He was released on bail. Evidently, even though all the allegations of domestic terrorism was listed by the prosecutor in the proceedings, the actual charges were not filed. The Judge could not deny him bail because the actual charges of domestic terrorism were not filed.
WHY?
April 26, 2019
Greenbelt - The Coast Guard lieutenant (click here) accused of stockpiling weapons and illegal drugs will be released on bail, a federal judge ruled Thursday afternoon.
Christopher Hasson is facing weapons and drug charges. Prosecutors said he was planning a domestic terror attack targeting Democratic politicians and journalists....
Thursday, April 25, 2019
There are nearly 32 million Americans that are illiterate. That is approximately 10 percent of the country.
I am going to continue to look for articles about illiteracy in the USA. If people can't read or read well how can they be an informed voter?
And, this is no joke. Republicans are the majority that can't read. The South is in third world status with a 10 percent or more illiteracy rate. This is all Republican territory.
If Republicans can't read, they can be mislead, demand no real proof for statements by their leadership NOR investigate on their own what reality actually reflects in the year 2019 or 2020. It is astounding to me that Mitch McConnell never seeks to end this victimization and chronically lies about the state of the coal industry.
There are NO MORE NEW JOBS in the coal industry. (click here) The industry USED TO BE a great employer of Americans, today they employ less than 50,000 people across the spectrum of coal jobs. This is ridiculous and the USA needs to leave the old behind and move forward with clean, alternative energy.
COAL MINING IS A DEAD INDUSTRY FOR JOBS!
The Republicans that cannot read are victims of the cronies that give enormous amounts of money for their re-election. The Kochs. The Petroleum Industry. The Coal industry is not only proud of it's victimization, but, is not a viable industry anymore. END the fossil fuel industry subsidies. Enough of the victimization of America and the people that actually believe they know the truth about those they hate due to propaganda.
To truly understand the state of literacy in today’s United States, (click here) we need to go back to the beginning. Literacy has long been used as a method of social control and oppression. Throughout much of history, the ability to read was something only privileged, upper-class white men were allowed to learn. School wasn’t free like it is today. Education was provided to only a select few, and this preserved a class system that kept the poor powerless and the rich powerful—a practice, we’ll see later in this piece, that continues today....
...Alabama Slave Code of 1833 included this following law: “Any person who shall attempt to teach any free person of color, or slave, to spell, read or write, shall upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum of not less than two hundred fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.”...'
...Frederick Douglass who learned the alphabet secretly as a child from his slave master’s wife, Sophia Auld. As a young adult, Douglass pursued learning on his own, secretly reading books and newspapers. He famously said that “once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”...
...Women, too, were largely left out of education. Educating women simply was not a priority until the early 1900s and even then, women attending college was rare up until the 1960s. Early Americans often believed it was a waste to educate women past the basics since they would need to run a home and raise a family. Bard College’s Joel Perlmann and Boston College’s Dennis Shirley say that “half the women born around 1730 were illiterate.” Women might have been taught to read at home or in an early girls’ school, but they largely weren’t taught to write, and often didn’t have access to secondary school in the early American colonies and states....
...While today’s American public schools are compulsory and free to attend, and we now have things like television and the internet, reading still remains a critical pathway to freedom....
One measure of a country's ability to build a middle class and consumerism that supports jobs is its literacy rate. If the country is illiterate, why make the investment unless it is simply dirt cheap labor one is looking for.
...On the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress 12th Grade Reading Level Assessment (2015), 46 percent of white students scored at or above proficient. Just 17 percent of black students and 25 percent of Latino students scored proficient. Females scored higher than males. In McKinsey & Company’s The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools, “Black and Latino students are roughly two to three years of learning behind White students of the same age.” McKinsey’s research showed that that the achievement gap can lead to “heavy and often tragic consequences, via lower earnings, poorer health and higher rates of incarceration.” This achievement gap becomes an opportunity gap, an economic gap, and a racial gap, which gets passed on generation to generation unless it’s disrupted....
And, this is no joke. Republicans are the majority that can't read. The South is in third world status with a 10 percent or more illiteracy rate. This is all Republican territory.
If Republicans can't read, they can be mislead, demand no real proof for statements by their leadership NOR investigate on their own what reality actually reflects in the year 2019 or 2020. It is astounding to me that Mitch McConnell never seeks to end this victimization and chronically lies about the state of the coal industry.
Coal mining productivity in the United States increased 26% over the past five years, (click here) reaching 6.8 tons per miner hour in 2017, up from 5.4 tons per miner hour in 2012, according to EIA’s Annual Coal Report and data from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Coal productivity ranges significantly across production regions, with productivity in the Powder River Basin far exceeding productivity in the Interior and Appalachian regions....
