REUTERS
"Exclusive: U.S. readies new $1 billion Ukraine weapons package"
By Idrees Ali and Mike Stone
August 5, 2022
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The Biden administration's next security assistance package for Ukraine is expected to be $1 billion, one of the largest so far, and include munitions for long-range weapons and armored medical transport vehicles, three sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday.
The package is expected to be announced as early as Monday and would add to about $8.8 billion in aid the United States has given Ukraine since Russia's invasion on Feb. 24.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that President Joe Biden had not yet signed the next weapons package.
They cautioned that weapons packages can change in value and content before they are signed.
However, if signed in its current form, it would be valued at $1 billion and include munitions for HIMARS, NASAMS surface-to-air missile system ammunition and as many as 50 M113 armored medical transports.
The new package follows a recent Pentagon decision to allow Ukrainians to receive medical treatment at a U.S. military hospital in Germany near Ramstein air base.
Last Monday, the Pentagon announced a separate security assistance package for Ukraine valued at up to $550 million, including additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS).
The White House declined to comment on the package.
The new package would be funded under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), in which the president can authorize the transfer of articles and services from U.S. stocks without congressional approval in response to an emergency.
HIMARS play a key role in the artillery duel between Ukraine and Russia has been described as "grinding" with very little movement of the front line in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
Since Russian troops poured over the border in February in what Putin termed a "special military operation", the conflict has settled into a war of attrition fought primarily in the east and south of Ukraine.
Moscow is trying to gain control of the largely Russian-speaking Donbas, comprised of Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, where pro-Moscow separatists seized territory after the Kremlin annexed Crimea to the south in 2014.
So far the United States has sent 16 HIMARS to Ukraine and on July 1 pledged to send two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS).
It was unclear if the NASAMS launchers, made jointly by Raytheon Technologies Corp and Norway's Kongsberg, are already in Ukraine if the munitions were for launchers donated by another country, or if they were being prepositioned.
The United States previously committed 200 M113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine.
The armored personnel carriers outfitted with medical equipment could make the fight with Russia more survivable for Ukrainian troops who could then be sent to Germany for further medical treatment.
The Kyiv government said in June that 100 to 200 Ukrainian troops were being killed per day.
Reporting by Idrees Ali and Mike Stone in Washington; Editing by Mary Milliken and Josie Kao
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POLITICS
Re: POLITICS
THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
"FBI director will face grilling about Hunter Biden whistleblower claims"
Jerry Dunleavy
4 AUGUST 2022
FBI Director Christopher Wray will face a Thursday grilling from Senate Republicans about whistleblower claims that the bureau improperly labeled evidence about Hunter Biden as disinformation in 2020.
Wray, who has led the FBI since 2017, is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he will face criticism about the handling of the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, likely along with a host of questions about how the FBI is handling the Capitol riot investigation, rising crime, national security threats, and more.
“I expect him to answer on how he’s going to stop political bias at the FBI,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted this week, adding in a video that “I would expect Wray to come up with some concrete program where he’s going to be able to tell the 22 members of this committee what he’s going to do to take political bias out of the investigations that the FBI is doing.”
The senator sent a letter to Wray last week asking for more details about an Aug. 2020 briefing on alleged Russian influence efforts that he says were pushed on him and then leaked to the press to hurt his investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden.
Whistleblowers revealed to him recently that FBI officials were undercutting or burying facts about President Joe Biden’s son around the same time.
FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment in Aug. 2020 that “was used by a FBI Headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,” according to whistleblower disclosures.
“The concurrent opening of Auten’s assessment, the efforts by the FBI HQ team, and the efforts by the FBI to provide an unnecessary briefing to me and Senator Johnson that provided our Democratic colleagues fodder to falsely accuse us of advancing foreign disinformation draws serious concern,” Grassley told Wray last month.
One of the whistleblowers claimed the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, Timothy Thibault, had “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting” in October 2020.
Grassley gave a Monday speech on the Senate floor where he called the whistleblowers “patriots” and said Wray “has personally told me that they won’t be subject to retaliation.”
He argued that Wray has: “an obligation to the country to immediately investigate these allegations and clean house.”
Senators also likely plan to question Wray about the FBI's botched handling of its investigation former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, and the Justice Department's decision not to charge FBI agents with lying to watchdog investigators.
Wray will also almost certainly also be asked about the FBI’s role in investigating the events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021.
The Justice Department shed light on the reasons behind the doubling of domestic terrorism cases since early 2020, with a top DOJ official saying prosecutions related to the Capitol riot make up “at least a significant portion of that jump.”
DOJ said this week that more than 850 defendants have been arrested in relation to the Capitol riot, including over 260 charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
The bureau chief will also likely be asked about the rise of China.
Wray gave an early July speech alongside the head of the United Kingdom’s MI5 where he warned of the challenge.
“We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security — and by ‘our’ I mean both of our nations, along with our allies in Europe and elsewhere,” Wray said.
Last month, Wray warned about the governments of China, Russia, and Iran potentially trying to meddle in or influence the midterm elections.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are purchasing and using Chinese-made drones from a “Chinese Military Industrial Complex” company — DJI — with close links to the Chinese government, according to testimony from Biden administration officials last month.
Wray may be asked if the bureau will continue to use those drones.
Also, since the May leak of a draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, there have been heightened threats against Supreme Court justices and anti-abortion advocates, including attacks and vandalism targeting activist groups, pregnancy centers, and churches across the country.
Republicans have called on DOJ to do more, and Wray is sure to be asked about it.
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"FBI director will face grilling about Hunter Biden whistleblower claims"
Jerry Dunleavy
4 AUGUST 2022
FBI Director Christopher Wray will face a Thursday grilling from Senate Republicans about whistleblower claims that the bureau improperly labeled evidence about Hunter Biden as disinformation in 2020.
Wray, who has led the FBI since 2017, is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he will face criticism about the handling of the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, likely along with a host of questions about how the FBI is handling the Capitol riot investigation, rising crime, national security threats, and more.
“I expect him to answer on how he’s going to stop political bias at the FBI,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted this week, adding in a video that “I would expect Wray to come up with some concrete program where he’s going to be able to tell the 22 members of this committee what he’s going to do to take political bias out of the investigations that the FBI is doing.”
The senator sent a letter to Wray last week asking for more details about an Aug. 2020 briefing on alleged Russian influence efforts that he says were pushed on him and then leaked to the press to hurt his investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden.
Whistleblowers revealed to him recently that FBI officials were undercutting or burying facts about President Joe Biden’s son around the same time.
FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment in Aug. 2020 that “was used by a FBI Headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,” according to whistleblower disclosures.
“The concurrent opening of Auten’s assessment, the efforts by the FBI HQ team, and the efforts by the FBI to provide an unnecessary briefing to me and Senator Johnson that provided our Democratic colleagues fodder to falsely accuse us of advancing foreign disinformation draws serious concern,” Grassley told Wray last month.
One of the whistleblowers claimed the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, Timothy Thibault, had “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting” in October 2020.
Grassley gave a Monday speech on the Senate floor where he called the whistleblowers “patriots” and said Wray “has personally told me that they won’t be subject to retaliation.”
He argued that Wray has: “an obligation to the country to immediately investigate these allegations and clean house.”
Senators also likely plan to question Wray about the FBI's botched handling of its investigation former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, and the Justice Department's decision not to charge FBI agents with lying to watchdog investigators.
Wray will also almost certainly also be asked about the FBI’s role in investigating the events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021.
The Justice Department shed light on the reasons behind the doubling of domestic terrorism cases since early 2020, with a top DOJ official saying prosecutions related to the Capitol riot make up “at least a significant portion of that jump.”
DOJ said this week that more than 850 defendants have been arrested in relation to the Capitol riot, including over 260 charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
The bureau chief will also likely be asked about the rise of China.
Wray gave an early July speech alongside the head of the United Kingdom’s MI5 where he warned of the challenge.
“We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security — and by ‘our’ I mean both of our nations, along with our allies in Europe and elsewhere,” Wray said.
Last month, Wray warned about the governments of China, Russia, and Iran potentially trying to meddle in or influence the midterm elections.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are purchasing and using Chinese-made drones from a “Chinese Military Industrial Complex” company — DJI — with close links to the Chinese government, according to testimony from Biden administration officials last month.
Wray may be asked if the bureau will continue to use those drones.
Also, since the May leak of a draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, there have been heightened threats against Supreme Court justices and anti-abortion advocates, including attacks and vandalism targeting activist groups, pregnancy centers, and churches across the country.
Republicans have called on DOJ to do more, and Wray is sure to be asked about it.
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THE GUARDIAN
"Time is running out. The Department of Justice must indict and convict Trump"
Opinion by Laurence H Tribe and Dennis Aftergut
4 AUGUST 2022
On Tuesday CNN reported that key January 6 texts have been erased by officials of Donald Trump’s defense department in addition to homeland security and the Secret Service.
Not even a clueless Hamlet could avoid smelling “something rotten in the state of Denmark”.
With the growing list of deletions, there is a whole new criminal conspiracy to investigate: one to destroy evidence of the grave federal crimes already under investigation.
Nothing so focuses the prosecutorial mind or underscores the need to accelerate a criminal investigation as evidence that the investigation’s target may have plotted to erase the proof of his wrongdoing that is needed to hold him accountable.
The attorney general, Merrick Garland, knows that the fish always rots from the head.
On 26 July, the Washington Post broke news that the justice department’s investigation is focused on Donald Trump himself.
Time is of the essence in bringing his case to indictment.
Indeed, a moving target who gives every indication that he plans to strike again must trigger a different cost-benefit calculus in the inevitable debates both within and outside the justice department about when enough proof has been gathered to indict responsibly – and when it would be a dereliction of duty to delay further.
The former president’s insistence that he has nothing to be remorseful about (other than not marching to the Capitol) makes that debate seem academic.
And the steps being taken at his behest even now in battleground states to replace 2020’s failure with 2024’s success redouble the urgency.
Shakespeare’s Brutus had it right when he said, in Julius Caesar: “We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
In these circumstances, prudence counsels running the clock backwards to set clear benchmarks for moving forward.
Any calculation of how to proceed must start with two pessimistic premises.
First, that Trump will run in 2024 and could win.
Second, that if any of the likely Republican nominees wins, the next administration will be one that is eager to scrap any prosecution of the last.
Hence, the goal must be to secure a conviction before November 2024, and in any event, no later than 20 January 2025, when the next presidential term begins.
It is already too late for all appeals from any such conviction to be exhausted by that date, but the key to holding the chief conspirator accountable is a jury verdict of guilt.
Consider this: the trial of insurrectionist Guy Reffitt occurred 13 months after his original indictment.
That trial, and its delaying pre-trial motions, were incalculably less complex than Trump’s would be.
One can easily anticipate motions that, if denied, might go far up the appellate chain.
It is not hard to imagine a majority of supreme court justices in no great hurry to resolve motions upon which the start of trial could depend.
One can easily conceive a 20-month or longer period with the former president indicted but not yet tried.
If Trump is not formally charged until January 2023, that would imply a multi-month trial starting in September or October.
Should he run for president and win in November, we would have a president-elect in the middle of a criminal trial.
Part of why a lengthy post-indictment/pre-verdict period is foreseeable is that federal district courts are bound to protect an accused’s rights to full airing of pre-trial claims and the time needed to file and argue them.
Trump will have many pre-trial claims, setting out his serial and inexhaustible list of grievances, the imagined violation of his rights, his purported immunity from prosecution as a former president and the overriding unfairness of it all.
Some district court judges more than others will balance protections for the accused with accountability’s pragmatic need for speed.
Importantly, even the four Trump-appointed district court judges in DC have often shown little sympathy for those charged with perpetrating the events of January 6 or resisting their investigation.
On 1 August, Judge Dabney Friedrich sentenced Reffitt to more than seven years in prison, the longest sentence to date.
Judge Tim Kelly refused to dismiss indictments against Proud Boy leaders who were part of the January 6 siege.
Judge Carl Nichols brooked no nonsense in Steve Bannon’s July trial, deliberately preventing it from becoming the “political circus” Bannon sought to make it.
On the other hand, among eight judges who have considered defendants’ motions to dismiss federal charges of obstructing an official government proceeding – Congress’s January 6 election certification session – Nichols was the lone outlier who dismissed the count.
That is one of the main charges that observers believe federal prosecutors could bring against Trump.
The point is that if Trump were to be indicted, the Department of Justice cannot count on a favorable judge putting it on a jet stream to an actual trial.
So what does that mean for precisely when Trump must be formally indicted?
Thankfully, it doesn’t imply the impossible.
The Department of Justice could pull an experienced prosecutor or two from every US attorney’s office and put them together on the case.
With all stops pulled, prosecutors still have time to do what is needed before year end.
The tasks include talking to key witnesses that the January 6 House committee interviewed and deposed, which is well under way.
Cassidy Hutchinson, principal aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadow, and Vice-President Mike Pence’s top aides, Marc Short and Greg Jacobs, are now working with the Department of Justice or appearing before its grand jury.
Cooperation is already reported to have begun among the lawyer-enablers of Trump’s coup plotting.
With the investigation’s accelerating aim at Trump, every potential target’s defense counsel has surely discussed with the target the advantages of an early offer to plead guilty and cooperate.
Early birds get better worms.
On 2 August, the federal grand jury investigating the lead-up to the January 6 insurrection subpoenaed the former White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
Department of Justice prosecutors are reported to be preparing to go to court to secure his testimony about his conversations with Trump if Cipollone again declines to disclose them on grounds of executive privilege.
The task ahead is massive, but if attacked with supreme urgency, it can get done.
The building blocks for a trial of Donald Trump must be put into place with alacrity.
In no case more than this one, the perfect cannot be the enemy of the good.
The clock is ticking.
Laurence H Tribe is the Carl M Loeb University professor and professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School
Dennis Aftergut is a former federal prosecutor, currently of counsel to Lawyers Defending American Democracy
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"Time is running out. The Department of Justice must indict and convict Trump"
Opinion by Laurence H Tribe and Dennis Aftergut
4 AUGUST 2022
On Tuesday CNN reported that key January 6 texts have been erased by officials of Donald Trump’s defense department in addition to homeland security and the Secret Service.
