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Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-08-25 07:03:26

Putin signs decree to increase size of Russian armed forces

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pu … 022-08-25/

Zelenskyy says Russia's actions at nuclear plant put world on the "brink of radiation catastrophe" in surprise U.N. address

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-ru … tastrophe/

South Korea has again recorded the world's lowest fertility rate with the number sinking to a new low. Figures released by the government showed the figure had dropped to 0.81 - down three points from the previous year, and a sixth consecutive decline.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62670717

Japan police chief to resign over Abe shooting death

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi … h-88830763

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-08-27 14:30:12

Cuba has asked the United States for help in restoring a major fuel storage plant devastated by a massive fire that left 16 people dead, the island nation's foreign ministry said

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 … fuel-depot

Behind in polls, Brazil's Bolsonaro hopes evangelicals will carry him to reelection

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/25/11178494 … onaro-lula

SpaceNut · 2022-08-27 16:10:11

Mars_B4_Moon wrote:

Ukrainian woman posing as Rothschild family member infiltrated Mar-a-Lago: report
https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/ukrainian … ar-a-lago/
A Ukrainian woman posing as a member of the Rothschild banking family has been outed as a fraud after she allegedly infiltrated former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, according to reports.
Inna Yashchyshyn, 33, lied to ritzy resort members that she was the heiress to the reputed family’s mass fortune, Anna de Rothschild, according to a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
She appeared at numerous Mar-a-Lago functions mingling with the likes of Trump, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and others while she held the position as president of United Hearts of Mercy, founded by Florida-based Russian oligarch and former business partner Valery Tarasenko in Canada in 2015, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

This is why they are investigating whether national interest have been compromised, now that the documents are back under control.

kbd512 · 2022-08-27 16:58:17

SpaceNut,

They don't have anything. If they did have something, then they would've used it by now. All this utter nonsense is another attempt at a power grab. Don't worry, though. When the electorate demolishes the Democrat Party at the polls, they'll come to understand their mistake.

SpaceNut · 2022-08-28 08:19:59

We had a squatter that had indicate had verbally been told he could live on the land and since it was not in writing he was tossed off the property. There is a reason why we do not have verbal law or anything else that is as such as we know that politicians are just licensed liars.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-01 09:03:19

reparations

Poland puts its WW2 losses at $1.3 trillion, demands German reparations
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/po … 022-09-01/

Reparations for the War on Drugs
https://sacobserver.com/2022/08/reparat … -on-drugs/

Historical homosexuality convictions: 'We must broaden the scope of reparations'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/artic … 63_23.html

old article

Norway to pay reparations to Roma for racist policies and suffering under Nazis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/ … nder-nazis

Rhode Island mayor proposes $10M reparations spending plan
https://www.westernslopenow.com/news/bu … ding-plan/

other news

France Supports Permanent Seat For India At UN Security Council
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/france- … il-3304683

Last edited by Mars_B4_Moon (2022-09-01 09:05:00)

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-01 13:21:59

Iraq political clashes leave 23 dead. Here's why some fear that "just like Afghanistan, Iraq is another failed state."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraq-prote … ghanistan/

20 killed in clashes amid power struggle; is Iraq sliding into civil war?
https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/watch-20 … 614221.htm

kbd512 · 2022-09-01 17:33:08

SpaceNut,

I agree that all politicians are liars, but Congress, the branch responsible for making law, did not specify how a sitting President could declassify materials. That was their fault for writing poorly defined laws, not the fault of the President. You don't have to like it, but the law says what it says and doesn't specify how or when a President may declassify previously classified materials. If you don't like the law, as-written, then take that up with your representatives. They are the ones to blame, because they alone have the power to make law. You still don't get to retroactively punish your political enemies who have followed the letter of the existing laws, as-written. You can think whatever you want, but that doesn't change reality.

It's not the Republicans' fault that President Biden is such a dumpster fire, either. You people voted for that moron, and now we're all being "rewarded" (inflation, higher taxes, more over-spending on your pet projects, and related nonsense) for your petulance towards people you don't like for reasons you can't even articulate in words. Basically, you're seriously prejudiced and cannot see past your own ideology. This isn't or shouldn't be about your tribalism, though. You made a bad decision, even if not from your own perspective because of your inexplicable bias towards someone who was a fellow Democrat almost his entire adult life, and now the rest of us are paying for your choices.

