My internet connection was interrupted during the final segment of questioning. I will most likely spend time at the library tomorrow for uninterrupted listening to the final time segment.
That said, I have seen segments on the evening news and Rep. Wasserman - Schultz asked how she can coroborate Mr. Cohen’s testimony so I have some suggestions.
I would make a complete list of the information I was looking for such as, “Please send me all the known dates and times of postings of Guccifer 2.0 in relation to the election of 2016,” and “Send any supporting evidence to the fact Guccifer 2.0 was involved in the hacking of the DNC headquarters and that of the Clinton Campaign, as well as the dates and times connected to communications with Wikileaks.” Then Representative, I would address that list to relevant agencies directly such as the FBI, CIA and European intelligence agencies and perhaps Interpol. Caution with Interpol as about six months or so ago or more a Russian operative was attempting to take over leadership of the agency.
I would not send requests through the Homeland Security Secretary as that is a conflict of interest and possible obstruction of justice. So, enlist people and agencies that can be honest and trustworthy. The requests must be specific to focus the desired information for efficiency and expediency of the request. A simple statement such as, “Please send any coroborating evidence to the Michael Cohen testimony before Congress,” is very broad in it’s scope and requires interpretation and expertise that will submit the request to a lengthy process and quite possibly make it untenable to answer.
I think the US House has enough talented people that can narrow down what is needed and pin point the important information. Allow the LIST to be satisfied as the information is accumulated without any particular order, date or time it is delivered to your desk. A partial fulfillment of the list will begin to build clarity and quite possibly as more information rolls in will complete the picture far sooner than waiting for a completed task.
That is probably clear as mud, but, just dive in and ask a staffer to follow up regularly and bring it to your attention regularly. Good luck.
Do I mistrust the Secretary of Homeland Security? Are there children in detention camps without a clear path for their future? The answer to both is, yes.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
I like Michael Cohen. I believe he is doing his level best to apologize to Congress and the American people. His statements where he enters into the assessment of a brief encounter between Trump and Trump, Jr. is interesting, but, has to be corroborated.
I don't think Michael Cohen is a bad man, but, he allowed himself to be dragged into a corrupt real estate company for the monies it brought. I also wonder if Michael Cohen felt intimidated in any way to continue his employment with Trump.
There is a difference between the ideas of corruption and entitlement by Trump and the actions of Michael Cohen. Cohen took the heat for Trump and he made a lot of money doing so, but, those monies would not be available to him if Trump didn't first exact his actions.
Michael Cohen needs no one's help in defending himself.
Why isn't the FBI handling this? Are there American entities involved with this? Every financial institution in the USA needs to investigate any potential of harboring these monies and report it to the FBI. There are significant laws regarding the reporting of large movements of money to detect terrorists. No USA institution should be in violation of those laws.
16 February 2012
By Rupert Neate
A high court judge (click here) has issued an arrest warrant for a Kazakh billionaire accused of committing one of the world's biggest ever frauds.
Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is alleged to have embezzled $5bn (£3.2bn), was found guilty of lying to the court about the scale of his vast fortune, including a £17m mansion on The Bishops Avenue, known as London's "billionaires' row". Mr Justice Teare sentenced Ablyazov to 22 months in jail for "serious" and "brazen" contempt of court in trying to hide more than £34m of assets from creditors, who claim he siphoned off billions of pounds from the Kazakh bank he used to run, BTA.
Ablyazov fled to Britain in 2009 after the bank he chaired defaulted on £8bn of debt owed to majority-state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Barclays and others. The judge said Ablyazov has been accused of "fraud on an epic scale" and of using the bank "as if it were his own private source of funds"....
Mr. Hice us chasing rainbows. Signatures are signatures. Checks are checks. Mr. Cohen has already stated much of what the US House is looking for can be found with the Southern District of New York US Attorney's office.
The Republicans strongly appear to be under the influence of Trump no different than Mr. Cohen was at one time.
