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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 25, 2019 16:10:38 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/workplace-bias-1-in-5-managers-wont-hire-pro-trump-workersAmerican workers who like President Trump face sweeping bias against them, with some managers refusing to hire his supporters and those already employed facing discrimination and mockery, according to a new study. In a survey of hiring managers and workers shared with Secrets, the marketing firm Airtasker found that left-leaning firms are especially anti-Trump, with 20% vowing to reject a job candidate who backs the president. And those who support Trump and who are already in the workplace face substantial mockery, including name-calling. The survey listed the responses to several examples of what pro-Trump workers face: – 28%, joking about them. – 23%, overly critical of them. – 21%, being dismissive of them. – 11% facing name calling. The survey found that even more than Trump, a job candidate’s view on race and gender politics will help, or hurt, their chances of getting a job. ..... www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/in-blue-seattle-trump-supporters-are-starting-to-come-out-of-hiding/In blue Seattle, Trump supporters are starting to come out of hiding When word got out during the last presidential election that Seattle developer Martin Selig would be supporting Donald Trump, the blowback from our liberal town, he said, was “stunning.” “Do you know what it’s like being a Jewish Republican in Seattle?” Selig told The Seattle Times. “The repercussions of what you hear from people is stunning.” In reaction, Selig, a billionaire, retreated from any affiliation with Trump in 2016 and said he wouldn’t even vote for him. It had become problematic just getting along in the city while wearing a MAGA hat. But that was then. This spring, Selig went all-in for Trump, maxing out to the president’s campaign with a donation of $5,600.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 25, 2019 17:04:23 GMT -6
"Lumping Trump in with the mentally ill is an insult to the mentally ill".
Wow. Expect this to, if possible, get even worse as the election nears.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 25, 2019 23:56:37 GMT -6
Climate Change scientist just lost a court case & is ordered to pay the defendants court costs, etc www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/michael_mann_creator_of_the_infamous_global_warming_hockey_stick_loses_lawsuit_against_climate_skeptic_ordered_to_pay_defendants_costs.htmlMichael Mann, creator of the infamous global warming ‘hockey stick,’ loses lawsuit against climate skeptic, ordered to pay defendant’s costs Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph” that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity has been burning fossil fuels and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. The graph was first published in 1998, prominently featured in the 2001 UN Climate Report, and formed part of Al Gore’s 2006 movie, An Inconvenient Truth. The graph’s methodology and accuracy have been and continue to be hotly contested, but Mann has taken the tack of suing two of his most prominent critics for defamation or libel. One case, against Mark Steyn, is called by Steyn likely to end up in the Supreme Court. But another case, against Dr. Tim Ball was decided by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, with Mann’s case thrown out, and him ordered to pay the defendant’s legal costs, no doubt a tidy sum of money. News first broke in Wattsupwiththat, via an email Ball sent to Anthony Watt. Later, Principia-Scientific offered extensive details, including much background on the hockey stick. ......... www.technocracy.news/fatal-courtroom-act-ruins-michael-hockey-stick-mann/?print=pdfMann’s imminent defeat is set to send shock waves worldwide within the climate science community as the outcome will be both a legal and scientific vindication of U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that climate scare stories are a “hoax.” (snip) Michael Mann, who chose to file what many consider to be a cynical SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) libel suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Vancouver six long years ago, has astonished legal experts by refusing to comply with the court direction to hand over all his disputed graph’s data. Mann’s iconic hockey stick has been relied upon by the UN’s IPCC and western governments as crucial evidence for the science of ‘man-made global warming.’
