The End of the World: A Political Thread. A New Hope coming soon!
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There needs to be an all out show of force to get people to register again even if they know they are registered. No mistakes can happen this November and in two years.
From what I've read, it's about powdered milk. And it's also after only a certain threshold has been reached.
Like Whey powder perhaps? I delivered a load of that stuff to an Ice Cream company. It might be in more products than we realize.
I get the fact that purging is necessary for people that have moved/died, but two years? And I don't know Ohio specifically but there are plenty of states that have an insanely early cutoff for being able to register to vote.
Yep, it is really sketchy. Here in NY State our system is horrible. If you are lucky, you get a notice in the mail that you can vote a week or so before the election. That's your only indication there's a problem. Good luck getting a problem sorted out in that short of a time.
It is definitely meant to suppress the vote.
Have I told the nightmare story of my wife's fight with our local election office? We've been married 20 years this year and she still has to vote in her old district under her old name. 20 years! She filled out all the paperwork many times over (she's super anal retentive like that). Oddly enough my stuff got moved over no problem, but her married name has never appeared on our voter registration. We have to take 2 separate cars to go vote.
On the fifth day, God created the chemicals, yea, and dideth he also create the side effects thereunto.
(And obligatory: dumdumdumdumdum).
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article...ron-banks-brexit-farage?utm_source=reddit.com
Everything you need to know about the bombshell report linking Russia to Brexit
Efforts to expose Moscow’s long-suspected meddling in the U.K.’s 2016 Brexit referendum gained substantial ground Sunday after a bombshell report in Britain revealed deep ties between the Kremlin and the Leave campaign — which also had significant links to the Trump election campaign.
Investigations by the Sunday Times and the Observer newspapers revealed the Leave campaign’s biggest backer, businessman Aaron Banks, met with Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador to the U.K., at least three times in the months leading up to the vote to exit the European Union, and even invited him to a Brexit results party in Westminster.
Banks also exchanged emails with the embassy and other Russian officials, including Alexander Udod, a diplomat who was subsequently expelled from the U.K. over the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
Yakovenko is already on the radar of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, after he was was named in the indictment of ex-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos.
Banks, along with close friend and former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, was among the very first overseas political figures to meet Trump after his surprise victory in November 2016.
It also emerged over the weekend that Banks passed contact information for Trump’s transition team to the Russians.
Banks has strenuously denied any wrongdoing, claiming the Kremlin had no influence over the Brexit campaign. But previously undisclosed meetings and frequent emails between the Brexiters and Moscow suggest that Banks, along with his political colleague Andy Wigmore, who also sent emails and attended meetings, will have some difficult questions to answer when they appear in front of U.K. lawmakers Tuesday.
WHO IS AARON BANKS?Banks is a businessman who came to media attention in 2014 when he donated £1 million ($1.34 million) to the U.K. Independence Party led by Farage. But it was the £9 million he donated to two Brexit campaigns — Leave.EU and Grassroots Out — that brought him real notoriety.
Banks owns an insurance company called GoSkippy and claims that the links to Russia revealed in the probe relate to his wife Katya, who is Russian.
WHAT DO THE EMAILS REVEAL?The emails detail the links between Banks and Russia in the lead-up to the Brexit referendum and its aftermath.
Banks previously admitted to having one “one boozy lunch” at the Russian embassy with Yakovenko, but the emails show he met the ambassador on at least three separate occasions.
It was also claimed that the ambassador introduced Banks to a Russian businessman who proposed a business deal to buy six Russian goldmines, with potential profits in the billions. The emails suggest Banks traveled to Moscow in February 2016 — at the height of the Brexit campaign — to meet with a Russian bank about the deal.
Banks denies this trip ever happened, claiming he has stamps in his passport to show he only travelled to Russia in October 2014 and March 2015 to visit his wife’s family.
WHERE DID THE EMAILS COME FROM?The emails were first collected by Isabel Oakeshott, a former Sunday Times journalist who ghost-wrote Banks’ book “The Bad Boys of Brexit.” The writer says she didn’t realize the extent of the Russian connection in the emails until last year.
