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It's about time the BSers who have been spreading disinformation about the carbon tax were challenged.

Why the 'empty folders' found at Mar-a-Lago are 'unfathomably dangerous': former federal prosecutor Immediately after a federal judge released the Dept. of Justice’s detailed list of items the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago experts agreed among the most concerning details was that there were a large number of empty folders marked “Classified.” NCRM reported the DOJ’s inventory list included over 13,000 items, including over 100 documents marked with various classification headers. Also listed were “43 Empty Folders with ‘CLASSIFIED’ Banners,” and “28 Empty Folders Labeled ‘Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide.’” Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor of 30 years, tweeted out his surprise and concern. “OMG!” exclaimed Kirschner, who is also an MSNBC/NBC News legal analyst. “Court just released an inventory of evidence of crime seized at Mar-a-Lago. Dozens of EMPTY folders labeled ‘Classified’ or ‘Return to Military Aide.’ Trump didn’t pack up EMPTY folders to take with him to FLA. Things just went from bad to worse to unfathomably dangerous.” Others also expressed concern over the empty folders. Andrew Weissmann, a former General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who has also worked as chief of the criminal fraud section of DOJ observed: “It’s the empty classified folders that are of most concern.” “Where are the contents? Trump has not addressed that at all in all his bluster and obfuscation. What were you doing with these?” asked Weissmann, who also worked for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Former Dept. of Defense Special Counsel Ryan Goodman wrote: “This is going to get a lot of attention too: 43 Empty Folders with “CLASSIFIED” Banners” “Empty,” he emphasized. “Must be fairly alarming to U.S. intelligence community conducting the damage assessment. Now think about how Trump’s legal team is trying to keep this info from the FBI/ODNI. National security attorney Brad Moss wrote, “Very first question the FBI would ask the person who had in their home office 43 empty folders with classified banners is ‘where did the documents from those folders go????'” And later he added: “Why. Are. There. Empty. Folders?"

NEW RAID DETAILS: EMPTY ‘CLASSIFIED’ FOLDERS! WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month found top secret records in an office and storage room, along with empty folders with classified banners on them and more than 10,000 government records without any classification markings at all, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public on Friday. The inventory disclosed by the Justice Department reveals in general terms the contents of 33 boxes and containers taken from an office and a storage room at Mar-a-Lago during the Aug. 8 search. Though the inventory does not describe the content of the documents, it shows the extent to which classified information — including material at the top-secret level — was stashed in boxes at the home and commingled among newspapers, magazines, clothing and other personal items. It also makes clear for the first time the volume of unclassified government documents maintained at the home even though such records were to have been turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration, which had tried unsuccessfully for months to secure their return. The Justice Department has said there was no secure space at Mar-a-Lago for sensitive government secrets, and has opened a criminal investigation focused on their retention there and on what it says were efforts in the last several months to obstruct that probe. It is also investigating potential violations of a separate statute that criminalizes the mutilation or concealment of government records, classified or not. Lawyers for Trump did not immediately return an email seeking comment Friday. The inventory was released as the Justice Department undertakes a criminal investigation, as intelligence agencies assess any potential damage caused by the apparent mishandling of the classified information and as a judge weighs whether to appoint a special master — essentially an outside legal expert — to review the records. The inventory shows that 43 empty folders with classified banners were taken from a box or container at the office, along with an additional 28 empty folders labeled as “Return to Staff Secretary” or military aide. Empty folders of that nature were also found in a storage closet. It is not clear from the inventory list why any of the folders were empty or what might have happened to any of the documents inside. https://www.huffpost.com

Leopards, spots and all that.

Heiligh likely to make the team?

Trump followers are essentially bullies and if/when the big fish start parading to jail without Trump in power to pardon them, they will, for the most part, wilt and retreat into whining and bitching with the occasional flareup. Its sort of a behavioural infection from one generation to the succeeding one.

I think genetics have nothing to do with it. That sort of attitude that Donnie has is created by a wildly dysfunctional upbringing and role-modeling, and it will likely be a lifetime struggle for Barron anyways.

Cooper looks hella quick and fast. The big question is whether he can transition to the CFL, but yeah, he moves like a rush end with great pursuit.

The noose is tightening around Trump's neck, and he keeps saying stoopid, self-incriminating things. His last line of defence will likely be to find/bribe someone to take the fall but with his incredible talent for shooting himself in the foot repeatedly, even that will not work.

It may be as simple as bribery being cheaper than good lawyers.

