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infamous Don Jr meeting
TOM BOGGIONI 14 AUG 2018 AT 10:51 ET
Lost in all the controversy over President Vladimir Putin asking Donald Trump to turn over former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul to Kremlin investigators for questioning — in return for access to Russian officials indicted by the Justice Department for meddling in the 2016 election — was the fact that Putin had a whole list of Americans he wanted to be turned over.
According to Michael Weiss, writing for the Daily Beast, far down Putin’s shopping list are three Department of Homeland Security agents whom he has accused of running off with over $400 million in Russian money – when in fact they were investigating associates of Putin laundering that money.
The agents — identified as Todd Hyman, Aleksandr Schwartzman, and Svetlana Angert — were included by Putin, who reportedly explained to Trump that some of that stolen money was funneled to the 2016 presidential campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“It might have been legal, the contribution itself, but the way the money was earned was illegal,” Putin offered at the Helsinki meeting.
As Weiss writes, “Hyman, Schwartzman, and Angert were not laundering money, as Putin and his prosecutor would suggest; they were investigating money launderers.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/putin-wants-trump-hand-three-dhs-agents-investigating-company-linked-infamous-don-jr-meeting/
I am just waiting to see who the first US citizen(s) that this asshole turns over to the Putin asshole
Trump-Imitating GOP Candidate Who Killed His Own Mother Also Allegedly Threatened His Homeowners'
Association President
Bobby Wilson recently boasted about killing his mother. That's not the only violent altercation he has been in.
By Matthew Chapman / AlterNet August 14, 2018, 6:13 AM GMT
Bobby Wilson, a Republican candidate for Arizona State Senate, drew controversy at a Moms Demand Action event last month when he cited, as an example of "good guys" with guns, the time he fatally shot his own mother.
Now, The Arizona Republic has discovered Wilson was involved in another violent incident in 2016 at their vacation community in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, during which he allegedly made a violent threat against the president of a condo association, Dan Dimovski:
According to Dimovski, and another board member who witnessed the incident, Wilson entered the room and started pointing at Dimovski and yelling for him to stay away from his wife.
"My jaw dropped," Dimovski said. "I saw that violent look. I'll never forget that ... His face was very, like, crazy. His eyes were like popped out."
"Knowing what I know now," Dimovski told The Republic, "I think it was a threat to kill me, especially the fact that he has exposed his position on what he thinks of weapons."
https://www.alternet.org/gop-candidate-bobby-wilson-threatened-his-hoa-president
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Several years later, he claimed that his memory had returned and that the killing was defensive.
Wilson, who according to his website is a former attorney and "adjunct college instructor in law-related courses," and who reportedly resigned from the Texas State Bar over a felony conviction for forgery, is running for Arizona State Senate District 2 on a platform that touts "The Second Amendment" and, ironically, "Family Values."
What you need to know about the 2 Wisconsin Democrats vying for Paul Ryan's seat
Paul Ryan's district is up for grabs in November, but Tuesday's primary offers a preview of the Democratic Party's spiritual civil war.
ALAN PYKE AUG 14, 2018, 9:24 AM
JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN — “It’s funny living in the same town as Paul Ryan, because every time he burps or farts the media is all over us,” says Paula, a server at the Eagle Inn Family Restaurant.
Paula doesn’t have internet at home, and half-boasts that her cell phone is 16 years old. But when I tell her who I’m here to see, she nods knowingly.
Randy Bryce is just as familiar a name to her as it is to you, if not necessarily for the same reasons. His viral video campaign announcement in 2017 — a union steward ironworker challenging the Speaker of the House to trade jobs with him — transformed him from a locally-prominent labor campaigner into a prospective national star for a Democratic party reeling from its failure to stop or fully understand Donald Trump’s rise to power. The burly, mustachioed everyman looks like one answer to months of handwringing about the loss of Rust Belt white working men and women.
Paula’s known about Bryce for way longer than the wave of internet chatter and big-time political attention the ad brought his way. They both worked to fight Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) 2011 war on public-sector unions, and to get him recalled the next year. “As long as it’s not a Republican,” she mutters to me when I tell her why I’m in the small-town diner.
https://thinkprogress.org/cathy-myers-randy-bryce-wisconsin-democratic-primary-race-6cb13f3728c9/
ICE agents set 'trap' for immigrants seeking legal residency
"...It’s our job to locate and arrest them."
