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Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia Landed Two Nuclear-capable Bombers In South Africa by CTPlayer: 3:08am On Oct 28, 2019
LOL Africa selling out to China and Russia.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Washington Dumps Its Kurdish Proxies (temporary Puppets) As Ankara And Damascus by CTPlayer: 2:52am On Oct 28, 2019
sunboy:


You are the one who’s not clear with my point. It’s a known fact that US need some damage control to cover for the failure of the Patriot to stop those cruise missiles and drones.

But Trump said; we are bringing our boys home from the Middle East, only to be redeployed to another middle eastern country (SA) cos they paid for the service.

He should have just shut up and carry one with his plans not justifying why he’s withdrawing the boys from Syria.

Is it clearer now ?

The US Military has been deployed globally since after WWll. That is why there hasn't been a WWlll.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Killed Himself With Suicide Vest - President Trump Confirms by CTPlayer: 10:55pm On Oct 27, 2019
midnighter:


You need white supremacists and sexual assault in every country? Hmm!

Never heard Trump say anything racist and there have been zero legitimate sexual assault claims.
The issue in the USA is fake hate crimes based on race and blaming whites for everything. Like this Black women
at the NY Times. 2 S. Asian Indians harassed and peed on a black girl. The writer blames whites.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/opinion/new-jersey-high-school-racism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Faces Of 39 Migrants Who Froze To Death In Refrigerated Truck In U.k(Pics) by CTPlayer: 6:37pm On Oct 27, 2019
BlackPantherCri:


Why did they not just remain in Belgium ��

I read a couple of more articles and it seems they all want to go to the UK for some reason.
Maybe they don't deport illegals as much as other countries. This flight did land in Germany, then
they guided to Belgium, into the cargo container and then shipped along water route to UK.
They get some sort of a visa and clear customs.....usually in France, this time Germany.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Faces Of 39 Migrants Who Froze To Death In Refrigerated Truck In U.k(Pics) by CTPlayer: 5:28pm On Oct 27, 2019
henryhemon:


I guess they put them in those trucks like they re frozen foods.

From an Airplane at a major international airport?
Foreign Affairs / Re: Faces Of 39 Migrants Who Froze To Death In Refrigerated Truck In U.k(Pics) by CTPlayer: 2:59pm On Oct 27, 2019
How do they smuggle them through customs after they land in Europe?

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 10:47pm On Oct 26, 2019
happney65:
Company with ties to Trump’s brother Robert awarded $33 million government contract

A company in which President Trump’s brother has a financial stake received a $33 million contract from the U.S. Marshals Service earlier this year, an award that has drawn protests from two other bidders, one of which has filed a complaint alleging possible favoritism in the bidding process.

The lucrative government contract, to provide security for federal courthouses and cellblocks, went to CertiPath, a Reston, Va.-based company that since 2013 has been owned in part by a firm linked to Robert S. Trump, the president’s younger brother.

After the contract was awarded, an anonymous rival bidder filed a complaint with the Justice Department’s office of the inspector general alleging that CertiPath had failed to disclose that “one of the President’s closest living relatives stood to benefit financially from the transaction,” according to a copy of the July 22 complaint letter obtained by The Washington Post.

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“The circumstances of this contract award, and what appear to be CertiPath’s efforts to obscure Mr. Robert Trump’s financial interest in the company even as it trades on the Trump name, present the appearance of preferential treatment for those who are close to the President,” said the complaint, which was sent by the Washington law firm Venable on behalf of the client.

Robert Trump with Donald Trump and his date, Melania Knauss, at a dinner in New York on Nov. 3, 1999. (Diane Bonadreff/AP)
Robert Trump with Donald Trump and his date, Melania Knauss, at a dinner in New York on Nov. 3, 1999. (Diane Bonadreff/AP)
Dismas N. Locaria, a Venable lawyer who signed the complaint letter, declined to disclose the name of his client.

A phone message left for Robert Trump through Trump Management, where he is a senior executive, was not returned.

