The front page lead, natch:
"Trump’s fixation on revenge for Mueller probe leads him back into impeachment zone" by Jess Bidgood and Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, September 28, 2019
WASHINGTON — When he emerged from the special counsel’s two-year investigation unscathed by criminal charges, President Trump yelled from the rooftops of Twitter and cable news: TOTAL EXONERATION!
But he was not ready to move on.
It wasn’t enough that Trump avoided charges of obstruction of justice, or that Robert Mueller failed to establish a conspiracy between his presidential campaign and the Russian operatives working to boost his candidacy. Trump appeared determined to prove that Russia never helped his campaign at all, which would establish that his unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton was his and his alone.
That's not the pre$$ narrative though.
And so, in the explosive whistle-blower complaint and the White House’s own record of the call revealed last week, a picture emerged of a president seeking to deputize Ukraine to help him, violating diplomatic norms and, possibly,
TRUMP, Page A13
I'm going to put aside the rest of the article, the bad grammar (you never start a sentence with an and or a but), and the sloppy journali$m and get back to it upon the turn-in.
At the edge of a warming world
It's the Globe's Special Report with its own Section. Supposedly details the effects on Cape Cod, and yet the rich and powerful are still buying and building on beachfront property. I'm kind of tired of the "¢limate ¢hange" $¢am at this point.
Now I suggest you take a deep breath before flipping below the fold:
Still a field of schemes in Dominican baseball
Yeah, all those murdered trees have nothing to do with climate change -- which is nothing more than a polite way of saying carbon tax, for a carbon tax engenders resistance and outrage while climate change engenders fear and obedience.
I suppose the owner of the paper owning a ball team has nothing to do with the disconnect, huh? Or the placement of the article on the Sunday Globe front page (his wife is managing director of the paper).
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"Fraud, misconduct threaten Afghan presidential election" by Rahim Faiez and Kathy Gannon Associated Press, September 28, 2019
KABUL — Accusations of fraud and misconduct — more so than scores of Taliban attacks — threatened to overwhelm the results of Saturday’s vote for the next president of Afghanistan, denying the winner legitimacy and frustrating efforts to restart peace talks to end 18 years of war.
When polls closed Saturday, Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi said there had been 68 Taliban attacks across the country, most of them rockets fired from distant outposts. At least five people were killed, including one police officer, and scores more were injured.
A surge in violence in the run-up to the elections, which followed the collapse of US-Taliban talks to end America’s longest war, had already rattled Afghanistan in recent weeks. Yet on Saturday, for those who went to vote, it was the process itself that drew the greatest criticism, threatening the country’s fragile battle against chaos.
Many Afghans found incomplete voters’ lists, unworkable biometric identification systems aimed at curbing fraud, and, in some cases, hostile election workers.
Very interesting contrast with the "democracy" we are bringing to the Afghans as opposed to the nasty fight regarding voter ID laws here at home.
Ruhollah Nawroz, a representative of the Independent Complaints Commission tasked with monitoring the process, said the problems were countrywide. Whether they were the fault of the government or the Independent Election Commission, Nawroz said Afghans will have trouble seeing the vote as free and fair.
Well, we are like the Afghans in that regard no matter which party, if any, you identify.
The government’s push to hold the vote was in itself controversial. In an interview with the Associated Press last week, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who still wields heavy influence, warned that the vote could be destabilizing for the country at a time of deep political uncertainty, and could hinder restarting the peace process with the Taliban, but on Saturday, Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s national security adviser, said he believed that nothing would be acceptable to the Taliban except a complete return to power.
Yeah, Karzai was the oil company executive the Bush regime tapped as the first proconsul of Afghanistan. Still wields influence, huh?
‘‘The elections were a way for us to show, for the people of Afghanistan to show, we are committed to democracy and self-determination and that is how we want to see Afghanistan ruled and that was the most important message and I think that was delivered.’’
I'm tired of boilerplate pablum and symbolic messages being delivered, sorry. It's nothing but more war propaganda, and 13 years here is enough.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of police, intelligence officials, and Afghan National Army personnel were deployed throughout the country to protect the 4,942 election centers. Still, 63-year old Ahmad Khan urged people to vote. ‘‘It is the only way to show the Taliban we are not afraid of them,” he said, though he also said he was worried about the apparent glitches in the process.
