[newstimes] NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the founding members of the 1980s hip hop group Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five was arrested in New York in connection with the fatal stabbing of a homeless man, police said.
Nathaniel Glover, 57, also known as The Kidd Creole, was arrested Wednesday night on murder charges. Information on his lawyer wasn't immediately available.
The stabbing happened in midtown Manhattan shortly before midnight on Monday. Police said the 55-year-old victim was found with multiple stab wounds to his torso. It's not clear what sparked the stabbing.
Police described the victim, who lived in a shelter, as a level 2 sex offender. His identity has not yet been released.
Video shows a handcuffed Glover, his gray hair pulled back into a tightly-wound pony tail, being escorted out of a police precinct Wednesday night.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is best known for their 1982 rap song, "The Message." The group was formed in the late 1970s in the Bronx.
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, the first rap act to be inducted into the hall.
[Al Jazeera] The firm that provided Venezuela's election technology has cast doubt on the outcome of its polls for a new assembly, saying the turnout figures were "manipulated".
Government-allied electoral authorities say more than eight million people voted on July 30, a turnout figure that has been disputed by the opposition and independent analysts and condemned by many nations in the region and beyond.
In a statement issued in London on Wednesday, Smartmatic, which has provided voting machines to Venezuela for the past decade, said: "Based on the robustness of our system, we know, without any doubt, that the turnout of the recent election for a National Constituent Assembly was manipulated."
Al Jazeera's John Holman, reporting from Caracas, said the development was "a big bombshell".
"It is a blow to the government, but the government is going to continue right on with what they are doing," he said. "For the opposition, this is just more proof of what they were already saying on Sunday."
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Smartmatic, which has provided voting machines to Venezuela for the past decade
they realize that there will be NO future votes if Maduro succeeds
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Of course there will be voting - there won't be buying of new machines to replace broken ones.
New sanctions on Russia which US President Donald Trump has signed into law are tantamount to a "full-scale trade war", Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
Medvedev also said in a Facebook post that the sanctions showed the Trump administration was utterly powerless.
"The hope that our relations with the new American administration would improve is finished," he wrote.
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This is the globalists getting Trump back for ending their war in Syria. If they can't get that pipeline from Qatar, then Europe isn't getting the pipeline from Russia.
[Al Jazeera] The president says: 'That son-of-a-wh*re maniac, if he makes a mistake then the Far East will become an arid land.'
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I love the way Filipino string together swear words. It's never just a single swear word, it's a whole bunch strung together. In this case, I'd have to agree with Duterte.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Two people have performed prayers inside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia in order to protest its closure to prayers, comparing it to measures taken by Israeli forces at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
The two identified as Halil Akyaman and Mahmut Alan arrived at the museum and suddenly began to pray inside.
Security forces waited for them to finish praying and then immediately moved them away from the museum.
The duo said they had prayed to protest the museum’s closure to prayers.
"Israel entered the al-Aqsa Mosque at 3 a.m. yesterday. [The Hagia Sophia] is not a museum but a mosque. There is a lock clamped on Moslems. [Ottoman] Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror conquered it. This is a mosque and I am performing my prayers. [Israelis] entering the al-Aqsa Mosque in combat boots and people entering [the Hagia Sophia] with shoes are the same thing," one of the men reportedly said.
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[Daily Caller] Special Counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C., in connection with his ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday the panel began its work in recent weeks. Grand juries are seated to assess the validity of an accusation brought by prosecutors in advance of an indictment. Though the primary task of a grand jury is to issue an indictment, they also allow prosecutors to subpoena documents and question witnesses under oath.
Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer coordinating the administration’s response to Mueller’s probe, expressed hope the development would accelerate the conclusion of the investigation.
"Grand jury matters are typically secret," Cobb told the Journal. "The White House favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly."
"The White House is committed to fully cooperating with Mr. Mueller," he added.
The probe is apparently separate from the grand jury that was empaneled in Alexandria, Va., in connection with the investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. This suggests the probe has expanded to include other individuals, and that a single grand jury does not have the capacity to evaluate all the evidence Mueller’s office has marshaled.
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) warned that tax reform could face the same fate as Obamacare repeal if the White House and Congress do not focus on communicating effectively with the American people before crafting the legislation.
Gingrich said President Reagan learned that "you have to move the American people" to pass legislation but many Republicans today have not adopted the same approach.
