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Here is what we know for a fact, 30k emails WERE deleted after the subpoena.

Again (and I have to repeat myself because this keeps coming up), this is a 100% FALSE assertion.The emails were deleted in December. Gowdy issued the subpoena (and, mind you, only for Benghazi related subjects) in March.

"In fact, Trey Gowdy did not issue a subpoena until March, months after she she'd done that review. Further, the subpoena was specifically asking for documents pertaining to Libya and the attacks on our facility in Benghazi, documents which, along with tens of thousands of others, she had already given to the Department of State," Merrill said.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, called Gowdy's hit Wednesday a "stunt."

"It appears clear that Secretary Clinton was answering a question about whether she deleted emails 'while facing a subpoena,'" Cummings said in a statement Wednesday.

Sheesh. And here I thought it would take 5 years for self-driving vehicles to become common.

By my previous estimate, around 5 million jobs in the US alone could be replaced or severely curtailed by self-driving vehicles (about 3.5 million jobs are driving tractor-trailers). I now think that's a low estimate, considering delivery vehicles, taxis, US mail, school busses, and so on.

The first self-driving tractor trailer hit the road about 18 months ago. Yes, they probably won't work in snow. Yes, they probably won't work in some situations, such as finding and backing into the loading dock. You'll still need humans for those situations.

But for the vast majority of cases, they will work for the long-haul across the US. (If you've ever driven across the US at night, you know that the highways are a never-ending chain of tractor trailers in the right-hand lane.) They don't need down time, they don't get tired, they don't get distracted, they can work 24/7. They can learn from each others' mistakes. They don't need salary or benefits.

This is demonstrably better from a safety and cost point of view, and it takes away a lot of tedious work from humans--giving them more free time--but it'll wreck our current economic system.

We currently have about 170 million workers, and sitting at about 10% unemployment. This one technological advance could push that up to 15%. Economically speaking, 10% unemployment is the beginning of the "this is bad, we should do something" level. We only recently dropped below that number from the great(-est) depression.

(How we deal with illegal immigrants is another big chunk of potential workers that could affect unemployment. Not to make this a partisan argument, but if we *do* have amnesty, it should be done in a layered, progressive fashion with an eye on unemployment so as not to tank the economy. Refugees are too few in number to affect unemployment.)

Isn't helium that same stuff needed for MRI machines that I keep hearing is in short supply?

That kind of thinking is so sixty days ago.

but...we're happy put those "local effects" in parts of the world, US included, where there's little incentive or too small of a population to have a voice to do something about it. Not sure if it was intended in your spill example but the very body charged with regulating pollution in our rich nation (EPA) actually created a toxic river spill a year ago - http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/09/...

Your reading comprehension skills are poor, I stated that, apparently, Sarah Palin knew more than the slashdot editors.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/...

The interview was on CNN, which staffs a meteorologist that is a climate change denier.

He was not a denier, he was a skeptic. And he has changed his opinion.

> A better analogy would be if you owned a large apartment complex, and one of
> your tenants was found to be running a prostitution business from one of the
> rooms. Notionally you could be in a place to find out who was running it, where
> they were running it, and you could stop it.

> Whether you should or not is another question. And if you should, the
> mechanism by which you should do so is yet another question.

You may think you're making up stupid shit as a counter-example... but...

1) unknown to parents, their son sells drugs from home
2) police seize the parents' house
3) profit

See http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/...

3: Dump the fucking SJW culture.

Like that's ever gonna happen. This is the company whose founder CEO had to resign over his private beliefs. Last I checked, being homophobic wasn't a crime, nor was what you do outside company hours any of their business.

none whatsoever.

Riiiight.

