Friday, February 22, 2019

If any journalist receives or has received threatening phone calls, tweets, letters  or packages they absolutely should involve the authorities for prosecution of the assault. Words can be assault weapons, too. By doing so, the harassing voice of Donald Trump can be identified in the number of people arrested affiliated with his hate speech. Journalists need to protect themselves, peers and their profession. Do not hesitate to act. None of the hate in today’s society is appropriate or healthy for the country.
Wait a minute, let me get this right.

The judge in the Manafort case has set a deadline for today that prosecutors have to submit additional details for his sentencing and that hasn’t happened yet?

That is uncharacteristic of the prosecution team in this case.

Isn’t Barr holding a meeting at the DOJ today regarding all of this? Is Barr seeking a way to obstruct the prosecutors?

Where is Giuliani?

Trump has a scandal riddled administration just as he has had a scandal riddled life and it is no one’s fault but his own.

Did you see the new GMC tailgate? Awesome. Go, Flint!

February 20, 2019
By Ron Fonger

Flint -- Alec Baldwin was spotted around Flint Wednesday, Feb. 20 (click here) while in town shooting a documentary.

Baldwin stopped at Flint City Hall, met Mayor Karen Weaver, and the two had a photo taken together, spokeswoman Candice Mushatt confirmed.

Sources reached by The Flint Journal-MLive Wednesday said the actor was in town working on a documentary about the Flint water crisis. The documentary, by filmmaker Anthony Baxter, has been in the works since 2017, according to Variety.

Water activist Florissa Fowler said she had brunch with Baldwin, who was aghast at her $640 water bill.

“I didn’t know he was coming until the last minute,” Fowler said. “I really thought he was genuinely concerned.”

Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards also confirmed that he’d been interviewed for the documentary on Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, also met with Baldwin for the documentary, his office confirmed....

February 5, 2019

Flint - General Motors Co (click here) said Tuesday it will add 1,000 workers to build new heavy-duty pickup trucks at its plant in Flint, Michigan, and will give priority to GM workers who were laid off elsewhere.

GM has come under fire from U.S. President Donald Trump and Midwestern lawmakers for its plans to stop production at five North American factories and cut up to 15,000 jobs. The automaker has said it is trying to find new jobs for 1,500 U.S. hourly workers at the affected plants. Flint could be a haven for many of these employees.

Sales of heavy-duty pickups in the United States have grown to more than 600,000 vehicles a year, up more than 20 percent since 2013, according to industry data. Prices for luxury models can easily top $70,000....

Warren Buffett is taking a beating, how is George Soros these days?

The supply chain to Kraft and Heinz increased in marked ways this past quarter. It may very well be because of Trump's tariffs and where these items are purchased. The best venue at this point is for Kraft Heinz to develop their own supply chain within the USA.

If this is happening to Kraft, what is happening elsewhere on Wall Street?

George Soros does a lot of international charity work. If his investments sour because of Trump's tariffs, the international community will be effected.

February 21, 2019
By Tara Lachapelle

Kraft Heinz Co.’s facade is beginning to crack.' (click here)

After the close of trading Thursday, the packaged-food company delivered a triple whammy to investors: It said it took a $15.4 billion writedown in the fourth quarter. It also said it had received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission associated with an investigation into its “accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls” regarding procurement agreements. And the company cut its quarterly dividend by 36 percent. The stock sold off more than 17 percent as of 6 p.m. New York time.

Kraft Heinz said the impairment charge was related primarily to its U.S. refrigerated-foods and Canadian retail divisions, as well as trademarks for its Kraft and Oscar Mayer brands — two of the company’s biggest moneymakers. While all the old guards of the supermarket aisles are struggling as consumers opt for fresher, less-processed and more on-the-go food items from upstart businesses, Kraft Heinz’s writedown may also speak to underinvestment in its brands. As for the SEC probe, the disclosure doesn’t necessarily signal wrongdoing or the need for significant financial revisions, but it does further sully the image of a company that already didn’t sit well with some investors. (The company said its own investigation into the matter determined that the necessary adjustments weren’t material to previous results and that it doesn’t expect them to be in the future.)...

The pedophile president has the go to legal leverage guy for pedophiles is on his cabinet. That is more than interesting.

