Saturday, November 30, 2019

Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech is charged with complicity in the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia


Trump overturns extra duty for three E-4s who were late for formation


Pelosi to lead delegation to climate summit amid U.S. withdrawal from Paris climate deal


This guy had shopped these so-called Jeffrey Epstein videos around to many lawyers for several months. Pretty sordid story about how two of the victims' most prominent and veteran attorneys fell into his trap.


What Is ‘Failson’ Culture? Look No Further Than the Family Trump for the Answer


Wexton bill would use credit card data to track firearms purchases


“Exxon knew.” Those words have rocked climate change politics, as investigations revealed industry giants knew of the danger of greenhouse emissions even as they undermined scientists. But coal knew, too—as early as 1966, a newly unearthed journal shows.


The deadline for Congress to secure our elections before 2020 is fast approaching. We have until December 20 to make sure Congress provides funds to shore up our elections. Sign the petition now. #ProtectTheVote


Apple was slammed by Ukraine for referring to the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russia in several apps for Russian users


Trump’s photo op play: Facing impeachment, the president strives to look hard at work


What was being said in whispers by Australian Defence & Security leaders 3yrs ago, is now being said very loudly indeed. Russia & China are in a partnership to undermine the US & international rules based order


Georgia governor's adviser hits back at Gaetz: 'We don't care what you think' First the Trump wing of the party messed around in Pennsylvania, now it's Georgia. They are fracturing the GOP.


Attorney General Bill Barr's name continues to pop up in connection with the Ukraine story - first in Trump's July 25 call and this week in reports about Giuliani's actions in Ukraine. On Monday, we sued for records of Barr's contacts with Giuliani.


NEW from PEW: vast majority of Americans believe in the climate crisis, are actively taking personal responsibility (less water, meat, single use plastics, food waste + driving solo), and want our government to #ActOnClimate. Holdouts are Republican men.


Lindsey Graham is the number one visitor to Trump properties among members of Congress.


Hi, I'm Phil Ehr and I want to be the next Congressman for #FL1.@mattgaetz is the embodiment of what's wrong with Washington. I'm ready to fight for Northwest Florida, but I can't win this fight without you - join our team


Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) is the latest political figure to expose how what GOP members of Congress are saying about President Donald Trump in public is in stark contrast to their condemnation of him in private.


Two Texas tragedies provide fitting bookends for the fate of a regulation that the Environmental Protection Agency issued to protect first-responders and the neighbors of companies that manufacture and store highly hazardous chemicals.


“The House Intelligence Committee is preparing to release a scathing report alleging Trump engaged in a months-long effort to seek foreign interference in the 2020 election and obstruct a congressional investigation.”


People are leaving Destiny USA running and screaming. There was a shooting near the food court & they are evacuating the mall


People are leaving Destiny USA running and screaming. There was a shooting near the food court & they are evacuating the mall


As Americans become less religious, the role of chaplains may grow


Trillions will be inherited over the coming decades, further widening the wealth gap


Trump's Ukraine call was so much worse for him than he thinks.


To develop new varieties of crops that can thrive in a warmer, wetter or drier world, researchers must screen a wide range of plant materials to find key traits, like drought- and pest-tolerance.


Grenadier Guards didn’t want Prince Andrew to be their colonel


Considering all the media attention, you might think that Russia's alleged attempts to interfere in elections was limited to the United States. But what about Spain, Madagascar, Bolivia, Italy, and Libya, to name a few?


A journalist wrote that our brother Paul "lived" in Michigan. But he *lives* there, and that life - of family birthdays, car insurance and rent payments, a waiting job and pet - continues even as he is kept in Russian jail without evidence or a trial.


Syria Faces a New Foreign Invasion: Travel Bloggers


“Do you think Rudy wants to sit in federal prison like Michael Cohen is with all those people he put there when he was U.S. Attorney?” @glennkirschner2 asked. “That’s not a hospitable environment for Rudy Giuliani.”


1. Justice Kennedy retired abruptly to make way for Trump’s Brett Kavanaugh. 2. Kennedy’s son Justin and senior executive Tom Bowers signed off on Trump’s loans at Deutsche Bank. 3. Bowers “killed himself”. Raise your hand if you demand a damn explanation for that shady shit.


Black students spit upon and pelted with garbage by parents after taking a knee at high school football game


Mick Mulvaney’s Air Force One Outfit Becomes A Hilarious Meme: ‘Trump’s Caddy’


Why can't Devin Nunes answer easy questions about new Ukraine allegations?


