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  3. While you were distracted like a Pavlovian Dog, this happened:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-15/no-one-watched-trump-pardoned-5-megabanks-corruption-charges?page=3
    As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges
    Not surprisingly, the latest decision to pardon the banks comes in stark contrast to one of Trump’s most applauded campaign promises – that he would finally stand up against Wall Street and demand that the most powerful banks be held accountable to the public.
    “I’m not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us. We’re going to tax Wall Street,” Trump said during a campaign rally in January 2016.

  4. Oh, Oh! Bad news for Pretty Hair and Pretty Socks.
    The real problem with NAFTA is Canada, not Mexico, Paul Ryan says
    U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan says NAFTA’s biggest problem ‘comes from the North,’ with Canadian dairy producers dumping low-cost products on the market
    http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/the-real-nafta-problem-is-canada-not-mexico-paul-ryan-says
    Kate, what happened to the twitter thread with some female media type that was up for a few minutes but had a men digging picture when clicked on?

  5. Hmmm. …
    Deutsche Bank pled guilty to wire fraud in a U.S. court in 2015, and it went on to pay $3.5 billion for its role in the LIBOR scandal—more than any other bank involved—before it reached a $7.2 billion settlement with the Justice Department in early 2017.
    Uhhhhh … LOTS of missing information in this passage … but it appears to me that the Trump Administration successfully NEGOTIATED a MUCH LARGER $$ monetary FINE … More than DOUBLE what Obama’s suspect DOJ was able to extract. So what’s the problem?
    You’re implying that because Trump has taken out $130 million in loans completely backed by tangible Real Estate assets … that he is paying back … like any other LOAN … that he made some sort of quid-pro-quo “deal” to FINE Deutsche Bank $3.7 BILLION MORE than the Obama Admin ? Are you HIGH? or just suffering terminal TDS ?

  6. Auf Wiedersehen Germany, it’s been nice knowing you. Thanks for nothing, Frau Doktor Merkel.

  7. Makes this go away…
    http://thefreethoughtproject.com/federal-court-private-lawsuit-bring-16-worlds-largest-criminal-banks-knees/
    The revived antitrust lawsuit, according to the appeals court, could be devastating to these 16 banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, UBS AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc., and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
    “Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor‐denominated derivative swap would, if appellants’ allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world’s most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated,” the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.
    As the Free Thought Project has previously reported, these megabanks have been caught over and over rigging the market, and none of them are ever held criminally liable. They simply pay a fine, aka bribe, to the United States government, and continue business as usual.

  10. What a story with everything you could want.
    Small town car dealer uses all his savings to make a 40000.00 gamble on a colt, helps train it himself, at an obscure stable nobody has heard of, and the horse becomes an incomparable standard bred champion and then the horse dies young.
    Where’s Hollywood?

  11. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    Liberal times are hard times.
    Liberal Justine say, Get a job.
    …-
    “Yellow Pages cutting around 500 jobs across Canada to reduce spending”
    “The cuts will be made across the country and all parts of the company’s business.”
    https://globalnews.ca/news/3967228/yellow-pages-cutting-jobs-canada/
    …-
    “Party’s over for Canada’s economic growth” (cbc)
    “Morneau concedes slower growth coming” (inTO)

  12. I submit that this article is another piece of red meat (to coin a phrase). Another President Trump hit piece……
    A waiver is not exactly a pardon. It is a very conditional agreement with the banks which requires them to do certain things. Big fines have already been collected. Also, these banks had already received a one year “waiver” under former President Obama.
    Realistically, there is a very big reason to not destroy these banks…..doing so would cause total chaos in the monetary system of the world. Yeah, it’s crappy that things got to be this way but there you are.
    Sometimes things are done for a reason other than “Trump is a scoundel.”

  13. Actually, the $7.2 billion dollar settlement was entered intro three days BEFORE Trump’s inauguration and related to an entirely different episode of misconduct by the bank, namely misleading investors with respect to the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities prior to the 2008 financial crisis.
    I’d suggest that you more fully investigate the facts before suggesting that people are high.

  14. MSM Liar’s Club Arithmetic Class: 1-2=1.
    MSM’s TORedStar: Two arrested, one charged.
    “One man who was at the mosque told Radio-Canada that there were two attackers wearing ski masks who burst into the building and opened fire.
    The man, who didn’t want to be identified by name, said they had strong Québécois accents, but added that he believed he heard them shouting “Allahu Akbar.” His testimony could not be independently confirmed.”
    …-
    “Canadians Trust Their Media More Than People In Most Countries: Pew Center Study
    It might be because we trust our federal government more. (huffpo)
    …-
    Sun., Jan. 29, 2017
    “Five reported dead, two arrested after shooting at Quebec City mosque”
    “MONTREAL—Two attackers carried out a shooting at a Quebec City mosque Sunday evening that has killed at least five people, according to the president of the Islamic Centre of Quebec.”
    “One was reportedly arrested at the scene of the attack while another fled.”
    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/01/29/witnesses-report-shooting-at-mosque-in-quebec-city.html

  16. “……off the rails again.” Wait just a minute. I can’t ever remember when she was “on the rails”.