"Hot line to the NSA

It's gotten to the point where no vendor hip to the NSA's power will even start building products without checking in with Fort Meade first. This includes even that supposed ruler of the software universe, Microsoft Corp. "It's inevitable that you design products with specific [encryption] algorithms and key lengths in mind," said Ira Rubenstein, Microsoft attorney and a top lieutenant to Bill Gates. By his own account, Rubenstein acts as a "filter" between the NSA and Microsoft's design teams in Redmond, Wash. "Any time that you're developing a new product, you will be working closely with the NSA," he noted. "

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/comput...

You're kidding right?
Surely you can't be that ignorant of Google's power?!

Here's a quick search to answer your question.

Google literally have the power to change leadership of entire nations and sway voters, and even make or break an entire company!

Google products are 100% voluntary, if you don't want to use them, then don't...

Err, no they're not.
You're Google's product and slave whether you like it or not.
It's easy (for a technical person) to simply not use facebook and block their 2/3 domains, but it's almost impossible to do that with Google, considering GoogleAPIs, Captcha, Doubleclick, Analytics, GoogleAdServices, GoogleSyndication, GTM, Plus, etc, etc.

Right, because old, closeted Republicans getting blowjobs in the mens' room have ever so insightful conversations.

Do these satellites see into basements to find the permanently unemployed underclass of poor people who lost their jobs as soon as Obama was elected and have been unable to find work since?

You might want to check your timeline. Obama took office at the end of January, 2009. There were a million jobs lost in September and October of 2008, before the election took place.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/0...

Or maybe you're suggesting that he destroyed the economy before he became president. Somehow. Sort of like how Rudy Guiliani says there were no terrorist attacks on US soil until Obama took office.

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

Not everyone failed. I know for a fact CNN had multiple stories on the shady information Bush was using, poking holes in his lies.

But since people consider CNN left leaning they ignored the reports, caught up in the RA! RA! of invading someone.

Even when the lies of how the Iraqis would welcome us, how they would pay for everything through their oil profits, were shown to devoid of reality, people kept calling CNN liars and anti-American for pointing out the ugly truths.

If Trump had been president he probably would have sued them for libel, as he has said he might do to anyone who puts out unfavorable coverage.

Even the guy who took a sledgehammer to Saddam's statue now vociferously regrets the invasion.

"I feel like Iraq was stolen from us," said Mr Jabouri. "Bush and Blair are liars. They destroyed Iraq and took us back to zero, and took us back to the Middle Ages or earlier. If I was a criminal, I would kill them with my bare hands."

That's exactly what affirmative action is. It says blacks are not as good as whites, can't compete, and thus need a loving, guiding hand to help them up.

No, it is saying socio-economic factors make it less likely for African Americans to succeed, and this will not be changed for hundreds of years if society does not lend a hand. The average household wealth of a white family is $656k, while the average for African Americans is $85k. This disparity was $355k vs $67k thirty years ago, so the gap is widening in both real dollars and ratio. (source)

And it makes sense the gap would widen without significant societal assistance. If you believe it often takes money to make money, or that school districts with better funding often provide better education, it is painfully obvious this inequality cannot be reduced without outside assistance.

No need to be AC. Your views are far more popular in a group which believes itself to be nearly perfectly meritocratic. I assume many of my posts for this article will be modded down, as one nearly identical this one already has.

Such as believing that one race is unable to lift itself out of the poverty; unlike the Irish, Italian, etc... populations of the past.

It is almost certain underrepresented groups will catch up on their own eventually. One study predicts African Americans could reach wealth parity with Caucasians in 228 years without any assistance. These policies do not assume the disparity could never be improved without help, just that we don't want to wait hundreds of years.

Other ethnic groups over the past couple centuries had the advantage of still being Caucasian and being in a developing country. Disenfranchised groups could still just "move west" where they weren't as affected by ethnicities with more wealth in the East. And the most important difference is that Caucasian ethnicities greatly benefited from social programs after WW2 which weren't given to other minorities. This is perhaps even more damaging to current wealth inequality than slavery was.

Funny, but when he opened his big fat mouth, he said MUSLIMS, not SYRIANS. REPEATEDLY. Just like he said MEXICAN illegals, not just illegals. But I guess when you love someone, you will need to justify all their stupidity, and not actually listen to things for yourself.

