Random Political Thoughts

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be interesting to see if dopey Trump fires his new AG Nominee haha
cretins running out of supposedly loyal people to use

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OPINION
The Mueller Thread: Is William Barr Itching to Get Rid of the Special Counsel?
Trump’s attorney general nominee didn’t stop an independent counsel in 1992, and it might have cost George H.W. Bush the election.
It was the president’s 67th birthday. And so the normally tightly wound George H.W. Bush was sitting at his desk in the Oval Office in July 1991 with his suit jacket off and his tie loosened. The moment of relaxation didn’t last long. White House lawyers had some unfortunate birthday news: The Iran-Contra investigation, run by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, was circling in on the president. According to journalist Bob Woodward, the late Bush took the news by plucking a plastic mallet from the hand of a stuffed toy he had received as a gift. “Take that, Walsh!” Bush proclaimed as he pounded the mallet on his desk like a peeved toddler. “I’d like to get rid of this guy.”

The president, however, didn’t have to rely on a toy for that. He had a real mallet: U.S. Attorney General William Barr. The same Bill Barr currently before the Senate to audition for the same job he once held nearly three decades ago. Barr has said he is committed to allowing special counsel Robert Mueller to finish his probe, but actions speak louder than words, especially the conciliatory ones uttered in confirmation hearings. And so perhaps the best way to know what Barr might do about the special counsel is to look at what he’s done before or, more precisely, what he didn’t do.

 

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9 FAST FORWARD
Forget Brexit: Central Asia Moves Toward Its Own 'Schengen' Zone
A landlocked region with bitter differences is coming together to survive economically.

 

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love it
so many things blocked by justice,tied up in the courts till shithead exits, be it this term or perhaps even if it talkes the next/shudder
but wee are used to its exact opposite of everything normal people do huh

whatever happens there affects us to at times, so theres an excuse for my continual comments


BREAKING NEWS
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 census. The case will likely reach the Supreme Court.
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:20 AM EST
The ruling handed a legal victory to critics who accused the Trump administration of trying to turn the census into a tool to advance Republican political fortunes.

Read More »

 

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allies USA/UK be right behind them
imagine, killiong kids
endorsed by those two

Dispatch
The Saudi Government’s Global Campaign to Silence Its Critics

Mohammed bin Salman’s effort to burnish his image as a modernizing force of liberal reform knows no boundaries.

By Sarah Aziz

 

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keyword ORDER, LIKE'
someone else the boss for a change

TAKE THAT

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question
A federal judge in New York has issued the first ruling out of multiple lawsuits over a question about U.S. citizenship status. The ruling is expected to be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question

 

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western manipulative demise is cool
lke'
had it too good for too long
plenty of opportuistic others filling the gap
- i said


did well to try
did well to standup to them today
hope you stay
sand while i liked Corbyn initially, cant stand him now and hope he never becomes a bri6tish PM

British lawmakers reject Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal

 

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like BREXSHIT a dead issue
deaths and injured those two are culpable of,more important

US-Mexico border / What is life really like in border country, where Trump wants his wall?
The Guardian travelled to five border locations to discover how Trump’s rhetoric jars with the reality on the ground

 

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CSM says

Seven global trends to watch in 2019

JACOB TURCOTTE/STAFF

Globally, trends with momentum from 2018 are sure to shape the news in 2019. Sometimes social movement is global and makes headlines. Sometimes it begins almost unnoticed, and spreads. Seven Monitor writers shared what to watch this year in all corners of the globe.

 

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no way
your faultless president is guiltuy of any wrongdoing
its Mickey Mouse fault

Majority of Americans blame Trump for the shutdown


WHAT WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS
By Lisa Desjardins, @LisaDNews
Correspondent

The current 25-day-and-counting partial government shutdown has set the record as the longest in U.S. history, and it could potentially be one of the most expensive (see “potential costs” in this report).

But it may be also teaching us a few things about what makes a shutdown last. The current impasse contains several of the dynamics that have led to long shutdowns in the past. Looking at all past shutdowns, five factors stand out.

Shutdowns last longer if:

There’s no congressional election in sight. The four longest shutdowns, all of which sent federal workers home, occurred in non-federal election years: 2019, 2013 and 1995 (there were two significant shutdowns that year). The lack of a presidential or midterm election may impact the brinkmanship calculus during a shutdown, by lowering the political risks at home, and raising the rewards in Washington of refusing to back down.

