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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 12, 2022 21:42:57 GMT
Mnuchin, with years of investment experience, must be angry! He only got 1 billion and Jared got 2 billion, with zero, zip experience..... Oh and it was only 6months out of office. ‘Just appalling’: Expert says Jared Kushner has inadvertently exposed corruption in both the US and Saudi ArabiaAmy Goodman, Democracy Now! April 12, 2022 We speak with Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), about Turkey’s recent decision to suspend the trial of 26 Saudi men accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018. DAWN sued Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his alleged conspirators in the murder. Whitson says Turkey’s move to turn over the case to prosecutors in Saudi Arabia shows “the Turkish government has decided that good relations — and in particular investment and trade with Saudi Arabia — is more important than pursuing justice for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi on Turkish soil.” We also ask Whitson about news that a fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has invested $2 billion in Jared Kushner’s new private equity firm just years after Kushner helped push forward a $110 billion weapons sale to Saudi Arabia while his father-in-law was in office. She says the investment “exposes the corruption and lack of accountability in both the American system and the Saudi system.” youtu.be/isU32BFBqqIwww.rawstory.com/just-appalling-expert-says-jared-kushner-has-inadvertently-exposed-corruption-in-both-the-us-and-saudi-arabia/#cxrecs_s |
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Post by hop2 on Apr 12, 2022 22:05:14 GMT
You see IOKIYR does not apply IF your tattling on other republicans. You can make all the fabricated alternative facts up about anyone else that you want but don’t spill the tea about other republicans. That’s where they draw the line I guess. If that story was even true. He’s a longtime known liar. I know that he’s a liar, and the story may or may not be true, 🤷♀️ but the GOP establishment had no qualms about Cawthorn lying about Dems or others. So ‘alternative facts’ should only be applied to others, it’s, as usual, completely hypocritical. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 12, 2022 22:11:13 GMT
Democrat caught! Big time! New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin arrested on federal bribery chargesMatthew Chapman April 12, 2022 On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has surrendered to federal authorities on bribery charges. "The indictment, the result of an investigation by the F.B.I. and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, accused Mr. Benjamin of conspiring to direct state funds to a Harlem real estate investor in exchange for orchestrating thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to Mr. Benjamin’s unsuccessful 2021 campaign for New York City comptroller, the people said," reported William K. Rashbaum and Nicholas Fandos. "The investor was arrested on Federal charges in November. There is no suggestion that Ms. Hochul was aware of Mr. Benjamin’s alleged criminal conduct, which prosecutors said occurred when he was a state senator. Still, she took office last year promising to end an era of impropriety in Albany, and selecting Mr. Benjamin, 45, was among her first major decisions as governor," said the report. .... www.rawstory.com/brian-benjamin-arrested/#cxrecs_s |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 12, 2022 22:13:54 GMT
If that story was even true. He’s a longtime known liar. I know that he’s a liar, and the story may or may not be true, 🤷♀️ but the GOP establishment had no qualms about Cawthorn lying about Dems or others. So ‘alternative facts’ should only be applied to others, it’s, as usual, completely hypocritical. It is the locals who are objecting. The main complaint is his activities around Jan 6th. They are using the Constitution against him... No excuse for the federal actors... And House minority leader. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 12, 2022 23:58:16 GMT
Only the best ... Former's new lawyer.... 'This is nuts': Trump's new attorney accused of botching court filingSarah K. Burris April 12, 2022 You can’t make this stuff up! Trump’s superstar counsel @alinahabba served me with a defective subpoena and worse, files an Order To Show Cause that she signs as if she was the Judge authorized to decide the merits of the case," former Trump attorney Michael Cohen tweeted on Tuesday. Attorney and former Florida judicial appointee Ron Filipkowski added: "Trump’s new genius Attorney Alina Habba filed a proposed Order to Show Cause with the court on Michael Cohen and signed her own name to it where the Judge is supposed to sign these. This is nuts. Only the best people."*** According to the filing, Habba said she wants to compel a deposition but doesn't want him to appear in court. She also asked for the trial dates to be removed from the calendar because she isn't ready. Trump's previous lawyers had indicated that they were prepared to go to trial, but Habba said she is not. She also wants it removed from the trial calendar because "pre-trial discovery is not complete." Cohen was supposed to voluntarily appear for a deposition on April 6 but the documents say that he did not. So, Habba tried to file a subpoena for Cohen but allegedly botched it. Previous details on the case show that Trump was supposed to give a deposition on Oct. 18, 2021, but it doesn't indicate if that happened. www.rawstory.com/trump-lawyer-botched-court-filings/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 13, 2022 0:42:00 GMT
