or more in California alone.
"These places aren't safe to go into," said state Assemblyman Jim Wood, who has pushed for cleanup funding.
Use of toxics has grown over the past three to four years, and chemicals have been found at sites in Oregon and Washington as well, said Chris Boehm, the Forest Service's assistant director for enforcement and investigation. "In the last couple years we've lost a lot of the ground we had picked up in eradicating and cleaning up the new sites we find."
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The expense and danger of cleanup has created a backlog of 639 illegal marijuana farms awaiting restoration in California, according to U.S. Forest Service data compiled for Reuters. Each farm covers up to 50 acres.
Gabriel said that figure understated the problem, and pointed out that toxics are used at thousands of illegal farms on private and tribal land. After a year or two, growers often abandon sites, leaving containers of chemicals so toxic a quarter-teaspoon could kill a bear.
As California moves to license growers, officials plan to regulate the use of chemicals. But rules can only be enforced against those who cultivate pot legally.
"There are a lot of incentives for continuing to grow illegally," said Washington Fish and Wildlife Deputy Chief Mike Cenci, citing growers' distaste for taxes and red tape.
"We've got 4,000 illegal grows in our county," said Keith Groves, a supervisor of Trinity County in Northern California. "I'll be happy if we can get 500 of them to become licensed."
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Yes hispanic gangs be growing weed in national forests. Really harshes your buzz huh?
Build the wall.
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and then they will come to Canada and USA to work there as toilet cleaners 2017-08-05 07:58:42 Post No.164556
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Instead of swimming and playing volleyball, hundreds of children in war-torn Ukraine have spent this summer assembling Kalashnikov rifles and mastering the art of war.
As the deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine entered its third year, some parents here are anxious to make sure their children are ready to fight pro-Russia rebels.
Nearly 10,000 people have been killed in fighting between Russia-backed separatists and government troops in Ukraine’s east since 2014, and despite a cease-fire being formally in place, civilians and troops still die and get injured almost on a daily basis.
The Azov volunteer battalion’s members have been fighting on the eastern front, becoming notorious for their far-right views. It has set up a two-week paramilitary program for children, and as of early August, more than 850 children have received training at seven Azov camps across the country.
Formally part of the Ukrainian National Guard, Azov is a de-facto private army which was originally financed by oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky (also jew). Its current sources of funding are unknown, and the battalion says it relies on private donations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ap-photos-children-in-war-torn-ukraine-learn-the-art-of-war/2017/08/04/c3867a42-790a-11e7-8c17-533c52b2f014_story.html?utm_term=.c99103bda023
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lol.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-azov-regiment-military/27355932.html
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Sanders to unveil rule requiring drug companies to set fair prices 2017-08-08 04:09:05 Post No.165675
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will unveil a new rule forcing pharmaceutical companies to set reasonable prices for drugs developed using research funded by federal research dollars, Huffington Post reported Monday.
The rule — an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act — is Sanders’s newest attempt to block pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur from receiving a license to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus with the U.S. Army.
>Sanofi Pasteur is pursuing a patent that would block other drugmakers from being able to produce and sell the vaccine at a lower price.
>The French company has received $43 million from the Department of Health and Human Services and is expecting $130 million more for future testing of the drug if current trials are successful.
>Sanders told HuffPost that federal agencies and nonprofits that receive federal funds would have to get manufacturers to sign a reasonable pricing agreement before handing over the exclusive rights to drugs or vaccines.
>“The days of allowing Sanofi and other drug makers to gouge American consumers after taking billions in taxpayer money must end,” Sanders said. “That is why I am introducing legislation to demand fairer, lower prices for the Zika vaccine and for every drug developed with government resources. This is a fight that we cannot afford to lose.”
>Sanders has attacked the French drugmaker before for its exclusive deal with the Army on the vaccine, calling for President Trump to shut down the deal in a May op-ed for The New York Times.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/344623-sanders-moves-to-force-pharmaceutical-companies-to-set-fair-drug-prices
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lawsuit against Fox News for defamation following malicious conspiracy supported by White House 2017-08-08 03:05:38 Post No.165657
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A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that White House officials including President Donald Trump knew about a since-retracted Fox News story about a Democratic National Committee staffer's death before it was published.
>The suit against Fox, filed by Rod Wheeler, a contributor for the news network, alleges that wealthy Trump backer Ed Butowsky and Fox aimed to use the story about Seth Rich to deflect attention from the probe into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
>Wheeler accuses Fox reporter Malia Zimmerman, "with the knowledge and support of Butowsky," of making up two quotes from him suggesting he knew of evidence that Rich may have coordinated with Wikileaks on sharing Democratic Party emails last year.
>The lawsuit, obtained by CNBC, cites a purported text from Butowsky to Wheeler shortly before the story's publishing and airing that suggests Trump saw the article and supported Fox writing it. The text reads: "Not to add any more pressure but the president just read the article. He wants the article out immediately. It's now all up to you. But don't feel the pressure."
>Fox published the Rich story on May 16 and retracted it a week later, saying it was "not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all of our reporting." Prominent Fox host Sean Hannity had pushed the debunked theory about the 27-year-old Rich's 2016 murder even over the protests of his family. Rich was shot and killed in Washington in what is believed to have been a botched robbery that remains unsolved.
