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" Germans consider US as reliable a partner as Russia – poll Published time: 4 Feb, 2017 02:58 Less than a quarter of Germans consider the US, under Donald Trump’s leadership, to be a reliable partner their country can trust according to a recent survey. Roughly the same number of respondents believe Germany can cooperate with Russia. The Infratest dimap study reveals that German public trust in the US has dived to a record low, with only 22 percent of Germans supporting Trump’s policies, just two weeks after the Republican assumed office, Der Welt reports. The new figures represent a 37 percent drop of trust compared to a similar poll conducted just before the US presidential election. In November 2016, 59 percent of Germans trusted the US compared to 22 percent now. Read more © Yves Herman NATO must share burden fairly, adapt to confront extremism & terrorism, US and Germany agree The new survey also placed German confidence in Russia on almost the same level with the US. Only 21 percent of responders said they believe Russia to be a reliable partner. While also low, that number is nothing compared to the distrust towards Turkey, which has the miserly support of only four percent of Germans." https://www.rt.com/news/376274-germany-us-reliable-partner-poll/ "German trust in the US as a global partner has plummeted since Mr Trump came to power. It found that in November 2016, 59 per cent of respondents said the US was a trustworthy partner for Germany, compared to 25 per cent who would say the same about Russia. Polling dated February 2017 found that trust in the US had dropped to 22 per cent. Trust in Russia also dropped, but only slightly, to 21 per cent." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/donald-trump-der-spiegel-american-psycho-front-cover-president-germany-magazine-a7562171.html Majority of Americans trust media more than Trump, poll finds A majority of Americans say they trust the media more than President Donald Trump, a new poll finds. The Quinnipiac University poll asked participants if the media or Trump “tell you the truth about important issues.” According to the survey, 52% of voters trust the media, and 37% said they trusted Trump more. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/majority-of-americans-trust-media-more-than-trump-poll-finds-christie-turned-down-labor-secretary-offer-2017-02-23
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Obama: "Banks paid $321 billion in fines since financial crisis: BCG Banks across the world have paid about $321 billion in fines since the 2007-2008 financial crisis as regulators stepped up scrutiny, according to a note by the Boston Consulting Group." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-fines-idUSKBN1692Y2 trump Trump’s Dismantling of Dodd-Frank Would Be 2008 All Over Again Steven Mnuchin, began to speak out against financial reform from the moment his nomination was announced, suggesting that he would “kill” aspects of Dodd-Frank, roll back the law’s Volcker Rule against proprietary trading, and focus solely on regulating FDIC-insured banks. Ending Dodd-Frank would be deeply misguided and likely to recreate the very conditions that led to the 2008 financial crisis, shuttered American businesses, and cost millions of Americans their jobs. The financial sector will get a nice sugar high for a few years, and then crash the economy. But despite these looming consequences, lobbyists have sought to weaken the law for the last six years. Many Republicans in Congress have been attacking Dodd-Frank since its enactment, and have put forward a series of bills to roll it back. Just this month, the House passed legislation to remove most banks over $50 billion in size from the requirement for safety stress testing. Another House bill would block regulators from requiring global capital cushions for big insurers like AIG." http://fortune.com/2016/12/08/trump-dodd-frank-2008-financial-crisis-steve-mnuchin/
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U.S. Falls in Ranking of the Best Countries in the World The United States has fallen to seventh place in a ranking of the best countries in the world. The report, conducted by U.S. News in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and global brand consultants BAV Consulting, shows that Switzerland is viewed as the world's No. 1 country, and that the U.S. is down from its previous No. 4 ranking, according to a survey of more than 21,000 people from 36 countries in all regions of the world. "People regard the European country highly for its citizenship, being open for business, an environment that encourages entrepreneurship, the quality of life it provides its citizens and for its cultural influence," the report says. Canada took the No. 2 spot, followed by the U.K., Germany, Japan, Sweden and then the U.S. In 2016, Germany was in first place, followed by Canada, the U.K., the U.S., Sweden, Australia and Japan. Switzerland was one of 20 new countries evaluated this year, and therefore wasn't included in 2016's list. The report says that nearly 75% of respondents said they had lost respect for the U.S. in some degree because of the toxic tone of the 2016 presidential campaign. However, it adds: "Despite [slipping in the ranking], the U.S. continues to be seen as the world's most powerful country: an economically and politically consequential nation with strong international alliances and strong military alliances." http://time.com/4693280/us-best-countries-world-ranking/ Don't worry by the end of the trump administration. bannon will have the US in 12-14th place. Which of course is irrelevant because international competition is...is... GLOBALISM...is "the evil of progressive liberalism". The US will have nothing to do with those ideas.
