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On June 27 2017 11:21 Plansix wrote:
They should likely fix their prison system first. The courts have ordered them to do it so many times.

On June 27 2017 11:44 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:


as someone living in a rural area in California that would probably cause riots out here. Police are understaffed and we've got a rampaging homeless issue that everyone just blames on those liberals in Sacremento instead of doing anything about it.

Carter Page, a former Donald Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, said Monday he’s been interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation into Russia’s election meddling.

The interviews, which he called “extensive discussions,” came prior to James Comey’s firing as FBI director in May, Page said. Page, an energy consultant who traveled to Moscow last summer to deliver a speech while advising the Trump campaign, has become a target of the FBI investigation, along with the probes being pursued by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, which are all looking into the possibility of collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.

“During my extensive discussions with the FBI agents just weeks before Comey’s departure, they acknowledged that I’m a loyal American veteran but indicated that their ‘management’ was concerned that I did not believe the conclusions of the fake January 6 intelligence report,” Page said in a statement, referring to the public assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia sought to sway the presidential election in Trump’s favor.

“I told them that I learned the lessons from the intelligence failures of the original Dodgy Dossier from 2003 which cost this country thousands of service members lives and over a trillion dollars,” he continued. “Our frank and open conversations gave me confidence that there are still logical, honest individuals at the Bureau who respect civil rights and the Constitution, despite the recent devastating impact on our democracy by self-centered politicians at the top of the Clinton-Obama-Comey regime.”

Page has previously claimed to be the victim of a civil-rights conspiracy because of possible government surveillance of his communications.

The Washington Post first reported that he had been interviewed by the FBI.

Some 60,000 Wilmington, N.C., residents get their drinking water from the Cape Fear River.

DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours manufacture chemicals at a plant upstream from the city.

The plant is situated on a 2,100-acre property on the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville. It is there where a chemical called GenX -- a potentially cancer-causing substance that is a byproduct of DuPont and Chemours' manufacturing processes -- is produced.

Wilmington residents are demanding to know if those toxic chemicals are making their way downriver into the city's drinking water.

The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority co-authored a three-year study on the chemical's elevated presence in the water. But as CBS News' Jericka Duncan reports, the findings were never made available to the general public -- not even to Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo.

Saffo met with Chemours officials, and couldn't believe what he heard: "We were alarmed. And we want to know how long that compound or that chemical had been dispersed into the Cape Fear River. And they told us since 1980."

Last week, a city council meeting in Wilmington was over capacity, as neighbors demanded their leaders hold Chemours accountable.

"Why has this been allowed to go on for so long?" asked one citizen, Kalli Smith. "I have been drinking this water my entire life."

Though they aren't pointing fingers at DuPont or Chemours, Wilmington's self-proclaimed "cancer moms" showed up in full force.

Amy Herrman's son, Jacob, had leukemia, and received chemo for three years. "It just seems odd that we're having to fight for clean water after we've fought for our children's lives," Herrman said.

Lisa Grogan's son, Nathan, was diagnosed at age four with Wilms, a rare kidney cancer. "Because of what our kids have been through, I think it's hard for people to look at us and say the water's probably OK, or, there's probably not too much toxin in there to cause health effects," said Grogan.

There are currently no federal drinking water standards for GenX. And because of an EPA rule, Chemours' release of GenX into the Cape Fear River for nearly four decades may have been perfectly legal; that's because it is a byproduct of another substance.

"There is a loophole that needs to be looked at by Congress to make certain that we have safe drinking water in this country," said Mayor Saffo.

The long-term health effects of GenX on humans are unknown, but studies submitted to the EPA by DuPont between 2006 and 2013 show it caused tumors and reproductive problems in lab animals.

The company says GenX is a safer alternative to another DuPont chemical called C8, which it no longer makes.

DuPont was forced to pay the largest fine in EPA history -- $16.5 million -- for failing to report C8's substantial risk to human health. And this past February, DuPont and Chemours doled out more than $670 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving C8 water contamination in the Ohio River Valley.

Jennifer Adams, the vice chair of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, was asked why the water company never made its GenX study public.

"There were no alarm bells set off," she said. "There wasn't anything indicated in the report that indicated immediate action was needed."

CBS News has learned Adams worked as a chemical engineer at DuPont from 1990 to 2001.

