The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. - Page 905 - Politics and Economics

You can always set up your own VPN with a VPS. Biggest internet fail imo has been how almost everybody has chosen to outsource their data and services to for-profit 3rd parties. Granted, it's not exactly easy to DIY. But it's not really all that hard, either. Teh Freedomz are out there if you can be bothered to put in a bit of effort.

When the hammer comes down, the first to be looked into will be those who felt the need to mask their internet activities.

03-29-2017 , 04:45 AM

#22603

suzzer99

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Lot of stories about Trump's cozy relationship with Poutine?

03-29-2017 , 04:49 AM

#22604

sportsjefe

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

Just go incognito in Chrome.

that keeps chrome from remembering, not our equivalent of sky broadband. Sky still knows.

03-29-2017 , 05:03 AM

#22605

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

He Presidented, everybody!

What america really needs is more encouragement to displays american flags everywhere. There's not nearly enough of them...

03-29-2017 , 05:16 AM

#22606

thethethe

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Just waiting for his first military parade, after his inauguration one was shot down.

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03-29-2017 , 06:44 AM

#22607

m_reed05

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Lost in the dumpster fire of news the last week, Trump again trying desperately to get his headlines by trotting our old business deals that have nothing to do with him. Last week it was a Charter Communications deal that was announced a year earlier. And this week he's using a Ford deal that was announced in 2015. He really counts on the stupidity of his followers and it's the one thing he can count on.

03-29-2017 , 06:52 AM

#22608

m_reed05

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And yesterday he was spewing about the thousands of jobs the pipelines will make.

The keystone pipeline is supposed to make 35 full time US jobs. 35.

03-29-2017 , 07:27 AM

#22609

awval999

Election Monitor.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

Can't offer protection by law if "they" don't exist.

To be fair (I know, right

), the Census has never asked for sexual orientation. It appears some in the LGBTQ community wanted it asked in the 2020 Census.

Quote:

Expectations that the 2020 census might start including LGBTQ subjects were raised and then quickly dashed on Tuesday

03-29-2017 , 07:28 AM

#22610

awval999

Election Monitor.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

So even Trump has to know by now that he can't bring coal mining back. What is his endgame here? In three years when coal mining is deader than ever, what's his plan?

I guess his endgame is to run up the margins in WV even more.

Last edited by awval999; 03-29-2017 at 07:36 AM.

03-29-2017 , 07:35 AM

#22611

awval999

Election Monitor.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by m_reed05

And yesterday he was spewing about the thousands of jobs the pipelines will make.

The keystone pipeline is supposed to make 35 full time US jobs. 35.

To be fair (I know, right

) almost all construction jobs are temporary jobs. That's the point of construction. Then you move on to the next job.

03-29-2017 , 07:49 AM

#22612

kre8tive

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ma...d-flag-n739156

Hopefully this will provide enough pressure to start tipping the dominoes. Offer this clown immunity if he gives up Trumps head on a platter.

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A bank in Cyprus investigated accounts associated with President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, for possible money-laundering, two banking sources with direct knowledge of his businesses here told NBC News.

Manafort — whose ties to a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin are under scrutiny — was associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies on Cyprus, dating back to 2007, the sources said. At least one of those companies was used to receive millions of dollars from a billionaire Putin ally, according to court documents.

Banking sources said some transactions on Manafort-associated accounts raised sufficient concern to trigger an internal investigation at a Cypriot bank into potential money laundering activities. After questions were raised, Manafort closed the accounts, the banking sources said.

Offshore banking in Cyprus is not illegal, and the island has long been known as a hub for moving money in and out of Russia. Several U.S. lawmakers have raised questions about Manafort's business dealings in Cyprus.

A spokesman for Manafort told NBC News in a statement that all the accounts were set up at the direction of clients in Cyprus, a common banking center for Russians and Ukrainians, "for a legitimate business purpose."

"All were legitimate entities and established for lawful ends," the statement said.

It added that Manafort "has no specific personal recollection" about the account closures, but understands that they were shut down just before a 2012 government takeover of the bank in the midst of a banking crisis.

Court documents and company registries reviewed by NBC News and interviews with banking sources indicate that Manafort's dealings in Cyprus began in 2007, when some of the accounts were opened and some companies were established.

One of the companies linked to Manafort, PEM Advisors Limited, was involved in a multimillion-dollar deal with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to court documents filed in the Cayman Islands.

Deripaska — described in U.S. diplomatic cables from 2006 as "one of 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis" — once was denied entry to the United States because of alleged organized crime ties, current and former officials have told NBC News.

He paid PEM $18.9 million to buy a television and media network in Ukraine, according to the Cayman Island court documents. But the deal fell through and the money was never accounted for, the documents say.

NBC News traced PEM and a number of other Manafort-linked companies to a law office in Nicosia, the largest city in Cyprus. Managing partner Kypros Chrysostomides, who is also Cyprus' former minister of justice, declined to answer questions without what he called his clients' "express consent."

Banking sources said that in October 2009, one of the 15 Manafort-associated bank accounts in Cyprus received a payment of a million dollars and left the account on the same day. Experts said the way the multiple accounts and companies were used suggests they were set up to deliberately make it difficult for auditors to track the movement of funds.

