There was absolutely no reason for all the flamboyant threats last week. He is unbalanced.
It is okay to expect normal behavior and good memory from the President of the United States of America. When that doesn't occur, it is a worry.
June 8, 2019
By Carolina Kelly
Mexico had already promised (click here) to take many of the actions agreed to in Friday's immigration deal with the US -- months before President Donald Trump's tariff threat, officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations told the New York Times in a story published Saturday.
Trump moved to accept the existing agreements in a deal Friday after negotiations prompted by his threat to impose growing tariffs on Mexico in response to the border situation dragged on over several days. Talks between Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and State Department officials lasted for more than 11 hours Friday.
The Mexican government had pledged to deploy the National Guard nationwide with a focus on its southern border -- a key part of Friday's agreement -- during secret meetings in March between former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Mexican interior secretary Olga Sanchez in Miami, the officials told the Times.
The deal's key expansion of a program that would keep asylum seekers in Mexico while their claims are processed was established in two heavily brokered two diplomatic notes exchanged between the two countries, the Times reported. Nielsen announced the Migrant Protection Protocols during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in late December....
Saturday, June 08, 2019
Prostitution is so much easier than Non-disclosure Agreements.
By Rachel Kurzius
A bill (click here) that would decriminalize sex work in Washington D.C. will be reintroduced at the D.C. Council on Tuesday, this time with four councilmembers in support.
As drafted, the Community Safety and Health Amendment Act of 2019 would “remove certain criminal penalties for engaging in sex work in order to promote public health and safety.” It does not include any measures that would create red light districts in D.C. or otherwise regulate sex work. Coercing people to engage in sex work against their will would still be illegal, as would human and child trafficking.
At-large Councilmembers David Grosso and Robert White, who co-introduced a similar measure in 2017, are now joined by At-large Councilmember Anita Bonds and Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, as jurisdictions across the country are seeing sex work decriminalization movements gain steam. Last term, the original bill was sent to the Judiciary Committee, where it never got a hearing.
...The legislation comes at a time when sex work-related charges have more than doubled year-over-year from 2017 to 2018, according to data from the Metropolitan Police Department. In 2017, D.C. police charged 228 people with crimes associated with sex work (the bulk of them, 197, were for sexual solicitation). Compare that to 2018, when there were 551 such charges (including 512 for sexual solicitation)....
Emotional scenes as Labour beats Brexit party in Peterborough byelection
The Bannon Regime is being dismantled with every election in the FREE WORLD!
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This entire ship is a radar array. It is attempting to listen to internal radio signals on the USA ships.
June 7, 2019
By Mari Yamaguchi
TOKYO — The U.S. and Russia accused each other (click here) of unsafe actions on Friday after an American guided-missile cruiser and a Russian destroyer came within 165 feet (50 meters) of each other in the East China Sea....
Trump has taken lessons on lying from Russians!
The ocean is not the best surface to reflect radar from though. Vladimir Putin is afraid of his own shadow. He is a fool. The entire alliance was at the 75th anniversary of the D Day invasion and Putin was home counting his blessings.
Here Vladimir, allow me to help you. The fraction surface of the water is not that efficient.
The real part nr controls (click here) the phase speed of
the EM wave through the medium. nr is
defined as the ratio of the speed of light in
vacuum c to the speed of EM waves through
the medium c1: Nr = c/c1
Vladimir Putin should be fearing the children of the USA. They and their teachers are engaged in sending experiments to the ISS to grow a MUTO that will emit EMPs to destroy Russia. They take their inspiration from Hollywood. Someday the dream will be realized!
Every American lives to be diabolical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump is a loser, Vlad. Even his military high school is shutdown.
By Mari Yamaguchi
TOKYO — The U.S. and Russia accused each other (click here) of unsafe actions on Friday after an American guided-missile cruiser and a Russian destroyer came within 165 feet (50 meters) of each other in the East China Sea....
Trump has taken lessons on lying from Russians!
The ocean is not the best surface to reflect radar from though. Vladimir Putin is afraid of his own shadow. He is a fool. The entire alliance was at the 75th anniversary of the D Day invasion and Putin was home counting his blessings.
Here Vladimir, allow me to help you. The fraction surface of the water is not that efficient.
Vladimir Putin should be fearing the children of the USA. They and their teachers are engaged in sending experiments to the ISS to grow a MUTO that will emit EMPs to destroy Russia. They take their inspiration from Hollywood. Someday the dream will be realized!
Every American lives to be diabolical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump is a loser, Vlad. Even his military high school is shutdown.
Friday, June 07, 2019
Former Governor Snyder and 65 other officials have had their cell phones and hard drives seized in an investigation of the Flint Water Crisis.
June 4, 2019
By Jessica Corbert
By Jessica Corbert
Activists reiterated demands for "accountability and justice" for the people of Flint, Michigan following reports Monday that the authorities investigating the city's water crisis executed search warrants for the state-owned cell phones of former Gov. Rick Snyder and 65 other current and former officials.
"The people of Flint deserve answers," Mary Grant, public water for all director at Food & Water Watch, said in a statement. "Hopefully this investigation will yield them. And there needs to be accountability for those involved in creating this crisis, including former Governor Snyder."
The Associated Press reported Monday on search warrants (pdf) the outlet obtained through public records requests....
Snyder and his attorney are rebutting the reporting of seizing. They stated they have cooperated the entire time. That isn't the point. The point is NONE of this evidence was ever seized or provided voluntarily before. THAT IS THE POINT.