Giulani has helped the feds unlock several of his electronic devices! Rudy Giuliani unlocks phones for prosecutors in Ukraine-related lobbying probeBy Paula Reid and Kara Scannell, CNN Updated 7:01 PM ET, Tue April 12, 2022 (CNN)Federal prosecutors may soon reach a charging decision regarding Rudy Giuliani's foreign lobbying efforts involving Ukraine, after he helped investigators unlock several electronic devices that were seized by the FBI, according to multiple sources familiar with the probe. Giuliani has also offered to appear for a separate interview to prove he has nothing to hide, his lawyer told CNN, renewing a proposal that federal prosecutors have previously rebuffed. Investigators seized 18 devices during high-profile raids on Giuliani's home and office last April. Since then, a court-appointed special master has been reviewing materials on devices to shield from prosecutors any materials that could be personal or protected by attorney-client privilege. The review has been long-running, in part, because investigators haven't been able to unlock several of the devices. www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/politics/rudy-giuliani-phone-unlock/index.html |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 13, 2022 2:26:48 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 13, 2022 3:38:58 GMT
No, they became thieves and grifters!
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Post by manda on Apr 13, 2022 4:56:06 GMT
If y’all are going to repost political news articles and political tweets, would it be possible for you to share links from a more neutral new source? mediabiasfactcheck.com/raw-story/?amp=1Rawstory.com is extremely biased and misleading with their reporting. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 13, 2022 18:08:16 GMT
If y’all are going to repost political news articles and political tweets, would it be possible for you to share links from a more neutral new source? mediabiasfactcheck.com/raw-story/?amp=1Rawstory.com is extremely biased and misleading with their reporting. I would welcome you posting your comments and links. I often go to the Rawstory sources. I don't post everything from there. I post from a small phone; it is difficult for me to edit going back an forth with information when I can only have a window open. Please, again post your choices. |
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Post by dizzycheermom on Apr 13, 2022 19:37:12 GMT
April 12, 2022
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On April 12, 1945, a visibly exhausted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt jerked in his chair while having his portrait painted in Warm Springs, Georgia. FDR put his hand up, said “I have a terrific pain in the back of my head,” and lost consciousness. He died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage within hours.
When FDR entered the White House in 1933, he undertook to rebuild the nation after Republicans had run it into the ground.
Believing that businessmen were the engine that drove the economy and that any government regulations or taxes that hampered them would hurt growth, Republicans under presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover had slashed taxes and regulations. The superheated economy boomed, but real wages stagnated, and the profits from dramatically improved production all went to the top 1% of the economy.
When spokespeople tried to point out that the new economy shut farmers, immigrants, and minorities out, Republicans accused those groups of falling behind because they were lazy. But then, in October 1929, the stock market crashed and the Roaring Twenties stopped dead. People lost their jobs, their homes, and their hope.
In the presidential election of 1932, desperate voters threw the Republicans out of office and put in Democrats, led by former New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR recognized that the economic crisis created by unfettered capitalism threatened to end democracy forever as starving Americans turned either to communism or to fascism, as Europeans were doing.
FDR understood that to preserve democracy and the economic system on which it rested, the government must regulate business, protect workers, and provide a basic social safety net. His "New Deal for the American people" did exactly that, and it helped Americans weather the Depression until the extraordinary deficit spending of WWII ended it altogether.