CertiPath’s president and founder, Jeff Nigriny, said in a statement that Robert Trump “is one investor in an entity which holds a minority interest in Certipath” and that “he is exclusively a passive investor, has no management role whatsoever, is not an officer or director, and his name has never been used or mentioned by Certipath in any solicitation for a government contract, whether state or federal.”

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Nigriny said that the company is unaware of the complaint filed with the Justice Department’s inspector general.

The company specializes in digital security and verifying online identities.

“Certipath has never used the Trump name in any way, and to do so would be completely inconsistent with our business practices and ethics,” Nigriny added.

Though the contract has been awarded, no money has been paid out. That is because a second company, NMR Consulting, of Chantilly, Va., also filed a protest of the bid with the Government Accountability Office, on July 1.

That bid protest has led to a “stop work order” on the contract, said Drew Wade, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service.

“There’s no money being spent with CertiPath until this issue is resolved,” Wade said.

Wade added that the Marshals Service had no knowledge of the allegations that a member of the president’s family has a financial interest in CertiPath or that a complaint has been made to the inspector general.

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The NMR complaint is about a separate issue and “has nothing to do with the president or his relationships,” Wade said.

NMR did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment.

The Justice Department inspector general has not initiated a review of the matter, according to a public listing of that official’s reviews regarding the Marshals Service. A spokeswoman for the inspector general declined to comment further.

The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Since Trump took office, CertiPath has been paid more than $6 million in government contracts, federal data show.

Once regularly spotted in New York society circles, Robert Trump has spent his recent years largely out of the limelight.

He followed Donald Trump into the family real estate business in New York and held senior positions in the Trump Organization. In the 1980s, he served as an executive vice president at the company and was involved in the Trump Organization’s casino operations in Atlantic City.

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One recent book about Trump’s litigious history cites an anecdote about Robert Trump enduring Donald Trump’s wrath in a meeting with bankers from Bear Stearns about the Trump Taj Mahal casino.

After Robert Trump made a comment that Donald Trump didn’t like, “Trump stood up and pointed his finger near Robert’s face, angrily saying, ‘You talk when I tell you to talk!’ ” according to the book by James D. Zirin titled “Plaintiff in Chief: A portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 lawsuits.”

Robert Trump has been a steady donor to Republican candidates and state committees over the years, his contributions including a $100,000 donation to the “Trump Victory” political action committee in 2016, according to Federal Election Commission data.

“I support Donald one thousand percent,” he told the New York Post that year.

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Robert Trump, who reportedly lives in New York’s Dutchess County, is the president of Trump Management, a company that is listed on President Trump’s financial disclosure form.

Through this company, the two brothers appear to have a financial relationship: The company is 25 percent owned by the “Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust,” a trust fund of the president’s assets from which Trump can withdraw money from at any time. The other 75 percent of Trump Management is owned by “Trump Family Members,” according to the president’s financial disclosure form.

Robert Trump has also invested in other companies outside of real estate; he is listed as a board member of ZeniMax Media, a video game maker based in Rockville, Md.

Robert Trump’s stake in CertiPath is through SHiRT LLC, an investment partnership including the younger Trump and CertiPath’s chief executive, Shawn R. Hughes. On the CertiPath website, Hughes’s biography mentions that he is the managing partner of SHiRT LLC. It does not indicate Robert Trump’s percentage of ownership.

In 2013, CertiPath was acquired by two entities; one of them was SHiRT LLC, according to a CertiPath news release from October of that year.

Since then, CertiPath has been paid at least $13 million in U.S. government contracts, according to an analysis of data from the Federal Procurement Data System.

But the contract announced on June 25 by CertiPath appears to be the company’s biggest yet: a “highly-coveted contract,” as the company described it in its announcement at the time, to upgrade and manage “physical access control systems” for the Marshals Service including at judges chambers, courtrooms, cellblocks and firing ranges.

“Our decade-long strategy is being validated,” Nigriny said in a statement at the time.

But the award was quickly challenged by other bidders.

