Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Judicial Watch Sues State Department over John Kerry’s ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ to Prevent U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch Sues State Department over John Kerry’s ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ to Prevent U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal - Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records of communications between former Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department officials regarding “the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (also known as JCPOA or ‘Iran nuclear deal’) and/or meetings between Kerry and Iranian officials to discuss the JCPOA.” (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:19-cv-00777)).
On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which had been negotiated by Kerry in 2015 on behalf of the Obama State Department. In the months preceding the U.S. withdrawal, Kerry reportedly had been on a “stealthy yet aggressive mission” of shadow diplomacy in an attempt to preserve the Iran nuclear deal. Kerry reportedly held meetings and spoke with major players, foreign and domestic, involved in the Iran nuclear agreement who opposed the U.S. withdrawal.
Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records of communications between former Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department officials regarding “the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (also known as JCPOA or ‘Iran nuclear deal’) and/or meetings between Kerry and Iranian officials to discuss the JCPOA.” (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:19-cv-00777)).On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which had been negotiated by Kerry in 2015 on behalf of the Obama State Department. In the months preceding the U.S. withdrawal, Kerry reportedly had been on a “stealthy yet aggressive mission” of shadow diplomacy in an attempt to preserve the Iran nuclear deal. Kerry reportedly held meetings and spoke with major players, foreign and domestic, involved in the Iran nuclear agreement who opposed the U.S. withdrawal.
Glenn Reynolds--Mueller report: Donald Trump collusion conspiracy theories continue
Mueller report: Donald Trump collusion conspiracy theories continue:"...That should put the whole collusion narrative to bed, but of course it hasn’t.
After two years of what can fairly be described as mass hysteria afflicting a huge portion of our political class, the cognitive dissonance is painful.
It would be amusing to watch, if the “broken brains” weren’t so widespread among the people who are supposed to be the sober managers and reporters of our society.
It’s like a doomsday cult whose predicted apocalypse fails to appear on schedule:
They just announce that they made a mathematical mistake, and doomsday will actually come next year.
Then they ask for more donations.
The trouble is, this time it’s a cult that’s running a significant part of our nation.
A Few Humble Thoughts | The American Spectator
A Few Humble Thoughts | The American Spectator--by ROBERT HOLLAND
"First of all, about reparations, the notion of paying money to black or partially black Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors from Africa.
It’s a beguiling idea.
Slavery was so hideous a crime and caused so much pain and suffering that something should be done about it.
But we face a lot of problems in the concept of reparations.
For one thing, there were a fair number of black people who emancipated themselves through superhumanly hard work, then used their savings to buy slaves.
How do we assess their liability?
...Also, there is a chain of causation in many cases.
One black tribe attacked and captured others then the captors sold their slaves to Arab slave traders who then sold the slaves to New England slave brokers.
...Also, who would be taxed for the reparations?
The great majority of white Americans never owned any slaves.
Why should they be taxed?
The present population of America is by a wide margin the scions of Poles and Czechs and Italians and Chinese and Jews who never owned any slaves at all.
Why should they be taxed at all for reparations?...
Read on.
"First of all, about reparations, the notion of paying money to black or partially black Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors from Africa.
It’s a beguiling idea.Slavery was so hideous a crime and caused so much pain and suffering that something should be done about it.
But we face a lot of problems in the concept of reparations.
For one thing, there were a fair number of black people who emancipated themselves through superhumanly hard work, then used their savings to buy slaves.
How do we assess their liability?
...Also, there is a chain of causation in many cases.
One black tribe attacked and captured others then the captors sold their slaves to Arab slave traders who then sold the slaves to New England slave brokers.
...Also, who would be taxed for the reparations?
The great majority of white Americans never owned any slaves.
Why should they be taxed?
The present population of America is by a wide margin the scions of Poles and Czechs and Italians and Chinese and Jews who never owned any slaves at all.
Why should they be taxed at all for reparations?...
Read on.
History for April 23
History for April 23 - On-This-Day.com
William Shakespeare 1564 - Poet, playwright ("Julius Caesar," "Romeo and Juliet," "MacBeth"), believed to have been born on April 23 based on his baptism on April 26, 1564, James Buchanan 1791 - 15th U.S. President, nickname: Old Buck, Shirley (Jane) Temple Black 1928 - Child actress ("Little Miss Marker," "Heidi," "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")
Roy Orbison 1936 - Singer (Traveling Wilburys), Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary II) 1940 - Actor ("The Six Million Dollar Man," "Big Valley," "The Bionic Woman"), Joyce DeWitt 1949 - Actress ("Three's Company)
1789 - U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin House, New York. It was the first executive mansion.
1984 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues had found the cause of AIDS. It was a retrovirus the labled HTLV-III.
