[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #480 Chinaphobia

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 00:24 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Ze hebben waarschijnlijk bewijs tegen ruim honderd landen, iedereen doet het. Maar vroeger werd het stilgehouden uit vrees dat landen zouden reageren met tegenbeschuldigingen. Nu gebruiken ze het selectief, tegen Iran, N-Korea, Rusland, China.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 00:16 schreef Arcee het volgende:
Oei, die Omnibus Bill valt wel slecht bij z'n achterban. Zoveel weerstand zag je nog niet vaak.

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“He told me that he had been asked to turn on his client, to state that he didn’t believe his client, and he would be paid to do it,” Kevin Hodges, who met Sexton through their children’s rodeo competitions, said in an interview. “He was concerned about what he needed to do, and he was calling for my advice.”

Hodges said that he told Sexton not to go to the meeting but that Sexton wanted to confirm the offer. Hodges said Sexton told him he was considering recording it. Hodges provided a partial billing statement for his cellphone, at The Post’s request, showing a 24-minute call with Sexton starting at 2:16 p.m. that day. Hodges said he leans Republican and supported Moore. He did not vote in the December election, state records show.

Sexton said he arrived at the Pelham office and joined Lantrip and Davi in a conference room. He said Lantrip told him that they had the money for him. Boyle, Breitbart’s Washington bureau chief, soon joined them, he said. Minutes later, Aaron Klein, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief walked in, Sexton said.

Sexton said he was too nervous to record the meeting from his phone.

On the table was a notebook, he said, opened to a page that contained the handwritten statement he was expected to sign. There was little small talk, Sexton said. He said they began discussing the possibility of issuing a statement about Corfman’s credibility.

Sexton said he told them he didn’t see any way he could make a statement disparaging his client — that he would lose his law license if he did — and besides that, he hadn’t even asked Corfman about the details of her allegations against Moore.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 00:27 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat klinkt plausibel, maar heb je ook enige verdere aanwijzing dat dit klopt?

Als wat jij zegt klopt, pas dan kun je idd plausibel gaan denken aan een politiek amerikaans plot.

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The French government is demanding answers from the United States about its snooping. Monsieur Le Président himself, François Hollande, is calling for an end to the spying.

All of which is pretty hilarious, given France’s penchant for stealing American defense technology, bugging American business executives and generally annoying U.S. counterintelligence officials. If you’ve been paying attention, you know that France is a proficient, notorious and unrepentant economic spy. "In economics, we are competitors, not allies," Pierre Marion, the former director of France’s equivalent of the CIA, once said. "America has the most technical information of relevance. It is easily accessible. So naturally your country will receive the most attention from the intelligence services."

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Previously, U.S. officials have shied away from attributing government hacks to a foreign nation, let alone bringing charges for the intrusion, fearing that it might spark adversaries to retaliate by exposing America's own digital snooping.

In total, prosecutors indicted nine Iranians for participating in the scheme, which continued until at least December 2017, according to a release.

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Friday's move is the latest in a growing trend for U.S. prosecutors — indicting hackers linked to foreign governments.

For years, the government was hesitant to take such a step. Definitively attributing cyberattacks was difficult, and there was little — if any — chance the indicted hackers would ever see the inside of a courtroom. And some officials also pointed to the fear of having America's online espionage efforts revealed.

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The Obama administration slapped the first charges on foreign government hackers in 2013, when it indicted five members of the Chinese military for infiltrating American corporations.

DOJ prosecutors then put Iran in their crosshairs in 2016 with the indictments of seven Tehran-linked individuals for launching a spate of digital assaults on the financial sector that knocked online banking sites offline for hundreds of thousands of people. One of the hackers was also charged with illegally accessing the control system of a dam in New York.

And just last year, DOJ indicted two Russian spies for hacking into tech giant Yahoo and stealing data on 500 million users. The landmark case represented the first time the U.S. had ever filed criminal cyber charges against Moscow officials.

"This type of public identification helps to deter state-sponsored computer intrusions by stripping hackers of their anonymity and by imposing real consequences," said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at Friday's press conference.

The Obama and Trump administrations have also publicly accused North Korea and Russia for various other cyberattacks since 2014, often imposing economic sanctions afterward.

“We’re going to continue to pursue this strategy," Rosenstein added. "I think that it will have an impact."

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 01:17 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
https://www.wsj.com/artic(...)-approach-1521847907

White House aides huddled with Mr. Trump and warned him that he might catch blame for shutting down the government on a weekend he planned to spend at his Palm Beach, Fla., resort.

“F— that,” Mr. Trump said in rejecting the argument, according to people familiar with the discussion.

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President Donald Trump on Friday issued orders to ban transgender troops who require surgery or significant medical treatment from serving in the military except in select cases — following through on a controversial pledge last year that has been under review by the Pentagon and is being fought out in the courts.

The memorandum, which drew swift condemnation from gender rights groups, states that while the secretary of defense and other executive branch officials will have some latitude in implementing the policy, “persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria — including individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery — are disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances.”

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 03:46 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
En op de valreep nog even transgenders bannen uit het leger

Trump moves to ban most transgender troops

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 03:49 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:

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Was dit verhaal niet geblokkeerd door het hooggerechtshof?

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“persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria — including individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery — are disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances.”

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 03:54 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ze hebben blijkbaar nu hun pijlen op een specifieke groep gericht:

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 04:44 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Klinkt een beetje als transgenders met diepere psychologische problemen. Ik neem aan dat mensen met psychologische problemen sowieso niet in aan de slag konden in het leger dus het is weer een beetje (anti)symbool politiek van Trump.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 08:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Lijkt me eerder de medische (psychiatrische) definitie van transgender.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 04:44 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Klinkt een beetje als transgenders met diepere psychologische problemen. Ik neem aan dat mensen met psychologische problemen sowieso niet in aan de slag konden in het leger dus het is weer een beetje (anti)symbool politiek van Trump.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 10:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
En dan te bedenken dat er nog steeds mensen zijn die met droge ogen beweren dat Trump een homovriendelijke president is. Met Pence als adjudant.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 11:35 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Transgender staat niet gelijk aan homo.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 11:35 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Transgender staat niet gelijk aan homo.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 11:35 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Transgender staat niet gelijk aan homo.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 12:19 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Trump, vriend van de LGBQ-beweging.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 12:19 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Trump, vriend van de LGBQ-beweging.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 12:24 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik geloof best dat het Trump allemaal weinig interesseert, die wil gewoon golfen en voor de rest gelooft hij het wel. Maar als je dan een creep als Mike 'Conversion Therapy' Pence als running mate neemt, kan je die titel natuurlijk helemaal niet meer voeren.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2018 11:53 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Ah, dan is het goed.

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