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“… The victims in Phoenix and nearby Glendale included Cooksey’s mother and stepfather, a security guard walking to his girlfriend’s apartment and a woman whose body was found in an alley after she was sexually assaulted.
Cooksey, described by police as an aspiring musician, knew some of the victims but wasn’t acquainted with others, authorities said. He has said the allegations against him were false.
The first of the eight killings occurred four months after Cooksey was released from prison on a manslaughter conviction for his participation in a 2001 strip club robbery in which an accomplice was fatally shot….”
He was arrested at the scene of his final two murders (his mom and stepdad — he was reportedly at the scene covered in their blood) in 2017, kind of nuts that it took this long to get this through the courts, even for a capital spree killer case (local paper says delays were pandemic related).
Good grief, the trial started May 6.
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Wait! I thought they opposed indoctrination in our schools.
So they post the Ten Commandments and require conservative propaganda clubs?
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Trump threatening violence. Nice. What a unifier.
Carolina Fever
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Reporters should ask the same question everytime Trump says something about violence from the left.
How can you rationalize blaming the left for political violence when you pardoned everyone that was involved with the January 6 attack on the Capital, and when your rhetoric helped to instigate it?
How can you rationalize blaming the left for political violence when you pardoned everyone that was involved with the January 6 attack on the Capital, and when your rhetoric helped to instigate it?
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Former FBI Director James Comey indicted days after Trump demanded his DOJ move 'now' to prosecute enemies
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted just days after President Trump issued a public demand for the DOJ to act "now" to prosecute him, sources say.
Earlier this week, federal prosecutors in Virginia informed Halligan that they could not establish probable cause to charge Comey, ABC News first reported. Despite the lack of clear evidence and ethical concerns about bringing a case without clear probable cause, Halligan sought an indictment from the grand jury, sources said.
An attorney for Comey did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
In a series of social media posts over the weekend, Trump said Halligan was being appointed to the office to "get things moving," after attacking Siebert for his resistance to bring what Trump described as a "GREAT CASE."
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U.S. Army massacres Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee
U.S. Army massacres Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee | December 29, 1890 | HISTORY
The U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
“… On December 29, the U.S. Army’s 7th cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under the Lakota Chief Big Foot (a.k.a. Spotted Elk) near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it’s unclear from which side. A brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated almost 150 Native Americans were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children. The cavalry lost 25 men….”
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Hundreds of VA doctors and caregivers warn that cutbacks, policy changes threaten veterans’ care
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In a mass letter sent Wednesday to VA Secretary Doug Collins, the agency’s inspector general and congressional leaders, obtained by CNN, the group warns that workforce reductions and moves to outsource care to private sector doctors and healthcare facilities will harm veterans.
“We write to raise urgent concerns about proposed policies which, in addition to ones already enacted, will undermine VA’s healthcare system, overwhelm VA’s budget, and negatively affect the lives of all veterans. We have witnessed these ongoing harms and can provide evidence and testimony of their impacts,” the group wrote.
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The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give control back to communities
Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right
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'The first essential part [in taking on the populist right involves] recognising where some on the left went wrong on the issue of immigration.
There is no doubt that for years, leftwing parties, including my own, did shy away from people’s concerns around illegal immigration. It has been too easy for people to enter the country, work in the shadow economy and remain illegally.
We must be absolutely clear that tackling every aspect of the problem of illegal immigration is essential …
Equally, the belief that uncontrolled legal migration was nothing but good news for an economy should never have been accepted on the left. It is not compassionate leftwing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages.
The huge increase in immigration that happened under the Conservatives was based on a hyper-liberal free-market viewpoint. Labour is clear that there must be no return to that."
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t is 21 years since Tony Blair’s government made proposals for an ID card system to tackle illegal working and immigration, and to make it more convenient for the public to access services.
The same issues are on the agenda again as Keir Starmer revives what became one of New Labour’s most controversial policies. He is about to find out if he can defeat the argument that David Cameron’s Conservatives made before scrapping it. They said the ID card approach to personal privacy was “the worst of all worlds – intrusive, ineffective and enormously expensive”.
Blair is an important figure in the latest push, through lobbying carried out by his Tony Blair Institute (TBI).
The idea re-emerges in a different technological world in which smartphones are ubiquitous and much, but far from all, of the population is familiar with negotiating digital credentials.
Starmer appears ready to try again, and ministers believe there will be less public opposition, although digital ID cards could worsen the effect of digital exclusion.
Age UK has estimated that about 1.7 million people over the age of 74 do not use the internet. TBI’s arguments in favour are that far from reflecting the “papers, please” caricature, digital ID “brings fairness, control and convenience to people’s everyday interactions with each other and with the state”.
It can close loopholes exploited by trafficking gangs, reduce pull factors driving illegal migration to Britain, speed up citizens’ interactions with government, reduce errors and identity fraud and boost trust as a tangible symbol of a more responsive and flexible state.
The arguments against often centre on privacy. Civil liberties campaigners fear any mandatory ID card system, even one intended to tackle illegal migration, would require the population to surrender vast amounts of personal data to be amassed in national databases.
Robert Booth is the Guardian’s UK technology editor.
