[Wash Examiner] Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he used two computers while he led the State Department: a desktop for classified material, and a laptop for email.
Powell served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, and during that time he "changed the brainware" of State's culture by using email, he said.
"I had two machines on my desk: I had a secure State Department machine for secure material, and I had a laptop that I could use for email," said the former secretary of state on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"And I would email relatives, friends, but I would also email in the department," said Powell. "But it was mostly housekeeping stuff. 'What's the status in this paper? What's going on here?' So it was my own classified system, but I had a classified system also on my desk."
Powell said he devoted an entire chapter to his use of email in his book, It Worked for Me.
Asked whether Hillary Clinton's private email setup during her tenure as secretary of state was a "serious issue," Powell noted that it is now the subject of two inspector general investigations and an FBI probe.
"Mrs. Clinton and some of her associates will be testifying, or be going before inquiries with the Congress," said Powell.
"It's best for me to talk about what I know, and not what occurred under Secretary Clinton's jurisdiction," he added.
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he used two computers while he led the State Department: a desktop for classified material, and a laptop for email.
But Mr. Powell, that's not what was going on with Hildabeest though. The classified material was on a secure, encrypted computer (well as secure as the State Dept. gets). Moreover, it looks like document security information was being stripped. Check with Trey Gowdy or you you really want to know, check with the Chinese or Russians for more info.
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Your classified material was on a secure, encrypted computer (well as secure as the State Dept. gets) whereas your private email was on another system.
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-- "he "changed the brainware" of State's culture by using email, he said." Just another egomaniacal doofus sounding off! Actually, Powell was late to the party.
[Asia Times] In Luis Bunuel’s eponymous 1961 film, the young postulant Viridiana leaves her convent to claim her uncle’s rural estate, and creates a refuge for local beggars. They ransack her house in a bachannalia staged to lampoon the Last Supper, and a couple of them rape her. The classic film should be mandatory viewing for European officials caught up in refugee euphoria. This is going to end very, very badly.
At this point the floodgates of European sympathy opened, and Germany declared that it would accept 800,000 fugitives, including many from the world’s most brutal war zones. From a security standpoint it is foolhardy in the extreme: 250,000 people have died in Syria’s civil war since 2011 because other people killed them, mostly with small arms or improvised explosives (such as the government’s notorious “barrel bombs”). Such killing is a labor-intensive affair, and requires the participation of many thousands of killers. It is isn’t only that ISIS (and other jihadists) are able to smuggle to Europe as many of their operatives as they care to, as ISIS itself purportedly boasts. The refugee population itself is flush with killers from both sides fleeing the war. The presence of small children does not obviate this; killers have families, too.
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The Islamic diaspora has become the Muslim invasion. See another posting at this site today entitled "Flashback to February 2015: ISIS threatens to flood Europe with refugees."
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Europe committed suicide a hundred years ago. We've wasted a lot of time, lives, and resources trying like Justinian in trying to revive the 'old empire', allowing the bankrupt European political plague of power, hate and nihilism to continue to corrupt our own culture.
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Isn't this proof that the nations they come from are failed and should be re-colonized so that law and order can prevail and they don't have to risk death and cold weather?
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The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French apocalyptic novel by Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a setting where in Third World mass immigration to France and the West leads to the destruction of Western civilization. Almost forty years after publication the book returned to the bestseller list in 2011.[1] The title is a reference to the Book of Revelation (Rev 20:9).
The Camp of the Saints is a novel about population migration and its consequences. In Calcutta, India, the Belgian government announces a policy in which Indian babies will be adopted and raised in Belgium. The policy is reversed after the Belgian consulate is inundated with poverty-stricken parents eager to give up their infant children.
An Indian "wise man" then rallies the masses to make a mass exodus to live in Europe. Most of the story centers on the French Riviera, where almost no one remains except for the military and a few civilians, including a retired professor who has been watching the huge fleet of run-down freighters approaching the French coast.
The story alternates between the French reaction to the mass immigration and the attitude of the immigrants. They have no desire to assimilate into French culture but want the goods that are in short supply in their native India. Although the novel focuses on France, the rest of the West shares its fate.
Near the end of the story the mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of the United Kingdom must agree to have her son marry a Pakistani woman, and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of thousands of Chinese people as they swarm into Siberia. The one holdout until the end of the novel is Switzerland, but by then international pressure isolating it as a rogue state for not opening its borders forces it to capitulate.