Not even a clueless Hamlet could avoid smelling “something rotten in the state of Denmark”.
With the growing list of deletions, there is a whole new criminal conspiracy to investigate: one to destroy evidence of the grave federal crimes already under investigation.
Nothing so focuses the prosecutorial mind or underscores the need to accelerate a criminal investigation as evidence that the investigation’s target may have plotted to erase the proof of his wrongdoing that is needed to hold him accountable.
The attorney general, Merrick Garland, knows that the fish always rots from the head.
On 26 July, the Washington Post broke news that the justice department’s investigation is focused on Donald Trump himself.
Time is of the essence in bringing his case to indictment.
Indeed, a moving target who gives every indication that he plans to strike again must trigger a different cost-benefit calculus in the inevitable debates both within and outside the justice department about when enough proof has been gathered to indict responsibly – and when it would be a dereliction of duty to delay further.
The former president’s insistence that he has nothing to be remorseful about (other than not marching to the Capitol) makes that debate seem academic.
And the steps being taken at his behest even now in battleground states to replace 2020’s failure with 2024’s success redouble the urgency.
Shakespeare’s Brutus had it right when he said, in Julius Caesar: “We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
In these circumstances, prudence counsels running the clock backwards to set clear benchmarks for moving forward.
Any calculation of how to proceed must start with two pessimistic premises.
First, that Trump will run in 2024 and could win.
Second, that if any of the likely Republican nominees wins, the next administration will be one that is eager to scrap any prosecution of the last.
Hence, the goal must be to secure a conviction before November 2024, and in any event, no later than 20 January 2025, when the next presidential term begins.
It is already too late for all appeals from any such conviction to be exhausted by that date, but the key to holding the chief conspirator accountable is a jury verdict of guilt.
Consider this: the trial of insurrectionist Guy Reffitt occurred 13 months after his original indictment.
That trial, and its delaying pre-trial motions, were incalculably less complex than Trump’s would be.
One can easily anticipate motions that, if denied, might go far up the appellate chain.
It is not hard to imagine a majority of supreme court justices in no great hurry to resolve motions upon which the start of trial could depend.
One can easily conceive a 20-month or longer period with the former president indicted but not yet tried.
If Trump is not formally charged until January 2023, that would imply a multi-month trial starting in September or October.
Should he run for president and win in November, we would have a president-elect in the middle of a criminal trial.
Part of why a lengthy post-indictment/pre-verdict period is foreseeable is that federal district courts are bound to protect an accused’s rights to full airing of pre-trial claims and the time needed to file and argue them.
Trump will have many pre-trial claims, setting out his serial and inexhaustible list of grievances, the imagined violation of his rights, his purported immunity from prosecution as a former president and the overriding unfairness of it all.
Some district court judges more than others will balance protections for the accused with accountability’s pragmatic need for speed.
Importantly, even the four Trump-appointed district court judges in DC have often shown little sympathy for those charged with perpetrating the events of January 6 or resisting their investigation.
On 1 August, Judge Dabney Friedrich sentenced Reffitt to more than seven years in prison, the longest sentence to date.
Judge Tim Kelly refused to dismiss indictments against Proud Boy leaders who were part of the January 6 siege.
Judge Carl Nichols brooked no nonsense in Steve Bannon’s July trial, deliberately preventing it from becoming the “political circus” Bannon sought to make it.
On the other hand, among eight judges who have considered defendants’ motions to dismiss federal charges of obstructing an official government proceeding – Congress’s January 6 election certification session – Nichols was the lone outlier who dismissed the count.
That is one of the main charges that observers believe federal prosecutors could bring against Trump.
The point is that if Trump were to be indicted, the Department of Justice cannot count on a favorable judge putting it on a jet stream to an actual trial.
So what does that mean for precisely when Trump must be formally indicted?
Thankfully, it doesn’t imply the impossible.
The Department of Justice could pull an experienced prosecutor or two from every US attorney’s office and put them together on the case.
With all stops pulled, prosecutors still have time to do what is needed before year end.
The tasks include talking to key witnesses that the January 6 House committee interviewed and deposed, which is well under way.
Cassidy Hutchinson, principal aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadow, and Vice-President Mike Pence’s top aides, Marc Short and Greg Jacobs, are now working with the Department of Justice or appearing before its grand jury.
Cooperation is already reported to have begun among the lawyer-enablers of Trump’s coup plotting.
With the investigation’s accelerating aim at Trump, every potential target’s defense counsel has surely discussed with the target the advantages of an early offer to plead guilty and cooperate.
Early birds get better worms.
On 2 August, the federal grand jury investigating the lead-up to the January 6 insurrection subpoenaed the former White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
Department of Justice prosecutors are reported to be preparing to go to court to secure his testimony about his conversations with Trump if Cipollone again declines to disclose them on grounds of executive privilege.
The task ahead is massive, but if attacked with supreme urgency, it can get done.
The building blocks for a trial of Donald Trump must be put into place with alacrity.
In no case more than this one, the perfect cannot be the enemy of the good.
The clock is ticking.
Laurence H Tribe is the Carl M Loeb University professor and professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School
Dennis Aftergut is a former federal prosecutor, currently of counsel to Lawyers Defending American Democracy
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THE HILL
"UN warns two largest US water reservoirs at ‘dangerously low levels’"
BY SHARON UDASIN
08/03/22
The United Nations warned on Tuesday that the two biggest water reservoirs in the United States have dwindled to “dangerously low levels” due to the impacts of climate change.
The situation has become so severe that these reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are on the verge of reaching “dead pool status” — the point at which water levels drop so low that downstream flow ceases, according to the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP).
Without such flow, hydroelectric power stations would cease to operate, jeopardizing the electricity supply for millions in the region, a statement from the agency said.
“The conditions in the American West, which we’re seeing around the Colorado River basin, have been so dry for more than 20 years that we’re no longer speaking of a drought,” said Lis Mullin Bernhardt, an ecosystems expert at UNEP.
“We refer to it as ‘aridification’ — a new very dry normal,” Bernhardt added.
The Colorado River system supplies water to more than 40 million people and irrigates about 5.7 million acres of agriculture.
The system serves seven states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada and California — as well as Mexico.
Scientists have already estimated that Lake Mead and Lake Powell, which are fed by the river, will plunge to 25 percent of their capacity by the end of this year.
Meanwhile, only about 10 percent of the Colorado River’s natural flow, which has been heavily diverted throughout history along its 1,400-mile course, now reaches Mexico.
As the western water crisis continues to deepen, water cuts will be introduced throughout the region, but experts warn that these actions may not be enough, according to UNEP.
“While regulating and managing water supply and demand are essential in both the short and long term, climate change is at the heart of this issue,” Maria Morgado, UNEP’s ecosystems officer in North America, said in a statement.
“In the long term we need to address the root causes of climate change as well as water demands,” Morgado added.
The combined impacts of climate change and overconsumption have exacerbated the crisis, as frequent droughts and temperature rises confront an expanding population, the UNEP statement said.
While the situation may be dire in the American West, the agency stressed that what is happening in the region is indicative of a wider global trend.
Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are impacted by climate change as drought and desertification become “the new normal,” according to UNEP.
“We are talking about a 20-year period of drought-like conditions with an ever-increasing demand on water,” Bernhardt said.
“These conditions are alarming, and particularly in the Lake Powell and Lake Mead region, it is the perfect storm.”
https://thehill.com/policy/3586269-un-w ... ow-levels/
"UN warns two largest US water reservoirs at ‘dangerously low levels’"
BY SHARON UDASIN
08/03/22
The United Nations warned on Tuesday that the two biggest water reservoirs in the United States have dwindled to “dangerously low levels” due to the impacts of climate change.
The situation has become so severe that these reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are on the verge of reaching “dead pool status” — the point at which water levels drop so low that downstream flow ceases, according to the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP).
Without such flow, hydroelectric power stations would cease to operate, jeopardizing the electricity supply for millions in the region, a statement from the agency said.
“The conditions in the American West, which we’re seeing around the Colorado River basin, have been so dry for more than 20 years that we’re no longer speaking of a drought,” said Lis Mullin Bernhardt, an ecosystems expert at UNEP.
“We refer to it as ‘aridification’ — a new very dry normal,” Bernhardt added.
The Colorado River system supplies water to more than 40 million people and irrigates about 5.7 million acres of agriculture.
The system serves seven states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada and California — as well as Mexico.
Scientists have already estimated that Lake Mead and Lake Powell, which are fed by the river, will plunge to 25 percent of their capacity by the end of this year.
Meanwhile, only about 10 percent of the Colorado River’s natural flow, which has been heavily diverted throughout history along its 1,400-mile course, now reaches Mexico.
As the western water crisis continues to deepen, water cuts will be introduced throughout the region, but experts warn that these actions may not be enough, according to UNEP.
“While regulating and managing water supply and demand are essential in both the short and long term, climate change is at the heart of this issue,” Maria Morgado, UNEP’s ecosystems officer in North America, said in a statement.
“In the long term we need to address the root causes of climate change as well as water demands,” Morgado added.
The combined impacts of climate change and overconsumption have exacerbated the crisis, as frequent droughts and temperature rises confront an expanding population, the UNEP statement said.
While the situation may be dire in the American West, the agency stressed that what is happening in the region is indicative of a wider global trend.
Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are impacted by climate change as drought and desertification become “the new normal,” according to UNEP.
“We are talking about a 20-year period of drought-like conditions with an ever-increasing demand on water,” Bernhardt said.
“These conditions are alarming, and particularly in the Lake Powell and Lake Mead region, it is the perfect storm.”
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Statement from President Biden on House Passage of CHIPS and Science Act to Lower Costs, Create Good-Pay Jobs and Strengthen Our National Security
JULY 28, 2022
Today, the House passed a bill that will make cars cheaper, appliances cheaper, and computers cheaper.
It will lower the costs of every day goods.
And, it will create high-paying manufacturing jobs across the country and strengthen U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time.
The CHIPS and Science Act is exactly what we need to be doing to grow our economy right now.
By making more semiconductors in the United States, this bill will increase domestic manufacturing and lower costs for families.
And, it will strengthen our national security by making us less dependent on foreign sources of semiconductors.
This bill includes important guardrails to ensure that companies receiving tax payer dollars invest in America and that union workers are building new manufacturing plants across the country.
I look forward to signing this bill into law and continuing to grow our economy from the bottom up and middle out for working families all across the country.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... ay%20goods.
Statement from President Biden on House Passage of CHIPS and Science Act to Lower Costs, Create Good-Pay Jobs and Strengthen Our National Security
JULY 28, 2022
Today, the House passed a bill that will make cars cheaper, appliances cheaper, and computers cheaper.
It will lower the costs of every day goods.
And, it will create high-paying manufacturing jobs across the country and strengthen U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time.
The CHIPS and Science Act is exactly what we need to be doing to grow our economy right now.
By making more semiconductors in the United States, this bill will increase domestic manufacturing and lower costs for families.
And, it will strengthen our national security by making us less dependent on foreign sources of semiconductors.
This bill includes important guardrails to ensure that companies receiving tax payer dollars invest in America and that union workers are building new manufacturing plants across the country.
I look forward to signing this bill into law and continuing to grow our economy from the bottom up and middle out for working families all across the country.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... ay%20goods.
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR AUGUST 7, 2022
Op-Ed: Madness and Insanity in a Time of Joe Biden
This Op-Ed is special to the Mirror by Paul Plante
Before we get to the meat of the matter here, another title for this thread could have been “Joe Biden’s Ultra-MAGA Great Leap Forward,” although that title would not have truly captured the essence of the madness afoot here as contained in Joe Biden’s First Five Year Plan which we will soon be discussing; and another perhaps more proper title would have been “Joe Biden says America First to Build Back Better to Make America Great Again,” but that would have been too long a title so I condensed it down to its essence, which is insanity and madness in a time of Joe Biden, and here I am talking specifically about the “Statement from President Biden on House Passage of CHIPS and Science Act to Lower Costs, Create Good-Pay Jobs and Strengthen Our National Security,” on July 28, 2022, coupled with a Reuters article on August 3, 2022 titled “As U.S. eyes new China chip curbs, turmoil looms for global market” by Joyce Lee, both of which must be taken together to put flesh on the bones, so to speak, of the title above about madness and insanity in a time of Joe Biden, and the issue, in addition to the further disruption of the global economy caused by other Biden actions has to do with water, and the short-sightedness of the Biden administration as it sacrifices our tomarrow for political gains and expediency for the Biden administration and the Democrats today.
And here, before we go further, we have to ask ourselves this important and relevant question, the answer to which will be coming along shortly, to wit:
I. HOW MUCH WATER DOES A CHIP FAB REQUIRE ON A DAILY BASIS?
And that takes us to the madness and insanity of Joe Biden in his First Five-Year Plan in imitation of Joe Stalin of the Soviet Union which in turn takes us to his “Statement from President Biden on House Passage of CHIPS and Science Act to Lower Costs, Create Good-Pay Jobs and Strengthen Our National Security,” wherein Joe Biden tells the nation and the world, and us, as follows in typical shallow-thinking Joe Biden fashion as follows:
“Today, the House passed a bill that will make cars cheaper, appliances cheaper, and computers cheaper.”
“It will lower the costs of everyday goods.”
“And, it will create high-paying manufacturing jobs across the country and strengthen U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time.”
Now, talk about a political propaganda coup here, people, that sounds grand and glorious, does it not, far, far better than merely a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, which isn’t much compared to what Joe is offering us here, as Joe and the Democrats continue their efforts to build back better to make America great again by a policy of America first, which means elbowing other countries, starting with China, another hated enemy of Joe Biden and the Democrats, along with Russia, both run by “autocrats” who pose a real serious threat to our “sacred democracy” that Joe and the Democrats are champions of, out of the way of a resurgent America led forth on the world stage by Joe and Nancy Pelosi, who just returned from Taiwan where she was greeted and treated as the queen she really is as is her due.