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 25, 2019 23:59:35 GMT -6
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch hit Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse with a bar complaint after he openly threatened the Supreme Court. www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-senator-bar-complaint-for-openly-threatening-supreme-court“[T]he brief Senator Whitehouse filed was unbecoming of the legal profession as it is nothing more than an attack on the federal judiciary and an open threat to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Judicial Watch’s complaint said. The brief — which also bore the names of Sens. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. — named Whitehouse as “Counsel of Record.” Judicial Watch attached a copy of a Rhode Island Judiciary record that lists Whitehouse’s attorney status as inactive. Fox News has confirmed that the current record still shows the inactive status. As a result, the organization claimed, Whitehouse engaged in the unauthorized practice of law when he filed the brief. Judicial Watch noted that Whitehouse is not licensed to practice law anywhere else, though he did list a Washington, D.C., address on the brief. The organization claimed that if Whitehouse meant to indicate that he was acting as an attorney in D.C. and not Rhode Island, this, too, would be an unauthorized practice of law.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2019 1:14:50 GMT -6
bwahahaha
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2019 3:43:14 GMT -6
www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/obama-judge-rules-medicaid-must-pay-for-transgender-sex-reassignment-surgery/The ruling culminates a lawsuit filed more than a year ago by two transgender Wisconsinites, who accuse the federal and state-funded insurance program of providing them with disparate and inferior health care on the basis of sex. Check kmooody Flack of Green Bay and Sara Makenzie of Baraboo say they suffer from severe gender dysphoria that requires costly surgery. Flack, a woman, claims to be ashamed of her breasts and wants to have them surgically removed as she transitions into a man’s body. To make a case for the government to pay for her surgery, she claims that she engages in “binding,” which flattens her breasts and causes sores, skin irritation and respiratory distress. Flack also has difficulty binding her breasts due to a disability, according to court documents. Makenzie, a man who legally changed his name to Sara and wears women’s clothing, says his “male-appearing genitalia” causes him “great distress” and negatively affects his sexuality and social life. Showering and seeing his body in a mirror is “painful,” court records state, and Makenzie fears someone will be able to see his “male genitals” through his clothing. To lay the foundation, Conley writes in the injunction that gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition, which if left untreated can cause adverse symptoms. “As a group, transgender individuals have been subjected to harassment and discrimination in virtually every aspect of their lives, including in housing, employment, education, and health care,” according to the document. “Their own families, acquaintances and larger communities can be sources of harassment. For some transgender individuals, though certainly not all, the dissonance between their gender identity and their naturally assigned sex can manifest itself in the form of gender dysphoria, a serious medical condition recognized by both sides’ experts and the larger medical community as a whole.” ........ Gender dysphoria is a serious mental issue. Give them the help they need & stop with the useless surgeries.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2019 10:08:44 GMT -6
Huffington Post sued for defamation: thefederalist.com/2019/08/26/lawsuit-huffpo-falsely-blamed-black-student-killing-kennedy-smear-brett-kavanaugh/Lawsuit: HuffPo Falsely Blamed Black Student For Killing A Kennedy, All To Smear Brett Kavanaugh Derrick Evans is suing the Huffington Post for a story they ran days after Christine Blasey Ford went public with her now-debunked claim that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. Margot Cleveland By Margot Cleveland AUGUST 26, 2019 When Donald Trump entered the political arena, what remained of mainstream media and liberal outlets’ journalistic integrity crumbled. The most recent example came last week when a Georgetown Prep contemporary of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sued the Huffington Post and journalist Ashley Feinberg for defamation in a Mississippi federal court. Derrick Evans sued the Huffington Post and Feinberg for a story they ran days after Christine Blasey Ford went public with her now-debunked claim that, while in high school, Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. In her September 20, 2018, article entitled, “Former Student: Brett Kavanaugh’s Prep School Party Scene Was a ‘Free-For-All,’” Feinberg (now at Slate), claimed an anonymous former Georgetown Preparatory School student had identified the overdose death of David Kennedy—the son of the late senator Robert Kennedy—as the “catalyst for changes in Georgetown Prep culture” and in the marking of “the end of the school’s free-for-all party scene” that dominated in the 1980s when Kavanaugh and Evans both attended the Bethesda, Maryland high school. In her article, Feinberg specified that “two students – David’s brother Doug, and his friend Derrick Evans – had helped score the coke” that killed David. Not only was this statement false, as Evans explained, he had “actively assisted law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting the individuals who actually sold the illegal narcotics to David Kennedy.” Yet, as Evans’s lawsuit details, the Huffington Post stuck with the story even after “an officer of Fox News, where Douglas Kennedy works as a reporter,” informed the online outlet “in no uncertain terms that its article was false and defamatory, and had obviously been published without any fact-checking whatsoever.” The Fox News