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I have no idea what you are talking about. While I have problems with both the process used to draw districts and the courts which decide, my comment implied that your comment was completely incorrect.

First, you said "the district maps are drawn by bi-partisan groups". Wisconsin's 2011 redistricting was "created by Republican leaders virtually in secret", which is not bi-partisan.

Second, you said "tested in the courts to make sure they are fair". In a 2004 ruling, the Supreme Court "held that partisan gerrymanders were non-judiciable, and that courts could not intervene". Now, some courts are trying to fix that terrible ruling, and the Supreme Court is taking another look, but that is kinda the opposite of "making sure they are fair".

From TFS:

The people who have left were responsible for collecting and analyzing the intelligence that goes into the president's daily briefing.

Daily intelligence briefings for the Chief Executive used to be a vitally important component of policy formulation. Then President Chump was sworn in, and suddenly they became completely irrelevant, because they bored him. He refuses to read or even listen to them, even when they mostly contain brightly-colored graphics, videos, and other visual elements designed to appeal to the functional-illiterate-in-chief. They've also been tailored to avoid topics, such as the latest intelligence on Russian psyops interference in the 2016 election, that push the Orange Oaf's buttons. (Let me point you to an alternative citation, because the Washington Post article may be paywalled for those who don't know how to use private browsing and cookie deletion to get around it.)

Think about how you'd feel if you had dedicated your career to producing detailed, highly-nuanced, daily reports on a whole range of intelligence topics for the most powerful national leader on the planet - only to discover that the new guy is completely uninterested in any information that can't be expressed in crayon drawings and bumper sticker catchphrases. Now throw in civil servant wages, and ask yourself whether that job would be in any way attractive to you?

Yeah - it's like that.

That's why they're leaving ...

Meanwhile, your friends tried to play "antifa murderer" in Vegas and got caught!

Was not struck by the vehicle

Erm. Then what caused the blunt force injury to the chest? http://www.newsweek.com/charlo...

Just an FYI: CPR causes blunt force injuries to the chest when performed correctly--in fact, expect broken ribs--and that's just one of the various things that might be attempted to resuscitate somebody who seems to be having a heart attack, and most actually will leave a 'signature' set of blunt force injuries to the chest.

Which isn't to say that this might be the cause, but if you want me to tell you anything about that, give me a link to the ME's report, not Newsweek. Most journalists are as qualified to understand what they're reading when given an ME's report as they are if what they were reading was source code...

Was not struck by the vehicle

Erm. Then what caused the blunt force injury to the chest?
http://www.newsweek.com/charlo...

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)

How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quotes:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface."
"Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017)

Suggestion: Copy and send the links below to other people. Don't include anything about me, of course.

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)

How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quote:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface." Another quote: "Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017, Bizarro)

Of course climate science is falsifiable.

Is it? Not according to this climate-scientist from Australia, nor according to this professor concurring with this blogger (both of them hilariously repeating in earnest this earlier satire).

It's those subtheories that you really need to falsify.

No, I don't. As I explained to you before, the burden of proof is not on me, but on those, who want to compel me — on pain of higher taxes, loss of freedoms, and even actual criminal prosecutions — to change my way of life.

Noting that (sigh), even as of December 2017, people still believe Obama was born in Kenya

You know, the really sad part is that since his mother is a known American citizen, none of that "where was he born" nonsense ever mattered in the slightest; yet, socially, we allowed the mass media to convince us that it did.

True and I imagine the whole "he was born in Kenya" thing was/is actually code for "he's black" - which, if so, is, quite frankly, stupid - but let's not overestimate people...

Noting that (sigh), even as of December 2017, people still believe Obama was born in Kenya

You know, the really sad part is that since his mother is a known American citizen, none of that "where was he born" nonsense ever mattered in the slightest; yet, socially, we allowed the mass media to convince us that it did.

There is lots of evidence he was born in HI, and no evidence he wasn't.

Noting that (sigh), even as of December 2017, people still believe Obama was born in Kenya

Survey results released by YouGov Friday show that 51 percent of Republicans said they think former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, compared to just 14 percent of Democrats. Perhaps unsurprisingly, respondents who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election were especially convinced of Obama's African origins: Fully 57 percent said it was "definitely true" or "probably true" that the 44th president came from Kenya.

If we're seeking to have an informed electorate, then this poses a bit of a problem.

