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-Lurid Crime Tales-
1st Responders: Seth Rich was 'critical' in our ambulance and talking
[WND] WASHINGTON ‐ It’s perhaps the simplest question in the Seth Rich murder mystery that everyone involved in the case won’t answer: What hospital admitted and treated the DNC staffer before a physician pronounced him dead on that fateful morning of July 10, 2016?

Now emergency responders, along with police and two local hospitals, are refusing to answer that basic question.

And the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has reportedly refused to release Rich’s autopsy report.

WND asked officials with the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department which local hospital its ambulance transported Rich to ‐ MedStar Washington Hospital Center or Howard University Hospital. Both hospitals are located within a one- to two-mile radius of the shooting scene.

"We transported the patient, Priority 1, to a nearby hospital," EMS’ public information officer Vito Maggiolo told WND Tuesday. "All further information regarding this ongoing investigation should be referred to the Metropolitan Police Department."

Inadvertently confirming that Rich had not yet died when EMS arrived to transport him to the hospital, "Priority 1," Maggiolo explained, is a term used to categorize patients who are in critical condition.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 07:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lawyer Jack Burkman and The Profiling Project is Suing the DC Mayor and Police, for details of the Seth Rich murder investigation. JW has filed FOIA a request with the Police and FBI over the Seth Rich murder. Perhaps a lawsuit should be filed for Seth Rich's medical, hospital records and the Medical Examiner's records. Also get the EMS personnel of the record too.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/08/2017 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  of on. Prepositions always flummox me.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/08/2017 9:00 Comments || Top||

#3  It's WND so take with a pinch of salt sized the same as if you read it in the NYT
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/08/2017 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Things are definitely not right. Since when do people refuse to answer questions about a simple murder investigation? They're acting guilty.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 06/08/2017 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Posted on May 17, to 4chan under the anonymous ID: “rhotYJAg,” the surgeon wrote:

4th year surgery resident here who rotated at WHC (Washington Hospital Center) last year, it won’t be hard to identify me but I feel that I shouldn’t stay silent.

Seth Rich was shot twice, with 3 total gunshot wounds (entry and exit, and entry). He was taken to the OR emergently where we performed an exlap and found a small injury to segment 3 of the liver which was packed and several small bowel injuries (pretty common for gunshots to the back exiting the abdomen) which we resected ~12cm of bowel and left him in discontinuity (didn’t hook everything back up) with the intent of performing a washout in the morning. He did not have any major vascular injuries otherwise. I’ve seen dozens of worse cases than this which survived and nothing about his injuries suggested to me that he’d sustained a fatal wound.

In the meantime he was transferred to the ICU and transfused 2 units of blood when his post-surgery crit came back ~20. He was stable and not on any pressors, and it seemed pretty routine. About 8 hours after he arrived we were swarmed by LEOs and pretty much everyone except the attending and a few nurses was kicked out of the ICU (disallowing visiting hours -normally every odd hour, eg 1am, 3am, etc- is not something we do routinely). It was weird as hell. At turnover that morning we were instructed not to round on the VIP that came in last night (that’s exactly what the attending said, and no one except for me and another resident had any idea who he was talking about).

No one here was allowed to see Seth except for my attending when he died. No code was called. I rounded on patients literally next door but was physically blocked from checking in on him. I’ve never seen anything like it before, and while I can’t say 100% that he was allowed to die, I don’t understand why he was treated like that. Take it how you may, /pol/, I’m just one low level doc. Something’s fishy though, that’s for sure.
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 06/08/2017 15:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Joseph Capone, Owner of Bar Where Rich Spent Last Night Reportedly Visited White House 4 Days Before Murder, along with Robert Creamer and John Podesta. Wikileaks confirms Podesta wanted to make an example of a leaker. When a Russian envoy sent to inform President Obama about Russian intel picking up on planned hit - on "a" DNC official, obama immediately expels the Russians from The USA. Gives Russian diplomats and families 24 hours to leave The USA.
Two or three days later, on July 10, 2016, Seth Rich is mysteriously gunned down in Washington DC in a non-robbery.
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Shaun Lucas is found dead - who is the attorney being videotaped serving the RACKETEERING lawsuit against The DNC and Debbie Wasserman-Scultz as Chair of The DNC - for rigging the Democrat Party's Primaries on behalf of Hillary Clinton - against .Bernie Sanders.
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Eric Braverman as the former CEO of The Clinton Foundation, goes to the Russian embassy in NYC, seeking POLITICAL ASYLUM - in October 2016.