June 4, 2019
By Kate Sullivan and Caroline Kelly
...Snyder and more than 65 other current or former officials (click here) have had their cellphones or other information seized in connection with the investigation into the crisis in Flint, Michigan, where cost-cutting measures led to tainted drinking water that contained lead and other toxins.
The Associated Press first reported the contents of the search warrants.
Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud said in a statement to CNN, "The prosecution is aware of substantial potential evidence that was not provided to the original prosecution team from the onset of the investigation. The team is currently in the process of obtaining this evidence through a variety of means, including search warrants."...
June 7, 2019
By Ron Fonger
Flint - Former U.S. Department (click here) of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro will apparently be the first 2020 presidential candidate to set foot in Flint, saying in a Twitter message that he will visit this weekend.
Castro, a Democrat and former mayor of San Antonio, was in Flint in March 2016, when he met with Mayor Karen Weaver and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint.
Weaver and Kildee are scheduled to join him again Saturday, June 8, after he tours the Flint Farmers’ Market at 9 a.m.
The Castro campaign said the candidate will visit First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, 1226 Beach St., at 11 a.m. Saturday and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 2316 W. Coldwater Road, at 2 p.m. Saturday.
On Thursday, June 6, Castro tweeted he’s looking forward to returning to Flint “to meet with residents about the progress still to come.”...
June 7, 2019
By Zahra Ahmad
Flint - Jaden Smith has donated another Water Box to Flint, (click here) this time in Ellen DeGeneres’ name.
The American rapper surprised the famous talk show host with the donation on Thursday, June 6. The Water Box is a sustainable alternative to supply clean drinking water that uses a portable filtration system to generate five to 10 gallons of water.
“We’ve kind of been tracking the progress in Flint since the beginning and supplying Flint with clean water,” Smith said on the talk show. “Bottles of water aren’t always the most efficient thing. With this system people can come with five or 10 gallon drums and just fill up for free in 60 seconds.”...
By Ron Fonger
Flint - Former U.S. Department (click here) of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro will apparently be the first 2020 presidential candidate to set foot in Flint, saying in a Twitter message that he will visit this weekend.
Castro, a Democrat and former mayor of San Antonio, was in Flint in March 2016, when he met with Mayor Karen Weaver and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint.
Weaver and Kildee are scheduled to join him again Saturday, June 8, after he tours the Flint Farmers’ Market at 9 a.m.
The Castro campaign said the candidate will visit First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, 1226 Beach St., at 11 a.m. Saturday and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 2316 W. Coldwater Road, at 2 p.m. Saturday.
On Thursday, June 6, Castro tweeted he’s looking forward to returning to Flint “to meet with residents about the progress still to come.”...
June 7, 2019
By Zahra Ahmad
Flint - Jaden Smith has donated another Water Box to Flint, (click here) this time in Ellen DeGeneres’ name.
The American rapper surprised the famous talk show host with the donation on Thursday, June 6. The Water Box is a sustainable alternative to supply clean drinking water that uses a portable filtration system to generate five to 10 gallons of water.
“We’ve kind of been tracking the progress in Flint since the beginning and supplying Flint with clean water,” Smith said on the talk show. “Bottles of water aren’t always the most efficient thing. With this system people can come with five or 10 gallon drums and just fill up for free in 60 seconds.”...
This is what the Hyde Amendment started.
It began the idea that people of faith were in a superior class of American than the rest of all other Americans. The florist, the cake baker are all people where LGBTQI Americans live. The LGBTQI community have finally achieved the right to marry and be treated equally with other Americans. Since winning civil rights, the Christian right wing in the USA has carried out assaults against those rights because it would taint their souls to take their money for services affiliated with marriage.
This action allowed by the Supreme Court is Un-American. Do the Christians involved in this extremist find their souls tainted by liars? Do they find their souls tainted by criminals? No. They are only tainted by those that are not heterosexual.
This extremism is known as a farce and the extremist Robert's Court which allows such insults to the civil rights of a CHOSEN group of Americans allows such nonsense in the communities of the USA.
You know, my family is Catholic. A big Irish Catholic family. We love nearly everything Kosher. I am glad we are still allowed to purchase those special items in major corporate grocery stores, as well as small family, owned businesses.
The Robert's Court allows too much indulgence to this extremism. This is the USA where anyone can have any belief and be an American. The Robert's Court, especially Sam Alito, needs to get over themselves.
June 6, 2019
By Kevin Daley
A florist (click here) who refused to create floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after a Washington state court ruled Thursday that she violated the state’s civil rights law.
The case presents the high court with an opportunity to decide whether conservative religious believers can use the First Amendment as a defense against laws requiring accommodation of LGBT people, a question the justices ducked in the 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling....
This action allowed by the Supreme Court is Un-American. Do the Christians involved in this extremist find their souls tainted by liars? Do they find their souls tainted by criminals? No. They are only tainted by those that are not heterosexual.
This extremism is known as a farce and the extremist Robert's Court which allows such insults to the civil rights of a CHOSEN group of Americans allows such nonsense in the communities of the USA.
You know, my family is Catholic. A big Irish Catholic family. We love nearly everything Kosher. I am glad we are still allowed to purchase those special items in major corporate grocery stores, as well as small family, owned businesses.
The Robert's Court allows too much indulgence to this extremism. This is the USA where anyone can have any belief and be an American. The Robert's Court, especially Sam Alito, needs to get over themselves.
June 6, 2019
By Kevin Daley
A florist (click here) who refused to create floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after a Washington state court ruled Thursday that she violated the state’s civil rights law.
