The Many Faces of US Politics...

[J70]

Conway is finished

https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/829045193131380736

Anyone who voted for Trump pays fvck all attention to what CNN or The NY Times has to say....haven't they more important things to be doing such as rigging debates or selectively editing BLM protest videos

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/cnn-edits-out-milwaukee-victims-sister-sherelle-sm/

Are they paying attention to Trump's bald-faced lies about the murder rate and reporting of muslim atrocities?

[whitey]

Conway is finished

https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/829045193131380736

Anyone who voted for Trump pays fvck all attention to what CNN or The NY Times has to say....haven't they more important things to be doing such as rigging debates or selectively editing BLM protest videos

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/cnn-edits-out-milwaukee-victims-sister-sherelle-sm/

Are they paying attention to Trump's bald-faced lies about the murder rate and reporting of muslim atrocities?

Theres no such things as lies anymore.....there are alternative facts that dont pass through the biased filter of the main stream media

Turn on CNN.....Bernie and Ted Cruz having a great debate on healthcare

[J70]

Conway is finished

https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/829045193131380736

Anyone who voted for Trump pays fvck all attention to what CNN or The NY Times has to say....haven't they more important things to be doing such as rigging debates or selectively editing BLM protest videos

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/cnn-edits-out-milwaukee-victims-sister-sherelle-sm/

Are they paying attention to Trump's bald-faced lies about the murder rate and reporting of muslim atrocities?

Theres no such things as lies anymore.....there are alternative facts that dont pass through the biased filter of the main stream media

Turn on CNN.....Bernie and Ted Cruz having a great debate on healthcare

I know you're taking the piss, but that does seem to be what Trump is aiming for.

Regardless, it was good to hear NPR refuse to be intimidated by him and call his bullshit out for what it is (they're the only ones I heard today - hopefully others did too).

You can fill us in tomorrow on Bernie and Ted! Substance, not shouting, I hope?

[seafoid]

David Frum ‏@davidfrum  4 h
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Plus
David Frum a retweeté David Frum
"It's a ban on Muslims coming from countries that start w I and have 2 syllables, or start with S and also contain an 'a', plus Yemen."

[screenexile]

Trump crying now that Politics is stopping him get the ban he wants . . . did nobody tell him this wasn't another series of the Apprentice and that Politics is the gig??!!

[Zulu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pxyMjSV6vg

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Trump crying now that Politics is stopping him get the ban he wants . . . did nobody tell him this wasn't another series of the Apprentice and that Politics is the gig??!!

and Nordstrom as well for dropping Ivanka's clothing line

[Declan]

and Nordstrom as well for dropping Ivanka's clothing line

America First 

[Harold Disgracey]

Trump insult generator.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WelshDalaiLama/status/829386075030376449/photo/1

[seafoid]

and Nordstrom as well for dropping Ivanka's clothing line

America First 

That picture reminds me of the time a lowly waiter recorded Romney secretly.

[Declan]

Get the first of your Blood Diamonds

Leaked Trump Presidential Memo Would Free U.S. Companies to Buy Conflict Minerals From Central African Warlords
Lee Fang
2017-02-08T21:01:55+00:00

The leaked draft of a presidential memorandum Donald Trump is expected to sign within days suspends a 2010 rule that discouraged American companies from funding conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo through their purchase of  "conflict minerals."

The memo, distributed inside the administration on Friday afternoon and obtained by The Intercept, directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to temporarily waive the requirements of the Conflict Mineral Rule, a provision of the Dodd Frank Act, for two years — which the rule explicitly allows the president to do for national security purposes. The memorandum also directs the State Department and Treasury Department to find an alternative plan to "address such problems in the DRC and adjoining countries."

The idea behind the rule, which had bipartisan support, was to drain militias of revenue by forcing firms to conduct reviews of their supply chain to determine if contractors used minerals sourced from the militias.

The impending decision comes as Trump held a meeting Wednesday with Brian Krzanich, the chief executive of Intel, one of the leading firms impacted by conflict mineral regulations. At the White House today, Krzanich appeared with the president to announce a new manufacturing plant in Arizona.

Human rights advocates — who had celebrated the conflicts rule as a major step forward — were appalled. "Any executive action suspending the U.S. conflict minerals rule would be a gift to predatory armed groups seeking to profit from Congo's minerals as well as a gift to companies wanting to do business with the criminal and the corrupt," said Carly Oboth, the policy adviser at Global Witness, in a statement responding to a Reuters article that first reported the move.

"It is an abuse of power that the Trump administration is claiming that the law should be suspended through a national security exemption intended for emergency purposes. Suspending this provision could actually undermine U.S. national security."

Advanced computer chips, including technology used in cell phones and semiconductors, contain minerals often sourced from war-torn countries in central Africa. Firms such as Intel, Apple, HP, and IBM use advanced chips that contain tantalum, gold, tin, and tungsten — elements that can be mined at low prices in the the DRC, where mines are often controlled by militias fueling a decadeslong civil war.

