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Russians are being treated to a TV pity party marking the fall of “Teflon Don,” a nickname bestowed upon Donald Trump by Moscow’s most prominent mouthpieces.
Having recovered from their initial shock over the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Russian experts and pundits started to dismiss it as much ado about nothing, albeit a convenient tale they could use to smear American democracy. Now they’re singing a different tune. In the most recent broadcast of the state TV show Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, host Vladimir Solovyov remarked, “I’m very worried for our agent Trump. They found everything at Mar-a-Lago, they got packages of documents. In all seriousness, they say he should be executed as a person that was ready to hand off nuclear secrets to Russia.”
Appearing on Solovyov’s show, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova likewise raged against the alleged persecution of Moscow’s favorite former U.S. president. In a bizarre tirade, she attempted to tie the search of Mar-a-Lago with Trump’s earlier statement that there are only two genders, male and female. “In the West, you’re not allowed to call a man a man. You can’t call a woman a woman. You’re not allowed to call a child male or female until it reaches the age of 2-3 years old,” she fumed. “In the run-up to the upcoming electoral battles, one of the contenders for a political role—the most important political role in the United States—Donald Trump steps up and says, ‘We’ve gone too far. There are only two genders: male and female.’”
Zakharova then implied that the search of Trump’s property was somehow related to his stance on gender identity. “Immediately, practically momentarily, dozens of cars of U.S. intelligence agencies, dozens—approaching hundreds—of special agents, FBI and so on, searched his home, seized boxes of some papers... and started to say that he broke the law—attention—on espionage! Five minutes from now, this man could be declared an American spy.”
Solovyov chimed in: “[He could be declared] a Russian spy... Will we try to exchange him to bring Trump to Russia? Will they include Trump on the prisoner exchange list?” On his radio show one day before, the host had bemoaned “repressions” against Trump and complained about what a terrible mess the U.S. had become. Nonetheless, the decorated Russian propagandist boasted about not being sanctioned by the United States, even though his visa recently expired. Waiting for a better political climate, Solovyov decided not to renew it just yet.
Having initially believed that better times are ahead and that Trump’s return to the White House was imminent, prominent Russian propagandists dubbed him “the Teflon Don” and predicted that he would overcome the FBI’s investigation as merely the latest speed bump in his alleged “persecution by the deep state.” Now that more details have emerged, their views have become pessimistic. Appearing on the program Solovyov Live on Monday, Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Institute of the Middle East, grimly noted that—in light of the baggage carried by Trump—the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, known in Russia as “Number Two,” may be a better bet for the Republicans. At this point, Russian talking heads aren’t quite certain whether DeSantis would be as likely as Trump to befriend Russia and dump Ukraine—but that’s where their propaganda aimed at U.S. voters would supposedly come in.
More than ever, Russian state media is stressing the need to influence Americans in the run-up to the midterms and the future presidential election. Kremlin-controlled talking heads are hoping out loud that Americans will see things their way, opting to concentrate on internal issues, abandoning Ukraine and letting go of the sanctions against Russia.
In addition to their convenient talking points, furthered by the likes of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Russian state media has also announced that it would like to pipe news from Russia straight into the U.S. During Monday’s broadcast of The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, Americanist Dmitry Drobnitsky said, “The main point of polarization is fast approaching. In November, people in the West have to hear the Russian news, especially in light of the growing interest... We need to break through those barriers, why isn’t anyone doing that? That will be one of the most important components of our future success.”
At this point, aside from this article, based solely on all other evidence, how DUMB would you have to be to support the Dim Wit who can't stop making up LIES about STEALING classified documents? Daffy Don surrounded himself with Dim Wits who swear to whatever LIES he spews, with a few exceptions who were so dedicated to the nation that they stayed to defend DEMOCRACY.
Who instructed that those documents be loaded and shipped? Was it KUSHNER seeking to ingratiate himself for the BIG SAUDI PAYOFF?
Was it worth $2 BILLION to betray the nation?
Jared Kushner Theories Swirl Over $2B Saudi Money After Trump Mole Claims
https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-theories-saudi-money-donald-trump-mole-fbi-raid-1733474
Former president Donald Trump in Washington on July 26. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP)
The Trump administration used the controversial law to target media outlets and sources who provided important information to the public.