Trump administration proposal could cause millions to lose food stamps “SNAP is related to hunger and getting people the nutrition they need,” one food bank representative said. “Food shouldn’t be a luxury.”


London: when reality beats fiction. The man with the narwhal tusk is a Polish chef who pulled it off the wall where it was displayed.


“Eleven wealthy American donors who have given a total of more than $3.7m to rightwing UK groups in the past five years have been identified, raising questions about the influence of foreign funding on British politics.”


Climate AP Top News Climate change Paris Madrid Poland International News Science United Nations Donald Trump Europe General News United States Science warnings, US retreat add urgency to UN climate talks


Hong Kong seniors take to streets to back students as activists decry police


Walmart has offered its employees a 15 percent store discount instead of holiday pay this year. At the same time, the company is saving an estimated $2.2B a year thanks to the Trump tax cuts. America has socialism for the rich, cold, hard capitalism for everyone else.


Apple says it will reevaluate how it identifies "disputed borders" after receiving criticism for displaying Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia on maps and weather apps for Russian users.


This is frightening & insane—“A bill to ban abortion introduced in the Ohio legislature requires doctors to ‘reimplant an ectopic pregnancy’ into a woman’s uterus – a procedure that does not exist in medical science – or face charges of ‘abortion murder.’


Even before Gordon Sondland’s work in Ukraine set off alarm bells, senior U.S. officials were raising concerns about his communications with officials from Romania


BREAKING: @RepJerryNadler Notifies President @realDonaldTrump & Ranking Member Collins of Privileges Provided During Impeachment Inquiry


It’s notable that Andrew’s life, more than any other royal, is dominated by his relationships with strong and powerful women: his staff, his daughters, Sarah Ferguson and of course, his mother


How did Deutsche Bank end up with so many problems?


The billboard is up on 198 between Hanford and Visalia, California. Thanks for sharing.


These five surprising moments from the Trump impeachment inquiry changed the course of the investigation


Fascinating article about how Russian bots work on Twitter, which features the concerted attack on me and the Magnitsky story by a widespread and identified node of Russian bots.


We can’t offer any 35% discounts for #BlackFriday, but your $35 donation can help end Mitch’s 35 years in the Senate. What a deal!


Sacha Baron Cohen singled out the one Jewish-American he believes is doing the most to facilitate “hate and violence” in America: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg


Completely neutral, right? “In a forthcoming documentary, "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words," Thomas lashes out at Democrats and Biden, who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee and oversaw his confirmation process.”


Corporate debt nears a record $10 trillion, and borrowing binge poses new risks


Speechless. Members of the public with nothing but a narwhal tusk and a fire extinguisher tackle a murderous terrorist. Heroism, pure and simple


You can turn on Fox News at just about any time of day and hear them make this same bad-faith argument about universal programs. The goal is the same: trick the poor and protect the ultra-rich with phony populism. Depressing to see it come from a Democratic presidential campaign.


Rudy Giuliani is the honorary mayor of a tiny Ukrainian village which now has at least a walk-on role in the Donald Trump impeachment drama


Opinion: Conservatives’ debate over their future is going to be bitter and fierce


After Trump’s meddling in the Eddie Gallagher case the Pentagon faces a big purge


Emmanuel Macron is striking out on his own with a plan to take over Europe—and both friends and foes say it just might work


Were Bolton’s tweets a cry for help, a feint to rehabilitate himself without delivering, or a tease to get back in the public eye? "If the third, they are the taunts of the one aide who could blow the impeachment effort wide open,"


The idea that Trump cares about corruption at all is frankly laughable.


Medicare open enrollment ends soon; here’s what you need to know


Iraq prime minister says he will resign amid protests


Brexit and the rise of nationalism


‘I couldn’t be a part of it anymore’: Suburban female voters are fleeing the Republican Party due to ‘reprehensible’ Trump


Facebook issued a disclaimer for the first time to a post that the Singapore government said was false


Two Londoners, one armed with a fire extinguisher and the other with a narwhal tusk, take on a knife-wielding terrorist on London Bridge.


Belarus kept old factories, jobs, and social services alive after communism. Now that model is under threat from Russia


Trump/McConnell Supreme Court poses new threat to Roe v. Wade


Abortion clinics face down myriad pressures to remain open


Violence, threats have marked anti-abortion protest since day one


70 years have passed since the Soviet Union's first nuclear blast. But for people who live near the site in Kazakhstan, it's seen as an ongoing tragedy, as the effects of four decades of nuclear tests are still felt.


