Meanwhile German carmakers accounted for 9.3% of New Zealand auto sales in 2018, including 4,048 Volkswagens, Hitler's people's car.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
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.
Trump is catching 'em alright, and releasing them into the USA at a rate of 1,337 per day for the last three months
They are storming the border because they know Trump is all talk, no action, and incompetent. By signing the funding bill to end the shutdown he actually signed a bill which reduced facility space to hold detainees, meaning he has to release more than before by law.
He's his own worst enemy and has made the problem worse.
John DeStefano, in charge of Trump's 4,000 personnel appointments in 2017, was John Boehner aide
White House personnel official described Trump GOP nomination as 'end of the world':
Fear about a bias toward establishment picks emerged in 2017, when
Trump selected DeStefano to lead the PPO. He had worked as an aide to
former House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, before leading Data Trust.
Eyebrows raised with appointees with views at odds with some of Trump’s,
such as former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, former foreign
policy adviser Dina Powell, and Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams. ...
A former White House official said DeStefano, 39, set the tone for
the PPO with an “us versus them” mentality, often referring to Trump
backers as “the MAGA people.” ...
Trump is said to have grown angry with DeStefano at times, including
upon finding that a National Security Council official, Jordan Kelly,
had not been dismissed from her role as a cyber expert more than a year
after he requested it, according to a source.
Friday, March 22, 2019
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