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Do you think that accomplishment alone is enough for the next 4 years? In Ron's defense some 48% of other voters agreed with him. There was a news show the other day where they were interviewing trump supporters in Ohio. There was a woman about 50 years old that was being interviewed. Her basic statement was that they needed jobs now. That before they all worked in manufacturing jobs and the president had promised to bring those jobs back. All their hopes were pinned on trump to bring their manufacturing jobs back to where the clock was 20-30 years ago. It was very sad. Then a story or so later there was another feature on how the trump administration was going to go after Germany. Evidently the over-regulated Germans, the ones who of their own free will took in one million refugees. OK, it was really Merkel and her Christian Democratic party. Did I say Christian... Calling Ron... but I digress. Yeah those Germans. Well evidently they have been unfair traders with the US by having a 65 Billion dollar trading surplus. They have used cheap euro's, the same ones that are being used to prop up Greece with billions. Prop up EU banks with other billions. The same Germans that require a license to lift your leg and pass gas in public. Well in trump's view(bannon's really) something needs to be done because US workers are just too lazy and stupid to take on these same Islam loving, "the evil of progressive liberalism" loving, Christian Germans. Schweinhund! US workers needed trade barriers against Germany who has a minimum wage about $1.50 an hour higher than the US. Gas $3.50 a gallon higher, electrical prices .35 cents per kwh higher, etc. Because of their higher "green" footprint. I'm sure bannon and trump will figure it out.
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Kim Jong Nam assassinated with VX nerve agent
Phil1111 replied to nolhtairt's topic in Speakers Corner
North Korea says temporarily bans Malaysians from leaving the country North Korea said on Tuesday it has temporarily banned Malaysians from leaving the country to ensure the safety of its diplomats and citizens in Malaysia amid an escalating row over the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother. The North's foreign ministry has notified the Malaysian embassy in Pyongyang of the reason for the measure and said it had hoped the case would be swiftly and fairly resolved in order to develop bilateral ties with Malaysia, the North's KCNA news agency reported. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-malaysia-ban-idUSKBN16E0BD -
OK now I understand better! "41% of all white evangelicals say Trump is “a good role model” 55% of white evangelicals who support Trump say the same.. 67% of all white evangelicals say Trump is honest 81% of white evangelicals who support Trump say the same Q: Can elected officials behave ethically and fulfill their public duties even if they have committed immoral acts in their personal life? 30% of self-identified white evangelicals said yes in 2011 72% said yes in 2016 51% of all white evangelicals say Trump is moral Q: Is it very important for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs? 49% of self-identified white evangelicals said yes in 2016 64% said yes in 2011 Among Americans with evangelical beliefs: 26% said improving the economy was the most important issue to vote on 22% said national security 15% said personal character 10% said Supreme Court nominees 7% said religious freedom 5% said immigration 4% said abortion 65% of white Americans with evangelical beliefs plan to vote for Trump Most likely to support Trump: 61% of Pentecostal pastors 50% of Church of Christ pastors 46% of Baptist pastors white born-again or evangelical Christians and white Catholics, strongly supported Donald Trump as well. fully eight-in-ten self-identified white, born-again/evangelical Christians say they voted for Trump, Trump’s 65-percentage-point margin of victory among voters in this group – which includes self-described Protestants, as well as Catholics, Mormons and others – matched or exceeded the victory margins of George W. Bush in 2004, John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012." I'm just a dummy. trump has values, ideals, attitudes, policies, fights the evil of progressive liberalism and getting back a "white" republic government matters! http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/ http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/november/top-10-stats-explaining-evangelical-vote-trump-clinton-2016.html
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Now you lost me. So if a person "wins" any linkage to his or your "Christian values" is no longer relevant. Well I guess that's where the rubber meets the road on values and how a person lives their life. Very disappointing. Do other Christians think this way?
