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Hugo Stiglitz

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  1. 7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Are you kidding?  He’ll take his anger out on Syria, and bonus points for him, it’ll distract the media/public attention. 

    Hell, he might even hit Syria much harder than was being considered. 

    I was talking about what consumes Trump’s personal attention.  He’s not a diabolical genius.  He’s already paranoid AF about Mueller and this just took it to 11.  

    He may go with a distraction but I don’t think it will be the Syria situation.

     

  2. 4 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    I hate being in the position of agreeing with Alex Jones and the alt-right, but I find it strange that every single time American policy towards Syria softens, we are made to believe that Assad sees it as an opportunity to violate international law and gas innocent civilians to little or no strategic purpose.

    Last year, he allegedly decided it was time to gas women and children right after Nikki Haley publicly stated that removing him from power was no longer an American priority.

     

    This year, he allegedly decided to gas women and children right after Trump announced we were gonna cut and run from that quagmire.

     

    How does he benefit from that? If he doesn't, who does? The dude is ruthless, but suicidally stupid he is not. 

    It’s Putin, not Assad.  

    Assad is just the proxy.  There’s no way Assad would have used chemical weapons without approval or orders from the Kremlin.

    Putin does this shit because he can.  He is unbelievably cruel when things don’t go his way.

  3. Cohen and Felix Sater are dear friends and business partners going back to high school.

    Felix Sater is a career criminal and FBI informant.

    Sater + other informants  = Michael  Cohen thrown under bus.

    Trump threw Cohen under the bus Friday too with the Stormy Daniels comments.

  4. The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress.

    Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, who called the search “completely inappropriate and unnecessary.” The search does not appear to be directly related to Mr. Mueller’s investigation, but likely resulted from information he had uncovered and gave to prosecutors in New York.

    “Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients,” said Stephen Ryan, his lawyer. “I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”

    Mr. Cohen plays a role in aspects of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He also recently said he paid $130,000 to a pornographic-film actress, Stephanie Clifford, who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. Ms. Clifford is known as Stormy Daniels.

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  5. There’s got to be more to the Trump/Pruitt relationship.  Pruitt has been getting away with egregious malfeasance like he knows there won’t be any consequences.

    I have no idea what is going on there but when Trump tweeted out that hollow battered wife defense of Scott Pruitt, I can only conclude Pruitt is as valuable to Trump as Michael Flynn was.

  6. I think Mattis carries the most weight in this instance.  Trump has done a decent job of abdicating authority in military matters to Mattis.

    I don’t think Bolton will be as influential on military policy as people suspect.  He was brought on as a face man and to scare the shit out everyone.

    Mattis and Nikki Haley are Trump’s last “stars” in an administration that has been something short of a complete disaster.

    If there’s a Nixon/Trump parallel, Mattis would be Kissinger because he’s too popular too fire/undermine.

     

     

  7. 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

     Why would Israel expend their resources playing whack-a-mole in the desert when they can just pass Intel on to us or even to other countries?

    The word on the street is ISIS and Israel have aligning interests as it relates to Iran and their forces in Syria.  

  8. Hopefully Trump just takes out Assad’s aircraft with air strikes and sanctions the piss out him.  

    Syria is the most complicated geopolitical situation I’ve ever seen.  The challenge for the U.S. is coming up with a clearly defined objective/policy.

     

  9. 1 hour ago, Fozzz said:

    So ISIS began advancing in Homs immediately after Israel's airstrike.  I guess Israel is now acting as ISIS' Condor Legion.  

    This is an interesting dynamic that hasn’t got much attention.  Israel hasn’t really gone after ISIS targets.  Not sure what the calculation here is but it is noteworthy.

  10. Kremlin aide: Russia's centuries-long romance with West over

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    MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin's adviser says Russia has abandoned its centuries-long aspirations of integrating into the West and is bracing for a new era of "geopolitical loneliness."

    Vladislav Surkov wrote in an article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine released Monday that "Russia's epic journey toward the West" is over, marking an end to its "vain attempts to become part of Western civilization" spanning four centuries.

    Russia-West ties have slid to post-Cold War lows over the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and other issues, most recently the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain that triggered an unprecedented diplomatic war.

    Surkov, a longtime Putin aide who currently works as the presidential adviser on Ukraine, said "loneliness doesn't mean complete isolation," but added that its openness will be limited.

     

  11. 4 minutes ago, Ragnarok said:

    The government's approach was "Hey, you guys are selling an awful product that kills people.  But you're making a lot of money, so cut us in on the deal, and we'll leave you alone.  And we'll make sure you don't get any new competitors."  The mafia would be proud of a deal like that.

    Sounds like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and big Pharma.

  12.  

    http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/08/technology/facebook-user-data-notify/index.html

     

    Facebook is about to tell users if their data was shared with Cambridge Analytica

     
    By Jackie Wattles April 8, 2018: 6:17 PM ET
     
     

    Facebook on Monday will begin alerting the 87 million users whose data may have been harvested by Cambridge Analytica.

    The company plans to post a link at the top of users' news feeds that will allow them to see which apps are connected to their Facebook accounts and what information those apps are permitted to see.

    "As part of this process we will also tell people if their information may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica," the company said last week.

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