The case presents the high court with an opportunity to decide whether conservative religious believers can use the First Amendment as a defense against laws requiring accommodation of LGBT people, a question the justices ducked in the 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling....
Ginny Thomas, the wife of a Supreme Court Associate Justice, is looking for Dark Money.
June 9, 2019
By Peter Montgomery
Ginni Thomas, (click here) wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a right-wing political activist, has launched a new set of organizations meant to “protect President Trump” and attack Democrats and left-leaning organizations, according to an article published by The Intercept this week.
The well-connected Thomas, a former Heritage Foundation staffer, presented her plans to build a “robust infrastructure” to a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy last month. The CNP is a strategy-development-and-sharing network that includes leaders across the U.S. religious and political Right, including people like neo-Confederate Christian Reconstrucionist Michael Peroutka. CNP members pushed Trump to sign an executive order on religious liberty.
Thomas is planning to build a “robust infrastructure” of affiliated organizations. Among her partners in the new project are longtime right-wing operative Richard Viguerie; undercover videographer and political trickster James O’Keefe; Republican campaign lawyer Cleta Mitchell; and Bill Meierling, chief marketing officer for the American Legislative Exchange Council, a matchmaker for corporate lobbyists and conservative legislators willing to do their bidding....
...This January, Thomas organized a White House meeting where she was joined by anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney and others where, among other things, they complained that White House aides were blocking right-wing Trump supporters from getting administration jobs.
Thomas and many of her partners were among conservative activists who mobilized a year ago to try to replace then-House Speaker Paul Ryan with right-wing favorite Rep. Jim Jordan.
Thomas presented United in Purpose “Impact” awards to O’Keefe, Gaffney, and Sean Hannity in 2017. In 2016, TPM reported that Thomas “wanted to ‘target’ the ‘most questionable’ precincts in Virginia with an anti-voter fraud campaign.”...
The near collision with a Russian boat was not a near collision.
It was a cyber mission to access wavelengths the Russians cannot access IN A CLOSED MILITARY NETWORK.
They are looking to find a way into the nuclear missile batteries.
Nothing Russia does is an accident, with the exception of Chernobyl.
They are looking to find a way into the nuclear missile batteries.
Nothing Russia does is an accident, with the exception of Chernobyl.
The Robert's Court states abortion has to be available, but, it is okay to put as many obstacle in the way as possible.
Anti-abortion is oppression and a violation of a woman's body. The state doesn't belong in this. Abortion clinics are safe and affordable when a pregnancy is unwanted.
For some time now I have believed the Hyde Amendment is the springboard to the religious extremism that began with the presidency of George W. Bush. The Hyde Amendment opened the assault against the Affordable Care Act and the contraception women asked to have to protect from unwanted pregnancy.
The Hyde Amendment empowered financial discrimination and the most impoverished are the minorities in this country. The Hyde Amendment is a form of bigotry. There was no sense to discuss the Hyde Amendment until the country was ready to do so. It is a harbinger of abuse of power, yielding religious preference wrongly over the USA Constitution.
It could be said the Hyde Amendment began the breakdown of the wall that separated church and state. It was passed because of the money the American people would have spent through Medicaid to allow impoverished women their choice in how their bodies were used. In fact, the Hyde Amendment guaranteed poverty and more of a burden to the USA people through their federal treasury.
The Hyde Amendment as it relates to abortion rights of women is completely wrong and I believe it opened the USA Constitution to abuse of religious power in the USA making it weaker and susceptible to attacks by the religious right. If A is constitutional, then B, C and D are constitutional.
The USA Constitution guarantees the free and open practice of religion, regardless, the faith or denomination. It also guarantees the lack of religious practice and the open and free expression of that self-will. In realizing more and more laws were passed by anti-abortion activists throughout the Republican states it is easy to realize how this religious movement took hold in the states. It has to stop.
The reason there are so many anti-abortion laws being passed is to prove to the Supreme Court it is what the country wants. It is not what the country wants, it is the right wing extremists want to ensure their votes to extremist candidates.
January 18, 2019
By Jordan Smith
....On August 7, (click here for video) Danielle boarded a Greyhound bus for the three-hour trip to Jackson. She left the kids with their grandmother, and she packed a duffle bag because she’d be gone at least three days — Mississippi law requires abortion patients to have an initial visit in which they’re counseled on the choice they’re making, and then a second appointment for the abortion itself. In between is a state-mandated 24-hour waiting period, allegedly necessary to allow the patient extra time to wrestle with the gravity of her decision.
This meant that in addition to the bus fare and the $450 she needed to pay for the abortion, she would also have to come up with money for a hotel, meals, and cab rides back and forth to the clinic, all of which posed a significant burden, especially since Danielle was between jobs. By the time she left Jackson three days later, Danielle estimated that she would have less than $30 to cover family expenses for the rest of the month....
For some time now I have believed the Hyde Amendment is the springboard to the religious extremism that began with the presidency of George W. Bush. The Hyde Amendment opened the assault against the Affordable Care Act and the contraception women asked to have to protect from unwanted pregnancy.
The Hyde Amendment empowered financial discrimination and the most impoverished are the minorities in this country. The Hyde Amendment is a form of bigotry. There was no sense to discuss the Hyde Amendment until the country was ready to do so. It is a harbinger of abuse of power, yielding religious preference wrongly over the USA Constitution.
