Thursday, March 28, 2019
Gee what a shock, millions of older Americans get fired in the Great Recession, and their homelessness soars
Welcome to libertarian hell.
UCSF researchers estimate that half of the single homeless adults are age 50 or older, compared to 11 percent in the early 1990s — a 354 percent uptick. This data is emblematic of a graying homeless population across the nation: America’s homeless elderly population is projected to nearly triple by 2030, according to new research encompassing New York City, Boston and Los Angeles County. And this problem spans the globe: A 2017 report on the U.K.’s homeless population found that the population of homeless people over 60 had increased 111 percent since 2009, and for those over 75 it had increased by 155 percent — compared to an increase of 48 percent in the general population.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Alexandra Chalupa's timeline of her activities and of her fears about Paul Manafort's influence in Ukraine in his capacity as part of the Trump campaign isn't convincing
In late 2015, a small group of Ukrainian-American and Ukrainian civic leaders visiting Washington, D.C. told Chalupa they had heard Manafort’s former clients in Ukraine were remobilizing again, and that Manafort had made a fortune working in Kyiv. ...
It was around this time that Chalupa started to develop a gut feeling that Manafort was poised to help Trump’s bid for the White House. ...
By early 2016, Chalupa notified a senior DNC executive that a political spin doctor who had worked against America’s interests for the pro-Kremlin Yanukovych and was linked to some of the most powerful Russian oligarchs serving Putin was to play an important role in the effort to get Trump elected. ...
On March 28, The New York Times broke the story that Manafort had joined the Trump campaign.
The problem with this timeline and Chalupa's obsession with Manafort's Ukraine connection is that Manafort's overture to Trump to come on to the campaign didn't come until February 29, 2016, according to The New York Times. And the overture came at the urging of Trump's close friend Tom Barrack, who wanted Manafort to help a flailing and inexperienced Trump by managing successfully the potentially explosive upcoming Republican convention in Cleveland. Manafort's Republican political experience dating from 1976 onwards is well known.
Chalupa would have had no reason to believe Manafort would suddenly become active in the Trump campaign in late 2015 and early 2016, as she claims, when it wasn't until sometime in mid-February 2016 that Tom Barrack made his pitch to Manafort.
It is more likely that Manafort became the convenient focus for Chalupa after the fact when all along it was opposition to Trump's proposed opening to Russia which motivated her activism and overtures to the DNC long before Manafort came on the scene.
There is absolutely nothing in this puff piece in The Kyiv Post about Chalupa's longstanding loyalty to and work for the Clintons.
Alexandra Chalupa is at the nexus of what has become the criminalization of a foreign policy difference between Trump Republicans on the one hand and Democrats and NeverTrumpers on the other, like John McCain who was notably famous for his deep involvement in the political dispute in Ukraine.
George Washington tried to warn us about the consequences of entangling foreign alliances, and those have been Exhibit A for the last two years.
If 29% of 2016 population 55 and older have absolutely nothing coming in retirement except Social Security, we're talking about 26 million Americans
Of those 55 and older, 48 percent had nothing put away in a 401(k)-style defined contribution plan or an individual retirement account, according to a GAO estimate for 2016 that was released Tuesday. That’s an improvement from the 52 percent without retirement money in 2013.
Two in five of such households did have access to a traditional pension, also known as a defined benefit plan. However, 29 percent of older Americans had neither a pension nor any assets in a 401(k) or IRA account.
Lee Stranahan in Dec 2018: CNN peddled lies trying to put daylight between DNC and Alexandra Chalupa, but Wikileaks now proves Chalupa was working with Dems to connect Trump to Russia long before DNC was hacked or Trump Tower meeting
And notice how after Hillary's unexpected loss, Chalupa's sister, who admits Alexandra's role with the DNC, is suddenly deeply involved in the effort to spread the story that the Russkies hacked the voting totals of Election 2016.
Over the weekend, Wikileaks tweeted about how CNN had reported last year a denial by the Democratic National Committee and Hilary [sic] Clinton officials of illegal election collusion between the DNC and the government of Ukraine during the 2015 [sic] election. CNN’s conduct is a textbook example of smothering a story and leaving out relevant facts.
The story that CNN was trying to bury was published in Politico in January 2017 titled Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire. That story was written by David Stern and Ken Vogel (who is now writing at the New York Times) detailed how a DNC operative named Alexander [sic] Chalupa worked closely with officials at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, including Ukrainian Ambassador Chaly, to try and dig up dirt connecting Donald Trump and Paul Manafort to Russia. The story also mentions that Chalupa told people that the Democrats were planning to hold hearing connecting Trump to Russia in fall of 2016, just before the election.
It should be noted that this illegal attempt to gather information from the Democrats [sic] was underway by March, 2016…which is before the alleged Russian hacking of the DNC was detected as well before the Trump Tower meeting that are cited by the media as examples of Russian collusion. In other words, the DNC was actively working on a plan to connect Trump to Russia before the alleged collusion ever happened.
