Bloomberg reports the threat of a crackdown on June 4 vigil participants, here.
Xi Jinping broke his promise in the South China Sea, and will break the one to Hong Kong as well. It's just a matter of time.
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for May 2018
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for May 2018
Max temp 94, Mean Max temp 86
Min temp 40, Mean Min temp 32
Av temp 64.8, Mean Av temp 57.9
Precip 5.64, Mean precip 3.46
Snowfall 0, Mean snowfall .2
Heating Degree Days 105, Mean HDD 252
Cooling Degree Days 108, Mean CDD 39
The cooling season has started off like a rocket, 240% warmer than mean to date based on CDD. With one month left to go in the heating season, the heating season as a result has now been 3.1% warmer than mean to date based on HDD.
Lee Smith says the Democrat narrative that Mifsud was working for the Russians doesn't pass the smell test
Here:
In an official report, Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence asserted that “in their approach to Papadopoulos, the Russians used common tradecraft and employed a cut-out,” a “Kremlin-linked…Maltese professor named Joseph Mifsud.” ...
Conversely, if [the FBI] did know Mifsud and thought he was a Russian agent, why did the bureau continue to send agents to teach at Link, with which he had been affiliated for nearly a decade by the time of the Papadopoulos affair?
Both the bureau and the CIA were constant presences at the school; surely they’d run across Mifsud before.
Many others that the FBI worked with knew him — from high-level British intelligence officials to members of the Italian cabinet. If Mifsud was a Kremlin-linked cut-out, why didn’t the FBI warn the U.S.’s European partners, or even U.S. government agencies, about the man who was at the center of Russiagate? ...
So why did the FBI not arrest Mifsud? The State Department declined to comment when RCI emailed to ask why it did not prevent its officials from appearing at an event with a “Kremlin-linked” figure who was key to Russia’s effort to interfere in the 2016 election.
If Mifsud was a Russian spy, it’s unclear why after Papadopoulos’ July 27, 2017 arrest that no U.S. intelligence officials warned their European partners that they were hosting a foreign agent on their territory. ...
When asked if any action was taken to extradite Mifsud or even interview him further in Europe, the office of the special counsel declined to comment on an ongoing investigation.
The office also declined to answer why Mifsud has not been charged. Mueller indicted 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies for their involvement in a pro-Russian social media campaign during the 2016 campaign cycle. But the “Kremlin-linked” individual that is alleged to have passed the Trump team information about Russia’s interference in the election is at liberty.
Andy McCarthy is thinking about Joseph Mifsud, too
But not about his connections to Hillary, or how he might have been acting in concert with her campaign to subvert Trump's.
Someone really ought to find out where Joseph Mifsud is hiding.
Here.
Joseph Mifsud, whose meeting with Papadopoulos was the pretext for the FBI's counterintelligence investigation of Trump, admitted he was "With Her"
Here in November 2017:
Joseph Mifsud is the Maltese professor who, according to the rumors and anticipations of the Russiagate investigation, has approached George Papadopoulos, an aide of Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, to help him to contact Russian authorities in the Kremlin, even for organizing a meeting between Trump and Putin. Mr. Mifsud is said to have given to the aide “dirty information” on Mrs. Clinton collected by the Russian. ...
“I am a member of the European Council on Foreign relations”, he adds, “and you know which is the only foundation I am member of? The Clinton Foundation. Between you and me, my thinking is left-leaning. But I predicted Trump’s victory as well as Brexit. Everyone of us wants peace. If the governments don’t talk each other, we citizens must keep talking”.
Saturday, June 2, 2018
China is so full of crap, says US freedom of navigation patrols constitute "militarization" of South China Sea
Here:
Senior Col. Zhao Xiaozhou, of the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Sciences, suggested in a question to Mr. Mattis that the U.S. Navy’s maneuvers near the islands could also be called militarization.
Like the US, China is free to conduct freedom of navigation patrols same as the US. That isn't good enough for China. It lays claim, illegally, to the whole area, and seeks to prohibit freedom of navigation in the area to everyone else. Building islands out of reefs and occupying them illegally and then militarizing them is proof enough of that.
Military confrontation is inevitable.
You probably think the economy's great because, well, the stock market
It's a struggling swimmer, treading water.
Well whoop-de-do: Trump has "cut" federal employment by all of 0.6% since November 2016
It's statistically irrelevant, but Trump's cheering section is sounding it nonetheless.
Meanwhile the big-talkin' man had promised to cut the federal workforce by 20%.
Only 558,900 more federal workers to go there fella.
Like that'll happen, either.
Trump knows his own unemployment rate is fake, but touts it anyway. Sad.
Not-in-labor-force hit a new all-time high in May of almost 96 million.
President Trump used to think 223,000 jobs a month wasn't nearly good enough
Actually, to close the employment gap between today and pre-Great Recession America, we'd need 370,000 jobs a month for the next 50 months straight, four years.
Like that's going to happen.
Friday, June 1, 2018
If we had employment at the pre-recession percentage of population, we'd have 7.3 million more working in May 2018 than we do have
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| 162.7 million employed at 63.2% instead of the 155.4 million actual at 60.4% in May 2018 |
Like unemployment generally, black unemployment is so low because near record numbers of them aren't in the labor force
And presto! Down comes the unemployment rate when you stop counting them.
It's a numbers racket for blacks no different than for everyone else.
"Not working but still eating" soars to new all-time high of 95.9 million in May 2018, but don't expect Rush Limbaugh to talk about it
Not with a Republican in the White House, no sir.
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