Yeah, U.S.-sponsored election just contain glitches. Any results anywhere else in the world, like Venezuela, are illegitimate if the wrong person or party wins.
You know, if you are part of the elite cla$$ of Bo$ton for whom this is written, it reads right. It's comforting. It's reassuring.
Campaigning for Saturday’s elections was subdued and went into high gear barely two weeks ahead of the polls as most of the 18 presidential candidates expected a peace deal between the United States and the Taliban to delay the vote, but on Sept. 7, President Trump declared a deal that had seemed imminent was now “dead’’ after violent attacks in Kabul killed 12 people, including two US-led coalition soldiers, one of whom was American.
Was the PNAC-er Khalilzad that was in charge of the "peace" efforts.
At least Trump tried to get us out of there before he backed down.
While many of the presidential candidates withdrew from the election, none formally did so, leaving all 18 candidates on the ballot.
Think Democrats running for president.
Elections in Afghanistan are notoriously flawed and in the last presidential polls in 2014, allegations of widespread corruption were so massive that the United States intervened to prevent violence. No winner was declared and the United States cobbled together the unity government in which Ghani and Abdullah shared equal power — Ghani as president and Abdullah as chief executive, a newly created position.....
That highlighted statement is so ass-backward and absurd it's beyond comment.
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Related: U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan
It was an innocent error and mistake, sorry.
If only the English were still in charge, 'eh?
"Boris Johnson is referred to watchdog over scandal" by Peter Robins New York Times, September 28, 2019
LONDON — A monitor at London’s City Hall has referred Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain to a police watchdog for a possible investigation of claims that he unduly favored an US entrepreneur while mayor of the city, intensifying a politically risky scandal as he faces a hostile Parliament and a looming Brexit deadline.
The official said the claims about Johnson’s ties to the entrepreneur, Jennifer Arcuri, who joined several of the mayor’s international trade missions and whose businesses were awarded tens of thousands of pounds in government money.
The government’s response was fierce and dismissive: A Cabinet minister from Johnson’s Conservative Party, Theresa Villiers, told the BBC on Saturday that it was “an obviously politicized complaint.”
Rub-a-dub-dub.
Several British news outlets earlier quoted an unnamed government source as calling the referral “a nakedly political put-up job,” one done without warning to Johnson and without following due process.
Both Johnson and Arcuri have denied any wrongdoing.
The referral does not necessarily mean the prime minister will be investigated, but.....
So New York Times is sooooo hoping and pushing!
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Also see:
Gilded coffin is returned to Egypt
For Sissi?
Conservatives target LGBT pride march
Dumb Polacks.
Protesters decry jailing of Catalans
Regime change chaos?
A Chim Chiminey Parade Honors Sweeps and Recalls Past Horrors
It's the New York Times literally sweeping out shit of of the Italian chimney.
"Favorite in Austria’s election seems open to reunion with the far right" by Katrin Bennhold New York Times, September 28, 2019
VIENNA — When Sebastian Kurz became Austria’s youngest-ever chancellor two years ago, he made a pact to govern with the far right. He would in effect housebreak them, he suggested, checking their worst instincts.
In the 18 months that followed, Kurz, a conservative, had plenty of opportunity to try to do so: One official of the far-right Freedom Party that he had partnered with was found to use a fraternity songbook that celebrated the Holocaust. Another published a poem calling immigrants rats. A third put child refugees behind barbed wire and demanded that people who buy kosher meat register their names first.
Then in May, an old video surfaced showing the most senior government minister of the Freedom Party fantasizing about restricting press freedom and promising government contracts to a would-be investor close to President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
“Enough is enough,” Kurz declared and called for a snap election, but that was then. On Sunday, Kurz is up for reelection, and all indications are that he will not only win again — but that he also may be open to another coalition with the same far-right Freedom Party.
How Kurz, Austria’s fresh-faced, 33-year-old political wunderkind, could finesse a reunion is part of the political gymnastics of an election that follows one of the country’s biggest political scandals in its recent history.
At a time of rising nationalism and populism in Europe, Austria has become an important test case. With centrist parties shrinking and former far-right fringe parties becoming entrenched in the political landscape, mainstream politicians across the Continent have scrambled for a response.
I haven't commented until now because I am simply tired of the New York Times spin and spew, as well as the endless advocacy journali$m and elitist insult.
