I don’t know what a weak person is; did he and Trump so to the gym together?
Weak person? He broke the law. Did he womanize like Trump?
I have no idea what a weak person is or does. How does one tell whether a person is weak or strong? Lifting dumbbells, maybe? Are Trump supporters weak people because he does all the thinking for them? I think that might be a weak person, one that can’t tell the truth from a lie. I think that must be the ultimate weak person. Living life as a lie. That is a very weak person.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Russian spies, huh?
In case you missed this addition to the "Trump Collection." Trumpy Bear need not feel threatened with a gold 45 mm by his side.
November 27, 2018
By Lorraine Woellett
Revenue at the National Rifle Association (click here) fell by $54 million in 2017, a 15 percent decline that coincided with a record number of mass shootings in the U.S. and a rise in spending by gun-control groups.
The gun-rights group posted an even steeper drop in membership dues, which fell 22 percent, or $35 million, to a five-year low, according to documents the NRA filed with the Internal Revenue Service this month.
The group directed $27 million to its political arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (click here), down from 2016, a presidential election year in which the institute spent more than $76 million....
November 27, 2018By Lorraine Woellett
Revenue at the National Rifle Association (click here) fell by $54 million in 2017, a 15 percent decline that coincided with a record number of mass shootings in the U.S. and a rise in spending by gun-control groups.
The gun-rights group posted an even steeper drop in membership dues, which fell 22 percent, or $35 million, to a five-year low, according to documents the NRA filed with the Internal Revenue Service this month.
The group directed $27 million to its political arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (click here), down from 2016, a presidential election year in which the institute spent more than $76 million....
The USA needs to take a strong stand about the involvement in Yemen.
Crowned Prince Mohammed bin Salman has to be made to understand his decision is killing alot of children to be killed and starved. Just because they MIGHT be Shi'ite children gives him nor Trump the right to continue the war.
November 28, 2018
The US has "slammed the brakes on" a United Nations Security Council resolution (click here) calling for a limited ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid in Yemen over concerns about angering Saudi Arabia, two sources tell CNN.
The US has "slammed the brakes on" a United Nations Security Council resolution (click here) calling for a limited ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid in Yemen over concerns about angering Saudi Arabia, two sources tell CNN.
The reason for the delay continues to be a White House worry about angering Saudi Arabia, which strongly opposes the resolution, multiple sources say. CNN reported earlier this month that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, "threw a fit" when presented with an early draft of the document, leading to a delay and further discussions among Western allies on the matter....
Prostitution Today
November 29, 2018
By Shea Rhodes, Sarah Robinson and Jamie Pizzi
In October, (click here) Gov. Wolf signed a law to protect children from being arrested, charged, and adjudicated delinquent for prostitution. Known as a "SafeSubscribe to read more!
An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) (click here) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in human trafficking, further providing for definitions, providing for concurrent jurisdiction, repealing provisions relating to appropriate implementation for minor victims of human trafficking, providing for special relief to restore victim's dignity and autonomy and for safe harbor for sexually exploited children, establishing the Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund and imposing penalties; and, in juvenile matters, providing for dependency in lieu of delinquency....
November 29, 2018
Camden -A man from Camden (click here) could spend the next 30 years in prison for running a sex-trafficking ring out of hotels in Pennsylvania.
A judge sentenced Dominic Roach to at least a decade behind bars.
According to prosecutors, Roach forced two drug addicts into prostitution and then took the money they made.
Prosecutors say the women had sex with customers for money in exchange, Roach provided them with drugs and let them keep a small amount of money.
He was convicted of 15 felonies.
November 29, 2018
By Alex Mester
Monroe — A former Monroe County district judge (click here) will serve time in prison for misconduct in office, related to hiring prostitutes.
Jarod Calkins, 41, of Carleton, Mich., pleaded guilty in September to four counts of misconduct in office following his March arrest. On Thursday he was sentenced in Monroe County Circuit Court and will serve between one and five years in prison, with no alternative programs allowed.
