"A former senior intelligence officer for a Western country who specialized in Russian counterintelligence provided the FBI with information he says shows the Russian government has spent years trying to influence Donald Trump.
In June, the officer, who now works for a U.S. firm gathering information on Russia for corporate clients, was told to research the Republican presidential nominee's dealings in Russia, Mother Jones reported Monday night.
"It started off as a fairly general inquiry," the ex-spy said. As he searched, he says he found “an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit."
Citing it as an “extraordinary situation,” the ex-intelligence officer sent a copy of his report to the FBI.
In it, he charged that Russian intelligence had "compromised" Trump and could "blackmail him” and that it had a file on Hillary Clinton compiled from "bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls."
He said FBI officials greeted his July memo with “shock and horror” but did not request additional information.
The FBI then asked him for more memos in August, he added, prompting him to submit dossiers on members of Trump’s inner circle with ties to Russia."
So, you are saying that the tribe does, indeed, own all of Rapid City and a bunch of other land, just because you and they say so.
No, because there's a treaty that says so. Just because the US Gov't tried to do a takesbacksies doesn't mean it's legal. As I said, the matter is in court now.
Remember, the tribe is a sovereign government. It's like when we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. If the US Gov't decided, "Oh, we changed our mind because we think we should own the Canal again", it would not mean the Canal was now owned by the US.
When I'm president, we're not going to have these weak "semi" conductors, we're going to have full conductors, and they will be terrific conductors, believe me. Conductors we can be proud of.
So you are claiming that the tribe actually owns most of South Dakota west of the Missouri River?! Including, by the way, all of Rapid City.
Right.
Well, just because you and some tribe members say so doesn't mean that they automatically have the right to take over everything in Rapid City, nor the construction site. Maybe you and they should actually try to win a legal case about that first?
Nobody's asking for Rapid City. They're just trying to maintain access to fresh water for their families.
"In October, protestors began occupying a portion of private land just north of the reservation that lay directly in the pipeline’s path. They argued that this slice of land rightfully belongs to Native Americans under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed by eight tribes and the US government. (A decade after the treaty was signed, the land was seized back by the US government in 1877 after a conflict over gold mining, a move that was only deemed illegal in 1980 by the Supreme Court.) “We have never ceded this land,” said Joye Braun of the Indigenous Environmental Network in a statement."
There are all sorts of reasons this sort of behavior might materialize.
Are there also "all sorts of reasons" that the peak activity of this server would occur only during dates immediately following dramatic election news?
Read the whole story. It wasn't "typo-squatters" it was a Russian bank owned by oligarchs that was connecting to Trump's secret private email server.
It's a well-researched and written story. You might want to check it out unless the news upsets you for some reason.
That wasn’t the only oddity. When the researchers pinged the server, they received error messages. They concluded that the server was set to accept only incoming communication from a very small handful of IP addresses. A small portion of the logs showed communication with a server belonging to Michigan-based Spectrum Health. (The company said in a statement: “Spectrum Health does not have a relationship with Alfa Bank or any of the Trump organizations. We have concluded a rigorous investigation with both our internal IT security specialists and expert cyber security firms. Our experts have conducted a detailed analysis of the alleged internet traffic and did not find any evidence that it included any actual communications (no emails, chat, text, etc.) between Spectrum Health and Alfa Bank or any of the Trump organizations. While we did find a small number of incoming spam marketing emails, they originated from a digital marketing company, Cendyn, advertising Trump Hotels.”)
Spectrum accounted for a relatively trivial portion of the traffic. Eighty-seven percent of the DNS lookups involved the two Alfa Bank servers. “It’s pretty clear that it’s not an open mail server,” Camp told me. “These organizations are communicating in a way designed to block other people out.”
Earlier this month, the group of computer scientists passed the logs to Paul Vixie. In the world of DNS experts, there’s no higher authority. Vixie wrote central strands of the DNS code that makes the internet work. After studying the logs, he concluded, “The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion. The operative word is secretive. This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project.” 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. Over the summer, the scientists observed the communications trail from a distance.
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While the researchers went about their work, the conventional wisdom about Russian interference in the campaign began to shift. There were reports that the Trump campaign had ordered the Republican Party to rewrite its platform position on Ukraine, maneuvering the GOP toward a policy preferred by Russia, though the Trump campaign denied having a hand in the change. Then Trump announced in an interview with the New York Times his unwillingness to spring to the defense of NATO allies in the face of a Russian invasion. Trump even invited Russian hackers to go hunting for Clinton’s emails, then passed the comment off as a joke.
Everyone protesting the pipeline drove their car to the protest. Classic.
Everyone protesting the pipeline drove their car to the protest. Classic.
And they managed to procure fuel, at $2/gallon without needing the pipeline.