Ordinary Americans celebrated a government that worked for everyone, rather than just the rich. And on April 13, they mourned the man who had piloted the country through that transition.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 13, 2022 22:55:57 GMT
Former Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, was booted from the No Carolina voter rolls. He voted and lived in Virginia in 2021. The 2020 election is still in question
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 14, 2022 2:22:47 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 14, 2022 2:28:17 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/13/lafayette-square-lawsuit-protest-aclu-park-police/
The U.S. Park Police and Secret Service agreed as part of the settlement to “update and clarify” policies regarding demonstrations, the Justice Department wrote in a news release, detailing changes like requiring officers to wear badges and nameplates in public view, including on tactical gear and helmets. The agencies agreed to implement policy changes within 30 days, according to the settlement filed Wednesday in federal court in the District.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 14, 2022 3:06:53 GMT
apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-ohio-conspiracy-theories-riots-40400132ce22ef42a29de84a31ee8dcbAn Ohio man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and stealing a coat rack testified Wednesday that he joined thousands of protesters in ransacking the building last year on what he thought were orders from the president, Donald Trump.
Dustin Byron Thompson, 38, of Columbus, Ohio, said he took to websites after being laid off from his exterminator job in March 2020 and in his pandemic doldrums fell under Trump’s sway as he bought into conspiracy theories and “went down the rabbit hole on the internet.”
On trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, Thompson testified that the claim that the election was stolen seemed credible to him because it was coming from the president. His defense team is the first to argue that Trump and those connected to him were responsible for the actions of the mob that day.
“It seems like everyone was attacking him (Trump). He needed someone to stand up for him, and I was trying to do that,” Thompson said.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 14, 2022 4:44:37 GMT
Now trump admits he pressured Barr to take the fall for the coup...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 14, 2022 5:19:51 GMT
This is not a good thing. DeSantis is planning to disrupt the legislatures' already bad proposal of 18R-10D seats to make the new districts 20 R-8 D, in essence knocking out/splitting present minority districts. Gov. DeSantis takes over congressional redistricting in FloridaApril 12, 20225:13 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered GREG ALLEN Florida's legislature says instead of drawing new maps for congressional districts, it will cede the responsibility to Gov. DeSantis, who wants to eliminate two African-American voting districts. www.npr.org/2022/04/12/1092414662/gov-desantis-takes-over-congressional-redistricting-in-florida |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 14, 2022 11:27:23 GMT
This is not a good thing. DeSantis is planning to disrupt the legislatures' already bad proposal of 18R-10D seats to make the new districts 20 R-8 D, in essence knocking out/splitting present minority districts. Gov. DeSantis takes over congressional redistricting in FloridaApril 12, 20225:13 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered GREG ALLEN Florida's legislature says instead of drawing new maps for congressional districts, it will cede the responsibility to Gov. DeSantis, who wants to eliminate two African-American voting districts. www.npr.org/2022/04/12/1092414662/gov-desantis-takes-over-congressional-redistricting-in-floridaThe worst part is that he knows it will get challenged in courts but is betting the conservatives on the Supreme Court will continue to gut voting rights and side with him. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 14, 2022 13:47:10 GMT
04/14/22
My initial though that hitler's solution was what he did, killed them all off. This goes in the direction that he lived in the street and made something if himself..
And we have been living with all these people for so very long ..
The bill is to restrict/limit camping on public properties.
