[Business Insider] The Department of Justice has turned over additional surveillance records of President Donald Trump's associates that were collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to House Republicans, according to two congressional sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
The surveillance was conducted as part of the department's Russia-related investigation, which is examining whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the 2016 presidential election in his favor.
The news was first reported by CNN, which said the DOJ also provided lawmakers with other FBI records related to the Russia probe and the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
The move comes as House Republicans and the White House continue pressuring the DOJ and deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to comply with subpoena requests for classified information.
While Republicans say the requests are part of their congressional oversight responsibility, Democrats accuse their colleagues across the aisle of using classified information to play politics and compromise the Russia investigation.
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I seem to remember a release not long ago that was supposed to be catastrophic to national security. It seems the word catastrophic is now being used to serve the function of the word embarrassing.
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Obama tried to turn the USA into something that resembled Capone's Chicago, the Clinton's Arkansas, Stassi-controlled East Germany, Stalin's political USSR and the economy of Zimbabwe or Venexuela. What a mess he made of things.
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First we get proof, then we can do something about it. Before there was no proof, so nothing could be done, even though what we believed and they knew now turns out to have been true.
[Breitbart] Federal law enforcement officials say a large weapons cache seized in the Texas border town of Laredo was likely heading to Mexico. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents and other law enforcement agencies teamed up to stop a large quantity of semi-automatic weapons, ammunition, and ballistic armor from being smuggled to Mexican drug cartels in Nuevo Laredo.
Special Agents with the Laredo HSI High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force joined forces earlier this month with other federal and local law enforcement agencies to seize 21 long arm rifles, 962 rounds of ammunition, magazines, belt fed magazines, ballistic plates, armor carriers, and ghillie suits, according to a statement provided to Breitbart Texas by ICE officials.
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I had to look up what a belt fed magazine looked like. Still don't know but I found some AR upper receivers that could be belt fed or magazine fed. Anyone know for sure?
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I found this and other similar items. Looks like an M-60 type cover and tray only made for an AR upper. The only modern machine gun (post RVN era) I have laid hands upon was a Mk 48 Mod 1, but it was not the standard Mod 1, it was a prototype.
[Washington Examiner] Peter Strzok, a top FBI agent who came under fire after it was revealed he sent anti-Trump text messages, was subpoenaed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., to appear before the Judiciary and Oversight committees on June 27 for a deposition.
Although Strzok’s lawyer said on Sunday that his client was willing to appear before members of Congress, Goodlatte warned a subpoena would be issued in the near future.
"He has now indicated that he would come voluntarily, but he has not pinned himself down on when. So we are imminently going to issue a subpoena for him to appear next week," Goodlatte said in an interview on Fox News earlier this week.
Strzok was a leading official in the FBI’s investigation on Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The appearance before panels is part of the committees' investigation into the Justice Department’s actions in 2016.
[Daily Caller] The Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Hillary Clinton have a HUGE Weiner problem that is even bigger than we first realized.
According to the recently released inspector general report, on September 28 and 29, 2016 the New York office of the FBI immediately reported to the Washington headquarters its discovery of, first, 141,000 and then 350,000 emails on the laptop of Anthony Weiner ‐ also known as "Carlos Danger," a now-convicted sex offender. Mr. Weiner is the husband of Hillary Clinton’s inseparable aide Huma Abedin.
Now we know by October 4, the New York office had found 700,000 emails. The New York agents had seen and reported to FBI leadership they had seen email headers, all domain names, Mrs. Clinton’s initials on one sensitive but not classified document, and the missing BlackBerry backups.
The New York agents described it as the "entire file" of all Hillary Clinton emails from 2006 until 2016, including the BlackBerry messages that Comey himself had referred to as "the golden emails."
The "mid-year team" of FBI agents investigating the email issues had been told by Clinton’s staff and lawyers that there was a complete archive on both a thumb drive and a laptop, but remarkably, no one seemed to have them. At least some on the mid-year team were frustrated and believed Clinton’s attorneys were lying. Others, including Comey, claimed they were looking for those under every "stone" but no one could find them.