She said she postponed publishing them because she wanted to include them in a new book she is writing about Russia’s use of “hybrid warfare” to influence British politics.
The Observer got hold of the emails they claim through a third party. Oakeshott alleges they were stolen after her Dropbox account was hacked.
Realizing the Observer had the scoop, she handed over the emails to her former employer The Sunday Times, who ran the story Sunday.
WHY SHOULD MUELLER CARE?Nigel Farage is already believed to be a “person of interest” to Mueller’s team, and his links to Banks could excite some interest in the businessman by the special counsel, especially the relationship with Yakovenko.
One of Banks’ meetings with Yakovenko took place on August 19, 2015 — the day Steve Bannon became Trump’s campaign manager and just days before Banks, Wigmore and Farage traveled to Mississippi for a Trump rally, where Farage was introduced to the crowd as "Mr. Brexit."
The fact that Banks was in Trump Tower with Wigmore and Farage just days after Trump’s surprise victory could also raise suspicion, especially given that Banks met with his Russian contacts on his return to the U.K. after that trip.
While a lot of attention has been given to Banks passing at least one phone number of the Trump transition team to the Russians, given that Mueller’s investigation is probing deep ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin it is unclear why Banks would have to pass on such small details.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?Banks and Wigmore will come before the select committee for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Tuesday, where they will face questions about the Leave campaign’s links with Russia, the source of the £9 million donation, and whether the Kremlin tried to sway the outcome of the referendum.
“Russia is not our friend. And this new material raises questions of the most serious nature. If deals were brokered with Russian government help, it would raise urgent questions about Russian interference in our democracy,” Damian Collins, chairman of the committee, told the Guardian.
The above brought me to this story.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/magnitsky-act-russian-adoptions-donald-trump-jr-meeting-2017-7
http://www.businessinsider.com/magnitsky-act-russian-adoptions-donald-trump-jr-meeting-2017-7
There's a very specific reason why the Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. wanted to talk about adopting babies.
Donald Trump Jr. said he met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June at Trump Tower to discuss compromising information she said she had on Hillary Clinton, but was disappointed when she changed the subject to Russia's adoption policy.
"It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information," Trump Jr. said in a statement to the New York Times, and that the adoption policy "was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting."
Veselnitskaya would have had her own motivations for pivoting from promises of dirt on Clinton to a discussion of Russia's adoption policy, which was altered to bar American families from adopting Russian children in retaliation for the signing of the Magnitsky Act in 2012.
The Magnitsky Act was passed to punish those suspected of being involved in the death of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who uncovered a $230 million tax fraud scheme in 2008 that implicated high-level Kremlin officials and allies of President Vladimir Putin. The scheme quickly snowballed into one of the biggest corruption scandals of Putin's tenure.
Magnitsky uncovered the scheme on behalf of the investment advisory firm Hermitage Capital, which was at that point the largest investment firm in Russia. Magnitsky was later thrown in jail by the same Interior Ministry officers he testified against during criminal proceedings to punish those involved in the tax scheme, Hermitage founder Bill Browder recalled in 2015.
Magnitsky died in custody after being held for 358 days, and an independent human-rights commission found he had been illegally arrested and beaten. The Kremlin maintains that Magnitsky died of a heart attack.
"Since there was no possibility of getting justice for Sergei inside Russia, I decided to seek justice outside of Russia," Browder wrote. 'That's when I took his story to Washington."
Then in 2012, Congress passed the Magnitsky Act, which authorizes the president to deny visas to, and freeze the assets of, Russians believed to have been complicit in Magnitsky's death. The list, also known as the Cardin List because it was sponsored by Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, has been expanded several times since then to include more Russians suspected of human-rights abuses and corruption.
"Putin's top officials were apoplectic," Browder wrote. "All of his key lieutenants had used their jobs to become enormously wealthy, and many had done some very nasty things in the process. In theory, the Cardin List opened the door for these people to be sanctioned in the future. As far as they were concerned, the list changed everything."
