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#285 | Posted by mOntecOre
Pick Cam Newton --if you can. Gronkowski is solid--oh--Pittsburgh Le'Veon Bell.
DWS got canned for a email scandal.
#17 | Posted by HanoverFist
DWS got hired by Hillary to be her honorary chair of Hillary's campaign!!
I swear you can't make this stuff up...
The clam that Putin doesn't like Hillary or out to get her is farcical.
In Russia, Bill Clinton gave two speeches for $625,000. One was to the Russian investment bank, Renaissance Capital, at a 2010 event titled "Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Going Global."
Wikileaks hates Hillary though--that is documented. Assange can't stand her because of Libya and his situation of being stuck in Ecuador.
How much money was paid by Russia interests to the Clinton Foundation?
The uranium deal was just a coincidence--yeah right!
And Putin has said he liked and would work with Hillary--no animosity given at all. She's the one with the damn 'reset button'!
Not to take away that this is linking back to Russian hackers--but please stop with the 'it's Trump's fault' or Putin is doing it because "he likes Trump better" routine for these slimy emails that are the fault of the leadership in the DNC and DWS specifically.
It's pretty amazing. Trump can't run a four-day convention and some folks are ready to have him run the most powerful country in the world.
#12 | Posted by rcade
Rcade--what was so bad about the RNC convention? The back stabber Ted Cruz speech--he got booed off the stage. Melania--yeah that should not have taken 48 hours to resolve.
I guess we can bring back your comment after the DNC is complete to make the same judgment about Hillary that you are making about Trump. ;o)
DWS is not going to gavel in the convention--appears Donna Brazile will.
Folks should realize that HRC doesn't have the required number of Pledged delegates.
She only gets over the top by the super delegates--which is what is pissing off the Bernie folks.
As for Trump and his 5 point bump depending on the poll--Romney got 0. McCain got 13 due to Palin.
And Nate Silver gives Trump a 57.3% chance of winning if the election were held today.
Silver is not The God--but by many folks regard him as A god...
Most campaigns get the bump after their convention.
And the issue to remember here is that the DNC email hackergate affair was more about the DNC than anything else.
The DNC was the one with dirty tricks trying to rig the race against Bernie. I don't see any emails between the DNC and the HRC campaign--not yet anyway.
It's also the veiled bigotry and bad joking about Bernie's religion or someone's sexual orientation that reflected on DWS.
Kasich acted like a big baby or sour grapes..
All he had to do was welcome folks to his great state of Ohio and to Cleveland and have a great convention-period!
Pretty funny when Trump got more votes than Hillary in the Ohio primary.
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#36 | Posted by SheepleSchism
Yes--and 60 Minutes main show left off the questions and answers by Hillary.
Asked directly on "60 Minutes Overtime" whether a DNC "effort to favor one candidate" over another would be improper, HRC would not answer.
AU--you are a crack up.
Putin is an arse--without a doubt. The hackers are arses and Assange is an arse.
But you and many others mocked Romney and his statement about Russia and Putin being the most dangerous. So don't go quoting Romney now.
LOL--and now you post that the Russians hacked Hillary and the DNC and the State Department and the DoD and whoever else--because they LOVE TRUMP!!
Like they knew back in 2014 and 2015 --before Trump had even announced he would run as a Republican candidate--that they would hack our systems to help Trump? Man you need to step away from the keyboard...
Russians have been hacking us as long as we have been hacking them!
If Russia even held elections--you can bet our government would be leaking Putin's emails to the public!!
AU--the reason Assange is doing this is because he HATES HILLARY!!
Here is the Bernie supporters reply to Hillary and the DNC--
#24 | Posted by tonyroma
If it's not political why do you and others still bring it up?
What does this leak bring to Trump? What he's not going to have to pay back his loans all of a sudden?
Is it a pain in the rear for Russia to hack our email systems? Yeah!
And we at the US do it to them too.
''Paul Manafort, has deep ties Viktor Yanukovych''--yeah what 6 years ago? Geez--getting the guy to wear suits and ties--so notorious...
Did you see the link where Assange hates Hillary? THAT would be the likely motivation for wikileaks to publish anything to do with her.
What are you folks going to do when wikileaks publishes HRC's basement server emails?
It was way more that just sticking it to Bernie...
Now there is a list of a few of the most shocking emails released by Wikileaks.
DNC member killing horses for insurance money.
There are more on the link...
The reason Cruz doesn't deny it is because then he will be on tape saying it's not his father!
Weekly Standard-- the pot calling the kettle black.
Obama wanted DWS out in 2008--but there was a rumor story that he was being anti-woman and anti-Jewish and the call for her to be replaced was dropped.
Obama is not 'grateful' for her work at the DNC--it's a giant FUBAR!
