According to Snyder his trial and others will be put off for a while. Vacations? Why?

Snyder is "doing a Trump." He is pulling every stunt in the book AND i might add on the taxpayer's dime. The fault here lies with The Judge. It is upto the judge to set the tone and get on with "a speedy trial."

Ah, come on, this is nothing but a little dirty water, right? Snyder spent $2 million for new pipes after people were poisoned, but, that should set everything straight. Right? 

I think he should  have done that BEFORE people were poisoned, like when the GM plant notified everyone of their rusty engines.

That is an amazing aspect of this tragedy. (click here) Anyone have an idea of what it takes to rust a brand new GM engine? It takes alot. Aluminum (click here) used in engines corrodes. Corrosion happens with chemical exposure, not from water. There were trucks that made it into the public. GM didn't catch them all. At least that is the impression I had. It was probably addressed under warranty.

Posted: January 3, 2015

Just got a brand new 2015 Sierra 5.3L (click here) not long ago, and was looking it over the other day and noticed this part of the engine that doesn't look "new"

Looks like its rusty and out of place? Or am I crazy?

The point the Flint Water was full of chemicals, not just lead. The Flint water crisis started on April 25, 2014. The Rachel Maddow Show brought the realityof the Flint residents to the country. I believe that was the December 19, 2015 Show. That is a lot of poisoning. But, as to GM, the 2015 trucks were already on the road by the time owners heard about the crisis. So, there were probably some engines that passed through before GM noticed the corrosion.

January 14, 2022
By Ron Fonger

Media swarms around Gov. Rick Snyder to ask him questions about the Flint water crisis after he toured skilled trades programs on Monday, June 6, 2016 at Mott Community College in Flint. Snyder said the state reimbursed the city $2 million for reconnecting to Detroit for the water supply, which was pegged to replace lead lines for at least 400 homes. The city has had the funds for an estimated two month for infrastructure replacement, but has been slow to use the funds. "We provided the resources some time ago," Snyder said. Hopefully they will get good proposals back and they can start moving forward." Flint officials started accepting request for proposals for Flint Mayor Karen Weaver's Fast Start program replacing lead lines throughout the city.

Flint - A spokesman for the legal team representing former Gov. Rick Snyder (click here) against criminal charges tied to the Flint water crisis says not to expect a trial until at least 2024.

Spokesman Jason Brown made the comment in a larger statement issued by Snyder’s attorneys on the one-year anniversary of the announcement of grand jury indictments against the former governor, seven other former state government officials and Flint’s former director of its Department of Public Works.

Brown said the prosecution, led by Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, “is at a complete standstill” with little progress having been made.

“Even the most basic question as to whether the charges were properly filed in the city of Flint, rather than the city of Lansing, remains unresolved,” the statement says “The prosecution has made serious missteps with the handling of documents seized through search warrants and two judges have directed them to stop reviewing or disseminating documents to the various defendants....

I think this was a great interview. Why can't America see the Vice President in mainstream media this way?

I agree with Charlamagne (Lenard McKelvey) in regard to laying blame where it belongs at Manchin's feet. The aggressive movement regarding voting started when President Obama was in office. 

Maybe we need Charlamagne on mainstream media? He is upset about protecting the country and motivating voters. I like him. I think he may have gotten stuck on Manchin, but, he has a right to when he thinks his country is on the line. He was on Colbert, why not the mainstream media?

I think he brought out the best of Vice President Harris. Literally, she has demonstrated "I can hear you." She obviously hears the country.

I love this interview. The staff needs to behave. Vice President Kamala Harris used to argue for convictions in court, I think she can handle Charlamagne and his followers.

 

They are running scared now. Sedious Conspiracy.

They will try every trick in the book. That is straight out of the Trump handbook. Then they will bank on the Supreme Court to hide from the truth. The 5th Amendment will be used to a ridiculous level. The January 6th Committee will have to build their case from supporting evidence. These guys aren't going to cooperate. They are too far gone and they are facing serious crimes. It is an organized attempt to overthrow the USA Constitution and defy anyone from saying otherwise and it reaches to the highest levels of the government.

January 14, 2022
By Oma Seddiq

In the days after January 6, 2021, (click here) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republicans in a private phone call that then President Donald Trump admitted that he shared some responsibility for the Capitol riot, according to CNN.

But during a news conference on Thursday, McCarthy told reporters that he couldn't recall that phone conversation.

"I'm not sure what call you're talking about," McCarthy said.

CNN reported on the phone call at the time, and on Thursday the news outlet obtained a detailed readout of what McCarthy told his Republican colleagues....

They will take it to the Supreme Court. Let them. And then let the Supreme Court look at the conspirators with plenty of evidence found by the DOJ and prevent the US House from proceeding with an investigation to expose the plot against the US Constitution. I dare them to do it!

The Committee simply has to walk the straight and narrow path of the truth.

