[Telegraph] Dr Jane Barton claimed she was doing her best for her patients
The retired doctor, at the centre of the Gosport War Memorial Hospital scandal, could face murder charges over the deaths of hundreds of patients who were needlessly given powerful opiate painkillers, the police have said.
A total of 456 people had their lives cut short and another 200 were "probably" given drugs without medical justification between 1987 and 2001.
An official inquiry last year concluded that Dr Jane Barton, 71, who worked at the hospital between 1988 and 2000, had presided over an "institutionalised regime" which had a flagrant "disregard for human life".
A damning report revealed how patients who were viewed as a "nuisance" were given opiates via syringe drivers, often resulting in their deaths within days.
Three previous police investigations have failed to bring anyone to justice, but yesterday senior officers vowed to get to the bottom of the scandal and determine whether the prescribing of the opiates led directly to patient deaths.
[Reuters] Republican and Democratic U.S. senators blasted President Donald Trump's proposal for a 23 percent cut in the U.S. budget for foreign aid and diplomacy as "insane" and "short-sighted" on Tuesday, and said it would not pass.
"We're not going to approve this budget reduction. It's insane. It makes no sense," said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the State Department and foreign aid budget.
"I don't know who writes these things over in the White House, but they clearly don't understand the value of soft power," the Republican senator, a close Trump ally on many issues, told a subcommittee hearing on the foreign aid budget.
Graham also called the plan "short-sighted" and said the Appropriations panel would restore funding to previous levels, rather than enacting the 23 percent cut Trump proposed earlier this year.
Graham also asked Mark Green, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, to send Congress a plan for how it would assist Venezuela in case of a change in government in the troubled South American state.
The hearing took place on Tuesday against a backdrop of upheaval in Venezuela, where Washington's desire to ship in millions of dollars in foreign aid has been a central theme of the Trump administration's push for a change in government.
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Big money laundering operation. House and senate "foreign policy experts" and various functionaries and Beltway operations on the receiving end.
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"Graham also asked Mark Green, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, to send Congress a plan for how it would assist Venezuela in case of a change in government in the troubled South American state." I can't think of a more stupid outcome. USAID is no damned good at nation building.
These words and more will be used to describe any serious proposed budget cut. Just goes as further evidence that the Republican party isn't serious about a balanced or even a reduced budget.
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Yet again The Donald is faced with what is universally agreed to be an utterly screwed up, financially unsustainable situation wherein the traditional answer is, 'It simply cannot go on, but THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT'.
23%? What if we shut the whole thing down...for a single year? Global reality check? A real tax cut?
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This is nothing but bribery of other countries.
They hate our guts and it's high time this came to a screeching halt. Fuck them.
This goes for Europe, too, who we bribe with unfair trade agreements and free NATO protection. Fuck those ungrateful freeloaders.
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They hate our guts and it's high time this came to a screeching halt. Fuck them.
They like handout dollars just fine. They realize we are idiots for handing it out to them.
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Any time you make an investment you expect some kind of a return on the investment. So the obvious question is: What kind of ROI do we get for all this money that goes to foreign dictators?
Oh, and don't try to tell me that it's charity for strictly altruistic purposes. When the government holds a gun to your head and takes the money against your will, it is not charity, it's armed robbery.
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Cut the budget, we can't survive with such deficits...
Hold on, hold on, what kind of crazy person is cutting the free money-train to other nations?
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At some point people *assume* that your charity has become an obligation or something required by the very nature of things. Human nature to assume that there is no reason to be grateful -- because it is yours by right!
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HIstorically people start to hate those they feel they owe gratitude to. I'm sure this applies to nations as well. Our largess might be spawning enemies who feel hurt pride.
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No different than today when (R) Shelby insisted that NASA and by implication everybody may only go to the moon using SLS and his method with a moon station in orbit.
I guess he will throw Musk in jail if SpaceX lands a StarShip on the moon or attack China or India if they make a base there even though he only bathes in the money allocated to his state.
[The Federalist] Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has distinguished herself with often offensive, outrageous, and unpatriotic rhetoric. One week she invokes classic anti-Jewish tropes. The next she trivializes the September 11 jihadist attacks. Another it is unearthed that she espouses morally relativistic if not overtly anti-American views about U.S. soldiers, the very ones who fought to defend civilians in her native Somalia to boot.
Omar’s penchant for provoking millions of Americans with odious words has masked the related, equally if not more troubling, elements of her associations, ideology, and background.
