Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[shorebird]

Cut it out? I'll be that had ole Pooty shaking in his shoes.

[smeags]

Multiple people are dead and at least 50 injured after a truck ran through a Christmas market in western Berlin, police said.
Police could not yet confirm whether the incident is related to terrorism.

[hbionic]

It's definitely related to farged-upism.

[ice grillin you]

this is truly incredible and no one cares....trumps national security adviser met with the leader of an austrian nazi group who has close ties to putin in trump tower

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/world/europe/austrias-far-right-signs-a-cooperation-pact-with-putins-party.html?_r=0

[smeags]

well isn't that just dandy.

[smeags]

Four more people have been charged in connection to the ongoing Flint, Michigan, water crisis, state Attorney General Bill Schuette announced,
Both Darnell Earley, former Flint emergency manager, and Jerry Ambrose, former finance director and Flint emergency manager, face felony charges of false pretenses, conspiracy to commit false pretenses, misconduct in office, and a misdemeanor charge of willful neglect of duty in office.
In addition, Howard Croft, former Flint director of the Department of Public Works, and Daugherty Johnson, former Flint utilities director for the Department of Public Works, are both charged with two felony charges of false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses.
The total number of people charged in connection to the Flint water crisis is now at 13

[General_Failure]

Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans

The law allows a president to withdraw any currently unleased lands in the Outer Continental Shelf from future lease sales. There is no provision in the law that allows the executive's successor to repeal the decision, so President-elect Donald Trump would not be able to easily brush aside the action.

Trump has vowed to open more federal land to oil and natural gas production in a bid to boost U.S. output. Obama on Tuesday said he would designate "the bulk of our Arctic water and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing, though the prospects for drilling in the affected areas in the near future were already questionable.

[Diomedes]

I'm holding out hope that before he goes, Obama will pardon literally every single non violent black prisoner in the United States.

[Rome]

I want him to something else but actually disclosing it here would be unwise. 

[Munson]

I'd like him to appoint a SCOTUS nominee in the small window he has on January 3rd. It'll only last a year but farg it. It buys the dems a year, so they only have to hold out for 3 years instead of 4.

[smeags]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/20/donald-trump-apprentice-outtakes-tape-tom-arnold

[hunt]

I want him to something else but actually disclosing it here would be unwise.

tell us, oh middle aged housewife on facebook fishing for attention.  tell us.

[Rome]

Who are you calling scruffy looking?

[General_Failure]

Same Russians Who Hacked DNC Helped Target, Kill Ukrainian Soldiers

In Thursday's report, Crowdstrike says Fancy Bear used a variant of the malware to learn the locations of Ukrainian artillery positions in 2014, when that country was battling Russian-backed separatists.

The Russian spies did so ingeniously, according to Crowdstrike's account, by injecting malware into an Android phone app being used by Ukrainian artillery soldiers to target separatists. The app was being used by artillerymen to speed their ability to target enemy positions using a D-30 Howitzer, Crowdstrike says.

A video posted on Oct. 18, 2015 shows Ukrainian forces employing the app and operating in the vicinity of eastern Ukraine.

But the Russians used the app to turn the tables on their foes, Crowdstrike says. Once a Ukrainian soldier downloaded it on his Android phone, the Russians were able to eavesdrop on his communications and determine his position through geo-location.

[smeags]

President-elect Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he will look to "strengthen and expand" US nuclear capability, tweeting just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin called for enhancing his country's nuclear program.

"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump tweeted.

Hours earlier in Moscow, Putin said in a defense speech that Russia needs to "enhance the combat capability of strategic nuclear forces, primarily by strengthening missile complexes that will be guaranteed to penetrate existing and future missile defense systems."


oh goodie