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Charlottesville: Race and Terror - VICE News (GRAPHIC)
I posted this yesterday morning just after six, a brilliant time for a 22-minute doc on a weekday!
But now it's Friday evening, where more folks will have time to watch this disturbing, enraging film.
(Note to Mods: Yes, I have deleted the previous posting.)
Manchin rules out Trump energy secretary appointment
Source: Politico
08/18/2017 02:46 PM EDT
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Friday ruled himself out as the next energy secretary, quashing speculation President Donald Trump might nominate him to run the Energy Department and have the governor of West Virginia, a newly minted Republican, appoint a Republican senator.
The plan, floated last week in a Bloomberg News report, could have given the GOP one more vote for its stalled bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
But Manchin took himself out of the running at a town hall in West Virginia, according to spokesman Jonathan Kott.
The current energy secretary, Rick Perry, is considered a contender to succeed White House chief of staff John Kelly as head of the Department of Homeland Security.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/joe-manchin-no-energy-secretary
This Musical Chairs administration is what one would expect to see under a kindergartner president. And I still distrust Manchin.
Donny Deutsch: "What a Pathetic, Snivelling Little Man our president is, a Coward!"
Published on 14 Aug 2017
I posted a much longer version of this Morning Joe segment the other day, but this clip is short, to-the-point, and still 100% accurate.
Russia: Navalny trains spotlight on lifestyle of Putin spokesman's son
Source: The Guardian
Friday 18 August 2017 04.00 BST
In 2010, Nikolay Choles was a troubled British youth, jailed for assaulting a man outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Milton Keynes.
By 2017, according to the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, Choles had become a fixture on the Moscow social circuit, driving Ferraris and travelling first-class or by private jet.
The transformation, Navalny says, is due to Choles’ parentage – he is the son of President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.
Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner who wants to stand against Putin in presidential elections next year, released alleged details about Choles’ life in a blogpost on Thursday, his latest salvo against the high lives of the Russian elite.
“Nikolay Choles is an example of how in Russia, where 20 million people live in poverty … you can live wonderfully, while doing absolutely nothing,” he wrote.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/18/russia-navalny-trains-spotlight-on-lifestyle-of-putin-spokesmans-son
Navalny has cojones, gotta give him that!
For an explanation of how a "British youth" turns out to be a Russian brat, click the link.
Trump's attacks could leave him friendless if impeachment comes
August 17, 2017 / 4:13 PM / 9 hours ago
More than half of the 11 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would be central to any proceeding to remove Trump from office, have tangled with the Republican president, including on Thursday when he fired off early-morning tweets.
In one Twitter series, Trump called Senator Lindsey Graham "publicity seeking" and said he "just can't forget his election trouncing" in the 2016 presidential race. Trump also assailed Senator Jeff Flake, another Republican critic, as "a non-factor in the Senate," adding, "He's toxic."
Flake and Graham are members of the Judiciary Committee, whose Chairman Chuck Grassley has urged Trump to tone it down.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-senate-idUSKCN1AX2K3
You know, a part of me is beginning to suspect this is exactly what Trump wants! Let's face it: his ego won't allow him to resign, so he just keeps on dissing other Republicans, in the House and Senate, and, when they eventually boot him, he's got a lifelong career (however long his lifetime lasts) traveling the country, whining about the "elites" who prevented him from Saving America!
Bill Moyers: Instead Of A 'Soul,' Donald Trump Has An 'Open Sore'
Published on 17 Aug 2017
Bill also nails the cause of the bigotry coming out of the Administration as not Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, or Michael Stone, but Trump, all by himself.
RCMP says it has intercepted 3,800 asylum seekers crossing illegally into Quebec since Aug. 1
Source: CBC News
Aug 17, 2017 5:54 PM ET
In what the RCMP is calling an "unprecedented" boom in asylum seekers, it says more than 3,800 people crossed the border illegally into Quebec during the two weeks spanning Aug. 1 to Aug. 15.
The figures were released after RCMP held a technical briefing Thursday with the Canada Border Services Agency and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
"Our officers are patrolling 24 hours day, all year long and we have never seen such numbers coming in," said RCMP spokesperson Claude Castonguay. According to Immigration, the RCMP also intercepted 2,996 asylum seekers crossing illegally into Quebec in July.
Since June 1, the RCMP said, more than 7,000 people have illegally entered Canada.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/rcmp-says-it-has-intercepted-3-800-asylum-seekers-crossing-illegally-into-quebec-since-aug-1-1.4250806
The Canadian government is proving temporary housing for the refugees until the situation can be settled, and a government minister talked about "more permanent" accommodations in Canada.
Fuck you, Trump and Arpaio!
Hong Kong democracy campaigners jailed over anti-China protests
Source: The Guardian
Thursday 17 August 2017 09.27 BST
Hong Kong’s democracy movement has suffered the latest setback in what has been a punishing year after three of its most influential young leaders were jailed for their roles in a protest at the start of a 79-day anti-government occupation known as the umbrella movement.
Alex Chow, Nathan Law, and Joshua Wong, the bespectacled student dubbed Hong Kong’s “face of protest” were sentenced to between six and eight months imprisonment each.
The trio, aged 26, 24 and 20 respectively, had avoided jail a year ago after being convicted of taking part in or inciting an “illegal assembly” that helped spark the umbrella protests, in late September 2014. But this month Hong Kong’s department of justice called for those sentences to be reconsidered, with one senior prosecutor attacking the “rather dangerous” leniency he claimed had been shown to the activists.
“See you soon,” Wong tweeted {1:24 AM - 17 Aug 2017}, shortly after the verdict was announced.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/17/hong-kong-democracy-campaigners-jailed-over-anti-china-protests
So much for the "One Country, Two Systems for Fifty Years" agreement in 1997.
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