American tech companies, such as Intel, lobbied directly on the rule when it was proposed. But since passage, tech firms have largely used third party business groups to stymie the rule. Trade groups representing major U.S. tech firms and other manufacturers, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, attempted to block the rule through a federal lawsuit. In 2014, a federal court struck down a part of the rule that forced firms to reveal DRC conflict minerals on their corporate websites.

Intel is also one of the firms that has touted its effort to comply with the law, publishing a report that notes the company has conducted 40 on-site reviews of smelters in the eastern DRC.

Reuters also reported that acting SEC chief Michael Piwowar has taken steps to also weaken enforcement, asking staff to "reconsider how companies should comply."

Read the draft memo here:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3457048-Document-Final.html#document/p1

[whitey]

and Nordstrom as well for dropping Ivanka's clothing line

America First 

That picture reminds me of the time a lowly waiter recorded Romney secretly.

Haha....youre very guiilble if you actually believe that.....Democratic dirty tricks at their finest, recentlt matched and surpassed by Bannon and Trump.....its a race to the bottom

[stew]

and Nordstrom as well for dropping Ivanka's clothing line

America First 

That picture reminds me of the time a lowly waiter recorded Romney secretly.

Haha....youre very guiilble if you actually believe that.....Democratic dirty tricks at their finest, recentlt matched and surpassed by Bannon and Trump.....its a race to the bottom

These boys on here don't have to believe things like this stuff, they merely need to wish it to be true!

I wish they would just accept their hoor lost and get on with it.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Here stew - do you think the President should be publically berating a company about their business practices just because it affect's his families bottom line?


See if you can answer without mentioning Hillary or Obama.

I'll be back for your answer later. 

[johnneycool]

Get the first of your Blood Diamonds

Leaked Trump Presidential Memo Would Free U.S. Companies to Buy Conflict Minerals From Central African Warlords
Lee Fang
2017-02-08T21:01:55+00:00

The leaked draft of a presidential memorandum Donald Trump is expected to sign within days suspends a 2010 rule that discouraged American companies from funding conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo through their purchase of  "conflict minerals."

The memo, distributed inside the administration on Friday afternoon and obtained by The Intercept, directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to temporarily waive the requirements of the Conflict Mineral Rule, a provision of the Dodd Frank Act, for two years — which the rule explicitly allows the president to do for national security purposes. The memorandum also directs the State Department and Treasury Department to find an alternative plan to "address such problems in the DRC and adjoining countries."

The idea behind the rule, which had bipartisan support, was to drain militias of revenue by forcing firms to conduct reviews of their supply chain to determine if contractors used minerals sourced from the militias.

The impending decision comes as Trump held a meeting Wednesday with Brian Krzanich, the chief executive of Intel, one of the leading firms impacted by conflict mineral regulations. At the White House today, Krzanich appeared with the president to announce a new manufacturing plant in Arizona.

Human rights advocates — who had celebrated the conflicts rule as a major step forward — were appalled. "Any executive action suspending the U.S. conflict minerals rule would be a gift to predatory armed groups seeking to profit from Congo's minerals as well as a gift to companies wanting to do business with the criminal and the corrupt," said Carly Oboth, the policy adviser at Global Witness, in a statement responding to a Reuters article that first reported the move.

"It is an abuse of power that the Trump administration is claiming that the law should be suspended through a national security exemption intended for emergency purposes. Suspending this provision could actually undermine U.S. national security."

Advanced computer chips, including technology used in cell phones and semiconductors, contain minerals often sourced from war-torn countries in central Africa. Firms such as Intel, Apple, HP, and IBM use advanced chips that contain tantalum, gold, tin, and tungsten — elements that can be mined at low prices in the the DRC, where mines are often controlled by militias fueling a decadeslong civil war.

American tech companies, such as Intel, lobbied directly on the rule when it was proposed. But since passage, tech firms have largely used third party business groups to stymie the rule. Trade groups representing major U.S. tech firms and other manufacturers, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, attempted to block the rule through a federal lawsuit. In 2014, a federal court struck down a part of the rule that forced firms to reveal DRC conflict minerals on their corporate websites.

Intel is also one of the firms that has touted its effort to comply with the law, publishing a report that notes the company has conducted 40 on-site reviews of smelters in the eastern DRC.

Reuters also reported that acting SEC chief Michael Piwowar has taken steps to also weaken enforcement, asking staff to "reconsider how companies should comply."

Read the draft memo here:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3457048-Document-Final.html#document/p1

The conflict materials legislation is purely a box ticking exercise and is easily circumvented by third party distribution channels who have no issues telling component manufacturers that they comply when lord only knows they're sourcing their tantalum or whatever. Its a joke anyway.