Calkins resigned in April after he was initially charged with one felony count of transporting a person for the purposes of prostitution as well as four misdemeanor counts of hiring women for the purpose of prostitution following an investigation by the Michigan State Police.
The investigation started after state police were told of “prostitution-related activities” at a Monroe Township hotel. Investigators learned a person matching Calkins’ description met women at the hotel for sex in exchange for money, according to a news release....
November 29, 2018
By Alex Newman
Arlington – The owner of an Arlington massage parlor (click here) was arrested Wednesday in connection with a large-scale human trafficking operation in greater Boston, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said. Dan T. Zheng, 47, owner of Lisa Massage Therapy on Massachusetts Avenue, was arrested at Rose Health Spa in Boston Wednesday.
She was turned over to Arlington police to be arraigned in Cambridge District Court on charges of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, deriving support from prostitution and procuring support for prostitution, according to the DA's office.
Zheng also owns massage parlors in Stoneham and Dracut. Six female workers were found in the four spas after months of investigation....
November 29, 2018
The various societal crises affecting Belgium and Europe as a whole have had a strong impact on prostitution, Espace P…, a non-profit association that assists sex workers, noted on Thursday.The
By Shea Rhodes, Sarah Robinson and Jamie Pizzi
In October, (click here) Gov. Wolf signed a law to protect children from being arrested, charged, and adjudicated delinquent for prostitution. Known as a "SafeSubscribe to read more!
An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) (click here) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in human trafficking, further providing for definitions, providing for concurrent jurisdiction, repealing provisions relating to appropriate implementation for minor victims of human trafficking, providing for special relief to restore victim's dignity and autonomy and for safe harbor for sexually exploited children, establishing the Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund and imposing penalties; and, in juvenile matters, providing for dependency in lieu of delinquency....
November 29, 2018
Camden -A man from Camden (click here) could spend the next 30 years in prison for running a sex-trafficking ring out of hotels in Pennsylvania.
A judge sentenced Dominic Roach to at least a decade behind bars.
According to prosecutors, Roach forced two drug addicts into prostitution and then took the money they made.
Prosecutors say the women had sex with customers for money in exchange, Roach provided them with drugs and let them keep a small amount of money.
He was convicted of 15 felonies.
November 29, 2018
By Alex Mester
Monroe — A former Monroe County district judge (click here) will serve time in prison for misconduct in office, related to hiring prostitutes.
Jarod Calkins, 41, of Carleton, Mich., pleaded guilty in September to four counts of misconduct in office following his March arrest. On Thursday he was sentenced in Monroe County Circuit Court and will serve between one and five years in prison, with no alternative programs allowed.
Calkins resigned in April after he was initially charged with one felony count of transporting a person for the purposes of prostitution as well as four misdemeanor counts of hiring women for the purpose of prostitution following an investigation by the Michigan State Police.
The investigation started after state police were told of “prostitution-related activities” at a Monroe Township hotel. Investigators learned a person matching Calkins’ description met women at the hotel for sex in exchange for money, according to a news release....
November 29, 2018
By Alex Newman
Arlington – The owner of an Arlington massage parlor (click here) was arrested Wednesday in connection with a large-scale human trafficking operation in greater Boston, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said. Dan T. Zheng, 47, owner of Lisa Massage Therapy on Massachusetts Avenue, was arrested at Rose Health Spa in Boston Wednesday.
She was turned over to Arlington police to be arraigned in Cambridge District Court on charges of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, deriving support from prostitution and procuring support for prostitution, according to the DA's office.
Zheng also owns massage parlors in Stoneham and Dracut. Six female workers were found in the four spas after months of investigation....
November 29, 2018
The various societal crises affecting Belgium and Europe as a whole have had a strong impact on prostitution, Espace P…, a non-profit association that assists sex workers, noted on Thursday.The
sector has had gone through various migratory waves these last decades, it said, while the economic crisis in the late 2000s also had an impact on sex workers, some of whom are women who forced to work in the sex industry to survive financially.
Espace P… plans many activities in connection with the 30th anniversary of its creation.
The association, which is present in Wallonia and Brussels, notes that the economic and migrant crises, and armed conflicts that have wracked Europe in the past 30 years have had a marked effect on the sector.