And that in turn brings us to the Reuters article mentioned above where we learn more about the madness and insanity of Joe’s plans to reconfigure America and the world in his image as follows, to wit:
SEOUL, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Export restrictions being considered by Washington to halt China’s advances in semiconductor manufacturing could come at a substantial cost, experts say, potentially disrupting fragile global chip supply chains – and hurting U.S. businesses.
end quotes
China, people, is like a serpent in the Garden of Eden Joe and the Democrats are promising, and so it is the duty of Joe Biden today to crush the head of the serpent, for the good of the world that sorely needs the stern, guiding hand of Joe Biden to lead it into a Pax Biden that will last for a thousand years by destroying China’s economy along with the economies of Germany and Russia, but really, people, does that matter, that to make America great again by building it back better by a policy of America First, that fragile global chip supply chains would be disrupted, which would hurt U.S. businesses?
Afterall, to build back better, isn’t it first necessary to destroy what now exists in order to clear away the old and prepare the ground and pave the way towards the grand and glorious future Joe is promising us, with cars being cheaper, and appliances being cheaper, and computers being cheaper, and with the costs of everyday goods being lowered while high-paying manufacturing jobs are being created across the country and U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time will be strengthened?
My goodness, who can possibly be against that?
So let’s get some more details here, as follows:
Reuters reported on Monday that the United States is considering limiting shipments of American chipmaking equipment to memory chip producers in China that make advanced semiconductors used in everything from smartphones to data centres.
end quotes
And that is the way a REAL WORLD LEADER like Joe Biden does things – grab the bull by the horns, deftly flip it over on its back, and stomp on its neck and it is done!
If Joe prevents the Chinese from getting chipmaking equipment, then the Chinese can’t make chips!
So how brilliant is the thinking of Joe Biden here, and how he has seen to the core of the matter as to what should be done to make America great again by building it back better after first destroying it by his America First policy?
But what about this “harm” thing?
Besides the Chinese, who everybody knows need to be harmed, who else is going to “get it in the neck” as a result of Joe’s America First policy here?
Let’s go back to Reuters and take a look:
The curbs would stop chipmakers like South Korean giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix from shipping new technology tools to factories they operate in China, preventing them from upgrading plants that serve customers around the world.
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To which, Joe says he doesn’t care, because they aren’t Americans, and they aren’t American companies, which makes them a threat to building back better America to make it great again, and so, they have got to go, too, especially because of the following, to wit:
Samsung and SK Hynix, which control more than half of the global NAND flash memory chip market, have invested heavily in China in recent decades to produce chips that are vital to customers including tech giants Apple, Amazon, Facebook owner Meta and Google.
As well as computers and phones, the chips are used in products like electric vehicles that require digital data storage.
end quotes
And look at that, people, those foreigners have gotten too greedy and too big for their britches and they are taking more than their share and besides, they are trading with Joe Biden’s enemy China, which puts our national security at risk, and so they too need their fangs pulled, which will cut them down to size where they need to be, and hey, in the end, it will all work out right and it will be not only good for America, but for tech giants Apple, Amazon, Facebook owner Meta and Google, as well.
And talking about threats to our national security that Joe Biden is going to put an end to, let’s again go back and see what Reuters has on that, as follows:
“Samsung’s China production alone accounts for more than 15% of global NAND flash production …”
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That, people, is a clear threat to our sacred democracy, having all those investments made in an autocracy, and so Joe has no other choice but to act, and to act decisively, and to act now, not tomorrow or the next day, or China will clearly win the race for the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY which can’t be allowed, period.
So what then can we expect when Joe strikes?
Here is what Reuters is telling us:
“If there’s any production disruption, it will make chip prices surge,” said Lee Min-hee, an analyst at BNK Securities.
The potential for fresh turmoil – the curbs have yet to be approved – comes just as a global chip supply shortage that has disrupted businesses from autos to consumer devices for more than a year is finally showing signs of easing.
Supply chain adjustments and weakening consumer demand amid the slowing global economy have combined to repair the damage.
But the shortage has yet to be fully resolved.
Any signs of fresh disruption could rekindle supply uncertainty, triggering a price surge – as seen earlier this year when China imposed COVID-19 restrictions in Xian where Samsung manufactures chips.
end quotes
And those high prices, of course, in a capitalistic country like ours, which Joe is going to build back better to make America great again, would serve as an incentive to make those chips here as opposed to in some foreign country that is not America, which would be good for our economy and our GDP, and some more fall-out that simply will have to be endured, because we are in a transition, people, as Peter Buttigieg says, and he would know, is as follows, to wit:
Chipmaking equipment has to be installed and fully tested months before production is due to start.
Any delay in shipping the gear to China would pose a real challenge to chipmakers as they seek to manufacture more advanced chips in China facilities.
“Many U.S. companies, like Apple, use Samsung and SK Hynix memory chips.”
“No matter what strategy (the South Korean firms) end up choosing, it will have global implications,” said BNK Securities analyst Lee.
end quotes
And that is what I am calling insanity and madness, Joe Biden single-handedly disrupting the global economy with his “Ultra-MAGA,” but on the other hand, for there to be progress, especially when building back America better by a policy of America First to make it great again in order to provide the grand and glorious future Joe is promising us, with cars being cheaper, and appliances being cheaper, and computers being cheaper, and with the costs of everyday goods being lowered while high-paying manufacturing jobs are being created across the country and U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time will be strengthened, somebody else has to be hurt, and that should be these foreign upstarts who are stealing market share from American companies who should be making chips here instead of somewhere else, and so, Joe is going to make that happen, come what may.
So how much water does it take to operate a chip fab then, when Joe starts building them here?
By some estimates, a large chip fab can use up to 10 million gallons of water a day, which is equivalent to the water consumption of roughly 300,000 households and that is because each chip needs to be rinsed with ultrapure water (UPW) — water so pure that is considered an industrial solvent — to remove debris (ions, particles, silica, etc.) from the manufacturing process and prevent the chips from becoming contaminated.
So where, then, is Joe Biden going to get all that water from?
Or doesn’t he have a clue?
Stay tuned as we explore this matter further, because the future Joe is going to impact is that of ourselves, our children and grandchildren and on down the line.
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Op-Ed: Madness and Insanity in a Time of Joe Biden
This Op-Ed is special to the Mirror by Paul Plante
Before we get to the meat of the matter here, another title for this thread could have been “Joe Biden’s Ultra-MAGA Great Leap Forward,” although that title would not have truly captured the essence of the madness afoot here as contained in Joe Biden’s First Five Year Plan which we will soon be discussing; and another perhaps more proper title would have been “Joe Biden says America First to Build Back Better to Make America Great Again,” but that would have been too long a title so I condensed it down to its essence, which is insanity and madness in a time of Joe Biden, and here I am talking specifically about the “Statement from President Biden on House Passage of CHIPS and Science Act to Lower Costs, Create Good-Pay Jobs and Strengthen Our National Security,” on July 28, 2022, coupled with a Reuters article on August 3, 2022 titled “As U.S. eyes new China chip curbs, turmoil looms for global market” by Joyce Lee, both of which must be taken together to put flesh on the bones, so to speak, of the title above about madness and insanity in a time of Joe Biden, and the issue, in addition to the further disruption of the global economy caused by other Biden actions has to do with water, and the short-sightedness of the Biden administration as it sacrifices our tomarrow for political gains and expediency for the Biden administration and the Democrats today.
And here, before we go further, we have to ask ourselves this important and relevant question, the answer to which will be coming along shortly, to wit:
I. HOW MUCH WATER DOES A CHIP FAB REQUIRE ON A DAILY BASIS?
And that takes us to the madness and insanity of Joe Biden in his First Five-Year Plan in imitation of Joe Stalin of the Soviet Union which in turn takes us to his “Statement from President Biden on House Passage of CHIPS and Science Act to Lower Costs, Create Good-Pay Jobs and Strengthen Our National Security,” wherein Joe Biden tells the nation and the world, and us, as follows in typical shallow-thinking Joe Biden fashion as follows:
“Today, the House passed a bill that will make cars cheaper, appliances cheaper, and computers cheaper.”
“It will lower the costs of everyday goods.”
“And, it will create high-paying manufacturing jobs across the country and strengthen U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time.”
Now, talk about a political propaganda coup here, people, that sounds grand and glorious, does it not, far, far better than merely a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, which isn’t much compared to what Joe is offering us here, as Joe and the Democrats continue their efforts to build back better to make America great again by a policy of America first, which means elbowing other countries, starting with China, another hated enemy of Joe Biden and the Democrats, along with Russia, both run by “autocrats” who pose a real serious threat to our “sacred democracy” that Joe and the Democrats are champions of, out of the way of a resurgent America led forth on the world stage by Joe and Nancy Pelosi, who just returned from Taiwan where she was greeted and treated as the queen she really is as is her due.
And that in turn brings us to the Reuters article mentioned above where we learn more about the madness and insanity of Joe’s plans to reconfigure America and the world in his image as follows, to wit:
SEOUL, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Export restrictions being considered by Washington to halt China’s advances in semiconductor manufacturing could come at a substantial cost, experts say, potentially disrupting fragile global chip supply chains – and hurting U.S. businesses.
end quotes
China, people, is like a serpent in the Garden of Eden Joe and the Democrats are promising, and so it is the duty of Joe Biden today to crush the head of the serpent, for the good of the world that sorely needs the stern, guiding hand of Joe Biden to lead it into a Pax Biden that will last for a thousand years by destroying China’s economy along with the economies of Germany and Russia, but really, people, does that matter, that to make America great again by building it back better by a policy of America First, that fragile global chip supply chains would be disrupted, which would hurt U.S. businesses?
Afterall, to build back better, isn’t it first necessary to destroy what now exists in order to clear away the old and prepare the ground and pave the way towards the grand and glorious future Joe is promising us, with cars being cheaper, and appliances being cheaper, and computers being cheaper, and with the costs of everyday goods being lowered while high-paying manufacturing jobs are being created across the country and U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time will be strengthened?
My goodness, who can possibly be against that?
So let’s get some more details here, as follows:
Reuters reported on Monday that the United States is considering limiting shipments of American chipmaking equipment to memory chip producers in China that make advanced semiconductors used in everything from smartphones to data centres.
end quotes
And that is the way a REAL WORLD LEADER like Joe Biden does things – grab the bull by the horns, deftly flip it over on its back, and stomp on its neck and it is done!
If Joe prevents the Chinese from getting chipmaking equipment, then the Chinese can’t make chips!
So how brilliant is the thinking of Joe Biden here, and how he has seen to the core of the matter as to what should be done to make America great again by building it back better after first destroying it by his America First policy?
But what about this “harm” thing?
Besides the Chinese, who everybody knows need to be harmed, who else is going to “get it in the neck” as a result of Joe’s America First policy here?
Let’s go back to Reuters and take a look:
The curbs would stop chipmakers like South Korean giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix from shipping new technology tools to factories they operate in China, preventing them from upgrading plants that serve customers around the world.
end quotes
To which, Joe says he doesn’t care, because they aren’t Americans, and they aren’t American companies, which makes them a threat to building back better America to make it great again, and so, they have got to go, too, especially because of the following, to wit:
Samsung and SK Hynix, which control more than half of the global NAND flash memory chip market, have invested heavily in China in recent decades to produce chips that are vital to customers including tech giants Apple, Amazon, Facebook owner Meta and Google.
As well as computers and phones, the chips are used in products like electric vehicles that require digital data storage.
end quotes
And look at that, people, those foreigners have gotten too greedy and too big for their britches and they are taking more than their share and besides, they are trading with Joe Biden’s enemy China, which puts our national security at risk, and so they too need their fangs pulled, which will cut them down to size where they need to be, and hey, in the end, it will all work out right and it will be not only good for America, but for tech giants Apple, Amazon, Facebook owner Meta and Google, as well.
And talking about threats to our national security that Joe Biden is going to put an end to, let’s again go back and see what Reuters has on that, as follows:
“Samsung’s China production alone accounts for more than 15% of global NAND flash production …”
end quotes
That, people, is a clear threat to our sacred democracy, having all those investments made in an autocracy, and so Joe has no other choice but to act, and to act decisively, and to act now, not tomorrow or the next day, or China will clearly win the race for the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY which can’t be allowed, period.
So what then can we expect when Joe strikes?
Here is what Reuters is telling us:
“If there’s any production disruption, it will make chip prices surge,” said Lee Min-hee, an analyst at BNK Securities.
The potential for fresh turmoil – the curbs have yet to be approved – comes just as a global chip supply shortage that has disrupted businesses from autos to consumer devices for more than a year is finally showing signs of easing.
Supply chain adjustments and weakening consumer demand amid the slowing global economy have combined to repair the damage.
But the shortage has yet to be fully resolved.
Any signs of fresh disruption could rekindle supply uncertainty, triggering a price surge – as seen earlier this year when China imposed COVID-19 restrictions in Xian where Samsung manufactures chips.
end quotes
And those high prices, of course, in a capitalistic country like ours, which Joe is going to build back better to make America great again, would serve as an incentive to make those chips here as opposed to in some foreign country that is not America, which would be good for our economy and our GDP, and some more fall-out that simply will have to be endured, because we are in a transition, people, as Peter Buttigieg says, and he would know, is as follows, to wit:
Chipmaking equipment has to be installed and fully tested months before production is due to start.
Any delay in shipping the gear to China would pose a real challenge to chipmakers as they seek to manufacture more advanced chips in China facilities.
“Many U.S. companies, like Apple, use Samsung and SK Hynix memory chips.”
“No matter what strategy (the South Korean firms) end up choosing, it will have global implications,” said BNK Securities analyst Lee.
end quotes
And that is what I am calling insanity and madness, Joe Biden single-handedly disrupting the global economy with his “Ultra-MAGA,” but on the other hand, for there to be progress, especially when building back America better by a policy of America First to make it great again in order to provide the grand and glorious future Joe is promising us, with cars being cheaper, and appliances being cheaper, and computers being cheaper, and with the costs of everyday goods being lowered while high-paying manufacturing jobs are being created across the country and U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time will be strengthened, somebody else has to be hurt, and that should be these foreign upstarts who are stealing market share from American companies who should be making chips here instead of somewhere else, and so, Joe is going to make that happen, come what may.