Beyond that, you can almost see a shrill desperation and hysteria surrounding their reporting. They are scared. They are losing the "information war" on all levels. Completely discredited and all their own doing.
When Kurz first bounded onto the political scene, he offered one: seizing on issues like limits to immigration and the threat posed to Austrian identity to give a youthful and more elegant repackaging to much of the agenda of the Freedom Party — and then inviting them into the government.
Under Kurz, a former conservative youth leader who once distributed branded condoms as a campaign gag, the traditionally staid People’s Party was refashioned into a social-media-savvy political movement that attracted hundreds of thousands of new supporters.
His fans see him as one of the most gifted politicians in Europe, who turned around the fortunes of his conservative party and put his small country on the map, a role model for center-right leaders in these disruptive political times.
They are turning him into Hitler!
“Everyone wants to meet Sebastian Kurz,” said Martin Eichtinger, a former Austrian ambassador to Britain and fellow conservative. “He is a star.”
Kurz’s critics retort that he is a political shape-shifter of little conviction, and that by bringing the far right into government he has mainstreamed its hateful messaging.
I'm told dozens of adoring fans lined up to take selfies with him.
What stands out most from their short-lived time in office are measures the coalition took that were aimed at making life uncomfortable for immigrants. Benefits were sharply cut for families with more than two children and for those who do not speak German or English. Wearing headscarves in primary schools and kindergartens was banned, and recently arrived asylum-seekers, who have no work permit and can only do auxiliary jobs in public institutions, saw their pay curbed.
Oh, the pre$$ pushing the interests of migrants, what a shock.
Still, the campaign has not been entirely smooth for Kurz. The dust had barely settled on the outrage over the coalition-busting video — which secretly filmed Heinz-Christian Strache on the Spanish island of Ibiza in July 2017, a few months before he would become vice chancellor in the Kurz government — when Austrian papers began reporting that Kurz’s office had ordered several hard drives shredded before he left office. Later, financial records showing questionable financing for his conservative People’s Party surfaced in the media.
As if someone was sitting on it and waiting for just the right time to leak it.
I'm sorry, readers, but it is clear that the Sunday Globe is no longer serious and that the Globe has become a joke.
Earlier this month, the former chancellor became the butt of jokes and memes, as reviewers panned the latest of three biographies documenting his rise to power as more akin to fan fiction or a steamy romance novel than a serious account of the life of Austria’s youngest, and shortest-serving, leader.
Known for his tightly controlled social media image, being cast as the dashing hero under the mocking hashtag #50ShadesOfKurz was not necessarily how the former chancellor intended to dominate Twitter during his campaign.
The book’s fawning prose was quickly skewered by influential politicians, journalists, and intellectuals, but it does not appear to have hurt Kurz’s standing.
Polls show his party enjoying 33 to 35 percent support — well ahead of its next-closest rivals in the Freedom Party and the center-left Socialists, at around 20 percent each. More than 40 percent would elect him outright.
They will have a hard time frauding and rigging that vote, but I wouldn't put it past them (see Afghanistan above).
There is no certainty that Kurz will return to his old coalition partner. When it comes to coalitions, he may have his pick, analysts predicted, and the young chancellor may be wary that a reunion would look unprincipled, even unseemly, but if it happens, a replay of a partnership with the Freedom Party threatens to chip away at Austria’s democratic foundation, some observers fear.....
Yes, “often you don’t know how precious it is what you have.”
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Hong Kong pro-democracy rally ends early as violence erupts
The continuing destabilization and regime change effort is at the every least meant to spoil their holiday:
Beijing parade to glorify Communist Party, and Xi’s power
I'm tired of reading New York Times swill. Sorry.
Dutch railroad reckons with Holocaust shame, decades later
Same goes for the Jew York Times, which is apparently more book promotion than anything else these days.
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe is buried
Good thing, too because he died weeks ago and the corpse was starting to stink.
[The first part of the A section ended on page A10 with a full-page ad for Sandals resorts]
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The second part began on page A11:
Lawmakers see a broken system and little common ground at the border,
It's New York Times.
Next!
Diversion of funds for wall puts Guam projects on hold
China and the entire Pacific Rim just breathed a sigh of relief.