The increase is PER MINER. The miners have not gotten more work done, they always work hard. The mining process is automated more and more giving stockholders more money in their pocket. All that money glut at the beginning of 2017 made it easier to automate and close out jobs.
The average coal miner is 45 years old with a high school degree. About 75 percent have a high school diploma. They can make up to $80K per year. They have great unions. There are about 3 percent of American coal miners with a bachelor degree and absolutely none with advanced degrees. There are marginal numbers of women in coal jobs and there are no clear statistics about concern for their health being exposed to coal dust and methane leaks.
Without better education and/or job training outside of this industry, the coal miners will never see that kind of annual income, HOWEVER, their health will be remarkably better. Is there a price tag on health for these folks? And the Republicans would like to shut down Black Lung funds.
The average coal miner is 45 years old with a high school degree. About 75 percent have a high school diploma. They can make up to $80K per year. They have great unions. There are about 3 percent of American coal miners with a bachelor degree and absolutely none with advanced degrees. There are marginal numbers of women in coal jobs and there are no clear statistics about concern for their health being exposed to coal dust and methane leaks.
Without better education and/or job training outside of this industry, the coal miners will never see that kind of annual income, HOWEVER, their health will be remarkably better. Is there a price tag on health for these folks? And the Republicans would like to shut down Black Lung funds.
U.S. coal mining productivity has increased despite mine closings and decreasing employment and production. Technology and process improvements have contributed to the increase in productivity, but a larger factor is the distribution of productivity across mines. The mines that are first to close during market downturns are often the ones with higher production costs and lower productivity, while more productive mines remain operating, increasing overall productivity....
There are NO MORE NEW JOBS in the coal industry. (click here) The industry USED TO BE a great employer of Americans, today they employ less than 50,000 people across the spectrum of coal jobs. This is ridiculous and the USA needs to leave the old behind and move forward with clean, alternative energy.
COAL MINING IS A DEAD INDUSTRY FOR JOBS!
The Republicans that cannot read are victims of the cronies that give enormous amounts of money for their re-election. The Kochs. The Petroleum Industry. The Coal industry is not only proud of it's victimization, but, is not a viable industry anymore. END the fossil fuel industry subsidies. Enough of the victimization of America and the people that actually believe they know the truth about those they hate due to propaganda.
To truly understand the state of literacy in today’s United States, (click here) we need to go back to the beginning. Literacy has long been used as a method of social control and oppression. Throughout much of history, the ability to read was something only privileged, upper-class white men were allowed to learn. School wasn’t free like it is today. Education was provided to only a select few, and this preserved a class system that kept the poor powerless and the rich powerful—a practice, we’ll see later in this piece, that continues today....
...Alabama Slave Code of 1833 included this following law: “Any person who shall attempt to teach any free person of color, or slave, to spell, read or write, shall upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum of not less than two hundred fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.”...'
...Frederick Douglass who learned the alphabet secretly as a child from his slave master’s wife, Sophia Auld. As a young adult, Douglass pursued learning on his own, secretly reading books and newspapers. He famously said that “once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”...
...Women, too, were largely left out of education. Educating women simply was not a priority until the early 1900s and even then, women attending college was rare up until the 1960s. Early Americans often believed it was a waste to educate women past the basics since they would need to run a home and raise a family. Bard College’s Joel Perlmann and Boston College’s Dennis Shirley say that “half the women born around 1730 were illiterate.” Women might have been taught to read at home or in an early girls’ school, but they largely weren’t taught to write, and often didn’t have access to secondary school in the early American colonies and states....
...While today’s American public schools are compulsory and free to attend, and we now have things like television and the internet, reading still remains a critical pathway to freedom....
One measure of a country's ability to build a middle class and consumerism that supports jobs is its literacy rate. If the country is illiterate, why make the investment unless it is simply dirt cheap labor one is looking for.
...On the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress 12th Grade Reading Level Assessment (2015), 46 percent of white students scored at or above proficient. Just 17 percent of black students and 25 percent of Latino students scored proficient. Females scored higher than males. In McKinsey & Company’s The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools, “Black and Latino students are roughly two to three years of learning behind White students of the same age.” McKinsey’s research showed that that the achievement gap can lead to “heavy and often tragic consequences, via lower earnings, poorer health and higher rates of incarceration.” This achievement gap becomes an opportunity gap, an economic gap, and a racial gap, which gets passed on generation to generation unless it’s disrupted....
There is not one candidate running for the Democratic nomination that is not worthy of consideration.
