On Friday ‐ three days before today’s summit meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin ‐ the boss of Team Mueller, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, announced that a dozen Russian intelligence officers had been indicted on charges relating to Russia’s attempt to interfere in the 2016 election.
The Friday indictments publicized by Rod Rosenstein were an attempt to constrain the president’s maneuvers in today’s meeting. If they do, Team Mueller will have succeeded in interfering in our foreign policy to a far higher degree than the Russians did in interfering in the 2016 election.
In the late 18thcentury Russian Field Marshall Grigory Potemkin, then the most powerful man in Russia, supposedly had constructed several phony villages along the path that his lover, Empress Catherine, would follow in her tour of southern provinces so she could see contented, happy peasants when nearly the entire population of Russia lived in misery and slavery. His name became synonymous with falsity.
These Potemkin indictments could have been announced a month earlier or a month later. Instead they were obviously timed and intended to have an effect on the Trump-Putin meeting. Mueller has no business playing around with foreign policy. The Friday indictments were a truly despicable abuse of power.
Last February, Mueller conducted a dress rehearsal for the Friday indictments. Then, his grand jury indicted three Russian individuals and thirteen Russian companies for posing as U.S. persons, creating false U.S. personas, and operating social media pages and groups designed to attract U.S. audiences, all in furtherance of Russia’s attempt to interfere in the election.
Under our judicial system defendants can’t be tried in absentia. Individuals have to appear personally although corporations can appear by counsel. Because Russia never extradites its citizens for trial, fifteen of the sixteen February defendants were neither extradited nor chose to appear willingly in U.S. district court.
(The one corporation that did served discovery demands on Mueller immediately. Defendants are entitled to "Brady material" ‐ all the evidence that the prosecution will use in court and any exculpatory information in possession of the prosecution. A judge allowed Mueller to block that demand temporarily and keep all his information secret, delaying the trial indefinitely.)
As I wrote at the time, that indictment was a publicity stunt by Mueller because the Russian individuals and companies wouldn’t be extradited and had to voluntarily appear in a U.S. court for any trial. He could have just as effectively indicted Leonid Brezhnev or Yuri Andropov.
Mueller and Rosenstein knew that the GRU officers wouldn’t be extradited after the Friday indictments were announced. If the Friday indictments were a serious pursuit of Russian wrongdoers (which, perforce, they aren’t) they would have been handed up by the grand jury, sealed from public disclosure, and one or more of the people indicted lured to some jurisdiction where they could have been arrested and brought to the U.S. for trial.
But that wasn’t Mueller and Rosenstein’s intent. By timing the Friday indictments on the last business day before the Trump-Putin meeting, these indictments were much more than a publicity stunt. They were an improper attempt to influence what Trump does at the summit.
Whether or not the Democrats had been tipped off by Mueller or Rosenstein, they reacted with near-record speed demanding that the president cancel the Putin meeting.
Shortly after the announcement, Senate Minority Leader Chuckie Schumer said, "President Trump should cancel his meeting with Vladimir Putin until Russia takes demonstrable and transparent steps to prove that they won’t interfere in future elections. Glad-handing with Vladimir Putin on the heels of these indictments would be an insult to our democracy."
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), ranking Dem on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said much the same and just as quickly. Ailing Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) ‐ the New York Times’favorite Republican ‐ piled on, issuing a statement that said that if Trump weren’t willing to call Putin to account for the election interference, the summit meeting should be canceled.
President Trump, as he should have, refused to cancel the meeting. He said he may challenge Putin on election interference and expects Putin to deny it entirely, as he has done in the past.
The United States has to have a diplomatic relationship with Putin’s Russia. Russia’s influence challenges ours in every nation and region the Russians can reach, so diplomacy can help resolve disputes by means short of war. That relationship has to be at arm’s length and can, as it presently does, include severe economic sanctions against Russia.
On the day the most recent Mueller indictments were publicized, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said that the warning lights were blinking red on the foreign ‐ including Russian ‐ attacks on our infrastructure. Coats said that if he were meeting with Putin, he’d deliver a sharp message that we knew the Russians were responsible for a host of the cyberattacks.
Our relationship doesn’t mean that the president should just walk out of the meeting if Putin again denies interfering in our elections. But it does mean that the president should threaten Putin with appropriate responses that go far beyond Mueller’s Potemkin indictments for Russia’s future cyberattacks and interference with our elections. More sanctions are in order.