So how much water does it take to operate a chip fab then, when Joe starts building them here?
By some estimates, a large chip fab can use up to 10 million gallons of water a day, which is equivalent to the water consumption of roughly 300,000 households and that is because each chip needs to be rinsed with ultrapure water (UPW) — water so pure that is considered an industrial solvent — to remove debris (ions, particles, silica, etc.) from the manufacturing process and prevent the chips from becoming contaminated.
So where, then, is Joe Biden going to get all that water from?
Or doesn’t he have a clue?
Stay tuned as we explore this matter further, because the future Joe is going to impact is that of ourselves, our children and grandchildren and on down the line.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... joe-biden/
Re: POLITICS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR AUGUST 6, 2022 AT 3:57 PM
Paul Plante says:
What we are seeing above here, people, with this WITCH HUNTER HEARING on PRIMETIME TV on 28 June, 2022, as this transcript of the EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY of STAR WITNESS and WITCH HUNTER Lizzie Cheney on 28 June 2022 continues to flow forth in here, word for word for word, line by line, as it happened in Lizzie Cheney’s OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT that I quote from, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror, and keeping well in mind that Lizzie is a candidate for president in 2024, and Trump is her sworn political enemy, and what this clearly is, is a slick scripted replay starring Lizzie Cheney as a modern-day Cicero of “Pro Tito Annio Milone ad iudicem oratio,” the speech made by Marcus Tullius Cicero in 52 BC on behalf of his friend Titus Annius Milo, who was accused of murdering his political enemy Publius Clodius Pulcher on the Via Appia.
Of interest in that case is the fact that throughout the duration of his speech, Cicero does not even attempt to convince the judges that Milo did not kill Clodius.
Cicero claims that the killing of Clodius was lawful and in self-defense.
Cicero even goes as far as to suggest that the death of Clodius was in the best interests of the republic, as the tribune was a popularis leader of the restless plebeian mobs who had plagued the political scene of the late Roman Republic.
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And that is exactly what Lizzie Cheney is doing not only in this 28 June 2022 WITCH HUNTERS HEARING TRANSCRIPT we are quoting from, but more recently and more importantly, in a CNN article with the inflammatory title of “Cheney says DOJ not prosecuting Trump if there’s evidence could call into question the US as ‘nation of laws'” by Eric Bradner on 4 August 2022, which article cites an interview Lizzie had with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, where presidential candidate Cheney, also the GOP vice chair of the House select committee investigating the events surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection, even though there was NO INSURRECTION, said Trump is “guilty of the most serious dereliction of duty of any president in our nation’s history” and pointed to a judge who’s said he likely committed crimes, to wit:
SHE IS DOING A SUMMATION AS TO WHY, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR FRAGILE AND SACRED DEMOCRACY, IT IS NECESSARY TO TAKE TRUMP OFF THE BOARD, PERMANENTLY, BY ANY MEANS, like Cicero having the Catiline Conspirators murdered in the night with no due process of Roman law, for the good of the “state,” as we see by going back to that CNN article, as follows:
“We’re in a situation where former President Trump has betrayed the patriotism of millions and millions of people across our country, and many people here in Wyoming, and he’s lied to them,” she said.
“And what I know to do is to tell the truth, and to make sure that people understand the truth about what happened and why it matters so much.”
Asked why she thinks voters believe Trump, Cheney added: “It’s just consistent lying about what happened about the election, playing on people’s patriotism.”
“And he’s so dangerous that, you know, my view is that at the end of the day, if defending the Constitution against the threat that he poses means losing a House seat, then that’s a sacrifice that I’m willing to make.”
“I don’t intend to lose.”
“But some things are more important than any individual office or political campaign.”
Cheney would not discuss her political plans after this month’s primary.
But she said she will do “whatever is necessary” to keep Trump from becoming the GOP presidential nominee for a third consecutive election in 2024.
She said she intends to be “a big part of making sure that we protect the nation” from Trump, whether she wins reelection or not.
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Lizzie has top-notch screen writers working for her who are well experienced in writing scripts for soap opera dramas for television audiences, writing her lines, above here, which takes us from Lizzie’s excoriation (censure or criticize severely) of Trump courtesy of CNN, back to Cicero defending Milo, to wit:
Clodius is made out repeatedly in the Pro Milone to be a malevolent, invidious, effeminate character who craves power and organises the ambush on Milo.
Cicero gives Clodius a motive for setting a trap: the realisation that Milo would easily secure the consulship and so stand in the way of Clodius’ scheme to attain greater power and influence as a praetor.
Fortunately, there was plentiful material for Cicero to build that profile, such as the Bona Dea incident in 62 BC; involving Clodius stealing into the abode of the Pontifex Maximus of the time, Julius Caesar, during the ritual festival of the Bona Dea to which only women were allowed.
It is said that he dressed up as a woman to gain access and pursue an illicit affair with Pompeia, the wife of Caesar.
Clodius was taken to the law courts for this act of great impiety but escaped the punishment of death by bribing the judges, most of whom had been poor, according to Cicero, who was the prosecutor during the case.
Earlier in his career, Lucullus had accused Clodius of committing incest with his sister Claudia and then Lucullus’s wife; this allegation is mentioned several times to blacken Clodius’ reputation.
Milo, on the other hand, is perpetually depicted as a “saviour of Rome” by his virtuous actions and political career up until then.
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And such is Lizzie Cheney treating Trump in the 4 August 2022 CNN article where she and the WITCH HUNTERS and Cassidy Hutchinson are depicted as “SAVIORS OF OUR SACRED DEMOCRACY, while Trump is made out repeatedly in the “Pro Milone Revisited” of Lizzie Cheney on 28 June 2022 to be a malevolent, invidious, effeminate character with small hands who throws dishes at the wall of the presidential dining room and throws tantrums where he pulls all the dishes off the table by yanking on the tablecloth, which makes extra work for Cassidy Hutchinson, who has to clean the mess up, and who craves power and organized the ambush on Joe Biden and Mike Pence on 6 January 2021, in what is being called an insurrection, even though it wasn’t.
And here is where Catiline Revisited enters into the picture with regard to Lizzie Cheney taking Trump off the board by any means possible, justifying her actions in that regard by relying on a Hearst Journal editorial which declared, “If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, the killing must be done,” which justification arguably goes back to the trial of Milo and the early part of the refutation by Cicero of the opposition’s arguments (refutatio), wherein is contained the first known exposition of the phrase “silent enim leges inter arma” (“in times of war, the laws fall silent”), which since has been rephrased as “inter arma enim silent leges,” and was most recently used by the American media in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and today, it is being used again to justify the removal of Trump from American politics by any means necessary.
So not only was the phrase integral to Cicero’s argument in defense of Milo, it is also integral to Lizzie Cheney’s efforts using these WITCH HUNTERS HEARINGS to remove her political enemy Trump from the board, permanently, precisely because “in times of war,” and let’s face it, we are in a time of political war right now leading us closer and closer to civil war, the laws fall silent, which is what this thread is all about, documenting that as it happens.
And let me make an important point here as we inch our way towards November of 2022, and the up-coming mid-terms where the Democrat grip on our national government is threatened, and that is this, to wit:
Support of Constitutional Due Process of Law for Donald Trump, as odious (extremely unpleasant; repulsive) a person as he might be, which like beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, IS NOT the same as support for Donald Trump.
Support of Constitutional due process of law for Donald Trump is support for RULE OF LAW, as opposed to RULE OF THE LYNCH MOB Lizzie Cheney, a presidential aspirant herself in 2024, the WITCH HUNTERS and their enablers in the MAIN-STREAM and LEGACY MEDIA are trying to incite with these TELEVISED WITCH HUNTER hearings on PRIMETIME TV, along with inflammatory press releases by WITCH HUNTERS like Lizzie Cheney, to promote their own toxic political agenda, which takes us back to that CNN article with the inflammatory title of “Cheney says DOJ not prosecuting Trump if there’s evidence could call into question the US as ‘nation of laws'” by Eric Bradner on 4 August 2022, and in turn raises this important question, to wit:
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OF WHAT DOES DUE PROCESS OF LAW CONSIST OF?
And for that answer, let’s go to the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
Procedural due process refers to the constitutional requirement that when the federal government acts in such a way that denies a citizen of a life, liberty, or property interest, the person must be given notice, the opportunity to be heard, and a decision by a neutral decision-maker.
Procedural due process is one of two of the components of due process, with the other being substantive due process.
Due Process Clause
In the U.S. Constitution, the phrase “due process” appears twice: in the Fifth Amendment and in the Fourteenth Amendment.
Both Amendments guarantee due process when someone is denied “life, liberty, or property.”
A list of procedures that due process requires, at least in theory, because as we are seeing with these WITCH HUNTER HEARINGS and the history of COUP PLOTTING by Trump’s many enemies in Washington. D.C. in the years prior to 6 January 2021, when politics are involved, legal theory and RULE OF LAW and CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS all go out the window, includes as follows:
* An unbiased tribunal.
* Notice of the proposed action and the grounds asserted for it.
* Opportunity to present reasons why the proposed action should not be taken.
* The right to present evidence, including the right to call witnesses.
* The right to know opposing evidence.
* The right to cross-examine adverse witnesses.
* A decision based exclusively on the evidence presented.
* Opportunity to be represented by counsel.
* Requirement that the tribunal prepare a record of the evidence presented.
* Requirement that the tribunal prepare written findings of fact and reasons for its decision.
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And from the CNN article with the inflammatory title of “Cheney says DOJ not prosecuting Trump if there’s evidence could call into question the US as ‘nation of laws'” by Eric Bradner on 4 August 2022, and all of what has preceded in this thread, the very first thing we see Trump being deprived of by Lizzie Cheney and the WITCH HUNTERS is the “unbiased tribunal,” because we have heard Lizzie say it with her own mouth in the CNN article quoted above that Trump is guilty plain and simple and it is now time for Joe Biden’s attorney general Merrick Garland to put the noose around Trump’s neck and hang him high, because Lizzie knows he is guilty, which takes us to the indisputable fact that it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and UNLAWFUL for the house of representatives and Lizzie Cheney and the WITCH HUNTERS to usurp the duties of a grand jury and arrogate unto themselves that power, it being known as ATTAINDER in violation Article I, Section 9, Clause 3, “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed,” so when Lizzie makes it clear in the 4 August 2022 CNN article that the WITCH HUNTERS COMMITTEE is indeed acting just like any Grand Jury in our legal system,” what that clearly tells us is that Lizzie condones UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTS by these WITCH HUNTERS, and with that said, let us close this out with a teaching moment, as follows:
“Bills of attainder . . . are such special acts of the legislature, as inflict capital punishments upon persons supposed to be guilty of high offences, such as treason and felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings.”
“If an act inflicts a milder degree of punishment than death, it is called a bill of pains and penalties.”
“In such cases, the legislature assumes judicial magistracy, pronouncing upon the guilt of the party without any of the common forms and guards of trial, and satisfying itself with proofs, when such proofs are within its reach, whether they are conformable to the rules of evidence, or not.”
“In short, in all such cases, the legislature exercises the highest power of sovereignty, and what may be properly deemed an irresponsible despotic discretion, being governed solely by what it deems political necessity or expediency, and too often under the influence of unreasonable fears, or unfounded suspicions.”
The phrase “bill of attainder,” as used in this clause and in clause 1 of § 10, applies to bills of pains and penalties as well as to the traditional bills of attainder.
The prohibition embodied in this clause is not to be narrowly construed in the context of traditional forms but is to be interpreted in accordance with the designs of the framers so as to preclude trial by legislature, which would violate the separation of powers.
The clause thus prohibits all legislative acts, “no matter what their form, that apply either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial.”
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And with that in the record, let’s take a pause for station identification so you can get to the fridge for some munchies and get comfortably settled again, at which time we will be back with more of the show coming to us live from Washington, D.C., the famous “Ten Miles Square” which is the seat of Joe Biden’s government, and the place of residence for Joe and the great officers of state including Nancy Pelosi and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and Lizzie Cheney, where the court of Joe Biden, who possesses the powers of a monarch, is observed of that of a monarch — ambition with idleness — baseness with pride — the thirst of riches without labour — aversion to truth — flattery — treason — perfidy — violation of engagements — contempt of civil duties — hope from the magistrate’s weakness; but above all, the perpetual ridicule of virtue.
So please, stay tuned!
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Paul Plante says:
What we are seeing above here, people, with this WITCH HUNTER HEARING on PRIMETIME TV on 28 June, 2022, as this transcript of the EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY of STAR WITNESS and WITCH HUNTER Lizzie Cheney on 28 June 2022 continues to flow forth in here, word for word for word, line by line, as it happened in Lizzie Cheney’s OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT that I quote from, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror, and keeping well in mind that Lizzie is a candidate for president in 2024, and Trump is her sworn political enemy, and what this clearly is, is a slick scripted replay starring Lizzie Cheney as a modern-day Cicero of “Pro Tito Annio Milone ad iudicem oratio,” the speech made by Marcus Tullius Cicero in 52 BC on behalf of his friend Titus Annius Milo, who was accused of murdering his political enemy Publius Clodius Pulcher on the Via Appia.
Of interest in that case is the fact that throughout the duration of his speech, Cicero does not even attempt to convince the judges that Milo did not kill Clodius.
Cicero claims that the killing of Clodius was lawful and in self-defense.
Cicero even goes as far as to suggest that the death of Clodius was in the best interests of the republic, as the tribune was a popularis leader of the restless plebeian mobs who had plagued the political scene of the late Roman Republic.
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And that is exactly what Lizzie Cheney is doing not only in this 28 June 2022 WITCH HUNTERS HEARING TRANSCRIPT we are quoting from, but more recently and more importantly, in a CNN article with the inflammatory title of “Cheney says DOJ not prosecuting Trump if there’s evidence could call into question the US as ‘nation of laws'” by Eric Bradner on 4 August 2022, which article cites an interview Lizzie had with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, where presidential candidate Cheney, also the GOP vice chair of the House select committee investigating the events surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection, even though there was NO INSURRECTION, said Trump is “guilty of the most serious dereliction of duty of any president in our nation’s history” and pointed to a judge who’s said he likely committed crimes, to wit:
SHE IS DOING A SUMMATION AS TO WHY, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR FRAGILE AND SACRED DEMOCRACY, IT IS NECESSARY TO TAKE TRUMP OFF THE BOARD, PERMANENTLY, BY ANY MEANS, like Cicero having the Catiline Conspirators murdered in the night with no due process of Roman law, for the good of the “state,” as we see by going back to that CNN article, as follows:
“We’re in a situation where former President Trump has betrayed the patriotism of millions and millions of people across our country, and many people here in Wyoming, and he’s lied to them,” she said.
