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Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela's Maduro Sets Up "Truth Commission"
Venezuela's controversial constituent assembly has passed a law creating a "truth commission".

The head of the assembly said the law was a "powerful instrument to stifle violence, hatred and intolerance".

More than 120 people have been killed in the violence since anti-government protests began sweeping through the country on 1 April.

The government blames right-wing "terrorists" but the UN suggests dozens were killed by the security forces.

The law was passed unanimously by the constituent assembly, a body convened by President Nicolás Maduro.
Posted by: Spike Spomoter7482 || 08/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All hail the old marx the same as the old marx.
False doctrine always ends in desperation, the rule of man.

For the 34 time you tried "socialism"m it failed outright.
Because you seek a leader with law of man to herald shit they will never be capable of.

I have news for you as quoted by Americans earlier - and others...
And also Nazism never was tried by the right "leader". HT neoneocon


Screw the mental midgets that know nothing about anything.



Posted by: newc || 08/12/2017 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  A Truth Commission? Like the press or the DNC?
Posted by: gorb || 08/12/2017 2:46 Comments || Top||

#3  ...or Google?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/12/2017 3:28 Comments || Top||

#4  "powerful instrument to stifle violence, hatred and intolerance".

Picked right up on the SJW lingo haven't they?
Posted by: AlanC || 08/12/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#5  A Truth Commission? Like the press or the DNC?

More like The Pope.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2017 7:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Rantburg headset? Yes of course, no charge. But currently we have only one song.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2017 7:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Spent a couple hundred dollars. Got a $100 bread machine and a $100 pasta making machine. Bread machine makes jams, too. 70% cheaper making the stuff than store prices.

After the home made bread sits on the shelf for three days I get a small allergic reaction vs store bought bread. Going to try to refrigerate from now on.

Pasta machine makes lots of different shapes and colored pasta. Good quality so far.

Bought a dehydrator too. Meets and vegetables dried over 24 hours last months reliably.

I am off the supermarket grid for long periods of time now.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 08/12/2017 15:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Lol. Comment was for inflation post.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 08/12/2017 15:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
McMaster Advisors Are Running the ‘Smear' Campaign to Save His Job
h/t Instapundit
Deputy National Security Adviser Rick Waddell, Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Gulf States Joel Rayburn, and Yll Bajraktari, a former special assistant to the deputy secretary of defense during the Obama administration, have been coordinating an extensive public relations campaign in support of embattled National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, according to multiple sources.

...However, sources claim the last week of public relations outreach did in fact heavily target conservative organizations that, while generally opposed to the JCPOA, may be willing to choose their distaste of Trump over McMaster’s actions that appear to spell out a more supportive stance on the deal.

Indeed, allies of McMaster reportedly reached out to Heritage, the Hudson Institute, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, perhaps among other right-leaning think-tanks. Sources say at least one of the above organizations had scheduled a private meeting with McMaster himself.

In short, McMaster appears to be banking on "NeverTrump" currents allowing him to retain his position ... in President Trump’s administration. Meanwhile, accomplished national security careerists whom McMaster has fired, all of them loyal to Trump’s campaign stance on the JCPOA, are watching their reputations destroyed as "conspiratorial," as "alt-right," or as leakers -- and with no means of rebuttal. Welcome to the swamp.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/12/2017 04:22 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  according to multiple sources,
sources claim the last week of public relations outreach did in fact,
may be willing to choose,
reportedly reached out,
perhaps among other right-leaning think-tanks

I think this may have been pulled from someone's hindward sphincter.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2017 7:43 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm in charge here."

March 30th, 1981. Perhaps some remember that comment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2017 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I think this may have been pulled from someone's hindward sphincter.

Or given current circumstances, protection of someone's sources?
Posted by: Pappy || 08/12/2017 13:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Skid, it's by DAVID STEINBERG
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/12/2017 15:14 Comments || Top||

#5  OK, I've been busy, and sick, so I gotta ask...

Who's David Steinberg?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/12/2017 17:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Who's David Steinberg?

Wow, you have been out of it. Romanian-Canadian comedian David Steinberg? David Steinberg who shrank G-d? Recently created Member of the Order of Canada David Steinberg? Okay, I had to look him up, too, but it seems he was on Carson hundreds of times and had a hand in every sitcom ever made. Off to YT, I guess.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 08/12/2017 20:04 Comments || Top||


As Postulated Here Months Ago - WH Involved in Sky Harbor Clinton-Lynch meeting
[PJ] A lawsuit against the Justice Department has revealed documents that show there were email exchanges between the FBI and the DOJ -- and the DOJ and the Obama White House -- regarding the controversial tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton in June of 2016. Talking points were forwarded from the DOJ to the White House assistant press secretary, according to Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ).

Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request to the DOJ from the ACLJ, we now know that the FBI was not being truthful when it said that it had "no" documents about the secret meeting. We also know that the media was unenthusiastic about reporting on the scandal and even colluded with the Obama DOJ on ways to bury the story. Finally, we discovered that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch (AKA Elizabeth Carlisle) was using a secret email address to conduct official business.

Now the ACLJ is reporting that the White House was involved.

On the afternoon of June 29, 2016, two days after the Clinton-Lynch meeting, senior DOJ officials forwarded an email containing a transcript of AG Lynch’s press availability where she answered questions about the meeting directly to the Assistant Press Secretary and Spokeswoman at the Obama White House, Brandi Hoffine, that stated, "I’ve attached a document containing the transcript to this email, and I’ve included the text below. Please let me know if there is anything that needs to be corrected."
Nineteen minutes later, the same senior DOJ official, Melanie Newman ‐ the person who had taken point on the DOJ spin team ‐ emailed the FBI to "flag" the story about the meeting ‐ an email the Comey-led FBI told us last October didn’t exist. This email included the now redacted talking points ‐ key spin the Obama deep state still doesn’t want the public to see.

It was Comey himself who testified that the Clinton-Lynch meeting was the impetus for his now infamous public announcement exonerating Hillary Clinton. He testified before Congress, "[I]n an ultimately conclusive way, that was the thing that capped it for me, that I had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation, which meant both the FBI and the Justice Department." We know that AG Lynch’s Deputy Chief of Staff contacted Comey’s Chief of Staff and Counselor, Jim Rybicki, with information that is still redacted on July 1st, just days before Comey’s public announcement.

We’ve also learned that within 2 minutes of the first press inquiry about the Clinton-Lynch meeting, senior DOJ officials had added Matthew Axelrod, the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, into the conversation. Axelrod was the number two to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and according to his bio, "took the lead in advising on crisis management within the DOJ, working closely with the White House, Congress, the FBI, and the media on DOJ’s most sensitive and high-profile matters."

So within 2 minutes of learning that the press had found out about the secret Clinton-Lynch meeting, senior DOJ officials knew they had a crisis on their hands.

But it gets even worse. We’ve also learned that Paige Herwig, Counselor to AG Lynch, was directly editing the still redacted talking points. Herwig is now the Deputy General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary for Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein ‐ the committee that is now investigating the Lynch matter. Before becoming Counselor to AG Lynch, Herwig was Special Assistant and Associate Counsel to President Obama.

The conflict of interest is astounding. Committee staff who are supposedly investigating this situation were the same people creating the talking points ‐ Obama loyalists investigating themselves.

The ACLJ is preparing direct legal action to get the unredacted documents, but it's frankly outrageous that the Sessions DOJ redacted them in the first place. The documents would reveal the talking points and spin that the DOJ concocted to manage the scandal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sessions DOJ

Well, he's nominally the boss, but the Senate has been slow-rolling confirmations and Zero's holdovers are still running the clown show. ALL of these bastards should have been fired on day one.
Posted by: PBMcL || 08/12/2017 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump needs to fire every Obama holdover and do recess appointments. Buys a year to clean out the agencies! Enough!!!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/12/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  It is the Perpetual State made up of Dems and Rinos for life, and the bureaucracy who have put impediments in Trump's path to keep him from doing the things he said he wanted to do during the campaign. The voters gave the Pubs the House, Senate and Presidency and still they are not reflecting the will of the people. What's next, a Constitutional Convention of States to bring about the needed change? Term limits, balanced budget, curbs on regulations, lobbying, and soft tyranny, government living by the rules they make, etc.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/12/2017 17:14 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2017-08-12
  30 Taliban insurgents killed as suicide vests explodes in Farah gathering
Fri 2017-08-11
  Theft and kidnapping ravages north Aleppo as Erdogan’s Syrian caliphate experiment fails
Thu 2017-08-10
  Gang convicted of sex offences against vulnerable girls in England
Wed 2017-08-09
  Police hunt BMW driver who mowed down six French soldiers in Paris
Tue 2017-08-08
  Kurdish authorities arrest 1700 Islamic State militants among displaced civilians
Mon 2017-08-07
  Taliban kill 30 villagers in Afghanistan's Sari Pul province
Sun 2017-08-06
  Governor of Galgaduud region shot dead in Somali capital
Sat 2017-08-05
  US confirms airstrike killed al-Shabab commander in Somalia
Fri 2017-08-04
  Al Qaeda frees South African hostage after six years
Thu 2017-08-03
  Police Make Arrest in 2003 Case of Grooming Gang Victim Believed Ground Up and Sold as Kebab Meat
Wed 2017-08-02
  Gang who called themselves 'Musketeers' guilty of plotting UK bomb attack
Tue 2017-08-01
  IS claims attack on Iraq embassy in Kabul
Mon 2017-07-31
  Besieged IS mufti blows himself up in northern Baghdad
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  Four arrested in plot to bomb plane over Sydney
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