“There have been many different waves of migrant men and women, which was already the case after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with women coming from Eastern Europe,” recalls Espace P… Coordinator Cécile Cheront. The war in Kosovo later led to an influx of Albanians, which went hand in hand with the arrival of mafias and human trafficking. Today it’s mainly Bulgarians and Rumanians who practice this occupation....
Two-thirds of drug related deaths are due to opiods.
The best place to look for effective programs are going to be the cities if they administer NARCAN.
By Lenny Bernstein
Life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017, (click here) the government said in a bleak series of reports that showed a nation still in the grip of escalating drug and suicide crises.
The data continued the longest sustained decline in expected life span at birth in a century, an appalling performance not seen in the US since 1915 to 1918. That four-year period included WWI and a flu pandemic that killed 675,000 people in the United States and perhaps 50 million worldwide....
...Overall, Americans could expect to live 78.6 years at birth in 2017, down a tenth of a year from the 2016 estimate. Men could anticipate a life span of 76.1 years, down a tenth of a year from 2016. Life expectancy for women in 2017 was 81.1 years, unchanged from the previous year....January 11, 2018
By Martha Bebinger
In Massachusetts, (click here) where at least five men and women are dying from an opioid overdose every day, everyone tied to the epidemic is desperate for signs of hope.
They got some late last year, when state data showed an estimated 10 percent decrease in overdose deaths for the first nine months of 2017, compared with the same period in 2016.
But data, and conversations with doctors, suggest the opioid epidemic is getting worse, not better — at least in the state's largest city.
We offer the chart here with caveats: It's from Boston EMS and so doesn't capture all overdoses or deaths in Boston; the cause of death is not confirmed by a medical examiner; and the categories, such as "heroin mentioned," are based on observation by EMTs....
New York State: (click here)
City Drug related deaths in triple numbers
Albany 101
Bronx 461
Dutchess 176
Erie 377
Kings 621
Monroe 289
New York 534
Niagara 107
Onondaga 205
Orange 183
Queens 464
Richmond 248
Suffolk 823 - Long Island
Westchester 285
This was March, what happened to the rest of the year? Heck, this even reached into the Bronx. The raid didn't include prescription drugs. The raids aren't netting the killer, though. Police detectives might be looking in the wrong place to remove opioids off the street. Not that this is insignificant. I am glad for it, but, it isn't hitting the opioids.
March 25, 2018
One of the biggest drug trafficking networks in Suffolk County (click here) was taken down this weekend, police said, announcing the arrest of six people and seizure of large amounts of cash and drugs.
Officers raided four locations and seized $362,000 in cash, 3,250 grams of cocaine, 475 grams of heroin, 400 grams of crack and drug paraphernalia, Suffolk County police said. Four handguns were also seized.
Michael Fearon, 50, of Middle Island, was the ringleader, said District Attorney Timothy Sini. Fearon was arrested after a chase in which he crashed into two unmarked police cars, Sini said. No one was injured.
Fearon and Elius Cefarino Garcia Ovalles, 31, of the Bronx, were charged with operating as major traffickers. They face a slew of other charges, including criminal sale of a controlled substance and weapons charges....
August 23, 2018
East Patchogue, Suffolk County (click here) -- A suspected Suffolk County drug dealer is under arrest after he was linked to a deadly overdose.
Suffolk County police charged 28-year-old Anthony Legette of East Patchogue with selling drugs that contained fentanyl.
Investigators believe the drugs are behind the deadly heroin overdose of a person in Massapequa on Monday night.
He's charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal sale of a controlled substance....
"The Rules of Opioid Perscribing" (click here)
- Overdose rates from prescription opioids were highest among people aged 25 to 54 years.
- Overdose rates from prescription opioids were higher among non-Hispanic whites and American Indian or Alaskan Natives, compared to non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics.
- The rate of overdose deaths from prescription opioids among men was 6.2 per 100,000 people and the rate among women was 4.3 in 2016.
The highest overdose death rates from prescription opioids were in West Virginia, Maryland, Maine, and Utah....