This issue is a lot like your inability to recognize your own role in driving corporate decision making as a consumer. When people buy or don't buy things, their money speaks louder than words, and the people who run corporations take notice. You think they're greedy because they didn't produce exactly what you wanted them to produce, at the price you wanted it. In the car example, millions of cars were clearly purchased by the consuming public, so your neighbors disagreed with the price of American labor and took their money elsewhere. Unfortunately for you, and for me, a dollar will only go so far. All the people you vote for ensure that our dollars don't go as far as they once did, but you won't stop doing that, so complaining about what you can't get for a given price is rather asinine in nature. A circumspect person would evaluate their own role and decisions which affected the overall process.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-02 12:07:57

Argentina’s vice president survived an assassination attempt after a gunman’s weapon jammed as he tried to shoot her at close range outside her home, the country's leader said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/arge … -rcna46002

SpaceNut · 2022-09-02 13:47:45

There are laws on the books that are due to Nixons efforts to do something similar with record destruction and that is why the archive controls all record security designations. It is not a vocal system of he said she said for what is no longer marked.

Judge Unseals Detailed Inventory of FBI-Seized Items from Trump’s Estate

Is this how you would treat these types of documents

The inventory list, provided by the Justice Department at the judge’s request days earlier as an expansion to an earlier list, gives further detail on the materials seized and confirms reports that personal items were commingled among documents marked as classified.
The document, marked “Exhibit A” details the contents of 33 items – boxes, containers or documents – taken from an office or a storage room in the search, revealing that among documents with “secret,” “top secret” and “confidential” markings were items including books, magazine and newspaper articles dated from 2008-2020, “clothing/gift items” and empty folders, some of which were marked with “classified” banners.

These are the things that go in safes with logs of entry books being kept...

So how many of these are mark removed Over 10,000 government docs without classified markings were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

This is damming since no longer being commander an chief of anything to have.

They also found almost four dozen empty folders marked "Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide," according to the detailed property inventory.

I believe senator Ried is correct with foreign nation spies already been there for these documents.

kbd512 · 2022-09-02 14:45:13

SpaceNut,

The President has plenary authority to declassify all classified information. He doesn't require anyone else's permission or approval, whether you agree with his decision or not. Period. If the President declassifies classified information while he's in office, then it's perfectly legal and above board. Your opinion of it, the Justice Department's opinion of it, all means nothing. The President IS the authority. You don't have to like it or agree with it, and your TDS and the media's TDS notwithstanding, the rest of us don't care. This is a politically-motivated gross abuse of power, plain and simple.

The government does not have the power to classify unclassified information. Once classified information has been unclassified, it remains unclassified forever. Period. Classified information originates within government. After it's declassified, the government cannot re-classify it.

Your claim and the Justice Department's claim is essentially that all the classified photos taken during the Manhattan Project, which were later released to the general public, can be re-classified because the person who declassified them is both no longer in office and no longer alive. The National Archive's claims, and the Justice Department's claims are both specious and absurd. National Archives may take the original documents, but if the information has gone outside of our government, then it is no longer classified.

SpaceNut · 2022-09-02 15:57:06

This where written words matter as those supposedly said in not heard by anyone else are meaning less.

There is the exception as the last executive order for security control was not done by Trump. The President Executive Order 13526 Classified National Security Information no change was made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_e … nald_Trump

This one that did change classifications of documents https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo … r-11-2001/

John Bolton claims Trump tried to ‘sneak’ classified documents out of White House

Mr Bolton pointed out that a SCIF, or Sensitive Compartmented Informaton Facility, would have been set up at Mar-a-Lago during the Trump presidency as it was at Mr Bolton’s own home for the viewing of classified documents.

The National Archives and Records Administration reported in February that in accordance with the Presidential Records Act they had to retrieve a number of White House records Trump was holding at Mar-a-Lago.

