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Rule change sharpens Dem investigations into Trump These new rules will open the floodgates of the swamp. " The change allows staff of House committees to conduct depositions without any lawmakers present, freeing up the panels to move through witnesses in their investigations quickly without the constraints of the previous Congress. ... They want sworn testimony. That indicates to me they’re looking for facts and not show,” added Cash, who is now a lawyer at Day Pitney specializing in criminal and national security law. ... The change will allow committees to quicken the pace of their investigations if they take advantage of it, given that they will not be constrained by lawmakers’ schedules. “It can increase the speed, the efficiency and the punch of investigations,” said Jack Sharman, former special counsel to Congress for the Whitewater investigation. “If you remove the member-present requirement, then that reduces a lot of the logistical drag on the investigation.” So the House can have 50 lawyers and staffers conducting 50 depositions simultaneously. With all testimony and admissions under oath. i.e. Ivanka's China deals, Jared's Saudi loans, trump's tax and Russian money laundering deals. Oh! forgot Donald Jr. he'll be in there as well.

Wrong, paltering, click-bait and a hodgepodge of barefaced lies. You story not only provides no proof of the 30,000 names or how this fabrication came into existence. It further makes reference to a graph of US temperatures that is not on the NASA website and is false. Global Temperature, NASA Your half-truth, fabrication trolling websites have failed again.

There is so much in this post that it could be a definition for paltering in itself. It in fact means half-truths to deceive. "The result? Participants who faced the choice of either paltering or telling the truth misled the buyer more often (71%) than those who faced the choice of either lying outright or telling the truth (55%), even if this came at a cost. Here is an interesting fact that explains why people prefer paltering over telling outright lies: It allows them to maintain an image of themselves as honest and trustworthy individuals (after all, their paltering was truthful). We all care about being good people and being seen by others as such. In fact, when it comes to honesty, we generally believe we are better than others." This is where trump comes in.: "Another recent example is Trump’s response in the September 26 presidential debate to a question about a federal lawsuit that charged his family’s company with housing discrimination. His answer was: “When I was really young, I went into my father’s company. We, along with many, many, many other companies, throughout the country — it was a federal lawsuit — were sued. We settled the suit with zero — no admission of guilt. It was very easy to do. But they sued many people.” While it’s true that the Trumps did not admit guilt in the consent decree, a New York Times investigation suggests that the admission did not mean that they were innocent. Though Trump was young (27 years old), he was the company’s president. And though there may have been other firms sued at other times, the Trumps were the only one sued at that particular time."

From the Swamp Chronicles Regular stories of fraud, money laundering, corruption and coverup. Featuring Allen Weisselberg, trump's chief financial officer. "In late 2016, I had lunch with a former high-ranking Trump Organization executive, a person who said he was happy to share dirt on his old boss, but who confessed to not having much dirt to share. This executive wrote a list of people whom I might contact to find out about anything potentially illegal or unethical that Donald Trump may have done. At the bottom of the list was the name Weisselberg. “Allen is the one guy who knows everything,” the person told me. “He’ll never talk to you.” I have had nearly identical conversations with different people who work or have worked for the Trump Organization many times since. They all described his role similarly: Allen Weisselberg, the firm’s longtime chief financial officer, is the center, the person in the company who knows more than anyone. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Weisselberg had been granted immunity by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York " Then there is trump's lawyer who will fill in any blanks. The continuous dialogue about the wall, no collusion, etc. All all just republican talking points to keep the party in denial. Keep the base in denial. Mueller will be old news while the SDNY is still generating case after case. For the delinquent trump children to deny then defend themselves

You would think that that would be the end of such talk. ..sigh... But no.

I must have mixed up somebody else's orange nose for you. Sorry dude! Such an insult deserves an appropriate apology.

You guys know DJL was being sarcastic,..., I hope. What remains unsaid are the enablers and supporters of those actions. I ran across two stories that imply worse to come. $500 million that Mr. Bloomberg is going to spend. Either as a presidential run or to specifically defeat trump. Schumer recruits famed fighter pilot to challenge McConnell in 2020 Neither of which is specifically unusual. But the tribal war in America in the next two years will be expensive. It will turn this little Virginia skirmish into the First Battle of Bull Run, If republicans lose the senate and the presidency. There will be assault weapon bans and every thing else that conservatives hate. Feb. 18th is just around the corner. When Americans celebrate one of their greatest presidents. Who went from slave owner to on his own accord freeing them. President Washington to trump....mmm... Well America will rise again.

