The UN Security Council failed to agree Tuesday on a statement condemning North Korea's launch of a missile that landed near Japan after China sought to include language opposing the US missile defense system in South Korea.
The United States had circulated a draft statement that strongly condemned the August 2 launch and expressed particular concern that the ballistic missile landed near Japan.
China proposed adding that "all relevant parties shall avoid taking any actions which could provoke each other and escalate tensions, and shall not deploy any new anti-ballistic missile stronghold in Northeast Asia with an excuse of dealing with threats of the DPRK nuclear and missile programs," according to a draft obtained by AFP.
US Ambassador Samantha Power called for a "strong, swift response from the Security Council" following an emergency meeting last week to discuss the latest missile test.
Power had said that the US agreement with South Korea to deploy the THAAD missile defense system was "purely defensive" and in response to North Korea's drive to refine its capabilities.
China, Pyongyang's closest ally, had sought to delete from the text a sentence expressing concern that the missile "impacted near Japan."
Diplomats said negotiations on the council statement, which must be agreed by consensus, had reached a dead end.
It was the second time in two months that the council has been unable to agree on condemnation of North Korea, due to objections from China.
This 56 page pdf document entitled From Russia with Money" " Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset and Cronyism" from the Government Accountability Institute. Very detailed with verifiable references and footnotes. Probably a bit too much for FBI Director Comey to read and comprehend.
EXSUM: A major technology transfer component of the Russian reset overseen by Hillary Clinton substantially enhanced the Russian military's technological capabilities, according to both the FBI and the U.S. Army.
• Russian government officials and American corporations participated in the technology transfer project overseen by Hillary Clinton's State Department that funnelled tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton
Foundation.
• A Putin-connected Russian government fund transferred $35 million to a small company with Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta on its executive board, which included senior Russian officials.
• John Podesta failed to reveal, as required by law on his federal financial disclosures, his membership on the board of this offshore company.
• Podesta also headed up a think tank which wrote favorably about the Russian reset while apparently receiving millions from Kremlin-linked Russian oligarchs via an offshore LLC.
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This more corrupt than my devious little mind could even IMAGINE.
This stuff gets people put in jail, normally, there has to be an epic stink about this eventually...hopefully Donald can clean all of the Clinton operatives out of DOJ and get this mess prosecuted.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
The documents raised new questions about whether the charitable foundation worked to reward its donors with access and influence at the State Department, a charge that Mrs. Clinton has faced in the past and has always denied.
In one email exchange, for instance, an executive at the Clinton Foundation in 2009 sought to put a billionaire donor in touch with the United States ambassador to Lebanon because of the donor’s interests there.
In another email, the foundation appeared to push aides to Mrs. Clinton to help find a job for a foundation associate. Her aides indicated that the department was working on the request.
Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, which has been shadowed for 17 months by the controversy over the private email server she used exclusively while at the State Department, said that the emails released Tuesday had no bearing on the foundation’s work.
The State Department turned the new emails over to a conservative advocacy group, Judicial Watch, as part of a lawsuit that the group brought under the Freedom of Information Act.
The documents included 44 emails that were not among some 55,000 pages of emails that Mrs. Clinton had previously given to the State Department, which she said represented all her "work-related" emails. The document release centers on discussions between Mrs. Clinton’s aides and Clinton Foundation executives about a number of donors and associates with interests before the State Department.
Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, charged that Mrs. Clinton "hid" the documents from the public because they appeared to contradict her official pledge in 2009 to remove herself from Clinton Foundation business while leading the State Department.
[DOTHANEAGLE] The state Court of Criminal Appeals recently upheld a Dothan woman's two dozen voter fraud convictions involving votes cast in a Dothan City Commission race.
According to a statement from Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, the state Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the voter fraud convictions for 67-year-old Olivia Reynolds.
A jury found Reynolds guilty of 24 felony absentee ballot fraud charges in September 2015 in Houston County Circuit Court. Circuit Court Judge Michael Conaway later sentenced Reynolds to a five-year split, with two years to serve. But Conaway allowed Reynolds to apply for probation, which was heard in November 2015. Conaway denied Reynolds' probation, and instead ordered her to serve six months in the Houston County Community Corrections work release program.
But Conaway also granted Reynolds an appeal bond. She posted a $24,000 bail, and has been released from custody since late last year.
A jury determined Reynolds fraudulently obtained absentee voter ballots during the 2013 city commission candidacy of District 2 Commissioner Amos Newsome. Reynolds was one of four people charged who worked on the 2013 campaign for Newsome.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] A federal judge today upheld Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence for public corruption, rejecting tearful appeals from the former Illinois governor’s wife and daughters during a resentencing hearing in Chicago. Blagojevich, his signature thick mane of black hair now turned white, appeared via closed-circuit television from the Colorado prison where he has been for four years.
