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TubbersUK's JournalBoris Johnson says Libyan city has bright future 'once they clear the dead bodies'
Foreign Secretary shocks Tory activists with risque joke about tourism potential in former Islamic State strongholdThe Foreign Secretarys off-colour comment drew gasps and shocked laughter from the audience at a global trade fringe event at the Conservative conference.
Theresa May was urged to sack him for his latest gaffe, which critics said proved that Mr Johnson - arguably the UK's top diplomat - was not fit to represent Britain on the world stage.
They have a got brilliant vision to turn Sirte, with the help of the municipality of Sirte, into the next Dubai.
The only thing theyve got to do is clear the dead bodies.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-libya-dead-body-comments-new-dubai-tory-conference-2017-a7981551.html
Our bargain basement Trump strikes again - I'm hoping this will finish him off.
British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters
'Legal mechanism may help academic expose how Big Data firms like Cambridge Analytica and Facebook get their information'
David Carroll, an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, has discovered a transatlantic legal mechanism that he hopes will give him access to information being sought by both the FBI and the Senate intelligence committee. In recent weeks, investigators looking at how people acting on behalf of Russia targeted American voters have focused on Trumps data operation. But although the FBI obtained a court order against Facebook to make it disclose evidence, the exact way in which US citizens were profiled and targeted remains largely unknown.
Pasquale said news that Facebook information had been used by Russian agents to target US citizens may prove to be a tipping point. It shows this information has now been weaponised by a state actor. What were seeing is really a failure of the first order. Mark Zuckerberg wrote this 6,000-word letter about creating a global political community and yet we now know that Facebook was a platform for a devastating attack on the most robust democracy in the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/01/cambridge-analytica-big-data-facebook-trump-voters
US Bombardier ruling: Theresa May 'bitterly disappointed' at Trump administration tariff decision
Source: Independent
Prime Minister Theresa May is "bitterly disappointed'' by a US Department of Commerce decision to impose a tariff of nearly 220 per cent on a new model of passenger jet manufactured by Bombardier, one of Northern Ireland's biggest employers, Downing Street said.
The comment came after Ms May was accused of being "asleep at the wheel" as unions warned that thousands of jobs could be put at risk by the US move.
Canadian multinational Bombardier employs around 4,200 people in Belfast and thousands more jobs in Northern Ireland are supported through the manufacturer's supply chain, according to trade unionists.
Ms May had lobbied US President Donald Trump over the dispute, which was sparked by complaints from rival Boeing that Bombardier received unfair state subsidies from the UK and Canada, allowing the sale of airliners at below cost price in America.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/us-bombardier-ruling-northern-ireland-jobs-theresa-may-trump-tariff-commerce-a7969256.html
All that schmoozing for nowt.
A taste of things to come as the BREXIT nightmare continues.
TRUMP'S NFL FIGHT DATES BACK TO HIS FAILED USFL EXPERIMENT IN THE '80S
This is an informative read:"They just saw him as this scumbag huckster," Pearlman told Newsweek. "He was this New York, fast-talking, kind of con-man."
In the course of Trump's NFL pursuit, he made a fair number of enemies at the USFL and helped shuttle the league to an early grave. He convinced other USFL owners to challenge the NFL directly in the fall, and then led the charge on an anti-trust lawsuit against the football giant that netted a massive...three dollars. The USFL was dead by '85.
His entire goal was to get him an NFL team. He didnt care how he got it. It wasnt like, Oh, I really hope I can lead you guys to a merger. He didnt give a shit about the other owners. Like, at all. Did not care. No interest, whatsoever. His goal was to get in the NFL. If it took a merger, so be it. If it took the entire USFL collapsing and he gets an [NFL] team, thats fine too.
http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-nfl-fight-dates-back-failed-usfl-experiment-80s-jeff-pearlman-670843
Trump Versus his State Department
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https://twitter.com/LaurenWern/status/911362322442178560
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Trump calling Russian meddling a "hoax" put State Department spox Heather Nauert in an awkward situation:
Regarding Trump's dig at the UK police
Trump's swipe at The Metropolitan Police has caused a bit of a stir. Some wondered if he'd been formally briefed and then leaked the fact that the terrorists were on a watch list - however British authorities have described Trump's claim as 'speculation' so probably not.
The alternative (in my opinion stronger) theory is that Trump picked up some crap on Fox and spewed it out on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908642277987356673
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Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!
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Trump tweeted about Scotland Yard at 642 am. At 619 am on Fox/Friends @kilmeade talked about Scotland Yard having terrorists on their radar.
The Curious Link Between Trumps Moscow Tower Deal and a Ukraine Peace Plan
Congressional investigators are now interested in how the Moscow tower proposal and the so-called peace deal may connect. That is a question members will be exploring, certainly, says an official close to the Senate Intelligence Committee. One thread running through both deals is Russias desire for relief from US sanctions, which the Trump presidential campaign repeatedly signaled it was interested in accommodating. How that might shed further light on the deals is a very interesting line of inquiry, the official adds.
The peace plan came from Andriy Artemenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker known for his pro-Kremlin views, who told the Times that senior aides to Putin encouraged him to push the plan. Artemenko said he contacted Sater through an unnamed mutual friend, who worked with Cohen to get the plan to Flynn. It is not clear if Trump himself reviewed the plan, though around the same time the president reportedly asked the State Department to look into the possibility of unilaterally rescinding sanctions on Russia.
I was wondering how that weird 'peace plan' thing fitted in. 🤔
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/the-curious-link-between-trumps-moscow-tower-deal-and-a-ukraine-peace-plan/
Manafort's plan to 'greatly benefit the Putin Government'
https://twitter.com/AP/status/844491296408567808Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse. Manafort pitched the plans to Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.
https://www.apnews.com/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a/Manafort's-plan-to-'greatly-benefit-the-Putin-Government?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Trump warns House GOP members of electoral 'bloodbath' if repeal and replace fails
Trump vowed to throw his full support behind the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act during a meeting with House GOP leadership, saying he is "proud" to support a GOP-authored plan to replace Obamacare and told members behind closed doors that he would support it "100%," according to sources in the room.
But he warned lawmakers of the high-stakes nature of the effort, citing a potential electoral "bloodbath," a member present said.
"He said he hopes members understand that," the source said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/donald-trump-health-care/index.html
ETA: To those more expert than me on the subject, is this a case of 'damned if they do, damned if they don't' ?
Lobbyist advised Trump campaign while promoting Russian pipeline
I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia from a position of strength is possible, Trump said in the speech. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end. Some say the Russians wont be reasonable. I intend to find out. The Russian ambassador to the United States broke the diplomatic norm against attending campaign events to sit in the front row.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264
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