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发帖数: 21627 | 1 Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-
Programmer?
A month after ace programmer Sergey Aleynikov left Goldman Sachs, he was
arrested. Exactly what he’d done neither the F.B.I., which interrogated him
, nor the jury, which convicted him a year later, seemed to understand. But
Goldman had accused him of stealing computer code, and the 41-year-old
father of three was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
Investigating Aleynikov’s case, Michael Lewis holds a s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Sacrifice: Obama Forced to Postpone Fundraisers Due to His Syria Disaster &#
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by Jammie
His mealy-mouthed minions have been telling us how “courageous” his
decision to try and foist off this Syrian mess onto Congress was, but nobody
prepared us for this. It may require a hastily arranged Profiles in Courage
award of its own.
President Obama has scrapped a planned two-day trip to Los Angeles early
next week ahead of a congressional vote on a military strike against Syria.
The cancella... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 Congressional Benefits Cloud Health Fight
Impasse Involves Provision Requiring Lawmakers, Staff to Buy Insurance
Through Exchanges.
By LOUISE RADNOFSKY
and AMY SCHATZ
One of the disputes roiling Washington during the government shutdown is
whether the federal government should continue to subsidize health insurance
for members of Congress and their staff. The Obama administration has
published rules saying it will, and some Republicans again attacked that
move Friday as unfair.
The impasse invol... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 For Obama, little to say that hasn't been said
October 8, 2013 - 6:35 PM
By JULIE PACE, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — His Asia trip was scrapped, most of his staff has been
furloughed and he's refused to hold negotiations with House Republicans. So
on Tuesday, President Barack Obama was looking for something to fill his
time.
His destination? The White House briefing room, where reporters and
photographers packed in for a hastily arranged news conference, eager for
any sign of a breakthroug... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 By Dahleen Glanton and Jason Meisner Tribune reporters
7:03 a.m. CST, January 7, 2014
A federal judge on Monday stripped away a key element of Chicago's gun
ordinance, ruling that it is unconstitutional to prohibit licensed gun
stores from operating in the city.
U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang found that the city failed to convince him
that banning the sale of guns by licensed dealers was necessary to reduce
gun violence.
The ruling also would make it legal for individuals to transfer ownership... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8800 | 6 这个有点糊涂了。NYC不是仍然禁止枪支的么？怎么芝加哥是最后一个禁枪的？
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Former Club Gitmo Guest Implicated in Benghazi Terror Attack
by Jammie
Well, at least they can blame Bush for the Benghazi attack now.
U.S. officials suspect that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee played a
role in the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya,
and are planning to designate the group he leads as a foreign terrorist
organization, according to officials familiar with the plans.
Militiamen under the command of Abu Sufian bin Qumu, the leader of Ansar
al-Sh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Only one out of four Americans say they’re in favor of the Affordable Care
Act, putting support of the controversial health-care law at its lowest
since it was passed in 2010, according to a new poll. Nearly a third think
there are major changes in store for the law.
The recent Associated Press-GfK survey found that public approval for
Obamacare has dropped since April 2010 from 39 percent to 26 percent. Over
that same period, disapproval has gone from 50 percent to 43 percent. The
most signific... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 Obamacare: State Dems’ Worst Nightmare
Troubles with liberal states’ exchanges are dragging down their Democratic
governors.
By Michael Tanner
As the bad news about Obamacare’s federal operations keeps on coming, it’s
worth keeping in mind that the law is a mess at the state level as well.
The big question will be whether the failures will hurt Democratic state
politicians as much as Obamacare appears likely to drag down national
Democrats. Most of the 17 states that chose to set up and operate ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 13081 | 11 http://time.com/3770850/iran-deal-explainer/
So what does the framework agreement say?
According to the framework agreement, Iran agreed to cut by two-thirds its
supply of centrifuges, from roughly 19,000 to about 6,000, and retain only
its earliest generation centrifuges. It said it would keep continuing
enrichment far below levels necessary for a nuclear weapon and also agreed
to reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by 97%.
But exactly how it plans to scrap its extra centrifuges and enrich... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Police pledge thorough probe of death after stun gun shock
April 17, 2015 - 6:35 PM
By DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland promised a thorough investigation
Friday into the death of a man in custody after police shocked him with a
stun gun outside a home he had allegedly broken into.