Some people may want an informed electorate, but it's definitely not politicians, the political parties or their high-dollar supporters. They have a vested interested in keeping the masses ignorant, partisan, riled up and easily swayed by slogans and rhetoric.

Examples: Look at the masses of people at Trump rallies chanting "Lock her up!" about someone who has not been convicted of any crimes*. Or that, even as of December 2017, people still believe Obama was born in Kenya

Survey results released by YouGov Friday show that 51 percent of Republicans said they think former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, compared to just 14 percent of Democrats. Perhaps unsurprisingly, respondents who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election were especially convinced of Obama's African origins: Fully 57 percent said it was "definitely true" or "probably true" that the 44th president came from Kenya.

[ * deferring any debate about whether she should be convicted ]

No, it's only a tax increase if, when the expiration date approaches, the Democrats will go out of their way to block renewal.

Nope, it's a tax increase because it's shorting now with loans that have to be paid off then.

Which you know, but are pretending you don't. Why? The "social security trust" has exactly ZERO to do with this.

Sorry man, but the GOP's already admitted they will to cut Social Security.

It's like you don't want to have to acknowledge their own words.

Bubble + North Korea hacking and theft + loss of confidence probably all play a roll

North Korea Hacking War on Bitcoin Exchanges Is Part of “Biggest Global Sting”

The bankruptcy of a bitcoin exchange has been blamed on North Korean hackers, prompting concerns for the cryptocurrency’s future. Around $72 million worth of bitcoins were stolen from the South Korean exchange Youbit in April, before a second more recent cyber heist forced the exchange to shut down on Tuesday. Cryptocurrency exchanges from neighboring South Korea—which account for 15 to 25 percent of world bitcoin trading—appear to be the main target of the hackers, with the country’s largest exchange platform, Bithumb, hacked in July. Other Seoul-based bitcoin exchanges, including Yapizon and Coinis, have also been the target of cyber thieves suspected of being from North Korea this year.

Bitcoin exchange collapses after second cyber attack in a year

Bitcoin fails its test as a haven in times of global turmoil

North Korea bitcoin WARNING: Kim regime hacking cryptocurrency to fund nuclear weapons

I'm assuming it's more cheerleading for law enforcement at taxpayer expense, similar to trading cards except not as useful (since you could use those as a bookmark.

"ALERT: Police are in danger... Never mind, other police on the SWAT force saved the day! Thanks to the armored vehicle and infrared technology, they caught the fugitive drug dealer who was armed with a knife!"

(For anyone upset that I'm not virtue signaling about police safety, I'll remind you it's never been safer to be a cop than now and there are many other worse-paid, more dangerous jobs we don't pretend are heroes.)

I agree with the overall point you are making.

And you're immediately going to use this for political points

Politics and governing should be more than a team sport. But I would also point out that the two parties are not equal here. The Democrats drummed out Al Franken

Some did, some didn't. Example here, here, here, and elsewhere.

while the Republicans rallied around and defended Moore. Heck, some of them said they believed Moore's accusers, but would vote for him anyway.

Moore lost in a heavily Republican state. Stop trying to make moral equivalence arguments. It's like you're completely ignoring the very real support Franken enjoyed after all the women came out on record and the PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF of him sexually harassing a woman.

This is the same kind of hypocritical enabling feminists did for Bill (and Hillary) Clinton in the 1990s, and I'm sure in their minds, too, Democrats are still morally superior because at least their sexual harassers vote the same way they do.

You're probably confused by the fact that many ignorant people today use the term socialist to describe a capitalist welfare state

No, i'm not confused by social democracies, i'm confused by how someone can elect to be as stupid as whoever wrote your post. What doesn't surprise me is you had to post it anonymously so people wouldn't know which stupid person to mock.

https://www.indy100.com/articl...

https://www.snopes.com/2017/09...

http://www.newsweek.com/nazis-...

...or you can check out pretty much any site that isn't run by partisan hacks for the right-wingers lying through their teeth (i'm sure not all are lying, some might simply be too fucking stupid). Better yet, we can do an experiment... you go down to one of these alt-right neo-nazi group meetings, and you yell out at all these guys that they're nothing but a bunch of left wing socialists.... and we'll see how that goes for you. And do remember when they're curbstomping what's left of your skull into the concrete.. if you'd filled your head with something other than lies and bullshit, you wouldn't be getting that shit kicked out of you.