Monday, April 22, 2019
Otero County Declares State of Emergency, Demands National Guard Re-Open Border Checkpoints | The Daily Caller
New Mexico’s Otero County declared a state of emergency Wednesday, demanding that the governor deploy the National Guard to re-open Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoints.
From 2012 but worth a look back-----Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930's were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest? | Watts Up With That?
Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930's were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest? | Watts Up With That?
"The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record!
“Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!” they wail on Twitter and blogs.
The driver of this is AP’s Seth Borenstein, who never met a hot story he didn’t like.
Here’s a quote from that story Ouch July in US was hottest ever in history books:
"The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record!
“Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!” they wail on Twitter and blogs.
The driver of this is AP’s Seth Borenstein, who never met a hot story he didn’t like.
Here’s a quote from that story Ouch July in US was hottest ever in history books:
The average temperature last month was 77.6 degrees. That breaks the old record from July 1936 by 0.2 degree, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Records go back to 1895.…Three of the nation’s five hottest months on record have been recent Julys: This year, 2011 and 2006. Julys in 1936 and 1934 round out the top five.
Of course the first thing I do when I see these sorts of things is go look at the data.
It tells a far more interesting and credible story.
Here’s some graphs NCDC and Seth won’t ever put in a press release or AP story:
Now let’s compare to July 1936:
A few things stand out right away.
1. Due to regional weather pattern variability, one state in 1936 had below normal temperatures, Texas. Take the 1936 Texas below normal temperature out of the mix and there goes your 0.2F record making difference with July 2012.
2. Many states had warmer temperatures in 1936 than 2012.
Here’s a table, all numbers in degrees Fahrenheit..."
Read all!NYT Moron outed!-----Edelweiss Uber alles :: SteynOnline
Edelweiss Uber alles :: SteynOnline"...~The moronization of society proceeds apace.
As we mentioned on the show, a bigshot New York Times correspondent thinks that playing "Edelweiss" at the White House is some kind of Nazi dog-whistle to Trump supporters.
It is tragic and profound the way even small artifacts of our inheritance get trashed in these witless arguments, so, if you want to know the real story of the very last song in the Oscar Hammerstein catalogue, here's what I had to say a couple of years back:
Read all!Not long after Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote the song, Theodore Bikel was leaving the theatre when he found a fan and fellow immigrant waiting at the stage door for his autograph: 'I love that "Edelweiss",' said the theatregoer. 'Of course, I have known it a long time, but only in German.'Not for the first time, Hammerstein had done too good a job. Just as his 'Ol' Man River' for Show Boat is assumed by many to be an authentic Negro spiritual, so 'Edelweiss' is assumed to be an authentic Austrian folk song. Not so. In both cases, a great craftsman manufactured them to solve a structural problem with the storytelling. But he did it so well that they have become for real what they were only intended to simulate..."
Corsi and I will hold Mueller accountable! - WND
Corsi and I will hold Mueller accountable! - WND:
And, if the Deep State at DOJ will seek to cover up the crimes of prosecutors in the Bundy criminal cases, just imagine their intent and motivation to cover up the criminality of Mueller and his hack leftist staff. Mueller, which the swamp’s establishment on both sides of the aisle has falsely deemed a “man of great integrity,” will surely be added to the Protected Species Act, along with the Desert Tortoise (which DOJ and Bureau of Land Management goons used as a pretext to threaten the lives of the Bundys to try to drive them off their land at Bunkerville, Nevada.)
In light of this, along comes my brave co-“conspiracy theorist”(as the left likes to paint us) Dr. Jerome Corsi, who had been in Mueller’s crosshairs during his now-concluded “witch hunt.” Having been threatened by the special counsel with indictment if he did not agree to lie under oath so as to take the president down regarding nonexistent Russia collusion, Jerry, with my help and that of my co-counsel David Gray, stood his ground and said NO! Corsi would not be coerced to lie under oath before God and His Son, even when he was offered a so-called sweetheart deal to plead to one count of perjury with no jail time.
In light of this, along comes my brave co-“conspiracy theorist”(as the left likes to paint us) Dr. Jerome Corsi, who had been in Mueller’s crosshairs during his now-concluded “witch hunt.” Having been threatened by the special counsel with indictment if he did not agree to lie under oath so as to take the president down regarding nonexistent Russia collusion, Jerry, with my help and that of my co-counsel David Gray, stood his ground and said NO! Corsi would not be coerced to lie under oath before God and His Son, even when he was offered a so-called sweetheart deal to plead to one count of perjury with no jail time.
Meet the Yorkshire doctor who has invented makeup that is resistant to acid attacks - Leeds Live
Meet the Yorkshire doctor who has invented makeup that is resistant to acid attacks - Leeds Live:- Dr Almas Ahmed is planning to launch her pioneering makeup brand next year
Dr Ahmed first started researching the idea of acid attack resistant makeup more than 10 years ago, after model Katie Piper was attacked with sulphuric acid...