The prescribing name on the bottle. Why aren't the pharmacists acting on what they know? Pharmacists need to have a region data base at least. Patients can only go so far from home to fill the scripts.
October 12, 2018
Prosecutors (click here) unveiled charges on Thursday against five New York doctors, a pharmacist and associates for allegedly illegally distributing millions of oxycodone pills and fueling the nation's opioid addiction crisis.The prescribing name on the bottle. Why aren't the pharmacists acting on what they know? Pharmacists need to have a region data base at least. Patients can only go so far from home to fill the scripts.
October 12, 2018
The 10 defendants, arrested in raids across the US financial capital, were accused of conducting little or no examination of patients before prescribing the pills in exchange for hefty cash payments.
"They were drug dealers in white coats," said Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney for Manhattan. "They hid behind their medical licenses to sell addictive, dangerous narcotics," he added.
One doctor with offices in the Bronx and Westchester was accused of issuing oxycodone prescriptions in exchange for thousands of dollars, expensive dinners, high-end whisky, cruises and all-expenses-paid trips.
Another, Dante Cubangbang, 50, and his associates at a clinic in Queens, allegedly prescribed more than six million oxycodone pills knowing that the recipients had no legitimate medical need for them....
The state medical societies need to monitor the scripts for opioids. It is the perscriber and the pharamacies negligence in "good practice." Nationally, the big pharmacies will have records of the drugs they sell. This is why there needs to be federal legislation to monitor the sale of this stuff. I would love to read the POLICIES instituted by pharmacy chains in regard to opioids. I bet they are a money maker.
Fentanyl is usually maintained in hospital supplies, HOWEVER, there are patches given to people with chronic pain as a prescription. However, patients will complain fentanyl patches are not as effective as the opioids. Which is odd because resistence to opioids occurs quicker than fentanyl patches.
I don't know, I never tried it, if the fentanyl patches can be manipulated to extract the fentanyl. Otherwise, the dealers are mixing this stuff up in their kitchens somewhere. What I don't understand is why we don't see more dead drug dealers that are using fentanyl laced opioids or heroine. The stuff is strong and only a very small amount is effective.
It is used in hospital for conscious sedation, so it is strong enough to put someone in a twilight sleep for a procedure. The patients are always monitored while under the drug, that is why the illegal stuff on the market doesn't make sense in a lot of ways. It is more the fentanyl than the opioids that are causing the deaths. I THINK. From the stand point of potency.
Autopsies should be performed on overdose victims for the purpose of determining drug and level of drug to achieve death.
September 26, 2018The state medical societies need to monitor the scripts for opioids. It is the perscriber and the pharamacies negligence in "good practice." Nationally, the big pharmacies will have records of the drugs they sell. This is why there needs to be federal legislation to monitor the sale of this stuff. I would love to read the POLICIES instituted by pharmacy chains in regard to opioids. I bet they are a money maker.
Fentanyl is usually maintained in hospital supplies, HOWEVER, there are patches given to people with chronic pain as a prescription. However, patients will complain fentanyl patches are not as effective as the opioids. Which is odd because resistence to opioids occurs quicker than fentanyl patches.
I don't know, I never tried it, if the fentanyl patches can be manipulated to extract the fentanyl. Otherwise, the dealers are mixing this stuff up in their kitchens somewhere. What I don't understand is why we don't see more dead drug dealers that are using fentanyl laced opioids or heroine. The stuff is strong and only a very small amount is effective.
It is used in hospital for conscious sedation, so it is strong enough to put someone in a twilight sleep for a procedure. The patients are always monitored while under the drug, that is why the illegal stuff on the market doesn't make sense in a lot of ways. It is more the fentanyl than the opioids that are causing the deaths. I THINK. From the stand point of potency.
Autopsies should be performed on overdose victims for the purpose of determining drug and level of drug to achieve death.
Katherine Hoover (click here) gave more than 335,000 opioid painkiller prescriptions under her name from December 2002 to January 2010 — meaning the West Virginia doctor wrote about 130 prescriptions per day, assuming she worked seven days a week.