Darrell Lawrence Brown, 31, died early Friday morning after at least one
officer shocked him. Brown had ignored police commands to get down on the
ground and instead became agg... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Beware, the Tax Man Has Eyes on You: Potential Hike for Illinoisans is
Staggering
Live in Chicago? A report by Nuveen shows a pension payment spike looms in
2016, and the potential tax hike to fix it is staggering.
Please consider Chicago’s Fiscal Stress: New Term, Same Problems.
Pension Payments Are A Growing Portion of the Budget
Years of poor funding exacerbated Chicago’s pension obligations so that
it may be infeasible to keep them solvent without modifying benefits.
Chicago’s four ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 More Obamacare Sticker Shock: HMO Rates Up 20%, EPO Up 18%, 12% Overall;
Death Spiral for Insurers?
If you did not have insurance before Obamacare, but do now, or if you are
heavily subsidized, you may consider Obamacare a blessing.
If you are not in those select groups, then you are highly likely to be
paying more for insurance now than before. And it's going to get worse. Some
plan types really take a premium hit.
Premiums Jump 12% On Average
Health Pocket reports Obamacare Insurers Propose 12... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Father of French Train Terrorist Says His Son Is a “Good Boy” – Blames EU
for Not Finding His Son a Job
Jim Hoft Aug 24th, 2015 8:02 am 88 Comments
on Friday Ayoub El Khazzani boarded a train from Brussels to Paris with a
Kalashnikov, a handgun and a bag full of ammo. He was tackled and hogtied by
three Americans after he tried to slaughter the passengers on the train.
Khazzani’s father told reporters his son was a “good boy” who was misled
by European officials who sold him empty promises and t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 US Abandons Scheme to Arm Rebels, Instead Adopts Rand Paul's Proposal to
Arm Kurds; Hillary Flashbacks
Russian interference in Syria has had one positive aspect already: US Scraps
Scheme to Create Syrian Rebel Force.
The US is halting a controversial $500m programme to create a rebel
force in Syria after concluding that it was having practically no impact in
the battle against Isis fighters in the war-torn country.
Instead of trying to build up a new force of fighters — training them
out... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 17 Bama is good at adjusting strategy. Two real enemies in the middle east,
Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Robot Theory
The battle of robot theory is on. Bank of America paints one picture and
McKinsey another.
Let's investigate both theories.
Automation Will Change Jobs More Than Kill Them
As reported by the New York Times, McKinsey says Automation Will Change Jobs
More Than Kill Them
The report, published on Friday and written by two members of the
McKinsey Global Institute, the consulting firm’s research arm, and another
McKinsey employee, adds a twist to the debate over the likely nature and
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发帖数: 61690 | 19 Hillary Clinton on Monday evening slammed the violence surrounding Donald
Trump’s public appearances, arguing it resembles bloody incidents in
America’s past.
“There’s a disturbing amount of divisive rhetoric in this campaign that’s
really preying on peoples’ fears,” she told host Chris Matthews during a
MSNBC town hall in Springfield, Ill. "It’s not only bad for our politics,
it’s bad for our nation, and we need to stand up against it.
“People remember mob violence that led to lynchings,” the D... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16479 | 20 多伦多大学取消不少transgender厕所，装不下去了。
University of Toronto Drops Transgender Bathrooms Due To Peeping Toms
Trevor Norris
April 12, 2016
Headline News
by Trevor Norris
There’s been a whole lot of noise made by celebrities and left-wing
politicians alike after North Carolina passed a recent law mandating single-
sex multiple occupancy bathrooms and changing facilities in schools and
public agencies (Session Law 2016-3 HB 2). New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee responded by banni... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2053 | 21 http://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-suburb
Obama’s last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy
President Barack Obama and Housing Secretary Julian Castro Photo: AP;
Gregory P. Mango
Hillary’s rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking
up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs
for being too white and too wealthy.
The scheme involves super-sizing vouchers to help urban poor afford higher
rents in pricey ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 22 The shorter version of what President Barack Obama said Tuesday: Donald
Trump is an idiot.
The slightly longer version: The presumptive Republican nominee is a
dangerous manipulator who's either willfully or ignorantly out to damage the
country and put more Americans in danger, all for the sake of propelling a
brand of politics that responsible Republicans know they can't support.