Lanny Davis is a wealthy man who can easily provide Pro Bono services to Michael Cohen. It is generous of him and he intends to have Michael Cohen to be honest and bring about the truth to the American people. I am concerned that if Michael Cohen had another attorney the truth would still be buried.
Lanny Davis is known to have a friendship with the Clintons as former members of the federal authority of the USA. I think I feel better about Lanny Davis' friendships than I do about Trump's in Asia.
There are many people that feel responsible for the failed election of Hillary Clinton. The longer this continues the more Americans are realizing the Clinton loss in 2016 was an assault against the country. If Lanny Davis is dedicated to revealing the truth, then I am not surprised. He is as an American as anyone else and he has a right to seek to protect this democracy.
Mark Meadows is barking up the wrong tree because Michael Cohen has already discussed this with his council. This is the third day of testimony and there have been legal dynamics continuing throughout.
Higgins is a piece of work. The prosecuting authorities don't necessarily need Cohen's boxes when it comes to bank information and otherwise. Michael Cohen already stated what evidence he had can be found at the SDNY. There are no secrets stated today that isn't already known. Oops, there it is. Higgins is defending the president.
July 6, 2019
New Orleans -- A Louisiana congressman (click here) is apologizing for the "unintended pain" caused by a video of his visit to a gas chamber at a Nazi concentration camp.
Rep. Clay Higgins said in an email Wednesday that he was retracting the video, recorded at the Auschwitz camp in Poland that is now part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum....
The guy opposes bipartisanship.
September 14, 2018
By Drew Broach
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Port Barre, (click here) has been a solid supporter of GOP President Donald Trump, and has raised and spent more money in his re-election campaign than anyone else in the race. But he's also facing more opponents than any Louisiana incumbent, and is the only one challenged by a member of his own party....
September 29, 2016
By Walter Pierce
[Editor's Note: (click here) The IND reached out to former Opelousas Police Chief Perry Gallow, who says Higgins' comments on both of the incidents below are misleading. "I am disappointed," Gallow says. "I really thought that Clay had turned the page. He preaches a lot about redemption, but his claims are, for the most part, inaccurate." More to come from that interview later this week.]
On May 31, 2007, Perry Gallow, then the police chief in Opelousas, wrote a letter to the mayor and city council informing them that on “May 18, 2007, Police Officer Clay Higgins rendered all equipment/property in his possession to Assistant Chief Smith/Opelousas Police Department, thereby resigning his position as Police Officer. A recommendation of disciplinary action, suspension without pay, regarding Mr. Higgins was approved at the Special Council Meeting of May 15, 2007. Due to his abrupt resignation, disciplinary action cannot be imposed.”
In addition to the letter to the mayor and council informing them of Officer Higgins’ resignation, Gallow attached a series of police department documents from his office including minutes of the Opelousas Police Department’s Discipline Review Board concerning the March 14, 2007, incident. Included among several accounts of police misconduct lodged against several officers within those minutes — their names are redacted — was the accusation against Patrol Officer First Class Clay Higgins: “Pfc. Clay Higgins used unnecessary force on a subject during the execution of a warrant and later gave false statements during an internal investigation. Although he later recanted his story and admitted to striking a suspect in handcuffs and later releasing him ...
That is precious. Michael Cohen needed to record Donald Trump to defend himself to David Pecker. Why do I get the feeling Trump told Pecker that he had given the monies to Cohen and Cohen needs to be forthcoming. Amazing. Trump is a thief. He entered into financial arrangements to pay off his protections against disclosure of an affair with a Playboy model and then welched on it.
Okay, Michael Cohen has a right to accept a book and movie deal within the defines of the law. He does not have to provide donations to any charity and there is every indication that once Michael Cohen leaves prison he will be his own charity. He has a Pro Bono lawyer, what else needs to be known?
There is nothing new about that.
December 12, 2018
By Ryan Lucas
A federal judge (click here) sentenced Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison on Wednesday following Cohen's guilty pleas to a number of political and finance crimes.