“And what I know to do is to tell the truth, and to make sure that people understand the truth about what happened and why it matters so much.”
Asked why she thinks voters believe Trump, Cheney added: “It’s just consistent lying about what happened about the election, playing on people’s patriotism.”
“And he’s so dangerous that, you know, my view is that at the end of the day, if defending the Constitution against the threat that he poses means losing a House seat, then that’s a sacrifice that I’m willing to make.”
“I don’t intend to lose.”
“But some things are more important than any individual office or political campaign.”
Cheney would not discuss her political plans after this month’s primary.
But she said she will do “whatever is necessary” to keep Trump from becoming the GOP presidential nominee for a third consecutive election in 2024.
She said she intends to be “a big part of making sure that we protect the nation” from Trump, whether she wins reelection or not.
end quotes
Lizzie has top-notch screen writers working for her who are well experienced in writing scripts for soap opera dramas for television audiences, writing her lines, above here, which takes us from Lizzie’s excoriation (censure or criticize severely) of Trump courtesy of CNN, back to Cicero defending Milo, to wit:
Clodius is made out repeatedly in the Pro Milone to be a malevolent, invidious, effeminate character who craves power and organises the ambush on Milo.
Cicero gives Clodius a motive for setting a trap: the realisation that Milo would easily secure the consulship and so stand in the way of Clodius’ scheme to attain greater power and influence as a praetor.
Fortunately, there was plentiful material for Cicero to build that profile, such as the Bona Dea incident in 62 BC; involving Clodius stealing into the abode of the Pontifex Maximus of the time, Julius Caesar, during the ritual festival of the Bona Dea to which only women were allowed.
It is said that he dressed up as a woman to gain access and pursue an illicit affair with Pompeia, the wife of Caesar.
Clodius was taken to the law courts for this act of great impiety but escaped the punishment of death by bribing the judges, most of whom had been poor, according to Cicero, who was the prosecutor during the case.
Earlier in his career, Lucullus had accused Clodius of committing incest with his sister Claudia and then Lucullus’s wife; this allegation is mentioned several times to blacken Clodius’ reputation.
Milo, on the other hand, is perpetually depicted as a “saviour of Rome” by his virtuous actions and political career up until then.
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And such is Lizzie Cheney treating Trump in the 4 August 2022 CNN article where she and the WITCH HUNTERS and Cassidy Hutchinson are depicted as “SAVIORS OF OUR SACRED DEMOCRACY, while Trump is made out repeatedly in the “Pro Milone Revisited” of Lizzie Cheney on 28 June 2022 to be a malevolent, invidious, effeminate character with small hands who throws dishes at the wall of the presidential dining room and throws tantrums where he pulls all the dishes off the table by yanking on the tablecloth, which makes extra work for Cassidy Hutchinson, who has to clean the mess up, and who craves power and organized the ambush on Joe Biden and Mike Pence on 6 January 2021, in what is being called an insurrection, even though it wasn’t.
And here is where Catiline Revisited enters into the picture with regard to Lizzie Cheney taking Trump off the board by any means possible, justifying her actions in that regard by relying on a Hearst Journal editorial which declared, “If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, the killing must be done,” which justification arguably goes back to the trial of Milo and the early part of the refutation by Cicero of the opposition’s arguments (refutatio), wherein is contained the first known exposition of the phrase “silent enim leges inter arma” (“in times of war, the laws fall silent”), which since has been rephrased as “inter arma enim silent leges,” and was most recently used by the American media in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and today, it is being used again to justify the removal of Trump from American politics by any means necessary.
So not only was the phrase integral to Cicero’s argument in defense of Milo, it is also integral to Lizzie Cheney’s efforts using these WITCH HUNTERS HEARINGS to remove her political enemy Trump from the board, permanently, precisely because “in times of war,” and let’s face it, we are in a time of political war right now leading us closer and closer to civil war, the laws fall silent, which is what this thread is all about, documenting that as it happens.
And let me make an important point here as we inch our way towards November of 2022, and the up-coming mid-terms where the Democrat grip on our national government is threatened, and that is this, to wit:
Support of Constitutional Due Process of Law for Donald Trump, as odious (extremely unpleasant; repulsive) a person as he might be, which like beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, IS NOT the same as support for Donald Trump.
Support of Constitutional due process of law for Donald Trump is support for RULE OF LAW, as opposed to RULE OF THE LYNCH MOB Lizzie Cheney, a presidential aspirant herself in 2024, the WITCH HUNTERS and their enablers in the MAIN-STREAM and LEGACY MEDIA are trying to incite with these TELEVISED WITCH HUNTER hearings on PRIMETIME TV, along with inflammatory press releases by WITCH HUNTERS like Lizzie Cheney, to promote their own toxic political agenda, which takes us back to that CNN article with the inflammatory title of “Cheney says DOJ not prosecuting Trump if there’s evidence could call into question the US as ‘nation of laws'” by Eric Bradner on 4 August 2022, and in turn raises this important question, to wit:
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OF WHAT DOES DUE PROCESS OF LAW CONSIST OF?
And for that answer, let’s go to the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
Procedural due process refers to the constitutional requirement that when the federal government acts in such a way that denies a citizen of a life, liberty, or property interest, the person must be given notice, the opportunity to be heard, and a decision by a neutral decision-maker.
Procedural due process is one of two of the components of due process, with the other being substantive due process.
Due Process Clause
In the U.S. Constitution, the phrase “due process” appears twice: in the Fifth Amendment and in the Fourteenth Amendment.
Both Amendments guarantee due process when someone is denied “life, liberty, or property.”
A list of procedures that due process requires, at least in theory, because as we are seeing with these WITCH HUNTER HEARINGS and the history of COUP PLOTTING by Trump’s many enemies in Washington. D.C. in the years prior to 6 January 2021, when politics are involved, legal theory and RULE OF LAW and CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS all go out the window, includes as follows:
* An unbiased tribunal.
* Notice of the proposed action and the grounds asserted for it.
* Opportunity to present reasons why the proposed action should not be taken.
* The right to present evidence, including the right to call witnesses.
* The right to know opposing evidence.
* The right to cross-examine adverse witnesses.
* A decision based exclusively on the evidence presented.
* Opportunity to be represented by counsel.
* Requirement that the tribunal prepare a record of the evidence presented.
* Requirement that the tribunal prepare written findings of fact and reasons for its decision.
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And from the CNN article with the inflammatory title of “Cheney says DOJ not prosecuting Trump if there’s evidence could call into question the US as ‘nation of laws'” by Eric Bradner on 4 August 2022, and all of what has preceded in this thread, the very first thing we see Trump being deprived of by Lizzie Cheney and the WITCH HUNTERS is the “unbiased tribunal,” because we have heard Lizzie say it with her own mouth in the CNN article quoted above that Trump is guilty plain and simple and it is now time for Joe Biden’s attorney general Merrick Garland to put the noose around Trump’s neck and hang him high, because Lizzie knows he is guilty, which takes us to the indisputable fact that it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and UNLAWFUL for the house of representatives and Lizzie Cheney and the WITCH HUNTERS to usurp the duties of a grand jury and arrogate unto themselves that power, it being known as ATTAINDER in violation Article I, Section 9, Clause 3, “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed,” so when Lizzie makes it clear in the 4 August 2022 CNN article that the WITCH HUNTERS COMMITTEE is indeed acting just like any Grand Jury in our legal system,” what that clearly tells us is that Lizzie condones UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTS by these WITCH HUNTERS, and with that said, let us close this out with a teaching moment, as follows:
“Bills of attainder . . . are such special acts of the legislature, as inflict capital punishments upon persons supposed to be guilty of high offences, such as treason and felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings.”
“If an act inflicts a milder degree of punishment than death, it is called a bill of pains and penalties.”
“In such cases, the legislature assumes judicial magistracy, pronouncing upon the guilt of the party without any of the common forms and guards of trial, and satisfying itself with proofs, when such proofs are within its reach, whether they are conformable to the rules of evidence, or not.”
“In short, in all such cases, the legislature exercises the highest power of sovereignty, and what may be properly deemed an irresponsible despotic discretion, being governed solely by what it deems political necessity or expediency, and too often under the influence of unreasonable fears, or unfounded suspicions.”
The phrase “bill of attainder,” as used in this clause and in clause 1 of § 10, applies to bills of pains and penalties as well as to the traditional bills of attainder.
The prohibition embodied in this clause is not to be narrowly construed in the context of traditional forms but is to be interpreted in accordance with the designs of the framers so as to preclude trial by legislature, which would violate the separation of powers.
The clause thus prohibits all legislative acts, “no matter what their form, that apply either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial.”
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And with that in the record, let’s take a pause for station identification so you can get to the fridge for some munchies and get comfortably settled again, at which time we will be back with more of the show coming to us live from Washington, D.C., the famous “Ten Miles Square” which is the seat of Joe Biden’s government, and the place of residence for Joe and the great officers of state including Nancy Pelosi and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and Lizzie Cheney, where the court of Joe Biden, who possesses the powers of a monarch, is observed of that of a monarch — ambition with idleness — baseness with pride — the thirst of riches without labour — aversion to truth — flattery — treason — perfidy — violation of engagements — contempt of civil duties — hope from the magistrate’s weakness; but above all, the perpetual ridicule of virtue.
So please, stay tuned!
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Re: POLITICS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR AUGUST 7, 2022 AT 3:44 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go further here with respect to the chaos the autocrat Joe Biden is getting set to unleash upon the world as part of his “Ultra-MAGA Great Leap Forward” as embodied in Joe’s First Five Year Plan now known to history as “Joe Biden’s America First Plan to Build America Back Better to Make America Great Again,” this as the autocrat Joe continues to grow our economy from the bottom up and middle out for working families all across the country, which is something we should all be for, because it is the right thing to do, and as we continue to follow the science, for today, science is our god and we truly worship it as a deity, it is necessary for all of us to understand and accept the fact that today, at this point of inflection which is really a transition to a new and better age on earth as a result of Joe Biden’s “BUILD BACK BETTER WORLD” Joe told us and the candid world about in his “Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” on September 21, 2021 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York at 10:01 A.M. EDT, we truly need Joe Biden not only as an autocrat in the United States of America, but more than that, the autocrat of the world, because at this inflection point in history, it is very apparent to everybody that democracy in the United States of America does not work anymore, precisely because democracy requires consensus, which in today’s polarized country, where Joe Biden considers a majority of the citizens to be “DREGS OF SOCIETY,” is not going to happen, so that Joe Biden wasting time trying to muster consensus simply takes too long in this fast-moving world, where Joe Biden intends to win the RACE FOR THE 21st CENTURY, which makes it clear to a blind man that only autocracies today are equipped to meet the extraordinary challenges of modern times, which is why God blessed us with Joe Biden as our autocrat to lead us forth into a grand and glorious future of his making, with Joe Biden’s Washington, D.C. being seen by all the world and us too as a SHINING CITY ON A HILL because it is the CITY OF JOE!
And with that understood and accepted, that Joe Biden is an autocrat because we need him to be, which means we want him to be, which gives him his mandate to be an autocrat blessed by the people whose lives he now rules over, to see the truly global scope of Joe Biden’s vision that leads us forth from the benighted ignorance of the Trump years in America into the light of a brand new day, the first day of the Biden Thousand Year Reich, and in turn brings us to this very moment in time, we need to go back to Joe’s “Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” on September 21, 2021 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, where we have the global vision of Joe Biden’s “ULTRA-MAGA GREAT LEAP FORWARD” laid out for us in terms a common person without a JD from Harvard could understand, because in his heart, Joe is a die-hard Union man who knows in his heart the plight of the working classes in America, to wit:
Simply put: We stand, in my view, at an inflection point in history.
And I’m here today to share with you how the United States intends to work with partners and allies to answer these questions and the commitment of my new administration to help lead the world toward a more peaceful, prosperous future for all people.
Instead of continuing to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources to the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future: ending this pandemic; addressing the climate crisis; managing the shifts in global power dynamics; shaping the rules of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber, and emerging technologies; and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today.
end quotes
And today, in this thread, the focus will be on Joe Biden as AUTOCRAT OF THE WORLD writing the rules of the world on vital issues like trade and emerging technologies, which is what this Reuters article we shall be getting back to shortly is all about – Joe Biden writing those rules as if he were in fact the ruler of the world, as opposed to a deluded pretender.
Going back to Joe’s “Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” on September 21, 2021 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, Joe went further into his vision of world domination by the United States under his command, as follows:
We will pursue new rules of global trade and economic growth that strive to level the playing field so that it’s not artificially tipped in favor of any one country at the expense of others and every nation has a right and the opportunity to compete fairly.
end quote
ANTI-DOG EAT DOG LEGISLATION, people, from straight out of “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand who saw Joe Biden coming many, many years ago, and wrote about it in a very misunderstood novel that was a look into the future we are arriving at now.
Joe Biden’s ANTI-DOG-EAT-DOG RULE for the micro-chip industry is the logical result of a mixed economy, one in the process of rejecting capitalism.
And as far as Joe the Autocrat is concerned, when the government has the power to control and regulate private business, it’s in a position to dispense economic favors, and in power politics at the level Joe Biden plays the game, that is what the game is all about, having economic favors to dispense, so to make that happen, Joe is going to dominate weaker countries, whether by force, as he is doing with Russia, or economic coercion, or technological exploitation, as Joe is doing here, or disinformation.