The president has, unaccountably and illogically, treated Putin with kid gloves since he began his 2016 campaign. That isn’t to say that he’s treated Russia that way. Thanks to Trump, we now have severe economic sanctions on Russia in place.
Is Trump too easy on Putin’s aggression? As I wrote in March, U.S. airpower killed more than two hundred Russian mercenaries trying to cross a bridge near Deir-Ezzor in Syria to attack U.S. allies there. He has severely condemned the alleged Russian poisonings of the Skripals in London with the nerve gas Novichok, which is made in Russia and was probably wielded by Russian FSB agents in that incident. More sanctions should be imposed because of them (and the more recent Novichok poisoning of other civilians in Britain).
Trump criticizes Russia regularly but ‐ with few exceptions such as the Skripal poisoning and Putin’s support for Assad’s chemical attacks ‐ never criticizes Putin by name. That should change but the augurs for today’s meeting aren’t good.
The biggest topic of today’s meeting will be the war in Syria. National Security Adviser John Bolton said recently that the president wanted Russian help to drive Iran out of Syria. That’s a fatuous idea. Russia and Iran are allies in Syria aiming ‐ so far successfully ‐ to keep the terrorist Assad regime in power and to establish firm footholds in Syria. It’s neither reasonable nor possible for us to expect Russian help in removing Iran’s military presence from Syria.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Putin last week seeking similar help. He didn’t get it, and he won’t. Neither will Trump.
Our allies fear that Trump may conclude an agreement with Putin to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria in exchange for some ephemeral promise to help get the Iranians out. It’s possible, given Bolton’s statement, but ‐ we hope ‐ unlikely.
The president came out of last week’s NATO "Hunger Games" in a strong position. By pounding on our NATO allies for their refusal to invest in their own defense, he had a tremendous impact on their complacency. Today, he needs to take equally strong positions with Putin on Syria, election interference, and cyberattacks. Whether he does will determine his credibility with both Putin and NATO.
Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein are earning a similar place in history if not our language.
[Al Jazeera] Harith Augustus, known as Snoop the barber, was killed on Saturday, prompting clashes between police and protesters Chicago cops have released body cam footage showing that Snoopy was in fact heeled and was reaching for his roscoe when escorted from this Vale of Tears.
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Chicago? This is a joke, right?
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If a white cop shoots a black man for whatever reason, that's all the reason you need to 'protest'.
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Protest against the Man are the difference between intra- and inter- tribal warfare.
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When was the last time they had riots after a black man was fatally shot by black criminals? I understand this kind of Chicago shooting happens on a daily basis, at least.
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[ez2url] Did you ever wonder how they did the music for The Good, the Bad & the Ugly? It is so cool to see how it was made after all these years. Some of you may not be old enough to remember this classic from the '60s'. Here it is anyway. This is fantastic. Turn it up nice and loud and enjoy. For those still caught in the '60s groove -- this is the answer to how that magnificent signature tune came about...Superb....wait till the guy whistles!
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Great!. The man on the far right (as you face them) is playing an acoustic bass guitar. I have both a ukelele and a ukelele banjo.
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While the link provided is very nice, if you want to hear one of the finest renditions of this theme song outside of the original tracks, have a listen at the link provided
There's a reason he's called Meathead...
Rob "Meathead" Reiner’s new film, "Shock and Awe," starring Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Biel about the runup to the Iraq War, earned only $41,000 at the box office this weekend:
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$41,000? If people vote with their dollars, this movie is a dud.
Most people get that some people think the invasion of Iraq was justified and there are those who don't.
The argument often is that Saddam had WMDs which were a threat to neighbors and the West. There are fairly good reasons to believe he might have WMDs:
1. He was developing a nuclear capability until the Israelis Operation Opera/Babylonin 1981. He had a willingness to develop such weapons and actually embarked upon such programs.
2. Saddam employed a microbiologist by the name of Rihab Rashid Taha al-Azawi, dubbed Dr. Germ who was working on biological weapons. Another female scientist, Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash was dubbed Dr. Anthrax. They were detained and released in 2005 after the Iraqi elections.
3. It was reported that Saddam used chemical weapons on the Kurds at Halabja in March 1988.
4. The New York Times reported that American troops reported finding approximately 5,000 chemical warheads, shells, or aviation bombs in the years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The Leftwood/Hollywood seems content to parrot the message that there were no WMDs and that the U.S. should never have invaded Iraq.
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Everyone got paid while being allowed to throw their leftist tantrum on stage so I don't think they care it was a dud. It is all about the signaling while being paid.