Those three years would be followed by three years of supervised release, and Cohen also is subject to forfeiture of $500,000, restitution of $1.4 million and fines totaling $100,000....
The government is receiving plenty of money from Mr. Cohen to defray the cost of the prosection. He is going to need money and plenty of it.
Additionally, Michael Cohen lost his legal license.
I forgot, the Republicans use these hearings as fodder for political commercials. Rep. Greg Steuben reminded me of that fact.
Rep. Chip Roy is from the 12th District of Texas. That is a district of San Antonio and north. Mr. Roy needs to speak to his peers that represent the Texas border because the people along the Texas border do not want a wall. He is complaining about wasting time on the testimony of Michael Cohen. I don't find it a waste of time to collect unlawful activity of a freely elected president. I might add, I am not completely sure Trump was freely elected by an electorate free of influence by an enemy of the USA.
Americans should be concerned about the priorities of Chip Roy. The reality that he disdains NATO only brings more concern about his criticism of Michael Cohen.
January 28, 2019
By Bill Lambrecht
...When the House voted 357-22 last week (click here) to prevent President Donald Trump from withdrawing from NATO, as the president has threatened to do, Roy was in the distinct minority supporting Trump.
In an even more lopsided tally, Roy was one of just seven House members, all Republicans, voting against legislation to ensure that some 800,000 federal workers affected by the government shutdown get back pay. After Senate passage and a 411-7 House vote, Trump signed the measure into law....
It is completely obvious to me there are relationships between communist leaders and Mr. Trump. THAT reality together with the information currently accumulated by SDNY and the Special Council which taints the 2016 election to favor Trump is most worrisome. Yet. The Republicans don't find it at all concerning.
It would seem the Democrats are the only ones willing to worry about the USA Constitution and the sovereign nature of the USA and it's elections.
continued...
I don't think Michael Cohen is a bad man, but, he allowed himself to be dragged into a corrupt real estate company for the monies it brought. I also wonder if Michael Cohen felt intimidated in any way to continue his employment with Trump.
There is a difference between the ideas of corruption and entitlement by Trump and the actions of Michael Cohen. Cohen took the heat for Trump and he made a lot of money doing so, but, those monies would not be available to him if Trump didn't first exact his actions.
Michael Cohen needs no one's help in defending himself.
Why isn't the FBI handling this? Are there American entities involved with this? Every financial institution in the USA needs to investigate any potential of harboring these monies and report it to the FBI. There are significant laws regarding the reporting of large movements of money to detect terrorists. No USA institution should be in violation of those laws.
16 February 2012
By Rupert Neate
A high court judge (click here) has issued an arrest warrant for a Kazakh billionaire accused of committing one of the world's biggest ever frauds.
Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is alleged to have embezzled $5bn (£3.2bn), was found guilty of lying to the court about the scale of his vast fortune, including a £17m mansion on The Bishops Avenue, known as London's "billionaires' row". Mr Justice Teare sentenced Ablyazov to 22 months in jail for "serious" and "brazen" contempt of court in trying to hide more than £34m of assets from creditors, who claim he siphoned off billions of pounds from the Kazakh bank he used to run, BTA.
Ablyazov fled to Britain in 2009 after the bank he chaired defaulted on £8bn of debt owed to majority-state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Barclays and others. The judge said Ablyazov has been accused of "fraud on an epic scale" and of using the bank "as if it were his own private source of funds"....
Mr. Hice us chasing rainbows. Signatures are signatures. Checks are checks. Mr. Cohen has already stated much of what the US House is looking for can be found with the Southern District of New York US Attorney's office.
The Republicans strongly appear to be under the influence of Trump no different than Mr. Cohen was at one time.
Lanny Davis is a wealthy man who can easily provide Pro Bono services to Michael Cohen. It is generous of him and he intends to have Michael Cohen to be honest and bring about the truth to the American people. I am concerned that if Michael Cohen had another attorney the truth would still be buried.