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It takes adults to do that. Not a peep from Obama. Not much from Bush Jr. except for some recent praise for Michelle Obama and some offer to work on charity fundraising together. Nothing from Bush senior. Not much from the Republican leadership either. Meanwhile back at the WH "Before heading off to his so-called "winter White House" in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, President Donald Trump summoned some of his senior staff to the Oval Office and went "ballistic," senior White House sources told ABC News. " http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-flashes-anger-sessions-recusal-russia-stories-tense/story?id=45908106
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OKOK OK i have to jump in here and defend Ron. In his defense the entirety of the Christian right is in the same boat. Worships at the same church. Gives the same pass. Is it the holy water that got mixed with the holy-wine! The only one who doesn't is the Pope. But I guess he's not part of the US Christian alt-right.
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The FBI is assisting the investigation into the shooting of a Sikh man in suburban Seattle by a man who allegedly told him to "go back to your own country." Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas said Sunday no arrests have yet been made after 39-year-old Deep Rai was shot in the arm Friday night in Kent, but he did not believe anyone was in imminent danger. "This is a top priority investigation, and we are doing everything possible to identify and arrest the suspect," Thomas said in an email, adding that the city of about 120,000 should "be vigilant." –– ADVERTISEMENT –– Rai told police a man he didn't know came up to him Friday night while Rai was working on his car and they got into an argument, with the suspect telling Rai to go back to his homeland. He described the shooter as 6 feet tall and white with a stocky build, police said. He said the man was wearing a mask covering the lower half of his face." http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/05/fbi-investigating-shooting-washington-state-sikh-man-as-possible-hate-crime.html " Some said they have noticed an uptick in name-calling and other racist incidents in recent months. Still others expressed hurt and disbelief at the lack of understanding and ignorance. "Sikhism teaches about equality and peace," said Sandeep Singh, 24. "It's sad to see that's what it has come to," he said of the violence. "This is our country. This is everyone's country." Gurjot Singh, 39, who served in the Marine Corps and is an Iraq war veteran, said he was dismayed that people think others who look different aren't equal or don't contribute equally to the community. "This is equally my country as it is your country," he said. "It doesn't anger me. It hurts me." http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-search-man-shot-sikh-seattle-suburb-45912961 "Donald Trump blamed for massive spike in Islamophobic hate crime Hate groups nearly tripled from 34 to 101 in 2016, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, who say the president's 'incendiary rhetoric' is to blame" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-blame-islamophobic-anti-muslim-ban-hate-crime-numbers-southern-poverty-law-center-a7582846.html
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Agree "Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Sunday denied any suggestion that Trump Tower communications were wiretapped before the election. For the part of the national security apparatus that he oversaw, "there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," Clapper told Chuck Todd in an exclusive interview on Sunday's "Meet The Press." ... Additionally, when asked if Clapper has any evidence that the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russian government while the Kremlin was working to influence the election, Clapper said, "not to my knowledge," based on the information he had before his time in the position ended. "We did not include anything in our report… that had any reflect of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence of that included in our report," he said. "We had no evidence of such collusion." http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-dni-james-clapper-i-can-deny-wiretap-trump-tower-n729261 So IMO what remains is the fact that the FBI was withholding information from the Senate Intelligence committee that suggests an ongoing investigation.
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Or Russia now is seeing that being obvious in favouring the new US regime is hurting Trump. So they are toning it down. Royreader has been missing for a couple weeks now. You don't think... that Putin was displeased.... with his performance...that he ordered... not the plutonium tea!!! Nah, I still think Roy's an intelligent Russian media cloud bot.
