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> Let me tell you something. You take a look at Mosul.

You did notice how all of the high value targets in Mosul were able to flee? There was no apparent attempt to capture these people on the run or hit them on the road or otherwise get them.

Meanwhile we've got a nasty bit of urban warfare that hasn't even started yet and they're talking about a flood of refugees that are going to overwhelm what little resources they have set aside for that sort of thing.

That's exactly what the strategy is trying to do, get the non-combatants out of the way before taking the city, it makes it a lot easier to conduct warfare. From this article:

“What this shows is Trump doesn’t know a damn thing about military strategy,” said Jeff McCausland, a retired Army colonel and former dean at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.

Robert Scales, a retired Army major general and former commandant of the Army War College, said the unfolding Mosul campaign is a course in Military Operations 101 that American and Iraqi armies have followed for years.

A large allied force approaches the objective (Mosul, in this case) from multiple directions, establishes a loose cordon around the city, and peels away the outlying towns and villages, all the while opening an escape route for refugees and people who do not want to fight, General Scales said.

>FTA: "Put differently, the logs suggested that Trump and Alfa had configured something like a digital hotline connecting the two entities, shutting out the rest of the world, and designed to obscure its own existence." Oh, you mean like the SSH setup I have for all my servers to only listen to known IPs for shell access? Uh, yeah, no kidding. Geez, politics can make people so stupid.

According to known right-wing rag, the New York Times, the FBI investigated this alleged connection for weeks and decided it was nothing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11...

The NY Times investigation referred to in the Slate article has now been released. I'm guessing Slate pushed them out a bit quicker than they'd hoped.

Lots of interesting things in the article, but they feel there's insufficient evidence to claim a link between the Trump server and Alfa.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html

>Has the bureau investigated this material?

Yes. And they found fucking nothing.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html

But I do understand that "OOGABOOGA PUTIN!" is all you have left, so I don't expect even the NYT to change your mind.

Ahem ...

Federal Judge Allows Suit Against Trump University to Proceed
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/trump-university-case.html

Reminder: Donald Trump due in court after Election Day on child rape and racketeering charges
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/reminder-donald-trump-due-in-court-after-election-day-on-child-rape-and-racketeering-charges/

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html

In classified sessions in August and September, intelligence officials also briefed congressional leaders on the possibility of financial ties between Russians and people connected to Mr. Trump. They focused particular attention on what cyberexperts said appeared to be a mysterious computer back channel between the Trump Organization and the Alfa Bank, which is one of Russia’s biggest banks and whose owners have longstanding ties to Mr. Putin.

F.B.I. officials spent weeks examining computer data showing an odd stream of activity to a Trump Organization server and Alfa Bank. Computer logs obtained by The New York Times show that two servers at Alfa Bank sent more than 2,700 “look-up” messages — a first step for one system’s computers to talk to another — to a Trump-connected server beginning in the spring. But the F.B.I. ultimately concluded that there could be an innocuous explanation, like a marketing email or spam, for the computer contacts.

The only one I hear claiming that is Clinton

Really? Here, let me help you out with that.

The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process. Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.

Continuing...

she has the poorest record of telling the truth of any politician ever

Have some nice charts

Anyway, as for this hack: I actually doubt this was the US. One, the US generally gives "won't confirm or deny" statements in situations like this, rather than outright denial. Second, Ukraine has an awful lot of computer talent on their own, and all the motive in the world. A lot of people in the US don't realize that the industry that's booming the most in Ukraine right now is IT; they're a popular outsourcing destination for Europe.

If you're still a Hillary supporter, it has to be through willful ignorance.

Hands over ears
Eyes closed
Saying, lalalalalalalala

Or perhaps you need to listen to a little less Trump and read the Comey letter here .

Look here for Comey's internal email to FBI employees yeah, "Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations" but since I am being forced to turn in my GOP hat, I am going to sink a presidential candidates bid for the whitehouse on something I have ZERO clue about at this point by my own admission. Yeah, Comey could have taken another week with increased scrutiny until he actually had found or not found something, instead of choose an inappropriate and reckless way to inform the general public and the congress about an on-going FBI investigation and a potential new source of data was found.

