[Real Conservatives Unite] Right before the close, reports that the FBI had raided the office, home and hotel room of Trump attorney Michael Cohen slammed stocks to their lows of the day. The news provoked a furious response from Trump, who again accused Mueller of conducting a "witch hunt" while slamming senior officials in his own Justice Department, who signed off on Mueller supplying the evidence that led to the raid to the local US attorney’s office.
And now, at 8:30 pm ET on a Monday night, the New York Times has reported that Mueller is investigating a $150,000 donation to the Trump foundation that was given from a pro-European Ukrainian businessman during the early days of his campaign.
The donation, which was reportedly solicited by Trump attorney Michael Cohen, was made in exchange for a 20-minute speech that Trump gave about Ukraine and how the US had failed to stop Russia from victimizing the country.
We first learned of the donation shortly after the election. However, the fact that Mueller is investigating the donation was not publicly known.
But there’s a catch: Pinchuk, who has a history of supporting a pro-European Ukraine, was also a major Clinton donor.
Don’t forget, the Clinton Foundation received more individual money from Ukrainian donors than any other foreign country.
Climate Change: Scientists just discovered a massive, heretofore unknown, source of nitrogen. Why does this matter? Because it could dramatically change those dire global warming forecasts that everybody claims are based on "settled science." Only those with power or grant money do
The researchers, whose findings were published in the prestigious journal Science, say they've determined that the idea that the only source of nitrogen for plant life came from the air is wrong. There are vast storehouses in the planet's bedrock that plants also feed on.
This is potentially huge news, since what it means is that there is a vastly larger supply of nitrogen than previously believed.
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This kind of thing is why they are so funny. Especially the look when you ask them, "You DO understand how science actually works right? You took hard science classes in college?" *blink* "No?"
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This NPR article is a bit more informative. The nitrogen is in sedimentary rock.
Nitrogen in the atmosphere is unavailable to plants, it's pretty inert. Nitrogen fixation is needed, which can be by bacteria or, in lesser amounts, from lightning.
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Yes, the plants get it from dirt...and fertilizer. This is why plants only grow in good dirt, instead of just everywhere...thinking more on it, haven't we always known this?
[American Spectator] If the Donald ever had any inclination to fire Robert Mueller, now is the time. The totally unnecessary and Gestapo-like raid on Trump’s private attorney’s office has put Mueller on a tee. This kind of stuff happens all too often in banana republics. But we can’t stand by and allow it to happen in America. If most Americans can’t see why we can’t allow it, then we need to get that stuff about “land of the free and home of the brave” out of the anthem.
Donald Trump is not known for finding the exact word for describing things. But Trump styled this outrage as “disgraceful.” Exactly so. And it’s an affront to American law and American values, at least what were American values not so long ago, and which we can pray still have some force.
It has been clear for some time to anyone other than Democrat partisans, that Mueller never had any intention of confining his investigation to the question of possible collusion by the Trump campaign, the matter he was essentially appointed to plumb. It’s almost certain those who appointed him knew he wouldn’t stay in his appointed lane. Special counsels never do. The clear purpose now (and probably from the beginning) of Mueller and his merry band is to find something, anything, with which to destroy a legitimately elected president.
Now Trump can say, with some hope that large numbers of attentive Americanos will agree with him, that, “There wasn’t any Russian collusion, which is what this counsel was supposed to be in business to investigate. Now Robert Mueller is just fishing around for something to destroy my presidency. There are important things America has to deal with. So I’m putting an end to this distracting b—s— so we can get on to the important matters facing the country. I’m firing Robert Mueller.”
The fertilizer storm to follow Mueller’s firing would be like nothing we’ve seen before. But Trump can either fire Mueller or wait to be pecked to death by Democratic ducks.
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We are told we cannot prosecute Hillary or Comey as their lies and crimes are more than five years old, past the statute of limitations. We now have a two-tier Injustice System where Hillary named everyone around her as her "Legal Counsel" and the Congress and FBI declared that they could not ask her any questions? They allowed her to bleach-bit and smash electronic devices, or at least get away with it.