Lanny Davis is known to have a friendship with the Clintons as former members of the federal authority of the USA. I think I feel better about Lanny Davis' friendships than I do about Trump's in Asia.
There are many people that feel responsible for the failed election of Hillary Clinton. The longer this continues the more Americans are realizing the Clinton loss in 2016 was an assault against the country. If Lanny Davis is dedicated to revealing the truth, then I am not surprised. He is as an American as anyone else and he has a right to seek to protect this democracy.
Mark Meadows is barking up the wrong tree because Michael Cohen has already discussed this with his council. This is the third day of testimony and there have been legal dynamics continuing throughout.
Higgins is a piece of work. The prosecuting authorities don't necessarily need Cohen's boxes when it comes to bank information and otherwise. Michael Cohen already stated what evidence he had can be found at the SDNY. There are no secrets stated today that isn't already known. Oops, there it is. Higgins is defending the president.
July 6, 2019
New Orleans -- A Louisiana congressman (click here) is apologizing for the "unintended pain" caused by a video of his visit to a gas chamber at a Nazi concentration camp.
Rep. Clay Higgins said in an email Wednesday that he was retracting the video, recorded at the Auschwitz camp in Poland that is now part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum....
The guy opposes bipartisanship.
September 14, 2018
By Drew Broach
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Port Barre, (click here) has been a solid supporter of GOP President Donald Trump, and has raised and spent more money in his re-election campaign than anyone else in the race. But he's also facing more opponents than any Louisiana incumbent, and is the only one challenged by a member of his own party....
September 29, 2016
By Walter Pierce
[Editor's Note: (click here) The IND reached out to former Opelousas Police Chief Perry Gallow, who says Higgins' comments on both of the incidents below are misleading. "I am disappointed," Gallow says. "I really thought that Clay had turned the page. He preaches a lot about redemption, but his claims are, for the most part, inaccurate." More to come from that interview later this week.]
On May 31, 2007, Perry Gallow, then the police chief in Opelousas, wrote a letter to the mayor and city council informing them that on “May 18, 2007, Police Officer Clay Higgins rendered all equipment/property in his possession to Assistant Chief Smith/Opelousas Police Department, thereby resigning his position as Police Officer. A recommendation of disciplinary action, suspension without pay, regarding Mr. Higgins was approved at the Special Council Meeting of May 15, 2007. Due to his abrupt resignation, disciplinary action cannot be imposed.”
In addition to the letter to the mayor and council informing them of Officer Higgins’ resignation, Gallow attached a series of police department documents from his office including minutes of the Opelousas Police Department’s Discipline Review Board concerning the March 14, 2007, incident. Included among several accounts of police misconduct lodged against several officers within those minutes — their names are redacted — was the accusation against Patrol Officer First Class Clay Higgins: “Pfc. Clay Higgins used unnecessary force on a subject during the execution of a warrant and later gave false statements during an internal investigation. Although he later recanted his story and admitted to striking a suspect in handcuffs and later releasing him ...
That is precious. Michael Cohen needed to record Donald Trump to defend himself to David Pecker. Why do I get the feeling Trump told Pecker that he had given the monies to Cohen and Cohen needs to be forthcoming. Amazing. Trump is a thief. He entered into financial arrangements to pay off his protections against disclosure of an affair with a Playboy model and then welched on it.
There is nothing new about that.
December 12, 2018
By Ryan Lucas
A federal judge (click here) sentenced Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison on Wednesday following Cohen's guilty pleas to a number of political and finance crimes.
Those three years would be followed by three years of supervised release, and Cohen also is subject to forfeiture of $500,000, restitution of $1.4 million and fines totaling $100,000....
The government is receiving plenty of money from Mr. Cohen to defray the cost of the prosection. He is going to need money and plenty of it.
Additionally, Michael Cohen lost his legal license.
I forgot, the Republicans use these hearings as fodder for political commercials. Rep. Greg Steuben reminded me of that fact.