Of course the "liberal" (no such thing) media jumped all over it instantly and misled the public and Trump walks out on stage and gives a speech that is filled with so much lies and misrepresentation that the fact he was able to do it is another example of why he is not fit to be president.
 

it's like trying to defend the legitimacy of Bush's invasion of Iraq (you can't prove that the WMDs weren't shipped out to Syria!)

In fact, we can prove that not all could have been shipped to Syria because the WMDs which Bush alleged were found in Iraq.

The lie was that Bush lied.

Intent is not a factor for conviction. An act (or lack of action) is a crime, or its not. Intent is a potential factor in sentencing, not in gaining a conviction.

Incorrect. Name one case where someone was prosecuted for releasing classified information without intent. There are none. Technically they might have tried to prosecute purely on the gross negligence argument, but you don't prosecute a presidential candidate for something no one has ever been prosecuted for.

Doing so would set an Earth shattering president. A quick google search shows about 4 million people holding a top secret clearance, and the number who hold a secret clearance has to be at least an order of magnitude higher. If you start seeing political prosecutions of people who unintentionally release classified information, then a lot of those jobs are going to be suddenly vacant, not to mention all the military and private contractor jobs.

Seriously if ordinary people who are just doing their job have to worry about an accident destroying their entire life and perhaps ending them in jail, they will leave those jobs en-masse, or have to pay exorbitant salaries to keep them.

You think the cost of an F-35 is high now? Once the new level of paranoia is in place, expect the price to triple.

Of course someone might say, but we will only do it to Hillary Clinton, but isn't that been the problem all along? None of the previous investigation should have been leaked unless she was recommended for prosecution. It would not have been if the FBI treated her like anyone else. They did not. They released everything they could that might damage her, and now are releasing this vague crap 11 days before an election? That is ridiculous.

Oh look now the TV is showing lies about benghazi. I'm so sick of the crap that passes for politics in this country. She had an ~11 hour hearing by republicans who admitted previously it was a political witch hunt.

Meanwhile, Donald trump has admitted to sexual assault on tape, has a dozen women brave enough to support that claim, even under threat of him crushing them like an ant with his lawyers, has been bankrupt multiple times, has hid almost everything about his whole shady business, hasn't paid taxes in apparently decades, gets lie of the year, and continues to lie so often that people can't keep up with him, attacks grieving parents who have lost their son, attacks reporters, insults women, attacks freedom of the press, lies about everything being rigged, lies about Clinton's record almost continually. Hell there was an article the other day about a major newspaper releases all of Trump insults. nytimes, lies about the president's birthplace for years, lies about mexicans, lies about muslims, lies about the danger of immigration, lies about world war three, lies about Putin's hacking of emails, lies about how he choked when he talked to the mexican president about the wall. The wall itself was one of the biggest lies. Mexico is not going to pay for it. The real cost would, as the nitwit might say, be Yuuge. It would also be of marginal use. I'm sure that Mexico has the equivalent of a home depot. They can go buy a 1 foot taller ladder and a rope.

I get that people might not want Clinton as their first choice, but I do not get why Trump is not the last.

Hell now they are comparing this to Watergate on CNN. At least Wolf is correcting the nitwit. Watergate was about an actual breaking an entering and the cover up. Oh look, It's Trump's buddy Putin that did that with the emails, repeatedly, over and over and over again. The Donald just asked his good friend to do it some more.

Hell, Donald even insulted the Pope. Seriously, the Pope.

Why the hell is he even still in the running? I may not have supported Romney, but at least I thought he was basically a decent, if out of touch man, as were the Bushes and McC

So now both parties do it, and it becomes an auction for each vote.

What of it? Votes of the indifferent are worthless anyway. Votes of the convinced will be too expensive. Who cares...

I still don't see a problem. People vote for all sorts of bogus reasons — Obama was attractive to some women, for example, and got some share of votes based on that. Trump may have the same advantage this time. May as well allow the otherwise indifferent folks to simply sell their votes.

Probably where this went to - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04...

Lizard conspiracy? Please don't put words in my mouth. I've said no such thing. All I said was that most journalists don't bother linking sources and that I could've told you about some of the stories just coming out today quite some time ago because I've been following the money flows.