The 1917 Espionage Act has become controversial. Despite its name, it isn’t really used much anymore to prosecute spies. In recent years, both Democratic and Republican administrations wielded it as a weapon to intimidate media as well as sources who have provided important information to the public — raising the ire of civil rights advocates.
This isn’t Trump’s first brush with the Espionage Act, though it is the first time he’s the one being accused. According to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, Trump’s Department of Justice charged five journalist sources — none of them spies — under the Espionage Act. (Several more journalistic sources were prosecuted under lesser statutes.) Here’s how the Espionage Act charges went for the people Trump used it against.
Reality Winner
During the 2016 presidential election, Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, or GRU, launched cyberattacks in support of Trump’s campaign. In one of them, GRU sent spearphishing emails to local election officials in swing states hoping to trick them into opening the malicious attachment that would hack their computers. At the time, Trump called all of this “fake news.”
In 2017, then-National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Reality Winner, who was 26, leaked a classified NSA document to The Intercept that described this GRU plot in detail. Trump’s Justice Department charged and convicted her under the Espionage Act. Midway through a trial, Winner entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to one charge. She was sentenced to five years and three months in prison, and three years of supervised release: the longest sentence ever given for the unauthorized release of classified documents to the media. (In June 2021, Winner was released early from prison.)
State election officials first learned about GRU’s spearphishing attack against them because of media reports, but only thanks to Winner; the NSA had failed to warn them. Two former election officials told CBS News’s “60 Minutes” that Winner’s disclosure helped secure the 2018 midterm election.
Terry Albury
In early 2017, The Intercept published a series of revelations based on confidential FBI guidelines from an internal FBI whistleblower, including details about controversial tactics for investigating minorities and spying on journalists.
In 2018, Trump’s Justice Department charged and convicted Terry Albury, at the time an FBI special agent, under the Espionage Act for leaking. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release.
During Albury’s distinguished 16-year counterterrorism career at the FBI, he “often observed or experienced racism and discrimination within the Bureau,” according to court documents. The only Black FBI special agent in the Minneapolis field office, he was especially disturbed by what he saw as “systemic biases” within the bureau, particularly when it came to the FBI’s mistreatment of informants.
Joshua Schulte
In early 2017, WikiLeaks began publishing a series of documents and hacking tools detailing the CIA’s offensive cyber capabilities, collectively known as Vault 7 — the single largest leak of classified information in CIA history. These releases lead Trump’s CIA Director Mike Pompeo to declare WikiLeaks a “hostile intelligence service.” The CIA even considered kidnapping or assassinating Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, over this release of documents and hacking tools.
This was a wild reversal of Trump’s attitude towards WikiLeaks. Less than a year earlier, during the 2016 election, WikiLeaks had published GRU-hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee, perfectly timed to distract the public from a video of Trump bragging about sexual assault. Trump declared, “I love WikiLeaks.”
In 2018, the disgruntled CIA software developer Joshua Schulte, who worked on programming the hacking tools that WikiLeaks published, was charged under the Espionage Act for leaking the Vault 7 documents to WikiLeaks. Last month, Schulte was convicted in a trial by jury on nine Espionage Act counts. He hasn’t been sentenced yet, but he faces up to 80 years in prison. He also faces additional charges related to sexual assault and child pornography.
Daniel Hale
In 2015, The Intercept published a series of stories that provided the most detail ever made public about the U.S. government’s unaccountable program for targeting and killing people around the world, including U.S. citizens, with drones. The disclosures were based on leaked classified documents.
In 2014, FBI agents raided the home of whistleblower Daniel Hale, a former NSA drone operator and later an outspoken anti-war activist, who they suspected of being the source. President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, though, declined to file any charges. The Trump administration, on the other hand, was more than happy to prosecute the case. In 2019, Trump’s Justice Department charged Hale under the Espionage Act. After pleading guilty to one of the charges, he was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.
Henry Kyle Frese
In 2018, CNBC published eight articles containing classified information about China’s weapons systems, including that China had installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile system in the South China Sea.