There is just one thing no one seems to recognize in their campaign and that is; while it is easy to run against Trump, he is being primaried. I believe the Democratic nominee will be facing someone other than Trump in 2020.
There is just one thing no one seems to recognize in their campaign and that is; while it is easy to run against Trump, he is being primaried. I believe the Democratic nominee will be facing someone other than Trump in 2020.
Former VP Joe Biden launches 2020 presidential bid (click here for official website - thank you)
This is Joe Biden. This has always been Joe Biden. If the American people are looking for the strongest anchor they can find to secure this country back from the brink, they have a candidate that can do exactly that.
If Joe Biden is elected, those that elect him will have confidence he won't do a 180-degree turn to benefit the wealthy and sink the USA further into insoluble debt.
I have no doubt there are going to be a lot of questions regarding Joe and votes and policy positions. That's right Biden has a track record. On balance, his negatives don't show up for all his positives.
I wish him the best, look forward to his insight and long for the return of the Middle Class and the one true American institution that secures them, Unions.
If Joe Biden is elected, those that elect him will have confidence he won't do a 180-degree turn to benefit the wealthy and sink the USA further into insoluble debt.
I have no doubt there are going to be a lot of questions regarding Joe and votes and policy positions. That's right Biden has a track record. On balance, his negatives don't show up for all his positives.
I wish him the best, look forward to his insight and long for the return of the Middle Class and the one true American institution that secures them, Unions.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
While on the topic of corruption and quid pro quo. So many tenticles it is called the Koctopus.
By David Safier
Did I mention (click here) that ASU’s Center for the Study of Economic Liberty was created in November, with a little help – OK, $3.5 million worth of help – from the Charles Koch Foundation?
Did I mention (click here) that ASU’s Center for the Study of Economic Liberty was created in November, with a little help – OK, $3.5 million worth of help – from the Charles Koch Foundation?
And did I mention that Ducey is basically a Koch creation?
Ducey gets a few millions in contributions. The many-tentacled Koch network, often referred to as the Kochtapus, gets $7.5 million a year from the state to extend its influence. Small investment, big return. That's how the rich and powerful like to do things.
In 2014, 2015 and 2016, UA's Freedom Center received half a million dollars each year from the state. In 2017, the amount increased to three-quarters of a million. In 2018 and 2019 it leapt to $3.5 million. It's on track to get the same amount in this year's budget.
ASU's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership began getting state funding in 2016, with half a million. In 2017 it went up to three-quarters of a million. In 2018, 2019 and most likely in this year's budget, its allocation is $4 million.
Over the last few years, the two programs have pulled in a total of $7.5 million per year....
Yep. All the Russian money the NRA could shovel into circulation for candidates.
By Bob Brigham
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) (click here) was sued in federal court on Tuesday for allegedly failing to enforce campaign finance laws against the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Giffords, the nonprofit organization founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) after she survived an assassination attempt, sued the FEC for allegedly allowing the NRA to violate campaign finance law — including to help Donald Trump.
The new lawsuit, reported by BuzzFeed court and justice reporter Zoe Tillman, mentions the word “Trump” thirty-five times.
“Plaintiff’s complaints demonstrate that the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by using a complex network of shell corporations to unlawfully coordinate expenditures with the campaigns of at least seven candidates for federal office, thereby making millions of dollars of illegal, unreported, and excessive in-kind contributions, including up to $25 million in illegal contributions to now President Donald J. Trump,” the lawsuit charged.
The lawsuit attempted to explain the scale of the alleged campaign finance violation....
There was a statement I thought I heard. I wasn't listening very intently for such statements, so much as content, but, I thought I heard someone say, "Donald Trump stated, Congress is nothing more than palls."
If that is the statement, my assessment is this:
l. That is not Trump talk. Donald Trump doesn't speak like that. Insulting, yes, but, using the image of Congress as a pall to the country is not in Trump vocabulary normally.
2. When I heard that my first impression was that was Vladimir Putin talking. See, the Russian Duma is very different than the US Congress. The leadership of Communist Russia would say that of the Congress because it doesn't understand the dynamic that exists with the country and the Congress.
So, Trump may have said something like that about Congress as an insult to raise his own spectrum of authority, but, those are not original words and they are grossly out of context it is obvious to me he learned that from a far different source.
My estimation is that Trump is still talking to Putin and garnering all sorts of ideas of grandeur inappropriate in every way for a president of the USA to think about himself.
If that is the statement, my assessment is this:
l. That is not Trump talk. Donald Trump doesn't speak like that. Insulting, yes, but, using the image of Congress as a pall to the country is not in Trump vocabulary normally.
