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Pentagon chief says they’re moving $1 billion of Army funding to fund Trump’s border wall

The U.S. Department of Defense shifted $1 billion to plan and build a 57-mile section of “pedestrian fencing”, roads and lighting along the border between the United States and Mexico, the Pentagon chief said on Monday.


Last week, the Pentagon gave Congress a list that included $12.8 billion of construction projects for which it said funds could be redirected for construction along the U.S.-Mexico border.




U.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last month in a bid to fund his promised border wall without congressional approval.


Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said in a memo to Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen that the Department of Defense had the authority to support counter-narcotics activities near international boundaries.


Shanahan authorized the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to begin planning and executing the project that would involve building 57 miles of 18-foot-high fencing, constructing and improving roads, and installing lighting within the Yuma and El Paso sections of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Republican prays for Trump then insists everyone bow to Jesus just before state's first Muslim woman sworn in
'I knew I was going to receive some discrimination because of my religion,' Movita Johnson-Harrell says

A Republican state congresswoman has prompted complaints after launching into a prayer thanking Donald Trump and calling on people to bow to Jesus shortly before Pennsylvania’s first black Muslim congresswoman was sworn in.

Stephanie Borowicz began the day’s session on Monday with an emotional invocation thanking her Christian god for Mr Trump “standing beside Israel unequivocally”.

Appearing almost in tears, Ms Borowicz sermonised about “overcoming evil” in the name of Jesus – who she mentioned 13 times – and said “every knee will bow and every tongue will confess” in the name of him.


In footage of the incident, one lawmaker can be heard shouting, “Objection!” before a colleague gently ushers her away from the microphone.

Movita Johnson-Harrell was sworn into Pennsylvania’s state legislator later that day.
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Republican House speaker Mike Turzai is currently appealing a federal judge’s decision that stopped his policy of preventing nonbelievers from giving the invocations.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...borowicz-movita-johnson-harrell-a8841446.html
 
Red Defence said:

Quite astounding testimony from a computer programmer explaining how he wrote code to rig US elections, how it works and lots more. Apolgies if everyone has seen it before but I was stunned. (Mentions Tom Feeney who was a Repub in HOR).
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Are you serious with this shit?

2 minutes in...

"have you reviewed the election results in ohio?"

"no I havent"

30 seconds later...

"do you have an opinion on whether the Ohio presidential election was hacked?"

"yes I would say it was. If you have exit polling data that is significantly off from the vote then it's probably hacked"

*round of applause*
 
Eboue said:
Are you serious with this shit?

2 minutes in...

"have you reviewed the election results in ohio?"

"no I havent"

30 seconds later...

"do you have an opinion on whether the Ohio presidential election was hacked?"

"yes I would say it was. If you have exit polling data that is significantly off from the vote then it's probably hacked"

*round of applause*
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You’ve missed the relevant bit out. Did it not suit the agenda then or were you just not paying attention?

Btw it’s an official hearing.
 
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/25/mueller-report-democrats-226168

Mueller Just Gave Democrats a Gift. Will They Take It?
Scandal and impeachment were always political losers. Now the 2020 election can be about which party will improve the lives of more Americans.

--By not alleging any illegal collusion, Mueller has liberated Democrats from chasing the impeachment unicorn, which was always a political loser and a substantive dead end. If the Democratic House ever impeached, the Republican Senate was never going to convict, and may not have even held a trial. Impeachment had appeal only to the Democratic base, while doing little for the voters in swing areas who just delivered Democrats the House majority and hold the key to retaking the White House.--
 
Centrists :lol:
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I guess health and telecoms are kindof newsworthy, the rest anyone here could have guessed the right numbers.

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On Monday, five justices of the Supreme Court authorized Missouri to torture a man to death. In the process, they appear to have overruled decades of Eighth Amendment precedents in a quest to let states impose barbaric punishments, including excruciating executions, on prisoners. The court’s conservative majority has converted a once-fringe view into the law of the land, imperiling dozens of decisions protecting the rights of death row inmates, as well as juvenile offenders. Its ruling signals the end of an Eighth Amendment jurisprudence governed by “civilized standards”—and the beginning of a new, brutal era in American capital punishment.

Russell Bucklew is a death row inmate in Missouri who suffers from a rare medical condition called cavernous hemangioma. Due to this disorder, his body is covered with tumors filled with blood vessels. Tumors in Bucklew’s neck and throat, his lips and uvula, which make it difficult for him to breathe. They are highly sensitive and frequently squirt blood. A medical expert, Dr. Joel Zivot, has testified that if Missouri administers a lethal injection to Bucklew, he will die a slow, agonizing death. His tumors will rupture and fill his mouth with blood, and he will suffocate to death in unbearable pain, choking and convulsing on the gurney as he dies.