So without further adieu, let us go back to the Reuters article on August 3, 2022 titled “As U.S. eyes new China chip curbs, turmoil looms for global market” by Joyce Lee, where we have further as follows concerning the madness, insanity and chaos the autocrat Joe is about to unleash upon the world, to wit:
In Samsung’s memory chip operation in Xian, central China, one of the largest foreign chip projects in the country, the company has invested a total of about $26 billion since it broke ground on the site in 2012, including chip production as well as testing and packaging.
end quotes
And that is why Joe Biden’s ANTI DOG-EAT-DOG LEGISLATION for the chip industry in America is so vital, because that dog in China is clearly too big, while these dogs in America are too small, which requires Joe Biden to step in and level the playing field which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The tech giant makes 128-layer NAND flash products in Xian, analysts said, chips that store data in devices such as smartphones and personal computers, as well as in data centres.
The facility accounts for 43% of Samsung’s global NAND flash memory production capacity and 15% of the overall global output capacity, according to TrendForce late last year.
The U.S. crackdown, if approved, could also complicate SK Hynix’s ambition to expand its presence in the NAND market where it is ranked third as of first quarter behind Samsung and Japan’s Kioxia Holdings, which was spun out of Toshiba Corp.
SK Hynix completed late last year the first phase of its $9 billion purchase of Intel’s NAND business, including its Dalian, China NAND manufacturing facility.
CHINA STRATEGIES
The move being considered by the United States is one of several recent signs of deepening tensions between Beijing and Washington over the tech sector.
Congress last week approved legislation to subsidise semiconductor production in the United States.
It bars any company that receives federal subsidies from investing in certain chip technology in China during the subsidy period.
The deepening tensions could leave Samsung and SK Hynix having to review strategies on China investments, analysts and industry sources said.
“Until now, companies tended to invest in countries like China, where costs were cheap,” said Kim Yang-jae, analyst at Daol Investment & Securities.
“That’s no longer going to be the only consideration.”
“The biggest change these potential limits will bring will be where the next chip factories are built.”
They could also face potentially diminishing returns from their multi-billion dollar China plants, which could be stuck making older-technology, less lucrative chips.
SK Hynix has not been able to upgrade its DRAM memory chip production facilities in Wuxi, China with the latest extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) chipmaking machines made by Dutch firm ASML as U.S. officials do not want advanced equipment used in the process to enter the country.
The EUV machines are used to make more advanced and smaller chips that are used in high-end devices such as smartphones.
end quotes
As Joe said in “Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” on September 21, 2021 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, as to his vision of world domination by the United States under his command: That’s the idea behind the Build Back Better World.
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Paul Plante says:
And before we go further here with respect to the chaos the autocrat Joe Biden is getting set to unleash upon the world as part of his “Ultra-MAGA Great Leap Forward” as embodied in Joe’s First Five Year Plan now known to history as “Joe Biden’s America First Plan to Build America Back Better to Make America Great Again,” this as the autocrat Joe continues to grow our economy from the bottom up and middle out for working families all across the country, which is something we should all be for, because it is the right thing to do, and as we continue to follow the science, for today, science is our god and we truly worship it as a deity, it is necessary for all of us to understand and accept the fact that today, at this point of inflection which is really a transition to a new and better age on earth as a result of Joe Biden’s “BUILD BACK BETTER WORLD” Joe told us and the candid world about in his “Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” on September 21, 2021 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York at 10:01 A.M. EDT, we truly need Joe Biden not only as an autocrat in the United States of America, but more than that, the autocrat of the world, because at this inflection point in history, it is very apparent to everybody that democracy in the United States of America does not work anymore, precisely because democracy requires consensus, which in today’s polarized country, where Joe Biden considers a majority of the citizens to be “DREGS OF SOCIETY,” is not going to happen, so that Joe Biden wasting time trying to muster consensus simply takes too long in this fast-moving world, where Joe Biden intends to win the RACE FOR THE 21st CENTURY, which makes it clear to a blind man that only autocracies today are equipped to meet the extraordinary challenges of modern times, which is why God blessed us with Joe Biden as our autocrat to lead us forth into a grand and glorious future of his making, with Joe Biden’s Washington, D.C. being seen by all the world and us too as a SHINING CITY ON A HILL because it is the CITY OF JOE!
And with that understood and accepted, that Joe Biden is an autocrat because we need him to be, which means we want him to be, which gives him his mandate to be an autocrat blessed by the people whose lives he now rules over, to see the truly global scope of Joe Biden’s vision that leads us forth from the benighted ignorance of the Trump years in America into the light of a brand new day, the first day of the Biden Thousand Year Reich, and in turn brings us to this very moment in time, we need to go back to Joe’s “Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” on September 21, 2021 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, where we have the global vision of Joe Biden’s “ULTRA-MAGA GREAT LEAP FORWARD” laid out for us in terms a common person without a JD from Harvard could understand, because in his heart, Joe is a die-hard Union man who knows in his heart the plight of the working classes in America, to wit:
Simply put: We stand, in my view, at an inflection point in history.
And I’m here today to share with you how the United States intends to work with partners and allies to answer these questions and the commitment of my new administration to help lead the world toward a more peaceful, prosperous future for all people.
Instead of continuing to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources to the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future: ending this pandemic; addressing the climate crisis; managing the shifts in global power dynamics; shaping the rules of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber, and emerging technologies; and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today.
end quotes
And today, in this thread, the focus will be on Joe Biden as AUTOCRAT OF THE WORLD writing the rules of the world on vital issues like trade and emerging technologies, which is what this Reuters article we shall be getting back to shortly is all about – Joe Biden writing those rules as if he were in fact the ruler of the world, as opposed to a deluded pretender.
Going back to Joe’s “Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” on September 21, 2021 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, Joe went further into his vision of world domination by the United States under his command, as follows:
We will pursue new rules of global trade and economic growth that strive to level the playing field so that it’s not artificially tipped in favor of any one country at the expense of others and every nation has a right and the opportunity to compete fairly.
end quote
ANTI-DOG EAT DOG LEGISLATION, people, from straight out of “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand who saw Joe Biden coming many, many years ago, and wrote about it in a very misunderstood novel that was a look into the future we are arriving at now.
Joe Biden’s ANTI-DOG-EAT-DOG RULE for the micro-chip industry is the logical result of a mixed economy, one in the process of rejecting capitalism.
And as far as Joe the Autocrat is concerned, when the government has the power to control and regulate private business, it’s in a position to dispense economic favors, and in power politics at the level Joe Biden plays the game, that is what the game is all about, having economic favors to dispense, so to make that happen, Joe is going to dominate weaker countries, whether by force, as he is doing with Russia, or economic coercion, or technological exploitation, as Joe is doing here, or disinformation.
So without further adieu, let us go back to the Reuters article on August 3, 2022 titled “As U.S. eyes new China chip curbs, turmoil looms for global market” by Joyce Lee, where we have further as follows concerning the madness, insanity and chaos the autocrat Joe is about to unleash upon the world, to wit:
In Samsung’s memory chip operation in Xian, central China, one of the largest foreign chip projects in the country, the company has invested a total of about $26 billion since it broke ground on the site in 2012, including chip production as well as testing and packaging.
end quotes
And that is why Joe Biden’s ANTI DOG-EAT-DOG LEGISLATION for the chip industry in America is so vital, because that dog in China is clearly too big, while these dogs in America are too small, which requires Joe Biden to step in and level the playing field which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The tech giant makes 128-layer NAND flash products in Xian, analysts said, chips that store data in devices such as smartphones and personal computers, as well as in data centres.
The facility accounts for 43% of Samsung’s global NAND flash memory production capacity and 15% of the overall global output capacity, according to TrendForce late last year.
The U.S. crackdown, if approved, could also complicate SK Hynix’s ambition to expand its presence in the NAND market where it is ranked third as of first quarter behind Samsung and Japan’s Kioxia Holdings, which was spun out of Toshiba Corp.
SK Hynix completed late last year the first phase of its $9 billion purchase of Intel’s NAND business, including its Dalian, China NAND manufacturing facility.
CHINA STRATEGIES
The move being considered by the United States is one of several recent signs of deepening tensions between Beijing and Washington over the tech sector.
Congress last week approved legislation to subsidise semiconductor production in the United States.
It bars any company that receives federal subsidies from investing in certain chip technology in China during the subsidy period.
The deepening tensions could leave Samsung and SK Hynix having to review strategies on China investments, analysts and industry sources said.
“Until now, companies tended to invest in countries like China, where costs were cheap,” said Kim Yang-jae, analyst at Daol Investment & Securities.
“That’s no longer going to be the only consideration.”
“The biggest change these potential limits will bring will be where the next chip factories are built.”
They could also face potentially diminishing returns from their multi-billion dollar China plants, which could be stuck making older-technology, less lucrative chips.
SK Hynix has not been able to upgrade its DRAM memory chip production facilities in Wuxi, China with the latest extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) chipmaking machines made by Dutch firm ASML as U.S. officials do not want advanced equipment used in the process to enter the country.
The EUV machines are used to make more advanced and smaller chips that are used in high-end devices such as smartphones.
end quotes
As Joe said in “Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” on September 21, 2021 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, as to his vision of world domination by the United States under his command: That’s the idea behind the Build Back Better World.
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Re: POLITICS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR AUGUST 7, 2022 AT 5:19 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to the transcript, where WITCH HUNTER and presidential aspirant Lizzie Cheney is giving EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY on PRIMETIME TV on 28 June 2022 about Trump and the 25th Amendment, to see this ATTAINDER TRAIN the WITCH HUNTERS are riding on with Lizzie Cheney as their Casey Jones as they stir up a LYNCH MOB MENTALITY with respect to Trump, as well as to see the grip STAR WITNESS Cassidy Hutchinson now has on our collective futures, we need to go to an article in The Guardian, a Brit publication, titled “Time is running out. The Department of Justice must indict and convict Trump” by Laurence H Tribe on 4 August 2022, wherein Larry, who teaches law, you know, at Harvard, I think it is, argues eloquently that Trump is a special case who does not deserve due process of law, as follows:
The attorney general, Merrick Garland, knows that the fish always rots from the head.
On 26 July, the Washington Post broke news that the justice department’s investigation is focused on Donald Trump himself.
Time is of the essence in bringing his case to indictment.
Indeed, a moving target who gives every indication that he plans to strike again must trigger a different cost-benefit calculus in the inevitable debates both within and outside the justice department about when enough proof has been gathered to indict responsibly – and when it would be a dereliction of duty to delay further.
end quotes
And what Larry is doing there is channeling Nancy Pelosi as quoted in a Politico article titled “Pelosi vetoes Banks, Jordan for Jan. 6 select committee” by Olivia Beavers, Heather Caygle and Nicholas Wu, as follows:
“The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.”
end quote
And as Lizzie Cheney clearly stated in that CNN article with the inflammatory title of “Cheney says DOJ not prosecuting Trump if there’s evidence could call into question the US as ‘nation of laws’” by Eric Bradner on 4 August 2022, “And he’s (Trump) so dangerous that, you know, my view is that at the end of the day, if defending the Constitution against the threat that he poses means losing a House seat, then that’s a sacrifice that I’m willing to make,” which makes it patently clear that Trump is not entitled to due process of law and should be made a special case, as Larry Tribe is so eloquently arguing to the Brits in The Guardian.
And credit where credit is due, when it comes to trying to knock Trump, a popularis leader of the restless plebeian mobs who plagued the political scene of Washington. D.C., out of the saddle as a political threat to the Democrats, Larry Tribe is no Johnny-Come-Lately to the game.
Far to the contrary, we first come across the name of Larry Tribe in an NBC News article tiled “Democrats’ investigative dreams to meet cold, hard congressional reality – Democrats conducting presidential oversight will soon have legal authority to demand answers from the Trump administration. That doesn’t mean they’ll get them” by Rebecca Shabad on Nov. 12, 2018, where we learned as follows about the political war the Democrats intended to wage against Trump, wasting our tax dollars in the process, to wit:
WASHINGTON — When Democrats take control of the House next year, they will find themselves with new powers to investigate and embarrass the Trump administration.
SUBPOENA POWER
Democrats will also have the subpoena power in their arsenal — and, based on their efforts in this congressional term, they’re itching to use it.
During Trump’s presidency so far, congressional Republicans have blocked more than 52 subpoena requests by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, including requests for documents related to everything from alleged housing abuses by the company run by presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner’s family to the Justice Department’s refusal to defend Obamacare in court.
But just because they can now issue subpoenas doesn’t mean they will necessarily issue as many as some voters may expect — or that they can count on getting the information they’re looking for anytime soon.
“Subpoena power is interesting,” Pelosi said at a recent CNN event.
“To use it, or not to use it?”
“It’s a great arrow to have in your quiver in terms of negotiating on other subjects.”
“But getting back to what we will do, what we will do is exercise oversight, which is the responsibility of the Congress of the United States, exercise oversight over the agencies of government, which this administration has completely walked away from.”
Laurence Tribe, constitutional law professor at Harvard, cautioned this week that the subpoena power wasn’t a magical one.
“Hate to say it, but counting on a Democratic House’s subpoenas to unlock all the secrets of this corrupt administration could prove naïve,” he tweeted.
“A Trumpified judiciary, expanded further with the Senate’s acquiescence, might let the Trumpsters stonewall.”
“So democracy remains endangered.”
end quotes
So to his credit, Larry Tribe’s visceral hatred of Trump is not anything new, which means Larry is not jumping on the ATTAINDER TRAIN now just to get some cheap publicity, which takes us to THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR December 6, 2018 at 8:31 pm (Opinion: Making it Up as they Go
NOVEMBER 11, 2018 http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-103077 ) where we have more Larry Tribe, as follows:
“My view, which represents the decisive majority opinion, is that President Trump can be impeached for conduct before he took office if there is an exceptionally close connection between that conduct and his acquisition of the office,” Joshua Matz, an author of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment, told the Washington Examiner.
end quotes
The “decisive majority opinion?”
Of what?
His bowling buddies?
And who exactly is this Joshua Matz, besides an author of a To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment?
And actually, for the sake of veracity all around, I checked out the book on Amazon and it was really written by Laurence Tribe, with Matz as a co-author, and the review of the book is quite informative, as follows, starting with this very line, to wit:.