2. When I heard that my first impression was that was Vladimir Putin talking. See, the Russian Duma is very different than the US Congress. The leadership of Communist Russia would say that of the Congress because it doesn't understand the dynamic that exists with the country and the Congress.
So, Trump may have said something like that about Congress as an insult to raise his own spectrum of authority, but, those are not original words and they are grossly out of context it is obvious to me he learned that from a far different source.
My estimation is that Trump is still talking to Putin and garnering all sorts of ideas of grandeur inappropriate in every way for a president of the USA to think about himself.
The Special Council's foot note stands.
By Stephanie Baker and Helena Bedwell
A Georgian-American businessman (click here) is accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller of “glaring inaccuracies” and sensationalizing texts about alleged salacious tapes involving Donald Trump’s 2013 trip to Moscow.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, lawyers for Giorgi Rtskhiladze demanded a retraction to a footnote in Mueller’s 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election....
The paragraph below is a lie.
...Rtskhiladze said the full exchange of his texts with Cohen shows he was only communicating a rumor a friend had overheard at a Moscow party. He said his friend, whom he declined to identify, called to alert him about the rumor because of Rtskhiladze’s business dealings with Trump. Rtskhiladze said he passed along the identity of his friend to Mueller....
Oh, dear. In typing the word "some" was left out and it completely changes the entire meaning of the conservation. That is a man that does not understand the English language. SOME? SOME?
...In his texts, Rtskhiladze tells Cohen: “Stopped flow of some tapes from Russia.” But in the footnote, Mueller dropped “some” from the text, which is a “crucial” word because “it establishes the fact that Mr. Rtskhiladze had no knowledge of the tapes’ content,” according to the letter to Barr. Mueller didn’t disclose the rest of the text exchange, which shows Rtskhiladze didn’t have direct knowledge of the rumor involving the tapes, the letter says....
“Stopped flow of some tapes from Russia.”
The only person that would be interested in the word SOME would be Donald Trump. Some is meaningless to the Special Council. It doesn't matter if there are some stopped coming from Russia or one stopped coming from Russia or a million; there is at least ONE tape that Rtskhiladze was interested in talking to Michael Cohen about.
Donald Trump would definitely be interested in the word some, because that would indicate there are others that were not stopped coming from Russia. But, for the Special Council, if there is just one tape stopped coming from Russia, the question is, "Why would a Russian call Michael Cohen to pass on a message that there was at least one tape that was stopped coming from Russia?" My guess is the word some was allowed to be absent from the footnote because it is completely irrelevant to the fact there was at least one tape stopped coming from Russia.
I don't care if a Russian by the name of Rtskhiladze has his pants in a wad because his text message was included in a footnote of the Special Council. WHAT IN THE HELL IS BILL BARR ENTERTAINING RUSSIANS FOR?
How did a personal friend of Trump get to write an introduction to an official government document?
July 7, 2018By Ryan W. Miller
Harvard law (click here) professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said backing President Donald Trump in certain cases has been harder than defending O.J. Simpson and other celebrity clients, according to an interview with.
The New York Times.
When asked, "Is this actually worse than when you defended O.J. Simpson?" of his defense of the president, Dershowitz replied:
"Of course. Or Claus von Bulow or Leona Helmsley or Michael Milken or Mike Tyson. This is much worse than all that."
Dershowitz continued, "In those cases people were critical of me, but they were prepared to discuss it. They were prepared to have a dialogue. Here, the people that I’m objecting to want to stop the dialogue. They don’t want to have the conversation."
Dershowitz was an appellate adviser to O.J. Simpson during his murder trial and also defended Claus von Bulow....
I want to know how much Dershowitz was paid for his introduction and is he receiving royalties from document sales. Why are the words "Authorized Edition" missing from the cover of the Special Council Report? This is not the Mueller Report, that is a populist rendition of the fact the Special Council compiled this report.
Harvard needs to carry out an ethics review of Dershowitz.
I won't buy this book. It's cover alone is corrupted by Trump's administration.
Jupiter, Fla. detectives say they found $43,000 in unreported cash in Shen Mingbi's bank safe deposit box.
By Chloe Teboe
West Palm Beach — A second massage therapist (click here) has been arrested and faces several prostitution charges after detectives in Florida say she performed a sex act on New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
A hearing was held for Shen Mingbi in Palm Beach County on Tuesday, a day after she was arrested. Through a Mandarin interpreter, Mingbi was ordered to surrender her passport and stay away from massage parlors.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Yes, this is Iowa. Presidential Candidate Governor Inslee was there to review the devastation of the places ice and water had it way with the Missouri River.
That is only the beginning. Homes and buildings are covered in black mold, which makes me wonder about the air quality to remaining residents.