But the Communists do not differentiate between public and private spheres as everything is politicized. This is what even Levin and McCarthy seemed to ignore or miss last night on the radio as seizing Trump's Personal Attorney's Documents will be used to Impeach or disgrace him PUBLICALLY.
We are living with a STASI Police State that has not yet institutionalized totalitarianism.
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I don't know but Cohen was really begging for it with his incredibly stupid behavior.
Lawyers should never talk in public.
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A search warrant like this has a LOT of hurdles to clear - almost has to be something significant in play. May not affect Trump directly (or may), but somebody is in trouble unless they were very meticulous in their record keeping (and destruction.)
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Authorized by Rosenstein. He just keeps turning up, like a dedicated civil servant corrupt partner
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We are headed down a dangerous road where a part of our society (deep-state) basically says the law is whatever we say it is and we can kick down whatever doors we want to at anytime. There were parallels in National Socialist Germany in the run-up to WWII.
[LI] When you do away with guns, you apparently get more knives. It stands to reason.
And you know what? You apparently get more guns, too (or at least, more use of them by the "bad guys"):
The increase in London homicides has been so profound that for the first time in recorded history the UK capitol’s murder rate has surpassed New York City’s...
In January, the UK’s Office for National Statistics published the statistical bulletin, "Crime in England and Wales: year ending September 2017."...
The report stated that there had been a 20 percent increase in offenses involving firearms from October 2016 through September 2017 over the same period a year earlier. This included a 36 percent increase in offenses involving shotguns and a 20 percent increase in offenses involving handguns. Handguns are prohibited in the UK outside of Northern Ireland.
Most of this has occurred in London. And knife attacks have also increased, with the following reaction from authorities and activists:
[Breitbart] Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping met United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Beijing this weekend and reportedly urged the leader to further promote "global governance" to solve the world’s problems.
Xi has explicitly expressed a desire to see China become the "keeper of the international order," defining and enforcing international law.
Guterres was in Beijing to meet with Xi and reportedly thanked the Chinese communist government for supporting the U.N.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper reports that Xi "expressed the need to improve global governance" during the meeting. "Whether it is domestic governance or global governance, we must have people’s sense of fulfillment as the objective and continue to provide confidence and expectations of stability for the people," Xi reportedly said. "We need to keep pushing for and improving global governance to deal with this challenge."
Xi reportedly insisted that China’s international policies, particularly the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project—a major international infrastructure plan designed to cement Chinese influence in foreign governments—were necessary for “people’s happiness and national rejuvenation, and to seek common ground for the world.”
The head of the nation’s military and only influential political party, who also maintains the largely ceremonial title of “president,” nonetheless claims that Beijing “will never impose our own path, models, and theories on others,” said the president.”
According to the United Nations’ summary of the meeting, Guterres “expressed his appreciation for President Xi’s support to the U.N.’s work and told him that the U.N. continues to count on China’s leadership and commitment.” Guterres also applauded China for its role in the North Korea nuclear crisis. China is North Korea’s largest trading partner, single-handedly holding up the rogue nation’s economy and making it possible for dictator Kim Jong-un to continuously threaten a nuclear strike on the United States, South Korea, and/or Japan.
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promote "global governance" to solve the world’s problems.
well Dammmmm, that is in my Holy Bible, got Jesus in faith only, cuz you are going to need Him to escape what is coming. Read Revelation.
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High-power microwave (HPM) can also harm human radar operators. At low intensity (3–13 milliwatt/cm2), HPMs can cause confusion, memory loss, altered behavior, blindness, deafness, loss of consciousness, and even heart failure.
[PJMedia] "The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War", according to Peter Leyden and Ruy Teixeira in Medium is "there’s no bipartisan way forward at this juncture in our history ‐ one side must win. ... The solution for the people of California was to reconfigure the political landscape and shift a supermajority of citizens ‐ and by extension their elected officials ‐ under the Democratic Party’s big tent."
This conquer or die view, unlike Kevin Williamson's, is not beyond the pale. In fact Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey described the Medium article as a "great read". The idea that only one side of the political aisle leaves the room while the other is clapped in irons plainly expresses many may have secretly thought except heretofore it was necessary to conceal it. Now the decks are cleared and some are itching to raise the Jolly Roger.