Except that where it's allowed to work, it usually works really well. The only thing pushing back against it are entrenched lefty entities like teachers union bosses and the city/county councils with which they have an ugly little symbiotic relationship at the expense of students and their families.

Except for the religious agenda being promulgated that seems to be all too common. Not to mention the profiteering.

Sorry ScentCone, I get it, your dogma requires you to recite the shibboleth. Same as the testing agenda and your exhortations against Common Core.

Maybe if you tell more absurd lies, you'll get a prize too.

Please provide a citation.

Peter Strzok, key investigator in Clinton and Trump investigations: "I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40"

http://www.washingtonexaminer....

The REAL Russian collusion: Bribery for US uranium: http://www.newsweek.com/how-ro...

According to NewsWeek, it's a net worth of 2.4 million. http://www.newsweek.com/millio...

I was going to define it as the 1%. Either way, the bitcoin ship has sailed and if you're getting in now it's too late and you will very likely lose money.

But then you have liberals who advocate taxing the "rich" (which is easy for people like the Clintons to advocate, for example, when the bulk of their money goes through their foundation, and also easy for people with family to advocate since the taxes under discussion always on income, not on wealth), or granting legal status to illegal immigrants (all the while taking advantage of their illegal status to pay them below poverty wages and otherwise take advantage of them). And you also have conservatives crusading for morality while living secret lives awash in the very sins they publicly condemn, and claiming to want to reward hard-working people while perpetuating a crony-capitalist oligarchy.

Odd that you give such short shrift to the Conservative hypocrites. Let me help you by pointing out Donald Trump's scam with his foundation, or the accusations that Trump hired illegal laborers while actually taking advantage of their status to pay them below poverty wages and otherwise take advantage of them.

There's plenty of others, but you really should make more of a conscious effort if you're going to want to appear to actually be even-handed.

Either way, the point is that it is par for the course for politicians in general. I am not sure how to fix it, but term limits might be a good start. And not just term limits on a particular office, but something like a 10 year limit on serving in any federal elected office and the same thing for state-level office. I'm not sure what else might work, but as the electorate we have to do something.

Sorry man, we tried term limits. Didn't work.

You're going about it wrong. Doesn't matter if they're in there for a year, or for life, the problem is still the problem, of who and what they are. What you want to do, is instead take away some of the tools for exploitation, such as voter disenfranchisement and gerrymandering.

We have to quit with the "this person is despicable but I am going to support them anyway because of how much worse I think the other party's person is." That crazy thing about the US 2016 presidential election is that it seems like there were more people voting for Clinton to vote against Trump and more people voting for Trump to vote against Clinton than people that voted in actual support of the candidate for whom they cast their vote. Think about what that says of our political system and our society.

The Simpsons were telling you that back in the 1990s. Why didn't you listen? Of course, you could have learned about that even further back in American history, like with the Election of 1876, the Election of 1860, or the Crooked Bargain that resulted in 1824. Not to mention the whole business with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Remember the Naturalization Act of 1798? No? How about the other Alien and Sedition Acts?

Huh.

Remember, these are the same kinds of people that think Shouting at the Sky is an effective tool to get Trump impeached.

If I do a search for "How Podesta got hacked" every article I find says it was because he clicked that bit.ly link to the .tk address controlled by the spearfishers. And then typed his password into a page that looked like Google.

E.g.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and...

To the IT team's credit, they did send along a legitimate Google link - not the original phishing email's bit.ly link - to change Podesta's password and instructed him to add two factor-authentication to his account for an added level of password security. But the legitimate Google link didn't seem to make it to Podesta, and instead he must have used the "poisoned link," giving his password to hackers and opening up his personal email to unwelcomed eyes.

They didn't spot the bit.ly link or if they did they didn't mention. They did send a legitimate Google link, but they didn't point out the link in the original email - a bit.ly link that went to a .tk address - was obviously a phishing attempt. That's not a typo, it's a massive fuck up.

Why you think the location of the server being in a datacenter vs a basement is a tell for how stupid you are. It comes down to who is administrating it, not it's fucking Internet pipe or power failure resiliency.