Rep. Chip Roy is from the 12th District of Texas. That is a district of San Antonio and north. Mr. Roy needs to speak to his peers that represent the Texas border because the people along the Texas border do not want a wall. He is complaining about wasting time on the testimony of Michael Cohen. I don't find it a waste of time to collect unlawful activity of a freely elected president. I might add, I am not completely sure Trump was freely elected by an electorate free of influence by an enemy of the USA.
Americans should be concerned about the priorities of Chip Roy. The reality that he disdains NATO only brings more concern about his criticism of Michael Cohen.
January 28, 2019
By Bill Lambrecht
...When the House voted 357-22 last week (click here) to prevent President Donald Trump from withdrawing from NATO, as the president has threatened to do, Roy was in the distinct minority supporting Trump.
In an even more lopsided tally, Roy was one of just seven House members, all Republicans, voting against legislation to ensure that some 800,000 federal workers affected by the government shutdown get back pay. After Senate passage and a 411-7 House vote, Trump signed the measure into law....
It is completely obvious to me there are relationships between communist leaders and Mr. Trump. THAT reality together with the information currently accumulated by SDNY and the Special Council which taints the 2016 election to favor Trump is most worrisome. Yet. The Republicans don't find it at all concerning.
It would seem the Democrats are the only ones willing to worry about the USA Constitution and the sovereign nature of the USA and it's elections.
continued...
The truth is bullet proof in the light of day.
Michael Cohen is due to CONTINUE a multi-day testimony to the Congress today. The opportunity to lie is not available to Mr. Cohen. There is no way a week of intense testimony will hold up to lies. There are too many people asking the questions and the opportunity to trip up and have conflicting answers is not likely. I think Michael Cohen feels good about what he is doing and he needs to continue down that path.
The Special Council has decades of time and experience in dealing with liars. Michael Cohen has a future. He will satisfy his debt to the country in jail, but, when he is released the future will include his ability to market his education in a way that will bring interest to him. There are many, many reasons for him to purge his past and reach for a better future. I hope the truth will heal his life and he will succeed in a meaningful way in the future. I wish him well.
"This is a time where Mr. Cohen (click here) had to put his family and their safety first," Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, said.
The biggest mistake Guiliani and Trump made was to threaten Michael Cohen and his family. We see this sometimes, don't we? There are many criminals in today's society that like to hang out in groups and bring about fear in communities to ensure they remain silent. The inner cities are fighting back these dynamics all the time. Witnesses become emotionally paralyzed in the face of the reality of threats over that of the truth and justice. Well, here we go again. Falling back into old patterns is not the future and the American people are fighting for the truth and justice not maintaining the lies of the past.
February 26, 2019
By David French
...1. Corroboration is key. (click here) This is the most obvious point. As Cohen testifies, his credibility increases when he can support his story with documents, with recordings, or even with other witnesses. If anyone else is willing to testify under oath in the same way to the same events, then Cohen’s words take on new importance. His narrative is only as compelling as his corroboration.
2. Don’t believe your own discernment. The absolute worst thing anyone can do when confronting a witness is to believe they have some sort of special insight into who is truly “sincere” or “credible.” A man who has lied for a long time tends to be very good at lying, and the obvious giveaways or “tells” are more often the stuff of movies than real life. I’ve sat in depositions and watched a witness give a performance fit for awards season — only to see them reverse course quickly (and, again, convincingly) after being confronted with clearly contradictory documentary evidence....
The Special Council has decades of time and experience in dealing with liars. Michael Cohen has a future. He will satisfy his debt to the country in jail, but, when he is released the future will include his ability to market his education in a way that will bring interest to him. There are many, many reasons for him to purge his past and reach for a better future. I hope the truth will heal his life and he will succeed in a meaningful way in the future. I wish him well.
"This is a time where Mr. Cohen (click here) had to put his family and their safety first," Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, said.