Better hold yours:
"Amateur pro-Trump sleuths scramble to unmask whistle-blower" by Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell Washington Post, September 28, 2019
The looming battle over President Trump’s potential impeachment has sparked an online hunt in the far-right corners of the Web as self-styled Internet sleuths race to identify the anonymous person Trump has likened to a treasonous spy.
Now the CIA's newspaper is going to run cover for their Deep State asset by tossing out insults.
At least the Web bloggers are not pretending to be truth-telling journali$ts that shovel $hit. They are instead doing what the pre$$ should be doing, except it's the pre$$.
Their guesses have been scattershot, conspiratorial, and often untethered from reality, spanning a wide range of such unlikely contenders as presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and Vice President Mike Pence.
Oh, that's rich coming from a paper that promoted such things as the Gulf of Tonkin, babies being thrown out of Kuwaiti incubators, and Iraq's possession of WMDs.
At least we finally got to see the name Kushner in the pre$$, huh?
The quest to identify the person who crafted the politically explosive complaint against Trump has become a fixation across the most extreme corners of such platforms as Twitter, Reddit, and Gab — and has spread onto conservative news sites, radio shows, and TV broadcasts.
On the contrary, it is the pre$$ that is obsessed. We don't need to know the name because we know what he is and what he represents.
The president’s scornful portrayal of the whistle-blower shaped and stoked the online conversation throughout the week, as it descended into a case study of the Internet at its worst — frenetic, fueled by rumor, and frequently racist, misogynistic, and crude.
What that paragraph tells you is the web bloggers have hit close to the mark and the paid pre$$titues are scrambling as they project their own conduct on to us out here in the nether regions.
The hunt for the whistle-blower revealed a glimpse of how polarized partisan media and the Internet have become, in which every news event becomes an opportunity for online brawlers to steer mainstream conversations and defeat the other side. ‘‘We’re seeing all the elements of information warfare play out online during this episode,’’ said Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the think tank New America.
Yeah, and the target of the pre$$ is public perception and they are losing it!
At least the $tink tank makes one think!
After the complaint was made public Thursday morning, pro-Trump commenters guessed the whistle-blower is Hispanic or Jewish or Arab or African-American and, many were sure, a woman — though rarely did the commenters use such delicate terms. A top choice soon became Susan Gordan, a former deputy director of national intelligence, though others thought a more probable candidate is CIA Director Gina Haspel.
Those last two names are blatant disinformation since the Times outed them as a he (unless that was a deception), or made to make the independent investigators look stupid.
Some commenters offered names or rough demographic characteristics, while others posted photos of potential suspects. One 4chan commenter focused on former national security adviser John Bolton as a contender, posting a close-up image of his trademark bristly mustache with the words ‘‘Operation Infinite Walrus!’’
YUP! It's pretty obvious now that he is the one leaking to the pre$$, and I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so!
So the WaComPo tossed out a couple of rabbit red herrings for you to chases, then slyly tells you who is the real source.
The speculation gained energy at several key moments, beginning with the release of the transcript of a July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The frenzy accelerated with the release of the complaint itself.
The guessing game took another twist after The New York Times reported the complaint was made by a CIA officer detailed to the White House. A conservative writer, Stu Cvrk, tweeted out his guess a few hours later.
‘‘Is This Guy The Ukraine Phone Call Whistleblower?’’ Cvrk tweeted, linking to a post he wrote on RedState, a conservative news and commentary site.
‘‘A source known to me at the State Department, who will remain anonymous, tells me that everyone is pointing to Edward ‘Ned’ Price as the whistleblower who came forward with the accusation that President Trump ‘abused his office’ during a phone conversation with the Ukrainian president,’’ wrote Cvrk. Price is a former CIA officer who retired in 2017 and is now a political analyst for NBC News.
Can you hear that Mockingbird sing?
Price, who was more amused than upset at the claim, said it made him concerned about the development of ‘‘discourse that is just divorced from the facts.’’
‘‘It’s part of the political atmosphere that we live in now,’’ Price said. ‘‘People are looking for anything on which to hang their tinfoil hats.’’
Oh, we are all ‘‘tinfoil hat guys’’ out here, I get it.
Those parlor game paragraphs would be funny and the charge laughable were we not told just last week that UFOs are REAL!
Who is wearing the tinfoil hat now?