I know what I know because I've looked at the emails. I've looked at the people arguing both sides. I've looked at corroborating evidence. I won't believe something just because some yahoo published it, but if I can find contemporaneous, corroborating evidence from many sources? Then we get somewhere. See, regarding all the random claims of sexual abuse against both Clintons and Trump, when people suffer serious harm, they generally go to the police or court system first. If Trump did all that, why was it hidden for years or decades until just now? We have lots of that kind of thing for the Clintons, you know, and it wouldn't make sense for it to have been produced to win an election.

As for Podesta & co., we have their private emails, detailing the thoughts they don't dare tell us. We know that they're real, because the DKIM signatures validate, so all lies to the contrary, they said what they said. If you don't believe the corroborated, easily available evidence of graft involving the Clinton Foundation (which is finally hitting the papers now), then I don't know what to say to you, except that your position appears to be less based on fact.

Now that I've said that, I'm sure you can stuff words in my mouth to say otherwise, because you just did that in your last reply.

They don't mess with buses or commuter trains.

Yes, they do.

Since 2010, it has been illegal in New York to rent out a whole apartment for fewer than 30 days. But some tenants and landlords have ignored those rules and have been using Airbnb to rent out their apartments for much shorter periods.

The law does not preclude you from offering a room for rent on AirBnB in an apartment you continue to reside in, i.e., while you are present. Bottom line is that you must continue to live there during the rental period, sort of like taking on a short-term roommate. Perfectly legal.

The law doesn't even preclude you from subletting or renting your entire apartment on AirBnB, provided that the rental period is 30 days or longer. That brings the rental under New York's apartment rental laws, and gives the person who rents the apartment certain rights that they would not have had with a shorter rental period. Perfectly legal.

The law does preclude you from renting an apartment for fewer than 30 days in which you will not be also residing during the rental period.

TL;DR : the law is intended to prevent landlords from turning their apartment stock into hotel rooms.

Cry me a river for AirBnB and for the landlords who have been abusing the already existing NYC law to extort even more money from their already overpriced NYC housing inventory. They bought their apartments knowing what the law was; they just figured that nobody would bother enforcing it. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise!

If you don't like the conclusion, attack the study.

such yuuuge failures, the lot of them, amirite? /s

Not sure about these other regions, but the housing situation in NYC — and that's the topic — surely is a failure. The rent-control was introduced to the city in 1943 as a temporary measure to protect families of servicemen from "greedy landlords" jacking up the prices, while the men were at war. Housing remains very expensive. Landlords wary of difficulties evicting bad tenants are very particular about who they rent to — insisting on credit-reports, income tax return-copies, and background checks.

Meanwhile, well-connected politicians — especially the "fighters for affordable housing" get such subsidized apartments for themselves — and not just one, but up to four sometimes.

Unfair, inefficient, corruption-prone — what's not to like about Statism?

Oh wait a minute! Sorry, it was New York Times' story on the same topic.
I read it about the same time so, didn't realize it was a different source.
Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10...

All I see is you repeating what you said, over and over, waving away any the research that disagrees with you, and never citing any of your own - just more flat declarations that we're supposed to take on faith.

I understand what you're claiming quite well, but I disagree. I cited research that supports my opinion, whereas you dismiss it all as "a bunch of people with an agenda". How is this not pure denial?

Bangladesh is gaining sedimental land in some parts (which will take decades before it's useful farmland) - but it's still low-lying, and at the mercy of storm surges like this one. And that's still only one example. If you want to convince me that these analyses are flatly wrong, you'll have to do better than more unsourced declarations.

I said that it will do so independent of any policies we adopt.

I heard you the first time, and you still haven't provided any reason for me to believe you. Whereas adopting policies that restrict and phase out fossil fuels absolutely will greatly slow atmospheric CO2 level rises, since that is demonstrably the largest source.

the cost of dealing with climate change and the cost of avoiding it are about the same

That same report also says:
* that the costs are very likely to be greatly underestimated,
* that costs will scale up dramatically past 3-4 degrees of warming,
* that unmitigated warming adds numerous risks and uncertainties that could potentially add greatly to the bill,
* that there are numerous mitigation strategies with net-negative costs (i.e. they save more money than they cost),
* and that the financial costs do not take into account the significant human and social costs, which can also be reduced by mitigation.