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The depth of the criminal sedation, corruption, amazingly deeper.
Since we know the NYPD Vice had these 700,000 e-mails, lends credence to the vice squad threatening to go pubic. Comey was forced to go public. The original Burg guesses about the "victim giant elf" had no choice but to announce the finding.
Then the hiding and or destruction. Remembering the reports of NYC FBI officers throwing their lunch at a TV monitor.
[Breitbart] NEW YORK ‐ Anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele visited the Obama State Department to brief officials there about the infamous, largely discredited dossier in October 2016, it was revealed during a Senate hearing.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, revealed contents of the State Department’s visitor logs while he was grilling Victoria Nuland, who served as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs under John Kerry.
At the hearing on Wednesday, Burr asked: "I know you talked extensively with our staff relative to Mr. Steele. Based upon our review of the visitor logs of the State Department, Mr. Steele visited the State Department briefing officials on the dossier in October of 2016. Did you have any role in that briefing?"
"I did not," Nuland replied. "I actively chose not to be part of that briefing."
"But were you aware of that briefing?" Burr asked.
"I was not aware of it until afterwards," Nuland retorted.
Nuland did not explain how she can actively chose not to be part of Steele’s briefing, as she claimed, yet say she was unaware of the briefing until after it occurred. Nuland was not asked about the discrepancy during the public section of the testimony, which was reviewed in full by Breitbart News.
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Nuland did not explain how she can actively chose not to be part of Steele’s briefing, as she claimed, yet say she was unaware of the briefing until after it occurred.
"I was actively ignorant most of my career there"
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[Townhall] The Department of Justice announced murder and kidnapping charges for eleven MS-13 gang members in Alexandria, Virginia Friday morning. All of them are from El Salvador, range in age from 20 to 27-years old and are being prosecuted for the killing of teenagers Edvin Escobar Mendez and Sergio Arita Triminio.
One of the defendants is not in custody and suspected of being out of the country. The other ten are being held in federal detention. Whether the members are in the U.S. illegally is unclear.
"While we note in the press release that all of the defendants are from El Salvador, we did not include any information as to their immigration status," U.S. Attorney’s Office Director of Communications for the Eastern District of Virginia Joshua Stueve tells Townhall.
Netflix sacked its chief spokesman Jonathan Friedland, he revealed on Friday, after he used the N-word twice in the space of a few days during meetings with staff.
The head of communications announced his departure after being upbraided for a second time for using the racial slur, which is controversial for its ubiquity in hip-hop culture and completely taboo in almost every other context.
"I'm leaving Netflix after seven years. Leaders have to be beyond reproach in the example we set and unfortunately I fell short of that standard when I was insensitive in speaking to my team about words that offend in comedy," he tweeted.
"I feel awful about the distress this lapse caused to people at a company I love and where I want everyone to feel included and appreciated."
Former journalist Friedland -- not to be confused with Jonathan Freedland, a prominent columnist at the London-based Guardian newspaper -- had served in communications roles for Disney.
Before working in communications he spent 10 years at the Wall Street Journal.
Netflix wasn't immediately available for comment but Variety magazine reproduced in full what it said was a memo from CEO Reed Hastings sent to all staff on Friday.
"Jonathan contributed greatly in many areas, but his descriptive use of the N-word on at least two occasions at work showed unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity, and is not in line with our values as a company," he said.
Hastings said the first incident occurred "several months ago" in a meeting about sensitive words and again a few days later to two black human resources employees as he was discussing the original transgression.
Friedland apologized immediately when objections were raised on the first occasion, but the fact that he did it again "confirmed a deep lack of understanding, and convinced me to let Jonathan go," said Reed.
The CEO continued with a lengthy history of the N-word's use and an admission that he should have done more to use the first incident as "a learning moment for everyone at Netflix about how painful and ugly that word is, and that it should not be used."
