bostonangler

I'm the first to say this grandmother needs to go, but she isn't the only one to question his... Ahhh shall we say competency. B/A

Well that was a buzz kill!!! LOL If true, we will be here for another 1,000 years. B/A

I'm just glad he had time for a rally between his vacations... B/A

Of course he did. Anyone who is not a hater would understand the president gave acclaims to people supporting hate. Besides, any group of people who raises arms against America should not be honored. That's just my opinion. B/A

Mdawg... All I can say is thank God there is not another election anytime soon. I don't think any of us deserve going through that pile of crap again for quite a while. B/A

This is scary, because unlike most hurricanes that pass through over a few hours, this one is going to sit for days... I hope people get out before everything is underwater... B/A

Interesting... Need to watch this.. B/A

I don't think so... You are the one who is constantly upset and being defensive... I just bring in stories and watch you cry babies wither and weep... It's not my fault your boy Donald is alienating himself from everyone but his shrinking group of supporters. Soon you'll be crying about conspiracy by the conservatives to dump him. Then the fake news was out to get him. And how Soros paid the world to bring him down. Instead of simply admitting you made a mistake and voted for a con-man. His words not mine... B/A In case you never hear the word hyperbole... hy·per·bo·le hīˈpərbəlē/ noun noun: hyperbole; plural noun: hyperboles exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, embroidery, embellishment, excess, overkill, rhetoric; More informalpurple prose, puffery

Bitcoin price stays above $4,000 - will it continue to rise or will the 'bubble' burst? Bitcoin price latest: Will it continue to rise? Credit: Bloomberg Mark Molloy 24 August 2017 • 5:06pm Bitcoin prices spiked to a record-breaking high of $4,500 this month, but will the value of the cryptocurrency continue to rise? The price of the digital currency, which is commonly associated with criminal activity such as drug dealing and cyber crime, has been trading at $4,264 today - a price which is has remained close to over the past few weeks. However, it did slump back to just below $4,000 after a wave of record highs on Tuesday, a little reminder to investors about the digital currency’s volatility. But what does the future hold for bitcoin? The unregulated nature of the currency makes it hard to predict if its price will continue to rise or if the bubble will burst. It has happened before, in 2013 its value plummeted when online black market the Silk Road was shut down by the FBI. While in dropped sharply again in August 2016 after hackers stole bitcoin worth £29 million from digital currency exchange Bitfinex. Some analysts believe its price will continue to rise over the next few years following its recent split into two different cryptocurrencies in an event known as “hard fork”. “At the beginning of July, bitcoin was trading at $2,500,” Ronnie Moas, founder of independent stock and shares advisers Standpoint Research, told coindesk. “I believe in the next three years you will probably see $15,000 to $20,000 for bitcoin. It could double twice from here in the next 36 months.” <img class="responsive article-body-image-image" src="/content/dam/technology/2017/08/24/TELEMMGLPICT000084404218_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqbp882ZYJlBFxnyQgxUcRs7ETk8P9H3T_ZmHI76ctXA8.jpeg?imwidth=480" alt="Bitcoin"> Bitcoin: Sold here Credit: Reuters Wall Street strategist Tom Lee believes the price of Bitcoin, which surpassed gold for the first time in March, could eventually rise by another 40 per cent. “Based on this premise, we take a stab at establishing valuation framework for bitcoin. Based on our model, we estimate that bitcoin’s value per unit could be $20,000 to $55,000 by 2022,” said. However, The Telegraph’s Technology Editor, James Titcomb, warns: “While the party may continue for a while, it’s just as likely to end spectacularly.”