Locaria, the Venable lawyer, said that he has made follow-up calls to the inspector general’s office since he sent the letter in July but has yet to receive a response. He said his client’s motivation was “shining a light on whether this was appropriate.”

Beyond the potential conflict of interest, the complaint letter also alleges that on the basis of CertiPath’s experience, the company should not have won the contract.

“CertiPath, which primarily provides information technology products related to digital identification, appears to lack the basic program management skills and experience required to provide the physical security” for these Marshals Service needs, the letter says.

Nigriny disputed that assessment and said CertiPath’s “technical abilities and operational history are, in our opinion, more than adequate to perform under the contract in an exemplary manner.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/company-with-ties-to-trumps-brother-robert-awarded-33-million-government-contract/2019/10/26/f67164d2-f688-11e9-829d-87b12c2f85dd_story.html

But nooo,It's all about Hunter Biden.. grin grin grin

Not even close to what the Biden's did or the Clinton's running the Clinton Foundation, taking in Billions from foreign governments, when she was Secretary of State....and still running it when she ran for President.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Over 1 Million People Come Out To Protest Bad Governance In Chile(Photos) by CTPlayer: 1:09pm On Oct 26, 2019
What are they mad about?
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 8:17pm On Oct 22, 2019
Anduku:


All thanks to the Lunatic liberals,
men don't even need to have gender reassignment surgery anymore. You can just wake up and decide you are now a woman and demand access
to women sports, restrooms
and bathrooms with your dick still intact angry

The world must really be on vigilance or these socialist, anarchist, lunatics will turn the world into something uglier and nastier than we can imagine

Yeah all you need is a wig and make sure you dick isn't flapping around. Same thing in university sports, men can join the women's team LOL.
Almost too dam funny.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Instead Of Investing In High Tech Egyptians Are Busy Digging Ancient Tombs by CTPlayer: 8:14pm On Oct 22, 2019
I like they historical stuff they dig up there. They are building a brand new capital administrative city.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Lebanon Scraps Whatsapp Tax As Protests Rage by CTPlayer: 7:59pm On Oct 19, 2019
If government can tax it they will unless the people rise up. Good job Lebanese citizens.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 7:56pm On Oct 19, 2019
raumdeuter:
See Hilary now calling TulsiGabbard a Russian asset, First it was Trump now its Tulsi

Now is time to order popcorn

And Mueller told us Misfud was a Russian agent, but investigators have his 2 blackberry phones issued to him by the CIA.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: US Black School Aide Fired For Rebuking Boy's Use Of N-word by CTPlayer: 7:53pm On Oct 19, 2019
Seun:
So they found a good excuse to fire a black man for saying that a white boy should not use the n-word, uh? This is smart, modern, sneaky racism.
Both are black the adult and the student.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Mexican Police Free Ovidio Guzmán López As Culiacán Battle Erupts by CTPlayer: 10:00pm On Oct 18, 2019
Amazing how N. America, USA and Canada, is so different that Latin S. America. Technically Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador etc., and the Caribbean is N. America.....but in name only.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by CTPlayer: 9:14pm On Oct 18, 2019
OLAADEGBU:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiprVX4os2Y

Good call. It was also stated in this videoclip that it was because the South voted values and not skin colour. smiley

Good video, she has a southern accent lol. The only thing she missed was in the mass influx of major corporations into the South
from the North. Which also included a lot of new Whites to the South from the North. And even before that the massive NASA and Military
bases in the South, lots of blacks and whites living and working in Military bases and towns. For the most part the old white racists just died off.
And their offspring are conservative whereas the Democrats continue to go far left.
Foreign Affairs / Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by CTPlayer: 7:30pm On Oct 18, 2019
OLAADEGBU:


Have you heard of the myth of the Southern Strategy? If so, what's your take on it?
Yeah it is pretty fake as it relates to Nixon. The guy who wrote about it didn't even work with Nixon.
After Nixon plenty of Southern whites voted for Carter and Clinton twice. Between 1940-1970 5 Million
blacks moved from the South to the North, and even as far back as the 1960's Northern whites began
moving South to Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa, Huntsville Al. places like that. The elected white Dixiecrats
never flipped to the Republicans, except 1-2 that is it. Segregationist George Wallace got continued support from
Southern Black voters. Even in 1982 he got 90% of the Black vote because he had Democrat next to his name.

