[Guardian] A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted.
Four more journalists have been charged with felonies after being arrested while covering the unrest around Donald Trump’s inauguration, meaning that at least six media workers are facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted.
A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter were each charged with the most serious level of offense under Washington DC’s law against rioting, after being caught up in the police action against demonstrators.
The Guardian learned of their arrests after reporting on Monday that the journalists Evan Engel of Vocativ and Alex Rubinstein of RT America had also been arrested and charged with felonies while covering the same unrest on Friday morning.
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Having once (no, twice, now that I think on it) been in the wrong place at just the right time, I'm more inclined to wait until I see the actual evidence of rioting before prescribing corrective measures.
[GP] On Thursday morning Democratic Mayor Bill De Blasio went on CNN to discuss how he is going to comply with ICE in certain circumstances.
From Legal Insurrection:
If this weren’t so infuriating, it might be funny . . . Appearing on CNN this morning to discuss President Trump’s plan to cut funds to sanctuary cities, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio implied that the city will not cooperate in the deportation of thieves who don’t use violence because they might be the "breadwinners" of their families.
Here is part of the Transcript:
CAMEROTA: How about theft?
DE BLASIO: Well here’s an example. Theft, violent, any theft involving a weapon, for example --
CAMEROTA: Not violent. Just a regular, low-level crime.
DE BLASIO: There are very low-level crimes, for example, small amounts of marijuana possession. Going through a stoplight that doesn’t cause any damage to anyone. Those are areas where we will not work to see someone deported. Why? Because these are members of a family in our community, say it’s the breadwinner in that family. So you deport the breadwinner and the rest of the family, including the children, are left without anyone. You tear a family apart. That’s not good government. That’s not in my view moral.
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So you deport the breadwinner and the rest of the family, including the children, are left without anyone. You tear a family apart. That’s not good government. That’s not in my view moral.
OK, lets talk morals. Any murder committed by an illegal against a citizen PERMANENTLY tears that victim's innocent family apart. Any public official that knowingly allowed that illegal to remain in their district prior to (or after) the crime - their conduct rises to the level of criminal negligence, and in no way represents good, moral government.
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How about the American guy who can't get a job because the illegal was providing 'bread' to his family. The American guy has a family too...
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How about the guy - even a US citizen - who murders someone. He is the family breadwinner. Is Cuomo saying that he shouldn't be sent to prison because it would deprive his family?
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So does that mean De Blasio would not put Thieves in jail if they are family breadwinners? They can't provide if they are in jail after all?
[WASHINGTONPOST] As far as I'm aware, the Doomsday Clock has never stood at 1 p.m. or two in the morning or even 8:20. It's always been somewhere between 11:50 and 11:59. So everybody's been frightened since 1945. If you're sitting on the edge of your seat for 72 years, when do you get a bathroom break?
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From their website,
We focus as well on ways to prevent catastrophe from the malign or accidental use of nuclear, carbon-based, and biology-based technologies.
They appear not to be aware that all Earth biology is carbon based.
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Physicists, phil-b, physicists. You know why physics is the first exact science (or used to be - nowadays it attracts people who like to be absolutely certain). Because it's the simplest (I've heard rumors, can't say from personal knowledge, that even some physicists understand physics)!
But don't tell nobody. It's a secret. [FREEBEACON] Left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America has been quietly working with social media giant Facebook to combat what the group describes as "propaganda" and "fake news," internal documents reveal.
Media Matters told current and prospective donors at a retreat in Florida over the weekend that it has been in discussions with Facebook leadership about their policies on inaccurate and partisan news stories on the website that many liberals blame for political losses last year.
"We’ve been engaging with Facebook leadership behind the scenes to share our expertise and offer input on developing meaningful solutions," the group said in a briefing book obtained by the Washington Free Beacon at the conference.
"Media Matters will serve as their partner," the group said of its work with Facebook and other social media companies.
Conservatives have argued in the past that Facebook intentionally marginalizes right-leaning voices, a theory that could be fueled by the social media network’s ties to Media Matters, among the harshest critics of conservative figures and ideas.
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Something tells me that Facebook has peaked and is on the slow downhill slope. I may be wrong, but there is a basic lack of editorial and management honesty there.
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[IsraelTimes] Democratic senators are holding up a resolution condemning last month’s United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Security Council condemnation of Israel’s settlement expansion in the West Bank.
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., was behind the hold, Jewish Insider reported Wednesday. The report cited Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., who told the newsletter that the Senate resolution’s language is objectionable because it does not recognize that settlements are an obstruction to peace, and that should Durbin lift his hold, he would place his own hold.
The resolution, similar to one passed earlier this month in the US House of Representatives, was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with all Republicans and three Democrats voting for it and seven Democrats voting against.
Individual senators may put a hold on most types of legislation. It takes 60 senators to override a hold.