The comment by the resident was about seeing Hamburg from a helicopter. If Governor Inslee believes that is necessary, the Army Corp and/or USGS may already have aerial views or would accommodate his visit when those aerial photos are gathered. It is not at all unusual for the federal agencies to take aerial pictures to clearly understand the problems. Sometimes, media aerial views are accepted by those agencies as well.
Modern day Iowa is not resilient to the climate crisis and it's current state is not sustainable.
If there are no air quality studies conducted by now, the US EPA needs to carry out that responsibility and it can't be conducted from a desk in DC.
April 23, 2019
By Robin Opsahi and Barbara Rodriquez
The longest-serving Republican in the Iowa Legislature (click here) said he's leaving the party, in part because of his disapproval with President Donald Trump.
Rep. Andy McKean, who represents Anamosa in the state House of Representatives, announced Tuesday that he plans to register as a Democrat and vote with the minority caucus.
"With the 2020 presidential election looming on the horizon, I feel, as a Republican, that I need to be able to support the standard bearer of our party," McKean said during a news conference at the Capitol. "Unfortunately, that's something I'm unable to do."
McKean said Trump is just one part of a bigger national trend of partisanship that made him feel out of place in the Republican caucus. McKean said when he joined the Iowa Statehouse 40 years ago, there were many moderates in the Republican Party. But now, he said, the ranks have thinned.
"I think the party has veered very sharply to the right," McKean said. "That concerns me."...
...McKean had a "no party" affiliation on the Iowa Legislature website briefly Tuesday before updating it to reflect that he now identifies as a Democrat. According to the site, McKean has left his Republican committee assignments.
Don McGahn's fuss about testifying to Congress is a lot of nonsensical fluff to appear to put up a fuss to temper Trump's high anxiety.
The United States of America's Constitution is built on a very solid premise that there are three branches of government which is to carry out oversight as a check on any one power of any one branch.
The idea a White House Council paid for by the American people to assist the President to LAWFULLY and ETHICALLY carry out his duties to the American people would even balk at a mere request by the US House to make testimony is an insult to the Legislative Branch of the USA. It is also taking on the role of a Defense Attorney long before there is finding and proof of illegal activity. To say this is astounding is only to realize the content of the White House is based in criminality and its defense.
The US House has every right to ask a former and/or existing White House counsel to come forward to make a testimony to the advice being afforded the president due to such veering off of any legal path revealed by the Special Council report. Trump needs to get over his high anxiety and step aside from more obstruction that is becoming more and more clear as the only defense for Trump and his revolving door cabinet.
The White House Counsel is a staff appointee of the President of the United States whose role is to advise the President on all legal issues concerning the President and his Administration.
The White House Council is not a defense attorney. May we please reflect on that for a minute.
Okay, times up.
Why would the American people pay an attorney who is supposed to advise the president to also defend the president? What is there to defend if the president is carrying out his duties to the letter of the law? The letter of the law is what the White House Council is supposed to be advising. McGahn better not have acted as a defense attorney in any of his advise.
There should have never been for one second any speculation as to the lawful actions of a president of the USA. No question.
The United States of America's Constitution is built on a very solid premise that there are three branches of government which is to carry out oversight as a check on any one power of any one branch.
The idea a White House Council paid for by the American people to assist the President to LAWFULLY and ETHICALLY carry out his duties to the American people would even balk at a mere request by the US House to make testimony is an insult to the Legislative Branch of the USA. It is also taking on the role of a Defense Attorney long before there is finding and proof of illegal activity. To say this is astounding is only to realize the content of the White House is based in criminality and its defense.
The US House has every right to ask a former and/or existing White House counsel to come forward to make a testimony to the advice being afforded the president due to such veering off of any legal path revealed by the Special Council report. Trump needs to get over his high anxiety and step aside from more obstruction that is becoming more and more clear as the only defense for Trump and his revolving door cabinet.
The White House Counsel is a staff appointee of the President of the United States whose role is to advise the President on all legal issues concerning the President and his Administration.
The White House Council is not a defense attorney. May we please reflect on that for a minute.
Okay, times up.
Why would the American people pay an attorney who is supposed to advise the president to also defend the president? What is there to defend if the president is carrying out his duties to the letter of the law? The letter of the law is what the White House Council is supposed to be advising. McGahn better not have acted as a defense attorney in any of his advise.
There should have never been for one second any speculation as to the lawful actions of a president of the USA. No question.
Just to be clear, the violations by Trump and his family, of the USA Constitution has nothing to do with the Special Council report.
Let me state that one more time.
