Democrats memo (PDF)
It states that "the DOJ and FBI did not abuse the FISA process, omit material or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign."
"Christopher Steele's raw intelligence reporting did not inform the FBI's decision to initiate its counter investigation in late July, 2016."
China's Geely makes $9 billion Daimler bet against tech 'invaders'
Chinese carmaker Geely [GEELY.UL] has built up an almost 10 percent stake in Daimler in a $9 billion bet by its chairman that he can access the Mercedes-Benz owner's technology in the growing battle for the future of automotives.
The purchase by Li Shufu, Geely's founder and main owner, means China's largest privately-owned automaker is now the biggest shareholder in Germany's Daimler.
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Apparently we contracted out a lot of our killing.
The 'forgotten' My Lai: South Korea's Vietnam War massacres
By James Griffiths, CNN
Updated 8:55 PM ET, Fri February 23, 2018Tran Thi Duoc was 16 when the soldiers came to her village.
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In total, 69 people were killed in Phong Nhi and neighboring Phong Nhat that day in February 1968, according to a US investigation that was kept secret for decades.
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The whole idea of sanctions is to isolate your enemy by giving incentives to keep 3rd parties from engaging with your enemy. But what if no one cooperates?
What if your allies keep doing business with your enemy? What if you are forced to sanction your allies? If that happens, who is the one being isolated?
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So this son of a bitch whines about typical bourgeoisie behavior, and then goes and tells us we have to participate in bourgeoisie controlled elections in order to 'vote the fuckers out' as it were. We did that in 2006 and in 2008 and we got crumbs anyway.
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
Good morning good people!
Wait til the dust has settled, or in this case, wait til the smoke has dissipated. On first inspection, it seemed that the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland Florida Feb. 14, 2018 was just another senseless act of some mentally unstable person cracking under the pressure of modern life. There is plenty of that going around. Big high school, with greater than 3000 students. Large school grounds. MSNBC falsely reporting that the shooter was OUTSIDE the school, shooting in.
I thought I might chime in with my own $0.02 on the subject of guns.
I agree with about 90% of what Jim Jefferies has to say.
Now a disclaimer:
Hey all you old fuckers out there. It's one two three what are you waiting for? You're getting old and you don't give a damn? You gave up and in to Uncle Sam?