Eric Braverman was hired as CEO of The Clinton Foundation - by Chelsea Clinton - becoming aware of another Clinton SCANDAL = both Clintons funneling the money to themselves from donations made to The Clinton Foundation to rebuild Villages in India, that could ruin her mother's chances for the US Presidency.

Chelsea Clinton hired Braverman to clean-up The Clinton Foundation that gained a reputation as an international Money Laundering operation, but Braverman resigns as CEO - prior to Hillary Clinton announcing her bid for the US Presidency - even though Braverman was under contract to 2017. His whereabouts are currently unknown
but there are more oddities every day.
In early August of 2016 Amy Dacey, Seth Rich’s boss resigned from her post as CEO of the DNC due to some embarrassing emails released by WikiLeaks. Disgraced Podesta pal Amy Dacey and the individuals who performed her audit in early 2016 are key suspects in knowledge of when and if Seth Rich was identified as the DNC leaker. She also should be asked to whom this was communicated with and what was said.
But the Russian warning of a "hit" on a DNC member gleaned from surveillance? was a startling twist to me--although I can't verify where this info came from...Reddit? Perhaps there are tapes outside Deep States' control? Curiouser and curiouser.

Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 06/08/2017 16:22 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
‘Cow vigilantes' attack cattle transporters in India
[RT] So-called Hindu ‘cow vigilantes’ set on preventing cattle from being slaughtered attacked a transport convey in India, hospitalizing five Muslim workers, of whom one later died.

Pehlu Khan, 55, and his companions were reportedly targeted after they fell under suspicion of smuggling cows through Rajasthan, a northern Indian state where cow trafficking is illegal.

The attackers were affiliated with Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a right-wing nationalist organization, and its youth wing, Bajrang Dal, according to Ramesh Chand Sinsinwar, a Behror police official.

The men “stopped four vehicles... on Saturday evening, alleging that they were illegally transporting bovines...” Sinsinwar told the Indian Express.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2017 09:58 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Rampaging bulls gore 12 at Peruvian ‘tail-pulling' festival
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2017 09:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Philippines bank BPI hit by glitch which debited accounts
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
New Chinese Rail Line Buries Kenya in Debt
Posted by: Pliny Glons2836 || 06/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Might help explain Kenya's buying of non-IED resistant military vehicles from China, as discussed here in a recent article.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  This man is retarded and his videos about China should not be viewed by anyone.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 06/08/2017 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I subscribe to the China Uncensored Youtube channel. You can criticize him for over sensationalising the material, but he is solid on the facts.

I'd say he is more reliable than most MSM reporting on China.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/08/2017 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Kenya buried in debt due to the Chinese Rail Line? One could almost believe the Chinese were building the California High-Speed Fail System.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/08/2017 9:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Railways are the canals of the 21st century. Hugely expensive anachronisms.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/08/2017 9:51 Comments || Top||

#6  One could almost believe the Chinese were building the California High-Speed Fail System.

Actually, that doesn't take a very big stretch of the imagination.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/08/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  ...then I owed billions an hour later!
Posted by: Raj || 06/08/2017 12:59 Comments || Top||

#8  One could almost believe the Chinese were building the California High-Speed Fail System.

Now there's an idea for California, allow a couple 100 thousand illegal Chinese in to build it. It's not like they haven't built one before. Sort of allows more diversity in your population and more people you don't feel bad about discriminating against again.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/08/2017 13:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Surprised nobody has built a South Africa to Egypt rail line already. Terrain is a nightmare but it might really help the continent.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2017 14:10 Comments || Top||

#10  ....Has to be something of value at both ends and along the line to be useful, and not ripped off by every kleptocracy along the way. The latter sort of kills off the ROI.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/08/2017 15:42 Comments || Top||

#11  Procopius2k, that is exactly why i would have thought the UN or NGOs would have pushed such an idea long ago.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Surprised nobody has built a South Africa to Egypt rail line already.