Far-right smear campaign against Antifa exposed by Bellingcat By BBC Trending What's popular and why 6 hours ago Image copyright Twitter/Womens Aid Image caption Falsified pictures circulating on social media (l) include an image of Anna Friel from a 2007 anti-domestic violence campaign (r) Far-right activists are using fake Twitter accounts and images of battered women to smear anti-fascist groups in the US, an online investigation has revealed. The online campaign is using fake Antifa (an umbrella term for anti-fascist protestors) Twitter accounts to claim anti-fascists promote physically abusing women who support US President Donald Trump or white supremacy. Researcher Eliot Higgins of website Bellingcat found evidence that the campaign is being orchestrated on internet messageboard 4Chan by far-right sympathisers. One image shows the slogan "53% of white women voted for Trump, 53% of white women should look like this", above a photograph of a woman with a bruised and cut face and an anti-fascist symbol. The woman pictured is actually British actress Anna Friel and the photograph was taken for a Women's Aid anti-domestic violence campaign in 2007. The images first started circulating on social media late on 23 August with hashtags #PunchNazis, #MakeRacistsAfraidAgain and #BashTheFash. Accounts appearing to belong to anti-fascist groups tweeted the memes, calling on activists to physically attack women who voted for Trump. Image copyright Twitter/Womens Aid Image caption Accounts posing as Antifa groups and Trump supporters using #PunchNazis hashtag Prominent far-right individuals such as Joseph Paul Watson also retweeted the memes. Twitter account @RockMountAntifa, claiming to be an anti-fascist group in Utah, tweeted 29 of these images in four hours. "She said she was right-wing, so I gave her a left hook," one read. However, the account shows tell-tale signs of being fake: The account was only created this month and its first tweet was on 24 August, while the only tweets posted were the 29 images. Eliot Higgins, who traced evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria, found evidence the anti-Antifa campaign was organised on 4Chan, which has a reputation for acting as a meeting place for alt-right groups, and runs a "politically incorrect" board with extreme racist and homophobic comments. Mr Higgins posted a screenshot of a call to action on the message board, which encouraged far-right sympathisers to search online for images of domestic violence, add their own slogan such as "She deserves it for being a Nazi," then post them on social media using pre-determined hashtags. These images are the same as those being circulated by fake anti-fascist accounts. The campaign appears to aim to discredit Antifa groups at a time of heightened tension in the United States after 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when protesting against a far-right march in Charlottesville last week. Following the march, US President Donald Trump accused left-wing groups of being as equally to blame as far-right protestors for the violence, drawing widespread condemnation for equating the two. Mr Higgins told the BBC the campaign was "pretty clumsy", with obvious signs of being orchestrated. "Many of the accounts tweeting the images were clearly made in the last ten hours and had very few followers," Mr Higgins explained. "This was a transparent and quite pathetic attempt, but I wouldn't be surprised if white nationalist groups try to mount more sophisticated attacks in the future." Who's lying now? B/A

Kitco News - Germany's central bank completed its plan to repatriate the country's gold reserves from New York and Paris, three years ahead of schedule. Initially expected to take until 2020, the plan involved returning 374 tons of gold from Paris, and 300 tons from New York. But for Vince Lanci, editor for marketslant.com and the founder of Echobay Partners, the timelines do not add up. "You are dealing with something heavy that has to be moved so it does take time, but you don't need seven years to move that much gold," explained Lanci. Germany started the repatriation program back in 2013; they initially wanted the gold back in five years time, but the U.S. Federal Reserve renegotiated for a seven-year timeline - which raised a red flag for Lanci. "The Bundesbank gold was segregated. That also contributes a shorter delivery time than five years," Lanci said. "After the financial crisis, you started seeing many European countries wanting their gold back. This whole thing started because they were more concerned about control over ownership." In recent years, conspiracy theories circulated about Germany's foreign gold reserves. Some observers questioned whether they had been lost or used by the other central banks. The German Federal Court of Auditors eventually asked for an inspection of foreign gold reserves in 2012. Lanci opined that it gave the appearance the New York Fed did not actually have the gold. "Why would it take 7 years, unless there was a possible issue in getting it together, to return 300 tons? It could be done certainly in several weeks or even months - but 7 years?" Lanci questioned. "In my trading days, I've taken delivery of gold and silver and I'm aware of the physical logistical limitations. The time requested to deliver the 300 tonnes seems excessive - whether it be 5 or 7 years." Germany had previously repatriated 940 tons of its gold from the Bank of England without delays. Lanci hypothesized that if the Fed did not have Germany's gold, it would have to buy it to repay Germany, and a large purchase would push up the price, which the bank did not want. On Wednesday, the Bundesbank, one of the biggest holders of gold in the world, said that it completed the move of 674 tonnes from the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Banque de France. Frankfurt now holds just over half of Germany's total 3,378 tons of gold reserves, with 36.6 percent left in New York and 12.8 percent in London. The gold was initially stored outside of Germany during the Cold War.

Awesome, entertaining and fun!!! Thanks B/A

Ciao Umbertino, glad you are back on the grid. For a while me and Shabs were the only targets they had to shoot at!!! LOL B/A