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it went to DVD and to DirectTV last winter which is one reason for the slow box office
it also isn't a very good movie per the rotten tomato aggregates
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Anti-Boosh these days means normals revolted by Jeb!'s "act of love" nonsense mutterings...
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Some Iraqi generals had said the program had ended and that there were no more munitions of the WMD nature. Lesson learned. For the future, just because they are the enemy doesn't mean they aren't telling the truth.
In hindsight too bad for nearly all concerned that we didn't listen. At least with Sadaam and his pathological sons there was a balance to Iran. As far as I have seen the munitions found were from the Iran-Iraq war, leaking, rusting, and unusable.
Having been to the SE Asia playground once upon a time, I had a feeling I was hearing a replay of a broken and scratchy record, this one entitled Chalibi[sp]. If you recall, he was instrumental in convincing Bush and friends to invade. He didn't convince me.
The rest is history and still unfolding.
A disaster of immeasurable proportions.
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For the future, just because they are the enemy doesn't mean they aren't telling the truth.
The New York Times finally reported on Iraq’s abandoned chemical weapons in 2014, long after repeated reports on the subject in the conservative press. But the thing is, had not Iraq been so conclusively conquered in 2003, the stocks would not have been abandoned, just as the stockpile of yellow cake was being saved against the future resumption of Iraq’s nuclear weapons program.
Bottom line, claiming that WMD weapons programs are ended when they were merely temporarily paused — that is not telling the truth.
[MAIL] In the dramatic footage, the CH-47 Chinook can be seen at an altitude of about 11,000 feet, hovering in the air above Mount Hood, before slowly descending to where the climbers and the rescue team are waiting for its arrival.
On its way down, the pilot spins the helicopter around, performing a 'pinnacle maneuver,' landing just the Chinook's two rear wheels on the mountain so that there's easy access to the cargo bay.
Guardsmen can be seen exiting the helicopter at a crouch, avoiding the chest-height spinning rotors, and helping to escort the climber and the rescue team inside the helicopter.
The Chinook delivered the climber to a baseball field in Welches, Oregon, after which he was transported to the hospital.
The rescue was said to have taken just 32 minutes and four seconds from the time the helicopter departed and returned to the baseball field.
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They had to risk their lives because of the egos of the climbers. Send them the bill. What part of "Don't do that ****" didn't they grasp? They believe they're entitled to put others at risk of life.
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The Chinook is probably the only aircraft in the world that could perform this at 11,000-ft.
Then again, when our family Marine was transported by these in Iraq, every person being transported was issued either a grease gun or fire extinguisher.
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They still use these? I remember building a Revell plastic model of one when I was a kid - over 50 years ago. Shortly after my grandfather bought his Desoto.
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#6 Add to the B-52. These two are more than impressive. So are the people who have trained to undergo such operations.
Definitely not Nigerian "troops".
[AnNahar] Researchers from half a dozen states in West Africa have joined together in a battle against what one expert calls a root crop "Ebola" -- a viral disease that could wreck the region's staple food and condemn millions to hunger.
Their enemy: cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a virus that strikes cassava, also called manioc, which in some of the region's countries is consumed by as many as 80 percent of the population.
The root-rotting disease was first discovered in Tanzania eight decades ago and is steadily moving westward.
"In outbreaks in central Africa, it has wiped out between 90 and 100 percent of cassava production -- it's now heading towards West Africa," Justin Pita, in charge of the research programme, told AFP.
"It is a very big threat. It has to be taken very seriously."
In Uganda, 3,000 people died of hunger in the 1990s after the dreaded disease showed up, striking small farmers in particular.
"You can call it the Ebola of cassava," said Pita.
The West African Virus Epidemiology (WAVE) project, a multi-million-dollar scheme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, aims to shield the region from the advancing peril.
Headquartered at Bingerville, on the edges of the Ivorian economic capital Abidjan, it gathers six countries from West Africa -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Togo -- as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Much is already known about CBSD -- the virus is generally believed to be propagated by an insect called the silverleaf whitefly, and also through cuttings taken from infected plants.
But there remain gaps in knowledge about West Africa's specific vulnerabilities to the disease.
They include understanding the susceptibility of local strains of cassava to the virus, and identifying points in the cassava trade that can help a localised outbreak of CBSD swell into an epidemic.
The scheme will also look at initiatives to help boost yield -- a key challenge in a region with surging population growth.