Cecil Rhodes wanted to do it in the 19th century.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/08/2017 17:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Party Favors

Almost like a plan
Buy it or foreclose on it
Inscrutable world
Posted by: JHH || 06/08/2017 19:46 Comments || Top||

#14  Haiku! :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/08/2017 22:30 Comments || Top||

#15  Surprised nobody has built a South Africa to Egypt rail line already.

I know right?? I mean - half the trip is downhill init??
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 06/08/2017 23:21 Comments || Top||


Britain
British Airways says IT chaos was caused by human error
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe it was a gremlin from the Kremlin.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/08/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China is cheating on the North Korea coal import ban (again)
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/08/2017 13:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But Governor Brown is over there getting a glowbull warmening deal!
Posted by: Frank G || 06/08/2017 13:55 Comments || Top||

#2  China has no intention of helping to get rid of Kimmie and Co. A little window dressing for the suckahs.

And SoKor wants to delay or stop the THAAD deployment. So Kimmie is doing all right.

Bottom line: NORKS are an existential threat to the US and Japan. We need to deal with it and get this problem solved and done. SoKor needs to decide whether they will fish or cut bait.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/08/2017 14:59 Comments || Top||


South Korean president halts deployment of THAAD system
[The Hill] South Korea's president on Wednesday suspended additional deployments of the United States' THAAD missile defense system pending an environmental assessment, The New York Times reported.

The decision by recently elected President Moon Jae-in to put the deployments on hold is the latest signal of the new administration's intention to reevaluate the nature of the long standing alliance between South Korea and the U.S.

The U.S. has already deployed two THAAD systems in South Korea. Those systems, according to the Times, will be allowed to remain in place. The suspension will apply to four launchers that have not yet been installed.

The U.S. began installing the missile defense systems in March amid increasing concerns over North Korea's rapid acceleration of its weapons programs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 00:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will President Moon's cancellation of Readiness Exercise FOAL EAGLE be the next shoe to drop? If we cannot adequately protect our troops, perhaps we are no longer needed on the peninsula.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Aholes beg for protection then say "Your means are icky. Go away"
Posted by: 3dc || 06/08/2017 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Why are we agitating for war with North Korea? The South has the situation well in hand. Bring US troops home, they serve no purpose.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 06/08/2017 1:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Have they asked for an environmental report on the effects of a nuclear attack?
Posted by: gorb || 06/08/2017 1:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Wait for the South Korean military leadership to have a quite talk with her.
Posted by: Ulains Thuque6389 || 06/08/2017 2:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Release plans to shift THAD over to protect Taiwan, Japan, and Guam and let South Korea realize they might be on their own.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2017 11:26 Comments || Top||

#7  As long as the THAAD radar is there, South Korea can haggle all they want. North Korea doesn't need its MRBMs to threaten South Korea anyway.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 06/08/2017 11:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Dammit, where am I gonna get spare parts for my KIA?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/08/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||

#9  The U.S. has already deployed two THAAD systems in South Korea.

The US has deployed 2 launchers (up to 6 in a battery) with 16 missiles before the SorKs squealed. Not much of a national missile defense.
Posted by: Marilyn Gromorong4251 || 06/08/2017 12:34 Comments || Top||

#10  I'd let the SKor military know that the days of American blood being shed for ungrateful and uncooperative nations is OVER. Don't go public, just....
Posted by: Frank G || 06/08/2017 18:51 Comments || Top||


Europe
European Commission official account tweets out
#EUDefence - We need to spend more. To spend better. To spend together. See here duplications in European Defence. #FutureofEurope



Is that the Concorde?
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 06/08/2017 00:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fixed link from above

Properly formatted URL for mods if necessary: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBtbGoXW0AEQMGZ.jpg
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/08/2017 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you, Seeking cure. That did indeed fix it. The problem is that sometimes images don't show up while we're processing articles in Poster , then magically appear once published, so we aren't as rigorous as we ought to be.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/08/2017 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  They don't get the fundamental, why are we spending anything supporting NATO? It's not our problem.

BTW, how about stacking the numbers up for - combat ready and not hanger queens and more than last generation equipment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/08/2017 13:43 Comments || Top||


Russian Jet Intercepted US B-52 Bomber Near Baltic Border
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Comey asked a 'friend' to leak POTUS memos to a reporter in hopes it would prompt special counsel appointment
[LA Times] Former FBI Director James Comey said he asked a friend to alert the press that he had documented his interactions with President Trump, believing such a disclosure would force the appointment of a special prosecutor.