In 2019, Henry Kyle Frese, a counterterrorism analyst for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, was charged under the Espionage Act for leaking documents about China’s weapons systems to the CNBC reporter, who he was dating, and her colleague at NBC News. Frese pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years and six months in prison.
Donald Trump
Now, Trump has found himself on the other end of an Espionage Act investigation. (President Joe Biden’s Justice Department authorized a search of Mar-a-Lago that cited the Espionage Act in its justification, but no charges against Trump have been filed yet.)
Unlike most of the people charged with the Espionage Act under the Trump administration, except perhaps Schulte, Trump’s theft of classified documents wasn’t aimed at exposing attacks on democracy, shining a light on government atrocities, or adding anything newsworthy to the public discourse.
In their allegations, authorities have not offered any explanations about Trump’s motives for retaining classified documents on his way out of the White House in 2020. Knowing Trump, it wasn’t anything altruistic. We do, however, know that Section 793 of the Espionage Act carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
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REALITY WINNER shared information that RUSSIANS INTERFERRED WITH US ELECTIONS at a time when Daffy Don claimed it was a witch hunt which was just another LIE.
You're comparing the 1918 prosecution of Debs to what is currently transpiring?
It's time to address and correct WHISTLEBLOWER protections that have revealed LIES and MISINFORMATION.
At a time when we are bombarded with irrational conspiracy theories and corporate propaganda, such as LOCKHEED MARTIN's NEVER FLY F-35, WALL STREET'S CRYPTO CRASH and the continued support by the FEDERAL RESERVE under JEROME POWELL that not only erodes our economy, but will create a financial crisis that will dwarf the last disaster, don't provide + 100 year old history simply because you choose to remain uninformed.
JEROME POWELL was a tRump appointee and should not have been reappointed after presiding over the greatest scandal in FEDERAL RESERVE history and obstructing any investigation. He's an attorney, not an economist.
Don't point to others and dismiss with 'they did it too.'
Protesters chant at the Florida Capitol as advocates for bodily autonomy protest a bill before the Florida legislature to limit abortions on Feb. 16, 2022, in Tallahassee, Florida. (photo: Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)The court did not seem to recognize that it’s also going to require plenty of maturity for a parentless teen pursuing a GED to give birth and raise a child
The teen, who “is almost seventeen years-old and parentless,” lives with a relative but “has an appointed guardian,” according to the appeal decision. She had previously gone to court to seek an exemption from a law that would require consent from a parent or guardian to obtain the procedure, which was not granted. The teen informed the court that while her guardian “was fine” with her obtaining the procedure, they had never provided the required waiver.
Pleading her case, the teen argued to the court that she was not ready to become a parent. According to court documents, she was pursuing her GED “with involvement in a program designed to assist young women who have experienced trauma in their lives” and that the father of the fetus “is unable to assist her.” In the original trial, the judge found that the girl “showed, at times, that she is stable and mature enough to make this decision [and] acknowledges she is not ready for the emotional, physical, or financial responsibility of raising a child,” and that her concerns about raising a child are “valid.” The judge still chose to reject the petition, saying that the court found the minor “may be able, at a later date, to adequately articulate her request.”
The appellate court ruled on Monday that the girl had not sufficiently proven that she was mature enough to obtain an abortion, and upheld the requirement of approval from a guardian to obtain the abortion. The decision means that if the teen is unable to secure the waiver, she will most likely become a parent — a task that the court does not seem to recognize as requiring an immense amount of maturity.
Florida is among the six states that require health care providers to notify and seek consent from parents or legal guardians if a minor attempts to obtain abortion services. Advocates for reproductive autonomy argue that these sorts of laws can endanger the health and well being of teens and young people seeking abortions. According to the American Civil Liberties Union “61% of young women discussed the decision to have an abortion with at least one of their parents.” Those who do not consult a parent do so in order to protect themselves from things like expulsion from their home, emotional or physical abuse, or are already experiencing volatility in their home and family life.