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Post by dizzycheermom on Apr 14, 2022 17:04:09 GMT
April 13, 2022 (Wednesday) Heather Cox Richardson Apr 14 Comment Share “Democrats need to make more noise,” Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) told Greg Sargent of the Washington Post. “We have to scream from the rooftops, because this is a battle for the free world now.” Sargent interviewed Schatz after the senator called out Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on the floor of the Senate on April 7 for the profound disconnect between the Republican senator’s speeches and his actions. Hawley has placed a hold on President Joe Biden’s uncontroversial nominee for an assistant secretary of defense, saying that Biden’s support for Ukraine was “wavering” and that he wasn’t doing enough. Of course, the Biden administration has been central to world efforts to support Ukraine in its attempt to hold off Russia’s invasion. Just today, Biden announced an additional $800 million in weapons, ammunition, and other security assistance to Ukraine. In contrast, Hawley voted to acquit former president Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress when he withheld $391 million of congressionally approved aid to Ukraine in order to pressure Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to cook up a story about Hunter Biden. Hawley’s bad-faith argument goes beyond misleading statements about aid to Ukraine. Hawley has vowed that he will use his senatorial prerogative to hold up “every single civilian nominee” for the Defense Department unless Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin resigns. He has vowed the same for the State Department, demanding the resignation of Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Hawley says his demands are because of the withdrawal from Afghanistan; he also said that Biden should resign. This is a highly unusual interference of the legislative branch of government with the executive branch. It also means that key positions in the departments responsible for managing our national security are not being filled, since Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer must use up valuable floor time to get nominations around Hawley’s holds. In February, for example, Hawley blocked the confirmation of the uncontroversial head of the Pentagon’s international security team, Celeste Wallander, a Russia expert and staunch advocate for fighting Russian aggression, even while Russian troops were massing on the Ukraine border. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) noted in frustration: “He’s complaining about the problems we have in Russia and Ukraine and he’s making it worse because he’s not willing to allow those nominees who can help with that problem to go forward.” (The Senate eventually voted 83–13 to confirm Wallander.) Hawley is not the only Republican to be complaining about the administration even as he gums up the works. Texas governor Greg Abbott has ordered Texas state troops to inspect all commercial trucks coming from Mexico after the federal government has already inspected them. Normally, Mexican authorities inspect a commercial driver’s paperwork and then officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection thoroughly inspect the vehicle on the U.S. side of the international bridge, using dogs, X-ray machines, and personal inspections. At large crossings, officials from the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Transportation will make sure that products and trucks meet U.S. standards. Sometimes after that, the state will spot-check a few trucks for roadworthiness. Never before has Texas inspected the contents of each commercial vehicle. Abbott instituted the new rule after the Biden administration announced it would end the pandemic emergency health order known as Title 42. This is a public health authority used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to protect against the spread of disease. It was put in place by the Trump administration in March 2020. Title 42 allows the U.S. government to turn migrants from war-torn countries away at the border rather than permitting them to seek asylum as international law requires. Abbott said the new rule would enable troopers to search for drugs and smuggled immigrants, which he claims the administration is not doing. But journalists Mitchell Ferman, Uriel J. García, and Ivan Pierre Aguirre of the Texas Tribune report that officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety do not appear to be examining the trucks and have not announced any captured drugs or undocumented immigrants. Wait times at border crossings have jumped from minutes to many hours, with Mexican truckers so frustrated they blocked the roads from the southern side, as well. Truckers report being stuck in their trucks for as much as 30 hours without food or water. About $440 billion worth of goods cross our southern border annually, and Abbot’s stunt has shut down as much as 60% of that trade. The shutdown will hammer those businesses that depend on Mexican products. It will also create higher prices and shortages across the entire country, especially as perishable foods rot in transit. On Twitter, Democratic candidate for Texas governor Beto O’Rourke showed a long line of trucks behind him in Laredo and said: “What you see behind me is inflation.” White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a statement today saying: “Governor Abbott’s unnecessary and redundant inspections of trucks transiting ports of entry between Texas and Mexico are causing significant disruptions to the food and automobile supply chains, delaying manufacturing, impacting jobs, and raising prices for families in Texas and across the country. Local businesses and trade associations are calling on Governor Abbott to reverse this decision…. Abbott’s actions are impacting