[ABC] A series of newly released State Department emails obtained by ABC News offers fresh insight on direct contact between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton's inner circle while she was Secretary of State. Chinese President Hu Jintao at right in foto. Political upstart and fawning Clinton family prodigy at left.
The emails -‐ released as part of a public records lawsuit by conservative group Citizens United and shared exclusively with ABC -- reveal what the group claims is new evidence Foundation allies received special treatment. [Read the emails here.]
In one December 2010 email chain with Clinton's closest aide Huma Abedin, then-top Clinton Foundation official Doug Band offers names for a State Department lunch with Chinese President Hu Jintao scheduled for January 2011.
Bill Clinton Defends Clinton Foundation: 'We're Trying to Do Good Things'
Bill Clinton Sought State Department OK For Paid Speeches Related to North Korea, Congo, New E-mails Show On the list were three executives from organizations that have donated millions to the Clinton Foundation: Bob McCann, the then-president of wealth management at UBS; Dr. Judith Rodin, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation; and Hikmet Ersek, the CEO of Western Union.
According to the Foundation website, the UBS Wealth Management
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Elderly fellow in the center of luncheon photo:
Kissinger Associates, Inc., founded in 1982, is a New York City-based international consulting firm, founded and run by Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft. The firm assists its clients in identifying strategic partners and investment opportunities, advising clients on government relations throughout the world. Known for its secrecy, its specific activities are not public knowledge.
The firm was founded in 1982 by Henry Kissinger. In 1999 Mack McLarty joined Kissinger to open Kissinger McLarty Associates, the firm's office on Eighteenth and Pennsylvania streets in Washington, D.C. McLarty was White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton. Kissinger McLarty is a corporate member of the Council of the Americas, the New York-based business organization established by David Rockefeller in 1965. As of January 2008, the two firms have separated and McLarty Associates, headed by Mack McLarty, is an independent firm based in Washington. Kissinger Associates is located in River House on Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, in a building also occupied by Peter Peterson's Blackstone Group. It was established in July, 1982 after loans had been secured from Goldman Sachs and a consortium of three other banks. These loans were repaid in two years; by 1987 annual revenues had reached $5 million.
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Brent Scowcroft and Henry Kissenger in business together providing consulting services to the Beltway? No wonder Scowcroft endorsed Hillary; he wants the "cash cow" to continue giving. Trump says he's going to shake up the cozy Beltway cliques (not sure he can actually pull that off). that buy and sell influence.
Alexander has led numerous protests in the Dallas area, picketing outside the home of a University of Oklahoma fraternity member who helped lead a racist chant, demanding justice after a Grapevine officer shot an unarmed man and protesting killings of black men by police.
He was a principal organizer of the protest march in downtown Dallas on July 7 that was just ending when a lone gunman ambushed police officers, killing five.
Much of his activism has been through the Next Generation Action Network, a group he founded which seeks criminal justice reform. But Alexander, 27, has had several run-ins with the law. He has in the past been accused of causing a 2-year-old child severe bodily injury, forging a check, leading police on a high-speed chase and stealing a car.
"It's not like I'm the first person who has been a leader who has had a troubled past," Alexander told The News last year. "It's not where you come from. It's where you're going."
On Friday, District Judge Gracie Lewis decided that Alexander should spend the next two years in prison for not adhering to the terms of probation she set for him in 2011, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of serious bodily injury to a child. In his signed confession for the case, he admitted to shaking a 2-year-old boy in July 2009 and striking him with an object, court records say.
Lewis gave him deferred adjudication probation, and stipulated in his probation terms that he commit no offense, not carry a firearm and report regularly to a supervisory officer, among other things. He was also ordered to take anger management and parenting classes.
Initially, his probation should have ended last month.
But he violated his probation terms multiple times, court records show. In December, he was arrested on allegations that he didn't pay his court-ordered fines, complete his anger management classes or finish community service.
Which leads to a reasonable question: what took the justice system so long?
On Aug. 8, police escorted him out of a protest at City Hall and arrested him on traffic warrants out of Dallas Police Department.
Alexander's attorney, Kim Cole, said Friday that she is disappointed that the judge chose to send him to prison. Cole has accused law enforcement officials of deliberately going after Alexander.
The LEOs generally do go after people who repeatedly violate probation. In fact, you could say that it's their job...
"However, this movement is more than just Dominique Alexander and it will continue and it will be stronger," Cole said.
Others who have been active in the local movement for policing reform said Alexander wasn't the sole leader of their movement.