"Look at this whole mess with Obamacare. For seven months the focus has been on the Congress, but in the end the Congress isn’t the key. The key is the American people. If we had spent as much time educating the American people and communicating with the American people and then writing a bill, which reflected what the American people told us, we would have passed Obamacare’s repeal with a bipartisan majority because people back home would have said, ’we want this new, better bill.’ We’re going to face the same challenge with the upcoming tax cuts," Gingrich said at the Young America’s Foundation national conservative student conference Tuesday.
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....warned that tax reform could face the same fate as Obamacare repeal
Quite prescient of him. Of course it will "face the same fate." The dems are obstructionists to the core, but they may not have to lift a finger. Trump's own party's disloyalty may be enough to upend tax reform.
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The left will say but Trump/Gorsuch didn't really win anything, it is a hollow victory. It is like when HRC won the popular vote even though she didn't win the electoral vote (it looks more and more like she didn't win the popular vote either due to a corrupted vote).
Thanks to Harry Reid and his nuclear option, Gorsuch became a Supreme. What's hard to understand is how the Oz Cowardly Lion Pubs found enough courage to use this option. Whatever, Gorsuch is a good win. Trump (and we) needs a few more wins like this to keep the crooks/leftists at bay.
[Judicial Watch] Washington, DC ‐ Judicial Watch today announced that the Justice Department refuses to disclose the talking points developed by the Obama Justice Department to help it respond to press inquiries about the controversial June 27, 2016, tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
The Justice Department heavily redacted the documents under Exemption b (5), which allows agencies to withhold draft or deliberative process material. The blacked-out material centers around talking points drafted and used by Justice to respond to press inquiries about the Lynch-Clinton meeting.
The agency produced 417 pages of documents in response to Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-00421) seeking:
All records and/or transcripts of a meeting held between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton in June 2016.
- All records of communication sent to or from officials in the Office of the Attorney General regarding the meeting held between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton in June 2016.
- All records of communication sent to or from officials in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General regarding the meeting held between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton in June 2016.
- All references to the meeting held between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton contained in day planners, calendars and schedules in the Office of the Attorney General.
One email exchange shows that Former Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik was brought in to assist with public relations issues on June 28, 2016, the day after the tarmac meeting. (Kadzik is a longtime friend of John Podesta and a Hillary Clinton donor, who was criticized as being conflicted when he was assigned as the Justice Department attorney to oversee the probe of Hillary Clinton’s and her aide Huma Abedin’s emails found on Anthony Wiener’s computer.)
Director of the Justice Department Public Affairs Office Melanie Newman sent an email to Richard P. Quinn, former National Security Assistant Special Agent, and Michael P. Kortan, who is currently the assistant director for Public Affairs for the FBI, advising them she wanted to "flag a story" about "a casual, unscheduled meeting between former president Bill Clinton and the AG." And she provides the AG’s talking points.
Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton on board a parked plane in Phoenix. The meeting occurred during the then-ongoing investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s email server, and only a few days before she was interviewed by the FBI. Lynch later admitted that the meeting with Bill Clinton "cast a cloud" over the Justice Department/FBI investigation. A week after the tarmac meeting, FBI Director James Comey called Hillary Clinton’s actions "extremely careless" but did not recommend charges and Attorney General Lynch ended the criminal investigation.
"It is jaw-dropping that the Trump administration is blacking out key information about how the Obama Justice Department tried to spin Loretta Lynch’s scandalous meeting with Bill Clinton," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "President Trump should order the full and immediate release of these materials."
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"It is jaw-dropping that the Trump administration is blacking out key information about how the Obama Justice Department tried to spin Loretta Lynch’s scandalous meeting with Bill Clinton,"
Swamp creatures protecting their own, or critical data points to be used later in legal proceedings? You decide.
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I would vote for the former. DoJ hasn't gone through the rinse cycle yet.
I expect though if we ever see the full set of notes there will be a cry for a RICO investigation.
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“It is jaw-dropping that the Trump administration is blacking out key information about how the Obama Justice Department tried to spin Loretta Lynch’s scandalous meeting with Bill Clinton,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “President Trump should order the full and immediate release of these materials.”
Wonder why doesn't Trump/DOJ release this info? Is it because, the masses would be out with pitchforks, tar and feather and ropes?
[Miami Herald] Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has ordered his department to redefine its mission and issue a new statement of purpose to the world. The draft statements under review right now are similar to the old mission statement, except for one thing -- any mention of promoting democracy is being eliminated.
According to an internal email that went out Friday, which I obtained, the State Department’s Executive Steering Committee convened a meeting of leaders to draft new statements on the department’s purpose, mission and ambition, as part of the overall reorganization of the State Department and USAID. (The draft statements were being circulated for comment Friday and could change before being finalized.)
▪ The State Department’s draft statement on its purpose is: "We promote the security, prosperity and interests of the American people globally."