The definitive book on presidential impeachment and how it should be used today.
end quotes
So we can safely say that Larry Tribe has been one of the conspirators to remove Trump as a political opponent by any and every means possible for many years now, so that his editorial in The Guardian calling for a different standard of justice for Trump is just what we would expect to hear from Larry, which takes us back to The Guardian, as follows:
The former president’s insistence that he has nothing to be remorseful about (other than not marching to the Capitol) makes that debate seem academic.
And the steps being taken at his behest even now in battleground states to replace 2020’s failure with 2024’s success redouble the urgency.
Shakespeare’s Brutus had it right when he said, in Julius Caesar: “We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
end quotes
And how apt it was there for Larry to quote from Brutus, one of the conspirators who murdered Julius Caesar by butchering him with a dagger.
Afterall, as a Hearst Journal editorial once declared, “If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, the killing must be done,” and “in times of war, the laws fall silent,” which takes us back to Larry Tribe in The Guardian, to wit:
In these circumstances, prudence counsels running the clock backwards to set clear benchmarks for moving forward.
Any calculation of how to proceed must start with two pessimistic premises.
First, that Trump will run in 2024 and could win.
Second, that if any of the likely Republican nominees wins, the next administration will be one that is eager to scrap any prosecution of the last.
Hence, the goal must be to secure a conviction before November 2024, and in any event, no later than 20 January 2025, when the next presidential term begins.
end quotes
Political expediency governs here, people!
Trump isn’t really human, he is more of an animal, so he should not get the same equal protection a real human being would be entitled to, especially since Trump could beat Joe Biden or any other Democrat in 2024, which is why Trump needs to be taken off the board today, period, which takes us back to Larry Tribe in The Guardian, to wit:
If Trump is not formally charged until January 2023, that would imply a multi-month trial starting in September or October.
Should he run for president and win in November, we would have a president-elect in the middle of a criminal trial.
Part of why a lengthy post-indictment/pre-verdict period is foreseeable is that federal district courts are bound to protect an accused’s rights to full airing of pre-trial claims and the time needed to file and argue them.
Trump will have many pre-trial claims, setting out his serial and inexhaustible list of grievances, the imagined violation of his rights, his purported immunity from prosecution as a former president and the overriding unfairness of it all.
Some district court judges more than others will balance protections for the accused with accountability’s pragmatic need for speed.
Importantly, even the four Trump-appointed district court judges in DC have often shown little sympathy for those charged with perpetrating the events of January 6 or resisting their investigation.
The point is that if Trump were to be indicted, the Department of Justice cannot count on a favorable judge putting it on a jet stream to an actual trial.
So what does that mean for precisely when Trump must be formally indicted?
Thankfully, it doesn’t imply the impossible.
The Department of Justice could pull an experienced prosecutor or two from every US attorney’s office and put them together on the case.
With all stops pulled, prosecutors still have time to do what is needed before year end.
The tasks include talking to key witnesses that the January 6 House committee interviewed and deposed, which is well under way.
Cassidy Hutchinson, principal aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadow, and Vice-President Mike Pence’s top aides, Marc Short and Greg Jacobs, are now working with the Department of Justice or appearing before its grand jury.
Cooperation is already reported to have begun among the lawyer-enablers of Trump’s coup plotting.
With the investigation’s accelerating aim at Trump, every potential target’s defense counsel has surely discussed with the target the advantages of an early offer to plead guilty and cooperate.
Early birds get better worms.
The task ahead is massive, but if attacked with supreme urgency, it can get done.
The building blocks for a trial of Donald Trump must be put into place with alacrity.
In no case more than this one, the perfect cannot be the enemy of the good.
The clock is ticking.
end quotes
And there we have it, people!
Cassidy Hutchinson is not a person to get on the bad side of, as Trump is now finding out.
And when we return from station identification, it will be to find Lizzie Cheney and her STAR WITNESS Cassidy Hutchinson testifying as follows, so don’t touch that dial, to wit:
LIZ CHENEY: On the evening of January 6th and the day after the President’s family and his senior staff and others tried to encourage the President to condemn the violence and commit to the peaceful transition of power.
At 3:31 p.m. on January 6th, Sean Hannity of Fox News texted Mark Meadows.
Mr. Hannity said quote, “Can he make a statement.”
“I saw the tweet.”
“Ask people to leave the [Capitol].”
Later that evening Mr. Hannity sent another text message to Mark Meadows.
This time he shared a link to a tweet.
That tweet reported that President Trump’s cabinet secretaries were considering invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
As you can see on the screen, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution creates a process for the transition of power if a President is unfit or unable to serve.
The 25th Amendment has never been used to remove a President.
But the committee has learned that after the attack on the US Capitol this was being discussed by members of President Trump’s cabinet as a way of stripping the full power of the presidency from Donald Trump.
President Trump’s supporters were worried.
In addition to the tweet that he sent Mark Meadows after the attack, Sean Hannity apparently spoke with President Trump and warned him about what could happen.
We understand that this text message that Sean Hannity sent to Kayleigh McEnany on January 7th shows what Mr. Hannity said to the President.
First, no more stolen election talk.
Second, impeachment and 25th amendment are real.
Many people will quit.
Ms. Hutchinson, you told us that you were hearing about discussions related to the 25th amendment.
Here’s part of what you said.
[Begin Videotape]
CASSIDY HUTCHINSON: Mr. Trump had every chance to have the conversation with Mr. Meadows in case he hadn’t heard the discussions amongst cabinet secretaries.
And from what I understand, it was more of a — this is what I’m hearing.
I want you to be aware of it, but I also think it’s worth putting on your radar because you are the Chief of Staff.
You’re technically the boss of all the cabinet secretaries.
And, you know, if the conversations progressed you should be ready to take action on this.
I — I’m concerned for you and your positioning with this.
Reach out to me if you have any questions or, like, if I can be helpful with you at all.
[End Videotape]
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Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to the transcript, where WITCH HUNTER and presidential aspirant Lizzie Cheney is giving EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY on PRIMETIME TV on 28 June 2022 about Trump and the 25th Amendment, to see this ATTAINDER TRAIN the WITCH HUNTERS are riding on with Lizzie Cheney as their Casey Jones as they stir up a LYNCH MOB MENTALITY with respect to Trump, as well as to see the grip STAR WITNESS Cassidy Hutchinson now has on our collective futures, we need to go to an article in The Guardian, a Brit publication, titled “Time is running out. The Department of Justice must indict and convict Trump” by Laurence H Tribe on 4 August 2022, wherein Larry, who teaches law, you know, at Harvard, I think it is, argues eloquently that Trump is a special case who does not deserve due process of law, as follows:
The attorney general, Merrick Garland, knows that the fish always rots from the head.
On 26 July, the Washington Post broke news that the justice department’s investigation is focused on Donald Trump himself.
Time is of the essence in bringing his case to indictment.
Indeed, a moving target who gives every indication that he plans to strike again must trigger a different cost-benefit calculus in the inevitable debates both within and outside the justice department about when enough proof has been gathered to indict responsibly – and when it would be a dereliction of duty to delay further.
end quotes
And what Larry is doing there is channeling Nancy Pelosi as quoted in a Politico article titled “Pelosi vetoes Banks, Jordan for Jan. 6 select committee” by Olivia Beavers, Heather Caygle and Nicholas Wu, as follows:
“The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.”
end quote
And as Lizzie Cheney clearly stated in that CNN article with the inflammatory title of “Cheney says DOJ not prosecuting Trump if there’s evidence could call into question the US as ‘nation of laws’” by Eric Bradner on 4 August 2022, “And he’s (Trump) so dangerous that, you know, my view is that at the end of the day, if defending the Constitution against the threat that he poses means losing a House seat, then that’s a sacrifice that I’m willing to make,” which makes it patently clear that Trump is not entitled to due process of law and should be made a special case, as Larry Tribe is so eloquently arguing to the Brits in The Guardian.
And credit where credit is due, when it comes to trying to knock Trump, a popularis leader of the restless plebeian mobs who plagued the political scene of Washington. D.C., out of the saddle as a political threat to the Democrats, Larry Tribe is no Johnny-Come-Lately to the game.
Far to the contrary, we first come across the name of Larry Tribe in an NBC News article tiled “Democrats’ investigative dreams to meet cold, hard congressional reality – Democrats conducting presidential oversight will soon have legal authority to demand answers from the Trump administration. That doesn’t mean they’ll get them” by Rebecca Shabad on Nov. 12, 2018, where we learned as follows about the political war the Democrats intended to wage against Trump, wasting our tax dollars in the process, to wit:
WASHINGTON — When Democrats take control of the House next year, they will find themselves with new powers to investigate and embarrass the Trump administration.
SUBPOENA POWER
Democrats will also have the subpoena power in their arsenal — and, based on their efforts in this congressional term, they’re itching to use it.
During Trump’s presidency so far, congressional Republicans have blocked more than 52 subpoena requests by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, including requests for documents related to everything from alleged housing abuses by the company run by presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner’s family to the Justice Department’s refusal to defend Obamacare in court.
But just because they can now issue subpoenas doesn’t mean they will necessarily issue as many as some voters may expect — or that they can count on getting the information they’re looking for anytime soon.
“Subpoena power is interesting,” Pelosi said at a recent CNN event.
“To use it, or not to use it?”
“It’s a great arrow to have in your quiver in terms of negotiating on other subjects.”
“But getting back to what we will do, what we will do is exercise oversight, which is the responsibility of the Congress of the United States, exercise oversight over the agencies of government, which this administration has completely walked away from.”
Laurence Tribe, constitutional law professor at Harvard, cautioned this week that the subpoena power wasn’t a magical one.
“Hate to say it, but counting on a Democratic House’s subpoenas to unlock all the secrets of this corrupt administration could prove naïve,” he tweeted.
“A Trumpified judiciary, expanded further with the Senate’s acquiescence, might let the Trumpsters stonewall.”
“So democracy remains endangered.”
end quotes
So to his credit, Larry Tribe’s visceral hatred of Trump is not anything new, which means Larry is not jumping on the ATTAINDER TRAIN now just to get some cheap publicity, which takes us to THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR December 6, 2018 at 8:31 pm (Opinion: Making it Up as they Go
NOVEMBER 11, 2018 http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-103077 ) where we have more Larry Tribe, as follows:
“My view, which represents the decisive majority opinion, is that President Trump can be impeached for conduct before he took office if there is an exceptionally close connection between that conduct and his acquisition of the office,” Joshua Matz, an author of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment, told the Washington Examiner.
end quotes
The “decisive majority opinion?”
Of what?
His bowling buddies?
And who exactly is this Joshua Matz, besides an author of a To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment?
And actually, for the sake of veracity all around, I checked out the book on Amazon and it was really written by Laurence Tribe, with Matz as a co-author, and the review of the book is quite informative, as follows, starting with this very line, to wit:.
The definitive book on presidential impeachment and how it should be used today.
end quotes
So we can safely say that Larry Tribe has been one of the conspirators to remove Trump as a political opponent by any and every means possible for many years now, so that his editorial in The Guardian calling for a different standard of justice for Trump is just what we would expect to hear from Larry, which takes us back to The Guardian, as follows:
The former president’s insistence that he has nothing to be remorseful about (other than not marching to the Capitol) makes that debate seem academic.
And the steps being taken at his behest even now in battleground states to replace 2020’s failure with 2024’s success redouble the urgency.
Shakespeare’s Brutus had it right when he said, in Julius Caesar: “We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
end quotes
And how apt it was there for Larry to quote from Brutus, one of the conspirators who murdered Julius Caesar by butchering him with a dagger.
Afterall, as a Hearst Journal editorial once declared, “If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, the killing must be done,” and “in times of war, the laws fall silent,” which takes us back to Larry Tribe in The Guardian, to wit:
In these circumstances, prudence counsels running the clock backwards to set clear benchmarks for moving forward.
Any calculation of how to proceed must start with two pessimistic premises.
First, that Trump will run in 2024 and could win.
Second, that if any of the likely Republican nominees wins, the next administration will be one that is eager to scrap any prosecution of the last.
Hence, the goal must be to secure a conviction before November 2024, and in any event, no later than 20 January 2025, when the next presidential term begins.
end quotes
Political expediency governs here, people!
Trump isn’t really human, he is more of an animal, so he should not get the same equal protection a real human being would be entitled to, especially since Trump could beat Joe Biden or any other Democrat in 2024, which is why Trump needs to be taken off the board today, period, which takes us back to Larry Tribe in The Guardian, to wit:
If Trump is not formally charged until January 2023, that would imply a multi-month trial starting in September or October.
Should he run for president and win in November, we would have a president-elect in the middle of a criminal trial.
Part of why a lengthy post-indictment/pre-verdict period is foreseeable is that federal district courts are bound to protect an accused’s rights to full airing of pre-trial claims and the time needed to file and argue them.
Trump will have many pre-trial claims, setting out his serial and inexhaustible list of grievances, the imagined violation of his rights, his purported immunity from prosecution as a former president and the overriding unfairness of it all.
Some district court judges more than others will balance protections for the accused with accountability’s pragmatic need for speed.
Importantly, even the four Trump-appointed district court judges in DC have often shown little sympathy for those charged with perpetrating the events of January 6 or resisting their investigation.
The point is that if Trump were to be indicted, the Department of Justice cannot count on a favorable judge putting it on a jet stream to an actual trial.
So what does that mean for precisely when Trump must be formally indicted?
Thankfully, it doesn’t imply the impossible.
The Department of Justice could pull an experienced prosecutor or two from every US attorney’s office and put them together on the case.
With all stops pulled, prosecutors still have time to do what is needed before year end.
The tasks include talking to key witnesses that the January 6 House committee interviewed and deposed, which is well under way.
Cassidy Hutchinson, principal aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadow, and Vice-President Mike Pence’s top aides, Marc Short and Greg Jacobs, are now working with the Department of Justice or appearing before its grand jury.
Cooperation is already reported to have begun among the lawyer-enablers of Trump’s coup plotting.
With the investigation’s accelerating aim at Trump, every potential target’s defense counsel has surely discussed with the target the advantages of an early offer to plead guilty and cooperate.
Early birds get better worms.
The task ahead is massive, but if attacked with supreme urgency, it can get done.