#1
Fast and Furious was to arm the cartels who would then place a person in the Mexican presidential office who would support the destruction of the US Super power by flooding the US with Latin Americans who would continue the power of the Dimocratic party and their world leader, George Soros.
The flooding of the EU is being orchestrated by Merkel and their world leader, George Soros. With the destruction of the US and European power centers Soros via Hillary and Merkel will rule the world and continue to build their power bases.
The UN, now made up of mainly Muslim power centers would get the opportunity to establish a blockade of Israel growth via the Palestinian state.
But a few things went wrong. Putin wouldn't join the Soros alliance. Hence Obama's expelling his diplomats and flexing his muscle at the border with Poland.
The latin Pope and NATO are under the EU command and therefore Soros.
However, their is a counter genius who has this figured out, that would be a guy by the name of Trump and the people of the U.S. who have had it with this crap...
[Guardian] Environmental Protection Agency spokesman says employees are anxious after Trump team placed a hold on the release of work and edited website.
Fears that Donald Trump’s presidency will suppress climate science at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are causing widespread unease, with a spokesman for the administration admitting staff are experiencing "tension and stress" over the transition.
According to the Associated Press, Trump’s team has placed a "temporary hold" on the release of work by EPA scientists, pending review by political appointees. The report sparked outrage among climate activists and some scientists who claimed climate science was in danger of being distorted by the new administration.
The administration was also reportedly poised to remove all mentions of climate change from the EPA website, only to back away from the idea. The White House website has already had all of its climate sections excised.
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they should be afraid and they should lose their funding also. Climate Science became a way to fund political apparatchiks. It's a left-wing funding organ now. They are your political enemies President Trump you need to cut them all loose and start from scratch with de-politicised science.
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"tension and stress" -- much worse, no doubt, than a coal miner driving home to tell his wife and kids that he's out of a job, or a Navajo watching his water supply turn bright orange.
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What really scares them is that if this gig falls through, they might have to go find a job or something.
It's worth repeating - these people have no fucking idea how difficult it'll be for a Federal hack to find work in the Dreaded Private Sector. They're in for a world of hurt. I consider myself pretty lucky (that, and I worked my ass off) after getting laid off from Mass. state government back in 1992.
[BBC] A former US Secretary of State and a Big Bang Theory actress have both vowed to register as Muslim if Donald Trump creates a database of Muslim Americans. Ah, yes. Making a splashy show of doing something that presents no danger to herself and costs no money. Good idea. Sign me up too.
Politician Madeleine Albright and Mayim Bialik said they "stand ready" to register, in defiance of the new President.
"I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian & found out later my family was Jewish," Ms Albright - the first woman to be named Secretary of State - tweeted on Wednesday. "I stand ready to register as Muslim in #solidarity." The tweet gained tens of thousands of likes. But she's not a Moslem so she's not allowed to.
Her comments come as rumours continue to circulate about an executive order which would announce extreme vetting, a refugee ban and a ban on arrivals from seven countries, said to include Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
But there has been no mention of a register of American Muslims in recent months - something Mr Trump said he would "certainly implement" in an interview in 2015, but later distanced himself from.
Blossom Unains5562 submitted another article on the same story, commenting:
Sort of a no-risk strategy for news-whoring:
1. A hijab would only make her look better
2. No Imam would ever attempt to give her a clitorectomy.
Am sure the citizens of R-Burg have more.
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx
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...I suppose that it would be impolite of me to point out that if such a thing were done,:
1: Said database would be put together from existing data and data from incoming people (which we already collect as a matter of course - Ms Albright's family provided it when they came here). So a Tweet going out to direct all Muslims to register - and these morons deciding to register as Muslims to Signal Virtue(TM) - ain't gonna happen.
2: Providing false information on a Government form is a crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a). Damned few people get hit with it, but President Trump is the one guy who might push it. There is no exemption under said act for 'free speech', 'resistance', or any other cockamamie excuse these people might come up with. A few loudmouths signalling virtue at a Federal penitentary for a few years might change their minds.
Mike
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This is more in same vein as the celebs that were going to leave the country if Trump was elected:
'We're still waiting for you to begin to suppress yourself.'
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Call me when they only appear in a burka and only accompanied by an adult male family member. Otherwise, just more poseurs.
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'Find the quiet man' theory. Or, whom are we not hearing from of late ?
If I were Congressman and Benghazi Investigation Chairman Trey Gowdy, I'd have a prime suspects list. Some of these Foggy Bottom fellows may be on it.
Remember a few weeks back when the Trump Campaign discreetly notified former Congressman and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) chair Mike Rogers, that his services to the campaign were no longer needed? Newly confirmed CIA Director Mike Pompeo served, and Gowdy still serves on the HPSCI.