This should trouble you as to the contents as Trump Having 48 Empty 'Classified' Folders at Mar-a-Lago Raises Suspicion

John Bolton tells media to call Trump's bluff and file FOIA

No information will be received as none were....

kbd512 · 2022-09-03 01:30:27

SpaceNut,

Your political party did nothing when their own Secretary of State took 33,000 government property E-mails with her without anyone's authorization, which the intelligence community later confirmed had been viewed by foreign intelligence agencies. Even if you believe in this latest obvious fraud on the part of your Democrats because of your TDS, your party doesn't have a leg to stand on. There's either equal justice under the law or it's not justice. Political affiliation shouldn't play any part in determining if a crime has been committed. If what Hillary Clinton did is not a crime, then it's not a crime when Donald Trump does it, either. If it's illegal for a Republican to do it, then it's also illegal when a Democrat does it. If it's not prosecuted when a Democrat does it, then it shouldn't be prosecuted when a Republican does it, either.

SpaceNut · 2022-09-03 21:12:57

Emails fall under communications by computers and do not fall under the same as paper. Also, all emails are to be backed up by the IT organization as records for future use.

A government email is the name of the person at xxxx.gov and it does not change whether that person is secretary of a dumb waiter that must have an account. So, the real question does an email account that is unchanging not a .gov allow for all requirements for ability to record keep.

According to Nick Merrill, a number of government officials have used private email accounts for official business,.

The email server was located in the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York, from January 2009 until 2013, when it was sent to a data center in New Jersey before being handed over to Platte River Networks, a Denver-based information technology firm that Clinton hired to manage her email

Normally the outlook exchange software is used but the server was set up for web view and I am wondering if that was some of the marking removal cause.

The question since it was installed by the government on the server is that is still in possession of the government. Remember computers are open in all facilities and are governed by what can be view on them as unclassified information once going through security gates. They are accessed by a CAC card for authorization. So, a secure room that cac enabled would work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_C … ontroversy

retrospectively determine that 100 emails contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent, including 65 emails deemed "Secret" and 22 deemed "Top Secret". An additional 2,093 emails were retroactively designated confidential by the State Department
a private server violated federal law, specifically 18 U.S. Code §1924, regarding the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or materials, as well as State Department protocols and procedures, and regulations governing recordkeeping. Clinton claimed that her use complied with federal laws and State Department regulations,

We also know that the email markings must be put in manually by the author of them with regards to classification content with the how to
https://www.archives.gov/files/isoo/tra … -email.pdf

As early as 2009, officials with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) expressed concerns over possible violations of normal federal government record-keeping procedures at the State Department under then-Secretary Clinton

That means sometime later it's found to be in compliance and that the issue was how the backup was happening of the archive.

According to Harf, use by government officials of personal email for government business is permissible under the Federal Records Act, so long as relevant official communications, including all work-related emails, are preserved by the agency.
The Act (which was amended in late 2014 after Clinton left office to require that personal emails be transferred to government servers within 20 days) requires agencies to retain all official communications, including all work-related emails, and stipulates that government employees cannot destroy or remove relevant records

Server was already passed on to a company to handle long before the act was approved.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-05 09:12:58

Worrisome Trends: State of the U.S. Space Industrial Base
https://www.leonarddavid.com/worrisome- … rial-base/

older discussion on newmars
' What the heck is taking so long? - Red Planet In Red Tape '
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2123

Two Russian embassy staff dead, 11 hurt in suicide bomb blast in Kabul
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci … 022-09-05/

Last edited by Mars_B4_Moon (2022-09-05 09:14:16)

SpaceNut · 2022-09-05 18:49:25

Seems the real reason is Reason; media leaks that could cause harm to Trump unquantifiable potential harm by way of improper disclosure of sensitive information to the public. A special master to review the seized materials for potential attorney-client and executive privilege of which we know that he has only the first as he is not a sitting president.