Had the author Raspail written that the actual invasion would have been from LILY WHITE MUSLIMS,
instead of dark skinned Dravidian Hindus, he would have been bankrupted, jailed AND murdered by France's government...but anyone can read between the lines...It made it convenient to accuse anyopposition of racism
Another six months and Europe will be burning...along with the USA...
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Another good reason why the Brits need to hold onto the Falklands.
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The horror has now piled up on Europe’s doorstep, thanks evidently to the skill of Turkish gangs who have turned the Turkey-to-Balkans smuggling route into a superhighway.
Oh my. How much Afghan heroin do you suppose these "refugees" are bringing with them>
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[Hurriyet Daily News] It was one of the rocks thrown by some people holding sticks and led by Abdurrahim Boynukalin, the head of Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth branch who became a parliamentarian in the June 7 elections.
One of the rocks that I don't believe and I don't want to believe will be adored by anyone a part of the pro-government accounts, dubbed "AK Trolls" by the opposition, and the owners of those accounts employed as "journalists," who are organizing lynching campaigns in their corners at newspapers and TV programs.
After I thanked friends who have called me after the incident, I just said "Celal Korkut has summed up our situation in one photograph."
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We are in those days when the soil is full of blood.
Those days when sorrows grow day by day.
Those days when the numbers of the deaders who lose their lives in the bloody games played by power hungry figures cannot be determined and made public.
Those days when the rehearsal is taking place, rehearsal of pushing some people out on the street, saying "If we can't find an enemy, let's create one; it worked in the elections."
Those days some think that people can be intimidated by fear and threats and violence; those days when there are efforts to erode the ground of democracy and the hope for the future.
Those days when a parliamentarian comes in front of Hurriyet building and delivers a speech, saying, "They will get the hell out after Nov. 1."
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Those rocks cannot frighten Hurriyet, which has resisted all pressure, attacks and threats for 67 years; they only show the fear of those who throw them.
Paper becomes newspapers; the news will reach the reader. Do you know the game, "Rock, Paper, Scissors?"
Paper wins over rock.
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Playbook of the Donks is blame your enemy for your mistakes, shortcomings and that which you FUBAR. The Donk enemy is anyone who disagrees with you or opposes your ideology.
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'He (Dershowitz) also asserted that the P5+1 powers have entered into an as yet unseen secret side deal with Iran, which negates the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s central premise: that “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.”'
Is he referring to the secret IAEA agreement or is this something else?
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If you think about nearly every major decision made by the Obama administration, it has gone against the will of the majority of the American people: Obamacare, Iran, etc.
And that is exactly the reason that a guy like Trump, Carson, or others perceived as Washington outsiders might get elected. Voters are likely to vote for someone who is an outsider just to see if the system is still responsive to them and their vote means anything. Their vote is also a protest vote to tell Washington they are very p!ssed off with Washington.
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Sorry, P2k, I was channeling my inner Alan. In both those elections if you voted, you voted for a loser in one way or another.
I doubt that I, (AlanC) voted for the same losers that AlanD voted for. We both, however, along with everyone in the country would up with the "Biggest Loser."
[DAWN] OCCASIONALLY, high state functionaries do try and turn the spotlight on the chronic deficiencies of the state.
Unhappily, the diagnoses tend to be rooted more in emotion than pragmatism or structural reforms. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja has been using his short stint as the nation's top judge to turn the focus on the needs of the people and why the state is failing the citizenry.
To his credit, in a speech over the weekend, Chief Justice Khawaja acknowledged that the judiciary itself has often failed the people over the decades, there being a lack of systematic and equal access to justice in the country.
The chief justice also admitted that the judiciary itself has ignored the task of reforms or even the gathering of basic data pertaining to the judiciary.
To change that -- in the words of Chief Justice Khawaja, reduce the gap between the state and the people -- the state will have to undergo deep reform.
As Chairman of the Senate Raza Rabbani's comments in the same seminar underscored, it is not just the judiciary that has to reform; for the elected leaders to be more focused on the needs of the people, there has to be an emphasis on accountability too.
Yet, it is all too apparent that reforms form no part of the present government's agenda. Certainly, the other institutions must also share some of the blame.
The superior judiciary, for example, has tried to position itself as a champion of the people, but it does so largely through the use of suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... powers. In truth, suo motu powers -- the superior judiciary's ability to take up of its own accord matters impacting fundamental rights and the public interest -- are a reflection of a system that is broken.
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[DAWN] IN the public discourse, Chief Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, who retires on Sept 9, has been generally understood as being an extension of the judicial thinking of former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. But such an assessment fails to fully recognise Chief Justice Khawaja's distinctive judicial role and contribution as a Supreme Court judge and then chief justice of the Supreme Court.
