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Thanks B. My mom departed in June of this year. In 2 weeks, I'm due to become a grandpa for a beautiful baby girl. These 2 events alone have put me in contact with amazing people whose personal stories I find humbling.
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09/02/2021 17:20 Comments ||
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Congrats, Rex!
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/02/2021 19:43 Comments ||
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Yes, congratulations. You know, "amazing people" sort of have a habit of clustering :-)
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[Of Two Minds] America's elites are fracturing along multiple tectonic fissures: while the conventional media focuses on the ginned-up bread and circuses of Red and Blue political games (i.e., The Purple Empire), the real conflicts are within the camps running the Red and Blue games, the Imperial Project of global hegemony (a.k.a. The Deep State), the New Nobility of Big Tech attempting to overthrow the Old Nobility, the Nationalists versus the Globalists and the Financial Gamesters versus The New Foundation.
These are my informal acronyms, of course, but the conflicts are real and intensifying as extreme policies reach new extremes and the risks of breakdown increase.
The most dangerous elites are the ones clinging to the perverse but compelling faith that the Federal Reserve and Treasury can conjure endless trillions of U.S. dollars without any consequence other than continued global hegemony, the faith that the Federal Reserve has god-like powers to tweak the dials so that 1) the U.S. dollar remains the pre-eminent reserve currency 2) but not so strong that it sinks the emerging market economies and 3) magical enough that there are no limits on how many can be absorbed by global stock, bond, debt, risk and commodity markets and 4) remains the primary method of limiting the global financial leverage of geopolitical rivals. Uh, sure. No problem, the Fed is all-powerful, right?
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[ColonelCassad] 1. The Taliban announced that Haybatullah Akhundzada will become the leader of Afghanistan. He will take the post of conditional prime minister of the country. The presidency is likely to be abolished. In fact, the Taliban leadership will merge with the state apparatus, which will become one whole.
[RedState] Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Pardo-Maurer dropped some incredible information during an interview and it’s huge, if true.
Director of MRC Latino, Jorge Bonilla, posted an interview of Pardo-Maurer. Pardo-Maurer, who was in the State Department for years, since at least 2001, said he was being told that the Department of Defense already knew who the bomber was ahead of time, before the bombing and when the Kabul attack would occur.
This goes along with a report that we did previously that they knew when and where it was likely to occur.
The report of intelligence communications indicated that the U.S. knew generally where and when the attack would occur at the Kabul airport, even that the gate where the attack occurred — the Abbey Gate was at "highest risk."
How do we know this report likely is true? Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby refused to talk about it and railed against leaking intelligence.
But Pardo-Maurer went further in his interview. He said not only did they know where and when it would happen, but that they had a Predator drone lock on the bomber, but that "they" refused to grant permission to take the guy out. "[Permission] was requested and was denied," he said. Why? "Because we are in this process of negotiating with the Taliban who aren’t even in control of their own government or their own people."
So is he really saying what it sounds like he’s saying? Because it sounds like he’s saying that we had the shot to take this guy out but they were afraid of angering the Taliban if they took the shot. Yikes. So not only had we outsourced our security to the Taliban. But we wouldn’t even properly protect our own people because it might disturb the enemy. We are truly living in a bizarre reality at this point with the Biden team.
I’m thinking those reporters who were questioning Kirby yesterday have to go back to him with this: What did you know and when did you know it? And who gave this order not to take the bomber out? Why was this bomber not taken down? Does this go back to Joe Biden’s famous "risk averseness?" Heads need to roll in the administration over all these failures. But, of course, the biggest problem is the failure at the top which is why everything else is such a disaster.
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Is there any accurate reporting as what happened at Abbey Gate? I listened to two Gold Star parents who lost their sons at the AG bombing. They spoke of details I was unaware of. For instance, one father spoke of a firefight prior to the bomb blast.
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I too read some reports of a "complex attack" (IED accompanied or followed by Small Arms Fire).
My sense is the Taliban gate guards, having been tipped off about an approaching VBIED (Vehicle Borne IED) opened up on the car and everyone else, with light machinegun fire.
I have seen NO reporting of Taliban KIA or wounded relative to the VBIED. Likewise, I have seen NO reporting of the 'cause of death' or cause of injuries of any of the dead or wounded.
Inconvenient truths can oftentimes be found in things not discussed.
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Indeed, and perhaps a closer look at the drone strike that supposedly killed 2 ISIS-K leaders whose names nov one knows as well as the family heading to HK Airport. How about that? This is what you get when you team up with the Taliban. Yes, it gets worse.
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[MSN] During the bitter legal battles over the 2020 presidential election, conservative U.S. Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... justices signaled an embrace of a once-marginal legal doctrine thon the lamly gives state legislatures power to set election rules.
If applied aggressively by the court, the "independent state legislature doctrine," could further empower states to limit voting rights at a time when Republicans, emboldened by former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... 's baseless claims of election fraud after his loss to Democratic President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... , are enacting new restrictions.
"It is a ticking time bomb," said Rick Hasen, a professor at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Irvine School of Law.
The doctrine could limit the ability of courts to block voting rules that violate state law. It could also make it harder to challenge the drawing of electoral districts to entrench one political party in power - known as gerrymandering - and factor into lawsuits that arise in the heat of an election.
The doctrine threatens another avenue for challenging election restrictions and maps as plaintiffs and voting rights advocates have increasingly turned to state courts for relief. Unlike the U.S. Constitution, which implies the right to vote but does not explicitly grant it, most state constitutions expressly protect the right to vote.
"It would give the legislatures the authority to pass any voting rules they want without meaningful oversight, particularly under the state constitution," said Josh Douglas, a voting rights expert at the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law. This can undermine voting rights by letting politicians craft rules that help them win re-election, he added.
The doctrine is based in part on language in the U.S. Constitution that the "times, places and manner" of federal elections "shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof."
Four of the Supreme Court's six conservative justices appeared to lend weight to the doctrine during the flurry of litigation around the 2020 election, when Republican politicians or officials sought to block lower court decisions allowing or requiring changes to election deadlines and other rules to account for the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Liberals could be taking political risk if they call election
In a Wisconsin case, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, agreeing with the court's Oct. 26 decision to prevent an absentee ballot deadline extension, said in his opinion that "state courts do not have a blank check to rewrite state election laws for federal elections."
Two days later, in a similar case from North Carolina, Justice Neil Gorsuch called it "egregious" that a state court and election officials "worked together to override a carefully tailored legislative response to COVID."
Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas raised similar concerns about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision to extend ballot deadlines.
'VERY DIFFICULT ROAD'
Given the court's higher hurdles for proving violations of the federal Voting Rights Act, a law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting, or the U.S. Constitution, election law attorneys and voting rights advocates say they are concerned.
"When you add all that together, it signals a very difficult road for voting rights litigation in the future," said Dale Ho, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer.
The increasing rightward shift of the nine-member Supreme Court also raises questions whether it will overturn a 2015 ruling that narrowly upheld Arizona's decision to establish an independent commission to draw congressional districts.
The court interpreted the constitution's "times, places and manner" provision as referring not to a specific legislative body but instead to a state's general authority to legislate on the issue.
Two of the justices in the majority in 2015, including the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who authored the decision, are no longer on the court.
"It’s a very open question whether, with the change in composition of the court: is that subject to overruling?" said University of Kentucky's Douglas. If it is, it could at a minimum threaten redistricting commissions in other states that were established via ballot initiatives.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