Your clear example of cherry-picking the one quote you want to hear just highlights your own agenda.

the incorrect assumption that without government intervention, people won't switch to renewables

And how do you think people can switch to renewables when they have no choice about their electricity source? How do you propose to convince the fossil fuel companies to abandon their campaign of discrediting renewables at every point, to compete fairly in the market (they're currently given a free pass for offloading their external emissions costs, which costs us hundreds of billions annually), and to not make full use of their existing infrastructure, vast scale, and trillions in assets to do their utmost to block renewables from displacing them completely from the energy market?

Government intervention would not be required if the market were actually free, but it will never be free as long as carbon emitters don't have to pay for the costs of their emissions. Governments around the world have already intervened in numerous similar cases (sulfur emissions, ozone emissions) with highly successful results, yet some people remain utterly convinced that in this case any possible action is somehow doomed to failure.

The difference between the US and Russia can perhaps be illustrated thusly. The US bombed a hospital in Afghanistan - almost certainly by accident, and taking measures to make sure it didn't happen again. Russia has repeatedly bombed hospitals in Syria - almost certainly on purpose, and with no indication that they're going to stop. But only the first of these made it to Slashdot.

And that's okay: the US is, at least nominally, a liberal Western democracy, and we hold such countries to higher standards. But that shouldn't mislead us into thinking that its human-rights record isn't way ahead of Russia's.

I mean just look at the name of this weapon - no masking, no rosy glasses, no BS. It is Satan, period.

"Satan" is the NATO (Western) reporting name for the missile. The Russian name, "Sarmat", is a reference to the Sarmatian people of Iran circa 1500-2500 years ago. It's roughly equivalent to a Western military design being named "Spartan" (which, you'll note, several are).

It gets even worse. Even when GM did the exact same thing it got away very easily.

GM fiddling with emissions tests:
$45 million

$15B fine on 11M defective by design units?

No, approximately 482000. This settlement pertains to the US only.

VW shouldn't be making a profit per unit after fines.

Why not? I don't see any reason why there should be a connection between the penalty for the violation and the profit earned per vehicle sold (which was likely negative, since VW has been losing money in the US for decades). Moreover, the total cost of this settlement is more than 300 times what GM had to pay when they did something similar with a comparable number of cars. I would rather argue that VW is paying a few orders of magnitude more than what would be reasonable or in line with previous cases.

He was labeled anti-black for reasons I have yet to be able to find.

Donald Trump violated the civil rights act by refusing to rent homes to black people.

* http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
* http://new.www.huffingtonpost....
* http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

Trump continued to refuse to rent homes to black people three years after Justice Department ruling on the matter sides against Trump.

* http://www.nytimes.com/1978/03...
* http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10...

Trump ordered blacks to leave casino floor whenever him or wife arrives on property.

* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

1991 book written by Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino President quotes Trump as saying:

"I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day⦠. I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It's not anything they can control."

* http://articles.philly.com/199...

Trump built a casino in black majority city and breaks promise to mayor about hiring locals, refrains to hire the minorities and opting to staff the casino with almost exclusively all Caucasian employees.

* http://www.nydailynews.com/arc...

Trump was asked about replacing TSA's 'heebeejabis' with veterans, responded with:

"We're looking at it"

* http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/...
* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://time.com/4039658/trump-...

Trump responded to accusations of racism by hiring a former aid for Joseph McCarthy to sue the government for half a billion dollars.

* http://www.salon.com/2011/04/2...

Trump kept books of Hitler Speeches by his bed.

* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://forward.com/the-assimil...
* http://www.gq.com/story/donald...

Trump's campaign photoshopped a white model black.

* http://www.huffington

He was labeled anti-black for reasons I have yet to be able to find.

Donald Trump violated the civil rights act by refusing to rent homes to black people.

* http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
* http://new.www.huffingtonpost....
* http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

Trump continued to refuse to rent homes to black people three years after Justice Department ruling on the matter sides against Trump.