people’s jobs, and the livelihoods of hardworking American families.” Tonight, Abbott backed down on his rule, and normal traffic seems to be resuming over one of the key bridges between Mexico and the U.S., but his stunt indicates that Republicans plan to use inflation and immigration as key issues to turn out their base for the 2022 midterm elections. Today, pro-Trump Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who replaced Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) as the House Republican Conference Chair, the third-highest Republican in the House, tweeted: “We must SECURE our southern border.” Abbott has also ordered the Texas National Guard to the U.S. border with Mexico to conduct “migration drills” in preparation for an influx of migrants. But Abbott’s use of the 10,000 National Guard personnel last fall for a border operation to prevent an influx of migrants seemed to be a political stunt: it led to complaints from National Guard personnel of lack of planning, lack of pay, lack of housing, and lack of reason to be there. Abbott has deployed troops in the past while he was under fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the February 2021 winter storm that left millions of Texans without heat or electricity for days and killed 246. This deflection seemed to be at work last February, too, when Abbott issued a letter saying that the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services should investigate any instances of care for transgender children as child abuse. That letter appeared just as it came to light that Abbott was behind the extraordinarily high electricity prices in the 2021 storm. Although Abbott’s office had said he was not involved in the decision to charge maximum electricity prices, in February, Bill Magness, the former CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas that runs the state’s electrical grid, said Abbott had personally ordered him to keep prices at their maximum: $9,000 per megawatt hour. And so Abbott grabbed headlines with a bill attacking transgender children. Today, Abbott sent a bus of migrants seeking asylum to Washington, D.C., where they were set down right outside the offices of the Fox News Channel, which filmed them disembarking. These migrants have been processed by federal authorities and are awaiting decisions from federal judges about whether they will be allowed to remain in the U.S. “I think it’s pretty clear this is a publicity stunt,” Psaki said. And finally, tonight, under the category of bad-faith arguments, it is clear that the current Supreme Court has run amok. Republicans attack “activist judges” who want to protect civil rights in the states by using the Fourteenth Amendment’s rule that the states cannot deprive a citizen of the equal protection of the laws. But Republican justices are making up their own law outside the normal boundaries of the court. On April 6, five Supreme Court justices agreed to reinstate a Trump-era rule that limits the ability of states to block projects that pollute their rivers and streams. The court did so under the so-called “shadow docket,” a form of decision previously used to address emergencies, in which the court makes a decision without arguments or written explanations. Last week, Chief Justice John Roberts indicated just how far off the rails the current Supreme Court has slid when he joined the dissent against the majority’s decision out of concern for the use of this shadow docket as a way to hand down unbriefed and unexplained decisions. Hawley is not the only Republican these days operating in bad faith. — Notes: www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/13/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-the-impact-of-texas-border-delays/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/17/republicans-ukraine-aid-vote/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/08/brian-schatz-josh-hawley-ukraine-loudness-gap/www.kwtx.com/2022/04/12/abbott-orders-texas-national-guard-conducts-mass-migration-drills-us-mexico-border/www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/josh-hawley-state-defense-nominees/index.htmlwww.politifact.com/article/2022/apr/12/fact-checking-sen-brian-schatz-vs-sen-josh-hawley-/www.ft.com/content/d34d45a7-9adb-4e30-94da-88a3fa53f8b5www.politico.com/news/2022/02/16/senate-advances-long-stalled-pentagon-nominees-wallander-and-honey-00009479www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092652164/after-voting-in-virginia-mark-meadows-is-removed-as-north-carolina-registered-vowww.texastribune.org/2022/04/13/texas-mexico-border-inspections-delays/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/04/13/texas-truck-abbott-mexico/www.texastribune.org/2022/02/01/texas-national-guard-border-operation-lone-star-abbott/www.businessinsider.com/gov-greg-abbott-at-fault-for-overcharging-electric-companies-ex-ercot-chief-says-2022-2www.liberationnews.org/texas-governor-orders-state-to-report-families-of-trans-children-for-child-abuse/www.documentcloud.org/documents/21272649-abbott-letter-to-masterswww.liberationnews.org/texas-governor-orders-state-to-report-families-of-trans-children-for-child-abuse/www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/politics/texas-migrants-arrive-in-dc/index.htmlwww.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/opinion/john-roberts-supreme-court.htmlwww.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrants-arrive-dc-buses-sent-gop-texas-gov-greg-abbott-rcna24229
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 14, 2022 19:27:43 GMT
Ohio State Supreme court judge rejects 4th gerrymandering map... Sec Of State, not a lawyer, threatens to impeach judge..
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 14, 2022 20:07:10 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 14, 2022 20:08:05 GMT
Missouri you have a very courageous State Representative, democrat BTW..