The biggest mistake Guiliani and Trump made was to threaten Michael Cohen and his family. We see this sometimes, don't we? There are many criminals in today's society that like to hang out in groups and bring about fear in communities to ensure they remain silent. The inner cities are fighting back these dynamics all the time. Witnesses become emotionally paralyzed in the face of the reality of threats over that of the truth and justice. Well, here we go again. Falling back into old patterns is not the future and the American people are fighting for the truth and justice not maintaining the lies of the past.
February 26, 2019
By David French
...1. Corroboration is key. (click here) This is the most obvious point. As Cohen testifies, his credibility increases when he can support his story with documents, with recordings, or even with other witnesses. If anyone else is willing to testify under oath in the same way to the same events, then Cohen’s words take on new importance. His narrative is only as compelling as his corroboration.
2. Don’t believe your own discernment. The absolute worst thing anyone can do when confronting a witness is to believe they have some sort of special insight into who is truly “sincere” or “credible.” A man who has lied for a long time tends to be very good at lying, and the obvious giveaways or “tells” are more often the stuff of movies than real life. I’ve sat in depositions and watched a witness give a performance fit for awards season — only to see them reverse course quickly (and, again, convincingly) after being confronted with clearly contradictory documentary evidence....
There are listening posts in the ocean. That is a fact.
The location seems reasonable.
February 26, 2019
...In research published Jan. 29 (click here) in the open-access journal Scientific Reports, applied mathematician Usama Kadri said underwater microphones in the Indian Ocean had recorded four distinctive sound events, caused by very low-frequency acoustic-gravity waves, around the time that Flight 370 could have crashed into the sea.
...In research published Jan. 29 (click here) in the open-access journal Scientific Reports, applied mathematician Usama Kadri said underwater microphones in the Indian Ocean had recorded four distinctive sound events, caused by very low-frequency acoustic-gravity waves, around the time that Flight 370 could have crashed into the sea.
His research showed that one of those sound events happened relatively close to the search area — but two others are thousands of miles away, in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, somewhere between Madagascar and the atoll of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago, Kadri told Live Science.
Investigators suspect that the lost airliner crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean, although its flight path after it disappeared from civilian and military radars, west of the Malay Peninsula, is not known....
Weren't there some reports of a low flying plane reported in that area? Some of the microphones belong to military operations and could still be classified. Military personnel could sort through any of recordings to determine and validate this scientific report. The military recordings might be a part of this discovery. So, the bottom line is this is a very viable answer to help locate the downed jet.
Det 1, 13th Air Force, (click here) is responsible for operating and maintaining a Southwest Asia contingency base on Diego Garcia in support of CINCCENTCOM OPLANs. Provides facilities, munitions, vehicles, Aerospace Ground Equipment, supplies and aviation fuel to sustain deployed bomber and tanker sortie operations.
The 36th Civil Engineer Squadron sent a 24-person Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force detachment to Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territories, in June 2000. The team left Andersen seven weeks ago to complete some construction work as part of the Air Force¡¯s Bomber Forward Operating Location initiative. Members from Pacific Air Forces Headquarters and 36th CES identified five requirements for the team, including: constructing a land mobile radio repeater facility, constructing supply and maintenance secure storage rooms, repairing tent city electrical system, constructing a generator pad and testing grounding points on the south ramp.
Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) formed in 1965 from territory belonging formerly to Mauritius and the Seychelles. The island is one of 52 in the Chagos Archipelago, which extends over an area of 10,000 square miles. The archipelago is located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, south of India and between Africa and Indonesia. The tropical island is a narrow coral atoll with a land area of about eleven square miles, nearly enclosing a lagoon. Its configuration is that of a "V" drawn by a shaky hand. The island stretches 37 miles from tip to tip, with an opening to the north-northwest. Three small islands dot the mouth of the lagoon which is approximately 13 miles long and up to 6 miles wide. The lagoon is from sixty to one hundred feet deep with numerous coral heads in most areas. Shallow reefs surround the island on the ocean side, as well as in the lagoon. The island's mean height above sea level is 4 feet.