January 13, 2022
By Harper Neidig

The House Jan. 6 Select Committee (click here) pushed back against legal challenges to its authority to issue subpoenas, defending its Democratic-controlled structure as it tries to fend off a mounting number of lawsuits from former President Trump and allies.

In a court filing Wednesday night, the select committee argued that the structure of the panel — comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans — is consistent with the House's rules and that it has the authority to issue investigative demands. The filing came in response to a lawsuit from Taylor Budowich, a Trump spokesman challenging a subpoena for his financial records.

"Plaintiffs’ specific contentions—that the Select Committee cannot conduct business unless the Speaker appoints exactly thirteen Members after 'consultation' with (and, in Plaintiffs’ understanding, approval by) the Minority Leader — are belied by the text of the House’s governing resolution and the indisputable facts surrounding the appointments," the committee's lawyers wrote in the brief....

It isn't the US House they have to fear, it is the DOJ making the case with incredible evidence. Trump threw down the guantlet and the Republicans followed. Amazing what they will do for power. 

Lindsay Graham has a lot to worry about. I am wondering how many FOX commentators have evidence that would reveal the relationships they held with Trump. There is more reason than ever for them to dress up Trump and dress down Biden. I don't think McConnell was as close to Trump as Graham was.

All these men know better. Weren't there a few Cabinet Members that resigned when the attack on the US Capitol began? I think it was McConnell's wife, Elaine Choa (click here) at the DOT and DeVos (click here).

Everyone is lawyering up now. 

It was a rather extensive plot by Americans affiliated with Trump.

January 14, 2022
By Stephen Proctor

Michigan AG says scheme (click here) to overthrow election with fake electors ‘may go all the way to the top.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, Thursday, where she spoke about the scheme in which Republicans in several states that President Biden won forged election documents in an attempt to give the election to former President Trump. Fraudulent electors in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia sent documents to the National Archives to certify the election for Trump, despite Biden having won. While no one has been arrested yet in connection with this attempted election fraud, Nessel expects authorities to gather more evidence, and that this may have been orchestrated from the highest levels of government.

“Once those individuals see that they could possibly be facing prison time, I do think we’re gonna see some people flip,” Nessel said, “and we’ll get some further information as to who orchestrated this in the first place, who told these people to do this in exactly this fashion, and I think it may go all the way to the top.”

Nessel’s belief that the individuals involved were part of a larger conspiracy stems from the fact that, in every instance, the fraudulent documents followed almost the exact same template, in some cases not in any way resembling the real elector documents from a particular state. Which is why on Thursday, Nessel referred the case to federal authorities....

The DOJ needs to look at the other falsified documents from other states. It appears there was a single template used. That was probably part of the plan so others would know exactly who were the real electors and who had falsified documents. The plan would be to allow only the falsified delegates the right to vote. This way they would be able to control the outcome.

This entire thing is so crazy, except, that police officers died and there was an ongoing plot even after the January 6th insurrection.

It was all coordinated. Wow.

Putin is old school. This is such a Soviet strategy it is ridiculous.

I guess they don't have computer access in Putin's War Room. I love the transparency by the Biden Administration which is necessary to beat Putin's propaganda. President Biden's administration is stating they will back an insurgency in Ukraine if there is an invasion. It isn't an insurgency if the Ukraine government is defending it's homeland. It is support and direct support, which the USA is proud of, to end the conflict along the border. This is ridiculous. 

I would also expect Russian troops coming from Crimea as well. The bridge should be dismantled.

January 14, 2022
By Natasha Bertrand and Jeremy Herb

BLOW IT UP (click here)

Washington - The US has information (click here) that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion.

The official said the US has evidence that the operatives are trained in urban warfare and in using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces.

The allegation echoes a statement released by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense on Friday, which said that Russian special services are preparing provocations against Russian forces in an attempt to frame Ukraine. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan hinted at the intelligence during a briefing with reporters on Thursday.

"Our intelligence community has developed information, which has now been downgraded, that Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating the pretext for an invasion," Sullivan said on Thursday. "We saw this playbook in 2014. They are preparing this playbook again and we will have, the administration will have, further details on what we see as this potential laying of the pretext to share with the press over the course of the next 24 hours."...

More propaganda (click here) Putin is starting this now because of "winter" and Gasprom. Europe is dependent on METHANE from Russia. Both Russia and Europe need to end the use of methane (natual gas) for energy purposes. Putin wants to use fear of the discontinuance of natural gas to Ukraine and Europe as an attempt to stem Western assistance to 44 million Ukrainians. I don't see the USA backing down. I am confident there will be humanitarian relief if Russia decides they can successfully invade and occupy Ukraine. 

The real question is "Will Vladimir Putin be desperate enough to declare war with The West when and not if he fails in Ukraine?" That is the real question. He and China recently affirmed their devotion to each other as communist dictatorships and North Korea is heating up it's missile program again. In the past, this nuclear mess has been brinkmanship and that is what they may be counting on to catch the USA and Europe off guard with "first strike weapons."