"He said: 'If somebody attacks you, just douse it on your face and it should neutralise the acid.'
"I was really shocked that my dad was worrying about that. That made me revisit the research and finish it off."..."
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Victor Davis Hanson: "It was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency…"
Victor Davis Hanson: "It was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency…":
He offered his thoughts on the Mueller investigation, the Trump presidency, and much more.
- Hanson on Trump, Mueller, Democrats, the media, and the deep state
He offered his thoughts on the Mueller investigation, the Trump presidency, and much more.
...He eventually calls this what it was.
An attempted coup:
An attempted coup:
This is in addition to the Stormy Daniels psychodrama, the Michael Cohen, the tax returns–so there’s been a sustained effort not to wait until 2020, but to remove the president of the United States under the idea that we are so moral and anointed unelected officials, we have a duty to somebody higher than the American people. And boil that down and it was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency before its tenure had expired.
And that’s just the first ten minutes.
The full interview lasts 49 minutes, and I highly recommend watching the whole thing. If you prefer, you can read the entire transcript here.
The full interview lasts 49 minutes, and I highly recommend watching the whole thing. If you prefer, you can read the entire transcript here.
Judge Rules Flint Can Sue Federal Officials Over Water Contamination | The Daily Caller
Judge Rules Flint Can Sue Federal Officials Over Water Contamination | The Daily Caller:
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Flint citizens can move forward with lawsuits targeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s handling of the Michigan city’s lead contamination problems.
The EPA under former President Barack Obama was too slow to intervene in the case, according to U.S. Judge Linda Parker, who ruled that the federal government was not immune from legal action in the case. More than a dozen lawsuits were filed against Michigan and city officials after researchers discovered in 2016 that Flint’s water contained elevated levels of lead in 2014 and 2015.
The EPA under former President Barack Obama was too slow to intervene in the case, according to U.S. Judge Linda Parker, who ruled that the federal government was not immune from legal action in the case. More than a dozen lawsuits were filed against Michigan and city officials after researchers discovered in 2016 that Flint’s water contained elevated levels of lead in 2014 and 2015.
How to steal an election!-----Aliens and Voter Fraud | Center for Immigration Studies
Aliens and Voter Fraud | Center for Immigration Studies
"Introduction
"IntroductionEvery year there are elections that are decided by a handful of votes. This happens far more frequently than one might guess statistically. It may be unlikely that an individual's single vote will determine the outcome of elections, but it may still add marginally to the set of votes needed to gain a majority.
...Notable Studies and Cases
There have been a number of accounts that detail alien voting fraud and its impact on the electoral system. While this is hardly a full review of all instances, the following cases highlight the need to address alien registration and voting.
2008 Presidential Election. A 2014 article published in the journal Electoral Studies found that "non-citizen voters likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform."
The report also noted that "there is reason to believe non-citizen voting changed one state's Electoral College votes in 2008, delivering North Carolina to Obama."
The report also noted that "there is reason to believe non-citizen voting changed one state's Electoral College votes in 2008, delivering North Carolina to Obama."
...The Public Interest Legal Foundation suggested that the election of Virginia's attorney general in 2013, decided by only 164 votes, may have been decided by non-citizen voters..."
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This in the NYT!!-----Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020? - The New York Times
Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020? - The New York Times
"...Ms. Neal, a dental hygienist, made an agonized face at Mr. Johnson, her boyfriend.
Wouldn’t something be lost, she asked, if the historically diverse slate of 2020 Democrats was passed over?
“Personally, I’d love to see a woman,” Ms. Neal, also 27, said at the event on Thursday night.
“If people are being catty and holding gender or race against a candidate, it would break my heart.”
As former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepares to enter the 2020 race this coming week, Democrats have seen the strong diversity in their field
Interviews with several dozen Democratic voters around the country show how the party, which enjoyed victories in 2018 that were powered by female and nonwhite candidates, is now grappling with two complicated questions about race, gender and politics in the Trump era.
Is a white man the best face for an increasingly diverse Democratic Party in 2020?..."
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"...Ms. Neal, a dental hygienist, made an agonized face at Mr. Johnson, her boyfriend.
“Personally, I’d love to see a woman,” Ms. Neal, also 27, said at the event on Thursday night.
“If people are being catty and holding gender or race against a candidate, it would break my heart.”
As former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepares to enter the 2020 race this coming week, Democrats have seen the strong diversity in their field
Interviews with several dozen Democratic voters around the country show how the party, which enjoyed victories in 2018 that were powered by female and nonwhite candidates, is now grappling with two complicated questions about race, gender and politics in the Trump era.
Is a white man the best face for an increasingly diverse Democratic Party in 2020?..."
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