REBEKAH ENTRALGO AUG 14, 2018, 12:04 PM
Two federal immigration agencies worked together in a coordinated effort to set deportation traps for unsuspecting immigrants seeking legal status, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week.
According to the Boston Globe, the two agencies arranged meetings for the undocumented immigrants at government offices, where they were subsequently arrested, and in some cases deported.
According to e-mails obtained by the Globe between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and employees of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), ICE asked government officials to space out the meetings so that the public wouldn’t catch on and draw “negative media interests.”
“As far as scheduling goes, I would prefer not to do them all at one time as it is [not] only a strain on our ability to transport and process several arrests at once, but it also has the potential to be a trigger for negative media interests, as we have seen in the past,” Andrew Graham, an ICE officer, wrote to a USCIS employee in one email from October.
https://thinkprogress.org/ice-agents-trap-immigrants-seeking-legal-residency-984970dcbc36/
Hawaii's newest volcanic cone is over 100 feet tall. How will it be named?
BY MARK KAUFMAN
The town of Volcano is swaying, back and forth.
“It’s been rocking and rolling,” Bobby Camara, a Volcano resident who spent decades working as a ranger at the nearby Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, said from his Big Island home.
Though the tremors are mild, they still cause the lamps in Camara’s house to gently swing.
“You feel like you’re drunk or on a boat — the quakes are quite subtle," Camara said.
For over three months, the southeastern portion of Hawaii has been quaking and gushing lava, though the vigorously erupting lava recently took a pause.
One of the more stark results of this activity — stoked by the movement of hot rock beneath the ground — has been the creation of a volcanic cone, appearing as a sort of blackened, miniature volcano.
Currently standing at some 100 feet tall, it grew upwards as lava fountained high into the air, and then fell in heaps back to the ground. Volcano scientists informally call it Fissure 8, and it’s known geologically as a “spatter cone.” But what might this new Hawaiian feature be named?
Many local Hawaiians — both native and those that came here from other lands — want to make sure that the cone gets a Hawaiian name.
https://mashable.com/2018/08/13/hawaii-volcano-naming-kilauea/#EMp.JEk24kqc
Just like a new birth...................sometimes it takes a awhile....................
Genoa bridge collapse: at least 11 killed in motorway plunge
Today is Primary day in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Vermont
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2018 Partisan Primary
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Partisan Primary for the November 6, 2018 General Election.
Offices on the ballot are Governor, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, odd-numbered Wisconsin State Senate seats, and all Wisconsin Assembly seats.
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Donald Trump's Trade Wars Are Roiling Wisconsin GOP
By Cameron Joseph | August 14, 2018 6:00 am
PLATTEVILLE, WI — Steve North, the head of the Wisconsin Dairy Business Association, is enough of a dyed-in-the-wool Republican to spend his Monday morning at a campaign stop for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R). But when asked about how President Trump’s standing might effect his party this year, he immediately expressed concern over Trump’s ongoing trade wars.
“The reality is a change in our marketplace has been discomforting for sure, to say the least. There’s a lot of heartburn about where prices are at right now. So that will be something that we’ll have to work through as we come through fall,” North told TPM at a Walker campaign event at Digman Construction, a small company outside small-town Platteville in the state’s rural southwestern corner.
North’s group is nonpartisan, and has endorsed candidates from both parties in the past. He said he thought most Republican-leaning voters are willing to deal with some short-term economic pain to give Trump some time to figure things out, and doesn’t think it’s fair that others who voted for Trump are now unhappy with him doing what he promised to do.
“You don’t send a bull into a china shop and hope for a whole plate at the end,” North said.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/donald-trumps-trade-wars-are-roiling-wisconsin-gop
Well North your economic well being is being undermined by a traitor, and as soon as you and others think in those terms, your full of shit and your die in the wool republican, you don't think or talk how the FDR plan helped you r industry, and just shows how much of hypocrite you really are, you think republicans saved your industry....................
