March 28, 2019
By Eli Chen
A Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District worker dives into a manhole in north St. Louis to install a plug to help keep flooding from the Mississippi River from overpowering the sewers and causing backups into homes.
As the Mississippi River (click here) continues to rise, utilities and government agencies in the St. Louis region are taking steps to protect sewers, levees and other facilities that could be affected by moderate flooding.
Above-average snowmelt and rainfall from northern parts of the Midwest have caused river levels to rise in the St. Louis region. The National Weather Service reported Thursday that the river at St. Louis is at 34.8 feet. Meteorologists expect the river to crest at 36.3 feet by late Wednesday.
In anticipation of moderate flooding, which occurs at 35 feet, the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District plugged two manholes in St. Louis, in north and south St. Louis....
...The Army Corps of Engineers in St. Louis also activated its emergency-response center on March 15, after the town of Clarksville requested sandbags and other supplies to fend off potential flooding. Engineers from the corps’ St. Louis District have also been communicating with the Riverport Levee District in Maryland Heights regarding flooding from the Missouri River.
The corps expects to keep its emergency-response center activated through April, said John Osterhage, chief of emergency operations of its St. Louis District....
Mississippi River at St. Louis (click here)
Mike Conaway (click here) is a prime example of the desperate petroleum industry. Among his biggest contributors is Concho. This is one of their oil fields.
The Republicans will dance with the devil forever. The attacks on Chairman Shiff is only the beginning to their ruthless plans.
Historically a major contributor (click here) to overall production growth for Concho, the New Mexico Shelf is a world-class asset with high rate-of-return drilling opportunities. It was this asset that enabled us to go public in 2007, and has supported our growth into other parts of the Permian Basin.
Since 2006, we have drilled more than 1,300 vertical wells on the New Mexico Shelf targeting the Yeso formation. In 2016, we drilled approximately 40 horizontal wells. By applying horizontal drilling and advanced completion techniques, we are expanding the boundaries of this legacy asset and increasing our resource potential. These low-cost, shallow opportunities generate strong economics and free cash flow that we in-turn redeploy to our other core areas.
The Koch Money wasn't enough?
March 19, 2019
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (click here) has been appointed to Fox Corp.'s board of directors.
Fox Corp. begins trading publicly following the completion of Walt Disney's purchase of 21st Century Fox.
Ryan retired from Congress this year.
Trump states the deep state spied on him.
Really?
I don't recall seeing Trump emails on Wikileaks. Maybe the truth is the Russian Deep State is spying on democracy. Now that is hate.
Trump is feeding these people lies. He is saying he is funding enormous amounts of money to begin a Great Lakes Initiative for the first time in 30 years.
The truth:
March 11, 2019
By Todd Spangler
President Donald Trump (click here) is apparently hoping the third time is the charm when it comes to cutting funds for the Great Lakes.
The Trump administration on Monday revealed some details of its $4.7 trillion spending proposal for the next fiscal year and it included cutting $270 million from the $300 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
It is the third year in a row that Trump has proposed either eliminating or cutting most of the program, which is used on projects to restore wetlands and improve water quality in and around the Great Lakes.
Because the Great Lakes initiative is popular with legislators of both parties across the Upper Midwest, efforts to slash the funds have fallen flat in Congress and are expected to do so again.
These are not little lies. These are gigantic lies. And cheer no matter how much he lies.
The elections in Ukraine today are a far cry from the elections overseen by Paul Manafort. There is a populous figure who is an actor by profession. Look, the USA had Reagan. At any rate, there is a "March Surprise" that the actor turned presidential hopeful has a million gazillion dollar estate in a province in Italy where many Russian oligarchs like to call home.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is at the top of the polls and is hoping that translates into success on election day. The one real reason Volodymyr Zelenskyy's ambitions have taken shape is because of the corruption that still exists in Ukraine. The World Bank has also stated the corruption needs to be addressed. Evidently, with a civil war raging in Donetsk Province (Oblast) (Where Viktor Yanukovych was governor before Ukrainian president) bringing corruption under control is difficult.
March 28, 2019
...In a post on Instagram, (click here) Zelenskyy's campaign called the report "fake" and an attempt to "discredit" the candidate days before the election.
The Tuscan seaside town has been dubbed by pro-Russia media as Italy’s “Moscow Province” for being a preferred destination of such Russian oligarchs as Oleg Deripaska and Roman Abramovich, according to the Slidstvo journalists.
Zelinskyy's public asset declaration says he is the owner of four apartments in Kyiv and a country home outside the capital city, as well as apartments in Yalta, Crimea, and the United Kingdom. But his declaration does not mention the villa in Italy, which, according to the journalists, he owns with his wife, Elena....
Now, the USA government won't stand up to Trump's Russia, either. This is pure and unadulterated corruption.
March 28, 2019
By Manu Raju and Jennifer Hansler
..."If the department (click here) rescinded the award because of statements made by a journalist, exercising her right to freedom of speech, it would mean that the Department is using political fealty to the President as an eligibility criteria for receiving a government award designed to highlight courage," said Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the panel. "Furthermore, misleading the public and Congress about the true reasons behind its actions would harm the Department's reputation here in the United States and around the world, and undermine its credibility regarding future pronouncements from the press podium."...