* http://www.nytimes.com/1978/03...
* http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10...

Trump ordered blacks to leave casino floor whenever him or wife arrives on property.

* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

1991 book written by Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino President quotes Trump as saying:

"I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day⦠. I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It's not anything they can control."

* http://articles.philly.com/199...

Trump built a casino in black majority city and breaks promise to mayor about hiring locals, refrains to hire the minorities and opting to staff the casino with almost exclusively all Caucasian employees.

* http://www.nydailynews.com/arc...

Trump was asked about replacing TSA's 'heebeejabis' with veterans, responded with:

"We're looking at it"

* http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/...
* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://time.com/4039658/trump-...

Trump responded to accusations of racism by hiring a former aid for Joseph McCarthy to sue the government for half a billion dollars.

* http://www.salon.com/2011/04/2...

Trump kept books of Hitler Speeches by his bed.

* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://forward.com/the-assimil...
* http://www.gq.com/story/donald...

Trump's campaign photoshopped a white model black.

* http://www.huffington

He was labeled anti-black for reasons I have yet to be able to find.

Donald Trump violated the civil rights act by refusing to rent homes to black people.

* http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
* http://new.www.huffingtonpost....
* http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

Trump continued to refuse to rent homes to black people three years after Justice Department ruling on the matter sides against Trump.

* http://www.nytimes.com/1978/03...
* http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10...

Trump ordered blacks to leave casino floor whenever him or wife arrives on property.

* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

1991 book written by Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino President quotes Trump as saying:

"I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day⦠. I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It's not anything they can control."

* http://articles.philly.com/199...

Trump built a casino in black majority city and breaks promise to mayor about hiring locals, refrains to hire the minorities and opting to staff the casino with almost exclusively all Caucasian employees.

* http://www.nydailynews.com/arc...

Trump was asked about replacing TSA's 'heebeejabis' with veterans, responded with:

"We're looking at it"

* http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/...
* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://time.com/4039658/trump-...

Trump responded to accusations of racism by hiring a former aid for Joseph McCarthy to sue the government for half a billion dollars.

* http://www.salon.com/2011/04/2...

Trump kept books of Hitler Speeches by his bed.

* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://forward.com/the-assimil...
* http://www.gq.com/story/donald...

Trump's campaign photoshopped a white model black.

* http://www.huffington

Arguing against the Civil Rights Movement is effectively saying all citizens should not be equal, which is kind of one of the principles our country was founded on (admittedly it took us a long time to approach that point).

At this point the Civil Rights movement seems to be more interested in pushing for special rights for favored groups and blaming any problems its favored groups encounter on -isms like racism or sexism. Moreover Civil Rights groups tolerate honest discussion, or dissenting views, about as well as Soviet Russia. Indeed they take special pride in punishing dissenting political views such as anyone who donated to California Proposition 8 (citation below). This is why I chuckle when Civil Rights groups are mentioned in the same sentence as founding principles. The two couldn't be more different. Equality under law just means no special rules for anyone ... period. It really is that simple.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02...

Only a complete moron would argue that if global warming isn't the cause of all islands disappearing, it can't possible be the cause of any. And if you actually looked at your second link:

The islands apparently were eroded away, a process accelerated by storms and sea level rise.

There's plenty of other examples.

Will the US play along with this and not expand the extrajudicial assassination by drone program to Sweden? There's a high likelihood the next US administration will continue the drone war (which the US would call "state-sponsored terrorism" if any other country were doing has been doing). Terror Tuesday is coming up fast but we all know murder-by-drone is lighthearted humor except for its victims and anyone who thinks killing is wrong. Like Obama said, "Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine". Paving the way for the next war criminal, Hillary Clinton, to take over the role.

Yep there's ocean drive (hint it's named ocean drive because it's next to the ocean) flooding. Damn it looks like Atlantis.

So, you're saying that the live webcams set up by the Miami Beach Department of Tourism doesn't show any flooding? Well, I must have gotten some bad information about the flooding in Miami Beach then. I guess the photos on weather.com and the Miami Herald were just photoshopped.

https://weather.com/science/en...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09...

http://www.miamiherald.com/art...

Why isn't there a similar push to get men into kindergarten education or nursing?

