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13 hours ago, william.scherk said:
Tomorrow, in Brooklyn, Dearie and the lawyers will get down to business.
Meanwhile, at the 11th Circult court of appeals ...
From the penultimate page:
Here, the Government has criminalized a document dispute and now vehemently objects to a transparent process that simply provides much-needed oversight. The Government’s attempt to shield the purportedly classified documents from the ambit of a Senior United States District Judge who served for seven years on a court dealing with the most sensitive national security matters therefore illustrates precisely why the District Court found a special master was appropriate and necessary under the circumstances.
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A Trump filing today, kvetching about timing and parts of the Judge Dearie's plan to plow through the documents. If I understand the subtext, the Trump side is saying they need more time to be careful; declaring any 'declassification' claim could prejudice a future defense by plaintiff in litigation.
Tomorrow, in Brooklyn, Dearie and the lawyers will get down to business.
On 9/17/2022 at 8:08 PM, william.scherk said:-- at 2PM, the parties are due before Special Master Dearie, who is taking over a courtroom in Brooklyn for his work.
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The WarTranslated.com dude is apparently Estonian-Russian. He provides some insights and material you might be surprised at. But here he just says "oof."
"The truth must be told."
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1 hour ago, Strictlylogical said:
Rhinos?
Turncoats, weasels, traitors, quislings and enemies of the people? There are [objective] ways to apprehend reality ...
Notable are the 80 people and organizations cited on pages 2 to 5 as having an interest in the filing, from Judge Cannon through Trump lawyers Evan Corcoran and Christopher Kise ... to Kash Patel, Judge Reinhart and of course, Donald Trump himself.
The central contention of the amici argument (in support of the government's motion for a partial stay) is that Trump has no 'possessory interest.' From the argument:
First, former President Trump has no right to possess the 100 or so classified records at issue here because no private citizen has a “possessory interest” in the U.S. government’s classified records.
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This proposition is not controversial; even former President Trump’s own brief opposing the Government’s request for a stay did not argue he has a possessory interest in classified documents.
One thing that stands out for me is that in none of the Trump filings have his lawyers claimed that he "declassified" what the government says they own.
While court-watchers can be insanely partisan and emotional at times, this lack of formal legal claim is what floats to the top of the cauldron of opinion from the [traitor/quisling/turncoat] side.
Today, the Trump side is due to respond to the DOJ's filing before the 11th circuit. Detail from Reuters.
Quote[...] The Justice Department must now convince the Atlanta-based appeals court, with a conservative majority, to take its side in litigation over the records probe. Trump appointees make up six of the 11 active judges on the 11th Circuit.
The government's motion comes after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected the same requests from the Justice Department.
Cannon, whom Trump appointed to the bench in 2020, had said she would tell Dearie, who is filling the role of a "special master" in the case, to prioritize the classified records in his review, which she set a Nov. 30 deadline to complete.
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Another filing on the 11th Circuit docket.
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22 hours ago, tmj said:
EU excess death running 16% higher than the average excess death for the period between 2016-19
Link to Eurostats: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/recovery-dashboard/
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8 hours ago, william.scherk said:
Another expected move -- The DOJ put a motion for a partial stay of Cannon's ruling before the 11th Circuit.
And the 11th Circuit says to the Trump side, "Let's hear from you no later than noon, Tuesday next."
Trump attorneys given until Tuesday for response to DOJ motion on classified docs
WWW.FOXNEWS.COMA court gave former President Trump's lawyers until Tuesday to respond to a DOJ request to continue to use classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.-- at 2PM, the parties are due before Special Master Dearie, who is taking over a courtroom in Brooklyn for his work. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, an eleven-judge banc, meets in Atlanta.
In not related news, from the Trump rally tonight, some Trump watchers with partially treatable DS are having their onions grilled again.
See, eg, kerfufflage over a purported "QAnon song" supplying some coincidental oomph to proceedings.