CBS affiliate WWAY asked Adams, "Given your connection to DuPont, do you know anybody that works at the Chemours plant?"

"Um, yes, I do."

"Have there been any discussions between any board members including yourself and anyone at Chemours? Or DuPont?"

"No," Adams replied.

Water inspectors are testing the current levels of GenX in Wilmington's water, but results are not expected until late next month. It is an excruciating wait for a mayor whose community is desperate to know if their water is safe.

"We don't know what this is going to do to us, that have been drinking it for long periods of time," Saffo said. "How long has it been in the river? Since 1980, yes, but how much of it has been in the river?"

Chemours says it will now voluntarily "capture, remove and safely dispose of" wastewater containing the byproduct GenX.

The company also told CBS News it continues to believe that emissions from its plant have not impacted the safety of drinking water.

On June 27 2017 11:44 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:


as someone living in a rural area in California that would probably cause riots out here. Police are understaffed and we've got a rampaging homeless issue that everyone just blames on those liberals in Sacremento instead of doing anything about it.

On June 27 2017 11:32 Kyadytim wrote:
California has tax issues because of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978)

The tl;dr is that it caps property taxes at 1% and also keeps property values from changing except when they are bought or sold. Basically, California levies less off the assessed value of properties as taxes on properties that often haven't been reassessed in decades. The obvious result of that sort of policy is that revenue had to be made up other ways.

On June 27 2017 12:05 Plansix wrote:
https://twitter.com/braddjaffy/status/879529054726234112

God please let this not be real.

On June 27 2017 12:14 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:

Blaming the liberals is a pretty decent start.
Uncontrolled immigration being one of the main causes of the CA housing bubble.Taxes too high for businesses to thrive, Articles online about tech company workers living in tents or containers in San Fran because thats what they can afford.Fuck knows how fast food workers or cleaners survive out there.

Many already moving elsewhere, places like Austin,Texas.Where they'll vote for the same party and policies that destroyed California.The liberal trail of destruction continues...

On June 27 2017 12:20 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:

Gotta prepare for a distraction war if Mueller gets too much leverage, so they let Spicer make some shit up

On June 27 2017 12:14 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:

Blaming the liberals is a pretty decent start.
Uncontrolled immigration being one of the main causes of the CA housing bubble.Taxes too high for businesses to thrive, Articles online about tech company workers living in tents or containers in San Fran because thats what they can afford.Fuck knows how fast food workers or cleaners survive out there.

Many already moving elsewhere, places like Austin,Texas.Where they'll vote for the same party and policies that destroyed California.The liberal trail of destruction continues...

On June 27 2017 12:05 Plansix wrote:


God please let this not be real.

Three people have resigned from CNN following the retraction of a report last week alleging ties between an associate of President Trump and the Russians.

"In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story's publication," the news organization announced Monday in a very brief statement.

The three who quit are: "CNN Investigates" reporter Thomas Frank; the story's editor, Eric Lichtblau; and "CNN Investigates" executive editor Lex Haris.

The resignations come just days after CNN pulled down a story claiming longtime Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci, who played a significant role on the president's White House transition team, had deep ties to a $10 billion Russian investment fund owned by a Kremlin-connected bank.

The now-deleted story, which provided no proof of its claims, cited a single anonymous source.

On Friday of last week, CNN deleted the story from its website. The cable news group also issued the following statement, "On June 22, 2017, CNN.com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci with investigations into the Russian Direct Investment Fund."

On June 27 2017 12:26 crms wrote:

I'm not seeing anything, what's up?

On June 27 2017 12:28 Danglars wrote:

Washington Examiner

Way to behave like adults, CNN.

On June 27 2017 12:34 LegalLord wrote:

Saw this earlier, read the story, felt that bashing CNN for an obvious fuckup would be the equivalent of shitting on Infowars.

"Anonymous sources are critical to journalism." They're also critical to complete garbage.

On June 27 2017 12:34 LegalLord wrote:

Saw this earlier, read the story, felt that bashing CNN for an obvious fuckup would be the equivalent of shitting on Infowars.

"Anonymous sources are critical to journalism." They're also critical to complete garbage.

On June 27 2017 12:31 Plansix wrote:

Looks like the story got updated with some weird quotes, so he deleted the tweet. \



I am also upset that Hannity is still employed by Fox News.