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November 7, 2016

Four FBI Facts Prove there Is No Email Scandal

: “FBI and USIC classification reviews identified 81 e-mail chains … that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time the e-mails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton’s personal server.” (p. 20) To Top

ALL 81 classified email chains found by the FBI on Clinton’s server “were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems.” !!!
So every classified email from the CIA, DOD, FBI, NGA and NSA was drafted on (and sent from) an unclassified system by a highly experienced professional.

http://zfacts.com/clinton-fake-email-scandal
November 4, 2016

Protesta vote

Just in case you haven't seen this yet...

#EndorseThis: Still Depressed and Berned Out? Try Funny Or Die’s New Medication

http://www.nationalmemo.com/endorsethis-still-depressed-and-berned-out-try-funny-or-dies-new-medication/

November 4, 2016

Trump Tower in Toronto Is Bankrupt

Trump Tower in Toronto Is Bankrupt (from electoral-vote.com)

The 65-story luxurious Trump Tower in Toronto filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday. Trump has been involved in the project since the beginning and his name is prominently displayed on it, but he is not an investor. The actual developer is a Russian-born billionaire, Alex Schnaider. Despite Trump's involvement and name, the project has been a disaster from the beginning. Hotel occupancy rates were expected to be 55% in the worst-case scenario, but in reality they have been 15% to 45%, so management has had to lower the room rate by $100, and the hotel is still being outcompeted by the Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton. Many of the condos are unsold. Buyers were told that the Trump name would make it easy to get mortgages, but the banks were unimpressed and many people lost money. Lawsuits abound. All in all, this failure raises the question of his business judgment. He claims that he licenses his name only to top-flight ventures that he has carefully vetted, but this high-profile failure suggests that either he isn't careful at all about who gets to use his name, or his ability to vet business partners is not very good. (V)

Full story:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-tower-goes-bust-canada-214412

November 1, 2016

Election spending limits in Canada - in case you're interested...

An individual may donate:

To each registered party $1,525 (this increases by $25/year)
In total to all the registered associations, nomination contestants and candidates of each registered party $1,525
In total to all leadership contestants in a particular contest $1,525

A nomination contestant can donate an additional $1000 and a candidate may donate an additional $5000 to his or her own campaign, and an additional $1,525 total to other candidates, registered associations and nomination contestants of each party.

A leadership contestant is permitted to give a total of $25,000 in contributions, loans and loan guarantees to his or her campaign, and an additional $1,525* in total per year in contributions, loans and loan guarantees to other leadership contestants.

Third parties are subject to election advertising expenses limits for general elections and by-elections.

The base limit for a general election with a 37-day election period is $150,000. Of that amount, no more than a base limit of $3,000 can be incurred to promote or oppose the election of one or more candidates in a particular electoral district. The $3,000 limit is also applicable to by-elections. (This amount is adjusted for inflation, and the number of days total for the campaign.)

In the last election in 2015 the national parties had a spending limit of $54, 936, 326.15 for the entire country. (It was a 78-day campaign.)

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