[Daily Caller] A White House petition urging Congress to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the murder of Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich is halfway to its goal before a June 18 deadline.
"The MSM [mainstream media] is not covering this murder, instead pushing it to the side, so it is now up to us," the petition asserts. "The facts do not add up, law enforcement stopped covering the crime, and now it is time for us to fight for justice."
Under former President Barack Obama, the White House would respond to any "We the People" petition that received over 100,000 signatures within 30 days from the time of its posting. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Seth Rich petition needed 49,745 signatures to reach 100,000.
Launched in September 2011 as a public relations tool for the Obama administration, it is unclear if the Trump administration plans to continue with the "We the People" petition system. The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to the White House for further information, but did not hear back by press time.
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POTUS shouldn't need a petition to do the right thing. There were a lot of wheel stops, roadblocks, and impediments from doing this during the previous admin.--mainly in the WH and DOJ.
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its hard for me to understand the focus on this
- why murder a guy if you thought he had already sent files by email - isn't that too late by far and isn't killing him on the street taking way too big a chance
- since we know that DNC email was stolen via a phishing and hacking scheme (we know this because one of the email chains discusses this), why bother w Mr Rich who wasn't a hacker
the sad fact is that in DC there are many unsolved murders, even in good neighborhood and, yes, sometimes a robber hears a noise and doesn't steal what he wanted to steal because he is afraid of being seen
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- why murder a guy if you thought he had already sent files by email - isn't that too late by far and isn't killing him on the street taking way too big a chance
LG, retribution and a signal to others who might have similar notions. Not that much risk. There are many cutouts between those who make the decisions and those who actually do the deeds. In a list of unsolved murders in Washington, DC in 2016 around the time of the Seth Rich murder, he is a standout among those murders: Unsolved DC murders. This doesn't prove anything other than the Rich murder is "unusual." There are so many unanswered questions and pushback from the media and the left, that one has to ask "Why?"
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No, Podestas emails were phished. The DNC emails were leaked by Seth Rich. They are two separate events.
Everyone go sign the petition! The best way to put theories to rest is sunlight. A thorough investigation with an arrest and conviction.
Shot twice and not robbed, in a safe neighborhood, a political operative under a cloud...if this had happened in the Philippines or Bangladesh we'd all be chuckling about how it was obviously an assassination.
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The petition thing is another of President Obama's "I am the king" projects, and was never anything more than a propaganda tool. President Trump, who is not playing at such things, should simply turn it off. In America we make changes through our Congressional representatives.
its true that Podesta worked for the Clinton campaign, not the DNC, however, the timing of the leaked emails indicates they were acquired about the same time and we also know that there were phishing attacks on the DNC (IIRC, current thinking by security firms is that at least three people were hacked in the DNC)
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why murder a guy if you thought he had already sent files by email - isn't that too late by far and isn't killing him on the street taking way too big a chance
Remember during the election periods and after we had daily reports of Hillary's temper tantrums? Now add a, perhaps not too bright, subordinate.
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If she won, I guarantee that it would have been buried. But she lost, and a good part of her political power broken (hopefully beyond repair, but I ain't holding my breath) and people that normally wouldn't have seen it or have been quiet are making it bubble to the surface.
Kim Dotcom, who has been charged with various crimes in the US which seeks extradition from NZ, hasn't provided any actual evidence.
What's more, he seems to have discovered Seth Rich's involvement in May 2017, a year after the killing of Mr. Rich. He claims, in May 2017, to have discussed these matters with Mr. Rich in 2015 (not in 2016 when Rich was killed). This leads me to think Kim is blowing smoke.
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I don't know if it will do anything useful; investigators will tell you that if you look hard enough, you'll find what you're looking for, it may even actually be there.
But if it raises hackles inside the Beltway, I'm all for it.
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- Black and white photographs of Allied troops wading ashore in France on D-Day are transformed with colour
- Pictures show exhausted soldiers being helped by medics and Royal Marines advancing on Nazi positions
- Brazilian artist Marina Amaral researched the images and used Photoshop to give them a new lease of life
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As a young kid growing up in the 1940s and later working with some of these folks who went on shore on D-Day, I am still in awe of them and what they did.
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I have to post something about this man who I had the honor of meeting back in the early 60s.: Hulon B. Whittington. He fought his way from North Africa up through Sicily to the France.