Well if you've worked in a big organisation, you'd know that running your own server at home is verboten because people who run their own servers take shortcuts administering them and risk getting hacked. Organisations have policy on security and as soon as you run a server at home with your own admins you run the risk of screwing up because those admins don't know what that policy is. Plus of course you've got data the rest of the organisation doesn't have access to. You might not comply with laws. Though of course in HRC's case having private data and not complying with laws was the reason she did it.

She had a server when she was at the State Department for example and some of the emails were 'born classified' according to Reuters.

http://www.newsweek.com/questi...

In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department's own "Classified" stamps now identify as so-called 'foreign government information.' The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.

This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails, is the only kind that must be "presumed" classified, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions, according to U.S. regulations examined by Reuters.

"It's born classified," said J. William Leonard, a former director of the U.S. government's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO). Leonard was director of ISOO, part of the White House's National Archives and Records Administration, from 2002 until 2008, and worked for both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

"If a foreign minister just told the secretary of state something in confidence, by U.S. rules that is classified at the moment it's in U.S. channels and U.S. possession," he said in a telephone interview, adding that for the State Department to say otherwise was "blowing smoke."

Reuters' findings may add to questions that Clinton has been facing over her adherence to rules concerning sensitive government information. Spokesmen for Clinton declined to answer questions, but Clinton and her staff maintain she did not mishandle any information.

"I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material th

Aren't drugs that are more likely to kill you than cure you already generally illegal?

Prescription drugs are perfectly legal for intended use. Some drug companies push for "off-label usage" without going through formal trials to increase profits. People can get addicted to and/or killed by the side effects .
http://www.newsweek.com/opioid-crisis-driven-shady-drug-company-tactics-716856

I heard ZERO indictments of him about his political leanings

https://qz.com/1055466/the-alt... basically calls him a liar when he denies being 'alt right'.

Then there are the suspicious string of articles all basically going, "Damore is an alt-right [hero|martyr]":
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.recode.net/2017/8/...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.vox.com/culture/20...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.newsweek.com/who-ja...
http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

Maybe that was just because there was too much material to get to boring stuff like that in his 15 minutes of fame.

No, it's because his political leanings are by all accounts very much aligned to the people trying to demonise him, hence the multitude of articles trying to position him with the people they don't like.

I hesitate to say 'conspiracy' but it sure as fuck doesn't look like independent and honest reporting to me.

How would you like to test a live virus herpes vaccine without the dealing with all those cumbersome FDA regulations? http://www.newsweek.com/peter-...

Who's ever accused the Japanese culture of harboring racism? Not this gaijin!

Neatly put.

http://www.newsweek.com/why-does-no-one-care-japanese-are-openly-racist-364129

I think Japan is getting less racist over time. I hope so.

Who the fuck are these left-wing nuts that you speak of requiring us all to modify our genitals? I've not encountered this "sizeable chunk."

Yeah, that was a WTF for me too. I guess this is some slam against Jews or something.

But it is common among the True Believer "progressives" to rank people according to how oppressed they are (literally in a stack of oppression) and surprisingly they love to use race for this. So a millionaire black rapper or movie star, living in a mansion in Beverly Hills, is still considered to be oppressed and a poor white single mom who lives in the worst neighborhood in Detroit still needs to check her privilege. I don't get it

Your original claim was that "The Democrats openly dislike and work against them [white people]". Your cites included one from someone who wasn't necessarily a Democrat, and one a call for diversity that may have gone too far. Let's see, that's jumping to an unwarranted conclusion, five yards, using it as an ad hominem, ten yards, changing the topic ten yards, that's twenty-five yards, still second down.

As far as "the qualifications be related to the job" goes, there is solid evidence that white-appearing males tend to get interviews over others of similar qualifications. How do you know that all the white guys were hired because they were the best qualified?

To be honest you only confirm my opinion. You describe blatant law breaking as "a call for diversity that may have gone too far". Not even did go too far, as it clearly did, just a maybe. I wonder what it would take for you to consider it as too far. Regarding your subtle implication that the existing white workers were maybe not qualified, they must have been. After all the leadership there is clearly against them and wants to see straight white applicants filtered out of the hiring process. Since you seem to want more citations here are a few:

https://www.realclearpolitics.... https://www.theguardian.com/us... http://www.newsweek.com/white-... plus the free pass they give extremeists from Black Panthers, La Raza, Antifa, and other shameful organizations that would all qualify as bad to the media if they were trying to help white people.