"There are a lot of good young activists in Next Generation," said John Fullinwider, a co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality.
"So he deserves credit for mobilizing them. But there is no one leader of the movement against police brutality in Dallas. The movement does not rise or fall with the personal ups and downs of any activist."
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"It's not like I'm the first person who has been a leader who has had a troubled past," Alexander told The News last year. "It's not where you come from. It's where you're going."
[USUNCUT] Mylan Pharmaceuticals — the company behind the price gouging of the EpiPen — is experiencing serious karmic retribution in the stock market.
In just five days, Mylan’s stock has tanked by 12.4 percent as outrage over its astronomical price increases of the life-saving EpiPen has reached a boiling point. Mylan’s stock price went from a high of $49.20 per share on August 19 to $43.11 on August 24, according to MarketWatch
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closed 8-25 at ~43
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Government Bailout in 5, 4, 3, 2......
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Mylan has a patent on the delivery system, and herein lies the rub (or Market Value enhancement, depending upon your viewpoint.).
Think MS Operating Systems, McDonald's "Secret Sauce," paint formulations, etc.
The price of EpiPen will take a temporary hit until their Marketing Department *spit* can come up with something to oil the waters.
A generic is on the way, and Epi is required to maximize their return (Shareholder Value) until (and after) that day.
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The FDA just rejected the Teva Pharmaceuticals generic equivalent. There's been a recall on another generic device on the market (correctly so -- there was a non-zero chance that when actuated the device would deliver no drug). I don't think Mylan is shaking in their shoes, though Heather Bresch may want to go up a half-size on her stilettos for a while...
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[HAWAIINEWSNOW] Two stranded mariners are safe Friday after crews spotted their “SOS” in the sand on uninhabited island in Micronesia. Ooh! Ooh! We seen dis movie!
A U.S. Navy aircraft crew spotted the couple on the beach, and relayed their location to the Coast Guard in Guam. The two, who had limited supplies and no emergency equipment, were picked up and transferred to a patrol boat. Dis guy, he signs on as crew on dis beautiful rich babe's yacht. She's real snooty, and dey don't get along at all. She tells him he's fired as of da time dey get to deir next stop...
The Coast Guard got a report about the couple's 18-foot vessel going missing on Aug. 19. So den, see, dere's dis big storm, an' da boat goes down, wid all hands but dem, see, da guy rescues her, an' he calls her a dummy an' stuff when she's gonna let go an' drown. An' once da music got real loud an' she let go an' he swims out to get her an' grabs her by da shirt an' swims back to da board dey're holdin' on to wid her shirt collar in his teeth, an' most of her shirt rips off an' you can see her underwear an' stuff, an' den he fights off a shark, an' da board dey're holdin' on to washes up on da beach in da morning...
The two departed Weno Island on Aug. 17, and were expected to arrive at their destination to Tamatam Island the next day. He builds dem a hut outta palm leafs an' stuff, an' he makes a fish trap wid her brassiere an' she's half nekkid, an' his shirt got ripped off in da fight wid da shark an' you an see his muscles an' stuff, an' dey get attacked by a crocodile an' he kills it wid his bare hands an' dey roast it an' eat it...
Over seven days, the Coast Guard and other agencies searched nearly 17,000 square miles for the two. An' da babe falls in love wid him, an' dey get it on on da beach, to dis really gooey music wid da waves washin' over dem...
On Wednesday, a ship noticed flashing lights emitting from the uninhabited Chuuk State island where the two were later found. The U.S. Navy was alerted and patrolled the island when they spotted the survivors -- and their message -- on the beach. So den dey head off to find a preacher, an' da guy turns out to really be some rich guy's only kid an' he's got his own yacht at da island, an' it's twice as big as hers, an' dey sail off into da sunset on deir honeymoon. De End. More gooey music. About a half hour of credits on da screen.
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18-foot vessel is kinda small for the open ocean.
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The imagery of yer words, Fred, is seared. Seared. I tell yeh, on me memory!!!
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Wait, wasn't this the episode where some astronauts were going to pass over, so the castaways decided to make an SOS out of burning logs that could be seen from space? But due to Gilligan's clumsiness, the logs instead spelled out SOL. One of the astronauts was named Sol, so he thought it was a greeting to him.
When we saw that episode my mama laughed, because she knew what SOL meant.
BINDURA, Zimbabwe ‐ Dozens of angry young men jumped off a truck in front of Agrippah Mutambara's gate, shouting obscenities and threatening to seize his 530-acre farm in the name of Zimbabwe's president. They tried to scale the fence, scattering only when he raised and cocked his gun.