The Russians are going to prison for their hate campaign that could have endangered Ms. Aro's life.
18 October 2019
When Jessikka Aro started investigating pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts, she was targeted by trolls both online and in real life
A Finnish court (click here) has sentenced the founder of a pro-Russian website to 22 months in prison on charges of defamation and negligence.
The court said MV-Lehti published offensive content about Jessikka Aro, an investigative journalist.
Ilja Janitskin and two other journalists were ordered to pay 136,000 euros (£119,300) in compensation.
Aro had been the subject of a hate campaign following her reporting on online Russian propaganda.
MV-Lehti is a well-known right-wing, anti-immigrant, Eurosceptic, pro-Russian publication.
The Barr Report has no legal standing. It is a letter. There is no EVIDENCE to back up anything in his letter.
It is a cover-up.
If that letter went before a judge, the judge more than likely would say, "So, what?"
There is nothing to the letter. A judge could not make a decision about anything based on that letter. Why would anyone else?
It is a summary of what Barr believed he read. Let him testify under oath to every statement he made and provide the proof of why he made those statements. This ridiculous. There is no legal standing to that letter.
Not long ago, the Republican members of Congress worried about Putin's influence within the USA.
May 17, 2017
By Sarah D. Wire
In a private meeting (click here) with Republican colleagues last year, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy commented that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and California congressional colleague Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) were being paid by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said in the recording of a June 15 exchange obtained and published by the Washington Post. At that point, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) cut off the conversation and swore those present to secrecy.
Hello? Really? Pouting? Too, bad. I strongly suggest the Republicans get on board with national security and now. I find it disgusting that there is a cover up in the DOJ to the Mueller Report and Republicans are running in the direction of corruption. Perhaps the Republicans know exactly what occurred in Helsinki. Do, tell.
March 28, 2019
By Grace Segers
Every Republican (click here) on the House Intelligence Committee is calling on Chairman Adam Schiff to resign Thursday, accusing the California Democrat of weaving a "demonstrably false" narrative of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and "undermining" the credibility of the panel.
The Congress has every right to those documents and even a judge thinks so in relation to the FBI notes that Comey wrote about Trump. The judiciary is not fooled by this dodging and cover-up by Barr.
There isn't anything to redact by the DOJ. Barr is under the impression he can hide things from Congress. Congress does oversight. There is no way the Mueller Report is anything that needs to be kept away from Congress. Congress can decide what needs to be redacted and submitted to the country.
A cover up by Barr is not going to stand. Former Director Comey's notes are very important. He was fired and then Trump hosts high ranking Russians in the Oval Office to provide highly classified material. If anything, the DOJ should be sharing all this information with Congress for them to process in the methods available to them.
Covering up the Mueller Report and making it necessary for Congress to go to court to receive records that should be available to them is anti-American. It is also a national security issue.
March 28, 2019
House aide: (click here) Barr does not intend to give Congress a complete copy of the report from special counsel Robert Mueller.
Attorney General William Barr does not intend to give Congress a complete copy of the report from special counsel Robert Mueller.
That's according to a House Democratic aide who briefed reporters on Thursday on condition of anonymity.
The aide said Barr spoke with Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler late Wednesday and indicated he was redacting grand jury information from the confidential report. While grand jury information is often confidential, it can be unsealed in some situations.
The aide added Nadler offered to work with Barr to have the information unsealed.
House Democrats are pressing for the full release of Mueller's report.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Barr's four-page synopsis "condescending" and "arrogant" and said Democrats need to draw their own conclusions about what Mueller found....
Back to court for the Grand Jury proceedings. Barr should be running to Congress with the documents they want. He should be as concerned for the country's national security as Congress.
...The aide said Barr spoke with Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler late Wednesday and indicated he was redacting grand jury information from the confidential report. While grand jury information is often confidential, it can be unsealed in some situations....
No surprise, Guiliani says what?
“We’re now trying to prove who did it,” Giuliani said in a new interview with The Atlantic. “The premise is, somebody had to have started the ‘He colluded with the Russians’” narrative.
Who did it? Honestly. The firing of James Comey is obstruction of justice, especially considering the Russians were at the White House doorstep in less than twenty-four hours later. Comey was fired via Twitter sometime in the afternoon and the Russians were at the White House the next morning. That is obvious.
Comey had already begun a Russian investigation before he was fired. The Comey investigation started with the Russian hacking of the Clinton Campaign and DCCC emails. Firing Comey to end the FBI investigation is obstruction of justice.
So, now the FBI had to continue the investigation without Comey and that is why Rod Rosenstein asked Robert Mueller to be a Special Council to pick up where Comey left off.
Who did it? Trump shot himself in the foot the day he fired Comey and brought the Russians into the Oval Office to receive classified documents.
TRUMP CAUSED HIS OWN INVESTIGATION.