"Many of us have worked closely with Jonathan for a long time, and have mixed emotions," he concluded.
"Unfortunately, his lack of judgment in this area was too big for him to remain." He should get with the times. If only here had self-identified as black it wouldn't have been a problem.
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A riddler: "What's way worse than Hitler
And hollers 'sieg heil' like Zig Ziglar?"
"Mass media higgler,
This yidl belittler
Who sniggled the hypocrite niggler!"
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How do they promote rap music and videos crackers for life honkies for life honkies with attitude?
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Hastings said the first incident occurred "several months ago" in a meeting about sensitive words and again a few days later to two black human resources employees as he was discussing the original transgression.
Note that he didn't use it as a slur, never in reference to anyone, and in the context of words not to use, or discussing the first "incident".
The HR Mafia wanted him gone. Period.
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Hey! So do I!
[All Africa] Musician Victoria Kimani has given a rare confession of how she misses having sex after abstaining for close to a year. Oh. It's just that she's abstaining, not that no one would have her...
The American-born Kenyan singer who took the local music industry by storm five years ago, claims to have been living in celibacy since May 2017 after breaking up with Nigerian video producer Stanley Obiamalu.
In an Instagram account, the 'China Love' hit maker confessed how she has never gotten intimate with anybody since parting ways with Obiamalu, wondering if she is the problem or its the men who are scared of approaching her.
Secret Affair
Victoria, once rumored to be having a secret affair with Kenyan international footballer Victor Wanyama, went on to state that she has been ready to indulge all this while but seemly no man is up for her goodies. Warning! Pottymouth follows!
"Since may last year I have not had sex with one person. So who is fucking up? Is it me or dem niggas? Because I am ready, I have been ready to fuck. it feels like global warming" (She says spreading her legs wide open)
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Her status is so high, she can't find a man of higher status. The pool is tiny and she rejects those available. And why would men want a high maintenance, unpleasant woman anyway? You're wealthy, you can have any woman.
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Self imposed dilemma or non-problem. One vigorous romp and you're all caught up.
[Business Insider] The collateral damage from President Donald Trump's trade fight with China could soon have some states feeling the squeeze.
China announced tariffs on $50 billion worth of imports from the US in response to Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports, an escalation of the brewing trade war between the two countries.
Also mirroring Trump's move, China's tariffs will be deployed in two waves — the first covering $34 billion worth of goods coming in early July.
The Chinese tariffs are focused on energy and agricultural products, covering goods including ornamental fish, whiskey, and coal. By singling out certain goods, the Chinese are also hitting some states harder than others.
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Chinese imports put a lot of quality manufacturers out of business. Now the imports are becoming more and more poorer quality and there is no alternative for many of the now very cheaply made products domestically.
Raising tariffs will allow for better quality stuff to be made domestically.
[NasaSpaceflightdotcom]Rocket Lab set for first operational Electron launch with five payload elements.
With Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck confirming that It’s Business Time is on its seaside launch pad at the southern tip of the Māhia Peninsula on the Northern Island of New Zealand, the stage is set for the company’s first operational flight of its Electron rocket following two test flights, one in May 2017 and one earlier this year in January 2018.
The 7 hour countdown will commence at 05:30 NZST local time at the launch site on Saturday, 23 June, at which point Rocket Lab’s launch team will go on console at the Launch Control Center to monitor the final activities ahead of liftoff. All roads to the launch site will be closed at the T-6 hour mark; this will be followed by engineers lifting Electron vertical and fueling the rocket with RP-1 (rocket-grade) kerosene at T-4 hours and counting.
The launch pad will be evacuated of all personnel at T-2 hours 30 minutes, and loading of Electron with Liquid Oxygen (LOX) will commence at the T-2 hour mark. This will be followed at the T-1 hour mark with the commencement of the local aviation authority advising aircraft traffic of the launch and the launch hazard areas in an effort to prevent the range from becoming fouled by air traffic ahead of an anticipated on-time lift off.