Zimbabwe made international headlines when it started seizing white-owned farms in 2000. But Mr. Mutambara is not a white farmer. Far from it, he is a hero of this country's war of liberation who served as Zimbabwe's ambassador to three nations over two decades.
But when he defected from President Robert Mugabe's party to join the opposition a few months ago, he immediately put his farm at risk.
"When it was happening to the whites, we thought we were redressing colonial wrongs," said Mr. Mutambara, 64, who got his farm after it had been seized from a white farmer. "But now we realize it's also coming back to us. It's also haunting us."
Zimbabwe is suffering one of its worst economic crises in years. Banks have run out of cash. The government is struggling to pay its workers. Public protests, including one in July that shut down the capital and a united show of force by the nation's biggest opposition figures on Friday, have rattled Mr. Mugabe's government.
"No one is safe," said Temba Mliswa, 44, who was the chairman of the party's chapter in Mashonaland West Province before his expulsion from the party in 2014.
Mr. Mliswa got a 2,000-acre farm belonging to a white Zimbabwean in 2005. When he took possession, Mr. Mliswa said, police officers beat the white farmer and his workers.
But last year, Mr. Mliswa said, hundreds of youths sent by the party invaded the farm again, destroying property and beating his workers. They eventually left, but one of Mr. Mugabe's ministers recently held a rally in which he threatened to take Mr. Mliswa's farm unless he stopped criticizing the president's party.
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crap - meant for Pg 3
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The whole bunch of these clowns are definitely crap, Frank.
"When it was happening to the whites, we thought we were redressing colonial wrongs," said Mr. Mutambara, 64, who got his farm after it had been seized from a white farmer. "But now we realize it's also coming back to us. It's also haunting us."
What goes around comes around, you racist idiot.
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"When it was happening to the whites, we thought we were redressing colonial wrongs"
No, you were simply a useful idiot queuing up for the 'free stuff.' New useful idiots have now arrived. Onder die bus vir u.
An Indian cargo ship loaded with vehicles and food supplies destined for Yemen sank on Saturday off the coast of Oman but without loss of life, media reports said. Omani fishermen and police rescued all 11 crew on board, Oman’s ONA state news agency reported.
The vessel’s cargo was loaded in the UAE emirate of Sharjah, but the ship sank in the Arabian Sea 15 nautical miles off AS-Suwayh because of a “technical fault”, it said.
The Times of Oman said the ship was carrying 69 vehicles, food, tires and engine oils and had been bound for the port of Mukalla in southeast Yemen.
UAE daily Gulf News said the ship sank because of overloading.
Or maybe it was the Saudi Special Boat Service...
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Or maybe it was the Saudi Special Boat Service...
Considering Yemen is also an arms-conduit to Sudan and points North, it could have been the 'SBS' of many countries.
North Korea on Saturday threatened to aim fire at the lighting equipment used by "provocative" American and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.
The North's Korean People's Army accused U.S. and South Korean soldiers of "deliberate provocations" by aiming their lights at North Korean guard posts at Panmunjom since Friday evening.
The KPA said in a statement that the soldiers' actions have seriously threatened the safety of North Korean troops and disrupted their normal monitoring activities. It said the activities have further raised the anger of North Korean soldiers at a time when the Korean Peninsula has reached the "brink of war" due to last Monday's start of annual joint military drills between the U.S. and South Korea that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.
"Floodlight directed at the KPA side at random is taken as an intolerable means of provocation and it will be the target of merciless pinpoint shots," the KPA's chief security officers at Panmunjom said in the statement, carried by the North's state media.
"The true aim sought by the provocateurs through their recent act is to seriously get on the nerves of the KPA soldiers, lead them to take due countermeasures and label them as provocation," it said.
South Korea's Defense Ministry didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The statement by North Korea's military came hours after the United Nations Security Council issued a statement strongly condemning four North Korean ballistic missile launches in July and August.
[Guardian] Heather Bresch, the CEO at the center of EpiPen's 471% price hike, sold 100,200 of her shares earlier this month and earned more than $5m from the sale.
The transaction took place on 9 August, the same day Mylan ‐ the drugmaker that manufactures EpiPen released its most recent earnings report. Mylan spokeswoman Nina Devlin told the Guardian that the sale was "part of a 10b5 plan".
Typically, executives and directors of public companies who want to sell their stock establish a written 10b5 plan to do so. Most of 10b5 plans include a waiting period spanning days or weeks to avoid any suspicion of trading based on material non-public information. Simply put, 10b5 plans are used to avoid being suspected of insider trading.