The appointment of a special master “shall not impede” the intelligence community’s ongoing assessment of whether Trump’s possession of the top-secret documents caused harm to U.S. national security. That review, which began in response to inquiries from Congress, is being spearheaded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Trump is currently under multiple investigations that could result in criminal charges, including Justice Department probes into his mishandling of classified information under the Espionage Act and his conduct surrounding the January 6 insurrection, and a Fulton County probe of election interference

Seems a bit of hide and seek has been going on along with possibly more. Seems Trump still has more documents in hiding.

May 2021 shows former President Donald Trump loading a private jet with several boxes

Did Trump Transfer Documents to Bedminster? Ex-FBI Official Floats Theory

Justice Department Demands Trump Pay for Special Master in Espionage Act Case – Trump Wants America to Pay Half

Trump Boards Plane Being Loaded With Parade of Comically Heavy File Boxes – 3 DAYS After Feds Asked About Missing Docs

The 60-day marker for the 2022 midterm elections fell on Friday, meaning it is unlikely Trump will face any charges until after the election

Glenn Kirschner, former federal prosecutor and critic of Donald Trump, recently accused the former president of committing crimes "in the harsh light of day" and reiterated his calls for an indictment.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr won't "come clean" on everything he did for former President Donald Trump to avoid being "implicated" in crimes, Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen

Former Trump lawyer warns ex-president ‘in serious legal water’ and could be barred from running for office as it should...

US Senate intelligence committee has demanded that a federal judge allows the committee to be briefed on the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago and the potential damage caused by Donald Trump hoarding top secret documents at his private club.

sad that a Trump pick and further bias for selection of appointing a special master, The DOJ left a 'tantalizing' warning in their Trump-appointed judge appeal: former FBI official

Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon of the federal district court for the southern district of Florida, sided with Trump and ordered a “special master” to oversee the documents which is little more than obstruction. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has “a pretty good chance” in its appeal of an order for a special master to look over the documents seized by the FBI at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

All has not stopped even with the obstructive move to delay and shield Trump as Lawyers are indicting that Justice Department filing on Tuesday revealed its belief that Trump still has documents in his possession despite multiple claims that he has handed over everything.

National Archives staff told the DOJ weeks ago that they believed there were still missing documents, which was echoed in the Tuesday filing. The chair of the House committee on oversight and reform is asking the National Archives and Records Administration to ensure former President Donald Trump has no further classified documents in his possession. The NARA is as well being asked to conduct an urgent review of presidential records recovered from the Trump White House to assess whether presidential records remain unaccounted for and potentially in the possession of the former president.

Congressional members were seen today visiting the scif with the CIA director to view documents that were returned from Mara-lago.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-12 13:28:35

Swedish rightwing on verge of narrow election win but waits on final tally

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ … inal-tally

Populist surge in Sweden as nationalist party ahead in crushing election for EU

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/16 … -eu-swexit

Sweden election: Right-wing bloc starts talks to form new government

https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/12/swe … -take-days

Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labor or forced marriage, the UN said Monday, warning that their ranks had swelled dramatically in recent years. The United Nations had set a goal to eradicate all forms of modern slavery by 2030

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 … slavery-un

Modern slavery shoots up by 10 million in five years

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-62877388

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-15 17:04:37

'Commentary: Ukraine may become more successful than Biden wants'
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/comment … in-2940431

Biden Doing First ’60 Minutes’ Interview As President
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bid … 39859.html

CBS said on Thursday that Biden gave the interview to correspondent Scott Pelley while visiting Detroit on Wednesday, and that the two-part interview will air Sunday as part of the premiere of the program’s 55th season.

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/b … -interview

'Biden has done fewer television interviews and press conferences than his recent White House predecessors in the early going of his presidency'

not sure if true, on social media, so take with a pinch of salt but Putin gov seems crazy

Interesting statement from Russia on satellite use: “Quasi-civilian infrastructure may become a legitimate target for retaliation”. It’s clear that Starlink has become an important part of Ukraine’s command, control and communication system in parts of the country.

https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1570496770496696320

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SpaceNut · 2022-09-18 12:00:45

No longer able to hide Mark Meadows, the fourth and final White House chief of staff during Donald Trump’s four-year term as president, has complied with a Justice Department subpoena and turned over records as part of a federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election,

Trumps former longtime accounting firm for former President Donald J. Trump that cut ties with him and his family business this year, has begun turning over documents related to his financial dealings to Congress.