I'm reminded of an old college professor of mine who was so frustrated one day. He was a solid liberal (big surprise for a college professor I know) and had always been a fan of affirmative action and the like as he always figured that it impacted someone other than him and was for the greater good. Anyway his son had just graduated from the fire academy and was second in his class having just barely missed top cadet. However he couldn't find a job. The people being most aggressively recruited were minorities and especially women. He was stunned that affirmative action could produce bad outcomes. He was equally outraged that his son was discriminated against on the basis of his skin color or gender. Me personally, when I think of a fire I want the best possible, most qualified candidate to be in charge of rescuing me or my family. I don't want the quota who is less qualified.

I'm neither a D nor an R but in general I think being a straight white male means Democrats dislike me. Not literally every Democrat, but enough that I can't get behind them. They choose illegal immigrants kids (AKA dreamers) over actual citizens like my kids. They mistake the 1% being largely white for all white people are the 1% and have it easy. Indeed it's because they don't want the best person for the job and instead want to play social engineer that I want government to be as small as possible. They have clearly chosen their side and I'm not it.

Trump Jr quid pro quo sanctions relief in exchange for Russian government help in the election. This is treason.

source

Papadopoulus (Trump campaign aid) colludes with Russia's attack on America, and confesses to lying about it to the FBI.

source

Carter Page claims the dossier is fake while corroborating its assertions.

source

Really, I thought it was tax breaks for those earning $450,000 per year, a.k.a. the "middle class".

Thousands of Americans Will Scream Helplessly at the Sky on Trump's Election Anniversary

Remember, these are the people who think they're smarter than everyone else...

I am *not* dead wrong. Russia has a terrible position. They're no Soviet Union. They're surrounded, where are they going to go?

Uhh, Crimea, for a start? They have Syria, too.

The US won't allow anything to happen to its captive vassal states in Europe.

I think the people of Ukraine would disagree with you on that.

The European Union is already strong enough to defend against Russia

So far, they've been strong enough to impose some sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine and the taking of Crimea. But it's kinda over... nobody believes Russia is going to just pack up and leave. Re-draw the maps: Crimea is now part of the Russian Federation.

Don't fall for the old "blame the dirty foreigners" line, it's the oldest trick in the book.

Unless the dirty foreigners are actually playing dirty. They play dirty in Ukraine, they play dirty in Syria. They play dirty on the high seas. They have vast oil wealth, hold real estate interests worldwide, and maintain the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, which Putin said (over dinner) could destroy America in a half-hour or less.

And then there's that whole internet hacking thing. If the shoe fits, wear it.

Meh, I wouldn't worry about antifa. They're all just a bunch of pimply pasty little pussies that act tough when they're in big numbers, but if they find themselves facing a real threat (the police aren't, btw, and antifa knows it,) they run and hide. Videos of this happening are all over youtube -- antifa keeps shouting about how cops are evil, they then block the wrong person from walking to work who beats the fuck out of one of them, and all of a sudden they start cowering and asking why the police aren't there to protect them.

IMO the real threats to democracy right now are social media (in the form of echo chambers) and far left universities that are actively working towards limiting free speech (Evergreen State, for example.)

http://www.newsweek.com/social...
http://bigthink.com/21st-centu...

And honestly, I think groups like antifa and the alt-right are way overblown by the media. Think the killer bees scare, the anthrax scare, the satanism scare of the 80's, and the myth that kids have been poisoned by Halloween candy that keeps coming around every year, even though there's no actual evidence that this has happened.

I mean fuck, the alt-right wouldn't even have an identity if it weren't for the media constantly shouting its name at the rooftops every fucking night. Seriously, the term was coined in 2010, and nobody had any idea who the fuck they were until the media started using them as their latest clickbait headline a year ago.

Found Trump's cockholster

You keep telling yourself that.

The "RUSSIANS STOLE THE ELECTION!!!" narrative is blowing up in Democrat's faces.

Exclusive: In Hill interviews, top Dems denied knowledge of payments to firm behind Trump dossier

Sitting next to Podesta during the interview: his attorney Marc Elias, who worked for the law firm that hired Fusion GPS to continue research on Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC, multiple sources said. Elias was only there in his capacity as Podesta's attorney and not as a witness.

On Tuesday, that law firm, Perkins Coie, wrote in a letter that it had retained Fusion GPS as part of its representation of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. The disclosure of the Democratic funding source for Fusion GPS is raising new questions for the congressional Russian investigators.