Moscow retaliated by blacklisting Americans. One of them was US Attorney Preet Bharara — who was known for aggressively pursuing organized crime and money laundering schemes in Manhattan before he was fired by Trump in April. They also struck back by banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
Veselnitskaya is the family lawyer for Denis Katsyv, the son of senior Russian government official Pyotr Katsyv and owner of the Cyprus-incorporated real-estate company Prevezon. Prevezon was under investigation by the Department of Justice at the time of Veselnitskaya's meeting with Trump Jr. over whether it laundered millions of dollars — allegedly stolen in the tax fraud scheme that Magnitsky uncovered — into New York City real estate.
Katsyv, with Veselnitskaya's help, is at the center of efforts to overturn the adoption ban — which would start with the repeal of the Magnitsky Act. In February 2016, Katsyv registered a nonprofit company in Delaware called the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, the stated aim of which is to overturn the ban.
Veselnitskaya helps "represent" the HRAGIF along with a colleague, according to an email that colleague sent last April seen by Business Insider and first reported by The Daily Beast. And she had been lobbying to repeal the Magnitsky Act at the time the HRAGIF was set up, roughly four months before she met with Trump Jr., Kushner, and Manafort. She also helped organize the Brussels screening of an anti-Magnitsky film that cast doubt on both Browder's claims and Magnitsky's findings.
Browder, the founder of Hermitage, said in an interview on Saturday that fighting against the Magnitsky Act was Veselnitskaya's "main project last year. And "there was no obvious reason," Browder said, for Veselnitskaya and her team to engage in this lobbying "as part of their defense for Prevezon."
"It wouldn't have helped the company address the money laundering allegations mounted by the US Department of Justice," Browder said. "The only reason for them to do this would have been at the behest of the Russian government."
High level Russians met with the NRA during the election. Forecast calls for a 95% chance of witch hunt tweets swirling this afternoon.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ng-2016-campaign/ar-AAyvgev?OCID=ansmsnnews11
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ng-2016-campaign/ar-AAyvgev?OCID=ansmsnnews11
lol saw that thread yesterday but didn't dig into it much. Only thing I really remember was people saying the tariffs have caused prices to raise for their job.
The aftermath...
"It sure looks as if President Trump was hoodwinked in Singapore.
Trump made a huge concession — the suspension of military exercises with South Korea. That’s on top of the broader concession of the summit meeting itself, security guarantees he gave North Korea and the legitimacy that the summit provides his counterpart, Kim Jong-un.
Within North Korea, the “very special bond” that Trump claimed to have formed with Kim will be portrayed this way: Kim forced the American president, through his nuclear and missile tests, to accept North Korea as a nuclear equal, to provide security guarantees to North Korea, and to cancel war games with South Korea that the North has protested for decades.
In exchange for these concessions, Trump seems to have won astonishingly little. In a joint statement, Kim merely “reaffirmed” the same commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that North Korea has repeatedly made since 1992.
“They were willing to de-nuke,” Trump crowed at his news conference after his meetings with Kim. Trump seemed to believe he had achieved some remarkable agreement, but the concessions were all his own."
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Reading about the whole NK meeting, man, trump go so abused. He gave up everything and kim gave up nothing. What was even the point? I hope everyone saw that video trump made for kim. It makes Vines look like Hollywood blockbusters.
This should frighten everyone. It won't.
This should frighten everyone. It won't.
You can tell that he's been nothing but a firgurehead in his company for years now. Walk in, shake a few hands, tell a few racist jokes, then let the people working for him actually get things done.
Unfortunately this isn't how gov't runs and now he's the person making these decisions. What scares me more than his incompetence is the delusional people still pretending he's doing an awesome job.
Unfortunately this isn't how gov't runs and now he's the person making these decisions. What scares me more than his incompetence is the delusional people still pretending he's doing an awesome job.
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