On Friday, the Washington Examiner spread word of a $50,000 reward offered by two pro-Trump political activists known for smear campaigns, who called the scandal a ‘‘national disgrace’’ and said they hoped identifying the whistle-blower would help put ‘‘this dark chapter behind us.’’
A post on the conservative Washington Sentinel suggested the whistle-blower complaint was written by a ‘‘very organized’’ team of individuals, based on what they called ‘‘document analysis (grammatic profiling) software.’’ Breitbart News said the ‘‘so-called whistleblower’’ marched to the orders of a vast operation bankrolled by George Soros, a longtime target of conservative conspiracy theories.
Yeah, Clinton lawyers wrote it while Soros was bankrolling Greta.
The whistle-blower has remained anonymous, but should his or her name be publicized through the efforts of internet sleuths, journalists, or others, the consequences probably will be serious given the intensity of the fixation online.
Yeah, but people like Manning are not entitled to such things. The only "whistleblowers" worth protecting are the Deep State assets that leak to the pre$$.
Many people in such spotlights have had their personal information — such as their home addresses, family affiliations, and Social Security numbers — published through online ‘‘doxing’’ harassment campaigns. It’s not unusual for figures identified in this way to be confronted in person at their homes or workplaces.
Yeah, it's okay when they show up at McConnell's house when he is inside with a broken shoulder, or show up outside Tucker Carlson's house, or confronts people at restaurants.
The Globe not only ignores that conduct, but encourages and approves of it!
‘‘It’s very disruptive,’’ said Joan Donovan, research director at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. ‘‘The president has already branded this person as a snitch and a spy, and that’s a problem.’’
The whistle-blower’s lawyer has publicly called for respect for the person’s privacy, but many in conservative media have shown no interest in standing down.
In response to this request, the Trump-boosting talk-radio host Mark Levin said on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Thursday night, ‘‘Too bad, pal. Too late. You want to impeach our president, using this BS? We want to know all about your guy.’’
I saw that, and can't help but note that he is Jewish.
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TRUMP, continued from Page A1
as Democrats are now trying to determine, his oath of office in the process.
Now, it appears Trump’s fixation with settling scores over the Russia investigation — as well as his desire to win reelection and penchant for conspiracy theories — have landed him right back where he started: in the crosshairs of a congressional investigation into whether he solicited aid from a foreign nation for his own political gain.
OMG!
Yeah, he brought this all upon himself, uh-huh.
The Globe girls then turned to Fernando Cutz, who was an adviser to General H.R. McMaster, the president’s former national security adviser, for expert analysis.
The whistle-blower’s complaint, as well as a White House reconstruction of the phone call between Trump and Ukranian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, has become the road map for a Democratic impeachment inquiry five months after it seemed that the biggest shadow over Trump’s presidency — the Mueller investigation — had passed, but the two documents made public last week also offer a remarkable window into the mind-set of a president consumed with a conspiracy theory about the origins of the investigation into his 2016 campaign, and willing to bend the rules to validate that victory and secure the next one, and this is all taking place inside a West Wing missing many of the tempering influences who were present at the outset of Trump’s presidency.
The hurling of the word conspiracy theory tells me they are scared! You have hit too close to the mark and must be shouted down as a kook.
“He struggles to trust others, and keeps his own counsel, obviously at his peril,” said Michael D’Antonio, a Trump biographer.
I don't blame him. He is like Caesar, surrounded by enemies without a face.
The White House’s reconstruction of the call with Zelensky shows Trump at his backslapping, cajoling best, in full control of a conversation with a weaker ally. Yet as he assumed the role of the superior power in position to protect Ukraine, he was also careful to portray himself and the United States as victims, too.
“I would like you to do us a favor though, because our country has been through a lot,” Trump said, according to the memo, “and Ukraine knows a lot about it.”
One big ask seemed to reference a baseless conspiracy theory that challenges the US intelligence community’s conclusion that Russian operatives hacked into the Democratic National Committee’s servers during the 2016 election, and suggests Ukranian interests framed Russia. Elements of that theory have been promoted by right-wing websites and Russian media.
Then it's probably the truth then, given that my pre$$ and the US intelligence community (proven liars if there ever were) are on the other side. That's what we have come to in AmeriKa.
“The server, they say Ukraine has it,” Trump said, and then mentioned the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which was hired by the DNC to investigate the hack, and which concluded the Russians were involved.