But there are similiar pushes.

Acknowledging it just doesn't fit your pre-ordained conclusions.

> If you're always being viewed as a sexual predator, hten the problem is with you, not all males.

So NOT true. Just look at the way that many women, the feminist movement especially, and the media talks about men in general.

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes...

http://soletstalkabout.com/pos...

https://otrazhenie.wordpress.c...

Actually I'd be surprised if he didn't since this is anything but a rare occurrence. And of course we have no idea what has been discussed in these 22 million missing emails from the Bush area.

When one considers Russia has an office in St. Petersburg out of which it pays an army of online trolls to spew Russian propaganda or muddy the waters by making false statements and outright lies about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one person from the U.S., doing this on his own without government backing, doesn't quite rise to the level of nuisance.

Sure, Putin is probably miffed this has been done and is looking for payback, but when one is spending millions of dollars every year to pay people (not to mention their vodka allotment) to do your bidding, and providing them the equipment to do so, one person isn't going to make a difference.

Had he instead posted pictures of the unmarked graves of Russian soldiers who have died during the invasion of Ukraine, that would have been different and had a greater impact. Not that Putin cares about the over 2,000 soldiers who have so far died during the invasion, including colonels within the Russian military who are working to support the invasion, but it would have been a nice touch to rub Putin's nose into how badly Russia miscalculated and is suffering because of Putin's ego.

And if it's not a crime in the country where the person being sought is staying, it's generally not extraditable. Canada is one such country where the treat with the US allows Canada to refuse to extradite such a person. Another reason in the same treaty is if the extradition is of a political nature:

Article 4, section 1, subsection iii

(iii) When the offense in respect of which extradition is requested is of a political character, or the person whose extradition is requested proves that the extradition request has been made for the purpose of trying or punishing him for an offense of the above-mentioned character. If any question arises as to whether a case comes within the provisions of this subparagraph, the authorities of the Government on which the requisition is made shall decide.

Additionally, Canada can refuse to extradite in cases where the death penalty is in play unless the US agrees beforehand not to seek it, of if such judgment is made, not to follow through with it. And in the case of minor children, extradition can be refused if it is determined that such extradition

ARTICLE 5

If a request for extradition is made under this Treaty for a person who at the time of such request, or at the time of the commission of the offense for which extradition is sought, is under the age of eighteen years and is considered by the requested State to be one of its residents, the requested State, upon a determination that extradition would disrupt the social readjustment and rehabilitation of that person, may recommend to the requesting State that the request for extradition be withdrawn, specifying the reasons therefor.

ARTICLE 6

When the offense for which extradition is requested is punishable by death under the laws of the requesting State and the laws of the requested State do not permit such punishment for that offense, extradition may be refused unless the requesting State provides such assurances as the requested State considers sufficient that the death penalty shall not be imposed, or, if imposed, shall not be executed.

It can be argued pretty easily that Snowden, Manning, and Assange all have a defense under Article 2.1(iii) to have safe haven in Canada, since the whole mess has taken on a HUGE political angle, overshadowing everything else. Unfortunately, Obama's kill list has no geographical limit - it's fine to kill Americans anywhere in the world, even in the USA, in violation of their constitutionally protected right to due process. Looks like Obama is taking a page from Bush's "the constitution is just a damn piece of paper" playbook and ran with it.

I beg to differ with your "ignorant" statement. Trump is much smarter than people believed

If he were smart, he would have been much more careful with what he said while wearing a mic.

Yeah, because smart people never do that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...

Don't be silly. Russia's paid trolling agency is headquartered in St. Petersburg, not Moscow.