Diego Garcia is the largest of many atolls that form the Chagos Archipelago. The horseshoe- shaped atoll is located seven degrees south of the equator in the North Central Region of the Indian Ocean. It is heavily vegetated, has a land area of 6,720 acres and is 37 miles long, tip-to-tip. The maximum elevation is 22 feet, with an average elevation of four feet above sea level. The enclosed lagoon is approximately seven miles wide and thirteen miles long. The three small islands at the mouth of the lagoon and the shape of the atoll give the impression of a footprint, hence the term....
Weren't there some reports of a low flying plane reported in that area? Some of the microphones belong to military operations and could still be classified. Military personnel could sort through any of recordings to determine and validate this scientific report. The military recordings might be a part of this discovery. So, the bottom line is this is a very viable answer to help locate the downed jet.
The 36th Civil Engineer Squadron sent a 24-person Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force detachment to Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territories, in June 2000. The team left Andersen seven weeks ago to complete some construction work as part of the Air Force¡¯s Bomber Forward Operating Location initiative. Members from Pacific Air Forces Headquarters and 36th CES identified five requirements for the team, including: constructing a land mobile radio repeater facility, constructing supply and maintenance secure storage rooms, repairing tent city electrical system, constructing a generator pad and testing grounding points on the south ramp.
Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) formed in 1965 from territory belonging formerly to Mauritius and the Seychelles. The island is one of 52 in the Chagos Archipelago, which extends over an area of 10,000 square miles. The archipelago is located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, south of India and between Africa and Indonesia. The tropical island is a narrow coral atoll with a land area of about eleven square miles, nearly enclosing a lagoon. Its configuration is that of a "V" drawn by a shaky hand. The island stretches 37 miles from tip to tip, with an opening to the north-northwest. Three small islands dot the mouth of the lagoon which is approximately 13 miles long and up to 6 miles wide. The lagoon is from sixty to one hundred feet deep with numerous coral heads in most areas. Shallow reefs surround the island on the ocean side, as well as in the lagoon. The island's mean height above sea level is 4 feet.
Diego Garcia is the largest of many atolls that form the Chagos Archipelago. The horseshoe- shaped atoll is located seven degrees south of the equator in the North Central Region of the Indian Ocean. It is heavily vegetated, has a land area of 6,720 acres and is 37 miles long, tip-to-tip. The maximum elevation is 22 feet, with an average elevation of four feet above sea level. The enclosed lagoon is approximately seven miles wide and thirteen miles long. The three small islands at the mouth of the lagoon and the shape of the atoll give the impression of a footprint, hence the term....
The demonization of freedom in Europe.
The rise of White Nationalists in Europe is palpable. The communists are feeding on the opportunity of weakening these democracies to allow exploitation of political turmoil.
September 30, 2018
By Simon Schutz
...In last September's elections, (click here) the AfD became the first far-right party to win seats in the Bundestag in more than half a century, becoming the official opposition to Merkel's ruling "grand coalition" of conservatives and social democrats. Although — or precisely because — the AfD is treated as a pariah in the legislature, its support is growing among German voters.
The AfD was listed as the country's second most popular party in a recent poll, with 18 percent support, beating the mainstream Social Democratic Party into third place, albeit by just a single point....
February 26, 2019
Groups and clubs in Germany (click here) are putting the final touches on their elaborate floats with outrageous caricatures depicting political themes for this year's Carnival celebrations.
In a workshop in Mainz on Tuesday, an artist worked studiously on a float featuring a bull with "USA" emblazoned on the side, with a horned head depicting President Donald Trump's face, a cowbell carrying the Twitter logo, and a rear end expelling flatulence on the globe.
The popular street parades in traditional Carnival strongholds such as Cologne, Duesseldorf and Mainz in western Germany draw millions of dressed-up revelers and schoolchildren every year, and always feature colorful floats that push boundaries with their political parodies that poke fun at the powerful.