But in a new story by Corky Siemaszko at NBC News, Hoover argued she did nothing wrong. “I prescribed narcotics to people in pain. I did everything I could to help people have a better life, which I told the FBI,” Hoover said. “Every prescription I wrote was justified for the person who had gotten it.”
That contradicts court records and what others closely involved with Hoover’s clinic told NBC News. According to them, the clinic was basically a for-profit pill mill — charging $450 in cash for first-time appointments, and the doctors often didn’t even see the patients to whom they were giving prescriptions.
Unlike some of the doctors and clinics that have been prosecuted during the opioid epidemic, Hoover wasn’t charged and convicted for the excess prescriptions. When the police raided her clinic in 2010 due to its excessive opioid prescribing, she went to the Bahamas (where she owns an island and reportedly hopes to start a nudist resort)....
There is a side of this we are missing. It has to be the perscribers and the pharmacies, otherwise, why aren't drug raids in a high death rate district in Long Island not finding opioids, other than heroine? Why aren't they finding the fentanyl, too?
It appears working for Trump wasn't a great deal after all.
By Benjamin Weiser, Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt
Michael Cohen with his children (click here) I think his family meant more to him thanTrump's money.
Michael D. Cohen, (click here) President Trump’s former lawyer, who pleaded guilty in August to breaking campaign finance laws, made a surprise appearance in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday morning and pleaded guilty to a new criminal charge, the latest turn in the special counsel’s investigation of Mr. Trump and his inner circle.
At the court hearing, Mr. Cohen admitted to making false statements to Congress about his efforts to build a Trump Tower deal in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign. That real estate deal has been a focus of the special counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russian operatives.
In written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. Cohen played down the extent of his contact with the Kremlin about the potential project and made other false statements about the negotiations, which never led to a final deal....
JDAs are a privilege and not a right.
These are for civil proceedings and when applied to criminal proceedings they are racketeering. Applying JDAs to criminal proceedings is to allow Gangsterland power over USA law.
Racketeering, often associated with organized crime, is the act of getting involved in a dishonest and fraudulent business dealing or offering a service to solve a problem that wouldn't otherwise exist.
The only USA law that deals with brokering spoken or written contracts with foreign governments to effect free and open elections are criminal laws. I do believe there are Russians indicted in these crimes as well as Americans, yes? That closes the circle of influence to prove the crime. Russian intelligence is involved, what else is to be understood?
The Trump election team had to CREATE a method to facilitate the corruption into elections as offered by Russia. So, they created a nexus between the billionaire and Russian intelligence. That is criminal activity. What USA candidate has the resources of a foreign government? A hostile foreign government as well. Russia is highly motivated to cause harm to the USA. No one in the USA understands that? Give me a break.
Trump demanded this clause in his civil contracts, basically to handle issues with real estate development. The attornies applying JDAs to criminal law need to be disbarred because they are corrupt to the core.
When Manafort played Mueller for a fool in believing a JDA would save him, he gave up his best chance for a good outcome to his crimes. Trump dangled the pardon in front of Manafort and that is obstruction of justice.
An agreement (click here) between separately represented parties with common legal interests (generally relating to pending or anticipated litigation) that allows the parties to share confidential information with each other without waiving the attorney-client privilege, work product protection, or other applicable privilege or protection. Among other things, a JDA may also:
Racketeering, often associated with organized crime, is the act of getting involved in a dishonest and fraudulent business dealing or offering a service to solve a problem that wouldn't otherwise exist.
The only USA law that deals with brokering spoken or written contracts with foreign governments to effect free and open elections are criminal laws. I do believe there are Russians indicted in these crimes as well as Americans, yes? That closes the circle of influence to prove the crime. Russian intelligence is involved, what else is to be understood?
The Trump election team had to CREATE a method to facilitate the corruption into elections as offered by Russia. So, they created a nexus between the billionaire and Russian intelligence. That is criminal activity. What USA candidate has the resources of a foreign government? A hostile foreign government as well. Russia is highly motivated to cause harm to the USA. No one in the USA understands that? Give me a break.
