[Daily Caller] State Department staffers who worked to respond to congressional requests for documents about the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks discovered in June 2013 -- a year earlier than has previously been reported -- that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account.
The revelation, which was included a scathing 83-page State Department inspector general report released on Wednesday, "raises very serious questions" about the Obama administration’s lack of cooperation with the congressional committees that have looked into the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks," said Matt Wolking, the press secretary for the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
"The evidence uncovered by this independent watchdog showing State Department senior officials were well aware in June 2013 of Benghazi-related personal emails but ’took no action’ raises very serious questions about the administration’s lack of cooperation with Congress," Wolking told The Daily Caller.
The Committee, which is chaired by South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, has engaged in an increasingly bitter battle with Obama’s White House, the State Department and the Defense Department over production of records it says are relevant to its investigation. Many Democrats have accused the Select Committee of unnecessarily prolonging both the Benghazi investigation and of unfairly focusing on her use of a personal email system.
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Everyone that sent her an email had to type in an email address that wasn't state.gov or whatever. At least the first time, right? Or did they just have the legal address route to the illegal server?
Your betters have spoken. Vote Hillary.
Donald J. Trump has been working to mend fences with many of his detractors, but among literary luminaries it is looking like it will be a tough sell.
A group of more than 400 writers, including big names such as Stephen King, David Eggers, Amy Tan, Junot Díaz and Cheryl Strayed, released an online petition on Tuesday to express their opposition to Mr. Trump’s candidacy on the grounds that he is appealing to the darkest elements in American society.
Would they have voted for Jeb? Marco? Ted? I think we all know the answer...
"The rise of a political candidate who deliberately appeals to the basest and most violent elements in society, who encourages aggression among his followers, shouts down opponents, intimidates dissenters, and denigrates women and minorities, demands, from each of us, an immediate and forceful response,” they wrote.
Organized on the literary website Lithub, signatures on the petition grew to more than 1,000 from 450 within hours as celebrity authors promoted their participation on social media.
How many of them were afraid, deep down, that if they didn't sign their agents and publishers would drop them?
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...basest and most violent elements in society, who encourages aggression among his followers, shouts down opponents, intimidates dissenters, and denigrates women and minorities, demands, from each of us, an immediate and forceful response...
You mean those idiots that assaulted a Trump supporter in a wheelchair?
Fucking idiots disgust me. Try that again assholes. I dare ya. The only good you are to the world is as worm food.
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All the violence, bottle throwing, etc... at a Trumps rallies by those who oppose him is calling these 400 writers liars. Don't you just hate it when reality does that?
Looks to me like he opposes the baser, darkest, elements of society. (And I'm not talking about race.)
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...opposition to Mr. Trump’s candidacy on the grounds that he is appealing to the darkest elements in American society.
That would be The People, as in "We the People of the United States..."
How much the oligarchy (and its boot lickers) despises the general population is always not surprising. Of course, they've had no problem using them to defend their position and power by using the children of such lower caste to make the last full measure of devotion, while their own absent themselves from such distasteful dirty work.
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It would be nice if the 'art' or 'cultural' capital of the western world moved to another country for awhile. Id' suggest France but their new overlords are unlikely to like transplanted artists.
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An old teacher is a poet laureate of my home state. He was ranting about Trump in one of his postings and I told him I would rather vote for The Devil himself than Hillary. He got rather irate. I don't give a flying F... I would vote Satan over her.
A Saudi court sentenced three local men to death after they were convicted of murdering five Indian farm workers by burying them alive.
One of the defendants told court that they decided to kill the farmers four years ago after one of them was accused of molesting his employer’s little daughter.
Alriyadh newspaper quoted him as telling court in the central Qatif province that he and his accomplices had liquor and drugs before murdering the five workers.
“He told court that he and his friends beat the five farmers with sticks until they fainted and then they carried the five and buried them alive in a pit behind the house in the farm,” the paper said, adding that the crime was discovered after the bodies were unearthed by accident during farm work.
{Intl Bus Times] China is to send nuclear missile submarines to the Pacific as deterrence amid mounting tensions with the US, a report says.