You do remember who the president was during most of the 90's don't you? Hint Billary! You do remember that a recession in 90-91 cost Bush the election. Furthermore recovery typically follows from recessions. In 1993 he instituted significant tax increases upon upper income earners.In addition he chopped spending. Earned Income Tax Credit, Head Start, same president. Oh well. you tried.

Debt surpasses $22 trillion for first time The gross national debt has surpassed $22 trillion for the first time in the U.S. history, according to Treasury data released on Tuesday. ... “As we borrow trillion after trillion, interest costs will weigh on our economy and make it harder to fund important investments for our future. We already pay an average of $1 billion every day in interest on the debt, and will spend a staggering $7 trillion in interest costs over the next decade,” he added. CBO projected that the costs of servicing the debt will surpass defense spending by 2025." Mis amigos, unfortunately senior trump has misled you. The tequila will run out soon, the party will be over. Till then fiesta dura!

Should you decide to violate any of the aforementioned provisions. The old standbys of going to rehab, obviously won't work. Battalions of lawyers skilled in every aspect and discipline of law. Shall have to be employed at your expense. As such, at least $10 and preferably $100 million dollars. Should be available in either personal funds. Or at least hidden campaign funds. To fund such battalions. Note this only applies to bona fide republicans. Democrats shall follow the new(old) SOP and immediately resign.

I get you're point. But there is hope! Kamala Harris: I’ve Smoked Weed and ‘I Did Inhale’ "We’ve come a long way in 27 years. In March of 1992, then–Arkansas governor Bill Clinton admitted to experimenting with marijuana while he was a student at Oxford University. “I didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale it, and never tried it again,” he said."

You beat me to it.Furthermore that is right on the money, if you'all will pardon the pun. So I will tackle Greece. " What we do know is that, according to the OECD, in 2010 the Greek government collected 70.3bn euros ($93.1bn), or 34% of the country's total gross domestic product (GDP) - slightly below the EU average of 38.5%. ... In part this is because Greece has a large "shadow economy" - earning money without paying income tax, or perhaps avoiding paying VAT. You might assume that businesses in the construction industry or tourism might be the main culprits when it comes to tax evasion, but a report published earlier this year by a group of US academics found that the primary tax-evading industries in Greece included medicine, law, engineering, and the media. A study quoted by the IMF suggests that between 1999 and 2010 the shadow economy in Greece made up 27% of the country's GDP - compared to an average of 20.2% in other rich countries. That means that nearly one in four euros that potentially could be taxed in the country's economy simply weren't declared to the authorities, and the Greek government missed out on approximately 28bn euros ($31bn) of additional revenue each year.... In 2011, an OECD survey ranked Greece as one of the worst rich countries in the world at collecting VAT receipts and social security payments. " Did Greeks fail to pay 89.5% of taxes? Greek Debt Crisis Explained

This is an excellent post. I personally like a concept laid out but also independent supporting facts cited to support such assertions. The only other concept I would ad is friendliness for business. Open for Business These market-oriented countries are a haven for capitalists and corporations. If a bipartisan committee was to set about modelling statutes in taxation and law. Studying the aforementioned links would be the place to start.

Word on the FOX street is that programs such as this can't be paid for. That all the countries with happy and well cared for citizens will go broke! Debt/GDP USA = 105.4 Sweden =40.6 Norway =36.2 Denmark =36.4 Netherlands =56.7 EU =81.6 Definition Debt-To-GDP Ratio

Socialism as a idea that limits quality of living is already proven to be delinquent. Its peddled to the partially educated by right wing dog whistlers. Let the facts speak for themselves such that those with open minds can tune out the noise : World Happiness Report and for the pseudo-educated they can revel in this: These are the 10 best countries in the world in 2019

Must have disconnected FOX and not got the latest talking points.

This may help. Goes to the points of presidential popularity of the office and ratings.I think President Bush said it best, "dead enders". When the trump ship finally disappears beneath the waves. Even FOX won't be covering it. Its just how ratings work. Trump, no longer ratings gold, loses his prime-time spot on Fox News President Donald Trump loves to brag about ratings, but he’s not getting them anymore. As he’s ramped up his rally schedule ahead of the midterms, viewership numbers for the raucous prime-time events have been roughly similar to — sometimes dipping below — Fox News’ regular programming, and the network has recently stopped airing most evening events in full.