He told lawmakers it was "important" to get the information out.

Comey only described the friend as a professor at Columbia Law School, but the person is believed to be Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor and consultant to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on federal criminal matters.
Bullshi* statement of the day follows:
"I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special prosecutor," Comey said.
Documents pertaining to privileged communication(s) with POTUS leaked (through a cutout) to academia and the media? Propaganda arm of the Deep State, the NYT? Were there other documents leaked as well? How very interesting.
It did. The day after the first media reports about the memos surfaced, a special prosecutor was appointed by the Department of Justice.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 13:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Shorter Comey: "He undressed me with his eyes."
Posted by: Matt || 06/08/2017 14:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Why not mention them himself? Seems a bit back door chickenshit.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2017 14:12 Comments || Top||

#3  What a coincidence. That's exactly what I was attempting to do and look what happened to me !
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 14:13 Comments || Top||

#4  WAPO: Trump lawyer accuses Comey of ‘unauthorized disclosures’ of ‘privileged communications’ he had with the president.

By Associated Press June 8 at 2:12 PM
WASHINGTON — Trump lawyer accuses Comey of ‘unauthorized disclosures’ of ‘privileged communications’ he had with the president.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#5  I nominate #3 for Post of the Day!
Posted by: Raj || 06/08/2017 14:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Why not mention them himself? Seems a bit back door chickenshit.

That's the Comey style.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/08/2017 14:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Kobayashi: You have redecorated.

Comey: I...

Kobayashi: Your petty, childish surveillance equipment will not avail you. (Silence from Comey) (Pause) Your performance today was pitiful. My client is displeased.

Comey: Look, she... (Comey stops at a glare from Kobayashi)...your client...I...tried...

Kobayashi: As you well know, as the cute little alien said, "There is no try. There is only do." You have "tried" for too long to have it both ways, dear boy. Your fifteen minutes are up.
Posted by: JHH || 06/08/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Donald Trump, Jr.: They Found Another Leaker Today
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 16:59 Comments || Top||


CNN issues correction after Comey statement contradicts reporting
Lying Liars Who Lie
CNN has corrected a Tuesday report after the release of former FBI Director James Comey's opening statement for his Thursday testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee contradicted the reports' sources.

The CNN report said Comey was expected to dispute President Trump's claims that Comey said he was not under investigation on multiple occasions.

The report, titled "Comey expected to refute Trump," was based on unnamed sources and said Comey's conversations with the president "were much more nuanced," and that Trump drew the wrong conclusion.

The story was complied by four CNN journalists, including Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, Jake Tapper and Brian Rokus.

Borger reiterated the reports claims in an appearance on CNN Tuesday.
"But other than being totally wrong on that main point, we stand by the rest...errr....umm. Nevermind"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/08/2017 10:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So once again we see that unnamed sources is another way of saying unreliable sources with unverified information...gossip, if you will.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/08/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Or willful fabrication for political ends. We need a Congressional investigation of CNN!

et cetera.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/08/2017 13:05 Comments || Top||

#3  once again we see that unnamed sources is another way of saying unreliable sources

I thought it's just another way of saying "I've invented it".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2017 13:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Just think of CNN as a supermarket weekly of cable news.

if any article says "going to", "is planned", and other future tenses in it, I ignore them. I wait until something actually happen then read about it.

I have a sneaky suspicion Comey may be playing the press, exposing them for what they are.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/08/2017 13:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Naw. Comey is exposing himself for what he is...a weasel.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/08/2017 15:01 Comments || Top||

#6  He didn't say a word when Lynch "asked" him to downplay the Clinton email investigation. He didn't want to end up in Ft. Marcey Park.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/08/2017 15:04 Comments || Top||


While you were focused on Comey, Trump nominated another group of conservative Judges
[LI] It’s understandable why everyone is focused on The Greatest Show on Earth, the appearance of James Comey before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, June 8, 2017.