The violations by Trump and his family, of the USA Constitution has nothing to do with the Special Council report.
The Special Council did not go on a witch hunt and look for reasons to hold the Trump Administration responsible for it's unethical and illegal activities. None of the other violations the US House is finding in Oversight has nothing to do with the Special Council Report.
These violations of the law and ethics are not under one committee. The illegality is spread across most of the committees in the US House.
Let me state that one more time.
The violations by Trump and his family, of the USA Constitution has nothing to do with the Special Council report.
The Special Council did not go on a witch hunt and look for reasons to hold the Trump Administration responsible for it's unethical and illegal activities. None of the other violations the US House is finding in Oversight has nothing to do with the Special Council Report.
These violations of the law and ethics are not under one committee. The illegality is spread across most of the committees in the US House.
Trump and his family are in violation fo the law.
The USA Constitution is the law. Just that simple. For two years the US Congress did nothing in upholding the USA Constitution and due to that, now the Trumps and Kushners believe they can conduct themselves as they please without worry.
“[N]o Person (click here) holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” Foreign Emoluments Clause, U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8.
THEY VIOLATED THE USA CONSTITUTION AND NO ONE DID A THING until members filed suit to end the abuse. (click here) I think the violations go well beyond Trump and also extend to his advisers. I don't care if they state they are volunteers, that is just another lie. They are using their power within the White House for their personal enrichment.
“[N]o Person (click here) holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” Foreign Emoluments Clause, U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8.
THEY VIOLATED THE USA CONSTITUTION AND NO ONE DID A THING until members filed suit to end the abuse. (click here) I think the violations go well beyond Trump and also extend to his advisers. I don't care if they state they are volunteers, that is just another lie. They are using their power within the White House for their personal enrichment.
More illegal activity by Kushner and Trump.
Jarad Kushner is emptying some cabinet posts and running the 2020 campaign from the White House for the RNC and Trump.
Passive observation is not allowed. Trump has been grooming the NO INFORMATION VOTERS for years if not decades or more. His dialogue, including Twitter, is absent of facts and only serves as a master to his underlings.
There are people that have no information about the illegality of the Trump administration, except, for the words he utters. That is a fact. There are violent outbursts to prove it.
April 16, 2019
By Gabriel Sherman
...Inside the West Wing, (click here) acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has told officials the immigration controversies are more than a distraction, but good 2020 politics. “Everyone including Mick thinks it’s really smart,” a source close to the White House said. “The Democrats want to make this election about Donald Trump. But if Trump makes it about immigration and socialism and the Electoral College, it’s good for him,” the official said. It’s a view shared by the 2020 campaign. “He is battling obstructionist Democrats who tried to block his national emergency declaration and is openly considering relocating illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities, which had proudly proclaimed themselves safe havens. You can bet you’ll be hearing about immigration as 2020 approaches,” campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told me....
The Hillary Clinton investigation has been closed a long time ago. There were no laws governing the use of electronic messaging until the Obama Administration. The 30,000 personal emails on the Clinton sever (a former President and First Lady and later a Senator and Secretary of State) that was erased by lawyers were under no obligation to protect those conversations for most of the years Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. There is no case here.
...Rudy Giuliani (the wayward former NYC mayor) told a prominent Republican last week that Barr has all the evidence he needs to name a special prosecutor to investigate the basis on which Mueller was appointed. “Rudy is dead focused. He wants Barr to take action and investigate McCabe, Strzok, Page, Rosenstein, and Comey,” the Republican said, referring to the senior Justice Department and F.B.I. officials.
Passive observation is not allowed. Trump has been grooming the NO INFORMATION VOTERS for years if not decades or more. His dialogue, including Twitter, is absent of facts and only serves as a master to his underlings.
There are people that have no information about the illegality of the Trump administration, except, for the words he utters. That is a fact. There are violent outbursts to prove it.
April 16, 2019
By Gabriel Sherman
...Inside the West Wing, (click here) acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has told officials the immigration controversies are more than a distraction, but good 2020 politics. “Everyone including Mick thinks it’s really smart,” a source close to the White House said. “The Democrats want to make this election about Donald Trump. But if Trump makes it about immigration and socialism and the Electoral College, it’s good for him,” the official said. It’s a view shared by the 2020 campaign. “He is battling obstructionist Democrats who tried to block his national emergency declaration and is openly considering relocating illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities, which had proudly proclaimed themselves safe havens. You can bet you’ll be hearing about immigration as 2020 approaches,” campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told me....
The Hillary Clinton investigation has been closed a long time ago. There were no laws governing the use of electronic messaging until the Obama Administration. The 30,000 personal emails on the Clinton sever (a former President and First Lady and later a Senator and Secretary of State) that was erased by lawyers were under no obligation to protect those conversations for most of the years Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. There is no case here.