The major problem with this strategy is China, whose relentless competition will penalize all irrational political correctness and all serious division. America can become as dysfunctional as California but China will own it. As David Goldman noted in a speech delivered at Hillsdale College "China is a phenomenon unlike anything in economic history."
The average Chinese consumes 17 times more today than in 1987. This is like the difference between driving a car and riding a bicycle or between indoor plumbing and an outhouse. In an incredibly short period of time, this formerly backward country has lifted itself into the very first rank of world economies.
Over the same period, China has moved approximately 600 million people from the countryside to the cities‐the equivalent of moving the entire population of Europe from the Ural Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. To accommodate those people, it built the equivalent of a new London, plus a new Berlin, Rome, Glasgow, Helsinki, Naples, and Lyons. And of course, moving people whose ancestors spent millennia in the monotony of traditional village life and bringing them into the industrial world led to an explosion of productivity.
Where does America stand in respect to China? By a measure economists call purchasing power parity, you can buy a lot more with $100 in China than you can in the United States. Adjusted for that measure, the Chinese economy is already bigger than ours. In terms of dollars, our economy is still bigger. But the Chinese are gaining on us, and in the next eight to ten years their economy‐unlike the economies of our previous competitors‐will catch up.
The American elite is no longer as it is accustomed to thinking of itself, "the only adult in the room" whose patience with the childish Red states is now at an end, but a fragile civilization hanging on to its advantage by a thread against China. Before the left raises the Jolly Roger they should note the giant war junk bearing down on them fast. America's sole remaining advantage Goldman notes, is that it is ruled consensually, which is precisely the advantage Leiden and Teixeira intend to surrender. The dilemma for the Left is they can't indulge their fantasies in the face of a peer competitor any more than an army can divide its forces in the face of the foe. They will need the Deplorables to survive. But they haven't realized that yet.
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The Asian Americans, that is those with green cards and citizenships, who are in California, are already pushing back at the SJW's. The twinkies tried to set up homeless camps in their neighborhoods and were told to sod off.
[Barley A Blog] One reason for their opinion is that, "Disastrously for morale, he declined to defend his own department when the White House proposed cutting its budget by 25% or more ... Mr Tillerson squandered goodwill with a corporate restructuring that felt to many staff like an invitation to resign. At one point, outside consultants sent round a questionnaire asking: "To optimally support the future mission of the Department, what one or two things should your work unit totally stop doing or providing?" ("Trump Unbound: In foreign affairs, America just moved closer to one-man rule," March 17, 2018.)
TILLESRSON TRIED TO CUT GOVERNMENT! Defending your employees, The Economist here equates with increasing or maintaining the budget for the department, it diplomats, envoys and other career and or deadwood staff.
State institutions are self-reinforcing and not amenable to reform; they grow through failure.
So while it would be nice if state institutions were able to reform, because of the structure of incentives, the state cannot be corrected. The incentive structure underlying state institutions is antithetical to reform.
To correct processes that may be killing people‐affirmative action, when the subject of special privileges isn’t qualified‐you have to cut budgets in the billions. This likely will never happen, in state institutions, because they don’t abide by the profit motive. So to express belief in this is to express belief in the possibility of the state fixing itself.
The libertarian grasps that the state grows through inefficiency. The more it bungles‐the greater its budget will be. Economically, the state’s incentives are inverted. A private company, on the other hand, grows through economic and performative efficiencies; by singles the customer. The state is the opposite. As a monopoly, it need please nobody. For example, the education system is a giant failure. Will it be scrapped? Of course not. The system will reward itself with MORE, not less, funds to fix the problem.
This is a structural fact of the state.
Why can the state grow and prosper through inefficiency? Because it has access to the funds of an indentured third party, taxpayers, and has the promiscuous use of the printing press.
A private institution can come back from the abyss, because, economically, it will go bust if it doesn’t start pleasing customers. However, if, like the Florida bridge collapse, a private enterprise is working in tandem with the state, then taxpayers bail it out.
Profit is privatized, loss is socialized.
Most people no longer read or understand the economics of the state. Ten years ago, I had readers who had at least read Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson.