A power shift just happened. The shutdowns of 2019, 2013 and 1995 also share an important feature: Each of those years involved a change in power in the House of Representatives. Democrats just took over this year, but Republicans took over in the other cases.

Holidays are involved. The second-longest shutdown in history, in the winter of 1995-1996, also occurred over the Christmas and New Year holiday weeks. Lawmakers generally leave Washington during holidays (shutdown or not), and there is a widespread misconception that federal workers experience less harm during shutdowns around the holidays because they had already planned to take time off.

It’s near the end of a pay period. The current shutdown began on the last day of a two-week pay period for most federal workers. Because of the lag between hours worked and pay received, this meant that federal workers received a full paycheck one week later, after the shutdown was well underway, and didn’t experience their first missed pay period until three weeks into the standoff.

It’s been more than five years since the last major shutdown. Closures of government seem to have a stinging effect on all politicians involved. But it’s also one that subsides with time. While there were eight shutdowns or funding gaps over six years while Ronald Reagan was president, they all lasted just one to three days and federal workers were usually not sent home. Shutdowns where workers are sent home for significant periods of time rarely happen close together. (At least so far.)


again
no way

BREAKING NEWS
The shutdown's economic impact may be double previous estimates, White House economists said. It could push the U.S. into a contraction.
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 8:30 PM EST
The revised estimates from the Council of Economic Advisers show that the shutdown, now in its fourth week, is beginning to have real economic consequences.

Read More »

 

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good job
the buggers cant get there way7 with anything/everything
trying to supres people in everything


A judge has stopped the Trump administration from asking about citizenship in the census
Judge Jesse M. Furman ruled the Department of Commerce lied about why it wanted to add a citizenship question in 2020, which violated federal law.

A judge has stopped the Trump administration from asking about citizenship in the census

 

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Karen Pence Is Working At A School That Bans LGBTQ Employees And Kids | HuffPost

 

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more respect than formerly for T MAY
aresholes of her govt deserted her
showws what 2 faced shitheads those poms were/are

Theresa May / PM suffers historic defeat as Tories turn against her
PM faces vote of confidence after MPs reject her Brexit plan by majority of 230

 

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agree
add
the people virtually allow it
or is that there beloved constitution
like gun control,racism,nothing done
not all countries allow there govts to rule/control there every move

Trump's war on science / How the US is putting politics above evidence
Experts say the administration is blatantly dismantling proven programs, and the consequences could be dire

 

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smile
geuss if the Gaurdian can suggest the above,this can be thrown out there by ...

Protesters demonstrate outside the British Parliament Tuesday. Source: Getty

Theresa May Faces Confidence Vote After Brexit Defeat
A day after her divorce deal with the European Union was emphatically rejected in Parliament by 230 votes, the British prime minister now faces the prospect of losing her job in a confidence vote this evening. While May could be safe for now — thanks to backing from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party and her own Conservative Party — yesterday’s bruising defeat highlights the increasing likelihood of a messy Brexit, or even a new referendum that could reverse the 2016 vote. Meanwhile, Germany is calling for new talks between London and Brussels.

SOURCES: REUTERS, BBC

 

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ozy
pots some damn interesting stuff out there,better than usual mainstream media i think anyway


your boss Trump am tweet

youve got to come into work
not get paid
or your fired
meh,making my America great again

- courtesy Ru tv

 

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BRIEFLY


Know This: A new caravan of some 500 Honduran migrants is heading toward the U.S. border. China’s central bank has pumped $83 billion into the country’s financial system to avoid a cash crunch. And Netflix has raised subscription prices to prop up its aggressive spending on content.




INTRIGUING

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   Pakistan’s Top Court Recommends Two-Child Limit
   Calling population growth a “ticking time bomb,” the country’s Supreme Court urged the government, civil society and religious leaders yesterday to back measures limiting families to two kids. A 2017 census found around 207.8 million people lived in 32.2 million households, making Pakistan the world’s fifth most populous country — and sparking the judges to order the growth rate be lowered from 2.4 to 1.5 percent by 2025. Meanwhile, the Pakistan Medical Association warned of strained resources, as the country could soon surpass Indonesia as the fourth most populous nation.