officer, according to Evans’s complaint, told Huffington Post the article “was so deficient it should be removed in its entirety from HuffPost’s website.” Instead, the left-leaning outlet posted this supposed “correction,” on September 21, 2018, that further defamed Evans: “This article previously stated incorrectly that Doug Kennedy was involved in helping his brother to purchase drugs in 1984. Kennedy was only sharing a room with Derrick Evans, who helped David purchase the drugs, according to an affidavit obtained by the New York Times. We regret the error.” David Kennedy responded to the Huffington Post’s purported correction by hiring a lawyer who chastised the liberal publisher for “plac[ing] into the public sphere an outrageously false claim that Mr. Kennedy supplied the illegal narcotics that killed his older brother David, and then followed your shameful lie with an insincere, incorrect ‘apology’ that placed blame on Mr. Kennedy’s friend [Mr. Evans].” At that point, the Huffington Post further updated its article by, on September 24, 2018, removing all references to Evans and the Kennedy family, and issuing a “correction” that stated: “This article previously mischaracterized the involvement of individuals in a drug purchase. References to those individuals and the incident have been removed. We regret the error.” But, as Evans noted in his complaint, they liberal publisher had not “’mischaracterize[d] the involvement of individuals in a drug purchase’ because neither Douglas Kennedy nor Derrick Evans had been involved in a drug purchase.” These facts are bad enough, but Evans’s lawsuit exposes three further damning realities emblematic of “journalism” in the age of Trump. First, the Huffington Post and Feinberg’s abandonment of even the most basic of journalist standards was near absolute. As Evan’s complaint explained, while Feinberg relied on an unnamed former student to source details about the “party” atmosphere at Georgetown Prep, the “journalist” “in fact had no source informing her that Mr. Evans purchased drugs for Mr. Kennedy or anyone else.” Likewise, there was no “affidavit” stating that Evans had “helped David purchase the drugs,” as the first “correction” claimed. Rather, what there was—at best—was unverified gossip from a former student on his recollection of what went down some 30 years ago. Feinberg and the Huffington Post also did not attempt to contact either Evans or Douglas Kennedy for comment before running the original article. (Feinberg has not returned my request for a comment and the Huffington Post has stated it does not comment on pending litigation). Most shocking, as Evans explained in his complaint, “Had Ms. Feinberg or her editors at HuffPost undertaken even the most basic internet search of publicly available articles concerning the investigation into David Kennedy’s death, they would have learned, if they did not already know, that Mr. Evans actively assisted law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting the individuals who actually sold the illegal narcotics to David Kennedy.” Evans’s lawsuit also exposes a second sad reality surrounding the MSM and left-leaning outlets’ coverage of news in the Trump era—that the narrative is king. Again, Evans’s complaint crystalized this truth, with his attorney recognizing that “the fabricated statement that two Georgetown Prep students ‘helped score the coke’ that resulted in the death of David Kennedy, who had not attended Georgetown Prep, lent the ‘Kennedy’ name to the article and supported Defendants’ narrative that during the time Brett Kavanaugh was a student at Georgetown Prep the school had a drug-and-alcohol-fueled culture.” This narrative served two purposes, both illegitimate: One, to thwart Kavanaugh’s confirmation by painting his alma mater, Georgetown Prep, as a party school for the privileged, and implicitly appearing to confirm Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh had attempted to rape her while intoxicated in high school; two, by using the Kennedy name and “tags,” the Huffington Post sought to spur hits and make the story go viral. The third take-away from Evans’s lawsuit is as simple as it is sad: No one is safe from the liberal media’s attacks on conservatism, whether it be MAGA-hat-wearing teenagers, or the well-respected, private Evans. Evans is “a teacher and civil rights and environmental justice advocate from Mississippi” whose only crime is having attended the hoity-toity Georgetown Prep. While that might be enough of an offense for the left, they might be interested in knowing that Evans, a descendent of Mississippi slaves, attended the private school on full academic scholarship and was one of the only African-American students at the time. Given how little research and confirmation Feinberg did, it’s unlikely she knew those facts—but if she did, wow: Let’s blame the black boy for buying the cocaine that killed a Camelot heir! Evans’s attorney, John Sneed of the Jackson Mississippi firm of Wise Carter Child and Caraway, P.A., told The Federalist, “Unfortunately, Mr. Evans was part of the collateral damage resulting from HuffPost’s inexplicable decision to try to link a 35-year-old Kennedy family tragedy to its over-hyped coverage of the Kavanaugh nomination.” Sneed is right. Evans was merely the innocent whose reputation must perish to push the left’s political agenda. But at least now Evans has a chance of obtaining some justice from the Huffington Post and Feinberg, as he has a solid case of defamation. The same cannot be said of Kavanaugh, who remains a target even today. Margot Cleveland is a senior contributor to The Federalist. Cleveland served nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk to a federal appellate judge and is a former full-time faculty member and current adjunct instructor at the college of business at the University of Notre Dame. The views expressed here are those of Cleveland in her private capacity.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2019 12:24:45 GMT -6
During his press conference after the G7 the liberal media was waiting to pounce on the US president.