I love karma - couldn't happen to a nicer battleax.
A former client of Gloria Allred has filed a lawsuit against the celebrity attorney for legal malpractice and fraud, claiming she negligently represented him during a case. Kyle Hunter, a local television weatherman, hired Allred to go after CBS for allegedly discriminating against him in favor of younger, attractive female meteorologists. His lawsuit filed on Tuesday contends Allred botched his legal case, and didn’t properly notify him that she was working with CBS to produce a legal drama inspired by her life -- an obvious conflict of interest, he claims.
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The legal action comes on the heels of recent reports that Allred is under investigation by the State Bar of California.
[Breitbart] The directors of the Office of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency testified on Wednesday that they have not been pressured by President Trump on the ongoing Russia investigation, undercutting recent reports that they were.
Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, and Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of NSA, largely declined to discuss details about their interactions with Trump when pressed on the matter during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
According to news reports published last month, Trump asked both Coats and Rogers to rebut stories that Trump was under investigation as part of the Russia probe.
Both Coats and Rogers reportedly felt uncomfortable with the requests from Trump.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he did not want to be left alone again with the president, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
Mr. Comey believed Mr. Sessions should protect the F.B.I. from White House influence, the officials said, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that private interactions between the F.B.I. director and the president were inappropriate. But Mr. Sessions could not guarantee that the president would not try to talk to Mr. Comey alone again, the officials said.
Mr. Comey did not reveal, however, what had so unnerved him about his Oval Office meeting with the president: Mr. Trump’s request that the F.B.I. director end the investigation into the former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, who had just been fired. By the time Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey last month, Mr. Comey had disclosed the meeting to a few of his closest advisers but nobody at the Justice Department, according to the officials, who did not want to be identified discussing Mr. Comey’s interactions with Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions.
Mr. Comey will be the center of attention on Thursday during testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he is expected to be quizzed intensely about his interactions with Mr. Trump and why he decided to keep secret the president’s request to end the Flynn investigation.
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I agree Besoeker, the NYTs is reporting this and they do have serious credibility problems. I'd also give Comey 4 Pinocchio on just about anything he would say.
If Comey is afraid to be alone with Trump, he should have been fired--not the right guy for the FBI.
It is difficult to predict what Comey might say tomorrow but he is in a bind. If he says Trump obstructed justice, Comey has a problem because if he didn't report it, it is a felony. Everyone thinks he will stop short of saying Trump obstructed justice. Maybe we will learn something on other related issues tomorrow; maybe not.
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Eric Bolling obliquely droped something last night on the 5 that I thought was interesting. He said that (paraphrasing) "perhaps Obama was the orchestrator of the Sky Harbor Airport meeting btwn Clinton and Lynch."
This is the first time that I have heard anyone in the media propose such a coordinated effort. If you stop and think about it, it does enable the removal of Lynch from the Clinton investigation equation and 'dead ends' the entire effort (with minor Clinton cuts and bruises) at the feet of Clinton loyalist Comey.
The cover then continued with the Hildebeest harmlessly blaming Comey for her election loss.
[DAWN] An unidentified man was killed outside a mosque in Chitral allegedly as a result of being hit by a police officer.
According to reports, the man had been asked for identification by a local police officer upon entering the mosque in question; however, the victim ignored the officer as he was getting late for prayers.
Upon his return from the mosque, an altercation took place between the victim and the officer over identification documents.
The officer then allegedly struck the man on his face, which caused the victim's nose to bleed. He was rushed to the hospital, but was declared dead on arrival.
Police sources claim that the victim did not belong to the area and had been buried in the local graveyard since no one claimed the dear departed’s body.
They claimed that they were investigating the matter, but a first information report had not been registered by the time this report was filed.
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[DAWN] A young Hindu girl was allegedly kidnapped from a village in Nagarparkar area of Tharparkar district in the early hours of Tuesday.
The parents and relatives of the girl while talking to local journalists alleged that the kidnappers took away 16-year-old Ravita Meghwar after giving sleeping pills to her 15 family members in Varayno village near Nagarparkar.
Some of the girl's family members, including her father and mother were admitted to a rural health centre in Islamkot in an unconscious state.
Haqu, the girl's mother and father Satram Das while talking to local journalists in the hospital alleged that their daughter was kidnapped by influential members from the Syed community and expressed the fear that Ravita might be forcibly married to Syed Nawaz Ali Shah, who according to them, used to tease her.
