"What happens to a country whose most important police force — and its key investigators — is no longer telling the truth to the citizens of that nation? Nothing good, I'm sure most would agree. There's almost no point in going through all the analogies to despotic regimes. Writers from George Orwell to Arthur Koestler have already done it for us.
But those analogies come immediately to mind following two revelations regarding our Federal Bureau of Investigation that surfaced this week. In one instance, the FBI refused to turn over documents regarding the Hillary Clinton emails because of -- wait for it -- "lack of public interest.""
Canada demands U.S. end ‘right to work’ laws as part of NAFTA talks - The Globe and Mail "Canadian negotiators are demanding the United States roll back so-called "right to work" laws – accused of gutting unions in some U.S. states by starving them of money – as part of the renegotiation of the North American free-trade agreement.
The request is part of a push by Ottawa to get the U.S. and Mexico to adopt higher labour standards under the deal.
...One group of negotiators spent all day Sunday working on the labour file, according to a schedule of the talks obtained by The Globe and Mail.
One source familiar with the discussions said Canada wants the United States to pass a federal law stopping state governments from enacting right-to-work legislation..."
Govt. union rep: Employees only have to be "available to work" to get paid - Hot Air Hot Air:
"We recently talked about the difficulty that VA chief David Shulkin ran into when attempting to fire one of his people who had been found to be grossly negligent. That person was Brian Hawkins, who had been deemed incompetent in leadership and guilty of mishandling patient records, including sending some of them to his wife’s personal email accounts.
Hawkins wasn’t out of work long after the MSPB agreed to hear his appeal.
He’s now back on the job awaiting final disposition of his case.
It’s not just the VA where we’re having trouble cutting out the deadwood, however.
This report from the Washington Post has at least one real eye opener in it.
The head of the Treasury has been made aware of problems at the Patent and Trademark Office.
Over there, a number of workers were found to be falsifying their time reporting, billing the government for hundreds of thousands of dollars for time not worked. In some of the most severe cases, workers put in two hours of time, then had the audacity to charge the government for a full day plus two hours of overtime.
Only one person has managed to be fired in that scandal and that case may be put on hold also.
A union official denied any impropriety, saying his members “were available to work” but often finished their tasks quickly and awaited more assignments, a practice that went on for as long as a decade..."
"At least five people were shot during a four-hour time frame on Sunday morning in gun-controlled Chicago. The shootings included a man and woman; he was 23-years-old and she was 34. Both were “shot multiple times just after 4:30 a.m.” and were hospitalized in serious condition.
According to the Chicago Tribune, a 15-year-old boy was shot three hours earlier. He is in stable condition.
The “historically violent holiday weekend” began ominously when 13 people were shot–with two fatalities–as late Friday gave way to early Saturday.
"North Korea claimed that a nuclear blast on Sunday was a big advance from its previous five tests because it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb. But some experts suspect the North may have tested a “boosted” atomic bomb.
How are a hydrogen bomb and a regular atomic bomb different? And why would that matter to the United States and its allies? Here’s what the experts say.
Nuclear weapons trigger an explosive reaction that shears off destructive energy locked inside the bomb’s atomic materials.
The first atomic weapons, like those dropped by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, did that with fission: splitting unstable uranium or plutonium atoms so that their subatomic neutrons fly free, smash up more atoms and create a devastating blast.
How is a hydrogen bomb different?
A hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb or an H-bomb, uses a second stage of reactions to magnify the force of an atomic explosion. Read on!!!
"Equally apparent is the fact this witches’ brew of trouble is befalling the United States on President Trump’s watch because the Obama administration basically did nothing to attenuate the danger. Instead, it dressed up inactivity and passivity in the face of the metastasizing danger as “strategic patience.”
Even before the North Koreans’ latest intercontinental missile launches, nuclear test, and threat of an EMP attack, Mr. Trump and his senior subordinates have properly signaled that the era of strategic patience is at an end."
History for September 5 - On-This-Day.com Louis XIV (King of France) 1638, Jesse James 1847, Bob Newhart 1929 - Actor, comedian (The Bob Newhart Show) Raquel Welch 1940 - Actress, Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946, Cathy Lee Guisewaite 1950 - Cartoonist ("Cathy") 1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. 1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress. 1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities. 1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. 1881 - The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan. 1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people. 1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
1960 - Cassius Clay of Louisville, KY, won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
"What happens to a country whose most important police force — and its key investigators — is no longer telling the truth to the citizens of that nation? Nothing good, I'm sure most would agree. There's almost no point in going through all the analogies to despotic regimes. Writers from George Orwell to Arthur Koestler have already done it for us.
"Canadian negotiators are demanding the United States roll back so-called "right to work" laws – accused of gutting unions in some U.S. states by starving them of money – as part of the renegotiation of the North American free-trade agreement.
That person was Brian Hawkins, who had been deemed incompetent in leadership and guilty of mishandling patient records, including sending some of them to his wife’s personal email accounts. 
That person was Brian Hawkins, who had been deemed incompetent in leadership and guilty of mishandling patient records, including sending some of them to his wife’s personal email accounts. 
The shootings included a man and woman; he was 23-years-old and she was 34. Both were “shot multiple times just after 4:30 a.m.” and were hospitalized in serious condition.
"Equally apparent is the fact this witches’ brew of trouble is befalling the United States on President Trump’s watch because the Obama administration basically did nothing to attenuate the danger. Instead, it dressed up inactivity and passivity in the face of the metastasizing danger as “strategic patience.”