Note also that Perkins Coie hiring Fusion GPS would have been required to be reported to the FEC:

Hillary Clinton's Campaign Wasn't Honest About Paying for Trump Dossier

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been hit with a new complaint that alleges it tried to cover up the fact that it helped pay for the infamous "Trump Russia Dossier."

The Washington-based Campaign Legal Center (CLC) said in a Wednesday complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that Hillary for America and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) broke campaign finance law by trying to hide payments related to the dossier...

Note that those are CNN and Newsweek - hardly right-wing news outlets.

That's not even getting into how Robert Meuller's FBI helped hide the bribery in the Uranium One deals that netted the Clinton's $145 million dollars....

It seems to me that poor communication discourages people from being interested in Physics. "The Universe should not exist" is clickbait dishonesty by the media.

Read the scientific article, A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment. There is nothing dishonest.

It would have been far better to explain the conflict being observed and acknowledge that not much is known in that area of interest. It is FAR too early to draw conclusions.

What the CERN scientists may have discovered is that the "basic assumptions of the standard model of particle physics" are incorrect.

More clickbait dishonesty:

CERN Antimatter Experiment Suggest the Universe Shouldn't Exist

CERN Research Finds "The Universe Should Not Actually Exist"

The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, CERN Scientists Discover

CERN Scientists Find Further Evidence That the Universe 'Should Not Exist'

The universe shouldn't exist, scientists say after finding bizarre behaviour of anti-matter. Quote: "We don't know why the universe isn't destroying itself." That is at least in the direction of being honest; we don't know why.

I'm guessing that media writers didn't want to try to understand the actual issues, so they all adopted one writer's wild exaggeration.

I see NO evidence that anyone at CERN is dishonest. The dishonesty seems to be only in media reports.

While I've got no idea whether this site is a reliable source for such information...

DefenseOne is owned by Atlantic Media, the 700-person company which also publishes The Atlantic magazine (and Quartz).

Hours after their story ran online it was confirmed by:

The Washington Post
The New York Post
Newsweek
Popular Mechanics.

These are the 2 big stories regarding Russia today, and explains a lot of what went down, and the concentrated effort (and we do know it was a Clinton campaign effort thanks to wikileaks) to link Trump to Russia during the campaign in order to take the heat off herself.

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

http://www.newsweek.com/james-...

It's Comey and the Obama DOJ that needs to be investigated for obstruction of justice.

No they need to investigate these guys named as DEVO for the suppressed secret information.

These are the 2 big stories regarding Russia today, and explains a lot of what went down, and the concentrated effort (and we do know it was a Clinton campaign effort thanks to wikileaks) to link Trump to Russia during the campaign in order to take the heat off herself.

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

http://www.newsweek.com/james-...

It's Comey and the Obama DOJ that needs to be investigated for obstruction of justice.

Wrong. During the campaign, the Koch brothers hated Trump, because he wasn't a swamp creature that could be manipulated. Kochs did everything they could to make sure Trump didn't win the primary. I think they even sat out for the general election.

http://www.politico.com/story/...
http://www.newsweek.com/donald...
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Wow, I didn't know whether to mod you +1 informative or -1 off-topic, since you are right, and you cited evidence and gave links (thanks!) ... but the whole discussion is off the topic.

So instead I'll just comment as AC.

Yes, the Koch brothers very specifically did not invest in the Trump campaign. I will point out, however, that they have funded Pence, and in turn he has been very supportive of them:

https://www.thenation.com/article/vice-president-mike-pence-would-be-a-dream-for-the-koch-brothers/

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/339283-pence-stops-by-koch-brothers-conference-in-colorado

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/345449-pence-to-keynote-koch-brothers-event-in-august

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/15/486253693/despite-ties-to-vp-pick-mike-pence-koch-network-still-refuses-to-support-trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/07/14/indiana-gov-mike-pence-has-close-ties-charles-kochs-money-network/87083956/

Wrong. During the campaign, the Koch brothers hated Trump, because he wasn't a swamp creature that could be manipulated. Kochs did everything they could to make sure Trump didn't win the primary. I think they even sat out for the general election.

http://www.politico.com/story/...
http://www.newsweek.com/donald...
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Spying on everything you can possibly do with this chromebook, because Google is in the business of marketing your personal information to advertisers. This will probably better enable them to link your credit card to your devices to your viewing preferences, to your buys, to your everything.

