Located 829 results from search term 'crimes'
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Commented in What If Russia Makes a Deal?
Sorry, Nuremberg stands for human experimentation. They weren't tried because the surrendered, they were tried for war crimes.
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Commented in FBI: Tennessee man paid hitman in Bitcoin to kill his wife
could you imagine if the media reported the specific currency used in each of the crimes they report?
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Commented in Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Social Network’s Ban of Trump
Oh, wow, punished by not being allowed on Facebook. How severe. When do the real lawsuits start for the real world crimes he did commit?
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Commented in Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented-reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years
What if the US fought all their wars and committed all their warcrimes in virtual reality? The world would be a better place. And less polluted, too.
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Commented in Visa and Mastercard are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
I read the article; however, I want to point out the other side of the coin, which is that Pornhub hosts some images and videos of child pornography (see Guardian article above). As with anything that involves an actual crime, it's ENTIRELY reasonable that Visa and Mastercard don't want to be involved in such transactions. The eff article tries to argue it's not the payment processor's domain to decide what's OK and what's not, but actually, it's entirely normal for payment processors to refuse to be involved in transactions where they suspect there could be a high risk of illegal activity.
The Guardian article points out that underage children have actually tried to get videos of themselves removed at Pornhub, without success. I sincerely hope that those who uploaded those videos of the child porn, and Pornhub who did not act promptly to take them down, will one day soon face charges at the criminal level and being labelled as sex offenders. I don't blame Visa and Mastercard one bit for refusing to be involved in high-risk transactions.
Eff tries to paint this as a moral issue involving only adult porn, but it's not as simple as that. There is child porn on there, therefore real crimes are shown on there, therefore payment processors surely will distance themselves from that.
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Commented in How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
I don't think we will ever get rid of petrochemicals, a lot of our societies are depending on it too much, as in: besides plastics, the industry makes medicines from oil. And herbicides and pesticides. Not to mention fuels. Looking at the world's pollution, oil and petrochemicals are by far the biggest cause for pollution. We know that for many decades. But yeah, money. And where's money, there's politicians, who enable all the polluting, creating a veneer of quasi-legality, so the industry can say they're doing nothing wrong, although they are responsible for the biggest environmental crimes this earth has ever seen (or endured, so you will).
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Commented in The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
Exposing the truth about U.S. crimes against humanity just does not fit corporate media's agenda.
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Commented in In re: Grand Jury Subpoena, Chelsea Manning, Subpoenaed Party. Declaration 19-1287-cv
Grand juries are one of the most unconstitutional and corrupt institutions in the USA. They are continually used to circumvent the Bill of Rights and civil liberties and are used to punish those that dare to stand up for their rights. "Land of the Free"? What hypocrisy! Chelsea Manning is a hero of the people for exposing U.S. war crimes, and that is why the government is unlawfully imprisoning her and have subjected her to torture for years. But she is stronger than the war criminals and traitors that persecute her.
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Commented in I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.
Usually, that saying is about things like how one isn’t able to make a favorite dish the way one’s folks did, down some fractal dimension of differences all the way to how one oven doesn’t heat much like another. Or how one’s old neighborhood will’ve become unrecognizable by the time one gets back to visit someday.
Even after the coming Venezuelan War, even after the diaspora comes back to roost, it’ll be new. Something different. Stars willing, better. If nothing else, yours.
Best of luck when you get there!
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Commented in NASCAR driver Conor Daly loses sponsorship over N word his father said 30 years ago
Oh dear. An Indiana sportscaster was retired. As if that weren’t enough to make you impatient with the world, a racer-turned-sportscaster lost his TV deal. Gird your loins, though, it couldn’t end there. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company only sponsored two of three planned cars at the NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at Road America this year. So straightaway you know there’s something rotten in Denmark.
What’s the goddamn problem? They’re free, white, and 21, right? They’ve been deprived of their birthright. If I follow the alt-right crowd’s simmering fauxtrage correctly, this is clearly because of something that, surprisingly enough, they can only explain in terms of their bafflement.
Correlated with these stark tragedies, crimes against the natural order of things really, is the tell-tale odor of racism. Well, that sure explains what rustled the Magas’ jimmies in all this. I say ‘correlated with’ as opposed to ‘caused by’ because that’s what makes any sense. Try it yourself. Like solving a maze in reverse, start with how brutally oppressed rich white men are in settler-colonial America and see if you can find your way back to why these guys aren’t getting the kind of checks they’d prefer. Talk about your cultures of victimization.