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http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trumps-early-morning-tweets What to Make of Donald Trump’s Early-Morning Wiretap Tweets Between six and six-thirty this morning, the President of the United States, who had returned to his Mar-a-Lago estate, in Florida, unleashed a series of tweets accusing his predecessor of tapping his phones just before Election Day: “A NEW LOW!” “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” Two hours later, he tweeted again, this time about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to leave “The New Celebrity Apprentice”: “Sad end to great show.” Donald Trump’s early-morning Twitter binge unleashed, as he likely expected it would, a flurry of comments on the same medium, with his partisans echoing his rage at Barack Obama while many others questioned Trump’s motives, his integrity, and his mental stability. Others pointed to articles posted on Breitbart as a possible inspiration; it would not be the first time that Trump has been moved to action by something published on Breitbart, the former home of his close adviser Steve Bannon. One of the articles is based on Senator Orrin Hatch’s remark about the wiretaps that led to the downfall of Michael Flynn as the national-security adviser. Another is based on Mark Levin, a conservative radio host, who recently accused Obama of “police state” tactics to carry out a “silent coup” against Trump. One of President Trump’s most consistent rhetorical maneuvers is a fairly basic but often highly effective one—the diversionary reverse accusation. When he is accused of benefitting from “fake news,” he flips the neologism on its head; suddenly CNN, the Times, and the rest are “fake news.” When Democratic politicians such as Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi call for investigations of his campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, Trump posts pictures of those critics meeting publicly with Vladimir Putin and calls for an investigation. This happened on Saturday. He fogs the language and clouds the issue. The stories on Breitbart appear to be related to the efforts of American intelligence and law-enforcement officials to investigate potential links between Trump aides and Russian officials. It would seem that Trump, in the same spirit of diversion, has conflated the work of the courts, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies with “Obama.” As Benjamin Rhodes, the former deputy national-security adviser under Obama, put it in a tweet on Saturday, the President is not authorized to order a wiretap. Ironically, the Obama Administration, after being informed that the Russian government was likely behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee and that the effort was intended to undermine Hillary Clinton, did not act more forcefully for fear of appearing to favor its own political party. And there is other news as well. Trump, who for years has paid compliments to Putin’s strength and tactics, is expected to appoint as his main adviser on Russia Fiona Hill, a think-tank analyst who has described the Russian President as a gangster. Many members of the foreign-policy community in Washington are stunned. They wonder how Hill could take such a post when the Trump Administration is under scrutiny for its relations with Russian officials. A dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, Hill is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, and between 2006 and 2009 served as a Russia analyst on the National Intelligence Council, a kind of intelligence think-tank independent of the C.I.A. Hill is the co-author, with Clifford G. Gaddy, of a political and psychological portrait of the Russian President titled “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin.” The book describes Putin’s system as a “protection racket” in which he views himself as the “CEO of Russia, Inc.” and is served by “crony oligarchs.” “In reality,” Hill and Gaddy write, “his leadership style is more like that of a mafia family Don.” Hill and Gaddy describe in detail Putin’s background as an intelligence officer and the methods used in the Russian secret services to discredit opponents. “Core individuals collect and amass detailed compromising material (kompromat in Russian) that can be used as leverage on every key figure inside and outside of government,” they write. A few weeks ago, we spoke with Hill, on the record, for an article about Russia and the Trump Administration. She in no way gave the impression that she was an admirer of Trump or shared his views on Russia. While Trump himself has derided the intelligence agencies and their conclusion that Putin directed an operation aimed at undermining the 2016 election and Clinton’s candidacy, Hill expressed no such doubt. She added, “They couldn’t have anticipated, whoever is doing this”—Russian military intelligence, Russian foreign intelligence—“whoever, they couldn’t have imagined how lucky they would be and come across the motherlode of information.” “Are they trying to turn him into the Manchurian Candidate?” Hill went on. “The Russians didn’t invent him, but now they seem to create that impression. It was all intended to discredit Clinton and the electoral and party system. They wanted to amplify someone like Trump because what he says is music to their ears.” When asked why Trump seemed so admiring of Putin, particularly his “strength,” Hill said, “I don’t want to suggest that Trump is emulating Putin. Trump is his own creation. But Putin, coming from the K.G.B., a lot of his skill set comes out of the K.G.B. playbook. His public messaging is right out of Lenin, with slogans like ‘Land for the Peasants,’ and calling the Bolsheviks a majority when they were not. This is a skill set that Putin acquired. Trump knows how to play the media all on his own. He creates his own Twitter feed and uses it. He knows how to get the media’s attention without the benefit of a state-controlled media. He does it all on his own. Trump understands how a free media works.” Many Russian and American analysts now refer to the current state of U.S.