Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

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He went to an all boys school...how on earth did he know 65 girls well enough for them to be prepared to sign onto a letter like this?
Edit apparently this was created within a short time but am still amazed he knew this many let alone they would be character witnesses
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...naugh-allegations-women-letter-chuck-grassley
ha, apparently he went to the same prep school as Gorsuch. Trumps two SC picks went to the same Jesuit high school.
 
Trade war just got hotter


I must admit, I am ambivalent about this - its the right policy but for the wrong reasons.

Some of the news coming out of China really make the case for some kind of global action against the current regime- the million people held in reeducation camps, or this for instance (which may not be unconnected to the million people in reeducation camps):

HOW credible is China’s claim to have created a vast voluntary national organ donor system in less than 10 years?

In 2006, allegations emerged that prisoners of conscience were being killed on demand to supply organs for transplant. By 2013, the official line was that 23 percent of organs were donated (the rest came from judicial executions); yet in 2015 China insisted it had now moved to an entirely voluntary donor-based system. It has taken other countries decades to develop such programmes; and based on US figures, China’s 2017 figure of 373,536 registered donors would have yielded only dozens of donations.

A report released at a transplant conference in Madrid last month suggests a more chilling explanation for a “state-driven industry that transplants far more organs… than can be accounted for by officially acknowledged organ sources”. The report by the China Organ Harvest Research Center, an independent non-profit body, says China’s claim is simply “not plausible”.

Free liver transplants
After visiting multiple hospitals, investigators believe China performs not the 15,000 annual transplants it claims, but around 70,000. This is despite declining numbers of judicial executions, and a failure to enact any laws governing brain death or ethical organ sourcing, donation and allocation.
Chinese hospitals advertise waiting times for organs from living donors ranging from days to weeks. Recipients can pay extra to secure an earlier transplant, and there are promises of multiple back-up organs if the first fails. In October 2016, one hospital did 10 heart transplants in a day. Another offered free liver transplants for the first ten children to register. In November 2016, Australian senator Derryn Hinch claimed he was encouraged by a senior businessman in Melbourne to “go to Shanghai and for $150,000 get a new liver next week”.
Meanwhile the “regulatory” agencies in China are mere “empty shells” run from inside ministry buildings. Surgery is scheduled weeks in advance, so the donors cannot be accident victims. Everything suggests an “unlimited stream” of vital organs from still-living donors. But who are they?

Enemies of the state

The report’s disturbing conclusion is that those considered enemies of the state are being tissue-typed as resources for harvesting. It claims the vast majority of organs are procured from prisoners of conscience in extra-judicial killings. This allows China to dispense with its opponents without the fuss of an embarrassing trial, while offering organs to foreign dignitaries and wealthy Chinese expatriates. Surgeons, meanwhile, develop stellar careers; and China’s denials of transplant tourism are contradicted by the three floors of international transplant wards in one hospital. Nurses told investigators most recipients were from South Korea and the Middle East.

Organ harvesting
Falun Gong practitioners are the largest group of prisoners of conscience in China. They have been forcibly tissue typed both in state custody and in their homes since 1999 (when the transplant drive began.) They have been protesting against organ harvesting outside the Chinese embassy in London since 2002. In December 2017, Human Rights Watch reported that the Chinese government had also collected DNA samples and blood type data from 19m Uyghurs in Xinjiang, calling it a public health programme. The government now has a database of more than 40m, including dissidents and migrants, and plans to increase this to 100m by 2020.

While China’s transplant surgeons continue to appear at international conferences claiming to be part of an ethical, donation-based system restricted to Chinese nationals, the truth seems hidden in plain sight.

‘Dr Grim’

( I have cut and pasted this because the Eye only keep things up for a fortnight)
 
I must admit, I am ambivalent about this - its the right policy but for the wrong reasons.

Some of the news coming out of China really make the case for some kind of global action against the current regime- the million people held in reeducation camps, or this for instance (which may not be unconnected to the million people in reeducation camps):



( I have cut and pasted this because the Eye only keep things up for a fortnight)
Europe and Canada might even have been talked into some sanctions, but Trump’s trade war with them has probably soured all thoughts of co-operation. Although given his authoritarian ways I doubt that Trump really cares about re-education camps.
 
150days in N Carolina since June 2017 seems a lot when in that timeframe there have been hurricanes in Peurto Rico, Texas, Florida and wildfires in many states. FEMA director isn’t really a job with a 9-5 and home at weekends schedule.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-...ef-as-florence-was-gathering-steam-1536971587
WASHINGTON—As Hurricane Florence was barreling toward the East Coast, senior Trump administration officials considered replacing the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency amid allegations that he misused resources traveling to his home in North Carolina, according to people familiar with the matter. FEMA Administrator Brock Long is the target of an internal investigation looking into frequent travel between the nation’s capital and his home in Hickory, N.C., according to people briefed on the probe. The investigation included surveilling Mr. Long as he was driven 400 miles each way on his commute, the people said.

Investigators have told administration officials that Mr. Long, while under surveillance, often left agency headquarters on Thursdays and traveled home with a caravan of federal workers, who stayed in nearby hotels for the long weekend, the people said. He has spent about 150 days in North Carolina since he took over the job last year, the people said.
Mr. Long declined, through a spokeswoman, to comment on Friday. He has previously denied any wrongdoing and he didn’t attend a pair of FEMA news conferences Friday afternoon about the storm.
 
Kavan-augh-ha-ha-ha-ho-ho-ho

Are they going to go ahead and put a man with an attempted rape charge on his back story into the Supreme Court - or else ditch Trump's man!
 
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