President Donald Trump said he asked Republican leaders in Congress to include a measure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling in a popular veterans bill to avoid a “mess” in which they have to rely on Democrats’ support. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan decided against tying the measures together, Trump said in a series of Twitter posts Thursday. “I requested that Mitch M & Paul R tie the Debt Ceiling legislation into the popular V.A. Bill (which just passed) for easy approval. They didn’t do it so now we have a big deal with Dems holding them up (as usual) on Debt Ceiling approval. Could have been so easy-now a mess!” Trump tweeted. More from Bloomberg.com: U.S. Warns Citizens About Traveling to Cancun Trump has threatened to to shut down the government in October over funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, which could complicate Congress’s job of raising the debt ceiling. Congress needs to pass a spending measure to keep the government open by Sept. 30 -- at the same time it’s facing a deadline to raise the nation’s debt limit. GOP leaders don’t have a plan yet for how they’ll proceed, but one likely scenario is to package the two measures together to get them to the president’s desk. Trump on Wednesday signed a bill that won bipartisan support to streamline veterans’ appeals of requests for disability benefits. Shutdown Threat “If we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Phoenix on Tuesday. “One way or the other, we’re going to get that wall.” Trump has made clear for months he wasn’t happy with the last bipartisan spending deal in May because it didn’t fund a new wall on the southern border, his signature campaign promise. At the time, he tweeted that a “good” government shutdown may be needed to force Democrats to make concessions. Ryan told reporters Wednesday that lawmakers do not want a government shutdown in October. Republican Resistance “I don’t think a government shutdown is necessary and I don’t think most people want to see a government shutdown, ourselves included,” the Wisconsin Republican said at a news conference at Intel Corp.’s office near Portland, Oregon. He said Congress will likely need a short-term stopgap bill since it needs more time to complete appropriations this fall. Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, said shutting down the government over a border wall would be a mistake. “We don’t need a government shutdown -- that never ends well. We don’t save money doing it,” Flake said Thursday on Fox News. Flake also said a solid 2,000-mile border wall “doesn’t make sense in some areas” and shouldn’t be pursued “to just fulfill a campaign promise.” Up-Front Payment While Trump said on the campaign trail that Mexico would pay for the wall, the White House said Trump expects Congress to provide the funding up front. “We’re looking forward to working with Congress to get funding for the border wall,” White House spokeswoman Natalie Strom said in an email. “The President ran on it, won on it, and plans to build it.” More from Bloomberg.com: Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Over Border Wall Funding Investor Anxiety With little more than a month until what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called a “critical” deadline for addressing the debt limit, investor anxiety is beginning to manifest in shorter Treasury tenors. The spread between one- and three-month bills has collapsed to roughly 1.6 basis points, the flattest since February, as investors start demanding higher rates on one-month paper relative to three-month securities in order to compensate for default risk.

Sweet, now they can loan us some money like China and the rest of the world... That'll fix our 110 years of debt!!! B/A

Because you can dish out, but you can't take it... All you do is whine like a spoiled little progressive teenager that I see running amuck in all those fake news videos. Get over yourself. B/A

It gets worse the older you get! B/A

Politics Chelsea Clinton to Conservative Site: Leave Barron Trump Alone Kate Samuelson 7 hours ago In a display of solidarity between First Children, Chelsea Clinton came to the defense of President Donald Trump‘s son Barron on Monday night after he was attacked by a conservative website for how he dresses. In a Twitter post, the former First Daughter shared a link to a story on The Daily Caller entitled “It’s High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He’s In the White House.” “It’s high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves,” Clinton said. The Daily Caller story criticized Trump’s 11-year-old son for looking “like he was hopping on Air Force One for a trip to the movie theater.” It’s not the first time Chelsea Clinton, who was two years older than Barron when she moved into the White House in 1993, has stood up for Trump’s son. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, when Internet trolls attacked Barron for his posture and facial expressions, Clinton defended the then-10-year-old’s right to a normal childhood. “Barron Trump deserves the chance every child does-to be a kid. Standing up for every kid also means opposing POTUS policies that hurt kids,” she said then. Kudos to her for standing up for Baron... Kids needs left out of this Washington nightmare... B/A

Dude I googled it... What more do you want? Does Canada block your internet? I don't know that much about your country, but I didn't think they censored the internet. I have no problem finding information on any issue from any perspective... I'm actually confused that you can't find something like a list of achievements or whatever... I think you have fallen victim to propaganda and or conspiracy theories. Seriously I don't have a difficult time finding information. And as for condescending.... Well, it goes with the neighborhood. Stop being a such snowflake... B/A

Dude the clock is running... People here are falling in to the trap it can't happen to us... B/A

Now that was funny... Thanks for the chuckle. B/A

It's hard not be condescending when people who scream about fake news and false facts continue to spew them about the things I say. Sorry I'll try harder not to let the numbskulls get to me. B/A

Boy that was hard I googled Trumps achievements... Maybe you misspelled achievements... http://www.conservapedia.com/Donald_Trump_achievements

I don't see these first responders lying about what they saw and heard.... This was a true false flag, that took us to war for Iraqi oil. Big money has been made on the backs of American people...

What part? That a real producer wouldn't hide behind a talking cat? A real producer would at the very least use a sock puppet. Or the truth about 911? To much proof to deny it. Do some research and you'll see the role Neil Bush played blocking bomb sniffing dogs from entering the towers for two weeks before 9/11, the fact jet fuel can't melt iron, and why the reporter on camera reported building 7 came down before it did. Or the last part where Trump would flip flop last night? B/A