It could be said the Hyde Amendment began the breakdown of the wall that separated church and state. It was passed because of the money the American people would have spent through Medicaid to allow impoverished women their choice in how their bodies were used. In fact, the Hyde Amendment guaranteed poverty and more of a burden to the USA people through their federal treasury.
The Hyde Amendment as it relates to abortion rights of women is completely wrong and I believe it opened the USA Constitution to abuse of religious power in the USA making it weaker and susceptible to attacks by the religious right. If A is constitutional, then B, C and D are constitutional.
The USA Constitution guarantees the free and open practice of religion, regardless, the faith or denomination. It also guarantees the lack of religious practice and the open and free expression of that self-will. In realizing more and more laws were passed by anti-abortion activists throughout the Republican states it is easy to realize how this religious movement took hold in the states. It has to stop.
The reason there are so many anti-abortion laws being passed is to prove to the Supreme Court it is what the country wants. It is not what the country wants, it is the right wing extremists want to ensure their votes to extremist candidates.
January 18, 2019
By Jordan Smith
....On August 7, (click here for video) Danielle boarded a Greyhound bus for the three-hour trip to Jackson. She left the kids with their grandmother, and she packed a duffle bag because she’d be gone at least three days — Mississippi law requires abortion patients to have an initial visit in which they’re counseled on the choice they’re making, and then a second appointment for the abortion itself. In between is a state-mandated 24-hour waiting period, allegedly necessary to allow the patient extra time to wrestle with the gravity of her decision.
This meant that in addition to the bus fare and the $450 she needed to pay for the abortion, she would also have to come up with money for a hotel, meals, and cab rides back and forth to the clinic, all of which posed a significant burden, especially since Danielle was between jobs. By the time she left Jackson three days later, Danielle estimated that she would have less than $30 to cover family expenses for the rest of the month....
Thursday, June 06, 2019
The source is at the bottom of the image. Joe is correct, the remaining problem with mass incarceration does lie with the states, however, changes in the federal law was required and he should speak to that as well.
It sounds like poisoning. Lots of questions.
Organophosphate poisoning.
Most patients exposed to organophosphates (click here) come into contact with insecticides. The first organophosphate insecticide was created in the mid-1800s but was not widely used until after World War II. Organophosphates are used as medications, insecticides, and nerve agents as a weapon. Symptoms include increased saliva and tear production, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, small pupils, sweating, muscle tremors, and confusion. The onset of symptoms is often within minutes, and it can take weeks to disappear....
Were there crimes taking place, like stealing, at the same time the tourists became ill. Obviously, tourism has been a part of the Dominican Republic's economy for a long time. Often, the resorts that cater to Americans will look toward the USA for policies. Have there been any changes in the regulation of organophosphates?
Let's assume there are organophosphates used at the resort. Where are they stored? How long have they been stored? Is there recently prepared chemicals stored inside and near areas where food or water is stored or near food prepared?
Any change in personnel that handles these chemicals for the resort? What training do they receive? Is the Dominican Republic aware of this uptick in illnesses and deaths of Americans at their resorts?
It cannot be blamed on storms from the past because these are all recent deaths. But, it is obvious it is poisoning. Why weren't there more illnesses and deaths at the same time these tourists became ill? It seems as though if there were more than one or two at a time it would raise suspicion to what the cause might be. It seems a little too random and isolated not to be a crime unto itself.
But, I would check the change in regulations as a starting point and whether or not the usage in the way of stocked supplies and sales into the Dominican Republic increased lately.
June 6, 2019
By Ashley Fantz
As authorities investigate the unexplained deaths (click here) of three Americans at a resort in the Dominican Republic, a Colorado couple who stayed at the same facility last year said they became violently ill after being exposed to what they suspect were insecticides spread through the air conditioning system.
Kaylynn Knull, 29, and her boyfriend Tom Schwander, 33, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the owners of Grand Bahia Principe Hotel La Romana, blaming them for causing their sickness in June 2018.
In an interview with CNN, Knull said the recent deaths of a Maryland couple and a Pennsylvania woman within days of each other at the same Dominican Republic hotel complex made her angry and sad.
"My blood boiled. It made me want to scream. It made me want to cry," Knull said. "There's something going on. What happened to us may be related to what happened to them."
Last month, Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63 and Cynthia Day, 49, were found unresponsive in their hotel room at the resort in La Romana. Authorities in the Dominican Republic said a preliminary autopsy found that the couple suffered respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, caused by excess lung fluid. Day also suffered a cerebral edema. Five days earlier, 41-year-old Miranda Schaup-Werner died in her room with her husband nearby. The couples checked in on the same day -- May 25....
Most patients exposed to organophosphates (click here) come into contact with insecticides. The first organophosphate insecticide was created in the mid-1800s but was not widely used until after World War II. Organophosphates are used as medications, insecticides, and nerve agents as a weapon. Symptoms include increased saliva and tear production, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, small pupils, sweating, muscle tremors, and confusion. The onset of symptoms is often within minutes, and it can take weeks to disappear....
Were there crimes taking place, like stealing, at the same time the tourists became ill. Obviously, tourism has been a part of the Dominican Republic's economy for a long time. Often, the resorts that cater to Americans will look toward the USA for policies. Have there been any changes in the regulation of organophosphates?
Let's assume there are organophosphates used at the resort. Where are they stored? How long have they been stored? Is there recently prepared chemicals stored inside and near areas where food or water is stored or near food prepared?
Any change in personnel that handles these chemicals for the resort? What training do they receive? Is the Dominican Republic aware of this uptick in illnesses and deaths of Americans at their resorts?