Circumstances are not better in Ukraine

Today, the Ukraine government representing 44 million people, has experienced a cyberattack as Russia is moving more troops to the Ukraine border after practicing in Kazkhstan.

January 14, 2022
By Pavel Polityuk and Tom Balmforth

In an image released (click here) by Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service, Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with U.S. Javelin missiles during military exercises in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Thursday.

From a Dec. 25, 2021 article.

Kyiv/Moscow - Ukraine was hit by a cyberattack (click here) splashing a warning across government websites to "be afraid and expect the worst", while Russia, which has massed 100,000 troops on its neighbour's frontier, released pictures of more of its forces on the move.

The cyber attack unfolded hours after talks wrapped up with no breakthrough between Russia and Western allies, which fear Moscow could launch a new military assault on a country it invaded in 2014.

"The drumbeat of war is sounding loud," Michael Carpenter, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said at the close of talks on Thursday. 

Russia denies plans to attack Ukraine but says it could take unspecified military action unless its demands are met, including a promise by the NATO alliance never to admit Kyiv....

The day before this attack today there were arrests of a ransomware group. Evidently, they didn't get all of them.

January 13, 2022
By Jonathan Greig

Ukrainian police (click here) announced the arrest of five members of a ransomware affiliate on Thursday, noting that the group was behind attacks on more than 50 companies across Europe and the US.

In a statement, both the the Ukrainian Security Service and Ukrainian Cyber Police said the group made at least $1 million through their attacks on the companies.

US and UK law enforcement officials worked with Ukrainian officials on the operation.

Officials said the leader of the group was a 36-year-old who worked with his wife and three other people out of Kyiv. The five are facing a variety of charges in Ukraine related to money laundering, hacking, and selling malware.

One of the people charged is wanted by law enforcement agencies in UK after "using a virus to obtain bank card details of the customers of British banks," according to the police statement.

The bank card details were used to buy things online that were then resold....

The international opinion sees Russia as carrying out these attacks in response to autonomous warnings by former Soviet states that they expect Russia, now amassing more troops at the border, to act to invade.

January 14, 2022

Brest, France - The European Union's (click here) top diplomat condemned on Friday a cyber attack on Ukraine and said the EU's political and security committee and cyber units would meet to decide how to respond and help Kyiv.

Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesperson told Reuters it was too early to say who could be behind the attack but said Russia had been behind similar strikes in the past.

The cyberattack, which hit the foreign ministry, the cabinet of ministers and the security and defence council among others, comes as Kyiv and its allies have sounded the alarm about a possible new Russian military offensive against Ukraine....

Declining the change to the Filibuster does not end the Voting Rights Bill.

The US House already passed the Voting Rights bills. It is time to get everyone in the US Senate on the record.

January 12, 2021
By Carl Hulse

Washington - Moving quickly to force a showdown (click here) over voting rights, congressional Democrats plan to pursue a procedural shortcut to bring up stalled legislation and try to win its approval over deep Republican resistance.

In a memo to Senate Democrats on Wednesday, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, laid out a new strategy intended to overcome at least one procedural obstacle erected by Republicans to prevent the Senate from even considering the legislation.

Under the plan, the House would package two major pieces of voting rights legislation being pushed by Democrats — the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — insert them into an unrelated bill and pass it. That measure would then go to the Senate as what is known as a “message,” meaning Republicans could not filibuster a move to bring it to the floor for debate and Democrats would not need to muster 60 votes to do so.

“Taking advantage of this existing exception to the Senate’s supermajority requirements will allow us to end the Republicans’ ability to block debate on voting rights legislation,” Mr. Schumer wrote in the memo. “The Senate will finally debate voting rights legislation, and then every senator will be faced with a choice of whether or not to pass the legislation to protect our democracy.”...

In response to the Supreme Court ruling putting the American worker at risk for disease.

I think business "gets it." They know if they are a vehicle of a mass spreading with more than 100 employees, there will be consequences in the real world that does not translate well for their business.

January 13, 2022

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has postponed its return-to-office plan (click here) for U.S. staff by another two weeks as COVID-19 cases in the country flare up, largely fueled by the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant.

The bank's employees were told they could delay returning to office to Feb. 1, a spokesperson said, after having previously allowed workers to work from home until Jan. 18.

Goldman, which had been one of the most aggressive banks in bringing staff back into offices, has been forced to alter plans because of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus....

The finanical investment firm is also seeking diversity in their investments, which is long overdue. 

January 12, 2022

Margaret Anadu of Goldman Sachs (click here) speaks with Yahoo Finance Live about how the bank is providing support to Black women and improving communities of color through its One Million Black Women initiative.

BRIAN SOZZI: Goldman Sachs revealed today a suite of 17 new investments partnerships and grants as part of its One Million Black Woman initiative. Launched in early 2021, Goldman's One Million Black Women initiative reflects its intention to spend more than $10 billion over the next decade to advance racial equity and economic opportunity in Black women....