Trump demanded this clause in his civil contracts, basically to handle issues with real estate development. The attornies applying JDAs to criminal law need to be disbarred because they are corrupt to the core.
When Manafort played Mueller for a fool in believing a JDA would save him, he gave up his best chance for a good outcome to his crimes. Trump dangled the pardon in front of Manafort and that is obstruction of justice.
An agreement (click here) between separately represented parties with common legal interests (generally relating to pending or anticipated litigation) that allows the parties to share confidential information with each other without waiving the attorney-client privilege, work product protection, or other applicable privilege or protection. Among other things, a JDA may also:
- Restrict the parties' use of information shared under the JDA.
- Set out conditions and procedures under which information shared under the JDA is to be returned to the originating party.
- Require the parties to disclaim any attorney-client relationship with counsel for another party to the JDA, which arises as a result of the sharing of privileged information....
Yemen has turned into a battle between two faiths, Sunni and Shi'ite.
The Yemeni Houthis did not build that missile!
Iran has decided, post ISIS, that it needs to turn the Shia Crescent into Shia countries. Iran is killing enormous numbers of people, including starving Shia children.
There are two sides to the tragedy that is Yemen and neither Saudi Arabia or Iran see leaving Yemen as an option. That is the issue. All countries ESCALATING the war in Yemen are guilty of human rights violations. The munitions flowing into Yemen has to end by all countries involved in selling same to rebels.
This is a religious war no different than the former Irish - British conflict that lasted over 900 years. Enough!
November 27, 2018
Yemen's official Saba news agency, (click here) citing unnamed military officials, reported on Tuesday that a Zelzal-1 (Earthquake-1) missile successfully hit a gathering of Saudi-led mercenaries off Qais Mountain in Jizan and another missile of the same type hit a gathering of mercenaries in Wawa area of Asir with precision.
It added that both projectiles left an unspecified number of Saudi-led forces either killed or wounded.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported that the Yemeni forces also hit another gathering of Saudi-led mercenaries and militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the Helm military base near the city of Qa'atabah in the central province of Dali' with another Zelzal-1 missile.
Additionally on Tuesday, Yemeni soldiers, backed by fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, launched an attack against positions held by Saudi-led forces in the southwestern province of Ta'izz, inflicting casualties on them....
Iran has decided, post ISIS, that it needs to turn the Shia Crescent into Shia countries. Iran is killing enormous numbers of people, including starving Shia children.
There are two sides to the tragedy that is Yemen and neither Saudi Arabia or Iran see leaving Yemen as an option. That is the issue. All countries ESCALATING the war in Yemen are guilty of human rights violations. The munitions flowing into Yemen has to end by all countries involved in selling same to rebels.
This is a religious war no different than the former Irish - British conflict that lasted over 900 years. Enough!
November 27, 2018Yemen's official Saba news agency, (click here) citing unnamed military officials, reported on Tuesday that a Zelzal-1 (Earthquake-1) missile successfully hit a gathering of Saudi-led mercenaries off Qais Mountain in Jizan and another missile of the same type hit a gathering of mercenaries in Wawa area of Asir with precision.
It added that both projectiles left an unspecified number of Saudi-led forces either killed or wounded.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported that the Yemeni forces also hit another gathering of Saudi-led mercenaries and militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the Helm military base near the city of Qa'atabah in the central province of Dali' with another Zelzal-1 missile.
Additionally on Tuesday, Yemeni soldiers, backed by fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, launched an attack against positions held by Saudi-led forces in the southwestern province of Ta'izz, inflicting casualties on them....
There is an issue with the Sea of Azov, called "depth" that may prevent NATO from entering the shallow sea.
The Kerch Strait is 59 feet deep and the Sea of Azov is only 46 feet deep. Right now NATO is laughing at Putin in picking a fight with Ukraine over basically waters that are narrowly navigable.
Putin is missing Maripol for his country's function.