The "momentousness of what has transpired in this country since 2007" has been repeatedly recognised by him in his various judgements. But very few people go through the personal transformation which the chief justice (a Lahore High Court judge at the time) went through in March 2007. He was the first and only superior court judge to resign in protest against the suspension of chief justice Chaudhry by Gen Musharraf and was content to spend the rest of his life as a stoic Sufi in intellectual contemplation. But his appointment as a Supreme Court judge in 2009, marked the beginning of a remarkable Supreme Court judicial career, guided by judicial creativity and in his own words (when he quotes justice Bhagwati), a duty "to transform the status quo ante into a new human order".
If there is one single concept which captures the Supreme Court career of Chief Justice Khawaja, it is the mission to de-colonise judicial thinking. As he himself stated, "It is about time, 65 years after independence, that we unchain ourselves from the shackles of obsequious intellectual servility to colonial paradigms and start adhering to our own peoples' Constitution as the basis of decision-making on constitutional issues." In other words, to think about and find solutions to our problems in terms of our own historical and contemporary facts, with a people-centric constitutionalism.
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Thought this was going to be a domestic issue story.
MEPI Web site in case you missed it.[PJ Media] Now that a new academic year is upon us, pro-Israel advocates are gearing up for another round of boycott/divestment/sanctions (BDS) blather on many an American college campus. As the most recent Israeli elections taught us, if you want to know who you're up against, just follow the money. As The Algemeiner reports:
The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization -- known as SHATIL -- have received more than $1 million from the State Department under a program designed to create political change, reform, and activism in the Middle East.
The program, called Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), operates in countries including Algeria, Libya, Lebanon, and Yemen. Not exactly stable and economically prosperous democracies like Israel. Yet, the New Israel Fund/SHATIL are among the leading recipients of MEPI grant dollars.
[Right Scoop] Cops in St. Petersburg seemed rather perplexed and bewildered as they were given sensitivity training on how to avoid "misgendering" transgender persons. Might as well enjoy the classroom time, and the lunch.
What I find odd is that they are being told that it doesn't matter what the name is on a person's license, or what their gender is -- they need to respect the wishes of what the person wants to be called, not whatever gender God made them. But the case they cite as the cuase for this training is when police mis-identified the gender of a dead transgender dude. But how were they supposed to know what gender he preferred? He was dead. He couldn't tell them. But I guess *I'M* the intolerant monster here in need of sensitivity training.
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"Misgendering?. How about if cops do what they were hired to do; maintain law and order? Put the social engineering aside. There are cops being murdered by thugs just because they are cops. We've got far more serious problems than misgendereing in this country. There was a report this morning from somewhere in Florida that police received a 911 call which basically said that cops were going to continue being targeted when they were found alone.
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I actually had this conversation with the wife the other night while I was heckling her show, which I hope is watched in the same manner people look as MC Escher pictures, so she fired back:
So why do you think he shouldn't be able to legally change his gender Mr. Mcsmartypants hater?
He was born male, that should not be changed.
But he felt like a woman his whole life, let him be who he wants to be.
No, coming from a biological perspective this is a human male.
But so many things happen during pregnancy, are you denying that he actually has a brain makeup of a female?
I'm not talking psychology, I'm talking biology. I'll give you that biology can affect psychology, but psychology cannot affect biology, at the least not to the point where chromosomes switch, not in humans.
Look, say a transgender dude is driving down the road and gets into a car wreck...(gets dirty look)...and the police do a DNA test, what will the result be: male or female.
Well..male.
Exactly, he can't will a change in that result anymore than a drunk can will the result of a breathalyzer. Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
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There is a mental illness in which the person feels their limb is not part of them and they want it surgically removed. Doctors in the US refuse to do so. If that limb is a penis however....
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Has anyone done an empirical study or survey to find out iff regular Females will tolerate or fully accept Transgendered Males being in their bathrooms, showers, or other???
IMO Regular Males are more likely not to care, but Females, however, are a different animal.
'TIS A SIMPLE MAHA-RUSHIAN QUESTIONNE' BUT A BIGGIE.
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.
[Hurriyet Daily News] It was one of the rocks thrown by some people holding sticks and led by Abdurrahim Boynukalin, the head of Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth branch who became a parliamentarian in the June 7 elections.
[PJ Media] Now that a new academic year is upon us, pro-Israel advocates are gearing up for another round of boycott/divestment/sanctions (BDS) blather on many an American college campus. As the most recent Israeli elections taught us, if you want to know who you're up against, just follow the money. As The Algemeiner reports:
