All Purpose Politics and News Thread

[Darth Penguin]

Why the National Enquirer's attempt to extort Jeff Bezos backfired

Memo to the honchos at the National Enquirer: if you are going to threaten one of the richest men in the world by saying that you have sexually explicit selfies of him and his girlfriend, don’t have your lawyer and top editor put the threats in writing. The rich guy might decide he can ride out a stolen dick pic or two, especially if he’s already announced that he’s getting divorced.
“Something unusual happened to me yesterday,” Jeff Bezos, the founder and C.E.O. of Amazon, writes in a piece that appeared on Medium on Thursday evening. “I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse. Or at least that’s what the top people at the National Enquirer thought.” Evidently, Bezos thought different. “Any personal embarrassment AMI could cause me takes a back seat because there’s a much more important matter involved here,” he writes, referring to American Media, Inc., which is the National Enquirer’s parent company. “If in my position I can’t stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can?"
At some length, his article relates the recent dealings that his representatives have had with the National Enquirer, which in early January published intimate text messages that he had exchanged with his girlfriend, Lauren Sánchez, a former television anchor. Bezos also published three threatening e-mails sent, on Wednesday, by the supermarket tabloid’s top editor, Dylan Howard, and by Jon Fine, the deputy general counsel of A.M.I.

[heartgirl99]

[walkonby]

Jussie Smollett...... it breaks my heart that such a talented and accomplished person would resort to this ( IF he is found guilty that is ) as it damages/questions the reputation and validity of every person who reports a similar attack.

The actor Jussie Smollett has been arrested after he was charged with lying to police when he claimed he was attacked and beaten by two masked men shouting racist and homophobic slurs, Chicago police have said.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/21/enter...day/index.html

[Natalka]

​So many interesting things going on now with the federal government:


Catherine McKenna
@cathmckenna


"The mental and physical health of Canadians is already being harmed by climate change. […] We are the generation that will determine how stable, how healthy, how habitable the world is for our children and grandchildren." —


@kimperrotta57(link: https://www.nationalobserver.com/201...climate-change) nationalobserver.com/2019/02/21/opi…




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* W. Brett Wilson *

@WBrettWilson

Feb 25


Even worse than climate change - imagine the mental & physical harm imposed on Canadians by your @liberal_party over just three years.

You have sent national debt rocketing.

You have torpedoed our energy industry.

And you sold out ethically to @SNCLavalin


Pretty mucked up eh?


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(Note, I did not add the green, nor was the original in Twitter in green. For some gremlin's reason, it happened when I copied it...)

[heartgirl99]

looks like the mueller report is coming out March 26 2019:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-...=.f9c3dbcedaf1

you can preorder on amazon
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[Natalka]

Hope you are all following the SNC-Lavalin scandal...





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[walkonby]

Hope you are all following the SNC-Lavalin scandal...
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Nope. I cannot be bothered bashing Justin....I'd much rather bash Trump!!

[heartgirl99]

the latest from randy rainbow

[Patty Smyth]

Nope. I cannot be bothered bashing Justin....I'd much rather bash Trump!!

Same

[Natalka]

Hm... Trump isn't CDN, so why the interest and why our flag?


PM Trudeau on Women's Day, Fab!

https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2019/03/08...nal-womens-day

[Lynn49]

I'm not holding my breath for Garneau to give a damn about whether or not Canadians fall from the sky in a ball of flames! I'd like to shove him on a few of those Max8s! Fly Sunwing at least they're on the side of "abundant caution" no matter what public excuse they give.
Canada's politicians are in the pockets of Boeing and AC and the FAA!

[heartgirl99]

I'm not holding my breath for Garneau to give a damn about whether or not Canadians fall from the sky in a ball of flames! I'd like to shove him on a few of those Max8s! Fly Sunwing at least they're on the side of "abundant caution" no matter what public excuse they give.
Canada's politicians are in the pockets of Boeing and AC and the FAA!

they've finally come to their senses and grounded them!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gar...rash-1.5054234

[Lynn49]

they've finally come to their senses and grounded them!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gar...rash-1.5054234

Could have dropped me with a feather!! Should have come sooner, but I guess it took time to read the poll numbers.

[Natalka]

Canada sanctions Russia over Kerch Strait vessel attack, seizure of 24 Ukrainian sailors

WASHINGTON – Canada, the United States, and European Union imposed sweeping sanctions on Friday over Russia‘s actions against Ukraine, including its 2018 attack on Ukrainian ships, annexation of Crimea and activities in eastern Ukraine.


https://globalnews.ca/news/5060370/c...a-ukraine/amp/

[heartgirl99]