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Why would anyone want to build a launch site (a) so far from the Equator and (b) so far from anywhere else the shipping costs are...? Oh, well, their money their choices.
[DailyCaller] Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called for mass immigration to the United States during a speech Tuesday declaring it a "human right" for all North Americans.
"And soon, very soon ‐ after the victory of our movement ‐ we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life in the United States."
He then declared it as "a human right we will defend," eluniversal.com reports.
While the election is not until July 1, Obrador is by far the frontrunner. (RELATED: Mag: Mexican Official Dreams Of Trump Assassination, But Most Urge Prudence)
Obrador in April delivered speech criticizing Trump and promising that Mexico will not become a "piñata" for any foreign government, Global News reports.
The former mayor of Mexico City, Obrador holds progressive populist views. The 64-year-old ran unsuccessfully for president twice before, according to DW.
Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed granting amnesty to Mexican drug cartels. "America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class," Carlson added.
Article 33
"The Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action." It also states: "Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country."
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...Be aware - Obrador is quite possibly a Maduro-level socialist. You think it's bad now...
Mike
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Can there be any doubt about an invasion by a foreign power. This is the same kind of language used to enter the Czechoslovakia in 38. Army on the border justification!
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that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life in the United States."
So then, why not just annex Mexico? Then the border with Guatemala is much shorter, so the wall would be cheaper. Make 'em all American citizens, with two Senators and -ohhhh -three representatives.
Somebody had to say it.
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What a stupid and dangerous political platform.
'Elect me, and I will make sure you leave Mexico.'
Before cameras, this is the kind of asshole one would need 100 Rifles for.
[PRESSTV] South Sudan says rebel leader Riek Machar cannot rejoin its government after five years of civil war in remarks condemned by his rebel group as "intended to derail the grinding of the peace processor."
On Friday, South Sudan’s Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth offered to allow a rebel representative to join its government, but ruled out Machar, saying they had "had enough of him".
"Machar cannot be part of government. We have had enough of him," Lueth said at a presser in the Æthiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... he stressed that South Sudan's President Salva Kiir would hold another face-to-face meeting with his arch-rival and former vice president Machar next week.
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[All Africa] A report by the Special Investigative Unit, which probed how former Gauteng health chief Brian Hlongwa spent over U.S.$89 million on expenses, including limousine-chauffeured spa treatments and deposits for luxury homes, has been made public. Former president Jacob Zuma was handed the document in March 2017 but never released it.
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[All Africa] A probe into the Unified Councils Pension Fund (UCPF) has unearthed massive abuse of funds amid evidence the board pocketed US$8,7 million in allowances, sitting fees and staff salaries between 2010 and December 2017 at a time the fund did not honour pension obligations to members, an audit report shows.
This comes after the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) in February suspended six executives from the fund to allow investigations into the scandal.
The fund manager Benjamin Chiyangwa, Brian Rusere (finance officer), Peter Chiyangwa (benefits officer), Masceline Mbukwa (internal auditor), Beular Musanhi (personal assistant) and Martha Kunaka (Bulawayo branch manager) were sent on forced leave as a result of the probe.
Information seen by businessdigest this week shows that the US8,7 million was lost at a time when the fund was unable to timely pay pension benefits that were due to members of the fund.
As at December 31 2017, outstanding benefits and arrears amounted to US$693 000.
Investigators found that the board of trustees was conflicted and acted in a self-serving manner to execute its fiduciary responsibilities as expected of trustees.
According to the findings, members of the board of trustees were remunerated as if they were full-time employees of the fund with monthly allowances of at least US$1 265 plus sitting allowances.
In 2015 and 2016, US$700 000 was spent towards the allowances and welfare of the 16-member board of trustees, while from 2010 to 2017 some of the trustees received personal loans totalling US$243 000 at an interest rate of 1% per annum.
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As at December 31 2017, outstanding benefits and arrears amounted to US$693 000.
An arrears that equates to less than one downstate, Illinois school district.
[OilPrice dot com] Every week the crisis in Venezuela takes a turn for the worse.