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 14, 2022 20:15:06 GMT
This one needs to be highlighted... The former head of Texas' power grid said he was following Gov. Greg Abbott's orders when amassing billions in electricity bills during the state freezeMadison Hall Feb 23, 2022, 5:40 PM The former head of the organization behind Texas' electric grid testified in court on Wednesday that he was following Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's orders when he directed power prices to remain as high as possible for several days during Texas' winter storm blackouts in February 2021, the Houston Chronicle first reported. www.businessinsider.com/gov-greg-abbott-at-fault-for-overcharging-electric-companies-ex-ercot-chief-says-2022-2 |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 15, 2022 0:07:54 GMT
As comments are being made about Mariupol and the Russians using cremation chambers, we discussed this back on Mar 4th when Zelensky said they were being used to hide Russian soldiers deaths. Somewhere I saw a picture of them. Zelensky says Russian troops are traveling with cremation chambers . Zelenskyy Says Russians Are Carrying Cremation Chambers Into Ukraine The Ukrainian leader alleged that the chambers are to dispose of Russian troops who have been killed, thereby obscuring the true number of casualties. By Sara Boboltz 03/03/2022 02:05pm EST Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Russian troops are lugging mobile cremation chambers with them as they continue their assault across the country, allegedly to dispose of their own dead and obscure the true number of casualties they’ve incurred. These guys are carrying those cremation chambers for themselves,” Zelenskyy said at a press conference with reporters in Kyiv where he lamented that young Russian soldiers are being used as “cannon fodder.” www.huffpost.com/entry/zelenskyy-russia-cremation-chambers-ukraine_n_6220ea42e4b0ae4ab9c8e705 |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 15, 2022 2:42:52 GMT
Where does this leave the rest of us? The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is investing billions aid Donald Trump's 2024 political comeback according to a new editorial by The Washington Post.The newspaper noted that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, approved giving $2 billion to former senior White House aide Jared Kushner even though he was warned the deal didn't make sense. It’s a troubling arrangement — in many ways," the editorial board noted. "The crown prince’s financial backing despite contrary business considerations looks to all the world like a lucrative reward to Mr. Kushner. And it creates the additional impression that what MBS is really investing in is not some real estate venture but the Trump family’s political future — specifically, a possible White House comeback by Mr. Kushner’s father-in-law if he runs again, and wins, in the 2024 presidential election."U.S. intelligence has found MBS culpable for the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. "It is yet another sign — along with his refusal to raise crude oil production when the Biden administration sought help tamping down gas prices — that MBS sees his government not as a U.S. ally, but as the ally of one side in domestic partisan politics," the editorial board wrote. "We look forward, though not with bated breath, to Republican outrage over the Saudi-Kushner connection being at least equal to that being vented over Hunter Biden. There should be nothing partisan about ridding U.S. foreign policy of even the appearance of self-interest by those who conduct it." The nexus between Republicans and MBS was also examined by Ali Al-Ahmed, the director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, in a Washington Post column. "For MBS, Kushner represents another powerful domestic proxy to interfere in American politics. The crown prince has not forgiven President Biden for speaking ill of him during the campaign and now he is out for blood. MBS has picked a side and has carefully cultivated ties with Republican leaders and former Trump official," Al-Ahmed wrote. "MBS expects a substantial return for the billions he is showering on Republican figures."www.rawstory.com/trump-saudi-arabia-2657158957/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 15, 2022 2:55:20 GMT
I hope they meet. Walker might be surprised. Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia on Thursday responded on Fox News to complaints raised by Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation. Mystal, a Harvard Law graduate, is the author of a new story for the magazine titled, "The Herschel Walker Senate campaign is an insult to Black people." Mystal described the former football player as "an animated caricature of a Black person drawn by white conservatives. Walker is what they think of us, and they think we’re big, ignorant, and easily manipulated. They think we’re shady or criminal. They think we’re tools to be used. The Walker campaign exists as a political minstrel show: a splashy rendition of what white Republicans think Black people look and sound like." www.rawstory.com/herschel-walker-black-vote/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 15, 2022 3:02:12 GMT
Welcome to Arkansas State University fools, certainly the minority, in numbers, I hope!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 15, 2022 3:15:16 GMT
This is really not good!!! Sinking the ship is good.
Consequences not so much for Ukraine.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 15, 2022 5:12:52 GMT
Can't remember the details, but I think Suozzi(D), who represents New York's 3rd Congressional District, has had other issues, but again not sure!!
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