"The current average yield from cassava (in West Africa) is 10 to 12 tonnes per hectare (four to 4.8 tonnes per acre), but it has the potential to reach 40 tonnes a hectare," said Odile Attanasso, Benin's minister of higher education and scientific research.
"In Asia, they have yields of 22 tonnes per hectare."
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Just so you know there is a GMO cassava that is bred to be resistant to this virus but you know better to have people starve than plant this stuff. The process doesn't use pesticides but inserts some of the viral DNA into the plant. The plant's DNA repair code spots something fishy and stops the replication of the virus proteins. I think this was discovered with petunias when they tried to make a really dark flower by inserting mutiple copies of the gene for purple. They were surprised to see all the plants bloomed white since they managed to turn off all the genes need to make the ourple pigment. I'm sure this is same pathway used to turn off the relication of the virusp. BTW Monsanto had a potato that was engineered to be virus resistant. The potato virus makes those brown diamonds you sometimes see in the flesh. This virus is spread by aphids so the only recourse was massive spraying of insecticides. The Japanese IIRC didn't want the GMO potato so it was scuttled when a newer generation of insecticides was approved for potato.
[PRESSTV] A British government minister has stepped down after being exposed for sending lewd social media messages to a number of women.
After the Sunday Mirror newspaper published details of his chats with two barmaids, Small business minister Andrew Griffiths, Tory Prime Minister Theresa May's former chief of staff, said he felt "deeply ashamed" and had already handed in his resignation letter on Friday.
"I am deeply ashamed at my behavior which has caused untold distress to my wife and family, to whom I owe everything, and deep embarrassment to the prime minister and the government," the disgraced MP said in a statement.
"I tendered my resignation as parliamentary under secretary of state for small business on Friday," he added.
Barmaid Imogen Treharne, 28, told the Mirror in detail how the married minister and member of parliament, whose first child was born in April, sent her over 2,000 offensive messages in just three weeks.
"I wanted him to be a nice guy, but by the end I felt dirty. I felt like I was being used for this wealthy man's gratification," she was quoted as saying.
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(Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Monday it won an order for 14 freight aircraft for a value of $4.7 billion, firing the opening salvo against rival Airbus SE (AIR.PA) in a contest for business on day one of the Farnborough Airshow.
Logistics group DHL placed the order for the 777 freighters and acquired purchase rights for seven more freighters, the U.S planemaker said.
Boeing and Airbus are expected to make several announcements on the first day of the July 16-22 event, as they seek to bolster their already bulging order books.
The latest order follows Boeing’s deal with FedEx Corp (FDX.N) unit FedEx Express (FDX.N) in June for 24 medium and large freighters.
While global trade tensions are escalating, the industry is counting on e-commerce continuing to soar, with more people buying products online for quick delivery.
Air freight demand is expected to increase 4 percent this year, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Last year was the best for cargo since 2010, with traffic growth more than doubling to 9 percent, three times the growth in capacity.
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I don't think any major commercial fleet operations chief will tell you there's any advantage in having aircraft from more than one manufacturer.
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Airbus uses huge contact mount points made of composites or at least used to. The problem is you can't x-ray for fractures like you can metal mounts.
Remember the airbus that crashed after 9-11? Back then I checked out pilot log boards. Cargo pilots were scared of the airbus and some refused to fly them.
The European Union is one of America’s ’greatest foes’, President Donald Trump said Sunday, arguing that the 28-member union’s trade policies were inimical to the interests of the United States.
When asked by CBS’ Jeff Glor on Sunday what he believes is America’s "biggest foe", the president responded that the US had "a lot of foes", then proceeded to name the European Union.
"I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now, you wouldn't think of the European Union, but they're a foe."
Trump also named Russia as a "foe" of the US "in certain respects".
"China is certainly a foe ‐ they’re a foe."
"It means that they are competitors. They want to do well and we want to do well. And we’re starting to do well."
Turning back to the European Union, the president also cited what he claimed was the failure of many EU member states to "pay their bills" in NATO, referring to NATO’s burden-sharing benchmark, requiring member-states to spend at least 2% of their respective GDPs on defense.
The president made the comments a day before his much-anticipated summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.
Trump has said he is going into Monday’s meeting with "low expectations", and discussed diplomatic and security issues related to the summit with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli premier told his cabinet on Sunday.
IMO, the ideology promoted by EU in 21st century is just as dangerous as Nazism and Communism they've produced in the 20th.
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The European Common Market was one thing... The EU is another -- a pan-European Empire, they just hide behind euphemisms, and Empires only have enemies and vassals...
