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09-12-2014 , 01:14 PM

#476

AsianNit

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

It's also come out in all this that the NSA has explicitly instructed law-enforcement to come up with a "reasonable explanation" for how they get their information – when it is provided by the NSA.

Maybe Spitzer made an enemy high enough up to command the NSA to go digging for dirt on him.

Which of these do you think is more likely:
1 - banks do not use software to detect suspicious activity
2 - banks use such software, but it would not have detected Spitzer
3 - banks use such software, and it would have detected Spitzer

I tend to believe 3 is correct, however, you may convince me that after Spitzer's name came up in a Suspicious Activity Report, he was targeted for additional scrutiny for partisan reasons because he was a Democratic politician and the Attorney General at the time was a Republican hack.

09-12-2014 , 02:17 PM

#477

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDuker

Tavis Smiley was on fire on last night's Daily Show, talking about his new book on MLK's last year.

I found those numbers striking, but they it isn't exactly hard to figure out the supposed disconnect. MLK is respected greatly for his civil rights work. He is not respected for his ludicrous claim that the USA was the greatest purveyor of violence in the world in the 60s.

09-12-2014 , 02:51 PM

#478

FlyWf

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wooooosh

09-12-2014 , 03:05 PM

#479

Deuces McKracken

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ikes how many people do you think died in the Vietnam war?

09-12-2014 , 03:27 PM

#480

seattlelou

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Obama administration officials repeatedly threatened the family of murdered journalist James Foley that they might face criminal charges for supporting terrorism if they paid ransom to the ISIS killers who ultimately beheaded their son, his mother and brother said this week.

"We were told that several times and we took it as a threat and it was appalling," Foley's mother Diane told ABC News in an interview.

She said the warnings over the summer came primarily from a highly decorated military officer serving on the White House's National Security Council staff, which five outraged current and former officials with direct knowledge of the Foley case also recounted to ABC News in recent weeks.

"Three times he intimidated us with that message. We were horrified he would say that. He just told us we would be prosecuted. We knew we had to save our son, we had to try," Diane Foley said.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=25453963

09-12-2014 , 03:32 PM

#481

goofyballer

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Wow. That's awful.

09-12-2014 , 03:36 PM

#482

Huehuecoyotl

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It's kind of standard though with how stringent the 'supporting terrorism' laws are. Aid organizations were told during the Somalian drought that they might be convicted of 'aiding terrorism' if they paid off warlords to travel through their territory or if they had a reasonable expectation that their food relief might fall into militant hands which is always possible in war zones.

09-12-2014 , 03:49 PM

#483

pvn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

It's kind of standard though with how stringent the 'supporting terrorism' laws are.

"just doing our job"splaining???!

09-12-2014 , 03:52 PM

#484

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Deuces McKracken

ikes how many people do you think died in the Vietnam war?

A lot less than the great leap forward

09-12-2014 , 03:53 PM

#485

Huehuecoyotl

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Not really, just showing the problem is wider then families trying to pay ransoms. It applies to aid organizations and even third party mediators like international legal organizations who could consult organizations deemed terrorist organizations to how comply with international laws. It's self defeating.

09-12-2014 , 03:57 PM

#486

abnormal

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So why isn't Obama facing criminal charges for the Bergdahl swap... oh, never mind.

09-12-2014 , 04:03 PM

#487

well named

poorly undertitled

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09-12-2014 , 04:07 PM

#488

abnormal

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The gift that keeps on giving.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...d-sarah-palin/

09-12-2014 , 04:22 PM

#489

Gizmo

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09-12-2014 , 04:30 PM

#490

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

wooooosh

Not even a little bit, it's just not that hard to square the circle here.

09-12-2014 , 04:34 PM

#491

Huehuecoyotl

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I don't think King did some kind of study of deaths. It's more a commentary of imperialism and militarization

09-12-2014 , 04:54 PM

#492

Hamish McBagpipe

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No Tragic Death by Massive Tumour of the Conservative Crackhead Mayor of Toronto's Reelection Bid thread?

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hal...t_by_doug.html

09-13-2014 , 07:36 PM

#493

seattlelou

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Another beheading, this time a British aid worker.

09-13-2014 , 08:23 PM

#494

longmissedblind

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Quote:

Originally Posted by abnormal

The gift that keeps on giving.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...d-sarah-palin/

got tmz on constant refresh. there's gotta be video.

09-13-2014 , 08:36 PM

#495

MidyMat

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Palin is irrelevant, but I do love me some schadenfreude tho.

09-13-2014 , 08:46 PM

#496

Anais

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Socialistic? or socialtastic!

I know I'm a few days late, but this was amazing

09-13-2014 , 10:23 PM

#497

longmissedblind

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England's gonna sell the first non-chinese sovereign bonds demoninated in renminbi (yuans). How very special that relationship. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...-reserves.html

09-14-2014 , 03:05 AM

#498

daca

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Quote:

Originally Posted by seattlelou

Another beheading, this time a British aid worker.

I dont really get what they're going for here. They seemed to be in a pretty good position fighting Assad and controlling some sunni parts of Iraq before all the negative pr. Had they stay a little more under the radar they would have been more or less left alone.

09-14-2014 , 11:04 AM

#499

Omar Comin

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Quote:

Washington insiders were shocked Friday when Rep. Mark Sanford announced the end of his relationship with his Argentine fiancée in a rambling, 2,346-word Facebook post. The fiancée, María Belén Chapur, was also surprised. “I learned it from the press today,” she told the New York Times on Saturday. The former South Carolina governor who famously said in 2009 he had gone “hiking on the Appalachian Trail” when he was in fact in Argentina with Chapur, blamed the end of the relationship on his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford.

Yep.