...Rudy Giuliani (the wayward former NYC mayor) told a prominent Republican last week that Barr has all the evidence he needs to name a special prosecutor to investigate the basis on which Mueller was appointed. “Rudy is dead focused. He wants Barr to take action and investigate McCabe, Strzok, Page, Rosenstein, and Comey,” the Republican said, referring to the senior Justice Department and F.B.I. officials.
While Trump relishes the prospect of going after his opponents, his family is acting emboldened in the post-Mueller environment. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, in particular, are taking a more aggressive approach to internal politics, sources said. “Jared is totally relieved about Mueller. He feels they’ve been completely exonerated. The criminal liability has gone away,” a source who spoke recently with Kushner told me.
A former West Wing official said Kushner’s influence has never been stronger. “He’s running the R.N.C. He’s running the campaign,” the official said. “You have to go through Jared on everything,” a Republican close to the White House said. “He’s the kingmaker....
The only reason the Trumps and their cohorts are acting out in the face of very obvious crimes and ethics violations are that they are trying to bring the country's opinion of them under their control. The issue with classified clearance and Trump circumventing all others to issue it is to provide leverage to family business interests.
The violations of the public trust are extremely obvious. The New York State bar needs to review Guiliani's license and Barr should be reviewed by ethics panels and legal authority as well.
The US House has its hands full with the Special Council report AND two years of negligence of LEGALLY REQUIRED oversight.
The violations of the public trust are extremely obvious. The New York State bar needs to review Guiliani's license and Barr should be reviewed by ethics panels and legal authority as well.
The US House has its hands full with the Special Council report AND two years of negligence of LEGALLY REQUIRED oversight.
Gloves are off,. the Trump White House, including Guiliani, is attempting to shift public sentiment toward Russia.
The Trump and Kushner families have exploited the power of the USA for their own personal gain and they want to keep it that way.
The entire family is used to talking past detractors, especially on Facebook. They have been conducting dialogue for a long time to maintain and expand their wealth with Facebook. The "realDonaldTrump" has been selling himself as a real celebrity with a dark secret of how to best overcome financial woes.
So, their skills are interesting, compelling to some, but, if Americans sincerely love their country they will reject this show business White House and cling to their Constitution.
Right now the Trumps, Kushner and Guiliani are trying to sway public sentiment to disqualify Democrats at the sincere embrace of the country.
The White House wants the USA, but, does not want the USA Constitution regardless of flag hugging. They want to rule as they please and make it their home. Not their home away from home, but, their home.
The Kushner family has used the power of the White House to obtain visas for Chinese oligarchs lobbied by Don, Jr. Jarad received large amounts of money from the Arab countries with the Saudi Prince openly stating he had Kushner in his pocket. He does. It is a fact. Kushner is now chasing business ventures in Israel. The entire disaster that is Trump is about their personal wealth and has little to no the country or the people. Trump and Kushner would sell the USA to Russia if it meant the oligarchs would pass more money through Deutsche Bank.
If statements by the Trump White House and it's cohorts don't sound right, it isn't.
April 23, 2019
On Tuesday, (click here) White House senior adviser Jared Kushner was asked about the now-concluded investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and his own ties to the foreign power. Here's his response:
"You look at what Russia did, you know, buying some Facebook ads to try and sow dissent and do it, it's a terrible thing. But I think the investigations and all of the speculation that's happened for the last two years has had a much harsher impact on our democracy than a couple Facebook ads."
In short: No biggie!...
The entire family is used to talking past detractors, especially on Facebook. They have been conducting dialogue for a long time to maintain and expand their wealth with Facebook. The "realDonaldTrump" has been selling himself as a real celebrity with a dark secret of how to best overcome financial woes.
So, their skills are interesting, compelling to some, but, if Americans sincerely love their country they will reject this show business White House and cling to their Constitution.
Right now the Trumps, Kushner and Guiliani are trying to sway public sentiment to disqualify Democrats at the sincere embrace of the country.
The White House wants the USA, but, does not want the USA Constitution regardless of flag hugging. They want to rule as they please and make it their home. Not their home away from home, but, their home.
The Kushner family has used the power of the White House to obtain visas for Chinese oligarchs lobbied by Don, Jr. Jarad received large amounts of money from the Arab countries with the Saudi Prince openly stating he had Kushner in his pocket. He does. It is a fact. Kushner is now chasing business ventures in Israel. The entire disaster that is Trump is about their personal wealth and has little to no the country or the people. Trump and Kushner would sell the USA to Russia if it meant the oligarchs would pass more money through Deutsche Bank.