There are now signs that its oil industry is entering a dangerous new phase. Argus Media reports that Venezuela has begun to “proactively shut in oil production to cope with nearly replete terminal storage, further accelerating an output decline and bringing the OPEC country closer to the psychological barrier of 1mn b/d.”
Venezuela’s oil production fell to an average of 1.392 million barrels per day in May, down another 42,000 bpd from a month earlier, according to OPEC’s secondary sources. However, with the crisis in Venezuela spiraling out of control at a horrific pace, the numbers from May might as well be a year ago.
The May numbers don’t reflect the full ramifications of having to deal with inadequate port capacity, after PDVSA diverted operations to Venezuela from its Caribbean island refineries and storage facilities following the attempt by ConocoPhillips to take control of them.
The problem of export capacity has become so acute that PDVSA is demanding customers send ships that can handle ship-to-ship loadings, since there is a backlog of ships trying to load up at the country’s decrepit ports. PDVSA is even considering declaring force majeure on contracts that it will be unable to fulfill. The upshot is that PDVSA might have only 694,000 bpd available for export in June, which is less than half of the 1.495 mb/d that it is contractually obligated to deliver this month.
Related: Venezuela Won’t Have Enough Oil To Export By 2019
As such, the 1.392 mb/d figure for May, bad as it is, is woefully out of date. Sources told Argus Media that production plunged to just 1.1-1.2 mb/d in early June, heading down towards 1 mb/d.
To be sure, upstream operations are in crisis mode. But the bottlenecks at storage facilities and the ports have opened up a whole new crisis.“Eastern division land-based storage of 11mn bl is at full capacity, and western division storage capacity of almost 48mn bl will be filled to its operational capacity in a question of days,” the western division executive told Argus. PDVSA’s terminals and facilities, equipped to handle 61 million barrels are “filled nearly to capacity,” an oil ministry official said.
The storage and exporting problem is having a ripple effect upstream. PDVSA and its partners have halted operations at two upgraders that process heavy oil, and two more facilities could be shutdown, according to Reuters, moves intended to ease the pressure on the storage facilities. But if upgraders are shut down, PDVSA won’t be able to process heavy oil, which means it will have to curtail or shut down operations at its oil fields.
Analysts have predicted that Venezuela’s oil situation would deteriorate over the course of 2018, but the descent is happening much faster than most people predicted. If OPEC said Venezuela produced 1.392 mb/d in May, and sources from within the Venezuelan oil ministry are now saying the country is producing between 1.1 and 1.2 mb/d, that could potentially mean output falls by a few hundred thousand barrels per day in June compared to a month earlier. Venezuela had been losing roughly 50,000 bpd each month this year, so the unraveling underway right now is a sign that production losses are spiraling out of control.
In another sign of trouble, PDVSA announced that it will suspend oil shipments to about half of the Caribbean nations in the Petrocaribe program, according to the Antigua Observer. The program, inaugurated under the late Hugo Chavez, offered Caribbean nations oil and refined products on favorable terms, often including extended payback periods at extremely low interest rates.
PDVSA said it would cut shipments of refined products by about 38,000 bpd to eight of the 17 countries in the program. Amazingly, PDVSA has vowed to keep up some 45,000 bpd of shipments to the other nations. Meanwhile, PDVSA apparently does not have enough of the type of oil that it typically sends to Cuba, so, despite being essentially broke, it is reportedly trying to purchase light crude from third parties to send to Cuba in order not to disrupt shipments to its ally.
It is hard to see things turning around anytime soon. “For Venezuela, we assume no respite in the production collapse that has taken 1 mb/d off the market in the past two years,” the IEA said on Wednesday.
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PDVSA is even considering declaring force majeure on contracts that it will be unable to fulfill
force ma·jeure
[ˌfôrs mäˈZHər]
NOUN: unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from fulfilling a contract.