Of course it all goes back to an immigrant. You know how those people are. Some filthy, drunken Mick came over here and the story almost writes itself, right? Being white, though, technically, it’s not his fault he ran his Paddy mouth where he shouldn’t’ve. It’d’ve been one thing if it’d only been routine use of everyday phrases like “the only nigger in the wood pile.” Who here hasn’t said that at least once this week? It was probably when telling stories about it on-air that better judgment should’ve come into play. I mean, it sounds like he’s a real nice guy and all, even if there’re more racist skinheads in his character recommendation than are perhaps normal. If that’s where he’d stuck the gin bottle back in his enchanted, emerald mouth that’d’ve been the end of it. But guys talk, word gets around, you hear things.
Here’s a little context one may not’ve known if you’re new to being an American. Turns out there’ve been racist pricks here for some time. It’s not the novelty it is today in Chief Justice Roberts’ post-racial Jim Crow America. One of the more insidious chapters in the American history of racist secret societies is the Know-Nothings. I’m going from memory here, but I think this was the Silver Age of the KKK, where it was more about multi-level marketing and moving the merch than the usual terrorism, brutality and murder. Sure, the hoods and the lamé robes were a big part of it, and the murder naturally, but their big thing was denying what they were. If anyone ever called bullshit on them, they’d claim “I don’t know nuffin.’” Kinda how they got to be called Know-Nothings.
Know-Nothings have come a long way since those early days. The president is a Know-Nothing. So was his father Fred, presumably once he’d washed the stink of his family’s immigration status off. If you’re landing on American shores for the first time, you can be forgiven for not immediately understanding why Derek Daly’s ridiculous claim that he didn’t know ‘nigger’ meant nigger didn’t magically restore his birthright as, technically, white, the stupid bog-jumping cat-lick.
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Commented in Cohen turned on Trump 'after he sided with Putin in press conference'
Cohen turned on Trump when the prosecutors showed him option A: prosecution on everything they got from his office and storage facility, and option B: plead guilty to a few relatively minor things (including one that isn't a crime) and tell us about all the crimes Trump did. Make them good crimes, we need a good story.
Don't attribute some maligned sense of patriotism to this slime ball.
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Commented in For the first time, Trump confesses that his campaign turned to Russia for help
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Let's take a moment to note the crime you're alleging is, even in this strongest possible statement of what exactly that might possibly've been, entirely hypothetical. Not to say riven with the kind of prior assumptions one would expect from out-of-control mass hysteria.
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Trump's as crooked as any Mississippi sheriff, only not as clever. Say you wanted to nail this guy, and you had your pick of any of the crimes he commits on a daily basis to investigate and prosecute him for. As long as we're having flights of hypothetical fancy, why not pick a crime that could be proven? The Emoluments Clause comes to mind, which Trump's wildly offside of. He should've been impeached for that alone early last year. But, not coincidentally, Democrats have lost every branch of government. Democrats can only lose eight more state governments before Republicans get to draw up a new U.S. Constitution. So Democrats can't, in real life, do anything. At all. Let alone mount an impeachment in Congress. This is an ugly charade, just like Benghazi, just like Whitewater. Only this time, the stakes are real. Plus there's so much more bunting now,
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Saving you a bit of trouble, for the purposes of this conversation, let's say it goes down like this. Boris and Natasha put the briefcase labeled 'Secrets' on the conference table. Donald pulls out a wad of cash and starts making it rain, right in front of Dudley Do-Right. A little time spent on the usual evil cackling, light mustache twirling, and some dissing on popular American celebrities and much-cherished notions of fair play, truth and the American Way. That's the meeting. Okay. So stipulated.
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Is it illegal to be Russian? I guess it is, now. Funny how crucial demonization of the 'enemy' is, right? Not "ha ha" funny. Sad, how obvious that dehumanization is outside of those toxic bubbles.
I'm American, and I consider Russia a key ally. But then, I live on Earth in the 21st Century, too. Ruinous U.S. foreign policy, fighting the Global War on Terror on the side of terrorism, celebrating the end of the First Cold War by massing forces on Russian borders, and campaigning for president on a "muscular foreign policy" of war with Russia, makes that hard to see sometimes judging solely by the corporate-controlled Establishment media.
