[DETROIT.CBSLOCAL] The jury has spoken in the federal corruption trial of former bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962... Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and they said he's guilty of the most important charge: racketeering.
Sentencing will happen at a later date, but the conviction carries a possible penalty of up to 20 years in prison. A bond hearing was set for 1:30 p.m. Monday, where the judge will decide whether they go free until sentencing -- or go straight to jail.
Kwame Kilpatrick, Bernard Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson were hit with more than 30 charges of federal mail and tax fraud, extortion, bribery and racketeering -- with Kilpatrick convicted of 24 charges. Ferguson was the only one without tax fraud charges, and Bernard Kilpatrick was the only one not convicted of racketeering.
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GOTCHA, when will people SEE that the Democrats are nothing but THIEVES?
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Coming up next in Michigan: Retired Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway pleaded guilty to felony bank fraud Jan. 29 and is expected to be sentenced May 28.
Today marks six months since the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya in which four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Some watchdog groups, members of the media and Republican members of Congress are asking: where are the more than two dozen U.S. personnel who survived the attack but haven't been seen nor heard from in public since? There were also an undisclosed number of witnesses at the U.S. compounds in Tripoli but also have not spoken publicly.
In a recent press report, Secretary of State John Kerry said he visited one survivor at "Bethesda hospital," and referred to him a "remarkably courageous person who is doing very, very well." Kerry added "I've called his wife and talked to her." But the identities, condition and testimony of the survivors and witnesses has been closely held from the public.
Republicans demanded more information about Benghazi in recent weeks before they would agree to allow Obama Administration nominees to move forward in the Senate. A source familiar with material turned over to the Senate Intelligence Committee by the Obama Administration in response tells CBS News that long sought-after FBI transcripts of some survivors were included but had been "blacked out" or redacted. Three Senate Republicans including Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., say they want the survivors to be made available for interviews about what happened the night of the attacks.
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compared to his stupid "current" channel - yes.
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I have to say the local PBS station puts on various international news reports. One day they had a middle east story involving the ususal suspects. The BBC reporter was frothing "mad as a cut snake" while doing the report, the Al Jazeera report was quite balanced in comparison. So I imagine it might be an improvement over Current TV. They could change their motto to "We're Not Russia Today!"
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The term "denegrification" as found in this article is both racist and repugnant, but perhaps only to the now wealthy and well connected Susan Rice.
Obama has nominated two people to his Cabinet, following through on using executive power to set climate-change and energy policy if Congress doesn't act in accordancw with his imperial wishes. He nominated Gina McCarthy, a former regulator and expert on air-quality law, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and physicist Ernest Moniz, who advocates phasing out coal, to run the Department of Energy. Only McCarthy is addressed in this article.
The battle over climate change is heating up in Washington -- as President Barack Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency sets the stage for a struggle over regulations intended to reduce carbon dioxide and other emissions. A big part of McCarthy's job, Obama said will be to ensure that "we're doing everything that we can to combat the threat of climate change."
But Senate passage of a climate change bill that might impose new costs on the oil, coal and gas industries seems unlikely, especially since the Republican-majority House would be nearly certain to oppose any such effort.
Seeming to acknowledge this reality,
Ooooh, ouch. I wonder if the journalist did that on purpose?
Obama said in his State of the Union address, "I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy."
"Of the four big priorities that the president is sketching out -- climate change, the budget, gun control, and immigration, climate change is the one area where the president already has in existing law a lot of tools to address the problem," said David Doniger, policy director for Climate and Clean Air at the Natural Resources Defense Council. In its mission statement the NRDC says, "Climate change is the single biggest environmental and humanitarian crisis of our time."
Ultimately, Doniger said, legislation will be needed to bring about deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, or carbon pollution, "but you can get a very big start on that under the Clean Air Act principally and under some of the energy efficiency laws."
This president's legacy will become very, very interesting if the latest hypothesis - - that AGW is all that's keeping us from the next ice age -- turns out to be true. Fallen Angels, anyone?
Many of EPA's decisions end up having their fate determined by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "Every major EPA Clean Air Act regulation attracts a D.C. Circuit legal challenge - often from both environmental groups and industry," Danish said. "In addition, the scope of EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases is a still-evolving area. For this reason, Obama's nominees for D.C. Circuit judgeships could be as important for the fate of his climate policy as his nominee for EPA Administrator."
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With what money?
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Why doesn't he just order the climate to stop changing?
The picture of King Canute is very appropriate, but Bambi may not get the reference.
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David Doniger, policy director for Climate and Clean Air at the Natural Resources Defense Council. In its mission statement the NRDC says, "Climate change is the single biggest environmental and humanitarian crisis of our time."
the NRDC is the organization which came up with the infamous Alar scare of the 80's. For those who don't know the NRDC came up with some decade-old studies about the use of Alar on apples and created a big scare - schools refused to include apples with lunches, etc...
Problem was the so-called studies were decades old and farmers had stopped using Alar about 10 years earlier.
The NRDC knew this. The media knew this. But they continued and persisted in their claim that apples were covered in poison insecticide.
The action devastated the Apple industry in eastern Washington.
Junk science is their stock and trade.
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.