It matters because the guy running one of the candidates' campaigns is a registered fucking agent of the government that's perpetrating the cyberattacks against us.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/...

And that candidate's daughter is besties with Vladimir Putin's girlfriend/sidepiece.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/15...

And that same candidate's platform was recently changed to be more friendly to Russia as opposed to our ally, Ukraine.

http://www.politico.com/magazi...

So that's why it matters who the DNC leak is. Because Donald Trump is a mole.

The really hilarious thing is the way they practically worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan. This, despite the fact that the modern republican party has lurched to far to the extreme right that when you actually review Reagan's implemented policies, he'd be viewed as too liberal to be welcome in the GOP. About the only thing Saint Reagan and the modern republicans have in common is the cold-war militarist mentality and their hatred of the GLBT community. Hell, even Nixon would be a stark-raving liberal by modern GOP standards, what with the creation of that pesky interfering-with-industry EPA, and the policy of rapprochement with China vs. sanctions and trade wars.

Russia's been hacking the DNC.

Trump's top campaign adviser is a literal agent of the Kremlin. As in, he had to register as an agent of a foreign government because he was working for one. And Ivanka Trump is partying in Croatia with Vladimir Putin's girlfriend, Wendy Murdoch.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/...

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyl...

Now with those two stories in mind, go back and look at the changes Trump made to the GOP platform back in July:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Now think about the fact that Russia's been hacking the DNC (see how I brought it back on-topic?)

I expect a poor job from Government. Hillary Clinton plans to propose a change to the First Amendment of the US Constitution. If this regulation were in place, it would have suppressed speech against her. Isn't suppressing negative opinions the act of a repressive, despotic government? She is likely to win, and make good her promise. Bad. (The NY Times is not a 'person', either). Reference: Citizens United. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/16/...

Apparently flying spy planes over Russia is also not an act of war, but if Russia did the same thing would it be equally acceptable?

And they've blown a U-2 out of the air. Apparently you know very little about how the game is played.

It is also interesting how often we hear about "Russian incompetence" and "close calls" but not so much about US incompetence, lost weapons, accidents, etc.

Uhm.. it has it has been documented. I know somebody involved in one of the incidents, and his career didn't go very far after the fuckup... but then again, I get it: you just want to piss and moan about the US.

So, nowadays we have a re-emboldened Russia fucking around in Crimea and Ukraine knocking on Europe's door (make no mistake, a Western Europe with no US-backed NATO would be absolutely fucked), and China constructing artificial islands in the South China Sea.

Here's my attitude, motherfucker: you can't handle the truth.

A Russian cyberattack that targeted Democratic politicians was bigger than it first appeared and breached private email accounts of more than 100 party officials and groups (could be paywalled; alternate source), reports The New York Times, citing officials with knowledge of the case. From the report:

New York times: invested majority stake by Carlos Slim with ties to obama and the Clinton foundation

The widening scope of the attack has prompted the F.B.I. to broaden its investigation, and agents have begun notifying a long list of Democratic officials that the Russians may have breached their personal accounts. The main targets appear to have been the personal email accounts of Hillary Clinton's campaign officials and party operatives, along with a number of party organizations. Officials have acknowledged that the Russian hackers gained access to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is the fund-raising arm for House Democrats, and to the Democratic National Committee, including a D.N.C. voter analytics program used by Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.

DNC analytics is Groundworks from GOOGLE

Still trying blame the russians when its clear wikileaks is telling you something here.

This whole story is a political hit job written by a fully compromised media outlet. Gerbil and Stalin would be proud of the American Media at this point.

Feel Free to visit independent media and see whats going on. Youtube:

Drudge Report

Redacted tonight

infowars.com

The Jimmy Dore show

Paul Joseph Watson

The Young Turks are going all in for Hillary, avoid them till they get their heads out of their behinds.