A woman walks past a bombed building in Nikopol. (photo: Christopher Cherry/Guardian UK)
War against Russia is entering a decisive phase, but on the frontline a big push still feels some way off
Pletenchuk’s one-time government workplace was a spectacular ruin. In March, a Russian missile slammed into the regional state HQ, gouging a giant hole, killing 37 people and wounding many more. The security guards in reception miraculously survived. Colleagues having breakfast in the canteen were less fortunate. There are bloodstains on the stairs and in an upstairs corridor.
“We are fighting against fucking idiots. It’s good for us. But they have nuclear weapons,” Pletenchuk said, showing off his glass-strewn ninth-floor office, with a panoramic view over the city’s river and port. “Russia is like a monkey with a hand grenade,” he added. “It’s a problem for the whole world. We don’t know if they are going to blow everyone up.”
Early in Vladimir Putin’s invasion, Russian troops came close to seizing Mykolaiv, known in Soviet times for its huge shipyard. They swept up from Crimea, occupying the city of Kherson, a regional capital, and much of southern Ukraine. In September, the Kremlin plans to hold “referendums” in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces, which will almost certainly result in them being annexed to Russia.
Ukraine is determined to stop this happening. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has ordered a counteroffensive. The goal is to liberate Kherson and surrounding Russian-occupied settlements on the right bank of the Dnieper River, followed by further territories in the south and east, and ultimately Crimea itself, seized in 2014 by undercover Russian operatives.
Six months on, the war is entering a decisive phase. The next few weeks may determine Ukraine’s de facto borders for years to come. In the eastern Donbas, Russian troops continue to advance, pressing on the Ukrainian-controlled cities of Bakhmut and Sloviansk. In the south, by contrast, their grip appears shakier. The frontline runs between Mykolaiv and Kherson, across a steppe landscape of fields and pulverised villages.
Since June Ukraine has deployed US-supplied Himars multiple rocket launch systems to clinical effect. It has knocked out four crossing points over the Dnieper, including the Antonivsky Bridge connecting Kherson with the left-bank town of Oleshky. Russia’s S-300 and S-400 air defences seem powerless. Over the weekend they failed to stop the latest Himars strike. Video shows orange explosions and clouds of black smoke above the bridge.
Guided missiles also hit the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, rendering its bridge unusable to heavy vehicles. Ammunition dumps and command posts have been blown up. Last week Kyiv wiped out Saky aerodrome on the west coast of Crimea, in a mysterious operation deep behind enemy lines. Eight war planes were destroyed. Holidaymakers fled in panic, with traffic jams on the Crimea bridge back to Russia.
Ukrainian commanders, however, concede that a big push in Kherson is some way off. “We have more weapons. Not enough to do an offensive now and to beat the enemy. It is enough to defend our territory,” said Roman Kostenko, a pro-European deputy who heads the parliamentary defence and security committee. A special forces officer, Kostenko led the operation in March to defend Mykolaiv, where he and his military team are based.
Advanced western weapons have allowed Ukraine to erode Moscow’s military superiority, slowly but surely. “They have made a difference. Previously they fired 100 shells at us, now they fire 20. We are approaching parity,” Kostenko said. He continued: “To liberate Kherson we don’t need to attack Kherson. If we control the bridge, they have no logistics. If they make a pontoon bridge, it can easily be destroyed.”
The Russians appear to have come to the same conclusion. Some western intelligence experts believe it is a matter of time before they abandon Kherson and retreat across the river. Their military leadership reportedly fled last week to the safer left bank. Russian motorised and airborne regiments have been reinforcing defensive positions, with additional soldiers brought in, as well as equipment from Crimea.
Ukraine’s Himars rockets have a range of about 50 miles (80km). At the end of July a precision-guided missile blew up a military freight train in the Kherson region town of Brylivka. Russia has relocated some of its forward command and control centres, pulling back to the village of Myrne, Kostenko said. Troops are digging trenches and moving into civilian houses.
So far the Biden administration is refusing to supply Kyiv with Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) rockets, which can be used in Himars systems and have a 185-mile range. Its reasoning is that Ukraine could use them to strike Russia itself, an act the US fears may lead to a third world war. Zelenskiy dismisses this scenario and has pledged not to attack Russian territory. Negotiations continue, as the Pentagon reviews the situation.