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Our friends? We are Colonials! And if you get their Elites tipsy on champagne they will confide that we, the US, are nothing but a motley assortment of ill-bred mongrels -- the children of Losers that couldn't 'hack it' in Europe.
[DAWN] Indian police said on Sunday they have jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 32 people after a man was killed by a mob in the country's latest lynching over suspicion of child kidnapping sparked by rumours on WhatsApp.
The men were arrested over the murder of Google employee Mohammad Azam who was attacked along with two friends by a 2,000-strong mob in southern Karnataka state's Bidar district late on Friday.
Azam's friends, including a Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... national, were critically injured in the assault that came days after the Facebook-owned messaging service published advertisements in Indian newspapers offering tips to curb the spread of fake information on its platform.
More than 20 people have been lynched in India after being accused of child abduction in the last two months.
Police said 27-year-old Azam and his lover companions were returning to their home in neighbouring Hyderabad city after visiting a friend in Bidar when they stopped midway and offered chocolates to local school children.
"One of them had bought chocolates from Qatar and tried to offer it to the children as a token of affection," Bidar deputy police chief V N Patil told AFP.
But one of the children started crying, alerting the elders who accused the men of being child kidnappers amid rife social media rumours about child kidnapping rings in the area, the officer said.
Patil said the three managed to flee but were attacked by a much larger mob a few kilometres (miles) ahead after locals alerted nearby villages via Whatsapp.
Their car flipped after hitting a roadblock placed by the angry mob before they were dragged out of the vehicle and beaten with sticks and stones.
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So £2.5m for vertical launch at Sutherland (Lockheed Martin backed consortium, rumoured to be for Rocket Labs' Electron), along with £2m for horizontal launch at other sites.
Lockheed has made no secret of its desire to bring the Electron rocket to Scotland. Currently, this vehicle flies out of New Zealand.
A British version of the rocket would have an upper-stage developed and built at LM's UK HQ in Ampthill, Bedfordshire.
"This is a defining moment for UK Space," a spokesperson for the company told BBC News. "Lockheed Martin has been working with Britain for over 80 years and we stand ready to support the development of UK launch capability should our extensive experience in developing space infrastructure be called upon."
It looks like Newquay has been selected for horizontal launch.
There will be additional money for two new spaceports - one in Cornwall, one in Scotland - and a long-awaited commitment to build a new high-tech fighter aircraft that will eventually replace the Eurofighter Typhoon.
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Scotland and New Zealand are only good for polar orbits, polar orbits are only good for unmanned missions. That's all fine and good, but its limited.
Posted in the hope that someone can explain why Turkey is giving away expensive power when they are having financial problems back home.
[AnNahar] A Turkish power generating ship arrived Sunday off the Lebanese coastal town of Jiye, the National News Agency said.
"It will dock next to the Jiye power plant and will be connected to it," NNA added.
It said the ship was towed from Beirut by a specialized vessel.
Under a deal with the government, the ship will supply Lebanon with 200 additional megawatts that will be free of charge in the first three months.
For the past few years, Lebanon has been relying on two other Turkish power ships to cover some of its power generation deficit – the Fatmagül Sultan and the Orhan Bey.
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the ship will supply Lebanon with 200 additional megawatts
nuke?
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Wonder how many cell phones you can charge off a Turkish power ship.
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No nuke, they consist of 4 or more large turbines mounted on what essentially is a container ship. Karadeniz Energy out of Istanbul has fourteen of these (maybe more now) in varying output capacity that they lease out worldwide.
They'll run on either NG or fuel oil.
The Chinese and Russians have the nuke power generating vessels.
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Federal prosecutor Mary Jo White was appointed to investigate the pardon of Marc Rich. She was later replaced by then-Republican James Comey, who found no illegality on Clinton's part.
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Comey found no illegality in the Mark Rich pardon because the President has, for all practical purposes, complete power to pardon.
What would make it illegal was if Comey could produce a case of bribery and this is quite difficult without an actual document that says 'I'll give you this if you do that'. Yes the pardon was disgraceful and disgusting but that is not illegal.
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The Pardon, itself, was legal... IIRC Susan Rich, Marc Rich's wife, was a big donor to various Clinton *cough* "charities" at the time...
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Rich Allison is a former Marine Corps captain who was never in combat. Now he is on the front lines of the culture wars.
Mr. Allison, 47, is a key player in a movement of men’s rights activists challenging female-focused businesses, marketing strategies, educational programs and civic projects that have surged since the election of President Trump in November 2016 and the #MeToo movement.