...On land, the port is situated 180 km away (click here) from the big industrial Russian city of Rostov situated on the crossroads of many transport routes. Russian cargo comprises the great amount of cargo turnover of Mariupol Port. Via the Volgo-Don Canal, the Mariinsk system, and the Belomor-Baltic Canal, the port is connected to all regions of Russia drawn to the Volga River, and thus also goes out to the Caspian, Baltic and White Seas....
Instead of Putin entering into negotiations with Ukraine to make payments for use of Maripol and settling some of the ill wills between the two countries, he muscles the Sea of Azov. Putin is a jerk. He needs to be replaced. NATO can provide some help to Ukraine by providing a viable equivalent to Putin's small surface fleet.
Putin hijacked tugboats. The depth of the Black Sea is over 7000 feet. In all honesty, NATO probably doesn't have boats that can navigate well in the Sea of Azov. Putin is a coward. His country is poor and can only use it's military to cause problems so it can function. Honestly.
November 29, 2018
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (click here) has urged Nato to send ships to the Sea of Azov following a naval confrontation with Russia off Crimea.
He told Germany's Bild newspaper he hoped the ships could be relocated "to assist Ukraine and provide security".
On Sunday, Russia opened fire on three Ukrainian ships and seized their crews in the Kerch Strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Nato has expressed "full support" for Ukraine, which is not a member state.
Amid worsening relations on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Mr Poroshenko of creating the naval "provocation" to boost his ratings ahead of 2019 elections....
Putin is missing Maripol for his country's function.
...On land, the port is situated 180 km away (click here) from the big industrial Russian city of Rostov situated on the crossroads of many transport routes. Russian cargo comprises the great amount of cargo turnover of Mariupol Port. Via the Volgo-Don Canal, the Mariinsk system, and the Belomor-Baltic Canal, the port is connected to all regions of Russia drawn to the Volga River, and thus also goes out to the Caspian, Baltic and White Seas....
Instead of Putin entering into negotiations with Ukraine to make payments for use of Maripol and settling some of the ill wills between the two countries, he muscles the Sea of Azov. Putin is a jerk. He needs to be replaced. NATO can provide some help to Ukraine by providing a viable equivalent to Putin's small surface fleet.
Putin hijacked tugboats. The depth of the Black Sea is over 7000 feet. In all honesty, NATO probably doesn't have boats that can navigate well in the Sea of Azov. Putin is a coward. His country is poor and can only use it's military to cause problems so it can function. Honestly.
November 29, 2018
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (click here) has urged Nato to send ships to the Sea of Azov following a naval confrontation with Russia off Crimea.
He told Germany's Bild newspaper he hoped the ships could be relocated "to assist Ukraine and provide security".
On Sunday, Russia opened fire on three Ukrainian ships and seized their crews in the Kerch Strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Nato has expressed "full support" for Ukraine, which is not a member state.
Amid worsening relations on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Mr Poroshenko of creating the naval "provocation" to boost his ratings ahead of 2019 elections....
Suspending "CASH FLOW" is a common business practice. Evidently, that practice has hit the VA benefit payments.
A couple of years ago, Ford Motor suspended production because their inventory was too high. For those weeks the employees did not collect their pay, they obtained unemployment as a planned layoff. So, while inventory was reduced during those weeks, expenses based on employee pay was suspended as well.
Suspending "Cash Flow" is common in business. I sincerely believe the "computer glitch" is less the issue so much as interrupting cash flow. I thought that at the beginning of the end of VA Benefit payments, but, this computer glitch to deny back payments confirms it. There are ways for the federal government to issue those back payments without a legislative fix IF the monies sincerely exist, which I believe they don't. The question is WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY?
Trump is running into enormous deficits in his administration. Why?
November 28, 2018
By Phil McCausland
For weeks, (click here) student veterans across the country have raised an alarm about delayed or incorrect GI Bill benefit payments, which the Department of Veterans Affairs has blamed on computer issues.
Suspending "Cash Flow" is common in business. I sincerely believe the "computer glitch" is less the issue so much as interrupting cash flow. I thought that at the beginning of the end of VA Benefit payments, but, this computer glitch to deny back payments confirms it. There are ways for the federal government to issue those back payments without a legislative fix IF the monies sincerely exist, which I believe they don't. The question is WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY?