To forestall this fate, Bucklew sought to block his execution by lethal injection, arguing that it would violate the Eighth Amendment’s bar against “cruel and unusual punishments.” Under two Supreme Court precedents, Baze v. Rees and Glossip v. Gross, an inmate challenging his method of execution must provide an “available alternative” that will cause less pain.
Bucklew asked to be killed with nitrogen gas so that he can die from “hypoxia,” a lack of oxygen, because his death from hypoxia would be faster than his death from lethal injection.

In Monday’s Bucklew v. Precythe, the court rejected his claim by a 5–4 vote. Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion for the court, however, does much more than condemn Bucklew to a harrowing demise. It also quietly overrules, or at least erodes, more than 60 years of precedents, including several written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Gorsuch embraced a vision of the Eighth Amendment supported by Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia that has consistently been rejected as dangerously extreme by a majority of the court.

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Criminal justice reformers must now wait for the other shoe to drop, to see how far Kavanaugh is willing to veer to the right. If the court pursues Gorsuch’s originalist path, then it must overturn Kennedy’s juvenile justice decisions and permit juvenile life without parole once again. It may do so as early as next year. The court could also allow the execution of minors, mentally disabled people, and those who committed crimes other than murder. So long as a state does not “superadd pain,” it can apparently get away with anything, even barbarous executions that don’t intentionally inflict unnecessary suffering. Welcome to our post-Kennedy death penalty jurisprudence, where legalized torture is back on the table.
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fecking sanctity-of-life Christian conservatives :lol:
They are a scourge.
 
Yemen war: Congress votes to end US military assistance to Saudi Arabia
House voted 247-175 to send the resolution to Trump’s desk, where it is likely to be met with a veto

The House voted 247 to 175 to send the resolution to the president’s desk, where it is likely to be met with a veto. Sixteen Republicans broke ranks and joined Democrats in the effort. The Senate passed the resolution last month, with seven Republicans voting in favor of it.

The resolution’s passage sets up another confrontation between Congress and Trump, who has already threatened to veto it. The White House has said the resolution raises “serious constitutional concerns”.

The vote marks the first time Congress has invoked the 1973 War Powers Act to curb the executive’s power to take the country into a conflict without congressional approval. It is aimed at ending US involvement in the long-running Yemen conflict.

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The two lead sponsors of the measure, the independent senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic congressman Ro Khanna issued a joint statement saying: “Today, the US House of Representatives took a clear stand against war and famine and for Congress’s war powers by voting to end our complicity in the war in Yemen.

“This is the first time in the history of this nation that a War Powers Resolution has passed the House and Senate and made it to the president’s desk,” the statement said. “Finally, the US Congress has reclaimed its constitutional authority over matters of war and peace.”
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Sanders added that the vote sends a “clear” message from Congress that the US “should not be led into war by a despotic, undemocratic, murderous regime”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ry-assistance-vote-congress-trump-veto-latest
 
Red Defence said:
Gonna mark that post and when it all comes out, which it will, you can apologise.
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You are aware that the video you posted is from 2006 and people in the comment section are claiming that Hillary Clinton and George Soros are controlling them all?
 
Good article. As usual, Republicans showing that they play seriously, not abiding by arbitrary norms.
Democrats May Have Just Lost Wisconsin for a Decade
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ourt-recount-hagedorn-neubauer-democrats.html
In Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race last year, Democrat Tony Evers defeated Scott Walker by one percent statewide — but won a majority of votes in only36 of the state’s 99 Assembly districts. That same night, Democratic candidates won 53 percent of all ballots cast for the state Assembly, even as Republicans won a 27-seat majority in that body.
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This point was not lost on the Wisconsin GOP. Immediately following Evers’s victory, Republicans convened a special legislative session to transfer powers from the popularly elected branch of government that Democrats had just won to the undemocratically elected branch that the GOP couldn’t lose.

These developments forced Wisconsin Democrats to confront a harrowing possibility: that their triumph in the governor’s race would not stop the GOP from locking up the state legislature for another decade. In 2021, Wisconsin will redraw all its electoral maps to comport with the new census. And Evers will have the power to veto any gerrymander the legislature enacts. ButRepublicans could reject that veto, and bring a lawsuit claiming that the legislature has authority over redistricting. And if the conservative majority on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court buys that argument — just as it bought the GOP’s case for the constitutionality of voter-ID laws and union-busting measures (that likely cost Democrats the Badger State in 2016) — then it will be game over. And Democrats will be all but incapable of governing Wisconsin before 2030.
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