It cannot be blamed on storms from the past because these are all recent deaths. But, it is obvious it is poisoning. Why weren't there more illnesses and deaths at the same time these tourists became ill? It seems as though if there were more than one or two at a time it would raise suspicion to what the cause might be. It seems a little too random and isolated not to be a crime unto itself.
But, I would check the change in regulations as a starting point and whether or not the usage in the way of stocked supplies and sales into the Dominican Republic increased lately.
June 6, 2019
By Ashley Fantz
As authorities investigate the unexplained deaths (click here) of three Americans at a resort in the Dominican Republic, a Colorado couple who stayed at the same facility last year said they became violently ill after being exposed to what they suspect were insecticides spread through the air conditioning system.
Kaylynn Knull, 29, and her boyfriend Tom Schwander, 33, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the owners of Grand Bahia Principe Hotel La Romana, blaming them for causing their sickness in June 2018.
In an interview with CNN, Knull said the recent deaths of a Maryland couple and a Pennsylvania woman within days of each other at the same Dominican Republic hotel complex made her angry and sad.
"My blood boiled. It made me want to scream. It made me want to cry," Knull said. "There's something going on. What happened to us may be related to what happened to them."
Last month, Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63 and Cynthia Day, 49, were found unresponsive in their hotel room at the resort in La Romana. Authorities in the Dominican Republic said a preliminary autopsy found that the couple suffered respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, caused by excess lung fluid. Day also suffered a cerebral edema. Five days earlier, 41-year-old Miranda Schaup-Werner died in her room with her husband nearby. The couples checked in on the same day -- May 25....
Sympathies to the family and friends who will not be attending a graduation ceremony.
West Point is a highly sought university with admission based in nominations by US Senators. This is tragic to all that were injured as well. I can't believe there are spinal injuries.
It does not make sense a US Army personnel carrier was on a side of a mountain. It has no tracks. It does not have four wheel drive.
All these senior cadets have gone through this training before. As a senior they would have more responsibility in the maneuvers, but, they have done this before. The point is this is not new terrain. These cadets know the dangers of the area. This should have been an easy time for them.
None of this makes sense. Who decided a personnel carrier was capable of taking a mountainside?
One other reality check, there are US Army Junior ROTC Officer Training Camps that take place there every summer. They are high school students, probably with aspirations to attend West Point. The terrain is challenging, but, this is New York State and not the Rocky Mountains.
It does not make sense a US Army personnel carrier was on a side of a mountain. It has no tracks. It does not have four wheel drive.
All these senior cadets have gone through this training before. As a senior they would have more responsibility in the maneuvers, but, they have done this before. The point is this is not new terrain. These cadets know the dangers of the area. This should have been an easy time for them.
None of this makes sense. Who decided a personnel carrier was capable of taking a mountainside?
One other reality check, there are US Army Junior ROTC Officer Training Camps that take place there every summer. They are high school students, probably with aspirations to attend West Point. The terrain is challenging, but, this is New York State and not the Rocky Mountains.
Wednesday, June 05, 2019
If 500 tornadoes weren't enough....
Surface Sea Temperature Map (click here) of the tropical Atlantic and the northwest Atlantic Ocean
Below is NOAA's Hurricane Prediction Center's reporting of a tropical disturbance that can result into a hurricane. The first of the season.
National Hurricane Center
Jun 4
Jun 4
June 4, 2019
A broad low (click here) over the western Gulf of Mexico is producing widespread showers. Although the chances of it developing into a tropical depression are now low, the threat for heavy rainfall persists. Follow products by the Weather Prediction Center. https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ @NWSWPC
Kindly remember these early season storms are some of the most disastrous in this Climate Crisis troposphere. The early storms are stagnating over coastal cities and staying for days.
June 4, 2019
By Jennifer Larino
On Tuesday morning (June 4), (click here) the National Hurricane Center was monitoring showers and thunderstorm activity linked to a broad area of low pressure over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The slow-moving disturbance had become disorganized since Monday, but forecasters said it’s still possible it could strengthen to a depression before moving inland over northeastern Mexico later Tuesday.
Heavy rainfall is the primary weather threat. The disturbance is “likely to produce heavy rainfall over portions of eastern Mexico, southeastern Texas and the Lower Mississippi River Valley” over coming days, according to the forecast.
The disturbance has a 40% chance of developing into a depression over the next 48 hours, forecasters said....
Kindly remember these early season storms are some of the most disastrous in this Climate Crisis troposphere. The early storms are stagnating over coastal cities and staying for days.
June 4, 2019
By Jennifer Larino
On Tuesday morning (June 4), (click here) the National Hurricane Center was monitoring showers and thunderstorm activity linked to a broad area of low pressure over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The slow-moving disturbance had become disorganized since Monday, but forecasters said it’s still possible it could strengthen to a depression before moving inland over northeastern Mexico later Tuesday.
Heavy rainfall is the primary weather threat. The disturbance is “likely to produce heavy rainfall over portions of eastern Mexico, southeastern Texas and the Lower Mississippi River Valley” over coming days, according to the forecast.
The disturbance has a 40% chance of developing into a depression over the next 48 hours, forecasters said....
If there are ruffled feathers in Ireland and/or Northern Ireland, there are few people able to discuss that except Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister and the delegation he lead.
He is currently in Israel and has made comments about anti-semitism in the Labour Party. In expanded comments, the former Prime Minister Blair believes Jeremy Corbyn is unaware of the anti-semitic content of such comments.