He has been a plaintiff in 13 lawsuits, most of which cite discrimination against men in violation of California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, named for the politician Jesse Unruh, known as "Big Daddy." It outlaws discrimination against all people by any type of business establishment in the state, regardless of a person’s sex, race and other characteristics. Mr. Allison and his cohort would like to remind everyone that Unruh’s broad promise of "full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges or services" extends to men.
[Daily Caller] San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the streets of her city are flooded with the excrement of the homeless in an interview Friday.
Breed, a Democrat who was inaugurated as San Francisco’s mayor Wednesday, urged homeless advocacy groups that receive money from the city to teach homeless people to “clean up after themselves.”
“There is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” Breed told KNTV. “That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs — we’re talking about from humans.”
The streets of San Francisco are littered with a “dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces”, KNTV’s investigative team reported in February after surveying the city’s streets.
“We see poop, we see pee, we see needles, and we see trash,” preschool teacher Adelita Orellana told KNTV. “Sometimes they ask what is it, and that’s a conversation that’s a little difficult to have with a 2-year old, but we just let them know that those things are full of germs, that they are dangerous, and they should never be touched.”
There are about 7,500 homeless people living in San Francisco according to the city, which will spend nearly $280 million this year on housing services for the homeless.
Breed said San Francisco’s high cost of living cast the city’s homeless onto the streets.
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Where the rubber meets the, um, when the sh*t hits the, eh...
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"There are about 7,500 homeless people living in San Francisco according to the city, which will spend nearly $280 million this year on housing services for the homeless."
There's your problem, right there. Stop spending that money. Round them up and put them a camp, no drugs or alcohol. They get clean or they die from withdrawal. Bring back strict vagrancy laws and enforce them.,
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40 years ago Harvey Milk passed his signature (and only) legislation: The Pooper-Scooper Law. Admittedly aimed at dogs in the Castro, a fitting tribute to the "Saint of San Francico" would be to apply it to the current strays on city streets.
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$40K seems a bit much, but then there's the 'support infrastructure & personnel' costs to consider.
Cheaper for us out here in the hinterlands to just buy these folks a one-way bus ticket to either coast (~$250).
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They really blew it when they turned Alcatraz Island into a national park. It'd be the perfect place to incarcerate vagrants.
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I would like to see some insights into the forces that created this situation. Not interviews of the suits but the victims of same.
How can the trillions of debt this country had forced upon us by the likes of What-Real-Estate-Bubble? Bernanke and the 2009 UN Nobel Peace Prize winner not have created a market place for workers? Obviously liberal incompetence is one answer and there are others. What a crime. My feeling is these homeless and likely oxy painkiller enthusiasts would rather be working. What a novel concept, Mr. Bernanke. You too, Mr. Transparent Administration. Meaningful work, not a government check. Not an empty and tedious speech.
But, when there are legacies to be created...universes to be properly shaped...note 'properly'.
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I thought SF was grossly overrated even before the latest shit storm
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The dangerous health issues from germs becoming airborn with dried poop hasn't been mentioned much, along with the homeless being able to block streets not being safe to pass panhandling, I have read how many people have started taking Uber to work where they used to walk to get to work but it's too dangerous, contaminated needles, city losing money due to private businesses with vagrants outside their door & conventions going elsewhere. All under Democrat policies. What used to be common sense of decent behavior has been lost. Tents and people taking up public space should not be allowed as it infringes on the rights of all, along with all the unsafe areas they create. Not to forget that among these tented areas, terrorists could hide away with who knows what kind of armorments in these spaces dangerously close to downtown governmental buildings. Laws should be enforced to not allow this on public space. But it's not going to happen, the latest I read was SF was planning more safe free zones to shoot up drugs. So very sad, as San Francisco used to be a great city, I hope it doesn't spread to other cities, we've got to stop this and those that support this sick Democrat philosophy. Gorb suggested Portland and Eugene which is near and dear to my heart, this unhealthy sickness needs to be stopped before it continues like a cancer throughout other cities.
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The dangerous health issues from germs becoming airborn with dried poop
We assume that is how Mr. Wife contracted amoebic dysentary in India back in 1991. He wasn’t there long enough even to have eaten or drunk something off, but ended up hospitalized over there for about ten days before the parasite specialist cured him. I’m told Mr. Wife was very lucky — had he come home before it manifested, the American doctors would not have recognized the problem, allowing it time to become chronic.
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