And as for the asshole Walker, he rides a Harley, well, they are Union made, and he doesn't like unions, so he in essence he also is full of shit ........................to all of wisconsin voter's somewhere along the line, he approved the republican convention language praising Russia and the Ukraine and the lifting of those sanctions, he knew also he was enabling traitor...................he also should have called the FBI, and he didn't...........................
And then there is moment..............
So wisconsin you really have choice .....................party or country.....................we will see
Trump offers White House staffers discounted merch from his golf club
Ethics experts say the arrangement is a disturbing blurring of lines between his private business and the presidency.
By ANNIE KARNI and ELIANA JOHNSON 08/13/2018 03:24 PM EDT
There’s an under-the-radar perk being offered to staffers in President Donald Trump’s administration — discounts on Trump-branded merchandise sold at his Bedminster golf club.
White House staffers who have a Secret Service hard pin identifying them as administration officials can flash it at the pro shop — where Trump-branded driver headcovers retail for $40 and a Trump golf polo tee sells for $90, according to the online Trump store — and receive the same discount available to club members, who pay a reported $350,000 to join the club.
Those discounts range from 15 percent off of any merchandise sold in the store, to 70 percent off of clearance items, according to two staffers and a receipt reviewed by POLITICO.
The practice is the latest indication that being a public servant in this administration comes with special perks to sweeten the deal. The discounts available at the Bedminster club were originally pitched by the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and the president himself as a nice gesture to aides, according to the recollection of someone familiar with the set-up. A White House spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment on who instituted the discounts available.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/trump-white-house-staff-golf-clubs-perks-776098
And a fucking republican congress getting items at a discount............fucking bribery is still bribery...................
Kavanaugh Thinks It's OK to Perform Elective Surgery on People Without Consent
BY
Hannah LeibsonRebecca Cokley TalkPoverty.org
PUBLISHED
August 13, 2018
This article was published by TalkPoverty.org.
Right now, Congress is in a deadlock over Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. Senators are reviewing more than 1 million pages of his legal writing — which have laid out his stance on women’s reproductive rights (opposed), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (opposed), and the Affordable Care Act (opposed) — and members are battling over access to additional documentation that could reveal past experience with torture and wiretapping. While many of Kavanaugh’s opinions have been controversial — in particular his dissent from a decision that allowed an immigrant woman to have an abortion — one of his most problematic rulings has gone unreported. As a Judge in DC Circuit Court, Kavanaugh argued that people with disabilities could be forced to undergo elective surgeries, including abortion, without their consent.
In 2001, three intellectually disabled DC residents brought suit against the city in Doe ex rel. Tarlow v. D.C, after they were subjected to at least three involuntary procedures: two abortions and one elective eye surgery. Ultimately, the district court agreed that these women’s due process rights had been violated and that “constitutionally adequate procedures” had not been followed. The District Court ruled for the plaintiffs and held that DC must make “documented reasonable efforts to communicate” with patients and if unsuccessful, the government had to take into account the “totality of circumstances” before proceeding to ensure any decision is in the best interest of the patient. This decision codified patients’ right to self-determination, and struck down the practice of elective
surgeries without consent from the patients at stake.
On appeal, Judge Kavanaugh vacated the District Court’s injunction, arguing that “accepting the wishes of patients who lack, and have always lacked the mental capacity to make medical decisions does not make logical sense.” That stands in contrast to even the most conservative interpretations of the laws that existed at the time, which required two separate health professionals to determine whether a patient had the capacity to make medical decisions before every procedure. The lifetime pass Kavanaugh seems to be arguing for, which would allow doctors to perform any procedures they wanted on a person who was once ruled unfit, does not exist.
One hundred years ago, Kavanaugh’s ruling would have been at home on the Supreme Court. In the 1920’s, in the famous 8-1 ruling of Buck v. Bell, the Supreme Court found a Virginia statute that allowed for the sexual sterilization of a third generation, “feebleminded” women was constitutional because “three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
https://truthout.org/articles/kavanaugh-thinks-its-ok-to-perform-elective-surgery-on-people-without-consent/
So this Federalists Society asshole basically believes in eugenics.....................and the list of his bull shit keeps getting longer and longer, now what is Grassley and the fucking turtle going to do..................are they for eugenics.................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough..........................vote
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