Other offerings that will be part of Mainz's parade next Monday included Chancellor Angela Merkel atop a horse labeled "coalition" collapsed with exhaustion — a nod to fatigue in her longtime government — and Queen Elizabeth II jumping over a border crossing with a German asylum application in hand and faithful corgi at her side to escape her nation's Brexit squabbles....
A populist movement based in holding on to ideologies is a work in Europe.
By Ferdinando Giugliano
When Angela Merkel (click here) announced her planned retirement on Monday, few tears were shed in southern Europe. From Greece to Italy, the German chancellor has embodied the cold-heartedness of the rest of Europe to the plight of those in crisis....
...To Merkel’s critics, her faults are obvious: She acted too late during the Greek sovereign debt crisis, pretending Athens’ debt was sustainable when it wasn’t. While she supported three rescue packages, these imposed excessive austerity on Greece, triggering a never-ending spiral of recession and further indebtedness....
...Still, one should not forget the enormous progress the euro zone has made over the past decade. The rescues in Greece — but also Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Cyprus — marked a gradual breaking from the principle that countries in Europe shouldn’t bail each other out. Not only is this a clause in the European Treaties, it is also one of the dearest principles to parts of the German establishment. Merkel didn’t care: she backed the creation of the European Stability Mechanism, a permanent rescue fund which can deploy its multibillion-euro firepower in exchange for an adjustment program of fiscal restraint and structural reforms....
These summits are not about national security. They are about Trump Company.
The communists are playing Trump for a fool. With every meeting with the communists regardless of the leader, Trump is pushing ideas about the Trump Company and family businesses. These meetings have a side bar in promoting non-proliferation. Trump is pushing his own personal agenda over and above the national security of the USA.
The White House press corps has been removed from the media center because Trump does not want questions about the Michael Cohen testimony today. Other governments in Asia do not have a problem with control of freedom of speech. The White House press corps should simply come home and the news coming to the USA will be through South Korea.
When placing an overview of promoting Trump Company with meetings it all becomes very clear. Trump has no solid knowledge of diplomatic anything. He is a salesman and he is selling his resorts to communist leaders because it is virgin territory and unrealized profits. It is my assessment Trump is also pushing for loans to Trump Company AND/OR communist government grants that will build his hotel so they are free of cost and pure profits.
The way Trump is justifying this is the idea that once there is a very viable tourist economy the ideology of nuclear weapon proliferation will fall away. Does anyone but Trump believe that? These communist countries seeking to control Trump through promises of undiscovered wealth have no plans of denuclearization. They see their success in controlling Trump because of the nukes, why would they give them up?
February 26, 2019
The White House press corps has been removed from the media center because Trump does not want questions about the Michael Cohen testimony today. Other governments in Asia do not have a problem with control of freedom of speech. The White House press corps should simply come home and the news coming to the USA will be through South Korea.
When placing an overview of promoting Trump Company with meetings it all becomes very clear. Trump has no solid knowledge of diplomatic anything. He is a salesman and he is selling his resorts to communist leaders because it is virgin territory and unrealized profits. It is my assessment Trump is also pushing for loans to Trump Company AND/OR communist government grants that will build his hotel so they are free of cost and pure profits.
The way Trump is justifying this is the idea that once there is a very viable tourist economy the ideology of nuclear weapon proliferation will fall away. Does anyone but Trump believe that? These communist countries seeking to control Trump through promises of undiscovered wealth have no plans of denuclearization. They see their success in controlling Trump because of the nukes, why would they give them up?
February 26, 2019
By Chris Mills Rodrigo
The White House press corps (click here) has been had their workspace relocated from the media center at the hotel where North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is staying in Vietnam.
The move happened as the North Korean leader arrived, sending many American reporters scrambling for a new setup.
"The American Media Center will be relocated from Melia hotel to International Media Center," the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry tweeted Tuesday....
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)