Glenn Kirschner – More docs found at Pence’s place: Pence/Biden doc issues are VERY different than Trump’s doc issues
MSNBC – Trump lawyers turn over more classified material, including digital copies (Statehood for the USVI !!! – also Puerto Rico and DC, of course.)
Robert Reich – The Dark Side of Sports Stadiums
Armageddon Update – Balloon Terror!!
Woman Finds Spicy Kitten Under Trash Can
Beau – Let’s talk about Biden’s State of the Union fiddle playing….
Glenn Kirschner – How federal law enforcement should respond to the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi
The Lincoln Project – Funding Fascism
Ring of Fire – Conservative Goes Completely Nuts During Insane CNN Interview
MSNBC – AOC And Raskin On Stakes Of Midterms: We Are ‘Facing An Environment Of Fascism’ [Watch while you can. Both are high on the target list.]
Rocky Mountain Mike – The FLaven (with CC) – a day late, but not a dollar short.
Beau – Let’s talk about the US wanting a new internet service….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s lawyers file brief w/Judge Cannon that includes declassification “sleight of hand”
Meidas Touch – BREAKING: Trump SPOTTED holding SECRETIVE MEETING on Golf Course [on 9/12] After Landing in DC
The Lincoln Project – Right Stuff
Ring of Fire – Trump Doesn’t Want To Pay For Special Master He Demanded
MSNBC – Chief Justice Confused By Questioning SCOTUS’s Legitimacy After Roe Decision
Beau – Let’s talk about security, Trump, and a talking point….
Glenn Kirschner – Appellate court exposes Bill Barr’s lies about secret DOJ memo used to protect Trump from charges
Meidas Touch – Michael Cohen EXPOSES the real reason Donald Trump STOLE top-secret documents
Lincoln Project – President Biden on the Inflation Reduction Act
WRAL-TV – Raleigh’s first gun buyback event draws long lines
HeyFletch – No Escape (The Trump Prison Song)
Beau – Let’s talk about Tucker, secrets, and methods….
Yesterday, I slept in about an hour – again. I’ve been having a glitch or two getting to sleep, so that when the alarm goes, I’m not ready to get up. I do realize this is a self-sustaining thing … but it has happened before and usually resolve within a week. I refuse to fret about it – I only mention it in case anyone has noticed I’m running a little late on comment replies. It’s not to worry.
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Just Security – Trump Associate’s Stated Plan to Publicly Release “Declassified” Documents
Quote – As this article was going to press, ABC News published a report that weeks before the Mar-a-Lago search, former President Donald Trump’s associate Kash Patel “vowed to retrieve classified documents from the National Archives and publish them on his website.” If that scheme involved Trump himself and the Mar-a-Lago documents, it could have significant legal implications for the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation. Any plan to release the documents could potentially trigger specific elements of the Espionage Act and other criminal statutes designed with the core purpose of preventing unlawful dissemination of classified and other sensitive government documents. As I discuss below, credible evidence of such a plan also would likely factor into the Justice Department’s decision on whether to bring criminal charges.
Click through for details. “Just Security” you might say is a specialty news website. I’m linking to their mission statement. (I also bookmarked then, since they don’t call attention to themselves – they just quietly analyze.
Letters from an American – August 20,2022
Quote – When former president Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he left the participants to continue without the U.S., which they did as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). He also left open the way for a free trade deal in the region dominated by China, called the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, or RCEP, which went into effect on January 1, 2022. This left the Biden administration with two politically poor choices: try to reestablish U.S. participation in the region through the CPTPP, which would have been hotly contested at home and thus unlikely to get through Congress, or let China dominate the region, with damaging long-term effects. So the administration found a third way.
Click through for background. This is kind of a compliation of who has visited Taiwan from the United States recently, and when, and under what circumstances (not what you probably think from the press coverage.) Also, other recent history, including Trump**’s destructive actions (in my quote).
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Glenn Kirschner – Lindsey loses in court; Rudy’s now a target in GA criminal probe; Trump says FBI took his passports?
Please note: after this video was recorded, the Department of Justice reportedly indicated that Trump’s passports were not seized. So Donald Trump may have . . . lied about that? Shocking, said absolutely no body. – Glenn Kirschner – 08/15/2022.
Meidas Touch – Military Veterans Facing Toxic Exposure REACT to President Biden Signing PACT Act
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in The Republican Party – August 16, 2022
Ring of Fire – Rest Of The World Is Freaking Out That Trump May Have Leaked Nuclear Secrets
Mrs Betty Bowers – “Religious Freedom is Neither”
Beau – Let’s talk about thr ultimate American test…. (Spoiler” There are a hundred questions avaiable, but the examiner chooses ten for any given applicant or group of applicants. Six is passing. I got 7 [and two more half right, which would not count, but would not need to.])
Glenn Kirschner – John Bolton’s dangerous disregard for the national security threat posed by Donald Trump
Meidas Touch – Beto O’Rourke STUNS in town hall TURNING Republicans into Supporters (one at a time, yes … but they may spread it.)
Crooks and Liars – 72-year-old Ukrainian takes out a Russian 014 military column
Ojeda Live – Is Donald Trump the Most Dangerous Opposition Our Nation Has Ever Faced?
Brent Terhune – Nuclear Documents
Beau – Let’s talk about Cracker Barrel and sausage….
Yesterday, I finally got to see Virgil. He had a new haircut and is looking good. I unfortunately had to leave early, but I didn’t feel terribly bad about that because this facility has a 7 and a half hour visiting day, and the longest anywhere else is six hours – the last one had only a 3 hour partial day, and I stayed long enough to exceed that. The reason for my leaving was a pain which I have always called a stitch in the side, but in looking ut up, I see that a side stitch is abdominal, and mine is not that – it is definitely above my waist. It is connected to the diaphragm somehow, because a deep breath temporarily worsens it. But it’s not exercise related – unless moving a couple of small tables is considered exercise – I certainly wouldn’t consider it so. It requires noticeable effort for me because of my miscellaneous mobility issues, but exercise? No. Whatever it is, it responded to ice and compression. A couple of other aches were also acting up, though not as badly, so after sending the weekly email I took a break.
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The Conversation – Faced with a rise of extremism within its ranks, the US military has clamped down on racist speech, including retweets and likes
Quote – A blue ribbon committee called the Countering Extremist Activity Working Group was quickly commissioned in April 2021 to evaluate the extent of the problem. The group found about 100 substantiated cases of extremism in the U.S. armed forces in 2021. The latest instance occurred in July 2022, when Francis Harker, a National Guard member with white supremacist connections, was sentenced to four years in prison for planning an anti-government attack on police. Harker, who carried a picture saying “there is no God but Hitler,” was planning to attack police officers in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with Molotov cocktails and semi-automatic rifles.
Click through for story. It has always been necessary for anyone serving in the military -an anyone employed by the Government in any way – to limit heir use of free speech. Back in the day, however, the concern was that someone might mistake personal views for government policy. Now the concern is that worng use of free speech could get spmeone killed – or the government overthrown. Of course the military must clamp down. Hate speech IMO is not part of appropriate free speech.
Demoocratic Underground (Our 5 Eyes Program Has Been Compromised.)
Quote – Some of the documents retrieved [from Mar-a-Lago] were revealed to be SIGINT intelligence which is what 5 eyes falls under. Donald Trump is a threat to our national security and needs to be indicted sooner rather than later. The International press is shocked at this scandal unlike some of the press in the US.
CLick through for the short article, and/”or here for the background on FYEV
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