I reported on this, what, like in July 2017, how POLITICO already in Jan 2017 tried to spin Hillary's collusion with Ukraine
Here, where the exploits of one anti-Russian pro-Ukrainian Alexandra Chalupa may ultimately be the origin for the whole Trump-Russia collusion narrative of the last two years.
She really ought to be investigated and deposed. Maybe she knows more than she's letting on about how the New York Times got the information it published causing Manafort to resign from the Trump campaign.
In the article below John Solomon appears to be completely oblivious to this POLITICO article excerpted at the link above, which outlined how long time Clinton ally and Ukrainian-American activist Alexandra Chalupa was instrumental in siccing Democrats on Paul Manafort for his alleged Russian ties immediately after Manafort became Trump's campaign manager in 2016. The DNC and Marcy Kaptur in particular are named as very interested parties who gave Chalupa a hearing, as were Ukrainian diplomats. Chalupa also notably claims to have been a major source on Ukraine for the reporter Michael Isikoff.
The upshot is that the Hillary campaign as the pro-Ukrainian in the 2016 race (along with John McCain!) was the intended principal beneficiary of the effort to destroy Manafort for his alleged pro-Russian activities.
Ukraine’s top prosecutor divulged in an interview aired Wednesday on Hill.TV that he has opened an investigation into whether his country’s law enforcement apparatus intentionally leaked financial records during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign about then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in an effort to sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
The leak of the so-called black ledger files to U.S. media prompted Manafort’s resignation from the Trump campaign and gave rise to one of the key allegations in the Russia collusion probe that has dogged Trump for the last two and a half years.
Ukraine Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko’s probe was prompted by a Ukrainian parliamentarian's release of a tape recording purporting to quote a top law enforcement official as saying his agency leaked the Manafort financial records to help Clinton's campaign.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Support for single payer healthcare has fallen since 2017, opposition to it has risen, country is divided
I thought Obamacare was supposed to have fixed everything?
You mean it didn't?
Somebody get Obama on the phone.
Border Patrol in Rio Grande Valley has apprehended illegals from 44 countries, on track for 60, not like before when it was the same people over and over again
Border Patrol: 25,000 Illegal Aliens Evaded Capture in Southeast Texas:
"So far, here in south Texas, we’ve apprehended folks from 44 different countries. These are from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, you name it.” Although most illegal aliens hail from the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, Ortiz estimates that by the end of the year, Border Patrol will have apprehended people from 60 different countries. ... Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, said that although Border Patrol apprehended more than 1 million people in the early- to mid-2000s, it was often the same people, from Mexico, and it was easy to return them. ... “But now, that’s not what we’re dealing with. We’re on pace to have about 900,000 arrests, but that’s 900,000 people that we’re dealing with. Whereas back in the early-2000s, we were dealing with somewhere around 500,000, 600,000 people. We were just arresting the same person over and over and over again. So we’re dealing with something that’s just never been dealt with before. And if we don’t get the support from Congress, we’re going to fail. Period.”
Monday, March 25, 2019
ABC's Terry Moran thinks it's finally safe to come out and attack Obama CIA's John Brennan for the partisan hack he truly is
Better late than never, I guess, but c'mon, Moran didn't have the courage to do it years ago when it mattered more.
Michael Goodwin: If Hillary were a better person she would apologize and acknowledge Trump's legitimacy, should be shunned until she does
In a better world, or if she were a
better person, she would apologize and publicly acknowledge Trump’s
legitimacy. I won’t hold my breath. But until she does, she should be shunned in public life. She has no
credibility to speak on any issue or endorse any candidate. She has put
the nation through hell all because she lost an election she should have
won. Let’s remember, too, that her campaign actually did work with
Russians, through FusionGPS and British agent Christopher Steele, to
create a fictional scenario about Trump being compromised. ...
It
was, after all, the Clinton-financed Russian dossier that formed the
basis of the FBI investigation launched by the disgraced James Comey
that summer. How did that happen? How did a partisan dirty trick result in an FBI probe of the other party’s presidential candidate? And how did so much classified information leak, including the names
of Trump associates picked up incidentally on wiretaps? Who in the Obama
White House broke the law?
These and other questions deserve at least as much scrutiny as Clinton’s false claims.
As Trump said Sunday, “This was an illegal takedown that failed. And
hopefully, somebody’s going to be looking at the other side.”
Amen to that.
The KGB refused to let the FBI examine its servers, so there can never be peace
The Democrat Party is the biggest threat facing America.
David Axelrod still pretends that the Russian hack of the DNC servers is a solid fact when it's not
Matt Taibbi knows better ("Russiagate is WMD times a million" is the original html), Axelrod's the hack:
I didn’t really address the case that Russia hacked the DNC, content
to stipulate it for now. I was told early on that this piece of the
story seemed “solid,” but even that assertion has remained un-bolstered
since then, still based on an “assessment”
by those same intelligence services that always had issues, including
the use of things like RT’s “anti-American” coverage of fracking as part
of its case. The government didn’t even examine the DNC’s server, the
kind of detail that used to make reporters nervous.