Not to worry--the story is that they still will allow DWS to address the convention--more boos than a Halloween Party will be heard.
The Bernie folks are pretty ticked off--can't blame them.
He should have run as a Socialist--like he is--and he wouldn't have to deal with the cheating by the DNC.
DWS will be well taken care of --by Hillary of course. If she loses her seat in the House, DWS will have a job at the Clinton Foundation for sure.
So what if it was the Russians--we do it to them too!! I have no doubt we all do it to each other!!
The issue is the content of the emails and crap that goes on with these people.
The Dems are dirty rotten scoundrels. Likely the Repubs are no angels either--look at Ted Cruz!
But don't get all pissy over the Russians having a hand in something that should have never happened in the first place.
And the Clintonian factor is not that the Russians are behind but ascribing the reason to be somehow due to Trump.
So with your logic--if Bernie had won the primary and the Democratic Party Nomination--these DNC emails would never have come to light?
Is that what you are admitting?
Hasn't Assange already claimed he has emails from HRC server while SoS? He's going to release them at some point I suppose.
He hates her you know. It's not so much liking Trump but Assange really hates Hillary.
This is so Clintonian to blame the messenger and claim it was the oppositions' fault instead of the people who wrote the damn emails and deliberately tried to tip the scales against Bernie. They succeeded for the most part too. Having 6 debates compared to 2008 where they held 27 debates. Denying email addresses to Bernie after New Hampshire. So crooked.
Now DWS is fired "after" the convention. Then she is going to be allowed to address the convention--after all this brouhaha!
Are they nuts? I hear boos that will be louder than what the RNC gave to Cruz.
Pretty sad commentary on the future of the Democratic Party that there is little to no prospects for picking the VP pick.
Isn't there a governor anywhere? Isn't there Someone under the age 70?
They are floating Vilsack because the heat that would come from a Kaine pick would be too much to bear. HRC could still pick him though. The media will cover.
Can't be Jim Webb--he's a DINO. Can't be Marty (Snooze). Can't be Julian Castro--something about paying expenses from the wrong pocket? Perez (snooze).
Can't be Warren or Brown as the governor of those states will select Republicans to fill their spot.
Can't be Bernie--because she doesn't like Bernie. And he's been around since Moby Dick was a minnow with nothing to show for it, except the recent primary, which is why HRC disdains him.
Can't be Booker because he's too strong.
Hey! Maybe Reid is the guy? Maybe Pelosi? (Barf)
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by Di Pearson / G New on 19 Dec 2007
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The small British group of sailors taking part in the Sydney International Regatta made up for lack of numbers with some great perfomances. Ben Ainslie sweept back into the Finn class to take Gold, while Paul Campbell-James and Mark Asquith won Silver in the 49er as did Leigh McMillan and Will Howden in the Tornado.
Ainslie sweep of the Finn event put the challenge from Ed Wright for the 2008 Olympic berth on hold, Wright started the regatta with two poor races, and despite recovering to win a race was unable to get back into contention, he finished fifth overall.
'It's always a lot harder than the results might suggest, as we had some pretty windy conditions at times,' Ainslie commented. 'It was great to be back in Sydney, obviously in a different boat and a different fleet than in 2000, but I pulled off a few of the old tricks I've learned from racing here before – it really is a great place to sail.'
'I'd hope that with this win and with the results from China this year and last year that it'll make things quite clear, but that's really up to the selectors now so I'll just have to wait and see!'
RYA Olympic Manager Stephen Park was out in Sydney for the regatta: 'It's been a fantastic sailing week, and all the British sailors did very well but at this regatta there's no doubt that Ben Ainslie has been the class act.'
The RYA's Olympic Selection Committee will continue their discussions over the Christmas period, with a decision as to whether to select, or to continue the trials in the Finn class, expected to be made early in the new year.
Leigh McMillan and Will Howden took the silver medal in the Tornado behind the in-form Aussie pair, Darren Bundockand Glenn Ashby, who were flying. Will Howden described his and McMillan's final day. 'We did not do very well at all in the first race. We started well, but got caught on the wrong side of a shift. In the second race we lead around the top mark and finished second. That was a lot better,' he said.
It was also silver for Paul Campbell-James and Mark Asquith in the 49er. An event long battle with the Australian pair, Nathan Outteridge and Ben Austin, went to the Aussies on the final day. Asquith, silver medallist crew, commented: 'it was so shifty and gusty, very hard to read. Second is not first, but it's better than third, I guess. It has definitely paid us to come to SIRs and to the Australian 49er Nationals at Woollahra, they have been very professionally run and both will be of big benefit to me and Paul at the World's. We've both really enjoyed the hospitality of Woollahra Sailing Club,' he said.