>White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said Trump "had no knowledge" of the story. She called the implication that White House officials were involved "completely untrue."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/trump-knew-about-foxs-seth-rich-story-before-it-ran-lawsuit.html
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>"The accusation that FoxNews.com published Malia Zimmerman's story to help detract from coverage of the Russia collusion issue is completely erroneous. The retraction of this story is still being investigated internally and we have no evidence that Rod Wheeler was misquoted by Zimmerman. Additionally, FOX News vehemently denies the race discrimination claims in the lawsuit — the dispute between Zimmerman and Rod Wheeler has nothing to do with race," Fox's president of news, Jay Wallace, said in a statement.
>Wheeler, who is black and has been a Fox contributor since 2005, is also suing Fox for racial discrimination. He said similar law enforcement experts who are white received higher pay and more opportunities.
>Butowsky did not immediately comment to CNBC for this article.
>The theory about Rich's role as the source of the leaked DNC emails became a popular right-wing conspiracy even before Fox published the story. Those emails shook up the 2016 presidential race when released by Wikileaks last year. U.S. intelligence officials have said hackers linked to the Russian government breached the DNC, according to multiple reports. Wikileaks' Julian Assange has denied getting the emails from the Russian government. Russia has denied trying to influence the election.
>The lawsuit accuses Butowsky and Fox's Zimmerman of aiming to "debunk reports that Russians were responsible for the DNC hacks."
>"In turn, Butowsky and Zimmerman hoped that, if they could shift the blame for the DNC hacks from the Russians to Seth Rich, this would undermine reports of collusion between Russia and the Trump Administration," the lawsuit reads.
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>The suit alleges that Butowsky "kept in regular contact" with then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer and chief strategist Steve Bannon about the Rich story before its publication. Wheeler and Butowsky met with Spicer about a month before the story published and the press secretary "asked to be kept abreast of developments," the lawsuit alleges.
>Spicer, who recently left the White House, acknowledged to NPR he met with Wheeler and Butowsky. He told the outlet "it had nothing to do with advancing the president's domestic agenda" and "they were just informing" him of the Fox story.
>Spicer told NPR he did not know of any contact between Butowsky and Trump. Butowsky told the outlet that he did not share a draft with Trump and he was "joking" about the president's involvement.
— The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Correction: This story was updated to reflect that Wheeler is still a Fox News contributor.
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the man was badly beaten and shot in the back twice, his $2000 watch, items, wallet untouched, nothing taken, police body cam footage who responded to the scene footage went missing,
An Strong Bernie sanders supporter was angry about how Bernie shafted by the DNC,
then man who was in contact with Wikileaks(investigators found) believed to be the source of the DNC leaks, after he was killed Wikileaks strongly hinted that he was the source and offered an reward for info
His mother in an interview stated he was about to join the Hillary Campaign if he was the leak he was about to be in a position to do max damage
a lot of unanswered questions, conspiracy or not, there is far more evidence it was a DNC hit then there is any of Russian collusion and trump.
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City of Chicago brings lawsuit against DoJ
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"The Department of Justice said it would withhold federal grants to state and city law enforcement agencies unless they allow federal immigration authorities access to local jails, as well as give them 48 hours’ notice before releasing anyone wanted for immigration violations.
In the lawsuit, Chicago argues that the federal policy is forcing the city to choose between its constitutional rights and funding for law enforcement."
"The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says federal authorities are having a hard time going after criminals among illegal immigrants because they are barred from accessing local prisons, with the exception of jurisdictions with which the authorities struck agreements to that effect."
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>choose between its constitutional rights
>Breaking state and federal law
>Constitutional law
u wut m8
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Horror of being ukrainian in Russian Federation 2017-08-07 08:07:47 Post No.165576
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the ukrainian refugee reports about horror and humilation he experienced in Russia after he fled the war in Ukraine.
https://youtu.be/lnwYZgW7e6c
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>fleeing to Russia
he deserved it.
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Ben Caron's HUD poised to end Obama's illegal Section 8 housing grant scheme 2017-08-07 04:57:01 Post No.165501
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development is poised to reverse the Obama administration's policy and return to a competitive bidding process to award Section 8 housing, according to a well-placed source in the department.
The move would overturn the Obama-era methodology of using a grant-style process that was rebuked by administrators and ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court.
The HUD official said many of the steps necessary to change back to the competitive procurement method are being taken now, but didn't want to comment on when the announcement from the department might happen for fear of tainting the bidding process.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hud-poised-to-end-obamas-illegal-section-8-housing-grant-scheme/article/2630660
Diaz-Balart is one of a small handful of elected officials who put pressure on HUD and then-Secretary Julián Castro during the years in which HUD ignored findings that their grant process was illegal.
Section 8 housing is a federal program that pays rental assistance to landlords to help low-income people acquire affordable housing.
Because HUD had problems administering the program, in 1995 it started to contract out the management of Section 8 housing units through a competitive bidding process. However, in March of 2012, HUD suddenly shifted away from the competitive bidding process, and began using funding mechanisms which were more like grants.
Contractors who had previously gained HUD's business under the bidding process appealed to the Government Accountability Office in 2012, just months after HUD changed course. And by August of that year, the GAO ruled that HUD's actions were "unreasonable and in disregard of applicable statutory guidance."
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>tfw based Carson starts deporting all Niggers
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>Be Democrat
>"The party of the minority and working class"
>Squander and siphon all HUD money into a slush fund
Guess the Dems really are the party of the KKK