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if they had remained govt employees they would have to testify, under oath, about their role in the obstruction of the response to the FOIAs issued regarding HRC correspondence.
As private citizens, they can take the 5th.
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Spot on your Lordship. And they fear a subpoena may soon be headed their way. The IRS Lois Learner episode was not wasted on them.
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I can speak w/first hand knowledge of Greg Starr. I, and many others, had dinner w/him in mid-Oct. 3 weeks BEFORE the election he said he was resigning effective 20 JAN 17 no matter what. RV was bought and paid for and him and the were going for a drive.
As for the other 4 - so what?? The machine will still grind on. In 6 weeks someone new will be in the role. In six months folks will forget the previous one. In six years some of them will be dead.
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The Department of Homeland Security has asked U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan, a former longtime Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, to step down from his post.
News of his departure, expected within a month, comes as the Trump administration moves toward tougher enforcement of immigration laws.
Two sources familiar with Morgan's departure told Reuters that he held a morning phone call with employees to say that he was not resigning ‐ but had been asked to leave by the Trump administration.
Morgan's ouster also comes the day after President Donald Trump announced a broad plan to crack down on border security, including directing the construction of a wall along the border with Mexico.
The border patrol union, which endorsed Trump's presidential campaign and applauded his executive order, had been critical of Morgan. The union criticized Morgan for supporting former President Barack Obama's plans to shield certain illegal immigrants from deportation through a White House-driven amnesty.
The executive board of the National Border Patrol Council called Morgan arrogant and a 'disgrace to the Border Patrol' in an opinion piece published by Breitbart.com on Nov. 30.
Unlike many border patrol officers, Morgan did not climb the chain of command within the agency but was appointed from the FBI.
Morgan was named to the post in June and took office in October. The former FBI agent briefly led the internal affairs department at the Border Patrol's parent agency before heading the agency of roughly 20,000 agents.
In a statement, Kevin McAleenan, the Customs and Border Protection's acting commissioner, praised Morgan for 'his unwavering dedication to our border security mission' and 'lifelong career in service to the nation.'
Morgan was the first outsider to lead the agency since its founding in 1924. He clashed with rank-and-file officers in the Trump-friendly union from the start. Daily Mail UK: Where America Gets Its News
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Mexico could have fixed this problem a long time ago, and now are going to get some serious blowback. And they hold hardly any cards to negotiate with.
Conrad Black [NYSUN] ...There will be an increased level of economic growth, a reduction of most people’s income taxes as well as corporate taxes, a reduction in crime and violence, and a consistent and sustainable foreign policy. The people will respond to that and the media will be unable to deform the record of the administration. There will be mistakes and there will be occasional episodes bordering on buffoonery (they have not been unheard of in that office).
But the establishment Donald Trump assailed, which reacted to his campaign with mirth, and then with rage, and then with desperation, is now cobbling together a rather contemptible guerrilla resistance. It will be ground to powder by what is emerging each week as a juggernaut that holds all the offices, has a clear mandate and program, and is installing a strong administration to reverse 20 years of national decline.
The Obamas, Clintons, and Bushes have left Washington; they had a few good innings, but they will not be back unless one of them a generation younger than these comes back meritocratically.
The press will not have rebuilt its credibility until it recognizes how terribly it has disserved the country from Vietnam and Watergate all the way to the Golden Shower. The Democrats, presumably, will get the hint and change course and recruit better candidates; both sides come to bat. The press is like Talleyrand’s description of the Bourbons returning to Paris in 1815 in the baggage train of Wellington’s army: “They have forgotten nothing and they have learned nothing.”
In a few more years the Bourbons were gone forever; the press will cling on, but they will not make or break administrations as they have and will not regain public confidence from one election to the next, and not before they have conducted a profound self-reappraisal with the help of the 85% of the public who don’t believe them.
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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.
[Guardian] A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted.
[GP] On Thursday morning Democratic Mayor Bill De Blasio went on CNN to discuss how he is going to comply with ICE in certain circumstances.
[FREEBEACON] Left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America has been quietly working with social media giant Facebook to combat what the group describes as "propaganda" and "fake news," internal documents reveal.
[Guardian] Environmental Protection Agency spokesman says employees are anxious after Trump team placed a hold on the release of work and edited website.
[BBC] A former US Secretary of State and a Big Bang Theory actress have both vowed to register as Muslim if Donald Trump creates a database of Muslim Americans.
Spot on your Lordship. And they fear a subpoena may soon be headed their way. The IRS Lois Learner episode was not wasted on them. 
[NYSUN] ...There will be an increased level of economic growth, a reduction of most people’s income taxes as well as corporate taxes, a reduction in crime and violence, and a consistent and sustainable foreign policy. The people will respond to that and the media will be unable to deform the record of the administration. There will be mistakes and there will be occasional episodes bordering on buffoonery (they have not been unheard of in that office).