In the hot Laser Radial event, with an Olympic place at stake, Penny Clark was the best placed of the British girls, finishing out of the medals in fourth. Clark overcoming rival Laura Baldwin, who looked good until the final day.
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Australian entries won four gold medals, two silver and a bronze on their home waters as the remaining classes completed racing at the Sydney International Regatta.
One of the early gold medals went to Michael Leigh (CAN) in the Laser class after sailing consistently throughout the series, his worst results a sixth and an 11th, which he used as race drops. Making a come back as big as big as Lazarus, world champion Tom Slingsby, surged to a win in the final Race 9 to take silver, pipping a second Canadian, Bernard Luttmar, on countback.
Although pleased with his result, Leigh says he is now looking to the World's in February at Terrigal. 'I have to face-off against nine other Canadian's for the Olympic place at the World's. Anyone could have won SIRs - it always come down to the final two races. Tom Slingsby and Andrew Murdoch sometimes get away from everyone else, but mostly there are so many good sailors, it comes down to who has that little bit extra,' Leigh, said this afternoon.
Third, second and a win in the final three 49er races ensured gold for Nathan Outteridge/Ben Austin (AUS). The pair was ecstatic with their series win. Early series leaders Paul Campbell-James/Mark Asquith (GBR) took silver and the Portuguese pair of Jorge Lima Francisco Andrade took bronze, their seventh place in Race 11 killing any chance of hanging onto silver.
'We like it gusty and shifty,' said winning crew Austin on coming ashore, 'it gives us a chance to work our way back into the fleet when we need to. We got really bad starts in the first two races, so it did work to our advantage. We pretty much led the last race all the way to win it,' he said.
Skipper Outteridge said: 'It feels good to win here. The field is a strong one - the Europeans here are top standard, so we got a good workout. We'll take a few days off now then focus on the World's at Sail Melbourne in January.'
RS:X Sailboard
In the small fleet RS:X sailboards, Jannicke Stalstrom (NOR) stormed home to take the Women's gold medal, while Australia's Jessica Crisp has finished with the silver and another Australian and future Olympic prospect, Alisha Kawalla has won bronze.
Patrik Pollak (SVK) took gold in the Men's RS:X, Karel Lavicky (CZE) won silver and Jonathan Bonnitcha (AUS) won bronze.
Laser Radial Women's
Sarah Blanck (AUS) had it all her own way in the Laser Radial Women's event this year. Now being coached by Olympic bronze medallist Michael Blackburn, Blanck seems much more at ease with the boat and herself. Her winning margin to second placed Tania Elias Calles (MEX), who won the final race, was 19 points, with Jo Aleh (NZL) third placed, a further two points behind.
470 Men
Australia took gold in the 470 Men's, but it was not a simple job for the world champions Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page, the result only being decided on the race course this afternoon and in the final of the three races, even though they won the opening race of the day.
Eventually, the pair defeated two sets of brothers who had been biting at the Aussie's heels all week. Ben and Romain Bonnaud (FRA), who at one stage led the series, finished second overall just one point behind the Aussies. Sven and Kalle Coster (NED) were third, a further four points behind. The brothers were up there all week and did not go away.
470 Women
Veteran campaigners Ingrid Petitjean/Nadage Douroux (FRA) worked their way to the top of the scoreboard and made their final move in today's races, winning the opening race and doing enough to jump from yesterday's second place and into the gold medal position this afternoon late - but they did it by the seat of their pants, finishing on equal points with yesterday's leaders.
Nike Kornecki/Vered Bouskila (ISR) would have been disappointed to slip to silver, especially on countback, but at least they remained on the podium. The Swiss pair of Emmanuelle Rol/Anne-Sophie Thilo held their game together to claim the bronze medal, just four points behind.
The three-crew Olympic keelboat only undertook two day's of racing and Krystal Weir, steering in the absence of Nicky Bethwaite, took Karyn Gojnich and Angela Farrell to a win against to match racing stars, Katie Spithill and crew and Nicky Souter and crew. All three entries are from NSW. On finishing those commitments, Weir slipped back into her natural habitat of the Laser Radial Women's class and was happy with her results there too.
Kivell is another name we're used to seeing on trophies, and it was no different at SIRs today when Amy Kivell/Kate Aulich (Vic) overcame 16 other female and male crews to grab silver in the 420 double-handed class. Brothers Matthew and Benjamin Taylor
It was an all NSW show in the 29er skiff class as Andrew and William Chapman took out the 29er skiff class. From a strong sailing background (their father a former skiff sailor of note), the boys overcame a challenge from and finished nine po
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Omar Mateen, 29, was born in New York to Afghan parents. Since September 2007 he had worked as a security guard for G4 Security in Florida. The large security contractor provides security personnel to guard building, among them federal buildings. He underwent background checks in both 2007 and 2013. In March, British born Islamic preacher Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar gave a speech outside Orlando in which he called for the death of all homosexuals. "Death is the sentence. There's nothing to be embarrassed about this. Death is the sentence," he said.
