Category: Domestic Affairs,

Police use Taser on 87-year-old woman cutting dandelion green in a vacant lot across from her house

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Police use Taser on 87-year-old woman cutting dandelions with a knife – CNN

Jeezus Christ…

The fact that the police responding to this call, even after the caller said it was an older woman cutting vegetation.

The caller should be facing charges of harassment and making a nuisance call and the officer who fired his taser should be relived of his badge immediately and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If the officer didn’t posses the ability to employ better judgment than that they had not business in the uniform.

Mueller team wants George Papadopoulos jailed 6 months

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Federal authorities had cornered the man they suspected could be part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election — and they might have been more successful in their investigation in early 2017 if it had not been for George Papadopoulos, the special counsel alleged on Friday.

…Papadopoulos lied to the FBI in January 2017 about his contact in London with Joseph Mifsud,identified in the filing as “the Professor.” Mifsud had told Papadopoulos the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. 

…Papadopoulos lied “to minimize both his own role as a witness and the extent of the campaign’s knowledge of his contacts,” the prosecutors said.

Among “at least a dozen” lies at the interview, Papadopoulos concealed the “significance” of when he had learned that Russians possessed thousands of emails about Clinton. Papadopoulos said wrongly several times he had communicated with Mifsud before he joined the Trump campaign.

…In another curious detail in the filing, the special counsel team said Papadopoulos had been given $10,000 in cash “from a foreign national whom he believed was likely an intelligence officer of a foreign country.” The filing noted that the country was “other than Russia.”

Mueller has also recommended a $9,500 fine.

Papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Sept. 7.

Another defendant, Alex van der Zwaan, also pleaded guilty to lying to investigators. He received 30 days in prison.

Mueller team wants George Papadopoulos jailed 6 months – CNNPolitics

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Trump considering Erik Prince’s plan to privatize Afghanistan war

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…[Trump]has shown interest in a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize the war.

…He envisions replacing troops with private military contractors who would work for a US envoy for the war who would report to the president. [Cutting the Pentagon, Defense Department and the entire Military out]

…Trump’s national security team was reportedly aghast at the idea.

…And a senior State Department official said there’s “not a chance” it will be adopted.

Trump considering Erik Prince’s plan to privatize Afghanistan war

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Mystery Sting Targets U.S. Senator for Dirt on Russia Sanctions

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A staffer for the senator responded to the email and proposed a date and time for a phone call between Shaheen and Rinkevičs. The supposed Latvian official, who called himself “Arturs Vaiders” and listed his job title as the “second secretary of the state protocol,” agreed.

But before the call could take place, Shaheen’s office contacted the Latvian embassy to confirm Vaiders’ bona fides. The embassy responded that the outreach attempt was fake.

Mystery Sting Targets U.S. Senator for Dirt on Russia Sanctions

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Michael Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting

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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN. Cohen is willing to make that assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller, the sources said.

…Cohen alleges that he was present, along with several others, when Trump was informed of the Russians’ offer by Trump Jr. By Cohen’s account, Trump approved going ahead with the meeting with the Russians, according to sources.

…The June 2016 meeting was arranged after a publicist who knew Trump Jr. told him in emails — in no uncertain terms — that a senior Russian official “offered to provide the Trump campaign” with damaging information about Clinton, and that the outreach was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” At the time, the Russian operation to covertly boost Trump’s candidacy wasn’t publicly known. Trump. Jr. responded, “if it’s what you say, I love it,” and started to arrange the meeting.

At the meeting, Trump Jr. was joined by his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who was Trump’s campaign chairman at the time. There were four Russians in the room, including a lawyer with Kremlin ties, a businessman who worked for an oligarch and a lobbyist with old KGB connections.

…Even Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and top Trump campaign official, said the meeting was “treasonous” and speculated that “the chance that Don Jr. did not walk these (Russians) up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero.”

Michael Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting – CNNPolitics

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Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

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The suspension will last for 30 days, and affects only Jones’s personal account on the social network, not the main InfoWars account. His profile will continue to be published, but he will not be not be able to post content until the suspension elapses.

…The suspension means Jones will not be able to post content to pages for which he is a “page admin”. As the suspension applies only to Jones personally, the channel bearing his name on Facebook will remain active, as will InfoWars itself, which has several page administrators. The intention is to prevent individuals from working around the ban by using multiple pages to violate policy.