The news about another nation having the skills to get into a computer network, stay undetected, able to remove bulk plain text data but then have details about methods used got discovered was strange.
Why would such a method be caught now with a such weak tool set when every other part of the data extraction was undiscoverable?
The early hint to that was it was not another nation:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces."
This seems more like a classic Watergate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... insider walk out than any nation with amazing skills to get into a network that then lacked any ability cover its way out of a US network.
Nsa Whistleblower: Agency Has All Of Clinton’s Deleted Emails (31 Jul 2016)
http://www.breitbart.com/jerus...
".... surmised that the hack of the DNC could have been coordinated by someone inside the U.S. intelligence community angry over ..."
" .... directly out of Gamma reporting. "

I give you General Motors, bailed out at a final cost of $10.6 billion to the US taxpayers. Assuming you're one of the 69 million with a tax return above $3000/month, how did you like paying $140 to save General Motors?

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03...

Still though, this begs to be something hosted in a datacenter/cloud with an online shadow in the background of another location replicating everything and ready to take over at a moment's notice, or something similar. Pretty standard these days, but airlines are so tight for money that they end up sometimes shooting their own feet...

Airlines are making record profits these days. Arguing that they don't have the money to properly set up the system that runs the whole company is ridiculous.

So people are worried about being identified with the cameras...... How about the fact that the FBI has averaged at least 20 flights a day, every single day. The numbers will only grow.

We need to publicly address what are we getting for this intrusion into our lives? Is the losses worth the gains. For a primer look at america's terror war on terror. the U.S. averages 30 to 40 people killed for every target taken out....... The results whole cultures are becoming polarized against the U.S. for murdering random people from virtually invisible kill platforms out of a clear blue sky.

If for some strange reason america starts using armed drones inside the United states no other country is going to feel any sympathy. Hell the people of america don't seem to mind...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/...

Today of course, any male adult is considered bad to be around.

I held back from mentioning this... the part how you can be a 7 year old and just go spend an afternoon with some adult male without it being any sort of problem whatsoever. These days it is so very hard to believe.

As an adult male who now tinkers on stuff in the garage, I make it a point to shut the door to avoid any sort of 'trouble'.

It was a different day and age. In truth, there are almost certainly the same percentage of males who children shouldn't be around. Which is to say very few.

Unfortunately, over time, the marginalizing of adult males, by way of reporting every incident in a country of hundreds of millions as if it was happening in our own town, the vested interest of well meaning parents trying to protect their children from anything bad in their lives at all, and the vested interest of a subset of humanity that simply hates men, it crept up on us.

And now it has gone batshit crazy. Within another Slashdot story we are hearing about how millennials are not engaging with each other. Some folks have tried to make it about money, but in fact, at least in a heterosexual context, relations have become a scary situation for the males.

And even if males resign themselves to being sperm donors for female same sex couples who want children, it doesn't end: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/... Make a donation, and you can end up on the hook for it.

http://www.mrcustodycoach.com/...

https://www.theguardian.com/mo...

But I've blathered on enough. It's a pity that what I remember as an enjoyable part of growing up has been so completely anathema in today's world. Not one of these guys was ever remotely interested in a couple of young boys that way. We would have hit the bricks in a second if we sensed that. Today? Most all normal males simply avoid young people altogether.

until Apple invents this technology and releases the first smartphone with an iris scanner in 2018

If you are referring to a company copying another's invention, I think that Samsung already won the "prize" for that...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/01/...

And if the iPhone was so hard to use, why, then did EVERY SINGLE PHONE cold-copy the iPhone?

You mean by copying the rectangle form factor? I'm pretty sure someone else already invented that...

Nice try, fucktard. No, as this clearly shows, the ripoff went a LOT further than just a Rounded Rectangle, buddy-o.

And how often have over budget military programs been halted because of money? It has happened, but it's very rare. Meanwhile, we got the B-2 at over $1 billion per copy and the F-35 which is "Three years behind schedule and some $200 billion over its original budget". The original projected cost was about half what has already been spent.