  18. Bolshevik Wynnetario.
    Wynnetario is now a Bolshevik Wynneholetihs.
    …-
    “Brockville’s Transcom call centre will close before the end of March, putting some 80 people out of work.
    Some of those people might find new jobs in a different, work-at-home arrangement, but it was unclear Monday how many of the local workers might be rehired.”
    “The company is also closing its other remaining Ontario call centre in Barrie.
    “There will be no more bricks-and-mortar (operations) in Ontario,” Transcom North America spokeswoman Caroline Spivak said Monday.”
    http://www.recorder.ca/2018/01/16/brockvilles-transcom-closing
    …-
    “Premier Wynne to hold town hall in Ottawa Jan. 18” (ottawastart)

  20. Leftist’s feathers bungded real good.
    …-
    “Oilsands ponds full of 340 billion gallons of toxic sludge spur fears of environmental catastrophe” (bloomberg)
    “How a Nafta Breakdown Could Blow Back Into Shale Patch” (bloomberg)
    …-
    “U.S. oil industry about to smash through a record few thought possible, and the impact is breathtaking
    Surging shale production is poised to push U.S. oil output to more than 10 million barrels per day — toppling a record set in 1970”
    “HOUSTON — Surging shale production is poised to push U.S. oil output to more than 10 million barrels per day — toppling a record set in 1970 and crossing a threshold few could have imagined even a decade ago.
    And this new record, expected within days, likely won’t last long. The U.S. government forecasts that the nation’s production will climb to 11 million barrels a day by late 2019, a level that would rival Russia, the world’s top producer.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/analysis-u-s-oil-industry-set-to-break-record-upend-global-trade

  21. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine has grown-morphed into a notorious, infamous leftist. But, we knew that.
    Mohammed say, ask Trudeau-Wynne-ToryTory for its name.
    “Many media outlets, including The Canadian Press, have since chosen not to identify the girl.”
    Liberal Justine named it: “My heart goes out to Khawlah Noman”.
    …-
    ““This is such a layered story about culture and…journalism and the digital culture that drives all of this. It’ll end up being, I think, a case study in journalism schools and in ethical studies.””
    “Hijab-cutting incident: Experts warn of ethical issues with putting kids in media spotlight”
    https://globalnews.ca/news/3968787/hijab-cutting-incident-ethical-issues-children-spotlight/

  22. Wait just a minute. I can’t ever remember when she was “on the rails”.
    Touché and I gladly concede the point to you.

  23. AGW RIP.
    Paging May-Suzooky, Liberal Justine’s Climate Barbie.
    It’s a model* story; but, ……
    “Temperatures have become so cold in the Siberian region of Yakutia that people’s eyelashes have started to freeze when they venture outside”
    …-
    “Study*: Solar Cycle To Cause A ‘Mini Ice Age’ As Early As 2020”
    https://principia-scientific.org/study-solar-cycle-to-cause-a-mini-ice-age-as-early-as-2020/
    …-
    “Thermometer in world’s coldest village breaks as temperatures plunge to -62C”
    “The thermometer in a remote Siberian village known as the coldest inhabited place on earth has broken as temperatures plunged to near-record depths.
    The public device, which was installed in Oymyakon as a tourist attraction, recorded -62C, before malfunctioning this week.
    Meanwhile the Siberian Times reports that some locals had readings as low as -67C – in touching distance of the record -67.7C, which was logged in the village in February 1933.
    That temperature was the lowest ever recorded outside the Antarctic and cemented the village, in the Yakutia region, the coldest permanently-inhabited place on earth.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/16/thermometer-worlds-coldest-village-breaks-temperatures-plunge/

  25. AGW RIP.
    “[T]he warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers.”
    …-
    “Weather
    Mountain rescue team called to help drivers trapped on motorway
    Motorists stuck in snow on M74 as severe winter weather hits Scotland and Northern Ireland” (grauniad)
    …-
    “No More Snow in England Say Global Warmists”
    December 20, 2010″
    “[T]he warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”…
    https://uncommondescent.com/science/no-more-snow-in-england-say-global-warmists/

  27. The description of the rant in the kitchen reminds me of this line from the movie Casablanca (spoken by Victor Laszlo, played by Paul Henreid, to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart):
    “You know how you sound, Mr. Blaine? Like a man who’s trying to convince himself of something he doesn’t believe in his heart.”
    It seems that someone isn’t sure of what he/she/it/xe/xer/xit really is.

  28. I’m guessing you have sympathy for the 11 year old.
    I know I do.
    As for the rest of the characters, they can eat me.
    She’s been played, by some evil folks with no standards. Aren’t we trying to keep those types OUT?

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