Most of the bug-eyed by Trump-loathing crew predictably get worked up about Judge Cannon. Much blather about her being an appointee of President Trump and another alum of the Federalist Society. A fair bit of emotional, loaded language about her ipso-facto corruption and fealty to the people who steered her to the bench.
Other sufferers of derangement are more charitable -- considering Cannon to be smart and to have done her darndest to be fair to the office or status or honour of President Trump (while still hideously incorrect and/or sloppy).
Me, I think she's neither corrupt nor beholden. I tend to believe she's doing her best to afford Trump every advantage to plead a broad "hold everything" case, to affort his side the benefit of the doubt, with reasonable care taken to hear from the DOJ.
She may have her order stayed, she may have some or all of her rulings reversed by the 11th Circuit in the pending appeal. It won't cause scandal if she is reversed. That's what appeals courts are for, fine-tuning and clean-up.
DS mini-comglomerate Meidas Touch gets anxious and kvetchy about everything Trump, but here is one of the Meiselas brothers in a relatively stable mood, with an 'alert.'
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20 hours ago, william.scherk said:
Those who check my claims can check this -- while things have moved quickly in Judge Cannon's handling of this case, Special Master Dearie has until November 30 to report back to her.
Another expected move -- The DOJ put a motion for a partial stay of Cannon's ruling before the 11th Circuit.
From the Conservative Treehouse:
DOJ Files Appellate Court Motion for Partial Stay Against Judge Cannon Ruling, DOJ Does Not Want Classified Documents Reviewed - The Last Refuge
THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE.COMAs the DOJ-NSD originally threatened, they have filed an appeal of the ruling by Judge Cannon in the Trump Mar-a-Lago document case. [Pdf Here] The DOJ is requesting the 11th Circuit Court to intervene and...Full text of motion:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/doj-partial-appeal-special-master/8f788549b848ec04/full.pdf
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16 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
But first a note about Fulford. This guy often talks to people high up in the intelligence communities and is as connected as all hell in top levels of governments throughout the world. But he is outright weird at times. Woo-woo doesn't even begin to nail it.
How do we know he talks to people high up in the intelligence communities? On his say-so?
16 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:I do not dismiss Fulford as a kook.
He is probably more than a kook.
16 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:But the guy is batshit crazy.
One does not preclude the other?
From his quiescent YouTube channel, this excerpt is eye-opening.
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Following what some perhaps-insane Russian folks perceived as a rout (a desperate retreat) in the Kharkiv region, a number of the same folks are further pissed off at their military leadership, strategy and morals. And it gets ugly.
This is from WarTranslated, a hive of Ukraine-positive observers and commentators. In this case the 'communication traffic' is mostly via Russian-language Telegram and official media.
Russians reacting to the 16 September attacks in Kherson and Luhansk • WarTranslated
WARTRANSLATED.COMSeveral missile attacks shook the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine, Kherson and Luhansk cities specifically. As a result, several occupational officials were killed, including the Prosecutor General of... -
22 hours ago, william.scherk said:
Meanwhile in Judge Cannon docket news, the Trump side has achieved procedural victory. And the DOJ is already on the appeal circuit docket, woudn't you know.
Those who check my claims can check this -- while things have moved quickly in Judge Cannon's handling of this case, Special Master Dearie has until November 30 to report back to her.
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On 9/13/2022 at 6:29 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
I also wonder if sicking [sic] the FBI on Mike Lindell to harass him is part of the "density" of pre-election events.
The Tina Peters Story is a helluva narrative, with a cast of about a dozen main characters. I don't think Mike himself is the target of future indictments as much as folks like Doug Frank and Conan Hayes and maybe money-man and convenor Patrick Byrne. The names in the Lindell subpoena were all allegedly involved in the Mesa County breach case that is heading to trial.
Meanwhile in Judge Cannon docket news, the Trump side has achieved procedural victory. And the DOJ is already on the appeal circuit docket, woudn't you know.