Oooooh, that explains the political and pre$$ reaction and the sudden impeachment furry! The pre$$ is trying to protect the Clintons at all costs.
It's been floated out in the nether worlds of true investigation that the Ukraine oligarch that was the majority shareholder and investor in CrowdStrike has the servers. Crowdstrike ran cover for the Clintons, and never turned the servers over to the FBI (which never really wanted them). If Trump were ever able to get his hands on those.....
“As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance,” Trump said on the call, which took place one day after Mueller testified before Congress. “But they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.”
That's because he is suffering from dementia, and the reported conversations so far are nowhere near the level of impeachment.
WTF?
This is the best they got?
Trump then asked Zelensky to “look into” former vice president Joe Biden — the Democratic challenger who has been polling well ahead of Trump in a 2020 matchup — and his son Hunter Biden over unfounded allegations of corruption.
“Whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great,” he said to Zelensky.
I'm starting to think this isn't about Biden at all. He is going to be collateral damage in the effort to protect the Clintons!
Mueller’s report had detailed Trump’s anger and fear that the special counsel investigation would cast doubt over the legitimacy of his win, a frustration he has shared with multiple aides. That fear appears to have lingered, preventing Trump from simply moving on from the political reprieve he was handed by the report’s release last spring.
“I think when presidents are being accused, like anyone else, they can get a little bit conspiratorial,” said Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor who has advised Trump in the past. “I do think the Ukraine connection is a bit stretched, but he’s very focused on trying to demonstrate he didn’t do anything wrong.”
Now that Epstein is gone, Dersh no longer has to worry.
Trump has long derided the Russia investigation as a “hoax” and a “witch hunt,” and in recent months has embraced fringe theories about its origin.
“The power of conspiracy theories at the highest levels of power is pretty striking,” said Julian Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University. “He and many of his advisers see the world through arguments — without evidence — of persons who are out to get them.”
When asked during a news conference Wednesday to explain why it was appropriate for the US president to ask a foreign leader for information on a political rival, Trump’s answer was right from the fever swamps: “The witch hunt,” he asserted, started with President Obama asking a foreign leader for damaging information on him.
“There have been some fantastic books that just came out recently and so many other books,” Trump said, citing a book by a Fox News analyst called “The Russia Hoax” that defended his campaign. “A lot of books are coming out. When you start reading those books, you see what they did to us.”
Yeah, the information is out there. The Globe just chooses to omit and obfuscate it from their readers.
Then he again cited his victory in 2016, listing his Electoral College totals. “We won an election convincingly, convincingly,” he said.
Last week’s revelations also offer new insights into the inner workings of the White House as it enters an impeachment battle and reelection fight. According to the whistle-blower, administration officials hid the official transcript of the president’s call with Zelensky by putting it into in a highly classified computer system reserved for national security matters.
Richard Ben-Veniste, a special prosecutor during Watergate, said that move bore an “eerie similarity” to the scandal that eventually brought down President Richard M. Nixon.
OMG, they turned to a Clinton lawyer and member of the 9/11 Commission!
“There’s a recognition immediately by those surrounding the president that he has done something bad,” Ben-Veniste said. “We have an allegation that there was an immediate effort by the White House to sequester the evidence of the conversation the president had with Mr. Zelensky by . . . making an essentially bogus claim of national security that put the material under very highly classified protection.”
And, as the complaint suggests, Trump does not face the same pushback from top staffers and advisers that he used to, further insulating him in an echo chamber that is often filled with misinformation. Mueller’s report, for example, revealed that several former aides, including confidant Corey Lewandowski and White House counsel Don McGahn, refused to carry out Trump’s orders to attempt to interfere in the investigation, likely protecting Trump from additional accusations of obstruction.
That's my morning paper!
Related:
Thankfully, according to the New York Times, the United States and Israel are not one of them.
This time around, the president’s close friend Rudy Giuliani has himself been raising questions about the Bidens’ activities in Ukraine for months, and Trump appeared confident that Attorney General William Barr would also come to his aid, by speaking with Zelensky about the matter. The Department of Justice has denied Barr spoke with Trump about having Ukraine look into the Bidens.
“The initial White House that we had was designed by the Republican National Committee,” said former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo. “This one is designed by President Donald Trump.”