"There are some red flags here," said Tom Cardamome, managing director of Global Financial Integrity, a Washington-based non-profit.

"It looks suspicious and any bank that wanted to address money laundering would certainly have looked into the ownership of the company who owned these accounts."

The bulk of the accounts associated with Manafort were held at the Cyprus Popular Bank. In 2012, under an anti-money-laundering procedure called Know Your Customer, the bank asked for more information on the accounts' activities, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the request. Those sources said that Manafort chose to close the accounts instead.

Most of the assets of the Cyprus Popular Bank were taken over by the Bank of Cyprus in 2013. In a statement, Bank of Cyprus appeared to distance itself from Manafort.

"Bank of Cyprus has never had an extensive relationship with Mr. Manafort or any entities connected to him," the statement said.

It said that while most of Cyprus Popular Bank's assets were assumed by Bank of Cyprus in 2013, "these did not include any accounts or activities relating to Mr. Manafort either directly or indirectly."

Cyprus' attorney general, Costas Clerides, told NBC News that the Unit for Combating Money Laundering in Cyprus has handed information about Manafort's financial activities to U.S. Treasury investigators.

03-29-2017 , 07:57 AM

#22613

LostOstrich

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Quote:

Originally Posted by awval999

To be fair (I know, right

) almost all construction jobs are temporary jobs. That's the point of construction. Then you move on to the next job.

Just like all sales jobs are temporary. You sell something, then get a new job. And health care jobs are all temporary too: treat the patient then get a new job treating another patient. Nothing is permanent!

03-29-2017 , 08:12 AM

#22614

fatkid

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lol @ you guys and vpns. Nobody cares that you browse r/milf all day on reddit and bought a Squatty Potty® off amazon.

03-29-2017 , 08:20 AM

#22615

thethethe

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https://searchinternethistory.com/

Buying politicians' histories.

03-29-2017 , 08:28 AM

#22616

lonely_but_rich

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Quote:

Originally Posted by thethethe

https://searchinternethistory.com/

Buying politicians' histories.

Are they selling individual histories or in bulk by county/zip code or something?

03-29-2017 , 08:50 AM

#22617

thethethe

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Looks like they are have a vote at the moment on which individuals to buy.

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Whose Internet History Should Be Purchased First?

Ajit Pai
Chairman of the FCC
Ajit Varadaraj Pai is the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission. He has served on the FCC since May 2012.

Mitch McConnell
Senate Majority Leader
Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. is an American politician and the senior United States Senator from Kentucky. A member of the Republican Party, he has been the Majority Leader of the Senate since January 3, 2015.

Paul Ryan
Speaker of the House
Paul Davis Ryan Jr. is an American politician who is the 54th and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

Marsha Blackburn
House Member
A member of the Republican Party, she represents southwest Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives

03-29-2017 , 08:58 AM

#22618

master3004

Revisionist Historian

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As awful as the woman is, I doubt Blackburn has a very interesting internet history.

03-29-2017 , 09:02 AM

#22619

fatkid

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Originally Posted by master3004

As awful as the woman is, I doubt Blackburn has a very interesting internet history.

Michael Boltons greatest hits
How to get rid of a rash
Buffet restaurants
Family car window stickers
Trump nudes

03-29-2017 , 09:03 AM

#22620

Loki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fatkid

lol @ you guys and vpns. Nobody cares that you browse r/milf all day on reddit and bought a Squatty Potty® off amazon.

Someone cares enough to pay money to find out.

Speaking of, I wonder how micro-targeted you can make those purchases. Could I, say, buy only the internet history of my local republican politicians?

03-29-2017 , 09:07 AM

#22621

master3004

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Not sure how good it is, but Humblebundle is offering 1 year of Hotspot Shield for $12

03-29-2017 , 09:14 AM

#22622

sportsjefe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

Someone cares enough to pay money to find out.

Speaking of, I wonder how micro-targeted you can make those purchases. Could I, say, buy only the internet history of my local republican politicians?

Somebody's going to try.

https://twitter.com/MaxTemkin/status/846437803164684290

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03-29-2017 , 09:19 AM

#22623

FlyWf

It's the other way

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

So even Trump has to know by now that he can't bring coal mining back. What is his endgame here? In three years when coal mining is deader than ever, what's his plan?

He doesn't have one. He has a child's understanding of the issue, people on Fox have been whining about Obama's War on Coal for the past 8 years, and Big Important Men tell him that taking away the regulations will make them more money.

03-29-2017 , 09:30 AM

#22624

DudeImBetter

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

Thanks to trump and the GOP, I finally decided to try out a vpn. Opera offers a free iOS/android vpn service, and its pretty snappy when you get a Canadian IP address. Like no configuration at all necessary.

I wonder how four years of this will turn out.

Just followed your advice.

03-29-2017 , 09:36 AM

#22625

raradevils

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Quote:

Originally Posted by awval999

To be fair (I know, right

) almost all union construction jobs are temporary jobs. That's the point of union in construction, that ready work force when you need it. Then you move on to the next job.

fyp

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