Ummmm NO. Entirely forseeable - Socialism
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The opinion of a former community colleague:
Regarding Venezuela (VE), the prolonged involvement of the Cuban Gov in the Security apparatus and Military of VE is due primarily to Cuba's vested interest in VE Oil and their perceived regional stability. The Cubans remains a critical factor in any attempt to dislodge VE from its current disaster. The previous administration was unable to diminished the Cuban penetration in VE and there appears to be no clear National policy by the current.
[Ynet] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... is enforcing tariffs on $3.4 billion in US products as of Friday in retaliation to duties the Trump administration has put on European steel and aluminum.
The goods targeted include typical American products like bourbon, peanut butter,
...we used to bring peanut butter from home when we lived over there, because the only peanut butter available was a single brand of vile, separated stuff in the health food section — so I can’t imagine it’s become a big item...
and orange juice,
...for which Brazil is Germany’s main supplier...
in a way that seems designed to create political pressure on 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... and senior US politicians.
In other words, this is only a shot across the American bow to encourage serious discussion rather than going straight to a tariff war.
[NYPost] One of the three CNN staffers who resigned in June 2017 over a retracted story about alleged collusion between Russia and members of Donald Trump's campaign staff has resurfaced at CBS News, according to an internal memo at CBS announcing six appointments.
Lex Haris, the former head of CNN Investigates, an elite unit inside the newsroom, is now the interim head of CBSNews.com. Perfect. Dan Rather applauds
CNN retracted the story and accepted the resignations of reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau and Haris, the unit's executive editor, a day after the story was retracted in mid-June 2017.
The piece, citing a single anonymous source, claimed that Congress was probing a "Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials."
CNN said it retracted the story because the information was not "solid enough" to publish. The network did not cite any factual errors or mistakes in the piece but did issue an apology to Anthony Scaramucci, a financier and a former Trump transition team official.
The story had called Scaramucci an intermediary to investors.
Scaramucci, known as The Mooch, became White House communications director the following month ‐ but was infamously out after 11 days.
Haris, who had been running CBS' MoneyWatch on an interim basis, replaces Nancy Lane, who was promoted to VP and senior executive producer, programming and development. Peter Principle for those with the Right Political Leanings™
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now the interim head of CBSNews.com.
One wonders how CBS News profitablility is trending... and how much of a pay cut Mr. Haris took to temp at the website.
[DAWN] SAHIWAL: Police on Thursday booked two brothers who allegedly dragged a labourer in the streets of Jaithpur village by putting a rope in his neck and later subjected him and his younger sibling to brutal torture "for refusing to work in their fields".
According to locals and police, two brothers Aslam and Hanif, along with another man Din Muhammad attacked Sajid (30), a farm worker, in a village street on Wednesday. They overpowered the victim, put a rope in his neck and dragged him in the village streets.
The suspects told the onlookers that Sajid was being punished for "refusing to work in our fields".
They later took him to their farmhouse and subjected him to severe torture using iron nails and rods.
The suspects then also called Sajid’s younger brother Sharafat (28) to the farmhouse and he too was subjected to brutal torture.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... someone informed Hujra Shah Muqeem police about the incident.
The police raided the farmhouse and rescued the victims who were shifted to Depalpur Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for treatment.
The police registered an FIR (No 317/18) and jugged Please don't kill me! the two prime suspects, Aslam and Hanif, on the complaint of the victims’ elder brother Noor Muhammad.
Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Shafiq Bhatti, who is investigating the matter, said the third suspect would soon be arrested.
Depalpur hospital sources told Dawn that the victims were being treated for multiple injuries.
According to police sources, a few months back sister of the prime suspects had eloped with a local youth. Later, she was brought back.
The brothers suspected that Sajid had a role in the elopement and wanted to teach him a lesson, the sources said.
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[DAWN] Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Pakistain’s rating to negative from stable. A statement released by the credit rating agency in the evening on Wednesday stated that the decision to change the outlook to negative was driven by heightened external vulnerability risk as ongoing balance of payment pressures erode foreign exchange buffers.