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Oh boy. Here it comes. He was already trusting these civilian-clothed, non-human Russian devils? And now there's more?
working
This. Is. Not. Normal.
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Maybe we got it wrong before. Maybe it wasn't "Vladimir K. Putin in Trump Tower with Hillary's emails." You can't nail jelly to a tree. The RussiaGhaziPalooza story changes, like any highly-fetishized fever dream, as, where and when it needs to because it's hopeless nonsense anyway. Sometimes, though, Trump's not the bottom. Sometimes it's Donald Trump, Russian deep-cover superspy top using his awesome powers of hacking and wanton, open corruption in government to do what the Soviet Union never could hope in a million workers' paradises to do, defeat Hillary Clinton. Never clear whether Boris and Natasha needed Comrade Trump's permission to sow doubt in loyal Americans' helpless minds, testing their infinite faith in our perfect, flawless democratic system; or whether Trump needed the personal say-so of V. "The Impaler" Putin before launching his hacking and cracking spree, so fill in whatever details get you off. Let's say it's every bit as sexy as you need it to be.
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Commented in CNN obtains secret Trump-Cohen tape
Now how would they get a tape from the Mueller raid? Seems somebody on that hit squad might be committing actual crimes.
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Commented in Judge jails defendant for failing to unlock phones
Then what is the point here? Everyone here seem to be pretty sure that the guy hides some crime, but let us all here theoretically pretend that in some parallel universe he is a law abiding guy that accidentally got into the situation and he just loves the idea of privacy so much, that he would rather suffer in jail for it? If we don't pretend he is a law abiding guy, then all this does not make any sense. The law was made with a purpose to protect against crimes, not with a purpose to be executed in a puristic manner for the sake of its own execution accuracy.
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Commented in Government Says Half of Separated Kids Under 5 Won’t Be Reunited
If these aren't crimes against humanity, then I don't knwo what is
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Commented in Trump: I have 'absolute right to pardon myself'
But, that's only for federal crimes. He can't pardon himself from state crimes, surely?
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Commented in Trump: I have 'absolute right to pardon myself'
Tragic, isn't it, that list of particular crimes the president has committed seems to be taking so long to draw up? Trump's such a vapid, cheap grifter, you just know he's on his third felony by lunchtime. Why then does RussiaGhaziPalooza drag on, election cycle in and election cycle out, with no such crime named let alone proven? Sure, it wouldn't matter one whit if it were given the Republicans' solid hold on every branch of government, but still, I've got an inkling there may in point of fact be no evidence for Trump being Putin's master superspy. Say there was. Would that entire case take years to make and hinge entirely on catching the president in a perjury trap?
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Commented in 3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
This isn’t the first time Tyler SWAT’d someone. I hope he gets the punishment he deserves for all his previous crimes and this one too.
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Commented in Trump: I’m not obstructing justice, I'm 'fighting back'
Maybe that's got something to do with the indictments themselves. Not so much how many are for crimes that were public knowledge before the investigation. Not so much for the chickenshit charges against "the" Russians working at an ad agency. Not because it'd be all that hard to find something to indict Trump on because for pity's sake he's bent like a coathanger. Not even because it's unrealistic to expect Democrats will convince an all-down-the-line Republican-held government to bring Pence to power. No, I'll disregard them because they're not what I was talking about, evidence of the president committing some fairly specific crimes. You know, light treason. Years into the Trump Administration now, midterms coming up fast, and the Democratic Party's big plan is that Dubya's pick to be J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby "Three Sticks" Mueller, and his crack team of pecksniffs, is going to lead us into the RussiaGhaziPalooza promised land. Moses would do a faster job. Looks like Saint Bobby has to draw this out for yet a few more election cycles.
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Commented in Homophobic, religious and race hate crimes on public transport are soaring
hate crime victims
I'm not talking about victims of hate crimes. I'm talking about people who are offended because someone called them an ass for behaving like an ass in public. They are convinced that my doing so is a hate crime. If that's "bullying", then I'm a bully, I guess.
I said something that offended a millenial snowflake in one of the classes I took last year. He accused me of a "microagression" and had to explain to old person me what it was and how what I said qualified.