[DAWN] TIMERGARA: Two persons were killed when rivals clashed at Darra Dobira area of Khall here on Friday, residents and police said.
They said families of Mabood and Nawab had a dispute over a pathway. Heads of both the families exchanged harsh words after which Nawab reportedly opened fire on his rival Mabood, killing him on the spot. In retaliation, son of the dear departed also rubbed out Nawab.
Local police rushed to the scene and shifted the bodies to DHQ hospital Timergara. The Khall police started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started investigation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart... a shopkeeper identified as Bashir Ahmad, 32, was electrocuted when he was repairing his shop’s power regulator at Ziarat Talash Bazaar.
Eyewitnesses said the shopkeeper was trying to remove a fault in the regulator during power outage but was electrocuted when power supply was restored suddenly.
He was taken to DHQ hospital wherein he was proclaimed dead.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Saturday returned a petition moved amid much fanfare by the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... demanding an inquiry into the Panama Papers leaks with the registrar office terming it ’frivolous’.
"This petition prima facie appears to be a frivolous petition within the contemplation of Order XVII Rule 5 of the Supreme Court Rules 1980," said an order issued by the registrar office.
The registrar under the Supreme Court Rules 1980, Order XVII, is empowered to refuse to receive a petition on the grounds that it has not been filed in accordance with the rules or is frivolous or contains scandalous matter.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Five more Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... offices were razed while a total of 196 ’sector and unit’ offices in the city were sealed in a renewed crackdown on the party after the arrest of three suspected hitmen belonging to the "MQM London secretariat" and as many women activists on Friday for allegedly attacking media houses. Nawaz emulates Erdogan.
A source told Dawn that the record of MQM’s Khurshid Begum Memorial Secretariat in Azizabad -- which was sealed with party’s Nine-Zero headquarters on Monday night -- was also being looked into to find out whether the complex was constructed legally or it was also an encroachment on an amenity plot.
The MQM raised its voice against the demolition of its offices, but it ruled out any protest against the government action, explaining that it would follow a legal path. Also, the party announced on Friday that it would challenge the ’snatching of its mandate’ in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s West district elections.
Equipped with heavy machinery, local administration backed by a heavy contingent of law enforcement agencies demolished the MQM offices mainly in Karachi’s East district. Varooom! Varoom! Clank, clank clank.
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And I continue to exercise my 'First Amendment Rights' by refusing to attend or watch NFL games, or purchase anything endorsed by the NFL. There, I said it. Kaepernick's White House golfapalooza and dinner invitation - in the overnight mail? Just asking.
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well, according to Sundance, there's a little bit more going on with this clown
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People who do not study real history can never appreciate their circumstances today. We're a nation of men, not angels. However, doing better than 99 percent of those who came before us, yet decry the imperfections of our human nature. If you adjudge us as failed, we can so adjudge you.
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...On the one hand, this lad - who makes something like $20M USD/year, no small amount of it from the wallets of the Oppressed - has an absolute right to his opinions and his actions. Unpleasant and offensive as we may find them, those are the facts.
On the other hand, one cannot help but consider the possibility that he's doing this in one of the two or three NFL markets where such an action and its motivations might actually gain some traction and shield him - at least partially - from the consequences of his inability to meet the goals required of him by his employers. (I know he was injured, and some of his problems may be out of his control)
Somehow, however, I suspect that the 49ers - owned by the deBartolo family, not known for their social sympathy or willingness to financially sacrifice - will find a way to gently separate him from the team.
Mike
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So any time the 48ers visit any other team in the NFL all the fans of all the teams they visit should stay home and nobody watch when 49er games are are on TV. I think that way the DeBartolos would get the message real quick.
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48ers? Well, I guess they just slipped a little.
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The fans should have walked out of the game after the nations a than finished. Send a message to the networks and 49er management.
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"Every day I go to work, people in uniform chase me and try to hit me!"
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Colon needs a history lesson - 360,000 white Union soldiers gave their LIVES to end slavery. Smug fools like Kaepernick aren't really protesting for the "oppressed" though are they?
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.
Bill introduces Melinda. 
BINDURA, Zimbabwe ‐ Dozens of angry young men jumped off a truck in front of Agrippah Mutambara's gate, shouting obscenities and threatening to seize his 530-acre farm in the name of Zimbabwe's president. They tried to scale the fence, scattering only when he raised and cocked his gun.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Five more 