Specifically as the South became less racist and more pro America first it became Republican.
Foreign Affairs / Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by CTPlayer: 2:12pm On Oct 18, 2019
OLAADEGBU:


What is the difference between modern day Democrats and the old? undecided

Old Democrats were capitalistic, anti government intrusion into everyday life. They were also 100% pro slavery.
Today they want to rule over people with government, comply or we will make your life miserable. They are the party
of keeping poor people poor and giving them free stuff in exchange for votes and the party of big Tech oligarchs,
barriers to entry. An example is Beto O'Rourke. He said last weekend that any person, group or religious institution
should lose their tax exempt status if they are not for and do not recognize gay marriage.

The Dems morphed into the party of labor, but now most blue collar workers solidly support the Republicans

Jeff Bezos is another oligarch and he owns the Washington Post. Carlos Slim, a Mexican Billionaire, pretty much owns
the NY Times. Slim made his fortune by bribing the Mexican government for near monopoly control of phone service in Mexico.
He likes open borders so Mexicans in the USA can wire money back home so Mexicans can pay their phone bill.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Convicted Felon & Admitted Paedo Running For Congress, Wants To Legalise Incest by CTPlayer: 1:57pm On Oct 18, 2019
Abbeybailey:
Pus*y grabbing , three times married and a psychological lying vile racist. What kind of God do you worship ?.
Name 1 racist comment by Trump.
Travel / Re: 3000-years-Old: Archaeologists Unearth 20 Well Preserved Coffins In Egypt(Pics) by CTPlayer: 1:04pm On Oct 18, 2019
missjo:
Are the bodies inside of it also well preserved?
That would be something

That would be interesting.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: El Chapo's Son Released after Cartel Members waged war on police officers by CTPlayer: 12:32pm On Oct 18, 2019
Earlier this week another cartel ambushed and killed 15 police. All of Mexico is super corrupt.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Washington Dumps Its Kurdish Proxies (temporary Puppets) As Ankara And Damascus by CTPlayer: 3:37am On Oct 18, 2019
sunboy:


You still miss the point sir. Trump said “we are bringing our troops back home, no more endless wars in the Middle East” then only to return 2000+ soldiers to Saudi because they paid

When did the US military became a mercenary organization that’s being paid to fight wars for other countries ? Saudi is not even in the NATO alliance ooo

Since Kurds did not paid we have every right to be out of there... there by escalating the ISIS level again, and even telling the press that they can only escape to Europe... please tell me what would stop them from coming to the US??

This is the same Saudi that butchered a US Based journalist in cold blooded! The same Saudi whose citizen dominated 70% of the 9/11 terrorist!!

Remember, Saudis have the 3rd largest military spendings in the world. They are well equipped and trained, why won’t they put the lives of their soldiers in the line to protect their own territory.

See you cannot decide to pull soldiers out of Middle East because in your election campaign you promised to bring the soldiers home, only to send them to another country in the same Middle East... really

How much more can I spell this out for you sir ?

Okay, if you want to talk about the oil price rising ? It’s a win for the US if Saudi and Iran decided to go to war and Oil price rise... the US is currently the world largest producer of oil and the cost of producing the same oil is even expensive that the producers can compete favorably with the international market price. If the go to war and the oil price increases, it’s a win win for US oil producers!
WTF are you talking about? The USA is in no war. The USA is the largest producer of oil and gas on the planet.
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 7:08pm On Oct 17, 2019
That is the idea Kompchitsteiner don't get American military personal shot dead. Kurds and USA teamed up to kill ISIS. You acted like the USA invaded SA with 3,000 troops, they didn't USA has 40 bases in the Middle East by invitation of host country and you ignore my facts. Chitstein.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Erdogan Vows He Will ' Never Declare A Ceasefire' by CTPlayer: 7:04pm On Oct 17, 2019
LOL

U.S., Turkey Reach Ceasefire Agreement in Syria Conflict

Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that Turkey had agreed to a ceasefire in Northern Syria after hours of negotiations with Turkish officials.