Occupied Crimea, though, is not Russia. The peninsula, heavily militarised by Moscow, is a legitimate Ukrainian target, according to Washington and its allies. “If we got ATACMS, we could hit the bridge linking Crimea with the Russian mainland. It would dramatically change our position in the south,” Kostenko said. “We understand the fears of the US side. But with ATACMS we could further degrade Russia’s logistics.”
Kostenko’s Golos party colleague Roman Lozynskyi described Himars as a battlefield “game changer”. He showed the Guardian a 60-second video clip he filmed last month somewhere in the Mykolaiv region. A rocket pierces an inky black canopy, streaking above a ghostly tree line. The noise is shattering. More than a dozen guided missiles roar into the heavens, in rapid succession. There is smoke and bright white light.
“Ukrainian soldiers see Himars and feel proud of our capacity to fight,” Lozynskiy said. “It’s important for our spirits. We can use it to destroy dozens of Russian military camps.” Alongside Kostenko, Lozynskyi is one of a handful of lawmakers from the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, to have joined the army. He has been serving since February on the southern front. In the corridor of his base are next-generation light antitank weapons and Stinger missiles.
Until Ukraine strikes, Russia is able to bombard Mykolaiv every day. The city – home to 240,000 people, from a pre-invasion population of half a million – has been badly damaged. On Saturday three Uragan rockets smashed into the port. Missiles have wrecked schools, the national university, several hotels, and the Golden Pheasant restaurant. At least 121 people have been killed and 534 injured, including six children.
Shelling has wrecked the main water pipe supplying the city. The local council has installed standpipes; residents spend part of their day queueing for drinking water and can be seen on the streets lugging five-litre bottles. “I ignore the explosions. If they bomb me, they can bomb me in my bed,” 72-year-old Valentina Bevz said as she waited her turn at a communal tap. “We have a saying: ‘You can’t escape your destiny.’”
She said her sister had rung on the day of the invasion from Crimea, asking tearfully: “Will you break off contact with me?” Bevz said: “She understands what’s going on and her friends are decent people. Most Russians are zombies and chauvinists. They think Russia is always right.” Irina Moroz, 79, described Russia’s president as “Putler”. “The name is a cross between Putin and Hitler,” she said cheerfully.
The governor of the Mykolaiv region, Vitaliy Kim, would not be drawn on when exactly Ukraine may go on the offensive. “It’s a question of time. I hope it will happen as soon as possible. We have an order to win back our territories and our people,” he said. The west could speed up the recapture of Kherson by giving Ukraine more heavy weapons and by not succumbing to war fatigue, he added.
Kim described the Kremlin’s tactics as “terrorism”. He said Russian soldiers were regularly shelling civilians to “break our will”. “It isn’t working. They are just killing people,” he noted. Asked if the promised counterattack was a bluff, the governor pointed to the gains Ukraine’s armed forces had already made. They had pushed the Russians back, he said, and liberated a string of villages to the east of Mykolaiv, around the Inhul River.
Back at the shattered administration building, Pletenchuk – a captain in the navy and a public affairs officer – said he had no doubt Ukraine would prevail. Ukrainians had always resisted Russian imperialism, he said. They included his grandfather, whom Stalin sent to Siberia. Pletenchuk reasoned: “We have motivation. They don’t want to die in this country. We are defending our homeland. They are fighting for a washing machine.”
Baker County Sheriff's Complex in Macclenny, Fla. (photo: Google Maps/NBC News)
Amid allegations of beatings and racism, 16 organizations have filed a complaint with several government and immigration agencies.
"To this day, I always have a sharp pain in my head,” he said to Noticias Telemundo Investiga.
His allegations are part of a federal complaint filed by 16 civil rights organizations against practices at the detention center, which is located in Macclenny, Florida. The complaint was sent to several Department of Homeland Security agencies and the Miami ICE office.
The groups cite "inhumane conditions," including excessive use of force and physical assault, verbal abuse, "racialized harassment" and medical neglect.