▪ The State Department’s draft statement on its mission is: "Lead America’s foreign policy through global advocacy, action and assistance to shape a safer, more prosperous world."
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Yup. If a thing is good, it will sell itself. Consider a gift, if you want it.
And please don't try bring all the people from other cultures here, who don't give a fig about our democracy and who want to corrupt and change our democracy. Screw that part of diversity--it is a failed concept.
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Democracy = middle class (and bureaucrats =/= middle class). So, given the beating USA middle class been taking in the last decades, one should concentrate on promoting democracy in USA - which, the vulgar choice of the bourgeoisie appears to be doing (to the extent that the better classes controlling the mandarinate allow).
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"Lead America’s foreign policy through global advocacy, action and assistance to shape a safer, more prosperous world."
Pure Globalism. Promoting Democracy not mentioned because democracy is not their goal for anyone. Oligarchic technocracy is their goal, a form of theocracy. That is why they do not mention democracy.
State, including T-Rex, is fighting to silence Trump's electorate:
h/t Instapundit
It often seems that campus activists are less about actually creating positive "change" and more about personal vanity. The latest entry comes from the upper-crust Sarah Lawrence College, where The College Fix reports that some activists feel they deserve to be compensated for their activism. (i) That's a logical outcome of the new class' world view.
(ii) History shows that you will be compensated
2. Q: Is the political climate there all that radical? My mom and I were talking about it, and she doesn't think I could handle it. She says that it's very feminist, very granola/hippie-ish. I come from a southern conservative family, but I'm not as conservative as my parents and grandparents. I'd say that I'm more of a moderate with some Republican leanings. I'm generally pretty open-minded. Do you think I would be able to handle it?
2. A: Sarah Lawrence is unapologetically liberal -- but the environment hardly ever manifests itself as an aggressive political machine. Sure, there are feminists, but you're only going to meet students who study intellectual feminist literature, not women holding up picket signs and yelling angrily. I have one friend at SLC with conservative leanings but she only really felt uncomfortable during the elections -- a time when its hard to resist professing one's opinion. If the friends you make are strongly liberal, its not at all taboo to just request that no one talk about politics; my friends and I have agreed to not have political discussions because they're almost always uncomfortable.
In any case, if your "Republican leanings" include socially conservative values (as oppose to fiscal ones, for example), you will have a tough time.
4. Q: This is kind of frivolous, but I've heard that a lot of the boys at Sarah Lawrence are gay. Am I going to be able to meet guys?
A: 4. Like NYU/Vassar/Bard/etc, SLC has a higher open LGBT population than other schools, but that wouldn't be a factor in whether or not you get guys -- it would be that there are very few guys at SLC in general (something like 28/72 ratio), and of what ones there are, you'd be competing against all the other girls for them.
Do the"other girls" get to apply for activists benefits too?
If you are a Republican and/or conservative, it appears you will have considerable difficulty fitting in; otherwise about anything goes.
That imbalance reeks of rampant gender discrimination, misandry, and female privilege. Where are the useful idiots-- er, I mean SJWs-- when you need them?
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I see the problem, they are just following the examples of other people who gets paid well for doing essentially nothing, such as university liberal art proffesors.
h/t Instapundit
There’s a reason government jobs are so sought after: The average government salary is nearly double the average American worker’s.
The average government salary in 2016 was $83,072, according to a report on federal salaries from the Office of Personnel Management released in July.
By comparison, the average wage index for the U.S. in 2015, the most recent available calculation, was $48,098, according to the Social Security Administration.
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The source for this article is a little inflammatory.
Please consider the 'Cost of Living' for different regions
as a contributor to the suggested wage disparity.
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There was a different time when this was not so. Because they are paid more than the average American, it fosters an atmosphere of elitism in government.
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A wonderful step in the direction of income equality would be requiring Congressional and other government employees to be subject to Obamacare.
The lie that Congress is a small business has allowed Congressional employees and Congresspeople to get subsidies that they are not entitled to.
Why not get rid of that?
The only question of interest is: should the recipients of this fraudulent government largesse be required to reimburse the government for past illegal subsidies?
I note that the Obama administration billed veterans in a somewhat analogous situation.
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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.
[Al Jazeera] The firm that provided Venezuela's election technology has cast doubt on the outcome of its polls for a new assembly, saying the turnout figures were "manipulated".
[Judicial Watch] Washington, DC ‐ Judicial Watch today announced that the Justice Department refuses to disclose the talking points developed by the Obama Justice Department to help it respond to press inquiries about the controversial June 27, 2016, tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
