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riversedge's JournalDespite complaints, soldiers add more wire to Nogales border fence (Dangerous RAZOR wire)...
I have read about this wire and seen it referred to as razor wire.
I see they talked with Sen. Martha McSally (R-Tucson) about this. Doubt she is concerned!!
Despite complaints, soldiers add more wire to Nogales border fence
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/despite-complaints-soldiers-add-more-wire-to-nogales-border-fence/article_d4397ff2-28b7-11e9-94ff-e36237f3a29f.html
By Nick Phillips Feb 4, 2019 Updated Feb 6, 2019
Amid calls from local officials to remove the existing concertina wire attached to the border fence, U.S. Army troops on Saturday installed new rows of wire on the fence near downtown ports of entry and in residential neighborhoods of Nogales, giving the barrier top-to-bottom coverage in some areas.
“I don’t know what to say, I don’t think it’s good,” said José Corralez, a 54-year-old taxi driver from Nogales. “It looks ugly.”
The installation of the wire began downtown on Election Day 2018, and in recent weeks, military personnel have installed additional coils on remote sections of the fence, including south of Kino Springs, east of city limits. On Saturday, they added up to four new rows of concertina wire to the two rows that were hung on the 25-foot-tall bollard fence in November.
Elected officials in Nogales were left in the dark about the plans.
“They never had the courtesy of talking to the administration here,” said Mayor Arturo Garino, who asked Sen. Martha McSally (R-Tucson) during a visit on Jan. 22 to do her part to help get rid of the existing wire, then re-affirmed his plans to fight for its removal in a story published last Friday in the NI.
“We reached out to Border Patrol and we reached out to CBP and they would not meet with us,” he added.
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Speaking by phone Monday morning, Garino said he’s concerned for residents’ safety.
“That wire is lethal, and I really don’t know what they’re thinking by putting it all the way down to the ground,” he said.
That afternoon, Garino added an item to Wednesday’s city council meeting that would have the municipal government pass a resolution condemning the wire and demanding it be taken down.
U.S. Rep. Grijalva (D-Tucson), who represents Nogales and all of Santa Cruz County in Congress, blasted the move to add wire to the fence and called for it to be removed.
“The additional wire is nothing more than a spectacle by the Trump administration to reinforce his twisted narrative of rampant lawlessness at the border,” he said Monday in an emailed statement.
“Border residents know that this mischaracterization couldn’t be further from the truth, and will not stand for the lies perpetrated by the Trump Administration,” he said. “This wire must be removed, and the Trump Administration must take responsibility for the humanitarian crisis their policies have created at the border.”
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Army troops unload coils of concertina wire to mount on the border fence in downtown Nogales on Saturday, Feb. 2.
Photo by Jonathan Clark
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A rope tangled in the wire atop the fence next to the Morley Avenue pedestrian border-crossing suggests an effort to pull it down.
Photo by Jonathan Clark
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New wire
A school bus rolls past the concertina wire-covered fence at East International and Nelson streets on Monday morning.
Photo by Jonathan Clark
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Army troops affix additional concertina wire to the border fence on a hillside above Nelson Street in downtown Nogales on Saturday, Feb. 2. Photo by Jonathan Clark
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The Army had previously strung two rows of wire at the top of the border fence at East International and Nelson streets in downtown Nogales. Now there are six.[/b Photo by Jonathan Clark
Year Before Killing, Saudi Prince Told Aide He Would Use 'a Bullet' on Khashoggi
Source: nytimes
By Mark Mazzetti
Feb. 7, 2019
WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia told a top aide in a conversation in 2017 that he would use “a bullet” on Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist killed in October, if Mr. Khashoggi did not return to the kingdom and end his criticism of the Saudi government, according to current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of intelligence reports.
The conversation, intercepted by American intelligence agencies, is the most detailed evidence to date that the crown prince considered killing Mr. Khashoggi long before a team of Saudi operatives strangled him inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and dismembered his body using a bone saw. Mr. Khashoggi’s murder prompted weeks of outrage around the world and among both parties in Washington, where senior lawmakers called for an investigation into who was responsible.