But barring some surprise testimony not in Comey’s prepared statement, the hearing will merely confirm "bad" news for Trump already leaked to the press ‐ none of which rises to the level of criminality. And there are some good aspects of the testimony, including that Trump was not personally under investigation and never asserted any type of interference in the Russia probe.

While everyone was focused on Comey’s prepared statement, Trump went about his business filling vacancies in the federal judiciary.

I wrote about this a month ago, Trump begins counter-packing federal courts, Dems can’t stop him thanks to Reid Rule:

As we have pointed out repeatedly, Trump has an unprecedented opportunity to nominate a substantial percentage of the federal judiciary.

There are currently over 100 vacancies, and many more are likely to open up, Liberal nightmare: Trump could appoint half federal judiciary. Yet Democrats, so blinded by the light of #TheResistance, appeared oblivious to the approaching Tsunami of Trump lower court nominations.

Today the first waves of the Trump judicial nomination tsunami hit the beaches in D.C.

Those ten nominees received mostly rave reviews, as detailed in that prior post.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump begins counter-packing federal courts, Dems can’t stop him thanks to Reid Rule. Never thought I'd be grateful to that moron Harry Reid.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/08/2017 8:22 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
5 Ulfa militants, Indian army major killed in Nagaland
[Dhaka Tribune] An Indian army major and five faceless myrmidons were killed in a shootout in an operation against a combined group of the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) in the northeastern state of Nagaland, close to the border with Myanmar, police said Wednesday.

The shootout broke out late Tuesday after troops raided a holy warrior hideout in the forests of Mon district in Nagaland state following an intelligence tip-off.

The faceless myrmidons lobbed grenades and fired with automatic rifles at the troops, triggering a nearly eight-hour shootout.

"The officer was killed in the initial assault and two soldiers were maimed. Five bandidos murderous Moslems have been killed," Nagaland police chief LL Doungel told news hounds.

Search operations are still on in the area to prevent faceless myrmidons from escaping to Myanmar, he said.

Ulfa was blamed for the 2015 attack on an army convoy in Manipur state that left 20 soldiers dead, prompting India to carry-out strikes inside Myanmar against the rebels.

Northeast India, linked to the rest of the country by a narrow land corridor, has seen decades of unrest among ethnic and separatist groups.

The region is home to dozens of tribal groups and small guerilla armies whose demands range from greater autonomy to secession from India.
Posted by: Fred || 06/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Home Security robot also vacuums
LG's newest Hom-Bot robotic vacuum, available this month, merges cleaning and home security into one smartphone-controlled system.

In addition to sweeping up dust and crumbs, the Hom-Bot has front and top-facing cameras that can be accessed through its app at any time. In a true representation of the "smart" vacuum, once it's become accustomed to your home, the Hom-Bot will also automatically snap photos and message them to you if it detects movement in an area of the home or at a time of the day when activity is unusual.

Presenting the Hom-Bot as a competitor to smart vacuums on the market, most notably iRobot's Roomba, LG has added several defining features that set it apart from its competition.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2017 09:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Danger Will Robinson, danger! Fido is humping the couch cushion!
Posted by: Marilyn Untervehr3403 || 06/08/2017 18:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Smartphone-controlled? So then when the phone is hacked, they'll get control of household security, too. Just what a little suburban housewife would want.

/sarcasm
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/08/2017 22:58 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump Admin Offers to Mediate Middle East crisis after Arab Nations Reject Qatar
[Free Beacon] The Trump administration is offering to mediate a percolating crisis in the Middle East that has seen several key Arab nations break relations with Qatar, a top U.S. military ally that has played a central role in American counter-terrorism operations, according to multiple U.S. officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about the situation.

Major Arab nations, led by Saudi Arabia, announced this week that they are ceasing formal ties with Qatar over its continued funding of radical terrorism groups, including Hamas and others.

The announcement took Washington by surprise and sparked concerns that the move could negatively impact American-backed counter-terrorism operations in the region, many of which are coordinated via the U.S.-operated Al Udeid Air Base in Doha.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 08:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For a moment there I thought he's gonna bother us again.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Not our problem.
Posted by: Raj || 06/08/2017 13:01 Comments || Top||


Jeff Sessions Ends DOJ Handouts for Leftist Groups
[Breitbart] Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new policy on Wednesday that prohibits payouts to third parties in settlements reached by the Justice Department. The announcement came in a memorandum to all U.S. attorneys and Justice Department leaders.

