https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes
as He Reaped Riches From His Father
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
Walnut your track record for holding any facts is about as shitty as I have ever encountered. Maybe giving you an 'insider top' would be the best solution for everybody involved.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6445193/Hundreds-GM-workers-gather-solemn-prayer-Ohio.html
Heartbreaking moment hundreds of devastated GM workers gather in solemn PRAYER over the closure of their plant and loss of 15,000 jobs company-wide
- General Motors workers held the prayer vigil outside the Lordstown, Ohio plant on Thursday afternoon
- It's among the five GM plants across North America to close next year
- Emotional co-workers hugged each other and wiped away tears as they prayed
- A Lordstown employee, Norman Perry, said workers were just trying to stay positive in the wake of the news earlier this week
- GM announced on Monday that it would shutter the five plants, stop building six low-selling passenger cars in North America and cut up to 15,000 jobs
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallm...n-as-it-did-in-2018-infographic/#2ff9b1f02fae
The U.S. Never Dropped As Many Bombs On Afghanistan As It Did In 2018 [Infographic]
17 years after U.S. forces and the Northern Alliance captured Kabul, half of Afghanistan has been retaken by the Taliban and the war is dragging on. ISIS have also become increasingly active in the country and approximately 14,000 U.S. troops are still serving there in an attempt to contain a growing wave of extremism. Even though the conflict has been making fewer headlines in recent years, the U.S. has never dropped as many bombs on Afghanistan as it did this year. According to
U.S. Air Forces Central Command data, manned and unmanned aircraft released 5,213 weapons between January and the end of September 2018.
Previously, 2010 held the record for weapons dropped on Afghanistan with 5,101 releases recorded in total. That was a deadly year which saw 711 ISAF troops and 1,271 civilians killed. Towards the end of Obama's presidency, the number of bombs dropped declined with 947 instances in 2015 and 1,337 in 2016. Since President Trump announced a new Afghan strategy last August and committed more troops to the country, the number of bombs dropped by the U.S. coalition has surged dramatically.
The increase is primarily due to a change in the rules of engagement which allows coalition forces to open fire on the enemy without being in contact with them. That change was orchestrated by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis who wants to remove such restrictions to employ air power more effectively. Unfortunately, the change in the rules combined with a higher pace of airstrikes by the Afghan Air Force (not included on the following infographic) has also led to more civilian deaths. Last month, the
UN announced that the number of civilian casualties in the first nine months of 2018 is higher than in any year since it started documenting them in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present)