They have contracts with the US gov, mil to worry about. Just reading a site with a codeword that gets stored on their computer is an issue. They know their work and home internet is been logged as part of work "security".
They know that for the next promotion their internet logs might be looked into for the term "polygraph" over years. Other terms might be of interest to a gov or mil trying to find staff who can still think for themselves and "read" about events.
They get told not to read sites. All part of working for and protecting "freedom".
"The most vocal" is usually just faith based or virtue signalling or need to push a political tech narrative to gain as a contractor.
The sale of more security products, services due to super "hackers" from other nations got pushed a lot over the past weeks.
The idea that leaks got "faked" vs actual staff having to quit. Staff don't quit over fake news.
"Will reading WikiLeaks cost students jobs with the federal government?" (December 9, 2010)
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CR...
"Don’t Look, Don’t Read: Government Warns Its Workers Away From WikiLeaks Documents" (Dec 4 2010)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12...
US blocks access to WikiLeaks for federal workers (4 dec 2010)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
The other aspect is just domestic US gov/mil propaganda been allowed in with the relaxing of the Smith–Mundt Act. A lot of sock puppet accounts.
The next step will be a flood of US gov workers pushing a "story" under ideas like 'H.R. 5181: Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016"
https://www.govtrack.us/congre...
So wait for a new big US bureaucracy with a fun name like "Information Analysis and Response" to really get vocal and create prolific posters :)

"They said there was no problem with the phones in China. That's why I bought a Samsung," said Mr. Zhang, a 23-year-old former firefighter. "This is an issue of deception. They are cheating Chinese consumers."

Mr. Zhang, a salesman in the city of Fushun, in northeastern China, was a Samsung loyalist.

After he rejected the offer from Samsung, Mr. Zhang quit his job and hit the road.

Apparently there are two Mr. Zhangs. One 23 year old former firefighter (probably retired) who somehow is able to afford a Note 7, and a salesman who decided to quit his job and hit the road because his phone caught fire (who wouldn't?).

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10...

But you're comparing Obama's naivite

It was not just Obama's naivette — Hillary Clinton was running the State Department at the time. More to the point, it was not just the two of them either — the entire Democratic Establishment thought so, dismissing "Republican hawks" as "war-mongers". Whether they did it for personal gain, like Clinton, or out of sheer idiocy, like Biden ( the fount of foreign policy expertise, according to Democrats), they'll keep doing it.

You undercut your case when you link sources like "freebeacon", "powerlineblog", "breitbart"

No, I don't. First of all, my sources also include WSJ, NYTimes, and even Politifact. For someone, who offers no citations at all, it is rather rich to complain about mine.

Second, a fact remains a fact, no matter, who reports it.

the Clinton foundation is one of the highest rated major charities in the US

Yeah, sure. And Obama is a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

what you have against a charity that spends nearly 90% of its funds on stamping out AIDS and other diseases [...]

See? No citation again. Let me help you. Of the $91.3mln spent by the foundation in 2014, according to their own tax-filings, only $5.2 million went to charitable grants.

Your "Podesta story" is about Podesta (not Clinton) [...] he probably divested

You mentioned a number of things about Trump's advisors, including Manafort, who once help Yanukovich. It is perfectly fair for me to bring up Podesta. And I can keep doing it, too.

Versus Trump, who personally has owned and run businesses heavily backed by Russians

Citations are missing again, khmm... Let's see, if I can help. This? No... Sorry, you'll have to do it yourself.

Russians occasionally making investments in companies related to people related to Clinton

Clintons received — both directly and via their Foundation — billions of dollars. A lot of that came from Putin-controlled entities. Just in 2015, for example, when she was already actively engaged in elections, they reported as much $10 million in income. What do you suppose, they sold, other than some more cattle futures?

person who currently, actively, and strongly personally supports Putin

False. Pants on Fire.

has publicly advocated eliminating NATO

False. Pants on Fire.

wants to give Russia Crimea

False. Pants on Fire.

parades around information from Sputnik

Half true — irrelevant.

I seriously hope you're not considering voting for the candidate whose campaign manager worked for Yanukovitch, whose foreign policy advisor actively works for Gazprom

I'd rather Trump wins, than Clinton, who:

1. ran State, when the Administration ended all "Georgian" sanctions against Russia, thus inviting Putin into Ukraine as predicted
2. received, along with her husband, countless bribes (that is, "speech fees") from Putin-controlled entities — and gave amply in return
3. routed billions-worth of investment into Russia's high-tech and -technology firms, some of them, obviously, with military connections
4. was part of the Administration, that still would not give Ukraine lethal weapons (such as anti-tank missiles they desperately need) to counter the threat of Russia's armor
5. Continues to employ John Podesta, who received millions from Putin too — and, unlike Manafort, Podesta is not simply a cold professional campaigner one day in Peru, tomorrow in Israel, and so on, he is sincerely behind Clinton and Democrats.