Tesla short sellers are sitting on a paper loss of nearly $2 billion after stock rally Tesla is most painful stock for short sellers in 2017 Traders short selling Tesla's soaring stock have lost $3.7 billion this year. Since the beginning of 2016, Tesla is the fourth-worst performing U.S. short bet, and short-sellers have lost $4.70 billion on a net basis over that period, according to S3 data. Its ok. Misery loves company. $10.4 billion in losses for short sellers in only three years. I only went back three years because there is no point in beating a dead battery. It appears as if short sellers have lost more since Tesla was founded than the entire market cap of the company($52 billion).

The horror, the horror!

Keep in mind that pecuniary damages in any matter are proportional to the injury suffered. - 1/2 of Bezo's assets could amount to $60 billion. In the absence of the story perhaps the marriage would still be harmonious. - Then there is the whole Saudi and WP angle. Trump’s Publisher Pal Puts Saudi Propaganda Magazine in U.S. Supermarkets The owners of the National Enquirer have a slick, ad-free magazine on U.S. newsstands praising crown prince Mohammed bin Salman—and insist they had no outside help for it.

That way I can go back to FB, omit research and the whole philosophical conundrum of grey areas.

Pourquoi? Today the US has the lowest unemployment on record. Stock markets are at record levels, both in absolute and for P/E. It is building the most powerful military in world history with two Ford class carriers purchased at the same time last December. Although G.W. Bush did sign the NAFTA agreement which superseded the US-Canada trade agreement. The accord which boosted trade three fold in 22 years. BTW thats the same agreement which trump has stated to be the worst agreement in US history. Even worse than Louisiana Purchase and Alaska purchase. If he is to believed.

Don't let his age or inexperience be held against him.

Poll: Majorities of both parties support Green New Deal "More than 80 percent of registered voters support the Green New Deal proposal being pushed by progressional Democratic lawmakers, a new poll found. The survey conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication found that 92 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans back the Green New Deal plan." The Left Thinks a 'Green New Deal' Could Save Earth and Destroy the GOP " About 52 percent of respondents supported the policy, while 29 percent opposed. “This is one of the most popular issues we’ve ever polled,” David Shor, a senior data scientist at Civis Analytics said at the time. Later this year, Data for Progress did its own polling and found a green jobs guarantee increased the intensity of enthusiastic 2018 voters: 55 percent said they’re more likely to vote for a candidate who runs on it. "

Other views from this nutjob: "“How could the scientists involved in the National Climate Assessment, and the U.N.’s IPCC reports, get the basic global warming/climate change science so wrong, as discussed above? During the Soviet Communist era in Russia, under Stalin in the 1930s, the government promoted a peasant, non-scientist named Trofim Lysenko to be the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenko virulently rejected the rising Mendelian genetics of the time, holding that acquired characteristics of plants, and maybe of animals and even humans, during their lives could be inherited. This fit the reigning Marxist doctrine of the time that human character and traits were malleable, and that the Soviet government was in the process of creating the selfless, modern, new Soviet man, perfectly suited to life under Communism.” “Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West? Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be politically correct, and/or because of the money, publicity, and recognition to be gained, have disgraced themselves and the integrity of their institutions, organizations and publications. But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.” He, Iago, you and others. Have laid out a repeated line of B.S., here. I'm not inclined to respond to baiting, trolling and "entertainment". But I'll ad this to all of the above. "That government by itself creates nothing. That a cent in taxes is somehow a black hole. That only private enterprise is the creator of wealth". Its a wonder how the entire concept of countries and governments function at all. Continue to exist. Enjoy the popular support of the world. Lets start with education. Private schools ave been played with for over 20 years in the US. Mostly met with failure. Public education has been the model and a successful one at that in every country in the world. If you're laissez-faire capitalism is so great. Why has trump been such an unmitigated failure? Every business that he has engaged in has been fueled by the debt of others. Why has the competitive model of US health care become the laughing stock of the world. With the G-7 countries spending 1/2 of what the US spends. Yet enjoying better health outcomes? Why has the much touted US stock market had to have been propped up by 4.5 trillion in FED Q.E. since 2008. Plus another 4% of GDP in private borrowing? The trump $1 trillion in tax breaks resulted in a pathetic 1% rise in real wages during a time of full employment? US Commercial Debt since 2008 Did you actually read the article that you posted as the "right wing belief system"? It states that military spending is entirely a waste of money for the state. That it should not even be counted as part of GDP. Quote"The cost of all that military materiel was simply added to GDP, as if it reflected increased production. But would not a better measure of the economic value of that military materiel, and of any coerced government transaction, be to subtract the cost of that production from GDP, rather than adding it?" So defense spending by the state is a "coerced government transaction". His opinions are so far out in right field, so theoretically untested in economics. That they might as well be a counter to Karl Marx, written in 1818.