The Saudi government has denied that the young crown prince played any role in the killing, and President Trump has publicly shown little interest in trying to get the facts about who was responsible. Prince Mohammed, the next in line to the Saudi throne behind his ailing father, King Salman, has become the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia and a close ally of the Trump White House — especially Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser.
The conversation appears to have been recently transcribed and analyzed as part of an effort by intelligence agencies to find proof of who was responsible for Mr. Khashoggi’s death. The National Security Agency and other American spy agencies are now sifting through years of the crown prince’s voice and text communications that the N.S.A. routinely intercepted and stored, much as the agency has long done for other top foreign officials, including close allies of the United States.....................................
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/us/politics/khashoggi-mohammed-bin-salman.html
I do not expect any justice for the killing either
jasaki @jasaki1
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Replying to @KarenAttiah
some of us who have been following this story from DAY ONE, don't expect justice for the Jamal Khashoggi family, -- as long @realDonaldTrump is POTUS. MBS is emboldened by his buddy with Jared Kushner
https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1093655065510989824
White House Waives Ethics Rules for Its New Lawyers
Source: DAILYBEAST
Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin were excused from provisions of a law that would bar them from making decisions that could affect the financial interests of past employers.
02.07.19 11:14 AM ET
The White House has waived ethics rules for two of its top lawyers, including President Donald Trump’s newly appointed White House counsel, allowing them to work with former clients as they steer the administration’s legal strategy.
Both White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy Patrick Philbin were excused in late January from provisions of a federal law that seeks to bar federal appointees from decision-making that could affect the financial interests of their former employers.
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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-waives-ethics-rules-for-its-new-lawyers?ref=home
Trump gets away with what he can. damn
https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1093607680525193223
Pelosi asked but Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declined to be on panel for #climatechange
Nancy Pelosi
"This new Select Committee will spearhead Democrats’ work to develop innovative, effective solutions to prevent and reverse the climate crisis,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
Pelosi announces Dems for new climate panel
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/07/pelosi-climate-change-panel-1154847
Updated 02/07/2019 05:46 PM EST
Speaker Nancy Pelosi built out the Democratic roster for her special select panel on climate change Thursday, pulling from a mix of old and new lawmakers but leaving off the highest profile freshmen like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
The announcement, on the same day that the proposal for the lofty Green New Deal lands on Capitol Hill and one day after the first climate change hearings in years, gives a further boost to Democratic efforts to bring the issue to the forefront of their agenda.
“I want everybody to be in on the act because this is deadly serious,” Pelosi said in an interview Wednesday, adding that the panel will focus on global warming “from the standpoint of health, security, economics and morality.”
The new House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis will be led by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), and raising public awareness of the issue will be a top priority; just 35 percent of Americans consider climate change an imminent threat.
The other Democratic members of the panel are Reps. Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), Suzanne Bonamici (Ore.), Julia Brownley (Calif.), Sean Casten (Ill.), Jared Huffman (Calif.), Mike Levin (Calif.), Donald McEachin (Va.) and Joe Neguse (Colo.).
Casten, Levin and Neguse are freshmen.
After her weekly press conference Thursday, Pelosi told reporters that she had invited Ocasio-Cortez to be on the panel and that she declined.
Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday afternoon said that “timing and logistics“ were the main reason she did not join the panel, adding that she was unsure whether she would be asked or selected for it and wanted to maximize her standing committee assignments.
“When I got the call recently to get on the select committee, I didn‘t feel like I would be able to do it justice,“ she said during an interview on MSNBC.
She also said she didn’t believe that she was snubbed by Pelosi and that “the speaker was gracious enough to invite me on it.“..................
CNN's Tapper slaps down Trump's 'Presidential harassment' whine: Democrats are just doing their job
Source: raw story
07 Feb 2019 at 16:44 ET
....................On CNN’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper observed the irony of Trump’s new stance on harassment.
“The president, who’s long been accused of harassing people on Twitter, is today objecting to what he calls Presidential harassment,” Tapper noted.
“President trump is calling it presidential harassment. Democrats are calling it their constitutional duty, telling the president this is his new reality,” Tapper observed. “House Democrats now armed with subpoena power, announcing more investigations into more of the president’s business,” he continued.