Turkey agreed to suspend military operations for 120 hours while the United States helps orchestrate a withdrawal of Kurdish YPG forces from the proposed Turkish safe zone, after which a permanent ceasefire will begin.

“I spoke to President Trump just a few moments ago, and I know the president is very grateful for President Erdogan’s willingness to step forward,” Pence said in the announcement.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-s-turkey-reach-ceasefire-agreement-in-syria-conflict/

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by CTPlayer: 6:59pm On Oct 17, 2019
Kophersteein the USA is in SA by invite. It isn't a war dumbass. USA has 40 bases in the Middle East by invitation of host. You act as though it is an invasion army you are a scumbag intentional liar.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Fired By African Union For Speaking Against Colonialism by CTPlayer: 6:34pm On Oct 17, 2019
I thought that was old agreement for those countries to deposit X amount of reserves into a CFA bank for stability purposes?
I don't think it is a tax. Anyways it would be interesting if African leaders are going to talk bad about China's debt trap. Maybe not because
their pockets are getting lined by China now.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Washington Dumps Its Kurdish Proxies (temporary Puppets) As Ankara And Damascus by CTPlayer: 6:05pm On Oct 17, 2019
sunboy:


Well 99.99% of Americans ... I don’t know where you get that statistics from but majority still don’t understand why Americans are sent to Saudi too
There by invitation of the government of SA.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Washington Dumps Its Kurdish Proxies (temporary Puppets) As Ankara And Damascus by CTPlayer: 6:03pm On Oct 17, 2019
sunboy:


The same way we’ve got not business in Saudi Arabia too

Of course it is OK for USA to be in SA. There by invitation and written agreements, like many many other countries.
Travel / Re: British Family Detained For "Accidentally" Driving Into US by CTPlayer: 9:23pm On Oct 16, 2019
lloyds:


USA are too proud. . That's their major problem. . They fill every other nation is inferior whereas Canada possess much better environment and structures and the US.
There is virtually no difference with environment nor structures between the 2 countries. Engineering and building codes will be very much the same, both former British founded colonies. However more Canadians and Europeans live in the USA than vice versa. Europeans are 6 times more likely to live in the USA than vice versa.
Travel / Re: British Family Detained For "Accidentally" Driving Into US by CTPlayer: 5:39pm On Oct 16, 2019
planetx:
If they don't need visas what is the point of crossing illegally, confused because it says they were refused visa before.
I can only speculate, but I think the lawyer paid them to do this, so the lawyer can try to make ICE/Border/USA look bad in the media. And this lawyer has a history of doing this.
Travel / Re: British Family Detained For "Accidentally" Driving Into US by CTPlayer: 5:31pm On Oct 16, 2019
salford1:

They probably want to go into the US to work and would have likely landed in California. They pulled the "we are british" after being caught to draw sympathy.
No idea what they were up to or what the end goal was. If they wanted to go to the USA for work a normal person would just go through customs legally and then just not go back. The lawyer in this case is a well known open borders nut, and she routinely says bad things about ICE and their detention facilities and kids in facilities. Notice how the Brits brought kids? I think the lawyer paid the Brits to carry out this stunt. Wonder why 2 of the adults were denied access to the USA in the past?
Travel / Re: British Family Detained For "Accidentally" Driving Into US by CTPlayer: 5:22pm On Oct 16, 2019
planetx:
I thought British citizens don't need Visa to visit the US.

You still have to cross into the USA legally through a customs port of entry.
Travel / Re: British Family Detained For "Accidentally" Driving Into US by CTPlayer: 5:20pm On Oct 16, 2019
edgecution:
If you're living in Detroit you will know one can easily cross over to Windsor in Canada accidentally.

One won't get through accidentally. There is the tunnel, and the bridge, well marked.

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