For decades, through a variety of initiatives, the DOJ has insisted on donations to third parties as part of the settlements it reaches with defendants, especially corporations. In the Obama administration, this practice took on the character of a "slush fund," which funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from these corporate defendants and put it into the hands of non-government organizations.

Recipients have included left-wing "community organizer" groups such as the National Council of La Raza, or "The Race," a Latino racial advocacy group that supports mass illegal immigration. Other recipients include the National Urban League, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and NeighborWorks America, which is a congressionally chartered mortgage aid group that itself has come under widespread criticism.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 00:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Slowly draining the swamp.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 06/08/2017 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Defund, defund, defund.

It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: no mo uro || 06/08/2017 5:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Has Trump been perfect according to my desires? No.
Has he been going in the right direction? Yes.

Can I understand exactly what obstacles are in the way? No.
Can I understand that the obstacles are many and insidious? Yes.

Keep on keepin' on.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/08/2017 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Applause indeed. DOJ prohibits payouts to third parties in settlements reached by the Justice Department.

Jeebus, when did the Dems legalize this corruption to benefit itself?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/08/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#5  It was probably disguised as a 'For the Children' piece of legislative (or administrative) initiative, JohnQC.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/08/2017 9:48 Comments || Top||

#6  It was never passed as legislation and has been around for a long time. The Obama Dept. of Injustice greatly expanded the program and went after corporations for the sole purpose of shaking them down for this slush fund. Most corrupt administration in history.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/08/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||

#7  The single biggest revelation of the Trump administration has been just how bad the Republicans in Congress are.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/08/2017 12:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Claw back the moneys and prosecute the sugar daddies responsible.
Posted by: Marilyn Gromorong4251 || 06/08/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder how many leftists there would be if it's wasn't profitable.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2017 13:50 Comments || Top||

#10  just how bad the Republicans in Congress are.

Ditto. I've always known that the Left (aka Democrats) were vile corrupt scum.

I've always thought that Republicans somewhat corrupt but not too bad. The last 8 years made me move the corruption needle higher on the 'pubs......the last 6 months have got them inching toward Dem levels.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/08/2017 13:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Wow, who's this Sessions guy? You mean Trump actually has an Attorney General?

Welcome aboard. Have they shown him around the place, introduced him to the staff, etc yet?

/about fricking time
Posted by: Crusader || 06/08/2017 14:41 Comments || Top||

#12  The single biggest revelation of the Trump administration has been just how bad the Republicans in Congress are.

We may never know.... "just how bad."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 14:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Claw back the moneys and prosecute the sugar daddies responsible.

This - definitely do the former; the latter would be icing on the cake.
Posted by: Raj || 06/08/2017 16:56 Comments || Top||


Senate Passes Bill to Make Firing VA Employees Easier
[LI] After three years of constant problems at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, the Senate passed a bill that will make it easier to fire offending VA employees currently protected by layers of bureaucracy. Fox News reported:

The bill would lower the burden of proof needed to fire employees -- from a "preponderance" to "substantial evidence," allowing a dismissal even if most evidence is in a worker’s favor.

The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, opposed the bill. But the measure was viewed as more in balance with workers’ rights than a version passed by the House in March, mostly along party lines. The Senate bill calls for a longer appeal process than the House’s version -- 180 days vs. 45 days -- though workers would not be paid during that appeal. VA executives also would be held to a tougher standard than rank-and-file employees.

This legislation will allow the department "to take back an employee bonus or reduce a former employee’s pension, a move senators argue will help make sure the department isn’t on the hook to continue paying convicted employees."

The leaders within the VA must "provide more training on whistleblower rights and be prohibited from firing employees who have filed complaints through official channels."

Now the bill heads to the House.

President Donald Trump wants "the House to act quickly" so he can sign the bill. Trump has long promised to clean up the messy VA.
And goodness knows the man knows how to fire underachievers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the Senate passed a bill that will make it easier to fire offending VA employees currently protected by layers of bureaucracy. Now extend this bill to the rest of the deep state bureaucracy. Perhaps the swamp will begin to recede if not drain.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/08/2017 8:26 Comments || Top||



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