So how does NASA's trouble compare to that? NASA's entire 2015 budget was $18.01 billion. So who is worse when it comes to being "responsible" about managing technical risk? Did anyone suggest shutting down the F-35 program while they decided what to do about escalating costs and slipping schedules?

The poor people of Rio are paying for those games with their health and their lives. Sociopath is too strong a word but be honest: how they suffer doesn't bother you or anyone else living it up at the Olympic party at public expense. http://money.cnn.com/gallery/n... http://www.businessinsider.com... https://www.theguardian.com/sp... http://www.theatlantic.com/bus... http://www.economist.com/blogs...

The word he is looking for is Narcissism: the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes. Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a long term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a lack of understanding of others' feelings.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05...

Same effect.

In 1984 Orwell wrote of Newspeak, a language and culture designed to wipe out concepts that were unpopular.

Apple can remove gun emojis all day long. All that will mean is people's messages to each other won't contain gun emojis.

It won't change people being killed daily by rogue cops, crazy lunatics, terrorists, or others.

If Apple wanted to REALLY make a change in violence involving firearms (not to be confused with "gun violence" since guns by themselves aren't violent...) they should take some of their hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars and dedicate it to help stop crazy people from killing other crazy people.

Note 1: OJ Simpson did not kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman with a firearm. He used a kitchen knife -- Nicole's kitchen knife.
Note 2: The French suicide bomber killed lots of people with his vehicle. Vehicles are available to everyone.
Note 3: The Newtown school shooting was done by a guy who broke in and stole his mother's weapon (then killed her with it). He was not a "gun owner".

But yes, do let's remove the emoji. I'm sure we'll never see or hear guns discussed on the news, in the media, on FB, and everywhere else.
Because emojis or not, ISIS creates a new death every 84 hours. I'm sure the lack of emojis won't change that. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/31/...

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It's all about the Germans ruling the world! Good that UKIP stopped these Nazis! Hooray!

Godwin would be proud, meanwhile...

Given the US has a long history with secret informants (Watergate) and the walking out of data vs entering, staying undetected in and moving data from a network only to allow the ip range and tools used to be found?
The interesting part is to listen to the comments.
Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections (July 27, 2016)
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
"Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are,"
For any group or nation to have the skills to enter a network, stay in, not be detected, exit with a lot of data and then get sloppy with something as simple as ip ranges, tools used seems strange.
EXCLUSIVE – NSA Whistleblower: Agency Has All of Clinton’s Deleted Emails (31 Jul 2016)
http://www.breitbart.com/jerus...
..."surmised that the hack of the DNC could have been coordinated by someone inside the U.S. intelligence community"...

CC fraud in the US is more likely an inside job. We should be very suspicious of all these stories about hacks and breaches into their systems and so-called "stolen" money, such things make very effective electronic "drop points". They leave the door open and tell the cops someone came and stole all your shit. Every little glitch, "Oops, so sorry, your balance has been corrected. By the way, we are raising our fees a bit to cover our new 'anti-fraud' features." We know the nature of their business.

It's time for the Post Office to get back into it..

Because the vast majority of the "scandals" are hyperbolically exaggerated BS or made up from whole cloth by the republicans. The one case where she could legitimately argued to have done something wrong was a bog-standard case of "shadow IT". And most of us have been in situations ourselves where... if we could have gotten around the obstructive BOFH going on about "my precious" network that they don't want tainted by the frivolity of those "dirty hobbitses" and gotten our email and notifications on our iPhones instead of those decrepit old blackberries and pagers... we most definitely would have, or did.

Even Bernie Sandars is on record as considering it a non-issue, saying in the debates that he's "sick and tired of hearing about her damned emails.":
http://www.cnn.com/videos/poli...