Local PPP leader Simtra Manjani met the Ravita's family members and assured them of her full support to recover the 'abducted' girl. Manjani while talking to journalists deplored that the teenage girl might be forced to convert.
Joint police teams from Tharparkar and Umerkot districts raided various villages to trace the girl, but to no avail.
PPP Senator Gianchand and MPA Dr. Khatu Mal Jeewan took strong notice of the incident and directed police officials to make efforts to immediately recover the girl.
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The Air Force has had it's sights set on a reusable launch vehicle for some time, letting study contracts over the years for winged fly-back boosters, RTLS boosters, etc. SpaceX has now stepped into the gap with such a launcher so I imagine the Space Command wing is salivating over the possibilities. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Air Force eventually do a block buy of F9's to be used exclusively for their needs; flown, recovered, refurbished and stored near both CCAFS and Vandenberg. My time in the Air Force taught me that they mean exactly what they say, so when they say "rapid response" they may very well be -reaching- for the capability to grab a flight-proven booster out of the barn on really short notice, mount and integrate whatever payload they want up there, fuel up and launch. Turn-around time measured in days (eventually in hours), not weeks. Remember that Elon has stated over and over again that his turn-around time goals are airline-style; fuel, launch, recover, refuel, relaunch, re-recover, do it again. Nowhere near that yet but it would not surprise me in the least if that is a shared goal with the Air Force.
- Thousands of meteors streak across the sky in early June each year
- Most appear during daylight hours and are hidden by the sun's light
- They begin to rise from the horizon around 45 minutes before the Sun
- The slow moving pre-dawn space rocks leave a long and beautiful tail
Are there any bad memories in your life that you wish you could simply erase? Yeah, I've got a few. I'd like a quart, please.
Researchers might have found a way to do exactly that thanks to the discovery of the enzyme in the brain that plays a pivotal role in storing long-term memories. They believe that this enzyme could be targeted in order to essentially wipe distressing memories out of the minds of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, like many things that sound too good to be true, this development is raising red flags left and right.
Scientists have long known that creating new memories and storing old ones involve the creation of proteins in the synapse, where two brain cells meet. For this process to be successful, genes must be expressed in the nucleus of the cell, and this is where a key enzyme can turn genes on or off as new memories are formed. It’s also believed that this enzyme, which is known as ACSS2, plays a role in the memory impairment that is seen in neurodegenerative disorders.
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Oxycontins and benzodiazepams also have similar effects on memory over time. Some anesthetics used in surgery also erase memories of surgery. Erasing memory is a 2-edged sword.
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Soon available for those served with Grand Jury and Congressional subpenas. The Morning After Pill I Don't Recall Pill will become popular among Washington residents.
Imagine it's July 20, 1969 and no one is paying much attention as Neil Armstrong sets foot on the Moon, because all eyes are on the first manned mission to reach Saturn. That may sound absurd, but while NASA was figuring out how to use rockets to reach the Moon, a super secret US government project was developing a gigantic reusable spaceship powered by atom bomb explosions that was designed to carry a crew of 20 to the outer Solar System by 1970 as a first step to the stars. New Atlas looks at the story behind the original Orion Project.
The most powerful rocket in NASA's inventory is the Space Launch System. When completed, it will weigh 2,875 ton fully fueled, will measure 322 ft (98 m) tall and be able to lift 130 tons into low Earth orbit (LEO). It will be the largest booster ever built and is the key to NASA's ambitions to send crews of up to seven astronauts to cislunar orbit and smaller crews to Mars.
Now picture a spacecraft 200 ft (60 m) tall, weighing around 4,000 ton, and capable of lofting 1,600 ton into LEO along with a crew of eight living in quarters more like that of a small submarine than a cramped capsule. Rather than exotic, lightweight aerospace alloys, the ship's hull is made of welded steel a quarter inch thick using standard submarine-building techniques. In addition, the whole spacecraft is completely reusable and its orbital mission is mere muscle flexing before much bigger things. Continues.
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.
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he did not want to be left alone again with the president, according to current and former law enforcement officials.![]("http://espacepourlavie.ca/sites/espacepourlavie.ca/files/styles/gal-photo-large/public/perseides_0.jpg")