NBC reporter Hallie Jackson questioned President Trump about next year’s G7 Summit in America and the possibility that he may hold next year’s summit at one of his properties. Jackson accused Trump of holding the summit on his property so he can make loads of money.
President Trump nuked her pointing out that he has lost around $3 billion in personal wealth since he became president. He added that he does not even make money for his speeches today. It’s all for free and for his country.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2019 12:31:17 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2019 12:35:58 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2019 16:02:18 GMT -6
With Trump only giving pressers on the way to the helicopter the trolls aren't even on camera anymore. Acosta has been waiting for a long time for this.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2019 16:03:05 GMT -6
It's bad because it shows how racist, bigoted, and anti semetic they all are.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2019 16:47:39 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2019 21:59:28 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2019 22:16:53 GMT -6
I guess El Paso and Dayton are yesterday's news. So much for worrying about violent rhetoric. Burn down the GOP. No survivors. It's amazing what someone will say when they know they are able to say anything and the panel you are with will say nothing.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2019 22:17:50 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2019 22:22:18 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 27, 2019 9:42:42 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 27, 2019 13:10:50 GMT -6
Dudley’s bio accompanying the op-ed: “Bill Dudley is a senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Economic Policy Studies. He served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2009 to 2018, and as vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. He was previously chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-27/the-fed-shouldn-t-enable-donald-trump?srnd=opinionU.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with China keeps undermining the confidence of businesses and consumers, worsening the economic outlook. This manufactured disaster-in-the-making presents the Federal Reserve with a dilemma: Should it mitigate the damage by providing offsetting stimulus, or refuse to play along? …I understand and support Fed officials’ desire to remain apolitical. But Trump’s ongoing attacks on Powell and on the institution have made that untenable. Central bank officials face a choice: enable the Trump administration to continue down a disastrous path of trade war escalation, or send a clear signal that if the administration does so, the president, not the Fed, will bear the risks — including the risk of losing the next election. There’s even an argument that the election itself falls within the Fed’s purview. After all, Trump’s reelection arguably presents a threat to the U.S. and global economy, to the Fed’s independence and its ability to achieve its employment and inflation objectives. If the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed officials should consider how their decisions will affect the political outcome in 2020....... Trump hits the Fed again:
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 27, 2019 17:29:00 GMT -6
As someone that almost died after contracting c diff - a disease transmitted by fecal matter - I find it so hard to believe that this is allowed to happen. I guess getting on hands and knees is out since it would invoke visions of mammy on her knees.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 27, 2019 17:29:47 GMT -6
Dudley’s bio accompanying the op-ed: “Bill Dudley is a senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Economic Policy Studies. He served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2009 to 2018, and as vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. He was previously chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-27/the-fed-shouldn-t-enable-donald-trump?srnd=opinionU.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with China keeps undermining the confidence of businesses and consumers, worsening the economic outlook. This manufactured disaster-in-the-making presents the Federal Reserve with a dilemma: Should it mitigate the damage by providing offsetting stimulus, or refuse to play along? …I understand and support Fed officials’ desire to remain apolitical. But Trump’s ongoing attacks on Powell and on the institution have made that untenable. Central bank officials face a choice: enable the Trump administration to continue down a disastrous path of trade war escalation, or send a clear signal that if the administration does so, the president, not the Fed, will bear the risks — including the risk of losing the next election. There’s even an argument that the election itself falls within the Fed’s purview. After all, Trump’s reelection arguably presents a threat to the U.S. and global economy, to the Fed’s independence and its ability to achieve its employment and inflation objectives. If the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed officials should consider how their decisions will affect the political outcome in 2020....... Trump hits the Fed again: But keeping interest rates at practically zero for Obama was okay?