June 5, 2019
Tony Blair (click here) has told an Israeli audience that some of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s comments cannot be construed as anything other than “antisemitic”
The former British prime minister was speaking at Bar-Ilan University’s Board of Trustees Gala this week and was asked about Brexit, Theresa May, Labour, Zionism, and how the technological revolution “is going to change everyone’s lives....
He is currently in Israel and has made comments about anti-semitism in the Labour Party. In expanded comments, the former Prime Minister Blair believes Jeremy Corbyn is unaware of the anti-semitic content of such comments.
June 5, 2019
Tony Blair (click here) has told an Israeli audience that some of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s comments cannot be construed as anything other than “antisemitic”
The former British prime minister was speaking at Bar-Ilan University’s Board of Trustees Gala this week and was asked about Brexit, Theresa May, Labour, Zionism, and how the technological revolution “is going to change everyone’s lives....
Continued from previous entry
The Special Counsel did not cite law because he wanted to impress anyone. He cited law because the law of the USA has been broken. The current Attorney General William Barr is obstructing justice by undermining the Rule of Law of the United States of America.
Section 1512(c)(2) is an omnibus obstruction-of-justice provision that covers a range of obstructive acts directed at pending or contemplated official proceedings....
Currently, Donald J. Trump is interrupting the proceedings of US Congressional proceedings. He is directing personnel present or past not to not cooperate with Congress. He is breaking the law.
...No principle of statutory construction justifies narrowing the provision to cover only conduct that impairs the integrity or availability of evidence. Sections 1503 and 1505 also offer broad protection against obstructive acts directed at pending grand jury, judicial, administrative, and congressional proceedings, and they are supplemented by a provision in Section 1512(6) aimed specifically at conduct intended to prevent or hinder the communication to law enforcement of information related to a federal crime.
Constitutional defenses.
As for constitutional defenses arising from the President's status as the head of the Executive Branch, we recognized that the Department of Justice and the courts have not definitively resolved these issues. We therefore examined those issues through the framework established by Supreme Court precedent governing separation-of-powers issues. The Department of Justice and the President's personal counsel have recognized that the President is subject to statutes that prohibit obstruction of justice by bribing a witness or suborning perjury because that conduct does not implicate his constitutional authority. With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.
These are not "IF" or "MAYBE" statements. These are the laws the president has broken to the point his own council recognizes the fact he has conducted himself unlawfully.
HIS OWN COUNCIL RECOGNIZES TRUMP'S LAWLESSNESS.
I can just hear Guiliani, "I recognize the president is a bit of a lawbreaker, but, look Bob, he is a good guy."
Guilani is not a lawyer, he is a saleman.
Under applicable Supreme Court precedent, the Constitution does not categorically and permanently immunize a President for obstructing justice through the use of his Article II powers.
The President of the United States of America is not above the law.
The separation-of-powers doctrine authorizes Congress to protect official proceedings, including those of courts and grand juries, from corrupt, obstructive acts regard less of their source.
Got that? No, let me repeat it.
The separation-of-powers doctrine authorizes Congress to protect official proceedings, including those of courts and grand juries, from corrupt, obstructive acts regardless of their source.
No one has to put up with a lawbreaker or a person that seeks to corrupt the government of the USA. No one is above the law. The Special Counsel did not use the word corrupt lightly. THE WORD WAS CORRUPT.
We also concluded that any inroad on presidential authority that would occur from prohibiting corrupt acts does not undermine the President's ability to fulfill his constitutional mission.
Any method that would to prohibit corrupt acts does not undermine the President's abilities for a CONSTITUTIONAL MISSION. In other words, when Congress acts to obtain documents and/or testimony it does not impress power on the Executive Branch so much that it changes the mission or the power or the law that the Executive Branch enjoys.
The term "corruptly" sets a demanding standard. It requires a concrete showing that a person acted with an intent to obtain an improper advantage for himself or someone else, inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
What was that? Oh. Others have rights besides Trump. That means others, such as Guilliani and Barr, have free will to carry out lawful acts even though Trump is demanding a loyalty pledge and unlawful acts. I guess that's why James Comey was fired. He didn't sign on to a loyalty pledge to carry out unlawful acts. Firing James Comey was a big mistake by Trump. James Comey did nothing wrong regardless of the hideous idea of a Deep State.
Trump lives the mythology of a Deep State and to him anyone else that doesn't believe in his mythology where he is god is not worthy. Trump is a maniacal lawbreaker that creates FEASIBLE fantasy and expects everyone else to abide by it. He is currently involved with Barr to imagineering a Deep State to justify Trump's lawlessness. Trump has broken so many laws he can't find a way out of them so he is creating his own world whereby everyone else is the lawbreaker and he is the victim.
The Special Counsel outlines below the fact investigation or acts to end corruption does not change the presidency.
A preclusion of"corrupt" official action does not diminish the President's ability to exercise Article II powers. For example, the proper supervision of criminal law does not demand freedom for the President to act with a corrupt intention of shielding himself from criminal punishment, avoiding financial liability, or preventing personal embarrassment. To the contrary, a statute that prohibits official action undertaken for such corrupt purposes furthers, rather than hinders, the impartial and evenhanded administration of the law. It also aligns with the President's constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. Finally, we concluded that in the rare case in which a criminal investigation of the President's conduct is justified, inquiries to determine whether the President acted for a corrupt motive should not impermissibly chill his performance of his constitutionally assigned duties. The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.
There is no doubt there is a separation of powers in the USA. That separation of powers is in full display these past few days. The president is in Europe for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, while the US Congress continues to carry out it's responsibilities in asking for documents and testimony to fulfill their constitutional duty to the people of the USA.