Unlike USSR before him, Putin courts all sides. I'll take my chances with Trump, who has no prior record of helping the asshole and is less likely to be blackmailed by him.

Where have you been. Since Trump stated that he hopes Russia can locate Clinton's missing emails, it has been "established" with plenty of and nothing but dogma to "support" it, that all hacking is absolutely the actions of Russian hackers and that they are ALL Russian government controlled/funded. Up until that moment, the Chinese were to blame for everything. But, since that moment on it has all been Russia. The U.S. claims to have unequivocal "proof", yet refuses to show any of the proof.

I don't believe that they have any idea at all who the hackers actually are. But, that dogma echo chamber though...

I think it goes without saying that Ecuador controls their own embassy. The question is, why such a major change in direction RIGHT NOW, essentially "turning on a dime."

I head speculation that someone was threatening to either call in some big loans to Ecuador, or call their bonds unless they unplugged Assange. That sort of raw political pressure might explain the sudden turn by Ecuador. Hillary has some very rich friends and backers.

Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich

You highlight one of the problems: too much complexity. Nobody should have to worry about "deductibles" or "calendar years" or any of that shit.

Things are about to get a little simpler. According to this NY Times article: HealthCare.gov Will Add ‘Simple Choice’ Plans in Effort to Improve Value

“All Simple Choice plans in the same category (like Silver) have exactly the same core benefits, deductibles and co-payments,” states a message to be displayed on the federal website. “When viewing Simple Choice plans, you can focus on other important features that may be different: monthly premiums, additional services covered, doctor and hospital networks.”

Under the standardized version of a silver plan, co-payments would be $30 for a visit to a primary care doctor, $65 for a visit to a specialist, $15 for a generic prescription drug, $50 for a preferred brand-name drug and $100 for a non-preferred brand-name drug. Consumers may be responsible for up to 40 percent of the cost of specialty drugs, including certain high-cost medicines for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

For the lowest-income families, the charges would be lower.

"It's completely insane that Pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate, and that racists and anti-Semites are using a once peaceful frog-dude from my comic book as an icon of hate"

How much of that racism and anti-Semitism is actually real, and how much — "false flag" operations by DNC-operatives like these?

“You remember the Iowa state fair thing where Scott Walker grabbed the sign out of the dude’s hand and then the dude kind of gets roughed up right in front of the stage right there on camera?” Foval asks. “That was all us. The guy that got roughed up is my counterpart who works for Bob.”

Foval also references Shirley Teeter, a sixty-nine-year-old lady who claims that she was assaulted at a Trump rally in North Carolina. “She was one of our activists,” he says while introducing the term bird dogging to the political lexicon.

In addition to these thugs on the ground, Clinton's campaign also employs online trolls (like Putin). If her political consultants aren't directing some of these guys to create fake "hate posts" — as their ethics clearly allow them to do — they aren't earning their pay...

The Times says he's worth at least $1.8 billion if not more, per FEC financials. But I guess that's not successful enough?

Not when you consider how much of his father's money he burnt in the process. Most of us are lucky get one chance at wealth, He has had many and still finds ways to throw it away.
This is not the reputation I'd want looking after the nation's finances.

Let's compare.

You:

Facebook has actually never made a profit

The New York Times

Facebook said sales totaled $6.44 billion for the quarter, up 59 percent from a year ago, while profit almost tripled to $2.06 billion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...

(See, now they're making TWO billions per quarter in profit.)

Next time dude, try a little less smugness and a little more google search.

Let's hope Samsung doesn't pack it with so much innovation that it becomes uncontrollable.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016...

Originally the Communications Act of 1934 which created the FCC also created a set of rules that prevented ownership issues. The FCC under the Bush Administration worked hard to repeal these restrictions, and now we have our wonderful mass media oligarchs that dictate what we like and what we watch. Something else we can pin on W.

NY Times on Trump's worth - at least $1.8 billion net positive. Don't go through life ignorant... It takes but a second to find this information...