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 27, 2019 17:47:05 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 28, 2019 0:08:07 GMT -6
You know. That sun thing.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2019 7:09:49 GMT -6
Global elites, celebrities, etc are up in arms over the fires in the Amazon,(the G7 leaders raised $20 million to give to Brazil to help,(America/Trump gave $0). But, there is a problem: www.abc.es/internacional/abci-mas-incendios-activos-africa-central-amazonia-201908271734_noticia.html(Translated): The world has been shaking for days before the terrible fires that are sweeping the Amazon, but few have noticed what is happening at the same time in Central Africa. NASA maps show that there are more fires in this African region than in the Amazon. On Sunday, there were 6,900 fires in Angola. But, to heck with Africa right?
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2019 7:24:45 GMT -6
The New York Times was mocked on Sunday and Monday after it published a lengthy report on Sunday trying to stave off attacks from conservative activists who have documented damaging social media posts on hundreds of left-wing journalists. The Times claimed that the activists' actions did not really constitute legitimate journalism.
"Four people familiar with the operation described how it works, asserting that it has compiled dossiers of potentially embarrassing social media posts and other public statements by hundreds of people who work at some of the country's most prominent news organizations," The New York Times reported. "Operatives have closely examined more than a decade's worth of public posts and statements by journalists, the people familiar with the operation said. Only a fraction of what the network claims to have uncovered has been made public, the people said, with more to be disclosed as the 2020 election heats up."
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger sent a memo to staff at the newspaper, claiming without evidence that the paper had "distinguished itself with fearless and fair coverage of the president" and that the operation was being carried out because people on Right could not "challenge the accuracy of our reporting."
"Now, the political operatives behind this campaign will argue that they are 'reporting' on news organizations in the same way that news organizations report on elected officials and other public figures," Sulzberger added. "They are not. They are using insinuation and exaggeration to manipulate the facts for political gain."
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2019 7:32:18 GMT -6
Wasn't sure where to put this one, but here it goes. PM Boris Johnson just pulled a President Trump-esque move and seriously ticked off the Remainers in parliament: www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/28/british-government-to-suspend-parliament-for-five-weeks-outraging-anti-brexit-rebels/Boris Johnson’s government is activating the constitutional mechanism to suspend Parliament on Wednesday, a move which has outraged Remainers because it limits the amount of Parliamentary time available to them to sabotage Brexit taking place at the end of October.The Prime Minister confirmed will take place on Wednesday, and will see what is called in Westminster jargon Prorogation last five weeks between September and mid-October. Parliament will reopen on October 14th with the Queen’s speech, the ceremonial delivery by the monarch of a speech written by the government outlining their political intentions for the coming session. It is normal for a new government to bring forward a Queen’s speech, and the announcement follows Boris Johnson replacing Theresa May as Prime Minister and building his own government on July 24th, but pro-Remain activists and politicians have reacted to the announcement with undisguised anger. The timing of the announcement severely restricts the amount of Parliamentary time they have to subvert the 2016 referendum, in which the British people said they wanted the country to leave the European Union. The departure has already taken over three years to come to fruition and is nearly six months late from its original legally mandated withdrawal date. Conservative Brexit rebel Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general who has spent months actively plotting against his own government in endless bids to frustrate the will of the British people, was one of the strongest critics. He called the suspension “pretty outrageous” and rejected the government’s claim that the move was about starting a new parliamentary session. Speaking Wednesday, Grieve said he was willing to bring down the government to prevent Brexit: “I’ve always been of the view that bringing down the administration which is made up of a party of which I am a member is something I would only do as a last resort and that remains my position and I don’t wish to do it f there is any way of avoiding it. But if there is no other way of avoiding it, it may be the only thing I can do.” Grieve was joined in comments by Philip Hammond, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer — Britain’s finance minister — under the Theresa May’s government but resigned before Boris Johnson had time to fire him. A die-hard remainder who it is claimed sabotaged Brexit preparations during his time in government, Hammond said Wednesday: “It would be a constitutional outrage if Parliament were prevented from holding the government to account at a time of national crisis. Profoundly