The same issues are on the agenda again as Keir Starmer revives what became one of New Labour’s most controversial policies. He is about to find out if he can defeat the argument that David Cameron’s Conservatives made before scrapping it. They said the ID card approach to personal privacy was “the worst of all worlds – intrusive, ineffective and enormously expensive”.
Blair is an important figure in the latest push, through lobbying carried out by his Tony Blair Institute (TBI).
The idea re-emerges in a different technological world in which smartphones are ubiquitous and much, but far from all, of the population is familiar with negotiating digital credentials.
Starmer appears ready to try again, and ministers believe there will be less public opposition, although digital ID cards could worsen the effect of digital exclusion.
Age UK has estimated that about 1.7 million people over the age of 74 do not use the internet. TBI’s arguments in favour are that far from reflecting the “papers, please” caricature, digital ID “brings fairness, control and convenience to people’s everyday interactions with each other and with the state”.
It can close loopholes exploited by trafficking gangs, reduce pull factors driving illegal migration to Britain, speed up citizens’ interactions with government, reduce errors and identity fraud and boost trust as a tangible symbol of a more responsive and flexible state.
The arguments against often centre on privacy. Civil liberties campaigners fear any mandatory ID card system, even one intended to tackle illegal migration, would require the population to surrender vast amounts of personal data to be amassed in national databases.
Robert Booth is the Guardian’s UK technology editor.
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State department trying to say to Canadians visit the US or else you'll lose the security blanket of customs in your own land. (those flying into the US from Canada or a lot less likely to be sent to an ICE black hole because all the border stuff takes place in Canada and it's hard to kidnap someone out of a country to disappear somebody. 0
Addressing the Global Business Forum in Banff, Alta., Pete Hoekstra said pre-clearance locations in Canada are experiencing declining numbers.
"Matter of fact, the numbers are down. We're not sure we can make the numbers work anymore … pre-clearance is something that is done at the expense of the U.S. government. We paid for it," he said.
"You know, you can't make the numbers work anymore — you're all business people. You know what that means. You've got to take a look at some of these things."
Colin Robertson, a former Canadian diplomat who served as moderator of the forum, later pushed back on those remarks.
"Pre-clearance was brought in by [president Dwight] Eisenhower. It's worked really well," said Robertson, the vice-president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
"When Canadians go to the States — maybe not as many did a year and a half ago or half a year ago — but we're still going an awful lot. We're your biggest source of tourism. If you end pre-clearance, doesn't that cut off your nose to spite your face?"
Hoekstra responded: "Nobody said we're ending pre-clearance. Don't put words in my mouth."
"I heard you say, 'We have to look at it,'" Robertson said.
"These are all business people, all right? If you have a business segment that is down 20 to 25 per cent … you take a look at the why, but you would also have a responsibility to your shareholders or the owner of the company in terms of how you will respond," Hoekstra said.
Last week, Hoekstra faced some backlash from Canadian politicians after he expressed frustration over the anti-American sentiment he's heard in Canada since taking the position.
Addressing the Global Business Forum in Banff, Alta., Pete Hoekstra said pre-clearance locations in Canada are experiencing declining numbers.
"Matter of fact, the numbers are down. We're not sure we can make the numbers work anymore … pre-clearance is something that is done at the expense of the U.S. government. We paid for it," he said.
"You know, you can't make the numbers work anymore — you're all business people. You know what that means. You've got to take a look at some of these things."
Colin Robertson, a former Canadian diplomat who served as moderator of the forum, later pushed back on those remarks.
"Pre-clearance was brought in by [president Dwight] Eisenhower. It's worked really well," said Robertson, the vice-president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
"When Canadians go to the States — maybe not as many did a year and a half ago or half a year ago — but we're still going an awful lot. We're your biggest source of tourism. If you end pre-clearance, doesn't that cut off your nose to spite your face?"
Hoekstra responded: "Nobody said we're ending pre-clearance. Don't put words in my mouth."
"I heard you say, 'We have to look at it,'" Robertson said.
"These are all business people, all right? If you have a business segment that is down 20 to 25 per cent … you take a look at the why, but you would also have a responsibility to your shareholders or the owner of the company in terms of how you will respond," Hoekstra said.
Last week, Hoekstra faced some backlash from Canadian politicians after he expressed frustration over the anti-American sentiment he's heard in Canada since taking the position.
Mulberry Heel
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U.S. Army massacres Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee
U.S. Army massacres Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee | December 29, 1890 | HISTORY
The U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.www.history.com
“… On December 29, the U.S. Army’s 7th cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under the Lakota Chief Big Foot (a.k.a. Spotted Elk) near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it’s unclear from which side. A brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated almost 150 Native Americans were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children. The cavalry lost 25 men….”
I dare any Trumper to read this and not come to the obvious conclusion that this administration's goal of rewriting history in museums, school social studies curriculum, etc. is to downplay the ugliness of much of American history and to essentially sanitize it. Why in the world would the Secretary of Defense (excuse me, Secretary of Macho Warmaking) be expending so much time on a subject that happened in 1890 - especially when it involves honoring soldiers who massacred Native Americans? It's obvious what is happening here, and yet Trump's defenders keep ignoring or trying to justify this crap. And it wasn't a "battle", it was a one-sided massacre, plain and simple.
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Dr. HCR is always on point, and never moreso than today’s Letter from an American. Always a nice summary of current events