CONCLUSION
Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct.
They didn't exactly determine they not to carry out traditional prosecutorial judgment. They were forced to set aside an indictment of the president because of a stupid opinion that should be challenged in court that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him
we would so state
we would so state
we would so state
Tell me how many times this has to be stated before people finally hear it?
we would so state
we would so state
we would so state
The Special Counsel did not exonerate Trump. Barr decided to exonerate Trump because he was loyal to the president. Barr decided to not only exonerate Trump from lawbreaking in the face of evidence otherwise he drew up a four page falsified document to obstruct a Congressional investigation. I remind, the release of the redacted Special Council report came AFTER Robert S. Mueller wrote a two page letter to Barr to provide at least the Introduction and Executive Summary of both volumes to Congress and the public. Barr has no intention of allowing Trump to be held responsible for his lawbreaking. If we are to follow the thinking of the Special Counsel, the lawbreaking is not an isolated issue as when it is allowed to exist it encourages more lawbreaking. It seems obvious to me that is true as Trump continues to obstruct justice after Barr so willingly did as well.
continued in later entry.
Section 1512(c)(2) is an omnibus obstruction-of-justice provision that covers a range of obstructive acts directed at pending or contemplated official proceedings....
Currently, Donald J. Trump is interrupting the proceedings of US Congressional proceedings. He is directing personnel present or past not to not cooperate with Congress. He is breaking the law.
...No principle of statutory construction justifies narrowing the provision to cover only conduct that impairs the integrity or availability of evidence. Sections 1503 and 1505 also offer broad protection against obstructive acts directed at pending grand jury, judicial, administrative, and congressional proceedings, and they are supplemented by a provision in Section 1512(6) aimed specifically at conduct intended to prevent or hinder the communication to law enforcement of information related to a federal crime.
Constitutional defenses.
As for constitutional defenses arising from the President's status as the head of the Executive Branch, we recognized that the Department of Justice and the courts have not definitively resolved these issues. We therefore examined those issues through the framework established by Supreme Court precedent governing separation-of-powers issues. The Department of Justice and the President's personal counsel have recognized that the President is subject to statutes that prohibit obstruction of justice by bribing a witness or suborning perjury because that conduct does not implicate his constitutional authority. With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.
These are not "IF" or "MAYBE" statements. These are the laws the president has broken to the point his own council recognizes the fact he has conducted himself unlawfully.
HIS OWN COUNCIL RECOGNIZES TRUMP'S LAWLESSNESS.
I can just hear Guiliani, "I recognize the president is a bit of a lawbreaker, but, look Bob, he is a good guy."
Guilani is not a lawyer, he is a saleman.
Under applicable Supreme Court precedent, the Constitution does not categorically and permanently immunize a President for obstructing justice through the use of his Article II powers.
The President of the United States of America is not above the law.
The separation-of-powers doctrine authorizes Congress to protect official proceedings, including those of courts and grand juries, from corrupt, obstructive acts regard less of their source.
Got that? No, let me repeat it.
The separation-of-powers doctrine authorizes Congress to protect official proceedings, including those of courts and grand juries, from corrupt, obstructive acts regardless of their source.
No one has to put up with a lawbreaker or a person that seeks to corrupt the government of the USA. No one is above the law. The Special Counsel did not use the word corrupt lightly. THE WORD WAS CORRUPT.
We also concluded that any inroad on presidential authority that would occur from prohibiting corrupt acts does not undermine the President's ability to fulfill his constitutional mission.
Any method that would to prohibit corrupt acts does not undermine the President's abilities for a CONSTITUTIONAL MISSION. In other words, when Congress acts to obtain documents and/or testimony it does not impress power on the Executive Branch so much that it changes the mission or the power or the law that the Executive Branch enjoys.
The term "corruptly" sets a demanding standard. It requires a concrete showing that a person acted with an intent to obtain an improper advantage for himself or someone else, inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
What was that? Oh. Others have rights besides Trump. That means others, such as Guilliani and Barr, have free will to carry out lawful acts even though Trump is demanding a loyalty pledge and unlawful acts. I guess that's why James Comey was fired. He didn't sign on to a loyalty pledge to carry out unlawful acts. Firing James Comey was a big mistake by Trump. James Comey did nothing wrong regardless of the hideous idea of a Deep State.
Trump lives the mythology of a Deep State and to him anyone else that doesn't believe in his mythology where he is god is not worthy. Trump is a maniacal lawbreaker that creates FEASIBLE fantasy and expects everyone else to abide by it. He is currently involved with Barr to imagineering a Deep State to justify Trump's lawlessness. Trump has broken so many laws he can't find a way out of them so he is creating his own world whereby everyone else is the lawbreaker and he is the victim.
The Special Counsel outlines below the fact investigation or acts to end corruption does not change the presidency.
A preclusion of"corrupt" official action does not diminish the President's ability to exercise Article II powers. For example, the proper supervision of criminal law does not demand freedom for the President to act with a corrupt intention of shielding himself from criminal punishment, avoiding financial liability, or preventing personal embarrassment. To the contrary, a statute that prohibits official action undertaken for such corrupt purposes furthers, rather than hinders, the impartial and evenhanded administration of the law. It also aligns with the President's constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. Finally, we concluded that in the rare case in which a criminal investigation of the President's conduct is justified, inquiries to determine whether the President acted for a corrupt motive should not impermissibly chill his performance of his constitutionally assigned duties. The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.