Venezuelan hipster socialists trying to get out of being forced to work in the fields

In an effort to extract more money from its drivers, the Uber cab company has been pushing them to use Uberpool where riders traveling to similar destinations are grouped together in the same vehicle.

This sounds great in theory, the Uber cab driver can carry more riders, but the downsides are several. First, the cab driver has to go out of their way to pick up the second (or third) rider, this leads to the second issue where the rider "experience" is degraded because the other riders might be undesirable in one way or another or their trip delayed because of picking up the other riders. This can lead to lower ratings for the cab driver, not to mention the cab driver gets fewer tips this way.

However, if an Uber cab driver refuses to accept rides using Uberpool they are penalized by the Uber cab company via "timeouts". The company prevents the cab driver from obtaining any other rides for up to 15 minutes.

As one researcher into how the Uber cab company operates via this method said, "You're saying to someone -- you're your own boss, but also go into the penalty box because you didn't behave in the way that we suggested you should."

Enjoy!

Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.

Okay, first off Clinton was not hacking together an email server in visual basic in her spare time. She probably didn't understand the security implications herself, and hired someone she thought competent, who obviously wasn't. Most likely it had whatever passes for the default security Microsoft provides, which is not horrible, but not world class either. It also likely had all the automatic updates, which are pretty important these days. I have no idea if it was hacked, but I do know what was. The official state department email system was hacked. email hack

It seems to me that while running her own was a bad idea, the net result was no different. Also, running your own server is in no way shape or form illegal. It is unwise, but not illegal. The real problem was accidentally sending a small amount of classified material through that system. That is known as a data spill, and may have been easier to clean up if it was on the government system, but in no way shape or form was the official system rated for classified material either. That would be a completely different system.

The only completely secure system is one that is not connected to an external network, and then it is only secure from external threats. You can increase the security by isolating systems behind VPNs and generally being very careful with what runs on every connected system. Of course then you have to sill update things, which adds complexity.

Now, I watch quite a bit of news, and no one is really giving Clinton a free pass here. So pretending that she is getting one is just not true. What is true is that she is far better than the alternative, and, like it or not, it is for all intents and purpose a binary choice.

Finally, all of this is why it is necessary and vital for encryption to thrive. Encrypt by default. Isolate applications by default. Applications should be able to write to their own areas, but nothing else should be able to. Application data needs to be encrypted with unique keys, so even if a process can run as root, it can't access another processes data. Any key storage needs to be particularly hardened. Defense in depth needs to be by design. Any time you hear a three letter agency tell you that encryption is bad, remind them of this crap.

I predict that more political campaigns and such will switch, if they haven't already done so to BSD and similar variants, that take security seriously. Well, either that or they might just switch to solid web providers that take security seriously by default.

Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.

You mean that sarcastically, but it's basically true. Hacking a server is one thing. Hacking a server without leaving any tracks whatsoever is insanely difficult. Hillary Clinton's server was examined by top FBI forensic analysts, and no breach was detected. This is unlike the system she supposedly "should" have been using, OpenNet (the state.gov email system), which has been hacked so many times, they judge them by how bad they are Sources: State Dept. hack the 'worst ever'. Every other hack has been detected and analyzed - it strains credulity that of all these emails servers, only clintonemail.com would have been hacked so perfectly that there was no trace left, even in the many backups.

This doesn't mean that the Russians don't have her emails, since anything sent to a state.gov email address was copied by them. But that's not Secretary Clinton's fault, and the sheer incompetence of State's IT department (their "solution" to her emails going to people's spam bucket wasn't to whitelist clintonemail.com, but to turn off all spam filtering), lends credence to the idea that she was just trying to work around some very incompetent people in the bureaucracy to get her job done.

What is absolutely proven at this point, is that if she'd done things the "right way", then all her emails would be now in the possession of foreign intelligence agencies. Having clintonemail.com didn't hurt, and may in certain ways, helped.