CONSIDER OMAR’S MEETING WITH TURKEY’S PRESIDENT
Consider, for example, the revelation, largely unnoticed outside of conservative media, that as a Minnesota Assemblywoman Omar had a closed-press meeting in fall 2017 with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to a curiously now-deleted article from the local Somalian-language periodical in her district, the Tusmo Times, she and the Islamist authoritarian president met during his U.N. General Assembly visit to New York.
Per one account, they discussed: "issues involving Omar’s native Somalia and issues for Somalis in Minnesota. She [Omar] thanked Erdogan for Turkey’s support for the Rohingya people in Myanmar. The two also discussed investment and trade between Turkey and Somalia. The meeting ended with Erdogan asking Omar to voice her support for Turkey. The report concludes by adding that Omar not only met with Erdogan, but also with the Turkish prime minister and other senior Turkish officials."
A political-media establishment frenzied over foreign influence might ask many questions about this meeting, such as: Why did a state lawmaker have it? Was it appropriate for her to be discussing Turkish-Somali relations as an American representative? On whose behalf was she speaking? Did anyone bless this meeting at the federal level, and on what grounds? Did Omar have any reservations about meeting with President Erdogan given the totalitarian, bellicose, and bigoted nature of his regime? What do Omar’s Democratic colleagues at the national level make of this meeting? Lengthy article.
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She's American in name only. It's clear where her sympathies lay. Just like Zero the shit talking jackass only more open. 2008 began the parade of this type of anti-American scumbag we're going to be treated to in the Federal government, I shudder at the thought of what we have coming in years to come considering the democrats have normalized it.
[Politico] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Tuesday made a criminal referral to the Justice Department for Erik Prince based on evidence that "strongly indicates" the Trump ally lied to Congress.
In a letter to Attorney General William Barr, Schiff claimed Prince, the billionaire founder of a military contracting firm, intentionally misled the House Intelligence Committee and impaired their probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Schiff wrote the publication of the Mueller report shed light on discrepancies between Prince's interview with the special counsel and his testimony before the committee in November 2017, when he denied he was attempting to establish a back channel between Russia and Trump during the president’s transition.
"Mr. Prince’s false statements hindered the Committee’s ability to fully understand and examine foreign efforts to undermine our political process and national security, develop appropriate legislative and policy remedies to counter future malign influence operations targeting campaigns and presidential transitions, and inform the American public, as appropriate," Schiff wrote in the letter.
Schiff highlighted six instances in which information revealed about Prince in the Mueller report diverged from his testimony before the committee. He homed in on Prince's meeting with a Russian banker who is reportedly close to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Seychelles islands in January 2017, an encounter Prince later told congressional officials took place purely by chance.
Think about it Prince found several PMCs. Not just Blackwater's but one for China with thousands of ex-PLA in it and an aviation one for Africa. A man whose people can kill on industrial scale for their boss.... Really Adam think about that....
You Adam were not even important enough for a raised eyebrow from Meyer Lansky when he was Murder Inc's Don. But you would have pissed in your pants in Meyer's presence ... and Murder Inc. never ever killed as many people as BlackWater let alone the ChiCom PMC and you are insulting and dissing this guy?
Do you have an ounce of self preservation anywhere in your stunted brain? What happens when the day comes when Prince feels you are a pain in the ass. Enough of one that he doesn't care about Trump or Republicans and just wants your pimpled ass roasting over some fire in Central Asia or Africa....
[Yahoo] Stacey Abrams, who made history last year as the first Black woman to win a major party's nomination for governor, announced Tuesday morning that she won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2020.
The news follows months of speculation around Abrams' next steps after narrowly losing the contentious Georgia gubernatorial race.
"I am so grateful for all of the support and encouragement I have received from fellow Georgians, to leaders of Congress and beyond," Abrams said in a video posted on Twitter. "However, the fights to be waged require a deep commitment to the job, and I do not see the U.S. Senate as the best role for me in this battle for our nation’s future." She added she would support whoever ends up challenging Republican Sen. David Perdue, a first-term incumbent. "The best rolls for me are at Cinnabun. I will be there"
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other national Democratic leaders have aggressively courted Abrams, who has long been a political rising star, over the past few months. Besides being considered as a potential Senate candidate, Abrams was also floated as the potential running mate of former Vice President Joe Biden. (No deal was made with Biden, who announced his presidential bid last week.) Dems: "We finally found a 'woman' Biden wouldn't hug or sniff her hair"
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.
[The Federalist] Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has distinguished herself with often offensive, outrageous, and unpatriotic rhetoric. One week she invokes classic anti-Jewish tropes. The next she trivializes the September 11 jihadist attacks. Another it is unearthed that she espouses morally relativistic if not overtly anti-American views about U.S. soldiers, the very ones who fought to defend civilians in her native Somalia to boot.