“I think I’m a very different person and I think I’ve become someone who has learned a lot from the mistakes I have made,” he told Judge James Zagel.
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Must have really ticked off someone in the Donkey Party or missed a large payoff.
[NORTHJERSEY] A 62-year-old male was assaulted in a Friendly's parking lot for wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt, Bloomfield police reported Tuesday.
The victim was walking on West Passaic Avenue in Bloomfield at 5:41 p.m. Wednesday when a male in an older gray compact vehicle questioned him about his shirt of the Republican presidential candidate. The suspect directed profanities at the victim as he continued to follow the victim.
The suspect followed the victim to the restaurant at 1243 Broad St. The suspect then approached the victim armed with a crowbar. An altercation occurred, with the suspect striking the victim several times, police said.
The victim sustained injuries to his forearms, hands and thighs. He was treated at the scene.
The suspect fled prior to police arrival, according to authorities.
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Actor Will Smith thinks Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy is a good thing for America — because now the country can “cleanse” itself of the Republican nominee and his supporters. At a press event in Dubai to promote his latest film Suicide Squad, the 47-year-old actor said he believes it is important to “speak out about the insanity” of the 2016 presidential race.
“As painful as it is to hear Donald Trump talk and as embarrassing as it is as an American to hear him talk, I think it’s good,” Smith said, according to the Associated Press. “We get to know who people are and now we get to cleanse it out of our country.”
Smith also said his appearance in Dubai was itself a rebuke to “Islamophobia” in America.
“In terms of Islamophobia in America, for me that’s why it’s important to show up,” he said.
“The Middle East can’t allow Fox News to be the arbiter of the imagery, you know,” Smith added. “So cinema is a huge way to be able to deliver the truth of the soul of a place to a global audience.”
Smith has increasingly spoken up in opposition to Trump’s candidacy in recent weeks. In an interview with Australian news outlet news.com.au earlier this month, the actor said that a “separatist, non-inclusive, racist, xenophobic wave” is currently sweeping the globe and pulling society further apart.
“For a man to be able to publicly refer to a woman as a fat pig, that makes me teary,” Smith told the news website, referring to Trump’s long-running feud with actress Rosie O’Donnell. “My grandmother would have smacked my teeth out of my head if I had referred to a woman as a fat pig. And I cannot understand how people can clap for that. It’s absolutely collective insanity.”
In an appearance on The Tonight Show last month, Smith expressed hope that the country could undergo a similar “cleansing,” as racist incidents are increasingly captured on film across America.
“When everything gets out, it’s a good thing,” Smith told Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon. “It just sucks bad when the truth is out. But I think everybody can see it now. And I think it’s just a little darkness before the cleansing that we’ll have as we move forward.”
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It seems we are headed for an eruption of intolerance as the left has pushed their agenda too far for too long. Like many, I see the gift of the Republic at risk, the question Franklin asked ..." if you can keep it."
Decades of tolerance by the majority of Americans who were satisfied with their lot in life has been eroded, as has the quality of that life, until the majority of Americans today are very very angry. Not the bubble people in the suburban enclaves of DC, NY, WA, CA, MA, IL, but the real once middle class people who only see stagnation, debt, eroding infrastructure, illegal alien invasion, and minority misbehavior invading their communities.
Unlike the movies, this isn't easy to undo, and after another 4 years of socialist federal government, will be impossible. After that, insurrection seems a likely possibility....or fragmentation after a nasty conflict. Hope I am just a grumpy old coot with bad future vision, but this isn't the way it used to be, and it didn't have to be this way if more patriots had paid attention to the infiltration of the media, the schools and the civil service by the hard left.
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This racist nation made Will Smith the most bankable star for something like a decade. Then he started to shove his kid into movies and picked 'important' uninteresting films, now he's a has-been attacking Trump fans hoping to get attention.
[Gateway Pundit] The Republican elites announced their latest candidate to take out record-setting Republican nominee Donald Trump in the general election.
Evan McCullin, a former GOP staffer who no one has ever heard of, is the latest #NeverTrump candidate for president to take out Donald Trump.
Several media outlets promoted McMullin’s campaign this week.
Journalist Megyn Kelly invited McCullin on her show last night to promote his campaign.
Too bad these elites didn’t check his resume before they started promoting him. Here’s Evan Mcmullen’s Linkedin biography. He says he started working for the CIA in 1999.
Remember. Bill Kristol et al. know everything about what constitutes real conservatism. Everything! This careful vetting proves it. If you don't believe it, they will drum you out of their little club!!