-Russia relations as a kind of new Cold War; Hill gave the current state of affairs an even more alarming tag. “I think we are in a hot war with Russia, not a cold war,” she said. “But we have to be careful about the analogy. It’s a more complex world. There is no set-piece confrontation. This is no holds barred. The Cold War was a more disciplined competition, aside from the near blowups in Berlin and Cuba, where we walked back from the brink. The Kremlin now is willing to jump over the abyss. They want to play for the asymmetry. They see themselves in a period of hot kinetic war. Also, this is not just two-way superpower. There is China, the rising powers. I almost see it as like the great power competition from the time before the Second World War.” Hill also said that the Russians, partly because they “have” Edward Snowden, in Moscow, possess “a good idea of what the U.S. is capable of knowing. They got all of his information. You can be damn well sure that [Snowden’s] information is theirs.” In the think-tank and analytical world of Russian specialists in Washington, Hill has a solid reputation. Celeste Wallander, who was Obama’s leading adviser on Russia, said, “Fiona is a respected analyst in the Washington Russia community, and she has been very tough and really hardheaded about who and what Putin is and about U.S.-Russian policy.” And yet the general feeling in that same community is that Trump is not an ordinary Republican President—his comments about Putin are extraordinary, and so is the tumult in his Administration, particularly when it comes to its relations with Russia. Michael Flynn lost his job as the national-security adviser in less than a month because of his contacts with the Russian Ambassador, and others in the Trump circle—from Paul Manafort, Trump’s onetime campaign manager, to the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to Carter Page, a policy adviser during the race—are also being scrutinized. Some officials and analysts wonder if Hill is deluded in thinking, somehow, that she can play a positive and decisive role in a White House clouded by the prospect of congressional investigations and influenced so markedly by ideologues like Steve Bannon. In late July, Hill wrote a column for Vox on why Putin might have wanted to interfere in the election. Her analysis was completely in line with consensus thinking. She concluded that Putin believed that the Obama Administration, and particularly Clinton, as Obama’s Secretary of State, had somehow been responsible for the anti-Kremlin demonstrations in 2011 and 2012 and that he wanted either to prevent Clinton from becoming President or, more likely, to do his best to weaken her. “A US president who is elected amid controversy and recrimination, reviled by a large segment of the electorate, and mired in domestic crises,” Hill wrote, “will be hard-pressed to forge a coherent foreign policy and challenge Russia.”
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Given the frequency of his morning tweets today that is seriously funny. I could just see his face getting redder and redder underneath the orange paint. Imagine the courts trying to fight or put limits on the donald. The donald!!!!
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Only the FBI acting under a COURT ORDER can obtain a wire tap warrant. "U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping him in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, but offered no evidence to support the allegation. "How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!," Trump said in a series of Tweets on his Twitter account early on Saturday. Obama's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. The White House also did not respond to a request to elaborate on Trump's accusations. In one of the Tweets, Trump said the alleged wiretapping took place in his Trump Tower building in New York, but there was "nothing found." Trump's administration has come under pressure from Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional investigations into contacts between some members of his campaign team and Russian officials during his campaign. " http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-obama-idUSKBN16B0CC "From the three reports, from the Guardian, Heat Street, and the New York Times, it appears the FBI had concerns about a private server in Trump Tower that was connected to one or two Russian banks. Heat Street describes these concerns as centering on “possible financial and banking offenses.” I italicize the word “offenses” because it denotes crimes. Ordinarily, when crimes are suspected, there is a criminal investigation, not a national-security investigation. According to the New York Times (based on FBI sources), the FBI initially determined that the Trump Tower server did not have “any nefarious purpose.” But then, Heat Street says, “the FBI’s counter-intelligence arm, sources say, re-drew an earlier FISA court request around possible financial and banking offenses related to the server.” http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap "In a string of tweets posted early Saturday morning, President Trump let loose a barrage of accusations at his predecessor. He alleged that former President Obama had his "wires tapped" in Trump Tower before Election Day last year, accusing Obama of "McCarthyism" and being a "bad (or sick) guy." Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! 5:35 AM - 4 Mar 2017 Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW! 5:49 AM - 4 Mar 2017 I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election! 5:52 AM - 4 Mar 2017 How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! 6:02 AM - 4 Mar 2017 ""I would say at this point we know less than a fraction of what the FBI knows," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday after a briefing with Comey at the Capitol." "I appreciate we had a long briefing and testimony from the director today, but in order for us to do our investigation in a thorough and credible way, we're going to need the FBI to fully cooperate, to be willing to tell us the length and breadth of any counterintelligence investigations they are conducting," Schiff said. "At this point, the director was not willing to do that." Schiff said during the briefing, which lasted more than three hours, there were areas of the investigation Comey "walled off" from discussions with lawmakers." https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-02/house-committee-accuses-fbi-of-withholding-information-about-russia-probe There is only one reason why the FBI is withholding information from the Senate Committee. Its because they are protecting an ongoing investigation.
