This is Haiti?

July 7, 2021

By Aaron Feis

...Hours later, (click here) photos published by Turkey’s Anadolu Agency news outlet captured the scene outside the home where Moïse was gunned down.

A white SUV was pockmarked on its passenger side with apparent bullet holes, its rear passenger window partially blown out, one photo shows.

Another shot shows two spent shells lying on the ground on the street outside Moïse’s residence.

Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who has assumed control of the impoverished Caribbean nation for the time being, said at least some of the unapprehended assailants were speaking Spanish, while sources told the Miami Herald that one of the assassins spoke English with an American accent.

The primary languages in Haiti are French and Haitian Creole....

Haitians (click here) demonstrate during a protest to denounce the draft constitutional referendum carried by the President Jovenel Moise on March 28, 2021 in Port-au-Prince.

The federal judge appointed by Trump is pathetic.

No one can prohibit food and water from being given to voters when the state narrows the number of voting locations and the hours of operation.

That measure ruled out by the judge is dangerous. It would ultimately prohibit emergency medicine which can come to a diabetic as food and water.

The idea there is a need for identification at the polls has to be remedied once and for all. It is not needed by the pure fact there is no voting fraud. The recent years have resulted in Republicans being bad, but, they were caught and in NC an entirely new election was held.

The Vote has been at the center of American democracy since it's beginning. I am not so sure it was any easier to vote in the early days of our country, because, it was very different then. But, the truth is that the USA has grown substantially since the first thirteen colonies became a nation of people that passed on a strong and determined democracy. The USA is the world's last Superpower and we should act it and provide examples for all to emulate.

The country has more than 328 million Americans even after so many were lost during the pandemic. All those people cannot fit into voting booths on one day a year. The entire "Big Lie" that is Trump is ridiculous on it's face.

There aren't enough hours in one day to accommodate some areas of the country where population growth has occurred. For that reason alone there have to be more days and hours of operation of voting equipment and places to bring in a true vote and not manipulated by a hostile legislature.

The government of, by, and for the people has to address the needs of the many and not the desire of the few. So, this most recent Georgia decision is a lot of nonsense. He is trying to limit challenges going forward by stating there are aspects of the Georgia law that could still be challenged in elections to come. To that I say,

"You are damn right there is and it will be done before another election occurs!"

Honestly. 

J.P. Boulee, after this political judicial decision, should be under the radar of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as incompetent and inflammatory. Can you see it coming, the decision by the Supreme Court that sends the decision back to the lower courts the day before an election? What a mess that would be.

The Georgia legislature does not like Stacy Abrams, can anyone tell?

A country this close to USA borders and allied with the USA and the intelligence community knew nothing about this?

Does everyone need to be reminded there are still Russian bombers in Venezuela? I cannot believe an assassin(s) could enter the private residence of the president of Haiti to be assassinated with his family present. What the heck is going on? If this is about corruption then the USA needs to get to the bottom of it!!!!

WHERE IS SEAN PENN WHEN WE NEED HIM? (Click here)

July 7, 2021
By Catherine Porter

President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti (click here) was assassinated in an attack in the early hours of Wednesday at his home on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the interim prime minister said, creating a political void that threatens to deepen the turmoil that had gripped the country for months.

As foreign governments struggled to assess the situation, millions of Haitians anxiously huddled around radios and televisions, staying off the streets as they tried to understand what the coming days might bring.

Mr. Moïse’s wife, Martine Moïse, was also shot in the attack, the interim prime minister, Claude Joseph, said in a statement. Her condition was not immediately clear.

“A group of unidentified individuals, some of them speaking Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president of the republic and thus fatally wounded the head of state,” the prime minister said, but there was little solid information about who might have carried out the assassination....

This is not confusion. It is defamation of character. I challenge the media to discern "being on your toes" from "being original and real."

I don't think he is a member of the screen actors guild. The President goes into a store with secret service outside and makes a purchase. He is, in full view of the public, asked about a national security issue still under review by the intelligence community. DAH!

I am fully tired of the actors within the politician !!!!! 

I want my President and elected Representatives to be real and original, and not well practiced.

The USA has suffered an insurrection that the Capitol Police are still attempting to define in their practices and how to keep elected officials safe, DUE TO THE SKILLS of Donald John Trump. I would thoroughly expect the people voting in the future to decide if a candidate is CAPABLE of representing them as opposed to the ability to PROJECT a Hollywood image. Let me know when John Williams composes a new variety of "Hail to the Chief," I am sure it is coming. Something more "Star Warsy."

 

The Tech Firms should sue Trump for harassment.

I thought the Supreme Court already ruled in the Tech Firms favor. There is a "tone" of the leadership of Alphabet, Inc. and it has always been one of benevolence to society. I would expect their continuing companies would move in that same direction.

April 5, 2021
By Amy Howe

Just under three months (click here) after former President Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter, the Supreme Court put an end to a legal battle over Trump’s personal Twitter account, throwing out a lower-court ruling against the former president and instructing that court to dismiss the case on the ground that it is moot – that is, no longer a live controversy.

The lawsuit was filed in July 2017 by the Knight First Amendment Institute and seven individuals whom Trump had blocked on Twitter after they criticized the president or his policies. The plaintiffs alleged that blocking them on Twitter violated the First Amendment, and the district court agreed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld that ruling.

Represented by former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, the federal government’s top lawyer in the Supreme Court during the end of the Trump administration, Trump asked the justices to weigh in last summer. Wall contended that the 2nd Circuit’s decision disregarded “the critical distinction between the President’s (sometimes) official statements on Twitter and his always personal decision to block” the plaintiffs from seeing and responding to his tweets. The lower court’s ruling, he wrote, would limit the ability of public officials to “insulate their social-media accounts from harassment, trolling, or hate speech without invasive judicial oversight.” Particularly when it comes to the president, Wall concluded, the Supreme Court should have the final word on “where to draw the line between the President’s personal decisions and official conduct.”...

As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “(click here) Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make “smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange when compared to our current businesses.” From the start, we’ve always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources we have....

Trump continues to rob the American people of their sanity by staying in the news. Enough of this mess the media easily could have created to trap Americans into higher ratings. Our country needs to heal from a president that wanted to destroy the USA Constitution for his own wealth and comfort. No more!

July 7, 2021
By Kevin Breuninger

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday (click here) he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their respective CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai.

Trump, who has a history of threatening legal action but not always following through, made the announcement at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, at 11 a.m. ET alongside two leaders from America First Policy Institute, the pro-Trump nonprofit group that is supporting the lawsuits.

The three related lawsuits, filed in federal court in Florida, allege the tech giants have violated plaintiffs’ First Amendments rights.

The lawsuits were unveiled just over a month after Facebook decided to uphold Trump’s ban from using the platform until at least January 2023. Twitter, Trump’s preferred social media outlet throughout his one term in office, permanently banned him on the heels of the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol by a mob of his supporters....

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