Trump is running into enormous deficits in his administration. Why?
November 28, 2018
By Phil McCausland
For weeks, (click here) student veterans across the country have raised an alarm about delayed or incorrect GI Bill benefit payments, which the Department of Veterans Affairs has blamed on computer issues.
But on Wednesday, the department told congressional staffers that it would not reimburse those veterans who were paid less than they were owed, two committee aides told NBC News.
The news conflicts with a promise VA officials made to a House committee earlier this month that it would reimburse those veterans who received less than the full amount they were due.
According to the aides, however, the VA said it could not make retroactive payments without auditing its previous education claims, which it said would delay future claims. The aides asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly....
Mississippi's abortion laws are not democracy at work, they are the theocratic USE of democracy.
November 21, 2018
By Marie Solis
A federal judge (click here) struck down a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks in a scathing ruling on Tuesday, accusing the state of "gaslighting (click here)" women and attempting to control their bodies.
"The record is clear: States may not ban abortions prior to viability," US District Judge Carlton Reeves wrote in his decision.
The Political Right Wing will attempt now to define viability.
A "non-viable pregnancy" is a pregnancy before 22-24 weeks when a baby if delivered has no chance of survival, even when there is a fetal heart rate in the uterus.
A "viable pregnancy" after 22-24 weeks is a pregnancy when there is a chance that if delivered the baby can survive.
An embryo at conception is NOT a viable pregnancy. When legislators attempt to control abortion instead of women controlling their own bodies, it blurs the line between viability and creates havoc with the common miscarriage.
"So, why are we here?" he continued. "Because the State of Mississippi contends that every court who ruled on a case such as this ‘misinterpreted or misapplied prior Supreme Court abortion precedent.' In that spirit, this Court concludes that the Mississippi Legislature’s professed interest in ‘women’s health’ is pure gaslighting.”...
FOX News is liable in promoting gaslighting by the political Right Wing and is in gross violation of ethical standards. FOX News is engaged in attacks against the USA Democracy.
Gaslighting
By Sephanie A. Sarkis, PhD.
In my book Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People - and Break Free
I detail how gaslighters typically use the following techniques:
1. They tell blatant lies.
2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.
3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.
4. They wear you down over time.
5. Their actions do not match their words.
6. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.
7. They know confusion weakens people.
8. They project.
9. They try to align people against you.
10. They tell you or others that you are crazy.
By Marie Solis
A federal judge (click here) struck down a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks in a scathing ruling on Tuesday, accusing the state of "gaslighting (click here)" women and attempting to control their bodies.
"The record is clear: States may not ban abortions prior to viability," US District Judge Carlton Reeves wrote in his decision.
The Political Right Wing will attempt now to define viability.
A "non-viable pregnancy" is a pregnancy before 22-24 weeks when a baby if delivered has no chance of survival, even when there is a fetal heart rate in the uterus.
A "viable pregnancy" after 22-24 weeks is a pregnancy when there is a chance that if delivered the baby can survive.
An embryo at conception is NOT a viable pregnancy. When legislators attempt to control abortion instead of women controlling their own bodies, it blurs the line between viability and creates havoc with the common miscarriage.
"So, why are we here?" he continued. "Because the State of Mississippi contends that every court who ruled on a case such as this ‘misinterpreted or misapplied prior Supreme Court abortion precedent.' In that spirit, this Court concludes that the Mississippi Legislature’s professed interest in ‘women’s health’ is pure gaslighting.”...
FOX News is liable in promoting gaslighting by the political Right Wing and is in gross violation of ethical standards. FOX News is engaged in attacks against the USA Democracy.
Gaslighting
By Sephanie A. Sarkis, PhD.
In my book Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People - and Break Free
I detail how gaslighters typically use the following techniques:
1. They tell blatant lies.
2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.
3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.
4. They wear you down over time.
5. Their actions do not match their words.
6. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.
7. They know confusion weakens people.
8. They project.
9. They try to align people against you.
10. They tell you or others that you are crazy.
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