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I believe in the Apple Computer model (1) bring in someone to cut the fat, and a bit of bone if necessary, to save the patient. They will not be liked. This is not necessarily the best person to run the company going forward, hopefully they know their job and know they are expendable, Gill Amelio did this in Apples case and he wasn't aware he was a goner. (2) First person goes away and a second person comes in to run the place. At this point the patients survival is not the issue, being hated is not the issue, but running the place correctly is. Steve Jobs did this in Apples case.
In the case of the State Department you may need two people to come in and cut the fat and bone out. The place was run by Hillary and John Kerry after all.
[Daily Caller] Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s opening monologue Monday night warned the U.S. against intervention in Syria.
The Daily Caller co-founder noted that there has still been no proof that Bashar al-Assad was behind the chemical attacks against the Syrian people, explaining that such attacks would be counterproductive to Assad because the U.S. was planning to pull troops from Syria.
"The story, it turns out, was propaganda ‐ it was designed to manipulate Americans, just like so much of what they say," Carlson said of last year’s chemical attacks in Syria. "We’ve seen this movie before and we know how it ends."
Assuming Assad was responsible for the attacks, Carlson questioned if it "would...be worth starting a new war" over.
"Overthrowing Assad’s regime in Syria would cause chaos," he said. "Many thousands would die and, in fact, we might likely see the genocide of one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East. And we ought to care about that. Some of the dead, of course, would be American serviceman. A new war would cost us tens of billions of dollars."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] It has only been few days since US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s controversial stance that he prefers to withdraw from Syria and let others handle and his hasty declaration of victory over ISIS. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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[Hoover] The California-born self-esteem movement has morphed into "social-emotional learning." But it still sidelines real academic skills.
Longtime Democratic lawmaker John Vasconcellos died in 2014, but the educational disaster he laid on California in the 1980s lives on. Indeed, its likeness thrives today across a broad swath of America’s K‐12 schooling, supported by foundation grants, federal funding, and both nonprofit and for-profit advocacy groups. Only its name has changed‐from self-esteem to social-emotional learning.
If only the trend had stayed in the Golden State.
Younger readers may not remember Vasconcellos, the assemblyman and state senator whom one obituary described as a "titan of the human-poten-tial movement." In 1986, Vasconcellos managed to persuade California’s con-servative Republican governor, George Deukmejian, to support a blue-ribbon task force to promote self-esteem and personal and social responsibility. The ensuing hoopla loosed a tsunami of enthusiasm for building self-esteem as a solution for almost everything that ails an individual, including low achieve-ment in school.
The task force’s final report, in 1990, ascribed (as I wrote at the time) "near-magical powers to self-esteem, characterizing it as ’something that empowers us to live responsibly and that inoculates us against the lures of crime, violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, child abuse, chronic wel-fare dependency, and educational failure.’ "
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Real Conservatives Unite] Right before the close, reports that the FBI had raided the office, home and hotel room of Trump attorney Michael Cohen slammed stocks to their lows of the day. The news provoked a furious response from Trump, who again accused Mueller of conducting a "witch hunt" while slamming senior officials in his own Justice Department, who signed off on Mueller supplying the evidence that led to the raid to the local US attorney’s office.
Climate Change: Scientists just discovered a massive, heretofore unknown, source of nitrogen. Why does this matter? Because it could dramatically change those dire global warming forecasts that everybody claims are based on "settled science."
[American Spectator] If the Donald ever had any inclination to fire Robert Mueller, now is the time. The totally unnecessary and Gestapo-like raid on Trump’s private attorney’s office has put Mueller on a tee. This kind of stuff happens all too often in banana republics. But we can’t stand by and allow it to happen in America. If most Americans can’t see why we can’t allow it, then we need to get that stuff about “land of the free and home of the brave” out of the anthem.
[Breitbart] Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping met United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Beijing this weekend and reportedly urged the leader to further promote "global governance" to solve the world’s problems.
[PJMedia] "The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War", according to Peter Leyden and Ruy Teixeira in Medium is "there’s no bipartisan way forward at this juncture in our history ‐ one side must win. ... The solution for the people of California was to reconfigure the political landscape and shift a supermajority of citizens ‐ and by extension their elected officials ‐ under the Democratic Party’s big tent."