"A product of tabloid culture, Trump has long trafficked in conspiracy theories. But as chief executive, he’s used the machinery of government to give the ones especially useful to him the stamp of official validation,"


A long-serving military officer put it bluntly: "There is a morale problem" and senior Pentagon officials have privately said they are disturbed by Trump's behavior.


I'll take the over he's going to end up in the Hague.


Stop saying that impeachment is political. Impeachment is not a substitute for politics; it appeals to the principles of law and duty that make politics possible.


JUST IN: The Maltese prime minister has announced his resignation. The decision comes as controversy mounts over a probe into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia


New Jersey Grapples With Far-Right Extremism After Arrests


In Afghanistan, Trump Creates Confusion Over U.S. Policy on Taliban


DHS created a fake university & accepted immigrants on student visas. When it was shut down, DHS tried deporting some of these students because they weren’t enrolled in school. This isn’t just cruel, it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. Officials must be held accountable for this.


Re-upping this again because who paid Kavanaugh’s debts, and what did Justin Kennedy provide the trumps from Deutsche Bank now that we know a third loan officer has turned up dead.


The 36-year-old winner of an online beauty pageant in which she was crowned “Miss Hitler” was one of 19 people across Italy put under formal investigation this week for illegally forming a Nazi political party


Scientists say there is growing evidence to suggest that irreversible changes to the Earth's environmental systems are already taking place, and that we are now in a "state of planetary emergency."


A Republican candidate running to challenge Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota had her Twitter account permanently suspended for repeated violations of rules on the social media site, according to a Twitter spokesperson


An American programmer has been criminally charged for traveling to North Korea to teach cryptocurrency and blockchain technology


Watch this stunt. With $30K this Trumper wants to impress us with his generosity. Now lets find out what he does with $100 million. All show....


Sept 2017 letter from Rod Rosenstein to Devin Nunes. I haven't seen it before. #FOIA


Danielle Stella, GOP challenger running to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar, has been permanently suspended from Twitter for publishing posts calling for violence against Omar. Stella was also arrested 2x this year for shoplifting and charged with felony theft


Iraq & democracy do not easily coexist. Whether b/c of history, demography, religion, pol culture, outside influence, and/or something else, it was the wrong place (& arguably there was no right one) to project American ambitions for a transformed MidEast.


What kind of President visits the troops for Thanksgiving and tells them he’s got an Afghan ceasefire deal on the table - when he doesn’t - only a low life who uses and abuses every person, law, policy, and government agency


"Trump has become a subject of [Russian satire] because of his odd fascination with, and deference to, his counterpart in Moscow," reports @AronRTTT of @AEI. As one joke goes, "Trump has asked Putin to prove that he never helps Trump."


The "Tamir Rice Safety Handbook," an 8-page online guide, includes sections on what to do if police stop you, ask you questions, want to search you or begin arresting you.


A deployment of Russian guns-for-hire has sustained casualties in its fight against Islamist militants in Mozambique. In another example of Russia's growing reach into Africa, dozens of private military contractors are aiding the Mozambique army.


Classic


Mick Mulvaney looks like he works as an assistant manager of a Scranton vape shop and can’t come within a 1000 yards of schools or playgrounds


Trump’s rising interference in military irks Pentagon


The House Judiciary Committee is setting a deadline of December 6 for Trump to decide whether his attorneys will participate in the committee's impeachment proceedings against him.


Kemp's decision depends on whether he wants to win the Atlanta suburbs next time. Hey, what could go wrong? Suburban voters just ***love*** Donald Trump, and they really want to see their elected officials bowing and scraping to him.


Turkey's former economy chief wants to undo Erdogan’s power grab


You guys...Tucker Carlson was on Ancient Aliens


Jordan’s hypocrisy


Jill Wine-Banks: "If Trump’s conduct is not grounds for using impeachment, what would be? ... Using the office of president for personal benefit while harming the security of an ally ... seems the precise definition of the gravest circumstances."


The legacy of Sergei Magnitsky is a human rights sanctions regime named after him that is scouring the world, terrorizing dictators and kleptocrats and changing behaviour.


When you confuse which of the president’s impeachable offenses you’re on TV to defend


Trump’s talk of Afghanistan cease-fire appears to surprise the Taliban, Afghan government


Waiting for Obama


Gold is all that nationalist leaders in Europe’s east can talk about these days


“To change everything, we need everyone. Each and every one of us must participate in the climate resistance movement. We cannot just say we care; we must show it.”