Citing military sources in Beijing, the Guardian newspaper says a Chinese nuclear deterrence patrol mission in the region is "inevitable" in response to US plans to station new weapons systems in the region.
China has been irked in particular by Washington's intention to place an anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea, with the country's Foreign Minister Wang Yi saying earlier this month that the move threatened Beijing's strategic security.
The two countries are also at loggerheads in the South China Sea, with the US conducting several "freedom of navigation" exercises in the region to challenge Chinese territorial claims.
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I've watched China's boomers for a while. They haven't had them on really long deployments and usually just shove them out for a couple days then tie them back up at the pier for months.
At this point they really don't have a long term and viable boomer force that could threaten the US. Maybe Vietnam.
[UPI] SEOUL, May 25 (UPI) -- A former U.S. Forces Korea commander says a North Korea collapse could take place sooner than expected.
"First off, I believe there will be strong provocations, strong attacks by North Korea that could quickly escalate into a much bigger conflict," said retired four-star Gen. Walter Sharp, Stars and Stripes reported.
"Secondly, there will be instability in North Korea that I believe will lead to the collapse of North Korea much sooner than many of us think."
Sharp was speaking at a conference held by the Association of the U.S. Army's Institute of Land Warfare in Hawaii. Sharp told the audience that major changes are ahead, possibly during the tenure of Gen. Vincent Brooks, who was recently appointed to command the U.S. military on the Korean peninsula.
Sharp's remarks on a plausible North Korea collapse mirrored similar comments from Wendy Sherman, a former U.S. undersecretary of state. Sherman had said in early May that, "It is becoming increasingly clear that the status quo [in North Korea] likely is not sustainable, and unexpected changes, including sudden regime collapse or a coup, cannot be ruled out."
North Korea is under multiple pressures, most recently heavier U.N. Security Council sanctions that could choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. China's support of the sanctions could mark a turning point, as well, and there are increasing signs Beijing's North Korea policy is changing.
In addition to agreeing to enforce sanctions, China could be taking a different approach to North Korean defectors, as evidenced by the flight of 13 North Korean state restaurant workers who were permitted to leave China for Southeast Asia on valid passports.
Conditions have not improved under Fat Boy Kim Jong Un, and the state's economy "is clearly not meeting the needs of the people of North Korea," Sharp said.
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Gonna be blamed on Trump, of course. The narrative will be something like "Poor little Kim Jong Un was just walking to the store to get some Skittles & lemmonade, and the Evil Capitalist Trump ambushed & regime changed him!!! OMGWTFBBQ!!! No blood for Kimchee!!!11!eleventy!!"
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Ain't gonna happen. Last thing China wants is a collapsiffied NKor, with all the chaos ending up on their doorstep. Better to keep the mad little pitbull of a country around to terrify the neighbors.
If it all gets too crazy, the ChiComs can always instigate a little regime change. I bet they even have their NKor generals already picked out.
[GEO.TV] Adidas will launch mass production of running shoes at a German factory operated largely by robots next year and plans to open a similar plant in the United States next year, the company said on Tuesday.
Founded by German cobbler Adi Dassler in 1949, Adidas had closed all but one of its 10 shoe factories in Germany by 1993 as it shifted most production from Europe to lower-wage Asia, particularly China and Vietnam.
But advances in robotics and automation means that Adidas can now afford to bring production back closer to customers to meet demands for faster delivery of new styles and to counter rising wages in Asia and lengthy shipping times.
The company gave journalists a first look at its new "Speedfactory" in the southern German town of Ansbach on Tuesday, saying large-scale production will start in 2017 after producing the first 500 prototypes for sale later this year.
"With the Adidas 'Speedfactory', we are revolutionizing the industry," said Chief Executive Herbert Hainer.
"Our consumers always want the latest and newest product ‐ and they want it now."
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Somebody's gotta build and program the robots. Robots building robots? OK, but somebody still has to do the programming. Those will not be minimum wage jobs.
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..and think of the reprogramming with each faddish edition of the next celeb shoe.