LOL CNN's Brian Stelter: Who me? I had nothing to do with this! Look at all the solid reporting!
CNN has been nothing so much as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith defending transubstantiation in its promulgation of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative for the last two years.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
The next two years will be nothing but the sound of the media's excuses for getting Russiagate wrong
Which will be nothing but the flip side to Hillary's excuses for two years for losing Election 2016.
All we ask for is integrity and competence . . . all we get is mendacity and excuses.
Trump's Chair of the Council Economic Advisors, Kevin Hassett, wants to DOUBLE the number of immigrants into the US
David Bossie: An ‘America First’ immigration policy looks like this [no, it doesn't, Mr. Citizens United]:
As President Trump’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors
Kevin Hassett pointed out in a 2013 paper for the American Enterprise
Institute, the United States could add half a percentage point to
economic growth by doubling the number of immigrants it lets into the
country, especially if they come on employer-sponsored visas. President
Trump’s chief economist continues to make the case that "for a country
that has long thought of itself as a nation of immigrants, the U.S.
falls far behind almost all the other countries in the number of
immigrants it admitted relative to its population size.”
New Zealand fools evacuate concert over someone's "right wing tattoo" while drinking Confederate bourbon distilled by Germans
Meanwhile German carmakers accounted for 9.3% of New Zealand auto sales in 2018, including 4,048 Volkswagens, Hitler's people's car.
Matt Taibbi: The press has now handed Trump the mother of campaign issues heading into 2020
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD:
The Russiagate era has so degraded journalism that even once “reputable” outlets are now only about as right as politicians, which is to say barely ever, and then only by accident. Early on, I was so amazed by the sheer quantity of Russia “bombshells” being walked back, I started to keep a list. It’s well above 50 stories now. As has been noted by Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept and others, if the mistakes were random, you’d expect them in both directions, but Russiagate errors uniformly go the same way. ...
Nothing Trump is accused of from now on by the press will be believed
by huge chunks of the population, a group that (perhaps thanks to this
story) is now larger than his original base. As [Peter] Baker notes [in the New York Times], a full
50.3% of respondents in a poll conducted this month said they agree with Trump the Mueller probe is a “witch hunt.” ...
The biggest thing this affair has uncovered so far is Donald Trump
paying off a porn star. That’s a hell of a long way from what this
business was supposedly about at the beginning, and shame on any
reporter who tries to pretend this isn’t so. ...
CNN
told us Trump officials had been in “constant contact” with “Russians
known to U.S. intelligence,” and the former director of the CIA ["former" communist John Brennan], who’d
helped kick-start the investigation that led to Mueller’s probe, said
the President was guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” committing
acts “nothing short of treasonous.” ...
[N]ews outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign,
only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the
recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC’s Terry Moran
understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a “reckoning for the media.” Of
course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there
should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this
story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t
confirm. ...
The Russiagate era has so degraded journalism that even once “reputable” outlets are now only about as right as politicians, which is to say barely ever, and then only by accident. Early on, I was so amazed by the sheer quantity of Russia “bombshells” being walked back, I started to keep a list. It’s well above 50 stories now. As has been noted by Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept and others, if the mistakes were random, you’d expect them in both directions, but Russiagate errors uniformly go the same way. ...
We’ve become sides-choosers, obliterating the concept of the press as an
independent institution whose primary role is sorting fact and fiction.
Ten shit-hole rivers in Asia and Africa responsible for 90% of plastic polluting the world's oceans
Seven of the ten are communist with Chinese characteristics:
Yangtze River, China (1.5 million tonnes annually and worst offender)
Hai he River, China
Yellow River, China
Mekong River, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam
Pearl River, China and Vietnam
Indus River, China, India and Pakistan
Ganges River, India and Bangladesh
Amur River, Russia and China
Nile River, eleven countries including Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya
Niger River, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin and Nigeria
Just 10 rivers carry 90% of plastic polluting the oceans
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Failed Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke hopes to win something by giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens
I think he win another failure.
Sí, I do think so.
Left-wing scam artist set up fake political action committees for Bernie, Beto and kept the dough for himself
California con man set up bogus websites for Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke to defraud donors, prosecutors say:
A notorious California con man has been charged with
defrauding donors out of more than $250,000 sent to sham political
groups and websites for Beto O'Rourke, Bernie Sanders and other
prominent Democrats, prosecutors said Tuesday. ... The court papers say that nearly all of the more than 1,000
donations to the scam PACs and websites were in fact pocketed by Dupont.
47-year-old Italian citizen of Senegalese origin torches school bus, tries to kill kids in retaliation against Matteo Salvini
Driver hijacks, sets ablaze school bus in Italy, children flee unharmed:
An unnamed girl was also quoted as saying that Sy blamed deputy prime
ministers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio for the deaths of African
migrants at sea.
As of June 2018 over 1 million illegal aliens have final deportation orders but they're still here
The unstated answer is incompetence and opposition at the highest levels of government.
Italy's Matteo Salvini actually does the job Donald Trump only talks about doing
Spell check to aisle seven.
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