Barr: Manhattan Case Against Trump 'Abuse of Prosecutorial Power to Accomplish Political End'

Barr: Manhattan Case Against Trump 'Abuse of Prosecutorial Power to Accomplish Political End': 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the Manhattan criminal case in which former President Donald Trump has been indicted was an “abuse of prosecutorial power to accomplish political end.”

Anchor Jonathan Karl asked, “You a chance to see the actual indictment and statement of fact that went along with it. Do think there still no merit to this case?”

Barr said, “Yeah, I don’t think it has any merit. I think it is transparently an abuse of prosecutorial power to accomplish political end. I think it is an unjust case. Not to say that every legal challenge that the president faces is unjustified. But this one especially is.”

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Putin and Xi smile-----The six biggest revelations from leaked US intel documents

The six biggest revelations from leaked US intel documents - Josh Christenson

"...what may be the largest national security breach in at least a decade...almost certainly exposed American intelligence sources...

Here are the biggest revelations from the leaked documents:

• ...Other documents leaked from the Pentagon predicted that, without reinforcement, Ukraine’s air defense forces would be exhausted by May 23...
• South Korean officials were wary of sending ammunition to the US out of concern that the arms would be sent on to Ukraine...
• US officials have explored how to persuade Israel to provide “lethal aid” to Ukraine while remaining officially neutral in the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow...

Who produces emissions?

Murder city awaits!-----Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention

Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention

"...The convention will take place Aug. 19 through 22 at the United Center and the McCormick Place Convention Center, with between 5,000 and 7,000 delegates and alternates expected to attend, a source familiar said in confirmation of what was first reported in the Chicago Sun-Times.
...President Joe Biden on Tuesday attempted to reaffirm his commitment to the Midwest.

"Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention," said Biden. "Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down. From repairing our roads and bridges, to unleashing a manufacturing boom, and creating over 12.5 million new good-paying jobs, we've already delivered so much for hard working Americans – now it's time to finish the job."..

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China has dumped $150 billion of U.S. treasuries since Jan. 2022. Is it a prelude to war?

China has dumped $150 billion of U.S. treasuries since Jan. 2022. Is it a prelude to war? - By Robert Romano

• Since Jan. 2022, China has reduced its U.S. treasuries held outright, from $1.03 trillion to $859 billion in Jan. 2023, a 16.8 percent decrease, according to the latest data compiled by the U.S. Treasury of foreign holders of U.S. securities.
• This comes atop a further decrease from its peak in Nov. 2013 at more than $1.3 trillion, bringing the total decrease to 34.7 percent the past decade. 

But does it matter?
..With $859 billion of treasuries, China owns just 3.5 percent of the $24.6 trillion of the publicly traded national debt (with the overall debt now north of $31.4 trillion)...

• ...a complete divestiture of treasuries by China after sanctions were levied on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 could indeed be a prelude to war, indicating Beijing wanted to get back as much of its money as possible to fuel a move, say, on Taiwan — the Chinese navy is currently encircling Taiwan — since one of the first things the U.S. would do is simply end all payments to Chinese holders of the debt...

Criminalizing YOUR speech!

 

Republicans Announce Hearing on 'Victims of Violent Crime' in Manhattan

Republicans Announce Hearing on 'Victims of Violent Crime' in Manhattan: 

House Judiciary Republicans on Monday announced an upcoming hearing shining a spotlight on the victims of “violent crime” in the anti-Trump district attorney Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan.

According to a release from the GOP, the field hearing, dubbed “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan,” will take place Monday, April 17, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern in the Big Apple.

'Severe' banking crisis threatens worldwide recession, IMF warns

'Severe' banking crisis threatens worldwide recession, IMF warns:

• The global economy is in a "perilous phase" where the threat of a global recession is rising, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.
• Rising interest rates could spark a severe banking crisis that triggers recession, the IMF warned in its latest World Economic Outlook.
• Financial stability risks have "increased rapidly" over the last six months, the Washington-based organisation said...

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History for April 12

History for April 12 - On-This-Day.com

Henry Clay 1777 - "The Great Pacificator", U.S. Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams, three time unsuccessful candidate for president of United States. Quote: "I would rather be right than president."

• 1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
• 1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng.
• 1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.
• 1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.
• 1955 - The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, effective and potent."
• 1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.

Despite Iranian attack killing American abroad, Biden pursues nuclear deal with ayatollah's regime | Fox News

Despite Iranian attack killing American abroad, Biden pursues nuclear deal with ayatollah's regime | Fox News: 

The Iranian regime’s recent drone attack on an American base in Syria, which resulted in the murder of a U.S. contractor, has not deterred the Biden administration from pursuing the controversial nuclear pact with Tehran that would dramatically enrich the coffers of the Islamic Republic.