The rating agency expects the government’s tax amnesty scheme ‐ due to expire on June 30 ‐ to have a modest impact of around $2-3 billion in foreign exchange inflows.
Moody’s said that the foreign exchange reserves have fallen to low levels and in the absence of significant capital inflows ’would will not be replenished over the next 12-18 months’.
Moody’s affirmed the B-3 local and foreign currency long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings. It said that the decision to affirm the B3 rating reflects Pakistan’s robust growth potential, supported by ongoing improvements in the energy supply and physical infrastructure, which are likely to raise economic competitiveness over time. “These credit strengths balance Pakistan’s fragile external payment position and very weak government debt affordability owing to low revenue generation capacity”.
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[DAWN] Global charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday that it needed to make it easier for staff to report sexual misconduct after a media report said employees used hookers in Africa, in the latest sex scandal to rock the aid sector.
Eight female ex-MSF employees said in a report by Britannia’s BBC that MSF had a "toxic" culture, including "blatant and widespread" use of local sex workers by staff, with one man bragging it was easy to barter medication for sex in Liberia.
"We are sorry for any instances where people have been subjected to harassment, abuse or otherwise mistreated and/or felt that it was not adequately dealt with," MSF, which employs 42,000 people, said in a statement.
"While we have reporting mechanisms in place where complaints can be made, we know we need to do more to ensure that they are known, trusted and used by the people who need them."
The aid industry has been shaken by reports of sexual wrongdoing since it emerged in February that Oxfam staff paid for sex in Haiti during a relief mission after a 2010 earthquake.
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"We are sorry for any instances where people have been subjected to harassment, abuse or otherwise mistreated and/or felt that it was not adequately dealt with,"
'We are sorry we got caught with our pants around our ankles!'
This is major as they don't need nasty hypergolics to ignite an engine.
Translated from Russian by Microsoft
For the first time in Russia successful tests of a laser system of ignition of oxygen-hydrogen fuel of a liquid rocket engine have been carried out. The tests were held in the "Himavtomatiki Design Bureau" (Voronezh) https://www.roscosmos.ru/25227/
Впервые в России проведены успешные испытания лазерной системы поджига кислородно-водородного топлива жидкостного ракетного двигателя. Испытания прошли в «Конструкторском бюро химавтоматики» (Воронеж) https://t.co/YzvwJowhPKpic.twitter.com/9eZaNw156z
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ‐ California health officials reported Friday that 374 terminally ill people took drugs to end their lives in 2017, the first full year after a law made the option legal.
The California Department of Public Health said 577 people received aid-in-dying drugs last year, but not everyone used them. The law allows adults to obtain a prescription for life-ending drugs if a doctor has determined they have six months or less to live. They can self-administer the drugs.
Of the 374 who died, about 90 percent were more than 60 years old, about 95 percent were insured and about 83 percent were receiving hospice or similar care. The median age was 74.
The figures are more than double those from the first six months after the law went into effect June 9, 2016. In those early months 191 people received life-ending drugs, while 111 people took them and died.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia ruled in May that the law is unconstitutional because it was adopted illegally when lawmakers passed it during a special Legislative session called to address health issues. An appeals court last week reinstated the End of Life Option Act, but gave opponents until July 2 to file objections.
The law passed in California after 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, who was dying from brain cancer, had to move to Oregon in 2014 so she could end her life. Doctor-assisted deaths are also legal in Colorado, Montana, Vermont, Washington state and Washington, D.C.
[DailyMail] - Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti is now representing 60 separated migrant families
- Avenatti is in Phoenix where he has spoken out on two cases involving a Honduran six-year-old boy Samir "Samir (variantly spelled Sameer) is a male name found commonly in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, Central Asia, and Europe. In Indo-Aryan languages Samir is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning gust of wind or gentle breeze."
and a seven-year-old girl named Britany
- He is seeking legal action to reunite the children to their parents
- Daniels tweeted Monday that she will head towards the border next week after fans begged she use her platform Seriously?"
to shed light on the migrant crisis
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