There is no doubt there is a separation of powers in the USA. That separation of powers is in full display these past few days. The president is in Europe for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, while the US Congress continues to carry out it's responsibilities in asking for documents and testimony to fulfill their constitutional duty to the people of the USA.
CONCLUSION
Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct.
They didn't exactly determine they not to carry out traditional prosecutorial judgment. They were forced to set aside an indictment of the president because of a stupid opinion that should be challenged in court that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him
we would so state
we would so state
we would so state
Tell me how many times this has to be stated before people finally hear it?
we would so state
we would so state
we would so state
The Special Counsel did not exonerate Trump. Barr decided to exonerate Trump because he was loyal to the president. Barr decided to not only exonerate Trump from lawbreaking in the face of evidence otherwise he drew up a four page falsified document to obstruct a Congressional investigation. I remind, the release of the redacted Special Council report came AFTER Robert S. Mueller wrote a two page letter to Barr to provide at least the Introduction and Executive Summary of both volumes to Congress and the public. Barr has no intention of allowing Trump to be held responsible for his lawbreaking. If we are to follow the thinking of the Special Counsel, the lawbreaking is not an isolated issue as when it is allowed to exist it encourages more lawbreaking. It seems obvious to me that is true as Trump continues to obstruct justice after Barr so willingly did as well.
continued in later entry.
Continued from previous
Trump's lawyers are simply carrying out strategies regardless of whether they are possible or not just to do it. This is that same stupid stuff that happens with Trump. Evidently, Sessions and McGahn were the only ones with a strong enough character to stand their ground and let the president know he will have their resignations rather than give in to his hideous demands.
Everyone else is either willing to break the law with him or sufficiently fearful of him to maintain their own legal stature. Now, we have an Attorney General that the American people can't count on to protect the country from a maniacal president.
Barr, after reading the Special Counsel report, should have insisted Congress carry out the impeachment while providing every bit of evidence possible to allow it to happen. Robert Mueller has absolutely no problem stating the president is a criminal. It is here in the report and his words upon closing the office of the Special Counsel were clear on that fact. Barr is covering up the truth and attempting to undermine The Rule of Law all over again by CONTINUING the assault on the upper echelons of the FBI and the Special Counsel that Trump started.
THE DEEP STATE IS POLITICAL RHETORIC not a reality TV show!
Statutory defenses.
Consistent with precedent and the Department of Justice's general approach to interpreting obstruction statutes, we concluded that several statutes could apply here. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1505, 1512(b)(3), 1512(c)(2). Section 1512(c)(2)
18 U.S. Code § 1512.(b)Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant (click here)
(3)
hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation [1] supervised release,,[1] parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
...ls an omnibus obstruction-of-justice provision that covers a range of obstructive acts directed at pending or contemplated official proceedings. No principle of statutory construction justifies narrowing the provision to cover only conduct that impairs the integrity or availability of evidence. Sections 1503 and 1505 also offer broad protection against obstructive acts directed at pending grand jury,
(c)
(2)
otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
18 U.S. Code § 1503.Influencing or injuring officer or juror generally (click here
(a)
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of any court of the United States, or officer who may be serving at any examination or other proceeding before any United States magistrate judge or other committing magistrate, in the discharge of his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his person or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to by him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or injures any such officer, magistrate judge, or other committing magistrate in his person or property on account of the performance of his official duties, or corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). If the offense under this section occurs in connection with a trial of a criminal case, and the act in violation of this section involves the threat of physical force or physical force, the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in such case.
18 U.S. Code § 1505.Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees (click here)
Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress—
There are laws.
continued in next entry
Everyone else is either willing to break the law with him or sufficiently fearful of him to maintain their own legal stature. Now, we have an Attorney General that the American people can't count on to protect the country from a maniacal president.
Barr, after reading the Special Counsel report, should have insisted Congress carry out the impeachment while providing every bit of evidence possible to allow it to happen. Robert Mueller has absolutely no problem stating the president is a criminal. It is here in the report and his words upon closing the office of the Special Counsel were clear on that fact. Barr is covering up the truth and attempting to undermine The Rule of Law all over again by CONTINUING the assault on the upper echelons of the FBI and the Special Counsel that Trump started.
THE DEEP STATE IS POLITICAL RHETORIC not a reality TV show!
Statutory defenses.
Consistent with precedent and the Department of Justice's general approach to interpreting obstruction statutes, we concluded that several statutes could apply here. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1505, 1512(b)(3), 1512(c)(2). Section 1512(c)(2)
18 U.S. Code § 1512.(b)Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant (click here)
(3)
hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation [1] supervised release,,[1] parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
...ls an omnibus obstruction-of-justice provision that covers a range of obstructive acts directed at pending or contemplated official proceedings. No principle of statutory construction justifies narrowing the provision to cover only conduct that impairs the integrity or availability of evidence. Sections 1503 and 1505 also offer broad protection against obstructive acts directed at pending grand jury,
(c)
(2)
otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
18 U.S. Code § 1503.Influencing or injuring officer or juror generally (click here
(a)
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of any court of the United States, or officer who may be serving at any examination or other proceeding before any United States magistrate judge or other committing magistrate, in the discharge of his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his person or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to by him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or injures any such officer, magistrate judge, or other committing magistrate in his person or property on account of the performance of his official duties, or corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). If the offense under this section occurs in connection with a trial of a criminal case, and the act in violation of this section involves the threat of physical force or physical force, the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in such case.
18 U.S. Code § 1505.Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees (click here)
Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress—
There are laws.
continued in next entry
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