The White House remains wedded to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the formal name for the Iran nuclear deal – that "would allow Tehran to access up to $275 billion in financial benefits during its first year in effect and $1 trillion by 2030."

The way we were-----Marooned & Forgotten German Garrison 1945

Portland's Crisis: Unmasking the DA's Soft Stance on Soaring Crime Rates!

"In the wake of recent attacks in Portland, the question of whether or not to intervene in violent situations has become increasingly relevant. 

With the city experiencing record levels of violence, murder, and car theft, many attribute this rise in crime to the soft-on-crime approach of the district attorney's office and the defunding of the police.

This has led to a surge in demand for bystander intervention training, as many citizens find themselves in situations where they must choose between fight or flight...

'Plus-Size' TikTok Butterball's Self-Indulgent 'Travel Tips' for Obese Airline Passengers

'Plus-Size' TikTok Butterball's Self-Indulgent 'Travel Tips' for Obese Airline Passengers

"A TikTok butterball played the world’s smallest violin for herself with a “series of videos that featured advice for plus-sized travelers.”
Via Insider:

Jae’lynn Chaney, a 26-year-old TikToker from Vancouver, Washington, with over 127,000 followers started making videos about her experience as a plus-size traveler in 2021, when she noticed there was very little advice for larger people who wanted to see the world...

Not only was this manatee marginalized by normal person-sized airline seats, Insider explains, she was double-victimized by the pushback she received for her digital pity party:

In early 2022, Chaney uploaded many more videos about airline travel from the perspective of a plus-size person, including a post she shared in February about the most plus-size friendly aircraft, which blew up with over 1.7 million views, bringing with it a broader audience...

The best bet to make would probably be “within the decade.” The lady has an oxygen tube, apparently, and she’s only 26.

• This person is now demanding something like an FAA “Bill of Rights” for the fats...

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Last January, a BYU professor predicted the Great Salt Lake would disappear within five years because of drought brought on by manmade global warming | Facebook

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Last January, a BYU professor predicted the Great Salt Lake would disappear within five years because of drought brought on by manmade global warming | Facebook - 
Sylvia Lustig Bennion 
"Last January, a BYU professor predicted the Great Salt Lake would disappear within five years because of drought brought on by manmade global warming...

• Warmists never apologize for getting their predictions wrong. Why?

KSL.COM - Great Salt Lake water now 3 feet above historic low after recent storms
Conservation efforts are still needed and necessary to get the Great Salt Lake healthy again. However, this past winter has been a great start.

School district caught censoring Christian 'signature'

School district caught censoring Christian 'signature': 

The Loudon County School District in Virginia, already well-known for its leftist agenda and ideology, is being warned by a legal team that it needs to cut out the censorship of a Christian "signature" on its school emails. At issue is a statement one teacher had attached to her emails when responding, a reference from the Bible.

Justin Trudeau Discusses Science

California Water and Infrastructure Report

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook - by Patrick Ruckert  - http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230406...

"...Following the U.S. Drought Monitor map, we have an update on the status of the Sites Reservoir Project. 

Twenty years of “planning” and now another six years of construction beginning next year is a good illustration of the bankruptcy of the political class and the limited thinking of water managers, who are good at managing crises, but not solving them...

• The flooding continues and will get worse, if not much worse, as the snowpack begins to melt with the warmer weather.
• The damage to agriculture is in the hundreds of millions of dollars and is expected to become much more as it is tallied and the Spring flooding to come will inflict further damage...

 https://sites.google.com/site/turnertularelake/

Lunch video-----How Current Climate Models Cave On Themselves, To Kevin Dayaratna

"In this video, Kevin Dayaratna explains how climate models, like the Social Cost of Carbon, are estimated, the fatal flaws of their built in assumptions, and thus how the estimations are able to be so greatly over-inflated to promote dangerous climate change policy.  

Dayaratna demonstrates the extreme deviancy between climate model predictions and the actual graphing of climate, as well as how the Biden Administrations carbon tax model cannot withstand its own energy policy.

Noon-toon

 

Private property may need to be seized by federal government, corporations to advance climate initiatives, says JPMorgan CEO - TheBlaze

Private property may need to be seized by federal government, corporations to advance climate initiatives, says JPMorgan CEO - TheBlaze: 

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently suggested in his annual letter to shareholders that the federal government and large corporations may have to seize private property from U.S. citizens to advance climate initiatives, which he claimed are not being implemented fast enough to avoid potential climate-related crises. According to Dimon's Tuesday letter, in order to acquire "adequate investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind and pipeline initiatives," governments and businesses may need to implement "eminent domain."

Total control!!