AR-15: The most popular assault-style rifle in the United States
The gunman who killed dozens of people in Aurora, Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, and, yesterday, Orlando all used an AR-15 rifle. According to the National Rifle Association (NRA), the gun, which was designed by ArmaLite for the U.S. Army and originally produced by Colt in the 1960s, is the most popular rifle in the United States. Between 5 and 8.2 million assault-style rifles are privately owned by U.S. citizens, and 3.3 million of those were AR-15.
Major mass-shooting attacks in the U.S. since January 2009
Between 2008 and 2013, the FBI used a narrow definition of mass shootings – limiting the designation "mass shootings" to incidents in which an individual "kills four or more people in a single incident… typically in a single location." In 2013 the FBI changed its definition, moving away from "mass shootings" to identifying an "active shooter" as "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area." The FBI designated the incidents listed below as mass-shooting incidents.
Six things Americans should know about mass shootings
The United States had 78 mass shootings during that 30-year period. The highest number of mass shootings experienced outside the United States was in Germany – where seven shootings occurred. In the other twenty-four industrialized countries taken together, 41 mass shootings took place. In other words, the United States had nearly double the number of mass shootings than all other twenty-four industrialized countries combined in the same 30-year period.
Terrorists gaining cyber capability to bring major cities to a standstill: U.K. intelligence chief
Robert Hannigan, the director of GCHQ, the British equivalent of the U.S. NSA, has warned that terrorists and rogue states are gaining the technical capability to bring a major city to a standstill with the click of a button. He said that the risk to cities like London would significantly increase as more physical objects – cars, household appliances — are connected online in what is called the Internet of Things.
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Tracking, analyzing how ISIS recruits through social media
A team of researchers has developed a model to identify behavioral patterns among serious online groups of ISIS supporters that could provide cyber police and other anti-terror watchdogs a roadmap to their activity and indicators when conditions are ripe for the onset of real-world attacks. The researchers apply the laws of physics to study how terrorist support groups grow online, and how law enforcement can track activities.
ISIS has committed a genocide against the Yazidis: UN
ISIS has committed the crime of genocide as well as multiple crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Yazidis, thousands of whom are held captive in the Syrian Arab Republic where they are subjected to almost unimaginable horrors. A new UN report says ISIS has sought to destroy the Yazidis through killings, sexual slavery, enslavement, torture, and inhuman and degrading treatment and forcible transfer causing serious bodily and mental harm, and the infliction of conditions of life that bring about a slow death.
Revisiting the relationship between hate crime and terrorism
New research from START examines the link between hate crime (bias-motivated crime) and terrorism at the county level, focusing on far-right extremism in the United States and pulling data from the U.S. Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) and the Global Terrorism Database (GTD). Among other things, the research has found that counties experiencing increases in one type of bias-motivated or extremist violence are likely to see significant increases in other types of extremist activity.
Europe-wide ballistic information sharing would reduce gun death from terrorism, crime
All countries across Europe are being urged to establish national "Firearms Focal Points" to collect, study, and share information about firearms and ballistics to help reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by gun crime and terrorism. This is one of the key findings following a 15-month multi-agency research project which looked to analyze the prevalence of gun crime across Europe and, based on the findings, identify initiatives and interventions that could be further pursued and developed to tackle the problem.
Community policing practices to prevent violent extremism
A new manual designed for police departments identifies a set of promising practices for using community policing to prevent violent extremism. "Creating a comprehensive community outreach program can build the kind of trust necessary to combat violent extremism," said the manual's lead author.
How French strategies prevented Al Qaeda's expansion in Mali
There have been many books on the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are few about the recent military interventions of America's allies in countries such as Mali and others on the African continent. Because the January 2013 French intervention in Mali against the local Al Qaeda affiliate was quick, effective, and relatively low cost, the story contains valuable lessons for future strategy.
Lost generation: Wars prevent 13m children in Middle East, north Africa from going to school
The UN children's fund, in a report issued earlier today (Thursday) said that conflicts across the Middle East and North Africa have been preventing more than thirteen million children from attending school, undermining their hopes for a better future. "We're on the verge of losing an entire generation of children in the Middle East and North Africa," UNICEF regional director said.
Lost generation: Wars prevent 13m children in Middle East, north Africa from going to school
The UN children's fund, in a report issued earlier today (Thursday) said that conflicts across the Middle East and North Africa have been preventing more than thirteen million children from attending school, undermining their hopes for a better future. "We're on the verge of losing an entire generation of children in the Middle East and North Africa," UNICEF regional director said.