The building blocks for a trial of Donald Trump must be put into place with alacrity.
In no case more than this one, the perfect cannot be the enemy of the good.
The clock is ticking.
end quotes
And there we have it, people!
Cassidy Hutchinson is not a person to get on the bad side of, as Trump is now finding out.
And when we return from station identification, it will be to find Lizzie Cheney and her STAR WITNESS Cassidy Hutchinson testifying as follows, so don’t touch that dial, to wit:
LIZ CHENEY: On the evening of January 6th and the day after the President’s family and his senior staff and others tried to encourage the President to condemn the violence and commit to the peaceful transition of power.
At 3:31 p.m. on January 6th, Sean Hannity of Fox News texted Mark Meadows.
Mr. Hannity said quote, “Can he make a statement.”
“I saw the tweet.”
“Ask people to leave the [Capitol].”
Later that evening Mr. Hannity sent another text message to Mark Meadows.
This time he shared a link to a tweet.
That tweet reported that President Trump’s cabinet secretaries were considering invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
As you can see on the screen, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution creates a process for the transition of power if a President is unfit or unable to serve.
The 25th Amendment has never been used to remove a President.
But the committee has learned that after the attack on the US Capitol this was being discussed by members of President Trump’s cabinet as a way of stripping the full power of the presidency from Donald Trump.
President Trump’s supporters were worried.
In addition to the tweet that he sent Mark Meadows after the attack, Sean Hannity apparently spoke with President Trump and warned him about what could happen.
We understand that this text message that Sean Hannity sent to Kayleigh McEnany on January 7th shows what Mr. Hannity said to the President.
First, no more stolen election talk.
Second, impeachment and 25th amendment are real.
Many people will quit.
Ms. Hutchinson, you told us that you were hearing about discussions related to the 25th amendment.
Here’s part of what you said.
[Begin Videotape]
CASSIDY HUTCHINSON: Mr. Trump had every chance to have the conversation with Mr. Meadows in case he hadn’t heard the discussions amongst cabinet secretaries.
And from what I understand, it was more of a — this is what I’m hearing.
I want you to be aware of it, but I also think it’s worth putting on your radar because you are the Chief of Staff.
You’re technically the boss of all the cabinet secretaries.
And, you know, if the conversations progressed you should be ready to take action on this.
I — I’m concerned for you and your positioning with this.
Reach out to me if you have any questions or, like, if I can be helpful with you at all.
[End Videotape]
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Re: POLITICS
Deutsche Welle
"Germany braces for social unrest over energy prices"
William Noah Glucroft, Deutsche Welle
7 AUGUST 2022
German officials have expressed fears that a worst-case winter of energy problems could prompt an extremist backlash.
How bad things get may depend on how well they manage the crisis – in policy and perception.
State and federal Lawmakers in Germany are exploring a sweeping set of measures to save energy, from turning off street lights to lowering building temperatures; and they are pleading with the public to cut consumption at home.
Whether those efforts spur a call to solidarity or a call to arms won't become clear until the cold sets in and bills come due.
Yet Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not in a wait-and-see mood, telling public broadcaster, ARD, last month that spiraling heating costs are a "powder keg for society."
In explicitly naming the elephant in the room, the chancellor and his government are on the hook for nipping social unrest in the bud.
"In using this 'powder keg' narrative, the chancellor is trying to make way for key decisions," Ricardo Kaufer, a professor of political sociology at the University of Greifswald, told DW.
"So all actors who could potentially stand in the way of measures are cajoled into compromise."
In other words, Scholz is signaling to his governing partners, political opposition, business leaders, and civil society that they bicker over policy responses at the country's peril.
This is a "lesson learned" from the pandemic, Kaufer said, when lawmakers often seemed unprepared to contain it, despite scientific predictions on how and when the virus would spread.
Their communication was more often reactive than proactive.
Measures and messaging
The Bundestag, the German parliament, has already passed legislation that hopes to insulate society's most vulnerable from price shocks.
At the same time, German utilities will be allowed to pass some of their increased costs onto consumers.
In crafting policy, officials are walking a fine line.
They want to help secure household finances, especially for low-wage earners, but not so much that they undermine the incentive to save energy.
More relief may follow the summer recess, however agreement on what that looks like, how much it will cost, and how it will get paid for is likely weeks away, at least.
The smallest of the parties in the governing coalition, the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP), control the finance ministry, which gives them significant power of the purse.
Its minister, Christian Lindner, has made clear he intends to use that power sparingly, as he stands up for his party's values of low tax, low spending, and low regulation.
The FDP's bigger partners, Scholz's center-left Social Democrats and the environmentalist Greens, are pushing for a more generous helping hand.
Even if the government gets the measures right, they could still get the messaging wrong, which political scientists say can be just as important in steering public sentiment.
As the pandemic showed, money and resources are only half the battle; clear and consistent communication is the other half.
"Perceptions are decisive," Evelyn Bytzek, a professor of political communication at the University of Koblenz-Landau, told DW.
"Ultimately, we all act based more on what we perceive to be true than what is true."
Symbolism is a powerful tool in maintaining public support, Bytzek said.
She pointed to Gerhard Schröder's visit to flood-stricken parts of eastern Germany in 2002, which gave him a boost in his reelection campaign for chancellor.
He went onto win a few weeks later.
Scholz won last year's election in part due to his Merkel-like passive leadership style.
Now that could become a liability -- and stoke unrest -- if the public feels their ship of state is without a captain at the helm with an iceberg ahead.
"Crisis is not just a danger, but also an opportunity to generate more trust when crisis management is well perceived," Bytzek said.
Scholz's deputy, the Greens' Robert Habeck, seems to understand that.
As economy minister, Habeck has the lead on energy policy and has been forced to make hard choices that often contradict his own environmentalist credentials.
Polls show he has won points for regularly explaining the rationale behind those decisions.
Though there are limits to what communication can do.
Habeck was booed at townhall events last week.
However, those protests were more anti-war than anti-democratic.
Evaluating the risk
The Federal Interior Ministry told DW that protests of similar magnitude to those against pandemic restrictions are foreseeable, depending on how much the cost and supply of energy burden society.
"We can assume that populists and extremists will again try to influence protests to their liking," Britta Beylage-Haarmann, a ministry spokesperson, told DW in a statement.
"Extremist actors and groups in Germany can lead to a growth in dangers if corresponding social crisis conditions allow for it."
The Federal Police, which fall under the ministry, told DW they have "no insights" into specific threats arising from the crisis.
Perception also plays a role in how much unrest can shake a country.
Querdenker and others who have taken to the streets to challenge state authority during the pandemic are loud, but they have never represented more than a small minority of public opinion.
Still, they have received an outsized share of media and political attention.
Political sociologists like Greifswald University's Kaufer say protest movements stand out more in a country like Germany, where consensus-based political culture and federal power-sharing dissuade the instrumentalization of social discontent than elsewhere in Europe.
France, for example, has a reputation for confrontation.
Instability in Germany often has a negative connotation, he said, linked to events like bloody street battles amid hyperinflation in Weimar-era Germany, which gave rise to the Nazis.
"There has been a failure of discourse among progressive forces to recognize positive examples in German history," Kaufer added.
"There is a fear of protest, that people will take action without the legitimacy of processes like voting."
He cited East German street protests in 1953 and the peaceful revolution of 1989, and the West German anti-nuclear movement in the 1970s and 80s, as examples that deserve a stronger anchor in Germany's collective memory.
Inequality means instability
Longer-term risks to social cohesion, however, don't end with the coming of spring.
Germany was once one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, in which class and social status had less influence in determining one's success in life.
That is changing, as Germany follows a general trend towards growing income inequality.
"We're seeing that social mobility can no longer address social inequality," Susanne Pickel, a comparative politics professor at the University of Duisberg-Essen, told DW.
Inflation and energy prices will disproportionately impact the country's most vulnerable, according to economic models, as low earners have less disposable income to absorb increased costs.
That also makes them more susceptible to anti-government rhetoric than other income groups.
"Pandemic, war, and inflation endanger the lower middle class."
"If we can't manage to stabilize them, then their fears of being permanently pushed down grow," Pickel said, "then we may see more people take to the streets in Germany."
"And even more virulent, agreement with the [far-right populist] AfD and the appearance of solutions from far-right populists can change voting behavior."
Edited by: Rina Goldenberg
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ge ... a66c2a5cf1
"Germany braces for social unrest over energy prices"
William Noah Glucroft, Deutsche Welle
7 AUGUST 2022
German officials have expressed fears that a worst-case winter of energy problems could prompt an extremist backlash.
How bad things get may depend on how well they manage the crisis – in policy and perception.
State and federal Lawmakers in Germany are exploring a sweeping set of measures to save energy, from turning off street lights to lowering building temperatures; and they are pleading with the public to cut consumption at home.
Whether those efforts spur a call to solidarity or a call to arms won't become clear until the cold sets in and bills come due.
Yet Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not in a wait-and-see mood, telling public broadcaster, ARD, last month that spiraling heating costs are a "powder keg for society."
In explicitly naming the elephant in the room, the chancellor and his government are on the hook for nipping social unrest in the bud.
"In using this 'powder keg' narrative, the chancellor is trying to make way for key decisions," Ricardo Kaufer, a professor of political sociology at the University of Greifswald, told DW.
"So all actors who could potentially stand in the way of measures are cajoled into compromise."
In other words, Scholz is signaling to his governing partners, political opposition, business leaders, and civil society that they bicker over policy responses at the country's peril.
This is a "lesson learned" from the pandemic, Kaufer said, when lawmakers often seemed unprepared to contain it, despite scientific predictions on how and when the virus would spread.
Their communication was more often reactive than proactive.
Measures and messaging
The Bundestag, the German parliament, has already passed legislation that hopes to insulate society's most vulnerable from price shocks.
At the same time, German utilities will be allowed to pass some of their increased costs onto consumers.
In crafting policy, officials are walking a fine line.
They want to help secure household finances, especially for low-wage earners, but not so much that they undermine the incentive to save energy.
More relief may follow the summer recess, however agreement on what that looks like, how much it will cost, and how it will get paid for is likely weeks away, at least.
The smallest of the parties in the governing coalition, the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP), control the finance ministry, which gives them significant power of the purse.
Its minister, Christian Lindner, has made clear he intends to use that power sparingly, as he stands up for his party's values of low tax, low spending, and low regulation.
The FDP's bigger partners, Scholz's center-left Social Democrats and the environmentalist Greens, are pushing for a more generous helping hand.
Even if the government gets the measures right, they could still get the messaging wrong, which political scientists say can be just as important in steering public sentiment.
As the pandemic showed, money and resources are only half the battle; clear and consistent communication is the other half.
"Perceptions are decisive," Evelyn Bytzek, a professor of political communication at the University of Koblenz-Landau, told DW.
"Ultimately, we all act based more on what we perceive to be true than what is true."
Symbolism is a powerful tool in maintaining public support, Bytzek said.
She pointed to Gerhard Schröder's visit to flood-stricken parts of eastern Germany in 2002, which gave him a boost in his reelection campaign for chancellor.
He went onto win a few weeks later.
Scholz won last year's election in part due to his Merkel-like passive leadership style.
Now that could become a liability -- and stoke unrest -- if the public feels their ship of state is without a captain at the helm with an iceberg ahead.
"Crisis is not just a danger, but also an opportunity to generate more trust when crisis management is well perceived," Bytzek said.
Scholz's deputy, the Greens' Robert Habeck, seems to understand that.
As economy minister, Habeck has the lead on energy policy and has been forced to make hard choices that often contradict his own environmentalist credentials.
Polls show he has won points for regularly explaining the rationale behind those decisions.
Though there are limits to what communication can do.
Habeck was booed at townhall events last week.
However, those protests were more anti-war than anti-democratic.
Evaluating the risk
The Federal Interior Ministry told DW that protests of similar magnitude to those against pandemic restrictions are foreseeable, depending on how much the cost and supply of energy burden society.
"We can assume that populists and extremists will again try to influence protests to their liking," Britta Beylage-Haarmann, a ministry spokesperson, told DW in a statement.
"Extremist actors and groups in Germany can lead to a growth in dangers if corresponding social crisis conditions allow for it."
The Federal Police, which fall under the ministry, told DW they have "no insights" into specific threats arising from the crisis.
Perception also plays a role in how much unrest can shake a country.
Querdenker and others who have taken to the streets to challenge state authority during the pandemic are loud, but they have never represented more than a small minority of public opinion.
Still, they have received an outsized share of media and political attention.
Political sociologists like Greifswald University's Kaufer say protest movements stand out more in a country like Germany, where consensus-based political culture and federal power-sharing dissuade the instrumentalization of social discontent than elsewhere in Europe.
France, for example, has a reputation for confrontation.
Instability in Germany often has a negative connotation, he said, linked to events like bloody street battles amid hyperinflation in Weimar-era Germany, which gave rise to the Nazis.
"There has been a failure of discourse among progressive forces to recognize positive examples in German history," Kaufer added.
"There is a fear of protest, that people will take action without the legitimacy of processes like voting."
He cited East German street protests in 1953 and the peaceful revolution of 1989, and the West German anti-nuclear movement in the 1970s and 80s, as examples that deserve a stronger anchor in Germany's collective memory.
Inequality means instability
Longer-term risks to social cohesion, however, don't end with the coming of spring.
Germany was once one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, in which class and social status had less influence in determining one's success in life.
That is changing, as Germany follows a general trend towards growing income inequality.
"We're seeing that social mobility can no longer address social inequality," Susanne Pickel, a comparative politics professor at the University of Duisberg-Essen, told DW.
Inflation and energy prices will disproportionately impact the country's most vulnerable, according to economic models, as low earners have less disposable income to absorb increased costs.
That also makes them more susceptible to anti-government rhetoric than other income groups.
"Pandemic, war, and inflation endanger the lower middle class."
"If we can't manage to stabilize them, then their fears of being permanently pushed down grow," Pickel said, "then we may see more people take to the streets in Germany."
"And even more virulent, agreement with the [far-right populist] AfD and the appearance of solutions from far-right populists can change voting behavior."
Edited by: Rina Goldenberg
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