If one were to attempt mass digital PsyOps, one might want to warm up and analyze the results first, hypothetically...


Trump was reportedly told about the whistle-blower report in late August—before the military aid got released and the president started vehemently denying that he was extorting Ukraine


Friday, November 29, 2019

"A product of tabloid culture, Trump has long trafficked in conspiracy theories. But as chief executive, he’s used the machinery of government to give the ones especially useful to him the stamp of official validation," @PeterAtlantic writes


Judiciary Committee gives Trump deadline to call witnesses, present evidence in impeachment hearings


BREAKING: Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in stabbings in The Hague’s main shopping street.


What do these corporations have in common? ... they avoided all federal income taxes last year.


Is there any real proof that he donates his salary? Like a tax return?


A new bill from Ohio Republicans would require doctors to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into a woman’s uterus—procedure that does not exist in medical science—or face charges of “abortion murder,” which isn’t a thing. This isn’t their real goal, though.


Trump’s talk of Afghanistan cease-fire appears to surprise the Taliban, Afghan government


"The Ukrainian government could still announce new investigations which could be seen as politically beneficial to the US President. However, it is unclear what exactly those potential investigations would cover or when they would be announced."


I will bet you dollars to donuts at some point one of these fuckwits has been in Steve Bannon's orbit


Update: At a news conference, General Manager Brad Treliving said Peters resigned Friday morning and was not fired. He would not say whether Peters would have been fired had he not resigned.


UK police say man shot dead in terrorism incident at London Bridge


If Trump’s quid pro quo call never occurred, its fabrication is the smoking gun. People make up facts only if the truth is incriminating.


Former Republican congressman Charlie Dent says some of his former House colleagues have privately told him they are "absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the President's behavior."


EXCLUSIVE: Sondland’s Ties to Romanian Official Set Off Alarms at National Security Council


Maltese businessman accuses top government officials in murder case


Deutsche bank executive who signed off on Trump loans commits suicide.


President Trump contradicts testimony – and himself – by claiming he never directed Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine


The Creepy Racist Network Behind Trump Aide Stephen Miller


This account is comprehensive and convincing. BLUF: Trump is guilty as sin. One question: Did Sondland simply invent a Sep. 9 call to sort of get Trump a bit off the hook, and then Trump sort of embraced it? Or was that someone else’s bright idea?


Worry rises in military over Trump's decision-making


"With the firing of Navy Secretary Spencer and the resignation last December of then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, we see career military leaders choosing duty to country and duty to their oath of office over duty to a personality."


Singapore again invoked its new "fake news" law, ordering Facebook to publish a correction notice on a blog post


The Trump administration is using an obscure provision of the PATRIOT Act, for the first time in its 18 year history, to hold a non-citizen it can’t deport in detention forever.


“There is something inherently powerful in having the TV archives of the last impeachment inquiry handy — so people can compare and contrast what was being said then versus now.”


If billionaires such as Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg really want to stop Trump, they wouldn't be running themselves; they would be devoting big bucks to funding Weld and Walsh to soften up Trump in the primaries (while also funding moderate Democrats).


G. Alan Tarr on "five common mistakes made in arguing for the preservation of the Electoral College."


“An ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition — where an embryo implants on the mother’s fallopian tube rather than the uterus— rendering the pregnancy unviable. It can kill a woman if the embryonic tissue grows unchecked. Ohio’s—is one of the most extreme bills to date.”


Russia’s goals are to break up the EU and to break up NATO - and they can do it without tanks


BREAKING: Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi says he will submit his resignation to Parliament in the wake of anti-government protests which have claimed hundreds of lives.


Iraqi prime minister says he will resign


A man’s punishment for telling an immigrant to go back to his country: A 500-word essay


I’ve just heard Johnson on @LBC refusing to answer the basic question ‘How many children do you have?’


Thailand backed down on a plan to prohibit three pesticides after coming under pressure from farmers, the U.S. government and lobbyists for chemicals companies.


Only Trump has to be pressured into standing up for Human Rights.


The probe revealed a "huge and varied array of subjects, residents in different places, united by the same ideological fanaticism and willing to create an openly pro-Nazi, xenophobic and anti-Semitic movement.”


Prince Andrew sparked Buckingham Palace security breach by 'smuggling' female masseuse into bedroom after introduction by Jeffrey Epstein 'madam', Ghislaine Maxwell


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