Story Continued Below
As Obama himself put it—the day after Trump breached whatever was left of
nonpartisan respect ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 23 4/18/2013, Morgan Stanley Washington, DC: $225,000
4/24/2013, Deutsche Bank Washington, DC: $225,000
4/24/2013, National Multi Housing Council Dallas, TX: $225,000
4/30/2013, Fidelity Investments Naples, FL: $225,000
5/8/2013, Gap, Inc. San Francisco, CA: $225,000
5/14/2013, Apollo Management Holdings, LP New York, NY: $225,000
5/16/2013, Itau BBA USA Securities New York, NY: $225,000
5/21/2013, Vexizon Communications, Inc. Washington, DC: $225,000
5/29/2013, Sanford C. Bernstein and Co., LLC Ne... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 24 连数数都不会，希婆水军scrapping the bottom of the barrel |
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发帖数: 16092 | 25 Shouldn’t we question those who are putting their money behind Hilary
Clinton, the first person to run for the presidency while subject of a
criminal investigation? Whose natural instincts are to lie, about matters
serious and inconsequential? Whose greed outweighs incandescent ambition?
Why aren’t Hillary’s backers made to explain how they can vote for a
candidate who promised not to trade access for money while she served as
Secretary of State, but then did it anyway?
Who vowed to reveal all m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 453 | 26 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nate-silver-election-forecast_us_581e1c33e4b0d9ce6fbc6f7f
I get why Silver wants to hedge. It’s not easy to sit here and tell you
that Clinton has a 98 percent chance of winning. Everything inside us
screams out that life is too full of uncertainty, that being so sure is just
a fantasy. But that’s what the numbers say. What is the point of all the
data entry, all the math, all the modeling, if when the moment of truth
comes we throw our hands up and say, hey, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 29 President-elect Donald Trump sold all of his stock holdings in June, a
spokesman said Tuesday, potentially easing some of the concerns about
conflicts of interest in his White House.
The stock sale was revealed on a conference call on which Trump transition
aide Jason Miller was asked about Trump's holdings in Boeing. The president-
elect criticized the company Tuesday morning, calling to scrap its contract
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发帖数: 2054 | 30 BORDER ADJUSTMENT TAX
This is one of the most controversial parts of the House Republicans' tax pl
an. It is also key to making it work.
Under current law, the United States taxes the profits of U.S.-based compani
es, even if the money is made overseas. However, taxes on foreign income are
deferred until a company either reinvests the profits in the U.S. or distri
butes them to shareholders.
Critics say the system encourages U.S.-based corporations to invest profits
overseas or, more dramaticall... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7021 | 31 这家伙天天喊开放边境, 自家却筑高墙, 挡住当地居民欣赏了几百年的天然海景。 居
民抗议他挡海景, 这家伙竟然叫嚣扬言要告不卖地给他筑墙的当地居民。
Zuckerberg已把伪善左逼的嘴脸表露无遗。 据传这家伙2020年要出来选总统喔。
Hundreds of Hawaiians still plan to march in protest on Saturday along the
six-foot-high wall that Mark Zuckerberg built in Kauai, despite the Facebook
CEO's decision to drop lawsuits that would compel some of them to give up
ownership of their land.
The protest's organizer, a local hibiscus farmer named Joe Hart, told
Business Insider on Friday that "the march is on" because ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 33 Trump the Dealmaker Projects Bravado, but Behind the Scenes, Faces Rare Self
-Doubt
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN
MARCH 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump, the author of “The Art of the Deal,” has
been projecting his usual bravado in public this week about the prospects of
repealing the Affordable Care Act. Privately he is grappling with rare
bouts of self-doubt.
Mr. Trump has told four people close to him that he regrets going along with
Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plan to push a health car... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 42116 | 34 House GOP abruptly scraps health care vote
美国总统川普今天要求联邦众议院议长莱恩（Paul Ryan）在表决前，撤回健保改革法
案，此举意味川普在政治上的一大挫败。
1名众议院共和党人士告诉法新社，「众院议长在（当地时间）下午3时与总统谈话，总
统要求议长撤回这项法案。」
川普告诉「华盛顿邮报」，「我们刚撤回法案」。他说，近期内将不会重提这项健保法
案。
川普还指最大输家是民主党，现在民主党完全拥有欧巴马健保，必须为这个最终肯定会
出问题的健保负责，现在他们能做的就是让欧巴马健保自毁。
特朗普此前已经对新医改法案可能无法通过有所准备，表示无论结果如何众议院议长保
罗瑞恩都应继续留任。在正式决定撤回医改法案表决后，华盛顿邮报记者Robert Costa
与特朗普通了电话，特朗普表示自己已经竭尽所能推动新医改方案，同时强调这不是
瑞恩的责任，不会去责怪他。接下来的任务是税改方案(减税计划)。
傻叉儿了吧。从丫一上台，我就讲，减税应该是第一作的。 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 35 Senators in both parties predict blowing up the Senate’s rules to confirm
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will inflict serious damage on the
institution.