Say, do you know why the DAPL is going through Native American land? Because the nice people of Bismark, North Dakota didn't want it near them due to concerns that it would contaminate their drinking water. This is what's known as "white privilege": "This pipeline will poison us. Let's put it where the Indians are instead!"
As an older person, I would like to suggest that training I would appreciate would be in knowing when it's time to trim my nose and ear hairs. As it is, I don't notice it until my wife offers to braid it for me, and by then it's really too late.
Wait, what were we talking about again? How 'bout those Cubs, huh? Did I ever tell how we used to have to punch rectangular paper cards to write programs? Believe you me, those were the days. You had to be half-stoned and drunk to program computers back then without going batshit insane. And when you were done debugging, boy, you knew you had done something, even if it was only sorting a bunch of database entries alphabetically. And we liked it.
Now you need to prove, that this research — and these nice things — would've been impossible without government funding.
No, all I need to prove is that "these nice things" didn't happen until government got involved.
So yes, maybe they might have happened someday, just as SpaceX is almost to the point of putting a human into space, something that government did half a century ago. But the fact is that private industry didn't make them happen. And you can see from that list just how valuable that government-funded research has been to mankind.
And let's not lose sight of the fact that we're having this conversation on a system that was originally created due to government-funded research. Private industry took a shot at creating an interactive communications network, and you know what they gave us? Cable television.
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And the emails on Huma Abedin's laptop could, might, what if contain some evidence of wrongdoing.
Also known as FUD.
That's exactly why Putin wants Trump to be president.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...
No, because there's a treaty that says so. Just because the US Gov't tried to do a takesbacksies doesn't mean it's legal. As I said, the matter is in court now.
Remember, the tribe is a sovereign government. It's like when we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. If the US Gov't decided, "Oh, we changed our mind because we think we should own the Canal again", it would not mean the Canal was now owned by the US.
But I can't read Cyrillic.
When I'm president, we're not going to have these weak "semi" conductors, we're going to have full conductors, and they will be terrific conductors, believe me. Conductors we can be proud of.
Nobody's asking for Rapid City. They're just trying to maintain access to fresh water for their families.
You're wrong. There was a treaty that the US Gov't later dishonored. The matter is in federal court right now.
Here is the graph we're talking about. Note the spike exactly when Trump was lobbying the RNC platform committee to take a softer stance re: Ukraine.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
Are there also "all sorts of reasons" that the peak activity of this server would occur only during dates immediately following dramatic election news?
Read the whole story. It wasn't "typo-squatters" it was a Russian bank owned by oligarchs that was connecting to Trump's secret private email server.
It's a well-researched and written story. You might want to check it out unless the news upsets you for some reason.
Everyone protesting the pipeline drove their car to the protest. Classic.
And they managed to procure fuel, at $2/gallon without needing the pipeline.
Say, do you know why the DAPL is going through Native American land? Because the nice people of Bismark, North Dakota didn't want it near them due to concerns that it would contaminate their drinking water. This is what's known as "white privilege": "This pipeline will poison us. Let's put it where the Indians are instead!"
It's not "private property". It belongs to the tribe.
http://www.kfyrtv.com/content/...
Trump will let Putin bang Melania while he watches. And then...Chris Christie.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Or the whole lamb.
Halloween has always been a way of protesting the Church, at least as long as it's been called "Halloween".
As an older person, I would like to suggest that training I would appreciate would be in knowing when it's time to trim my nose and ear hairs. As it is, I don't notice it until my wife offers to braid it for me, and by then it's really too late.
Wait, what were we talking about again? How 'bout those Cubs, huh? Did I ever tell how we used to have to punch rectangular paper cards to write programs? Believe you me, those were the days. You had to be half-stoned and drunk to program computers back then without going batshit insane. And when you were done debugging, boy, you knew you had done something, even if it was only sorting a bunch of database entries alphabetically. And we liked it.
Yeah, but she's got the body of an 80 year-old.
Polls are almost always right.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/944...
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
I can hack you through an exploit in the Akashic records.
I can't fault your logic.
[I've been sitting here trying to come up with a pun for "bituminous" and I just cannot do it because I'm just too sedintary].
I'm not sure I understand. Could you re-frame that simile as a car metaphor?
I can name that mitigation in a one-step operation.
1. Throw you iPhone into a wood chipper. Done!
If you think the space program was for "no benefit whatsoever", you should go back and take a look at the list I provided earlier.
No, all I need to prove is that "these nice things" didn't happen until government got involved.
So yes, maybe they might have happened someday, just as SpaceX is almost to the point of putting a human into space, something that government did half a century ago. But the fact is that private industry didn't make them happen. And you can see from that list just how valuable that government-funded research has been to mankind.
And let's not lose sight of the fact that we're having this conversation on a system that was originally created due to government-funded research. Private industry took a shot at creating an interactive communications network, and you know what they gave us? Cable television.