Considering that Google is an anti-science SJW organization, I wouldn't be surprised if they disabled these devices for libertarians and right wingers.

However, this isn't just a left or right thing. If there is an upcoming election, you can count on this piece of ..... to be pushing Hillary Clinton ads, and suppressing Bernie content, yet again.

Google is an amoral company. Don't buy their products, or use their services. Block all their crooked websites, their performance-sapping ad campaigns, and their duplicitous products.

http://www.newsweek.com/assang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.salon.com/2014/02/...

...right wing lunatics were not regularly killing police, smashing stores, burning things... Antifa and BLM are meanwhile happily doing all those things on a regular basis.

In point of fact, most terrorism is the US comes from right wing lunatics.

I hold no truck with antifa vigilante goons, but to suggest that any group in the US is regularly killing cops shows a disconnect with reality.

Since when is disagreeing with someone the same thing as hating free speech?

Since the moment it becomes illegal to say certain things. Not only is your opponent wrong when he says it, he should be prosecuted for saying it. That's when.

Antisemitism is almost exclusively a feature of the right. That's because the left when it encounters it works to purge it from it's ranks.

That was in the time of Nazism. Now that the left is changing its cultural allegiance from Karl Marx to Muhammad ibn Wahhab, Rosa Luxemburg would no longer be welcome at her own barricades:
http://www.newsweek.com/gay-pr...

http://www.newsweek.com/when-b...

Why did Obama make the conscious decision to take on his formal African name? His father was also Barack, and also Barry: he chose the nickname when he came to America from Kenya on a scholarship in 1959.

Larry is probably not into golden showers.

Don't drag your private life into the discussion, creimer.

The discussion was about Larry Eliison and Donald Trump. According to the Russians, Trump has a fondness for hookers and golden showers.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-comey-hookers-golden-showers-622604

I'm in the States and I'll be happy to support nuclear when you can find a way to get the 20% of my citizenry to stop believing in crap like "Government's not the solution, it's the problem". Until then you're basically one round of lobbying and anti-bureaucracy sentiment away from the kinds of lax safety regulations that resulted in Fukushima. Exhibit B right here while I'm at it.

There were 20 million or more Tea Party supporters.

I wouldn't rely on that polling.

According to the SPLC, a far-Left anti-right orgranization, there are about 50,000 white supremacists (neo-Nazis, KKK, etc) in the entire US.

And mysteriously, Republicans opposed it when the FBI presented a report on them. Fortunately, there are others.

From those numbers alone, you can see your basic premise is bullshit.

Your argument is merely your opinion, it isn't especially convincing. But other opinions exist.

The fringe was ignored not because it was accepted, but because it basically DOESN'T EXIST outside of a media focus.

Nope. It wasn't just ignored. The right-wing fought hard to have it buried.

Why do you think the media always talks about Duke and Spenser?

Why do you think those are the only people they talk about?

None of the Tea Party marches endorsed racism, or supported Nazis, or advocated for oppression of opposition groups.

That long-repeated claim is about as believable as the claims that the Tea Party rallies don't leave a mess behind.

On the other hand, the Communists and Anarchists have always had a strong presence on the Left, in Occupy, BLM, and now Antifa. Antifa, which has now been declared a domestic terrorist organization for their continued use of violence against civilians in the pursuit of their political goals...

Declared by who? You? That's not convincing.

But your own condemnation reveals your lies, so I know better than to expect you to admit your mistake. I remember that the Communists, anarchists, the NAACP, the Unions, Occupy, BLM, and now AntiFa, have all been denounced by the right, and condemned, no matter what.

It loses its punch after a while. Meanwhile, you ignore the right-wing violence, and even endorse it. But "blood libel" isn't something you mind spreading to others.

Russia is building a nuclear bomb capable of taking out an area the size of Texas.
According to the same article, Russia has 7,300 nukes and USA has 6,970.
Whatever the nukes don't hit, radiation from the bombs will finish off. Don't forget the contamination of our food, air, and water. This doesn't even get into what conventional weapons could do. I suspect you are underestimating our ability to wipe ourselves out.
Could we wipe out _all_ life? No. But all human life? I would say probably.

Reminds me of the controversy surrounding Zuckerberg building a wall around his estate in Hawaii and pissing off a lot of locals.