undemocratic.” Anti-Brexit Labour politicians also lined up to signal their anger, with senior figures calling the prorogation “scandalous” and “dangerous”. The government itself played down the announcement. Conservative Party chairman James Cleverley MP said the development was unsensational, summarising it as”Government to hold a Queen’s Speech, just as all new Governments do”. Meanwhile, a government spokesman characterised it as “…this is about the NHS and violent crime, not Brexit, and the courts have no locus to interfere in a bog-standard Queen’s Speech process.” Speaking to Sky News Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the announcement official and reinforced the official line that the decision was about governing the country, rather than Brexit. He said: “…we’re not going to wait until 31 October before getting on with our plans to take this country forward. This is a new government with a very exciting agenda… all you should take from this is that we are doing exactly what I said on the steps of Downing Street, which is we must get on now with our legislative domestic agenda.” Under the British constitution, a Parliamentary session is ‘Prorogued’ — that is to say, suspended — at regular intervals to allow a new session to begin. This is a duty performed by the Queen on the advice of her ministers, through a body called the Privy Council. While the Queen could theoretically refuse the instruction of the government, in practice the monarch always does as instructed by the government and has done so for centuries. The outrage of pro-Remain activists at the government attempting to deliver the Brexit vote made by the British people in 2016 leaves the country in the strange situation where left-minded politicians who would normally be outraged at the Queen making any decisions for herself are now demanding she do just that, to suit their own agenda. One such group is the anti-Brexit Best for Britain. They went so far as appearing to threaten the Queen with future consequences if she didn’t abandon her constitutional duty and follow their instructions instead. The group leader said: “…she would do well to remember history doesn’t look too kindly on royals who aid and abet the suspension of democracy.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2019 7:37:24 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2019 9:05:54 GMT -6
Victor Gao, who reportedly worked for China on the UK’s handover of Hong Kong, says the UK must treat China with “respect”.
Recent protests in Hong Kong are big news around the world. The Hong Kong people are protesting the efforts of China to insert themselves into the Hong Kong government’s activities. Many believe that China does not have this right and agreed not to do this for the next 50 years when the UK handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997.
Many believe that there would be ‘one state two systems’ until 2047. When asked about this Gao replied –
There may be people in London who stick to that interpretation, however if you really read the joint declaration, everything terminates at the time when Britain handed over the sovereignty back to China at midnight, June 30th 1997.
When next asked by the news reporter –
What do you say when the British government says there are going to be serious consequences if Beijing doesn’t accept Britain’s right to have a say in this?”
Mr. Gao replies –
First of all, I think whatever the Foreign Secretary of of the United Kingdom said in terms of bad consequences is purely bluffing. I believe between China and the United Kingdom, for example, the United Kingdom is in no position to bluff against China and to kowtow to Britain…”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2019 10:52:32 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/08/28/queen-elizabeth-dissolve-parliament-brexit/Queen Elizabeth II will prorogue Parliament at the request of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “It is this day ordered by Her Majesty in Council that the Parliament be prorogued on a day no earlier than Monday the 9th day of September and no later than Thursday the 12th day of September 2019 to Monday the 14th day of October 2019,” a Wednesday Privy Council statement said. The move comes amid concerns in Parliament over the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a deal, set to occur Oct. 31. (RELATED: Britain’s Version Of The Never-Trumpers May Bring Down The Government Over Brexit) Johnson requested suspension of the parliamentary session for five weeks, until Oct. 14, the longest such discontinuation since 1945, according to the Guardian. Opponents of Brexit have denounced the move as a ploy to thwart debate against a so-called “no-deal Brexit,” in which the U.K. would leave the EU and trade under rules the World Trade Organization established. With only two weeks between Parliament’s return and the deadline for the U.K.’s departure from the bloc, pro-remain leaders fear they will not be able to stop such a scenario. Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow called the move a “constitutional outrage,” HuffPost reported. Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the U.K.’s opposition Labour Party, has reportedly asked to meet with the queen to address the issue, the Mirror reported. Corbyn dubbed the move a “smash-and-grab on our democracy.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2019 11:10:13 GMT -6
Donald Trump targets FNC:
Brit Hume hit back:
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