[GEO.TV] Microsoft Corp announced more big cuts to its smartphone business on Wednesday, just two years after it bought handset maker Nokia in an ill-fated attempt to take on market leaders Apple and Samsung.
The US company said it would shed up to 1,850 jobs, most of them in Finland, and write down $950 million from the business. It did not say how many employees currently work on smartphones in the group as a whole.
[GEO.TV] Microsoft Corp announced more big cuts to its smartphone business on Wednesday, just two years after it bought handset maker Nokia in an ill-fated attempt to take on market leaders Apple and Samsung.
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So you buy a going concern like Nokia, run it into the ground with incompetent management and then lay off a couple thousand of their workers. Great work, Microsoft. I owned one of the early Palm Treos with a Windows Mobile OS. What a piece of crap that was. Every now and then it would freeze and I'd have to reboot it, just like the desktop! On my next PC I'm going to install Linux.
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[Daily Caller] A Portuguese intelligence official caught passing secret information to his Russian spy handler may have been encouraged to engage in espionage due to his relationships with Russian women.
Frederico Carvalhao of the Portuguese Security Information Service (SIS) intelligence agency may have been victim of what is called in the espionage world a "honeypot" trap, according to reports. Carvalhao was known for having relationships with women of Russian and Eastern European background. The honeypot trap is a tactic that involves convincing a victim to engage in espionage activities by exploiting them through romantic and sexual relationships.
Although the tactic is a common theme in fictional spy novels, there have also been several examples of it in real world situations.
Carvalhao had been on the radar of counter-intelligence units for around a year. He flew to Rome for what he thought was going to be a routine meeting with his Russian handler, little did he know Portuguese intelligence officials, in conjunction with Italian security officials, were already lying in wait to catch him.
[GEO.TV] Husbands will be granted permission to beat their wives in order to ’discipline’ them under a new bill being prepared by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ‐ Pakistain’s top holy manal body.
Sources told Geo News early on Thursday that the council has been reviewing the draft of the bill, tabled by the CII member Mufti Imdadullah, in a three-day long meeting in the federal capital.
The draft of the bill consists of 163 clauses and will be sent to all provincial assemblies and the National Assembly for legislation after final recommendations on it by the council’s chairman.
According to the draft of the bill, women will be empowered with all Shariah rights including the one to partake in political process and become judges and write their own wills. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... they will be banned from working in ’indecent advertisements’ that can cause ’social harm’.
The bill, if legislated into law, will hold women liable to breastfeed their children for at least two years and ban advertisements that encourage substitute milk. Adult and sagacious girls will be able to marry without the guardian’s consent, according to the draft of the bill. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... women nurses will not be allowed to attend male patients.
The bill proposes ban on learning dance, music, and sculpture 'in the name of art' and women will neither be allowed to freely mix with na mahrams (non-relatives) nor will they be included in the receptions of the state’s foreign guests.
10-year imprisonment has been proposed for marrying women with holy Koran besides a complete ban on demanding and showing off dowry. Honour killing, Karokari, Siah Kari to be considered a murder and girls’ forced marriages for Wani or patch up will be punishable under the proposed bill.
There will be a complete ban on forced labour of women. Vasectomy or male sterilization will not be allowed without wife’s consent. The bill also proposes that abortion after 120 days of conception will be considered a murder and 20 per cent of blood-money will be required in case of miscarriage due to any external injury.
Adult girls will have the right to become Muslims and women will not be allowed to be killed during war situations. There will be a three-year imprisonment over women’s forced conversions and full investigation will be carried out of women’s death in acid throwing, other related incidents.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Daily Caller] State Department staffers who worked to respond to congressional requests for documents about the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks discovered in June 2013 -- a year earlier than has previously been reported -- that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account.
[GEO.TV] Microsoft Corp announced more big cuts to its smartphone business on Wednesday, just two years after it bought handset maker Nokia in an ill-fated attempt to take on market leaders Apple and Samsung.
[GEO.TV] Husbands will be granted permission to beat their wives in order to ’discipline’ them under a new bill being prepared by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ‐ Pakistain’s top 
