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[Pokesan]

Originally Posted by mickmoranis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

how bout those not fake news websites like CNN breaking the banned CDC word list, amiright?

hot dog forums say its a banned word list in the sense that it's language directives for submitting official documentation for congressional review

e: oh, budgetary

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by mickmoranis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Trump fixes obumers mistake lol

1. trump is going to end the defense sequester from 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnyl3pE6l1g

2. the defense sequester was an obama ara restriction on military spending that the navy has had some concerns about https://www.defense.gov/News/Article...y-leaders-say/

3. since 2011 there have been 3 major accidents in the navy and people be like, " why are all these ships crashin into each other" ever since they started poppin up

I think its interesting that trump hasnt tried to play this up

1. The defense budget is going from $580 billion to $693ish billion

2. We don't spend money on basic infrastructure, like a one time $400 million pump system recommended by the army corps of engineers that would've saved the western half of Houston from flooding

3. You don't pay taxes

4. Hope this helps!

[skarlorn]

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1. The defense budget is going from $580 billion to $693ish billion

2. We don't spend money on basic infrastructure, like a one time $400 million pump system recommended by the army corps of engineers that would've saved the western half of Houston from flooding

3. You don't pay taxes

4. Hope this helps!

Thank u for this

[jakerees]

https://www.politico.com/interactive...investigation/


In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.

The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.

Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.

They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.

But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.

The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.

[JurisDictum]

I read that yesterday and thought "Why would the DEA be spearheading a investigation into a group that politically sensitive?" This is a bit out of their jurisdiction IMO.

The DEA is an annoying bureaucracy we will someday have to retool to do something useful. Probably just managing drugs in international conflicts would be the best use for them.

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by Pokesan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hot dog forums say its a banned word list in the sense that it's language directives for submitting official documentation for congressional review

e: oh, budgetary

so fake news

[mickmoranis]

lol appropriate? idk you tell me.

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[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by mickmoranis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

so fake news

Reporters with various forms of "fake news" from an 1894 illustration by Frederick Burr Opper

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[JurisDictum]

Looks like the Humbug News went out of business, but we still got plenty of Cheap Sensation and Fake News.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Looks like the Humbug News went out of business, but we still got plenty of Cheap Sensation and Fake News.

I just thought it was interesting the term "fake news" has been used and in existence since at least 1894.

I should have known ventriloquism was at work when Trump the muppet spoke such a phrase. He could never come up with something original.

***Hey you never know, perhaps the phrase "humbug news" will be resurrected too.