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2 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
The video is by Thomas Klingenstein at the Claremont Institute and it is fantastic.
The video shownotes for Klingenstein's YouTube video give a link to a PDF transcript: https://tomklingenstein.com/assets/pdfs/trumps_virtues.pdf
Trump’s Virtues
Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other
than Donald Trump to run for President in 2024. They say we need
someone with Trump’s virtues but without his vices. Fair enough, but
that formulation does not get us very far unless we have a proper
accounting his virtues.Other Republican politicians say some version of, “I like his policies
but don’t like the rest of him.” But this gets it almost backwards.
Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the “rest of
him” that contains the virtues that inspired a movement.Trump was born for the current crisis: the life and death struggle
against the totalitarian enemy I call “woke communism.” The “woke
comms” clench the Democratic party by the scruff of its neck. They
tell us lies and silence those who challenge the lies. Like most
totalitarian regimes, they have a scape goat (white males), a
narrative (America is systemically racist) and a utopian vision of
society where there are equal outcomes for all preferred identity
groups in every area of human life. The woke comms control all the
cultural, and economic centers of power in the country from where
they ruthlessly push their agenda. That agenda rests on the
conviction that America is thoroughly bad (systemically racist) and
must be destroyed. As Trump once said, “their goal is not a better
America, their goal is the end of America." Make no mistake, we are
in the midst of a cold civil war.Trump awakened the public the public to this fact. You cannot win a
war unless you know you are in one.Trump critics say he caused or exacerbated the divide in this
country. No, he did not. He revealed—not caused--the divide. [...]-
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22 hours ago, william.scherk said:On 9/12/2022 at 2:19 PM, william.scherk said:
Donald Trump's lawyers have filed their motion due today. The DOJ is expected to drop their filing before the day is out.
Drip drop ... headline "DOJ accepts Special Master nominee" ... your mileage may vary.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.86.0.pdf
Dockety do!
... plus. A few more redactions have been removed from the search warrant affidavit by Judge
CannonReinhart; liberal hyenas are already chowing down on details: -
On 9/12/2022 at 2:25 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
He knew the raid on his home was going to happen.
4d chess.
4D golf!
Steve Bannon was right, except that subpoenas aren't as sexy as Night of the Long Knives or Put Their Heads on Pikes. He named Epshteyn and cited the Josh Dawsey Washington Post story. Since his Charlie Kirk encounter there has been a storm of reporting from The Usual Suspects aka Enemies of the People.
I'll get to names and context, if the mental weather holds. Sometimes the density of events is really difficult to summarize. Slapping together emotive, loaded language is not the fun it once was. This could be due to age. Or, of course, moral-epistemological defects.
The metaphor of the moment ... Charlie Kirk show today.
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[Michael's post contained the blurb from an embedded link]
On 8/28/2022 at 12:42 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:Hi there, thanks for watching! I’m Benjamin Harnwell, International Editor of “SteveBannon’s WarRoom” — the Number 1 ranked US political podcast. Follow me on the world’s greatest social media app onBut wait!
Benjamin Harnwell, one of Steve Bannon's go-to wonks on Ukraine/Russia has a new gig. First 30 minute video is up at GETTR (with technical difficulties).
“Bannon’s WarRoom: Rome” launches 9:30pm central european time
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3 hours ago, william.scherk said:
Donald Trump's lawyers have filed their motion due today. The DOJ is expected to drop their filing before the day is out.
Drip drop ... headline "DOJ accepts Special Master nominee" ... your mileage may vary.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.86.0.pdf
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On 8/15/2022 at 12:45 PM, william.scherk said:On 8/14/2022 at 3:19 PM, william.scherk said:
Of note are several websites, projects, public-participation reporting pages and so on that were unveiled at the event. I'll get back here and post that later today.
The central new web address of the True the Vote duo is called Open dot Ink.
Two items from True the Vote -- Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht. The first is a lawsuit ...