I guess my two word reply was a macroaggression, but at least we were both sure.
It was probably a hate crime.
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Commented in When Migrants Are Treated Like Slaves
Yep, we have a name for that: for-profit prisons. It’s when you jail people for minor crimes to turn them into slave labor. What, you thought that slavery ended in 1862?
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Commented in Chelsea Manning on Her Alt-Right Partying: I Was a Spy, Not a Racist-This is what is planning on running for U.S. senate
No she was not "charged" with treason by the United States.
Fair enough. Then again, you were never "charged" with killing that prostitute in Pasadena either.
She downloaded personal information on American soldiers involved in the Iraq conflict.
All I know about it is that now apparenly people are talking about how you raped and murdered those hookers in SoCal.
I understand her intentions with exposing the "collateral murder" video, butdoing so she put those soldiers and their families lives at risk
With all these allegations about how you hunted countless street people for sport out West, even though you were never "charged" with your crimes, I just wonder what drove you to it. Is that the standard we're using now? Saying it over and over again makes it so?
Leaking documents that can potentially harm the United States is treason.
Whatever you say. I'm not overly worried that someone on the internet is wrong. To my mind, though, you don't get what treason is. Sometimes the decent thing, the patriotic thing is to oppose your government's policy. Not simply to question, but to act. Consequences schmonshiquences. Consequences she endures, by the way.
In Vietnam by 1968, American policy was to "kill anything that moves." Arriving at the scene of one such "search and destroy" mission, one helicopter crew commanded by Hugh Thompson intervened to protect, by force, surviving Vietnamese civilians from advancing American troops. You might call that treason. If you'll forgive my saying so, that's pretty fucked up.
Was Smedley Butler a traitor? Dan Ellsburg? Ed Snowden? At what point is this facile interpretation of 'treason' simply feckless authority worship?
she put those soldiers and their families lives at risk
More so than the liars that put them there? This is selective understanding. With all the pearl clutching about Manning, have you had time to pay attention to what, for instance, "signature strike" is a euphemism for?
agendas
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The fact is that those soldiers were ordered to do what they did.
And..?
I consider someone who pretends to have your interests in mind while working against you, to be a snake.
I'm losing the thread here. Help me out, are you saying Chelsea Manning is a reptillian Taliban agent?
Her actions were reckless and poorly executed.
That's funny. I might've said the same thing about the crimes, corruption, and murderous policies she exposed.
These are not good traits of what I would like to see in a senator.
Your loss. Watch out, though. Wouldn't wanna pull something punching down while kissing up like that.
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Commented in Chelsea Manning on Her Alt-Right Partying: I Was a Spy, Not a Racist-This is what is planning on running for U.S. senate
The death penalty for trweason
What is your charge of treason based on? Manning was convicted of violating orders, the Espionage Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Or is it that documenting the systematic commission of war crimes is, in itself, treason as far as you're concerned? Perhaps it's truth that's treason? Or history, when it's meant to be secret history? Not even the military sought the death penalty. Maybe that has something to do with not having leaked any top secret information.
Why Manning received a 35 year sentence, and supposedly served 7 makes me raise my eyebrow.
Instead, Manning was tortured in prison. As command, members of the administration, military jurisprudence, the United Nations, and President Obama found.
Whatever is going on with this one, she is obviously a lying snake
When did Chelsea Manning lie? I'll wait. Take your time.
I am always leary of whistleblowing stories due to the real possibilty of dis-information agendas.
Are you sure you are? Because I'm not as sure that's why.
I don't understand how running for senate is even an option after committing treason.
Perhaps if you found someone that had committed treason and ran for the senate you'd have a better idea.
This is just prime example of negligence of the American citizen in regards of helping progress the country is a positive direction.
Such a bizarre formulation of progress you have, that exposing wrongdoing is treason, and that doing so makes one an enemy of the state. Sounds more like authoritarianism, whatevs.
This is not a good person.
Yes, because good people always follow orders, right?
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Commented in Teen cited over Instagram video showing him kill duck with golf club
Don't put your crimes on the internet, kids. It makes your defense lawyer unhappy, and he might charge you extra for being stupid.
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Commented in The 9/11 Hijackers Were Iraqis, Right?
What's the big deal about a little light genocide between friends? It's not like there's anything to worry about, is there?