“This is just the beginning of this new era of congressional oversight.”
Watch:
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/cnns-tapper-slaps-trumps-presidential-harassment-whine-democrats-just-jobs/
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1093489029780332545
https://twitter.com/Greytdog/status/1093631273539698689
Sen. Amy Klobuchar: Bundle up! I've got a big announcement to make.
Amy Klobuchar
?Verified account @amyklobuchar
Bundle up! I’ve got a big announcement to make. Let us know you’ll be there: http://amyklobuchar.com
https://twitter.com/damonbethea1/status/1093256238140456960
https://twitter.com/riotwomennn/status/1093248851681689602
How Sen. Amy Klobuchar Distinguishes Herself From Other Democratic Presidential Hopefuls
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/02/06/how-sen-amy-klobuchar-distinguishes-herself-from-other-democratic-presidential-hopefuls/
By Pat Kessler
February 6, 2019 at 6:36 pm
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) —................
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In a new video on Twitter, she reiterated the announcement will be at 1:30 p.m. on Boom Island along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. You need a ticket to the event, but they are free. She’s promising hot cocoa, cookies, warming houses and live entertainment.
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https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/09/04/brett-kavanaugh-senate-confirmation-hearing/amy-klobuchar-at-kavanagh-hearing/
Sen. Amy Klobuchar during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings (credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
She would be joining a large pool of Democratic candidates who have already formed exploratory committees: Sen. Cory Booker, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Sen. Kamala Harris, former Rep. John Delaney, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and South Bend Major Pete Buttigieg.
President Donald Trump is still the odds-on favorite in 2020, but Klobuchar would offer something none of the other Democratic candidates so far can: A centrist and moderate stance. Klobuchar rejects the left part of the party, and could appeal more to the broad middle and independent voters.
Klobuchar is not the angry candidate who is going to go after Trump like Trump goes after others — and that may be very appealing to many Americans.
Pat Kessler knows Minnesota politics. He's been on the beat longer than any other TV reporter in the Twin Cities, covering state government, politics,...
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Winter Storm Warning in Wisconsin
Winter Storm Warning in Wisconsin
Active for next 12 hours · National Weather Service
This alert has been updated.
Posted 1 hour ago
...SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR THROUGH NOON IN SOUTH
CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
...WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN EXPANDED FURTHER WEST THROUGH
MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...
...BLIZZARD CONDITIONS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON...
...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING...
.The Blizzard Warning remains in effect for areas along and south
of a line from Morris, to Mankato, to Owatonna from noon today
through midnight tonight.
A Winter Storm Warning has been expanded west to include areas
north and east of a line from Gaylord, to Dassel, Clearwater, St.
Cloud, Milaca, and Mora. This includes the Twin Cities metro area
through midnight tonight.
The Winter Storm Warning remains in effect for areas along and
east of a line from Pepin, to Menomonie, to Rice Lake through
midnight tonight.
Outside the Winter Storm Warning, a Winter Weather Advisory
remains in effect for the remainder of central and southern
Minnesota through midnight tonight.
Snowfall totals as the storm ends tonight will average between
2 and 5 inches across the Winter Weather Advisory, and Blizzard
Warning areas before it tapers off later today.
In addition, an area of increasing snowfall rates of 1 to
2 inches per hour will occur in south central, and east central
Minnesota before noon. This area of increasing snowfall rates
will move into west central Wisconsin this afternoon. Anywhere
these localized areas of 1 to 2 inches per hour snowfall rates
develop, you can expected locally higher totals before it begins
to taper off this afternoon.
Outside these localized heavier snowfall rates, total snowfall
amounts of 6 to 8 inches will occur in the Winter Storm Warning
in portions of central and east central Minnesota, as well as west
central Wisconsin. Winds are expected to increase late this
morning, with blizzard conditions developing across west central
into south central Minnesota by the afternoon and lasting through
the evening.
Dangerous wind chills will accompany this system, with a Wind
Chill Warning becoming effective tonight, through Friday morning
for locations along and west of a line from Redwood Falls, to
Litchfield, to Little Falls. To the east of the warning, a Wind
Chill Advisory will become effective across the rest of central
and southern Minnesota, and counties along the Minnesota border
in western Wisconsin ,for tonight through Friday morning. Wind
chill values will range from 35 below to 40 below zero in the
warning and 30 below to 35 below zero in the advisory.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST
TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Snow, heavy at times. Total snow accumulations of 6 to
8 inches.
* WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Wisconsin and
east central and southeast Minnesota.
* WHEN...Until midnight CST Thursday night.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Travel could be very difficult. The
hazardous conditions could impact the evening commute.
Recommended actions
A Winter Storm Warning means significant amounts of snow, sleet
and ice will make travel very hazardous or impossible.
The latest road conditions for Minnesota can be found at
511mn.org and for Wisconsin at 511wi.gov, or by calling 5 1 1 in
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Stay indoors during the storm.
Prolonged exposure to cold can cause hypothermia.
Walk and drive carefully on icy sidewalks and roads.
Many injuries and accidents are caused by slippery conditions.
Before driving, let someone know your destination, route, and expected time of arrival.
If your car gets stuck, it’ll be easier to find you.
If you lose feeling and color in your nose, ears, hands, or feet, cover the exposed area, avoid rubbing your skin, and seek medical help immediately.
You may have frostbite.
When shoveling snow, take breaks and lift lighter loads.
Working too hard can lead to heart attacks.
Stay dry.
Wet clothes make you lose body heat, increasing your risk of hypothermia.
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Pelosi: I'm speaking with reporters at the Capitol as @HouseDemocrats continue our efforts to keep g
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1093554283365236736
Nancy Pelosi
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I’m speaking with reporters at the Capitol as @HouseDemocrats continue our efforts to keep government open & working #ForThePeople.
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1093542508863332353
Trump had worst monthly approval rating of his presidency in January: poll
Source: The Hill
By Avery Anapol - 02/07/19 08:25 AM EST
A new Morning Consult poll found that President Trump last month had the worst monthly approval rating of his presidency.
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A majority, 55 percent, said they disapproved, which was also a record.
Though a large majority of Republicans in the poll, 83 percent, said they approved of Trump, that number was the lowest in months, according to Morning Consult.
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A majority of voters in 27 states said they disapproved of Trump, with a majority in just 12 states saying they approved.
At least two other polls taken in January, including one from conservative-leaning Rasmussen, showed Trump with his lowest approval rating in at least a year.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/428899-trump-had-worst-monthly-approval-rating-of-his-presidency-in-january
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1093506190368296961
https://twitter.com/jamiezac/status/1093507895591923712
Also--->The poll below was from Jan 25.
https://twitter.com/TeamPelosi/status/1092978489786097664
National Park Service assesses damage to parks as threat of another shutdown looms
Winter Storm Warning
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT ...
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National Park Service assesses damage to parks as threat of another shutdown looms
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/national-park-service-assesses-damage-to-parks-as-threat-of-another-shutdown-looms/70007354
By Kevin Byrne, AccuWeather staff writer
The longest government shutdown in United States history took a toll on the country’s national parks in more ways than one.
Whether it was physical damage inflicted by unruly guests, park service employees not receiving their paychecks for several weeks, local businesses losing money or impacts to wildlife, recovery will take time.
“The damage done to our parks will be felt for weeks, months or even years,” Theresa Pierno, president and CEO for National Parks Conservation Association said after the shutdown ended. “We want to thank and acknowledge the men and women who have devoted their careers to protecting our national parks and will be working hard to fix damage and get programs and projects back up and running.”
“We implore lawmakers to use this time to come to a long-term funding agreement and avoid another disaster like this. Federal employees, businesses, communities and national parks deserve better.”
The parks stayed open during the shutdown, operating only with a very limited staff. Others were forced to close at times due to snowy weather that caused road conditions to become dangerous as plowing operations were not funded.
The shutdown began Dec. 23 and ended on Jan. 25, but the bill President Trump signed only reopened the government for three weeks.........................................................
national parks shut down
In this Jan. 10, 2019, file photo, a car drives along the road at Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California's Mojave Desert. National parks across the United States are scrambling to clean up and repair damage that visitors and storms caused during the recent government shutdown while bracing for the possibility of another closure later this month. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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