If statements by the Trump White House and it's cohorts don't sound right, it isn't.
April 23, 2019
On Tuesday, (click here) White House senior adviser Jared Kushner was asked about the now-concluded investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and his own ties to the foreign power. Here's his response:
"You look at what Russia did, you know, buying some Facebook ads to try and sow dissent and do it, it's a terrible thing. But I think the investigations and all of the speculation that's happened for the last two years has had a much harsher impact on our democracy than a couple Facebook ads."
In short: No biggie!...
My understanding of the Venezuela refugee status is half the country's population will leave. That is failed leadership. It is also a huge failure for Russian intervention which only regards Venezuela as a strategic military site.
Maduro has no reason to have nuclear capacity jets. I think he needs to return them to Russia in exchange for food, clothing and a better grid structure.
Republican men not only have identity issues, they are insecure beyond belief. Evidently, it drives them to drink beer to intoxication.
This is pathetic and shows a real trend in identity issues with Republican men. In the White House today women are treated as sex objects in demanding of hair length and dense make-up. I don't want to hear "this is who we are" because they all look like the same Barbie dolls.
After Kavanagh found his sexual prowess as his only real accomplishment in high school, he took his lack of identity into college and carried out the same lack of social skills.
This hatred/bigotry against other people, including the opposite gender, is a gross example of men that only define themselves by the narrowest of margins in the category of mature and able to take on life. At no point in time in his high school years (high school people may lack some clout but they aren't children) did Miller ever realize that the people surrounding him were his community. He totally rejected the idea of BELONGING to a diverse community. He also doesn't allow females THEIR SPACE at all.
The profile of these bozos is all too easy. They are narcissistic and not even simply arrogant, they define themselves by denying everyone around them as a legitimate human being.
When one denies others their valid place in life the only place for them is in service to their master. Hence, women are sex objects and assaulted. It is the only place for women in a man's world where being self-centered is their survival.
Just as a point of interest, being financially aloft does provide for even more distance between them and real people. Being a member of the 0.01 percent club isn't really a club, it is competition to own the world.
October 9, 2019
By Maxwell Tani
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller (click here) once jumped into a women's track meet to make a point about masculinity.
In a lengthy profile published on Monday, The New York Times reported that Miller "jumped, uninvited, into the final stretch of a girls' track meet, apparently intent on proving his athletic supremacy over the opposite sex."
The White House seems not to have denied the incident to the Times, only clarifying that the girls' track team was from another school.
Classmates remembered different racially and politically charged incidents.
Miller reportedly said he could not be friends with a person of Latino heritage, and on a different occasion, the paper reported, Miller "set off on a patriotic semi-striptease before the editor of the student newspaper, according to the editor, Ari Rosmarin, theatrically removing a button-down to reveal an American flag T-shirt in protest of an article he found inconsistent with the national interest."...
After Kavanagh found his sexual prowess as his only real accomplishment in high school, he took his lack of identity into college and carried out the same lack of social skills.
This hatred/bigotry against other people, including the opposite gender, is a gross example of men that only define themselves by the narrowest of margins in the category of mature and able to take on life. At no point in time in his high school years (high school people may lack some clout but they aren't children) did Miller ever realize that the people surrounding him were his community. He totally rejected the idea of BELONGING to a diverse community. He also doesn't allow females THEIR SPACE at all.
The profile of these bozos is all too easy. They are narcissistic and not even simply arrogant, they define themselves by denying everyone around them as a legitimate human being.
When one denies others their valid place in life the only place for them is in service to their master. Hence, women are sex objects and assaulted. It is the only place for women in a man's world where being self-centered is their survival.
Just as a point of interest, being financially aloft does provide for even more distance between them and real people. Being a member of the 0.01 percent club isn't really a club, it is competition to own the world.
October 9, 2019
By Maxwell Tani
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller (click here) once jumped into a women's track meet to make a point about masculinity.
In a lengthy profile published on Monday, The New York Times reported that Miller "jumped, uninvited, into the final stretch of a girls' track meet, apparently intent on proving his athletic supremacy over the opposite sex."
The White House seems not to have denied the incident to the Times, only clarifying that the girls' track team was from another school.
Classmates remembered different racially and politically charged incidents.
Miller reportedly said he could not be friends with a person of Latino heritage, and on a different occasion, the paper reported, Miller "set off on a patriotic semi-striptease before the editor of the student newspaper, according to the editor, Ari Rosmarin, theatrically removing a button-down to reveal an American flag T-shirt in protest of an article he found inconsistent with the national interest."...
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