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http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar3 "After the 2010 midterm elections, Silver concluded that Rasmussen's polls were the least accurate of the major pollsters in 2010, having an average error of 5.8 points and a pro-Republican bias of 3.9 points according to Silver's model.[64] Silver was criticized for his 2010 pollster ratings. Conservative polling analyst Neil Stevens wrote, "after the primaries [Silver] said Rasmussen was in his crosshairs for ducking out on a number of races by not polling primaries.[76] FiveThirtyEight currently rates Rasmussen Reports with a C+ grade and notes a simple average error of 5.3 percent across 657 polls analyzed.[77] Its amazing that pro Putin and pro-trump can dredge up the remotest corners of the inter-webs to find some scrap of writing. So support an invalid conclusion. Its as if anti-science met failed Ku Klux Klan meets political science dropout. To found a alt-right website.
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Well I don't think she needs a love interest for sure right now. Just someone who she can chat with, but I don't know how to go about finding someone. I wish she would spend her money on jumping lol. This is a pic from her 21st bday. I said lets go skydiving she was down. Some good advice there. When she gets out she needs she needs either school, or a job, someone to keep her on the straight and narrow. Recidivism for drug users is a constant danger for probably a decade after her release.
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Trump's dangerous war on data While there are plenty of reasons to be disturbed about the Trump administration. Chief among them for financial policymakers is the hubris and blatant confirmation bias that is guiding White House economic policy. It would be bad enough if Trump were simply sticking to his alternative facts and trotting out flat-out lies about the economy, like when he said he “inherited a mess” from President Obama. The truth is that Obama actually inherited the mess that was the 2008 financial crisis, when Wall Street imploded just before his first election win. The S&P 500 went up 235 percent during Obama’s tenure as president. That’s 16 percent annualized versus a historical norm of around 10 percent. Moreover, the unemployment rate peaked at above 10 percent in Obama’s first year and steadily declined to under 5 percent when he left office. But Trump is not content to accept the facts and simply lie about the truth. He wants to change the very nature of economic data, all in a desperate effort to change the facts — both past and future — to justify his worldview. Trump recently instructed his advisers to forecast U.S. growth rates a full percentage point higher than consensus estimates — from the current rate of 2 percent to 3 percent. Predictions are inherently flawed and difficult, of course, and economists often disagree. But as one Harvard economist who specializes in economic forecast told Wall Street Journal, “It is awfully hard to get to 3 percent. I don’t know where a number like that would come from.” Trump’s alternate reality and self-serving agenda, that’s where. As another economic expert told the Journal, “The risk is that rosy economic scenarios allow us to borrow trillions of additional dollars” and not worry about the real consequences. Trump also wants to change how the trade deficit is calculated in an effort to pander to the tough-on-trade crowd that elected him. In a nutshell, the White House wants to remove “re-exports” from export data — but not import data. In other words, if Mexico trucks $100 million worth of widgets into California and then immediately puts them on a ship bound for China, we would record $100 million in imports — but $0 in exports. That would artificially inflate the trade deficit in a way that a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations called “duplicitous” and “deliberately dishonest.” Even his proposed changes to the unemployment rate calculation should be viewed with skepticism. On the surface it looks like a minor tweak, including people who aren’t actively looking for work in the mainstream definition of “unemployment,” but clearly fidelity in numbers is not a core value of this administration. After all, just before Election Day, Trump’s key economic advisor asserted that the real unemployment rate was 9.7 percent — almost double the rate at the time even using his new and preferred definition. Furthermore, early last year Trump claimed the unemployment rate could actually be 42 percent — a number that would elicit laughter from a freshman economics class. But as Trump has repeatedly shown, he has no respect for the discipline of