The federal complaint is calling for ICE to terminate the contract with Baker County, which runs the facility. It is also asking for an investigation, the release of some of the detainees -- especially those held over 120 days -- and a halt to any scheduled deportations.
Noticias Telemundo Investiga interviewed several immigrant detainees including De León Serrabi, whose allegations are included in the federal complaint. According to his testimony, the alleged abuse against him took place after "refusing a COVID-19 test required for his deportation," according to the complaint.
De León said that a beating in December 2021, when a guard "unloaded all his anger with his right hand," caused his ear to bleed and impacted his hearing.
Sofia Casini, director of visitation advocacy strategy at Freedom for Immigrants, one of the groups that filed the complaint, said De León Serrabi was put in solitary detention and had not been able to contact his family or contact his lawyer.
An investigation by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security in 2019 reported irregularities in four facilities, including Baker: “Detainees in the four facilities had difficulty resolving problems through the complaint and communication systems, including reports of verbal abuse by part of the staff." It also identified "serious issues with the administrative and disciplinary segregation" at Baker and two other facilities.
In an email to Noticias Telemundo Investiga, an ICE spokesperson did not directly address any of the specific detainees’ allegations described to reporters and detailed in the federal complaint.
The ICE spokesperson stated via email: "In May 2022, the Baker County Detention Center underwent their Annual Detention Inspection to ensure compliance with National Detention Standards. The facility received an acceptable rating."
The statement also stated that "ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency’s custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care." According to the statement, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) "vigilantly" manages ICE’s security programs, "conducts independent reviews of ICE programs and operations, and impartially investigating allegations of serious employee and contractor misconduct."
‘A living hell’
“I felt like dying,” said Eric Martinez about his experience at the detention center. The Colombian immigrant, who's 39, had been in the United States for 28 years when he was taken into ICE custody.
Speaking from Colombia following his deportation, he told Noticias Telemundo Investiga that he suffered from physical and verbal abuse at the Baker County Detention Center.
His account is also detailed in the complaint. "Mr. Martinez felt like he was going to pass out and tried to yell that he could not breathe" after an officer allegedly put his knee on his stomach, the complaint reads. "While Mr. Martinez was restrained, Sergeant Griffiths punched him in the face with a closed fist, breaking his nose."
Martinez has been working with an attorney seeking video footage of the alleged assault. "Remembering his time at Baker," the federal complaint states, 'it was a living hell.'"
Despite everything, Martinez told Noticias Telemundo Investiga he hopes to return to the U.S., where he has a family and a life that he left behind.
“He never got justice,” Casini said about Martinez.
Other immigrant detainees have described incidents of racism against Latino and Black migrant detainees, including racist slurs, saying they were told to speaking English.
“The people who work there demonstrate a culture of racism and discrimination against immigrants,” says Andrea Jacoski, director of the Americans for Justice Detention Program.
Casini said the center has had these problems for 10 years, when Baker County's contract with ICE started.
Cosme Alfredo FrÃas, a 57-year-old Dominican, was deported from Baker after spending months requesting a colonoscopy prescribed by a doctor at another detention center due to blood found in his stool. Fearing a serious illness, he contacted pro-immigrant organizations who filed a complaint on his behalf, though FrÃas and the groups allege that only resulted in threats from the guards.
Casini said that the ICE office in Miami should take responsibility for the surveillance and monitoring of these centers.
Maybe some day you'll figure out how US/CIA foreign policy forced them to flee their countries.
No one willingly leaves their home and community.
Have you ever spoken to an immigrant?
Of course not because your right wing sources tell you all you wrongly believe you should know.
The US/CIA trained torturers and mass murderers at the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS and sent them to kill and torture....then supported THUGS to allow the rape and plunder of their environment and resources...
The Tragic Life of the War Criminal Elliott Abrams
https://jacobin.com/2019/02/the-tragic-life-of-the-war-criminal-elliott-abrams
But you got your cheap BANANAS, SUGAR and COFFEE!
That's all that really matters to you never mind what the US/CIA did...
Ya wanna stop immigration? STOP THE SHORT SIGHTED US/CIA POLICIES THAT HAVE CAUSED IT.
The CIA flooded minority neighborhoods in the US to support IRAN CONTRA.