Trump Attorney's Eye-Popping Claim On Live TV Sounds Like A Confession An attorney for former President Donald Trump seemed to admit that the highly sensitive documents seized from Mar-a-Lago when the FBI executed a search warrant last month weren’t kept in the most secure of settings. In fact, Alina Habba said on Fox News on Wednesday that the files were kept in an office where Trump “frequently” had guests. Habba took issue with a photo the Justice Department included in its legal brief detailing the reason for the search warrant and what was discovered. That image showed top secret documents and other classified materials, with key information covered up, arranged on the floor:Some of the documents found at Mar-a-Lago. “I do have firsthand knowledge, as you know. I have been down there, I’m down there frequently,” Habba told Sean Hannity. “I have never seen that. I have never, ever seen that. That is not the way his office looks. Anybody that knows President Trump’s office, he has guests frequently there, it’s just a joke.” The documents recovered during the search included highly sensitive materials that should only be kept in a secured facility. While Trump’s team has previously claimed that anything he had at Mar-a-Lago was kept secure, Habba’s admission that these items were actually in a room where he “frequently” had guests was unlikely to help his case. Trump’s attorneys, advisers and insiders have come up with a number of unusual defenses for this stash of sensitive documents.

When you understand that, at a minimum, a third of the current Bible is provably non-original- added well after the death of Yeshua and the apostles, then it becomes clearer that it is not to be accepted as literal word of God.

Ginni Thomas's attempts to influence overturning of election even wider than previously known Ginni Thomas‘ efforts to influence the overturning of the 2020 presidential election are even wider than previously known. Thomas, a far-right activist and lobby who happens to also be the spouse of the most right-wing U.S. Supreme Court justice, not only engaged in a months-long pressure campaign to influence then-Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to help overturn the results of the election, and pressured 29 GOP lawmakers in Arizona to overturn the election, but also pressured lawmakers in another critical battleground state, Wisconsin, to do so as well. The Washington Post Thursday reports “new emails show that Thomas also messaged two Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin: state Sen. Kathy Bernier, then chair of the Senate elections committee, and state Rep. Gary Tauchen. Bernier and Tauchen received the email at 10:47 a.m. on Nov. 9, virtually the same time the Arizona lawmakers received a verbatim copy of the message from Thomas. The Bernier email was obtained by The Post, and the Tauchen email was obtained by the watchdog group Documented and provided to The Post.” The Post published the text of the emails sent by Thomas. “Please stand strong in the face of media and political pressure,” the emails read. The Post notes they were sent “just days after major media organizations called the presidency for Biden.” “Please reflect on the awesome authority granted to you by our Constitution. And then please take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen for our state,” they also say. https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/ginni-thomas-attempts-influence-overturn/

Very apropos.

Another tragic accident: Russian oil boss who opposed Ukraine invasion dies after 'falling from hospital window'

As has been widely speculated, this is all part of what happens when an empire goes into decline. America has run up quite a karmic debt that must inevitably be repaid. I do not recall that Hitler really blamed the capitalists, though. They were the backbone of his financial support.

Apparently the US military is working closely with the Ukrainian military to supply satellite information on Russian troop and military installation locations and war-gamed the whole current offensive with the UA so as to make the offensive as effective as possible with the least casualties and and equipment losses. Since the Russian media is acknowledging the advances and the reported Russian body count has risen sharply since the counter-offensive began, along with the Russian pulling troops out of other theatres of conflict, it is pretty safe to assume the Russians are losing ground quickly. However, the Russian strategy to throw ever more troops and resources into battle hoping that the adversary cannot kill them off as quickly as they are replaced is still their go-to.

This, exactly. The offensive line performance is not a bunch of solo performances, but a coordinated choreography which takes time to learn, and we have had two significant losses (DesJarlais and Couture) plus Neufeld's very obviously injured arm. Gray will likely move to right guard to give Paddy time to heal but all this will not be an instant panacea but a significant improvement after the first period or two. Sempre avanti!

At last! We can say something positive is happening with the Riders.

That appears to be on the way. Trump's lawyer(s) attested in writing to the DOJ last April that Trump had turned over all relevant documents and they were obviously wrong or lying. Either way, it is an indictable offence in the US to lie to federal officers. And a conviction would result in disbarment as well. Double trouble. No wonder no credible lawyer wants to take on Trump as a client.

And apparently Trump was in the habit of leaving behind secret documents when in foreign hotels, even in hotels in adversarial countries.