economics. Trump is simply trying to alter the statistics for personal gain, to align with his campaign narrative. I have to wonder what the true end-game is here in his mission to recast the current labor market as a hot mess only he can fix. I am not naïve enough to think that fuzzy math isn’t par for the course in Washington when the truth is inconvenient. And particularly in the realm of finance, where Silicon Valley touts “hockey stick” growth on preferred user metrics while ignoring minor details like profitability and revenue, it’s an occupational hazard. But there is a tremendous difference between debating the methodology of a study on early childhood education and simply acting like the U.S. economy is fully 50 percent stronger than it actually is. And there is a tremendous difference between venture capitalists cherry-picking growth metrics in their Series B funding round and a president cherry picking export numbers to start unfounded trade wars. Contrary to Trump’s assertions, both Main Street and Wall Street we have come a long way since the dark days of 2008. But that success has been hard-fought, and remains quite fragile in a global economy where sustainable growth is increasingly difficult. Ill-advised economic policies could have a lasting impact to businesses, investors and consumers alike. But under Trump’s proposed changes to economic data, we may never truly understand the true impact of his policies until it is too late.' http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/322305-trumps-dangerous-war-on-data
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and the fake news story continues to explode Lies, feigned outrage and lying tweets.... you guys are all funny as hell You are hardly taken seriously by anyone anymore so please, keep it up http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/03/sessions-not-alone-russian-ambassador-also-met-with-numerous-democrats.html Its Friday, your lucky day, a most astonishing day. The POTUS has made a tweet directly to rushmc!! "“I hereby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and lying about it,” Trump tweeted, with a link attached to a story about Pelosi’s 2010 group meeting with Russia’s U.S. ambassador. He tweeted the message three times, deleting the first two after misspelling the word "hereby" in each." You won't have to eat for the next whole week because your brain has been filled, with pablum. I'm glad that your GREAT friend has resumed his idiotic tweeting....er great communicating with people directly. Even better his sidekick has been freed from sitting in the corner for bad behavior. "“It turns out that a lot of women just have a problem with women in power," Conway, Trump's former campaign manager, said during a speech at the conservative conference CPAC. "It's constantly talking about what women look like and wear or making fun of their choices or presuming that they are not as powerful as the men around them. This presumptive negativity about women in power is very unfortunate because let’s try to access that and have a conversation about it instead of a confrontation.” http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320791-conway-womens-march-protests-wrapped-in-negativity
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and the fake news story continues to explode Lies, feigned outrage and lying tweets.... you guys are all funny as hell You are hardly taken seriously by anyone anymore so please, keep it up http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/03/sessions-not-alone-russian-ambassador-also-met-with-numerous-democrats.html There is a concept of debate that you clearly don't understand. A point of argument should be matched by a RELEVANT counterpoint. The closer it is in the concepts of time, of circumstance, appropriate connection, logical proximity, germain to the subject so to speak. The more effective it is. The link that you posted previously to Mr. Schumer referenced a meeting in 2003. You do know its 2007? Right? What is the focus here. Is the fact for reasons unknown, trump wants to become best buddies with what is a terrorist kleptocratic thug that kills his own people. None of the democrats in either of the last link or this one has made those policy suggestions. USA-POLICY-RUSSIA-trump Before you fire off a response try to make cognitive connections. No one from the democratic party has suggested cosy relations with what is essentially a enemy state with a gangster leader. That doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't talk to such states. Talking to them and co-opting national policy and interests. With a gangster, with a enemy state, is different. US national interests is the focus of US national and international POLICY. good luck.