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His day of reckoning may be here, or it may be just another sugar high. It will be up to the ‘people’ as GlobeDocs features films about hope and healing.
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Scharfenberg, 'eh?
Also see:
State Department takes closer look at Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server
By Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe and Karoun Demirjian Washington Post
Didn't make print, to no one's surprise.
So who has it, and why did FBI not seize it?
The Globe put out that fire quickly while lighting these:
"More populated, wealthier counties have adapted their emergency plans to respond to the new reality of thousands of residents losing power for an undetermined amount of time, but the preventive outages are proving to be a burden to smaller, poorer counties without resources to set up places for people to cool off or mobilize staff to deal with emergencies if outages stretch past two days......"
The weather is the cover story for the Third-Worldization of the USA and California, using the fire that killed 85 people and nearly destroyed the Butte County town of Paradise as the rationale. I'm told the outages lasted less than a day, and no major problems were reported as California lawmakers this year set aside $75 million to prepare local governments for the outages, but officials have yet to decide how to distribute the money.
At least the homeless and poop-stained streets have disappeared.
So who lights the fires this time?
"Human lookouts are becoming a remnant of the past. The Forest Service manages 153 lookout posts these days in Washington and Oregon, but only about 50 of them are staffed full or part time. The use of aerial surveillance in the 1960s accelerated their demise....."
And now they have drones that don't have to be piloted.
Exam doesn’t find cause of boat fire
Feds crack Medicare gene test fraud that peddled cheek swabs
They are just ‘‘bad actors trying to take advantage of good medicine,’’ and believe it or not, it's the exact same article that was in print yesterday, save for the final four paragraphs.
Try to think of it as a double in a pack of ball cards, right? I suppose the story is so important it needed to be printed twice. Either that or it was functioning as filler.
Page A19-A25 are filled with obituaries as the first section concludes on page A26:
"Researchers question Census Bureau’s new approach to privacy" by Jennifer McDermott and Mike Schneider Associated Press, September 28, 2019
PROVIDENCE — In an age of rapidly advancing computer power, the US Census Bureau recently undertook an experiment to see if census answers could threaten the privacy of the people who fill out the questionnaires.
The fear is that advertisers, market researchers, or anybody with know-how and curiosity could use data to reconstruct the identities of census respondents.
No need to fear the government, though, with this ‘‘brand new, radically more conservative definition of privacy.’’
Historians have found evidence that census data helped identify Japanese-Americans who were rounded up and confined to camps during World War II. That revelation led to an apology from then-Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt in 2000.
That was before 9/11, and given the way this country is going and its views on dissent, I wouldn't be surprised if the Deep State already has plans in place. All the empty malls should do nicely.
Jewish groups and some liberal organizations had concerns about privacy when the bureau was lobbied to ask about religion for the 1960 census. Some noted that Nazis had used government and church records to identify and round up Jews. The idea never went anywhere.....
Yeah, you Jews don't have to worry here. Not as long as Zionists control this government.
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The B-section:
Families displaced by Lawrence gas leak return home
Harvard president apologizes for reference to freeing of slaves in discussing fund-raising effort
He should have learned by now.
Protesters denounce police sweep that rounded up addicts, homeless
The Globe has taken the side of the shoplifting addicts over that of residents.
Danvers mall vape shop sues state over temporary ban
They were given a court date in February 2020.
You are better off shooting up, anyway. That seems to be the message.
Ed Markey, Joe Kennedy III appear at rally to support striking union workers
I had already stopped reading and marking the pos at that point, sorry.
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Well, I'm out of Ideas:
Ideas | Tatiana Schlossberg
Buying jeans, eating burgers, watching Netflix
Schlossberg, huh?
Ideas | Tatiana Schlossberg
Combating climate change can feel like a daunting task, but we’re not powerless
Ideas | Amitha Kalaichandran
Climate change is making us sick
PFFFT!
Yeah, forget the 5G radiation, the GMOs, the chemtrails visible in the sky, the chemicals in the food and water, fracking, Fukushima, the vaccines, etc. We are sick because of climate change.
Ironically, it was the Globe editorial regarding the carbon footprint of a cup of coffee that made me rethink my whole routine and get on board.
Time to stop making that morning coffee run that leads to the purchase of a Bo$ton Globe -- for the sake of the planet!