 

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believe T MAY more and more now
true stateswoman who stood her ground amongst the male mongrels who deserted her in her hour of need
but will likely crawl back tonight

CORBYN is a weakarse shit
boot him out instead

and no 2nd BREXIT please
let it lie,let it remain

 

[rbkwp]

denied by the idiot
why waste our time duh


TOP STORIES
Hundreds of millions of people rely on water that flows from mountain glaciers. Global warming is making those glaciers vanish.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12:13 PM EST
The world’s roughly 150,000 glaciers, not including the large ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, cover about 200,000 square miles of the earth’s surface. Over the last four decades they’ve lost the equivalent of a layer of ice 70 feet thick.

Read More »

 

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good thinking i think
sensible realistic
like the H unfortunate .. but
history

Russia urges Japan to 'accept the result' of World War II
Russia's foreign minister has called on Tokyo to accept the outcome of the war in order to advance discussions on a peace plan. Russia and Japan have yet to sign a peace treaty since the end of World War II.

Russia urges Japan to 'accept the result' of World War II | DW | 16.01.2019

 

[JulieInNaplesFL]

be interesting to see if dopey Trump fires his new AG Nominee haha
cretins running out of supposedly loyal people to use

1
OPINION
The Mueller Thread: Is William Barr Itching to Get Rid of the Special Counsel?
Trump’s attorney general nominee didn’t stop an independent counsel in 1992, and it might have cost George H.W. Bush the election.
It was the president’s 67th birthday. And so the normally tightly wound George H.W. Bush was sitting at his desk in the Oval Office in July 1991 with his suit jacket off and his tie loosened. The moment of relaxation didn’t last long. White House lawyers had some unfortunate birthday news: The Iran-Contra investigation, run by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, was circling in on the president. According to journalist Bob Woodward, the late Bush took the news by plucking a plastic mallet from the hand of a stuffed toy he had received as a gift. “Take that, Walsh!” Bush proclaimed as he pounded the mallet on his desk like a peeved toddler. “I’d like to get rid of this guy.”

The president, however, didn’t have to rely on a toy for that. He had a real mallet: U.S. Attorney General William Barr. The same Bill Barr currently before the Senate to audition for the same job he once held nearly three decades ago. Barr has said he is committed to allowing special counsel Robert Mueller to finish his probe, but actions speak louder than words, especially the conciliatory ones uttered in confirmation hearings. And so perhaps the best way to know what Barr might do about the special counsel is to look at what he’s done before or, more precisely, what he didn’t do.

Where do you live in America again? Oh wait you don't. Sorry I'm mistaken you live in another country.

be interesting to see if dopey Trump fires his new AG Nominee haha
cretins running out of supposedly loyal people to use

1
OPINION
The Mueller Thread: Is William Barr Itching to Get Rid of the Special Counsel?
Trump’s attorney general nominee didn’t stop an independent counsel in 1992, and it might have cost George H.W. Bush the election.
It was the president’s 67th birthday. And so the normally tightly wound George H.W. Bush was sitting at his desk in the Oval Office in July 1991 with his suit jacket off and his tie loosened. The moment of relaxation didn’t last long. White House lawyers had some unfortunate birthday news: The Iran-Contra investigation, run by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, was circling in on the president. According to journalist Bob Woodward, the late Bush took the news by plucking a plastic mallet from the hand of a stuffed toy he had received as a gift. “Take that, Walsh!” Bush proclaimed as he pounded the mallet on his desk like a peeved toddler. “I’d like to get rid of this guy.”

The president, however, didn’t have to rely on a toy for that. He had a real mallet: U.S. Attorney General William Barr. The same Bill Barr currently before the Senate to audition for the same job he once held nearly three decades ago. Barr has said he is committed to allowing special counsel Robert Mueller to finish his probe, but actions speak louder than words, especially the conciliatory ones uttered in confirmation hearings. And so perhaps the best way to know what Barr might do about the special counsel is to look at what he’s done before or, more precisely, what he didn’t do.

What City do you live in here in America? Oh wait you don't, my bad.
Maybe you need to worry about NZ and help your country with its mounting problems and let us Americans take care of our country. We'll get along fine without you.