Some former yardies fed up with the BS coppers now mostly do decided to make a business model that works for catching actual bad guys.

I mean, maybe if you weren't paying attention before, but this type of bureaucratic sissy fight is nothing new. Marcy Wheeler has some interesting observations regarding what's been going on while the Memo has served as a distraction. That part is much more interesting. Personally, I think the fact that Treasury is ignoring congressional sanctions on Russia is a good move, diplomatically. Sanctions are always a prelude to war. Seems there's a side channel of diplomacy going on here, though I'm sure that'll incense the DNC backers.

With the Republican changes to the tax code, the high-cost dynamic that has effectively redistributed some probable Democratic voters from left-leaning to right-leaning states will be thrown into overdrive.

THX Trump. You could have done the honorable thing and simply abolished the IRS, but noooooo

Well, considering what Angela Keaton has been saying for quite some time, this can come as no surprise.

Great news for folks affected by that stuff.

The empire comes home

lol

Reminds me of the approach the "portable apps" guys took for windows binaries. Glad to see much of the "hard part" of doing this now being scripted away.

More like "unamerican activities" RE encryption.

Modi's infatuation with cashless economies continues to run the place into the ground. I suspect the Hindus are busy HODLing gold instead of shitcoins though.

Nice to see that there continue to be no real "good guys" in war.

Of course, we're in no way responsible if it happens... *cough*

Par for the course.

Most likely he'll go down as one of the better hucksters of this century.

Sounds like he was inches from getting away with it too.

Built their HQ for the low low price of having all communications there being reported back to shanghai nightly. This should not have been a surprise.

Certainly would explain why the neocon rhetoric is heating up lately.

BONUS: YPG is already using Suicide Bombers to resist invasion.

General Votel was lauding the progress of the seventeen year long war on Afghanistan when a car bomb outside rudely interrupted him.

NWO secret plan going swimmingly, I see

When your society is so authoritarian as to make friendly activity basically impossible. Thanks for supporting all the wars, 'murka.

Well that's great. If so, may as well skip it entirely. I'm sure the Net Neutrality fanbois will love it (though perhaps not since it comes from the Trumpster?).

Wanna know where the Joe is that has enough money to waste on this shit is (think -- officer)? Just take a look at strava's heatmap!

Looking at this question from the other side, why are some of the buyers not bidding 70% of BPO and scooping up all the auctions? This would still provide mid-teen returns which, in today’s low interest/high risk environment, are still attractive, as they include real bricks-and-mortar collateral. Could there be some collusion on these auctions by the bidders? This also seems likely.

Police in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have launched a new pilot programme which will see them confiscating expensive clothing and jewellery from young people if they look too poor to own them.

Sounds like a blank check for robbery.

Presumably so that they can more effectively harrass people who have done nothing wrong and are complying with their idiotic mandates.