…Facebook has previously been accused of “light-touch” moderation for high-profile accounts, even if they seem to be repeatedly violating policies. Earlier this month, Channel 4 revealed, through undercover filming, that some accounts, including those of far-right icons such as Tommy Robinson and Britain First, were marked as “shielded” and prevented from deletion even when normal users would have faced action.

Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones | Technology | The Guardian

Facebook gives out nothing but a slap on the wrist. Might as well have done nothing at all. Lame-asses.

‘What is more uncivil than taking children away?’

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Clinton’s expression grows increasingly bleak as she [catalogs] the bureaucratic chaos. For a start, many of the children are nonverbal; others don’t speak Spanish, but obscure Mayan languages. And all are confused and [traumatized.] Having been “[funneled] through a whole panoply” of Homeland Security agencies notorious for “very poor record keeping and incompetence”, many of which are privately run, some babies have been transported all the way from the border to Detroit and New York. Others have gone to foster care families; some parents have already been deported without their children. “You just could not even imagine a worse child-welfare tragedy.”

But surely Clinton must be aware that every media report and profile invariably describes her as a “[polarizing] figure”. Has she ever considered the possibility that her most effective contribution to healing the country’s divisions would be to withdraw from public life?

“I’m sure they said that about Churchill between the wars, didn’t they?” she flashes back sharply, a fraction too quickly for the line to sound spontaneous. “I mean, I’m not comparing myself, but I’m just saying people said that, but he was right about Hitler, and a lot of people in England were wrong. And Churchill was a pain. He kept popping up all the time.”

Hillary Clinton: ‘What is more uncivil than taking children away?’ | US news | The Guardian

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Korematsu decision finally rejected by Supreme Court

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In her dissent to the majority’s ruling on the travel ban, Sotomayor compared the decision to the Korematsu v. US case, saying there are “stark parallels” in the reasoning.

“As here, the exclusion order was rooted in dangerous stereotypes about a particular group’s supposed inability to assimilate and desire to harm the United States,” Sotomayor wrote.

The comparison triggered an angry response from Roberts, who chastised his colleague for using “rhetorical advantage” and said that Korematsu had “nothing to do with this case.”

Roberts was troubled enough with the comparison, however, that he did something that no party involved in the travel ban case had expressly asked for: He announced that the Supreme Court was overruling Korematsu.

…For her part, Sotomayor allowed that Roberts took an “important step of finally overruling” Korematsu. But it wasn’t enough, she said.

“By blindly accepting the Government’s misguided invitation to sanction a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity toward a disfavored group, all in the name of a superficial claim of national security, the Court redeploys the same dangerous logic underlying Korematsu and merely replaces one gravely wrong decision with another,” she said. She was joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Under normal circumstances a justice ends a dissent with “I respectfully dissent.” Sotomayor said simply, “I dissent.

Korematsu decision finally rejected by Supreme Court – CNNPolitics

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Jared Kushner Is Already Failing at Plan B of His Middle East Peace Efforts

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Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been unable to deliver a Middle East peace plan, already shifting gears to helping Gaza with its humanitarian crisis. But now he appears to be defaulting on his plan B as well.

…Trump entrusted Kushner, who had no prior diplomatic experience, with the hefty task of forging peace in the Middle East. Kushner has made more than a dozen trips to the region over the past 18 months but still has not introduced a peace plan.

“We have the plan ready—mostly ready—and when the time is right, we’ll bring it out,” Kushner said before the conflict in Gaza approached the brink of war.

Jared Kushner Is Already Failing at Plan B of His Middle East Peace Efforts

well, money can buy a lot of things, competence isn’t one of them though…

TBT: Russia Stole U.S. Presidency, Pro-Kremlin Politician Claims on Live TV

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Vyacheslav Nikonov, a member of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, [said,] …“U.S. intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States.”

…Nikonov is not the first Russian lawmaker who appears convinced of Russia’s role in influencing the election. During an interview on state TV earlier in September, the leader of the far-right New Russia Movement, Nikita Isaev, called for compromising information about Trump to be released.

Russia Stole U.S. Presidency, Pro-Kremlin Politician Claims on Live TV

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