Silence Dogood
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Orthodox Easter is a different date....Still hard at work on Good Friday. No rest for the weary in Mother Russia.
True, but I think our friend will be celebrating more on Victory Day, which is May 9.Orthodox Easter is a different date....
Where is this coming from? I mean, I understand it fits with his broader authoritarian bent but it feels a bit wonky to have entered Trump’s mind on its own. Someone suggested it. Vought? Vance? Orban? Putin?The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
“The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR has learned.
Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant to inform Congressional decisions on foreign aid allocations and security assistance, will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on "free and fair elections."
Forcibly returning a refugee or asylum seeker to a home country where they may face torture or persecution will no longer be highlighted, nor will serious harassment of human rights organizations.
According to an editing memo and other documents obtained by NPR, State Department employees are directed to "streamline" the reports by stripping them down to only that which is legally required.
The memo says the changes aim to align the reports with current U.S. policy and "recently issued Executive Orders."
Officially called "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," the annual documents are required, by statute, to be a "full and complete report regarding the status of internationally recognized human rights."
Human rights defenders say the cuts amount to an American retreat from its position as the world's human rights watchdog. …”
Keep in mind, though, that the UK's hate speech law is an affront to civilization. As is the Germans' prohibition on Nazism. Terrible violations of human rights. Torture and confinement -- eh.The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
“The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR has learned.
Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant to inform Congressional decisions on foreign aid allocations and security assistance, will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on "free and fair elections."
Forcibly returning a refugee or asylum seeker to a home country where they may face torture or persecution will no longer be highlighted, nor will serious harassment of human rights organizations.
According to an editing memo and other documents obtained by NPR, State Department employees are directed to "streamline" the reports by stripping them down to only that which is legally required.
The memo says the changes aim to align the reports with current U.S. policy and "recently issued Executive Orders."
Officially called "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," the annual documents are required, by statute, to be a "full and complete report regarding the status of internationally recognized human rights."
Human rights defenders say the cuts amount to an American retreat from its position as the world's human rights watchdog. …”
Ah yes, I'm fighting against oligarchy riding in luxury things emitting greenhouse gases. Hypocrites!It ain't your money, dumbass. They raised the money themselves. I'm quite certain their donors are pleased at the results.
1. They aren't taking private planes because they are luxury. They are taking them because you can't do a whirlwind tour commercial. Everybody does the private jet thing while campaigning. Did you ever hear anyone criticize Trump for flying a plane when campaigning?Ah yes, I'm fighting against oligarchy riding in luxury things emitting greenhouse gases. Hypocrites!
Who helps you spell the big words? You sure as hell don't seem to know what they mean. What's that? About a tenth of a golf week in Florida?Ah yes, I'm fighting against oligarchy riding in luxury things emitting greenhouse gases. Hypocrites!
You don't claim to be fighting against the 1% and then do things only the 1% do. Sounds like having nice things isn't the problem then. Just imagine if they fed the poor with those donations!! But they didnt!1. They aren't taking private planes because they are luxury. They are taking them because you can't do a whirlwind tour commercial. Everybody does the private jet thing while campaigning. Did you ever hear anyone criticize Trump for flying a plane when campaigning?
2. Are only oligarchs allowed to have luxury things? That's news to me.
3. It is not hypocrisy to ask for everyone to be regulated. There is no duty to unilaterally disarm.
So if Bernie and AOC would be taking a Greyhound bus to events criticizing Trump's lawbreaking...you would be ok with that ?You don't claim to be fighting against the 1% and then do things only the 1% do. Sounds like having nice things isn't the problem then. Just imagine if they fed the poor with those donations!! But they didnt!
“… Shapley is the Internal Revenue Service’s fourth leader in less than four months as the Trump administration rapidly shrinks the agency. During the Biden administration, Shapley rose to prominence as an IRS supervisory criminal agent who came forward to Congress and contended that the Justice Department had slow-walked its tax investigation into Hunter Biden.
… Shapley replaces Melanie Krause, who had been acting commissioner since late February and announced her departure after the Treasury Department and the Department of Homeland Security signed a data-sharing agreement aimed at helping the government find some immigrants suspected of crimes. Krause had succeeded Douglas O’Donnell, a longtime agency employee who retired in February. O’Donnell had succeeded Danny Werfel, who resigned on Inauguration Day.
… Shapley brings a profile significantly different from any recent commissioner, entering the job without long experience in the senior ranks of the IRS and starting after sharply criticizing the agency from the inside.
…Since the beginning of the administration, the IRS has lost or is losing its chief financial officer, chief tax compliance officer, chief risk officer, chief privacy officer and its top lawyer and human-resources executive, among others. Shapley will now take over the agency without that core group of managers. …”
Stay focused! This isn't about TrumpSo if Bernie and AOC would be taking a Greyhound bus to events criticizing Trump's lawbreaking...you would be ok with that ?