[THEHAYRIDE] Y'all just keep on votin' Democrat. It's the only way to fix the problem.
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The Most Dangerous Cities in the United States: Top 10
Camden, New Jersey
Flint, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan
Oakland, California
St. Louis, Missouri
Cleveland, Ohio
Gary, Indiana
Newark, New Jersey
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Birmingham, Alabama
Anybody notice anything they have in common?
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I'll take cities run by those with a 'D', Alex.
Final (we hope) follow-up on a story we covered last year.
US Navy Captain Daniel Dusek has been sentenced to more than three years and eight months in jail for his role in providing classified information to a foreign defense contractor in exchange for prostitutes and luxury gifts, the Department of Justice announced in a statement, Sputnik reported.
"The highest-ranking official charged in a massive Navy bribery scandal was sentenced in federal court today to 46 months in prison for giving classified information to a foreign defense contractor in exchange for prostitutes, luxury travel and other gifts," the statement read on Friday.
In January 2015, 49-year-old Dusek pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit bribery, and admitted he used his influence to help defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) advance its business.
Dusek served then as Deputy Director of Operations for the Seventh Fleet Yokosuka, Japan, and later as executive officer of the US ship Essex as well as commanding officer of the US ship Bonhomme Richard.
The Navy captain admitted that for decades, GDMA had provided port services to US Navy ships in exchange for "meals, alcohol, entertainment, gifts, dozens of nights and incidentals at luxury hotels and the services of prostitutes."
Dusek added that he had given Navy ship schedules to the GDMA office in Japan and even emailed them directly to the company’s chairman Leonard Glenn Francis as well as other employees "on dozens of occasions."
According to the Justice Department, Francis had asked Dusek to use his influence to steer the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its associated strike group to Port Klang in Malaysia, a port terminal owned by the GDMA chairman.
Dusek said in an e-mail exchange with GDMA that he would "make it happen" and was able to get other officials on board.
The Justice Department noted the port visit cost the United States nearly $1.6 million.
Ten individuals have been charged for their connection to the bribery scheme and nine have pleaded guilty, including Dusek.
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03/27/2016 00:00 ||
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They still have to wait for appeals to clear, then the Department Secretary can 'decommission' him. It's called 'due process'. However, nothing stops having the papers standing by awaiting that event rather than waiting events to start the paperwork.
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However, nothing stops having the papers standing by awaiting that event rather than waiting events
Also doesn't preclude a court-martial. Probably will not happen, but the threat is there. Then there's this:
Dusek also hinted that higher-ranking officers were on the take and that the relationship between the contractor and Navy brass was even more sordid than previously known.
Sooo... expect whatever action taken by the secretary will be low-key and quietly done.
[REUTERS] Just under two-thirds of Venezuelans think Nicolas Maduro's presidency should end this year as the opposition pushes to oust him amid a grueling economic crisis, a survey by a leading pollster said.
Socialist-run Venezuela's struggling state-led economic model and a fall in the price of oil, its biggest export, have led to acute shortages of everything from rice to contraceptives, galloping three-digit inflation, and a profound recession.
Some 63.6 percent of Venezuelans say Maduro should quit this year or be removed via a recall referendum, versus some 29.3 percent of Venezuelans who want him to keep governing until 2019, when his mandate ends, according to the poll seen by Rooters on Saturday.
A whopping 90.9 percent of those surveyed by pollster Datanalisis in February viewed the country's situation as negative.
But Maduro's approval rating edged up to 33.1 percent from 32 percent in January, with negative views slipping to 63.4 percent from 66.4 percent.
The opposition's December legislative victory has re-polarized parts of the OPEC-member nation and Maduro has reaped rewards for labeling some of his political rivals as divided elitists incapable of solving the economic crisis.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] North Korea released a new propaganda video Saturday menacingly titled "Last Chance", showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames.
The four-minute video romps through the history of US-Korean relations and ends with a digitally manipulated sequence showing a missile surging through clouds, swerving back to the earth and slamming into the road in front of Washington’s Lincoln Memorial.
The US Capitol building explodes in the impact and a message flashes up on the screen in Korean: "If US imperialists budge an inch toward us, we will immediately hit them with nuclear (weapons)."
The video was published on the North’s propaganda website DPRK Today and shows images from the Korean War, the capture of US spy ship Pueblo in 1968 and the first crisis over North Korea’s nuclear program in the early 1990s.
Pyongyang has upped the rhetorical ante in recent weeks, with near daily threats of nuclear and conventional strikes against the South and the US mainland in response to large-scale South-US war games.
The threats have turned increasingly personal, and North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday watched a live-fire long-range artillery drill simulating a strike on the official residence of his South Korean counterpart.
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* SAME > [NYT] TRUMP SAYS SOUTH KOREA [ROK] + JAPAN SHOULD CONSIDER GOING NUCLEAR [NucWeapons = NucArsenal], instead of depending on US Umbrella.
> TRUMP = also says as POTUS he will pull out US Milfors from the ROK + Nippon.
> TRUMP = claims ROK + Japan likely to unilaterally decide to go nuclear anyway on their own iff the US continues down ITS CURRENT/PRESENT PATH OF GEOPOL OR STRATEGIC WEAKNESS.
* RELATED JAPAN TIMES > TRUMP DETAILS "AMERICA FIRST" FOREIGN POLICY, THREATENS TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM JAPAN + SOUTH KOREA.
* WORLD NEWS > [Asia Times] COMING SOON TO THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: BEIJING'S BEST WEAPONS OF WAR.
* WAFF > [BMPD.Livejournal] FRENCH GENERAL STAFF COMENST ON REPORT THAT FRANCE HAS ONLY 20 DEPLOYABLE FIGHTER JETS [out of 200 in current inventory].
FRANCE CONFIRMED AS EFFECTIVELY "UN-ARMED" = "DEFENSELESS"? WHERE AIR FORCE IS CONCERNED, RUSSIAN AIR FORCE MORE WORRIED ABOUT NORTH KOREA'S OBSOLETE BUT MUCH LARGER ACTIVE AIR FORCE THAN FRANCE'S.
* TOPIX > [WaPo] US LEADERSHIP MATTERS TODAY JUST IT DID AFTER WORLD WAR TWO.
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Does anybody know how many people voted for Hilly compared to Trump? According to an editorial today, only poor, dumb, ignorant white trash like Trump. Anybody tabulating raw votes? Just for curiosity.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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