The attempts to delay DOJ investigation with false claims have been dumped to the curb as A federal judge expressed skepticism on Tuesday about the efforts by former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team to avoid offering any proof of his claims that he had declassified sensitive government documents that were seized from his Florida estate last month.

Thinking that just because Trump wrote on them that they are not any longer and that they had been declassified by a standing order with no documental proof.

A federal appeals court overturned a prohibition against the Justice Department investigating classified documents seized at Donald Trump's Florida estate, allowing Department of Justice officials to resume reviewing the records for possible criminal charges.

Now that the research is back on National Archives to Report on Whether More Trump Files Are Missing
They will try to solve as to what might have been in the folders that were empty.

We always knew that some documents would be returned after the master's review but Here's why Trump probably hasn't returned all the classified documents he took from the White House: analysis

Even the original returned boxes are still being processed as they are still working on them even a year later.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-21 14:59:35

Telegram Has a Serious Doxxing Problem

https://www.wired.com/story/telegrams-doxing-problem/

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-22 11:53:11

Virginia Thomas agrees to interview with Jan. 6 panel

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-sieg … 85b22b92bc

Finland says traffic 'intensifying' on border with Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fi … 022-09-22/

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-25 17:28:39

Ukraine receives U.S. air defence system
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uk … 022-09-25/

Seattle’s fight over park rangers doesn’t bode well for fixing the policeNews
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne … he-police/

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-10-03 21:58:00

Ukraine takes offense by Musk's statements. Real leadership or drama because before entering politics Zelenski or Zelenskyy was a comedian, actor, film producer, this might not be the best start as a military leader however leaked footage shows that Russia perhaps is losing on the battlefield. Zelenskyy hits back at Musk over tycoon's 'peace plan'; Ukraine 'on track' to achieve three key battlefield objectives.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war- … a-12541713

Elon Musk has replied to President Zelenskyy's tweet in which he appeared to ridicule the tech billionaire's suggestion for bringing an end to the Ukraine war.

SpaceNut · 2022-10-09 16:49:23

Here is exactly why a subpoena is kept secret with material witness and that reason for this is.
FBI witness in Mar-a-Lago infiltration case wounded in 'target shooting'

Time for the DOJ to 'stop playing Trump's reindeer games' and indict him: former federal prosecutor

edit
Christina Bobb, the Trump lawyer who in June signed a letter certifying that all of the sensitive material the former president moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago had been returned, is talking to federal authorities investigating the matter.

“She is not criminally liable. She is not going to be charged. She is not pointing fingers. She is simply a witness for the truth.”
Bobb also reportedly told investigators that Trump legal adviser Boris Epshteyn, whose phone was seized by authorities last month, was involved in discussions about the documents.
Neither Bobb nor her lawyers immediately responded to a request for comment from Rolling Stone.
Bobb signed a letter stating there was no more classified material at Mar-a-Lago on June 3, when Jay Bratt, the Justice Department’s counterintelligence chief, visited the estate along with other agents. Bobb and Corcoran showed Bratt the the basement where the material was kept, handed over additional material that had not been returned, and claimed none remained. The FBI’s raid of the property two months later was reportedly inspired by an informant tipping them off that classified material was still at Mar-a-Lago.
The informant was correct, as the FBI seized over 200 classified documents on Aug. 8, including two dozen labeled as “TOP SECRET.” It was reported last week that the Justice Department has informed Trump’s lawyers that it believes the former president is still hoarding documents at Mar-a-Lago.

kbd512 · 2022-10-09 18:03:48

SpaceNut,

The guy who was shot was the ex-partner of the imposter woman, not the "witness" / imposter woman. He was shot by his former business partner after a falling-out over some company they founded together, another Russian or Ukrainian man.

Maybe read more about the articles you post before opining that someone who used to be related to a witness was involved in something which neither you nor I have any clue was all about?

I know you want to blame everything on President Trump, but in this case it was his former business partner.

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