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It's also difficult to hold on to the narrative of meeting under the auspicious of your Senate job when you use campaign funds from your reelection accounts to pay for it. In which case, you are no longer traveling as part of your job, but traveling for purposes of campaigning. https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeff-sessions-used-political-funds-for-republican-convention-expenses-1488509301?mod=e2fb Makes sense. He hadn't seen Dearborn, or Miller his personal senate aids. Which the taxpayer was paying for, but who he lent to the trump campaign months before. All just part of the smell of the trump swamp.
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Across the Country, a Republican Push to Rein In Protesters In a season rife with demonstrations over immigration, pipelines, abortion, women’s rights and more, Republican legislators in at least 16 states have filed bills intended to make protests more orderly or to toughen penalties against ones that go awry. Republicans in two other states, Massachusetts and North Carolina, have said they will file protest-related bills. Those numbers include only bills whose sponsors have specifically linked them to protests, said Jonathan Griffin, a policy analyst who tracks the measures at the National Conference of State Legislatures. How many will be enacted is unclear; a few already have been pronounced dead in committee. Some sociologists and legal experts say the bills are in line with a general trend toward tougher treatment of protesters after especially disruptive demonstrations like the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan and the 2014 violence in Ferguson, Mo. But interviews and news reports suggest that some of the measures are either backed by supporters of President Trump or are responses to demonstrations against him and his policies. After a Nashville motorist struck safety workers who were escorting anti-Trump protesters at a crosswalk, a Tennessee state representative introduced legislation that would relieve motorists of any liability should they accidentally hit someone deliberately blocking a street... An Iowa bill, filed after about 100 anti-Trump protesters closed Interstate 80 near Iowa City, would make blocking high-speed roads a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and $7,500 in fines. Similar legislation in Mississippi would impose a fine of up to $10,000. In Washington State, a Republican senator who helped run Mr. Trump’s campaign there filed legislation that would make it a felony to commit “economic terrorism,” defined as intentionally breaking the law to intimidate private citizens or to obstruct economic activity. A Minnesota bill, responding to protests over the police shooting last year of an African-American man in a suburb of St. Paul, would allow cities to sue demonstrators who violate the law for the cost of policing their protests. And in North Carolina, a legislator promised to propose a measure making it illegal to “threaten, intimidate or retaliate” against state officials after hecklers denounced Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican who lost a re-election bid in November. Those two measures and perhaps others may face constitutional hurdles, said Kevin F. O’Neill, a scholar of protest law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University. “There’s a First Amendment right of access to sidewalks, public squares and even public streets,” he said. “Heckling is a well-protected First Amendment right.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/when-does-protest-cross-a-line-some-states-aim-to-toughen-laws.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 -
trump has repeatedly denied any meetings with anyone from his campaign staff meeting-talking-communicating with anyone from Russia There are the ones that have: 1.Paul Manafort 2. Michael Flynn 3. Jeff Sessions 4. J.D. Gordon -"Gordon, who managed the advisory committee as the Trump campaign’s director of national security" 5. Carter Page -another member of the Trump campaign’s national security advisory committee. 6. Yet to be disclosed by the press. 7.Yet to be disclosed by the press. etc. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/02/exclusive-two-other-trump-advisers-also-spoke-russian-envoy-during-gop-convention/98648190/
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The problem with jets, turbofans, etc. is expense and fuel consumption. Typically its minutes. Which is very dangerous in itself. Anything that you land on your feet is inherently dangerous. Especially if it has some weight to it. i.e. over 50 lbs. The problem with microlight weight helicopters is design and quality of construction. This is a new design. Empty weight — 145 kg (planned 115 kg) Take-off weight — 260 kg Diameter of the rotors — 4.5 m = 15' Useful load 320 lbs Engine —Zanzottera MZ 201 at 60 h.p. Speed — 120 km/h https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNKPSpC6laA more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLVIIbs5aL8 These were popular for a while but had quality control issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu6Ept3htc8 The advantage of one of these "large" blade mini-copters is auto-rotation in the event of engine failure.