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22279273/konnechs-lawsuit-against-true-the-vote.pdf
The second item concerns True the Vote and 2000 Mules, the book. The book, as I noted elsewhere, was subject to a total recall -- due to what the publisher Regnery said was a publishing error.
Of course, some enterprising folks when out on a hunt to see if every last book had been sent back, and luck would have it the folks got hands on it, and reported that the recalled book "named names." At least six names were in the recalled edition -- names of the supposed 'stash houses' organized by 'non-profits.'
Gregg and Catherine have "moved on," saying that they have absolutely nothing to do with the book. Which book is now due in stores October 25.
Amazon.com
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On 9/9/2022 at 7:29 PM, william.scherk said:
Everthing moves fast on Judge Cannon's docket, I say.
Docket!
Donald Trump's lawyers have filed their motion due today. The DOJ is expected to drop their filing before the day is out.
21 pages of strong argument.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.84.0.pdfIntro:
This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided. In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records. By way of its Motion [ECF No. 69], the Government now seeks to limit the scope of any review of its investigative conduct and presuppose the outcome, at least as regards to what it deems are “classified records.” However, the Court’s Order [ECF No. 64] is a sensible preliminary step towards restoring order from chaos. The Government should therefore not be permitted to skip the process and proceed straight to a preordained conclusion
WSJ:
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump pressed a federal judge to allow an independent attorney to review all of the documents the FBI seized in its search of Mar-a-Lago, including those marked classified, saying they didn’t trust the Justice Department to accurately represent what was in them.
“The Government has not proven these records remain classified. That issue is to be determined later,” Mr. Trump’s lawyers wrote in a Monday morning filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who last week ordered the appointment of a special master in the matter. [...]
Via Memeorandom:
Diana Glebova / National Review: Trump Lawyers Push Back on DOJ's ‘Misguided’ Request to Examine Classified Mar-a-Lago Docs -
On 9/9/2022 at 11:09 PM, william.scherk said:
Putin declared that Russian had lost nothing in Ukraine.
There's nothing and then there's nothing, one might say.
You will see some likely sobering moments for state TV watchers -- the context being today's reported rapid advances of Ukrainian forces towards a major rail transit/supply hub near Kharkiv.
Ignore Julia Davis's editorial bias and self-satisfied tone one more time, and see what you think of the exchanges broadcast on this Russian TV programme.
This sort of general bifurcation is what has been coming through from Russian Telegram: mobilize or get out, to reduce it to black and white. Mobilize meaning declare war and go whole hog, get out meaning achieve a ceasefire and the beginning of peace talks.
The former comedian and TV tycoon currently atop the [Nazi-marbled] regime in Kyiv uttered some scripted lines to the people during his last nightly address. In context, it seems he was reacting to apparent retaliation bombings of Ukrainian power plants.
Stanza two -- "Without light or without you? Without you."
Almost seven minutes of "frank exchanges of views" during prime time:
____________________1. "Do you still think that we are one nation? Do you still think you can scare us, break us, make concessions? You really haven't understood anything, have you? Don't you understand who we are?" -
17 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:21 hours ago, william.scherk said:
Give this a listen or two and see if Charlie and Steve... [come up with a single name who can be quoted about the executions, be they executions of a search warrant or an execution of ... ]
Wow. I didn't expect this.
I've collected a few media items from here and there that shed light on who was served with a subpoena and who was subject to a knock and search and seizure.
In the grand jury subpoena redacted by Dhillon there is a clue to why names have not been published -- of the dozens (Bannon says 35) "raided" or subpoenaed folks from so-called MAGA World.
In that Dhillon client's subpoena there is a 'request' (not a demand) that the fact of service and compliance be kept confidential:
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Donald Trump was interviewed by Indian television's NDTV.
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Confirming that at least one person has been served a grand jury subpoena. From Harmeet Dhillon's Twitter account, via RedState:
Ukraine and Endless War for Profit
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A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal today:
The Ragtag Army That Won the Battle of Kyiv and Saved Ukraine