Democrats are mulling whether to employ the same retaliatory tactics that
Republicans used in 2013 after Democrats triggered the “nuclear option” to
prevent the GOP from filibustering President Obama’s executive branch and
judicial nominees.
“They used the age-old Senate tactic of slowing things to a crawl, which
you can do under the rules o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 36 叙利亚第7航空兵师被清除四分之一
美军公布最初战果评估：摧毁至少20架战机，摧毁大量地面设施包括机库油库弹药库和
防空雷达。叙利亚第7航空兵师被清除四分之一。
Two U.S. Navy destroyers were in position in the eastern Mediterranean with
dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles targeted on a Syrian airfield and
launched within three hours of President Donald Trump making the final
strike decision, defense and White House officials said Friday.
The officials said the strikes inflicted “severe damage” on the airfield
and destroyed at least 20 aircraft as the culmination of a plan put... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7021 | 37 Donald J. Trump is the president of the United States.
One hundred days ago, I took the oath of office and made a pledge: We are
not merely going to transfer political power from one party to another, but
instead are going to transfer that power from Washington, D.C., and give it
back to the people.
In the past 100 days, I have kept that promise ─ and more.
Issue by issue, department by department, we are giving the people their
country back. After decades of a shrinking middle class, open borde... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 40 现在美国农村的萧条和悲惨
Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’
A Wall Street Journal analysis shows that since the 1990s, sparsely
populated counties have replaced large cities as America’s most troubled
areas by key measures of socioeconomic well-being—a decline that’s
accelerating
At the corner where East North Street meets North Cherry Street in the small
Ohio town of Kenton, the Immaculate Conception Church keeps a handwritten
record of major ceremonies. Over the last decade, according to these
sacramen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2318 | 42 天下白左一般“白”。加拿大这种loser国家刚给定罪的IS恐怖分子发了百万千万的补
偿费。
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told governors from across the US to ditch
the "America First" motto.
His National Governors' Association speech in Rhode Island on Friday was a
first for a Canadian prime minister.
In his speech, Mr Trudeau urged US governors to embrace their neighbour to
the north and avoid protectionism.
It is all a part of his aggressive strategy to promote a "thinner border"
ahead of vital trade talks with the US renegotiating t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 43 不发新工卡，也不马上驱逐。等于把球踢给国会
Trump expected to halt Obama’s program but allow some Dreamers to stay
temporarily
WASHINGTON
President Donald Trump is expected to end an Obama-era program that shielded
young people from deportation, but he will likely let the immigrants known
as Dreamers stay in the United States until their work permits run out,
according to multiple people familiar with the policy negotiation.
That plan would allow Trump to fulfill a campaign promise to end one of
Barack Obama’s signat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 44 The White House on Tuesday placed the onus on Congress to extend protections
for young undocumented immigrants after President Trump scrapped an Obama-
era program shielding them from deportation.
“I think that the American people elected them to do it,” White House
press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. “And, again, if they
can’t, then they should get out of the way and let somebody else take
their job that can actually get something done.”
Sanders would not describe how Trump w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2518 | 47 呵呵，左派就是一群不吃好粮食的人。给点好脸就张狂。选老川整治他们真是选对了！
：没有人类能阻挡老头了
：Trump will scrap critical Obamacare subsidy |
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发帖数: 2896 | 48 停的好
：没有人类能阻挡老头了
：Trump will scrap critical Obamacare subsidy |
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发帖数: 897 | 49 This week, House Republicans finally unveiled their tax cut package after
months of stating vague principles, squabbling over details, and even
delaying its release by a day. Even though the plan offered more information
than Republicans had been willing to cough up previously, many families
still likely have very little idea of whether they’ll be helped or hurt by
the plan. That is, unless they’re rich.
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Even without a full expert markup, it’s clear that low-income families get
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发帖数: 4796 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: WCNMLGB (CCC), 信区: Military
标 题: 好莱坞性侵大牌被开除，连带很多人失去了工作
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Dec 1 12:53:08 2017, 美东)
‘Everybody had a job, and then they didn’t’: Hollywood sex scandals’
other casualties
When art director Francis Giglio signed on to work on the TBS animated
series “The Cops” last summer, he believed he had a full-time job through
next May. The project starring the comic dream team of Louis C.K. and Albert
Brooks meant steady income for the 36-year-old Newhall resid... 阅读全帖 |
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