I am proud of the "Miami Herald" for looking out for the children of this country and other countries as well. Epstein is an international citizen in that he can move easily between boundaries of countries to satisfy his sick sexual desires for children. This is an important article for the USA and other countries as well. There are areas of the world known for sex tourism. How many of those places has Epstein frequented?

February 22, 2019
By Sarah Jones

In a conspiracy-theory-sodden era, (click here) the story of Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire abuser of underage girls, stands out both for its harrowing veracity and for the impunity it reveals. Epstein molested dozens of girls since at least 2001 and provided other, still-anonymous accomplices with girls to abuse. But Epstein, who once counted Bill Clinton and David Copperfield among his acquaintances, is not in prison, nor is he likely to go to prison at any point in the near future. As the Miami Herald first reported in an exhaustive investigation, Epstein owes his freedom, in part, to the efforts of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who, in his previous role as a U.S. Attorney in Miami, declined to prosecute Epstein under federal sex-trafficking laws. A conviction under these laws could have put him in prison for the rest of his life. Instead, Acosta and his fellow prosecutors worked closely with Epstein’s legal team, which included Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, to negotiate a non-prosecution agreement that allowed him to plead guilty to two charges of prostitution. He served 13 months in a private wing of the county jail in 2007. Prosecutors then agreed to seal the deal without informing Epstein’s victims that any agreement had been reached at all....


How many White Nationalists are on Trump's Twitter Account?

Did the wacko Coast Guard member have other sympathizers within the USA military?

For at least the second time Hawaii had ANOTHER missile alert. This needs to be investigated to the source! False alarms are illegal. Someone needs to be seriously evaluated and perhaps jailed.

IF HAWAII NEEDS DRILLS ON MISSILE LAUNCHES there is a proper way of empowerment that exists. The people are not respected when false alarms creates trauma reactions. The people fo Hawaii at this point need to be EMPOWERED into understanding WHAT TO DO when a missile alarm occurs. The people of Israel know exactly what to do when the alarms sound. If these alarms continue the people will become numb to any alarm and that equates to danger for the people of Hawaii. I don't think any of these MISTAKES are minor issues. It is huge and it needs to addressed that EMPOWERS the people.

The country does not need another Fort Hood killing. See, we know for a fact there are plenty of extremist Christians in the USA military in areas such as the Air Force, including the academy. This is no longer a joke. The USA military needs to evaluate it's leadership and it's elite officers such as pilots, including that of helicopters. Enough already. There is a difference between soldiers that love being soldiers and those that love killing.


There has been a large turnover within the federal government and the military leadership and the country needs to evaluate those that have been advanced in command under this president. I am serious as I can be about this. It is conceivable that enough members of the military could create an assault against the people of the USA and/or any other country to satisfy a demented leader that allows such fantasies to exist for the sake of votes.

Finding a wacko within the USA military, including and especially the Coast Guard is more than worrisome. This particular idiot obviously coveted far more than the personal militia equipment he owned. Today's military needs to realize there are people within it's ranks that are lone wolves with delusional ideas based in wacko ideologies like White Supremacy and White Nationalism. Realize, there is a significant White National base within Europe. There are a lot of reasons for concern.

The ODDS are a wacko will spin out of a population of people over a reasonable period of time. It happens, but, there is nothing wrong with understanding "the soldier" as well as the role they play. I also will remind the USA military that domestic violence within it's ranks is still evident. Out of control behavior of any kind is a concern to the people of the USA. They need to have leadership that understands and has a hand on "the soldier."

February 21, 2019
By Jenna Bryner

If you were told to take cover (click here) because of an incoming nuclear ballistic missile, would you seriously know what to do? (Or would you run around frantically or ball up in a fetal position?)
Many people in Hawaii faced that very question on Jan. 13, 2018. That morning, at 8:07 a.m. local time, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency sent out an alert advising residents to seek shelter from an incoming ballistic missile.

Unbeknownst to just about everyone at the time, however, the alert was a false alarm. Even the operator who sent out the alarm, issued over text messages and on TV and radio stations, thought it was real. But it was accidentally sent out during a shift change, and the incoming operator didn't realize that the alert was part of a preparedness drill....