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Late last month, the Communist Party USA issued an editorial in which it said in no uncertain terms that party activists need to unite behind Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most evil person ever nominated for the White House by a major party. Moreover, the so-called "mainstream media," also known as the Clinton Propaganda Machine, has been completely silent about it:
Do not underestimate Trump and the Republicans. While the establishment GOP was surprised by the successful insurgency of so-called outsider Trump, they are united in purpose: delivering more inequality, more misery, more instability and violence against working-class people of all races, genders, religions and sexual orientations. They are united with giant corporations and the billionaire class in their drive to lower wages and living conditions and increase their profits and power.
With Senator Bernie Sanders endorsing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the message was loud and clear, "We’re stronger together." That is what it will take to win in November.
"Winning in a landslide" is needed now more than ever, and that landslide for Clinton could swing control of the Senate to Democrats, and other potential positive effects could be felt on the "down ballot" congressional and state races," the editorial adds. "Many things could happen between now and November. Don't count out the American people in seeing with new eyes, what is at stake in November, which is just about everything."
In short, the Communist Party just endorsed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. And nary a word was uttered in the Democrat-media complex. Wonder why?
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Coveted Communist Party USA Endorsement? Thought the new Democrat Party was the Communist Party and an endorsements are just part of the bona fides for POTUS; kind of like being endorsed by jihadists/radical Islamists.
[NY Post] The father of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was spotted sitting behind Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally in Florida.
Seddique Mateen, whose son carried out the deadliest mass shooting in US history in June at the Pulse nightclub, looked on as Clinton began her speech on Monday in Kissimmee recalling the terror attack.
"Bill and I were in Orlando about two weeks ago, and we had a chance to sit down with Mayor Dyer, other elected officials, members of the clergy, of the brave police officers who rushed into the Pulse nightclub massacre to save lives," Clinton said, according to a transcript released by her presidential campaign.
"I just have to tell you how grateful I am for the leadership and the people of Orlando and Central Florida for your love and compassion. And I know how many people, loved ones and friends, are still grieving. And I want them to know that we will be with you. We will be with you as you rebuild your lives, as you rebuild hope for the future, because we can’t ever let that kind of hatred and violence break the spirit, break the soul, of any place in America."
Mateen was spotted by local affiliate NewsChannel 5 WPTV of West Palm Beach.
"We’ve been cooperating with the federal government, and that’s about it," the father told the local station in a brief interview. "Thank you."
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With hundreds, possibly thousands in attendance, Seddique Mateen is seated directly behind the Beest and at camera eye level. What an amazing coincidence.
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I'm thinking swillary staffers said "ohh, a Puerto Rican guy! We gotta have him in the pictures!!" At the same time, Secret Service agents were thingking, "This oughta be fun..."
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Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Sarah Silverman, CPUSA, Khizr Khan and now Seddique Mateen...she has almost all the right people lining up behind her...but I heard Susan Sarandon is still holding out.
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Client/lawyer relationship and Panama Papers transaction? Odds?
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Yes, from the well respected AP who e mails articles to all media attacking Trump. Then sending articles for mass distribution. I review daily the Washington Post local paper, Sun and the USA Today. AP supplies the majority of attack news.
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I see the JournoList members are still operating and working off the same Dem talking points. The fact is the economy sucks no matter how you left wing jerk-offs try to spin it. Joseph Goebbels would be proud of all of you.
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Keep whining Trumpers. Blame the press instead of your candidate who has been an idiot. You knew the press was not going to be fair and yet you put this clown up for election anyways. Stupid
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Tens of millions of voting Americans who had a gut full of the establishment feather merchants and the odious Clinton's years ago, what do they know ?
Again I ask you, what do tens of millions of tax paying Americans know ?
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#5 Keep whining Trumpers. Blame the press instead of your candidate who has been an idiot. You knew the press was not going to be fair and yet you put this clown up for election anyways. Stupid
If only the GOP had renominated Romney! He knew how to handle the press!
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A State Department spokeswoman dodged questions Monday about whether the discussion of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian scientist who was executed by the Iranian government for working with the U.S., in a pair of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Philander C. Knox ... 's private emails may have played a role in his recent fate.
"We're not going to comment on what may have led to this event," said Elizabeth Trudeau, a State Department spokeswoman.
"I couldn't speak to Iranian judicial procedures related to this specific case," Trudeau said. "We've made our concerns known writ large around Iranian due process." Shahram Amiri's knowledge of the Iranian nuclear program became detrimental to the goals and objectives of the Iranian regime.
Shahram Amiri's knowledge of the Iranian nuclear program became detrimental to the goals and objectives of the....... Obama regime.
Under the bus he goes! Let's not discuss it further, shall we ?
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It's like watching a Stooges short. Except somebody really died.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NY Post] The father of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was spotted sitting behind Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally in Florida.
Hillary Clinton