(And if you're a Democrat reading this and are angered: take the challenge. Post a reason why Hillary would be better than Trump as president, without outright lying, insulting, or wishful fantasy. In other words, cite their stated positions instead of "he'll do *this*" or "she'll do *that*. I don't think anyone can, but if anyone can, they'd be here on Slashdot.)

The following are quotes from Hillary Clinton Economy Jobs Moodys. They speak for themselves.

"Moody's Analytics estimates that if the Democratic presidential nominee's proposals are enacted, the economy would create 10.4 million jobs during her presidency, or 3.2 million more than expected under current law."

"Moody's published a similar analysis of Donald Trump's plans in June. It concluded that the Republican presidential nominee's policies would result in an economic downturn that would last longer than the Great Recession. About 3.5 million Americans would lose their jobs, unemployment would jump to 7% and home prices would fall."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/... It was just a big joke and expert trolling. Just like the rest of his candidacy...

So you think destabilization of international affairs, particularly against the larger more powerful competitor nations

Well we already screwed the pooch on that in 2007 when we put Anti-Ballistic Missiles in Poland (over Russia's protestations), and we've been doing our damnedest to threaten China's maritime resource lifeline using the SCS "freedom of navigation" excuse. Newsflash: ~85% of SCS shipping goes to/from China....

I'm not sure why you think Trump would make these relationships worse. I would describe the Trump-Putin relationship as "cordial" ( http://www.businessinsider.com... ) ( http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07... ), which is more than I can say for Obama-Putin or Bush Jr. - Putin.

I recently watched a video of Trump interviews over the years, and in one he talks about how the Chinese are ruthless business people who are taking us to the cleaners. He's willing to do business and engage with them, as long as we make sure we aren't getting ripped off. Seems a more honest assessment of how we should handle China than the Clinton approach that we saw in the 90's.

along with unnerving long-standing and even newer allies

The vast majority of which owe their national security to the US. Security which we are not properly compensated for. Trump will force our lazier "allies" to get their houses in order and shoulder more of the burden for protecting themselves.

Perhaps you should go back to remedial English yourself. You were replying to a comment about people shot by police, mentioned Gray, then named off a bunch of people and completed with everyone else that was shot. You were talking about people shot by cops, Gray wasn't shot by cops, and incidentally, all charges in the case were dropped today. No one was found to have acted in even the barest criminal manner in the case, and the cops were following the guidance they were trained on, which had just been changed 6 days before the incident.

The Gray case was a horrible accident, but it does not belong in a list of people shot by police, when talking about shootings by police.

Also:

who knows wtf happened with Gray?

Well, since the medical examiner told everyone who bothered to read the report exactly what happened, I can't imagine how you could NOT know what happened. The base of his skull struck an exposed bolt in the side of the police van, which damaged his spinal cord and caused near instantaneous death. All his pleas to go to medical before that turned out to just be him trying to get away as his injuries were not severe (before the spinal cord injury which would have prevented speech).

medical examiners reported Gray sustained more injuries as a result of slamming into the inside of the transport van, "apparently breaking his neck; a head injury he sustained matches a bolt in the back of the van".

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/...

Three officers were acquitted as there was no evidence of malice, and the prosecutor was unable to prove a crime had even occurred, and so now she dropped the charges in the remaining cases as she doesn't think she can prove they did anything wrong either. Then she goes on a rant against police investigating police claiming that is the reason she can't prove the crimes. When she announced the charges originally, it was pretty obvious it was more about her political career than anything the officers did wrong, as they were following department policy as they had been taught.

Drumpf has run most of his campaign by going from one conspiracy to another.

You're late to this party, but the Clinton campaign started the 'Russia leaked the emails' meme. Trump is responding to that meme here (I haven't verified that - the news conference was too long and I don't care enough to watch the whole thing). Adding his own whatever to it.

Do not be deceived: at the national level, it's cut-throat, and both campaigns are willing to lie and cheat if it helps them win. We see that in the emails where the Clinton campaign tried to use Sander's race against him.