It wasn't much of an issue until ADDICTION became a problem of WHITE AMERICANS.
Try some FACTS!
More than a dozen journalists have been killed in Mexico this year. (photo: Felix Marquez/AP)
Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, with at least 17 media workers killed in 2022.
Juan Arjon Lopez, an independent journalist who ran a news page on Facebook, went missing on August 9, according to the state attorney general.
A body with tattoos matching those of Arjon was recovered on Tuesday in San Luis Rio Colorado, the town where he disappeared.
Arjon’s body was found showing “signs of violence,” Sonora Attorney General Claudia Indira told a press conference.
The 62-year-old was identified from his fingerprints, a source at the attorney general’s office told the AFP news agency.
An autopsy found that the journalist was killed by a blow to the head, the attorney general’s office said in a statement, and added that it was not ruling out any line of investigation.
Arjon had alternated between working as a reporter and at a local restaurant, media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said.
“He had a webpage [where] he covered security topics, he was known and recognised in San Luis,” Balbina Flores of RSF told the Reuters news agency.
Human rights organisation Article 19, which tracks murders of journalists, is looking into the case, a press representative said.
San Luis is across the border from the US state of Arizona, and has long been known for medical and dentistry centres catering to Americans. But the area has been hit by drug cartel violence in recent years.
Mexico is one of the riskiest countries in the world for journalists, according to Article 19, which says at least 34 media workers have been killed in relation to their work since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December 2018. At least 17 journalists have been killed in 2022.
Last week, four employees of a radio station in the border town Ciudad Juarez were killed in what officials called gang-related violence. The week before that, journalist Ernesto Mendez was killed in the central state of Guanajuato in a bar he owned.
Arjon’s most recent news reports on his Facebook page were about a drug seizure and the recovery of several items of stolen goods.
Residents evacuate as the water rises north of Guerneville, Calif., on Feb. 26, 2019. (photo: Kent Porter/Press-Democrat/AP)
A new study says climate change has doubled the chances of a major devastating flood in California in the next four decades.
The study, published Friday in the journal Sciences Advances, found that climate change has already doubled the chances of an event "capable of producing catastrophic flooding" in California in the next four decades.
The study acknowledges that the state is "more accustomed to water scarcity than overabundance in the modern era," with California experiencing two historically severe droughts between 2012 and 2021. However, it said historical and paleoclimate evidence suggests the state is also subject to episodes of increased rainfall, with climate change potentially expediting the possibility of a major storm in the future.
The state has seen extreme precipitation and severe subregional flooding events a number of times during the 20th century, including in 1969, 1986 and 1997, the study notes. But while those incidents hint at the "latent potential" of a future major flood, "none have rivaled ... the benchmark 'Great Flood of 1861–1862,'" the study said.
That event, it noted, "was characterized by weekslong sequences of winter storms" that "produced widespread catastrophic flooding across virtually all of California’s lowlands — transforming the interior Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys into a temporary but vast inland sea nearly 300 miles in length."
The impacts of the "Great Flood" helped spur "ARkStorm," a 2010 California statewide disaster scenario led by the U.S. Geological Survey, the study said.
It said that subsequent analysis suggested that such an event "would likely produce widespread, catastrophic flooding," potentially leading to the displacement of millions of people, the long-term closure of key transportation corridors and "ultimately to nearly $1 trillion in overall economic losses."
The researchers behind the study said their findings demonstrate that climate change "is robustly increasing both the frequency and magnitude of extremely severe storm sequences capable of causing megaflood events in California," making such an event more likely.
"Our analysis suggests that the present-day (circa 2022) likelihood of historically rare to unprecedented 30-day precipitation accumulations has already increased substantially and that even modest additional increments of global warming will bring about even larger increases in likelihood," they said.
Despite a grim outlook, the study said there are measures California could take to "mitigate harm during a 21st century California megaflood." Among those possible solutions are floodplain restoration and levee setbacks, which would lessen flood risk in urban areas, it said. It further said that emergency evacuation and contingency plans could be updated to "accommodate the possibility of inundation and transportation disruption extending far beyond that which has occurred in the past century."
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