Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation to Monday, bringing to a close a tumultuous two years at the helm of the Mueller investigation that saw him alternatively enrage President Donald Trump and anti-Trumpers left. Rosenstein had been rumored to be on his way out of the Justice Department for months—and throughout the ups and downs of the special counsel investigation always seemed precarious in the job—but will officially leave his post, on his own terms, on May 11.
The resignation letter reads as an affirmation of some of the achievements that Rosenstein believes have been accomplished during his tenure at the DOJ. The note also has a number of more cryptic passages that are either aimed at Trump himself or as a reminder of the principles that the Justice Department aims to embody. “I am grateful to you for the opportunity to serve; for the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations; and for the goals you set in your inaugural address: patriotism, unity, safety, education, and prosperity, because ‘a nation exists to serve its citizens,’ ” Rosenstein wrote in his resignation letter. “We enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan, and truth is not determined by opinion polls. We ignore fleeting distractions and focus our attention on the things that matter because a republic that endures is not governed by the news cycle. We keep the faith, we follow the rules, and we always put America first.”
editor victoria’s comment ~ well once again i can only share the link and not the video. anyway….field places a call to maddog…and we hear maddog’s voicemail – identifying himself as Michael Driscoll…hmmm….one of his listener’s references this as a “slip”…..field responds by saying “or did i let it slip on purpose”……i decided to look up “michael driscoll” and “maddog” together and found a company out of FL called “maddog designs, LLC”………found the facebook page for his biz – no personal info – no pictures…..further research showed me the biz was formed early december, 2016….field also guides us to listen to the following blog talk radio show from 8 years ago which includes a convo w/mr. driscoll (beginning at the 1:39:30 mark)….he is one of the pilots who, along with field, claim they were grounded for life after speaking out post-9/11…..
i really am not sure who this man is – all i know is he sounds very much like john kennedy junior – and that reference on field’s show has never been denied….and one of the regular guests said “that’s john john” when maddog called in on a previous show………so who knows….must be safe to be dropping names…….my mate and i had a discussion tonight – a very interesting one – about john kennedy jr….and how it is highly possible time travel was used to take him back in time – to live out his live w/his family, safely – and now he’s returned….new identity/new name……….what better and safer way to hide but in the past, right? anyway – just theorizing….
editor victoria’s comment ~ coming out now…hmmm… the article does not state it plans on a fleet of new arrivals – but the timing of this is indeed not a coincidence. and we know G’mo has been “remodeled” – a lot more physical space added.
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With no sign that the prison will close, the Pentagon has begun planning for detainees to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay.
By Carol Rosenberg
This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Nobody has a dementia diagnosis yet, but the first hip and knee replacements are on the horizon. So are wheelchair ramps, sleep apnea breathing masks, grab bars on cell walls and, perhaps, dialysis. Hospice care is on the agenda.
More than 17 years after choosing the American military base in Cuba as “the least worst place” to incarcerate prisoners from the battlefield in Afghanistan, after years of impassioned debates over the rights of the detainees and whether the prison could close, the Pentagon is now planning for terrorism suspects still held in the facility to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay.
With the Obama administration’s effort to close the prison having been blocked by Congress and the Trump administration committed to keeping it open, and with military trials inching ahead at a glacial pace, commanders were told last year to draw up plans to keep the detention center going for another 25 years, through 2043.
Oh, John: all the weaponized assets you sent my way [Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan Halper] are all being outed from London, Rome and Canberra. Those governments are now actively cooperating with the Trump administration and have flipped on you. Your role will be exposed
YESTERDAY IN OREGON, I gave testimony, registered as neither for nor against, to educate the Ways and Means Committee on scientific facts relevant one of the most draconian bills conceived (HB3063). Oregon has classically been among the most politically diverse and yet tolerant society among all of the US States. The aim of the bill is to remove religious and personal exemptions recognized by the State for school attendance after a handful of measles cases, many in adults. The argument in support of the bill is that immunocompromised kids attending school might become infected with measles, mumps, pertussis, or any of the other allegedly “vaccine preventable diseases”.
The religious exemption removal is breathtaking in its scope, and will likely be found to be unconstitutional if passed. Clearly, if the medical community fails to attribute vaccine adverse events to the vaccine, the law will prevent parents from exercising a personal exemption after a vaccination that their child is vaccine intolerant that their own doctor believes is not due to the vaccine.
A couple of pediatricians gave testimony before mine describing how terrible pertussis infection is in very young infants, and they claimed that vaccination could prevent those infections.
Originally I had intended to testify on asymptomatic measles transmission, but in my two minute period I felt compelled to use time to address the fact that TdaP and DTaP are recognized as failed vaccines and that they can create carriers of pertussis infection without symptoms. These potential asymptomatic carriers including anyone who is vaccinated, as has been robustly shown by a baboon study. This includes school nurses, teachers, pediatricians and ob/gyn doctors as well as grandparents, aunts, uncles and older siblings of newborn infants, and so pointed out that I found it odd that out of the thousands of non-vaccinating families I have come to know, none have told me that they have had a pertussis infection, and yet here we see families who receive allopathic care including vaccination against pertussis have infants that develop pertussis infections. I suggested that perhaps they should consider mandating that doctors be tested weekly for pertussis infection to find the hidden reservoir of asymptomatic carriers.
In a compelling piece of testimony, a school Superintendent told the Ways and Means Committee that he would not comply with the exclusionary policies that would result if the bill were to pass. His reasoning was that the school would by denying that child access to education, and that his school would lose federal funding for every child that left the school to be homeschooled.
In the hallway afterwords, I was interviewed by the press, and during that time I brought up the reality that science shows that like pertussis, like the mumps, measles can be transmitted via asymptomatic carriage and transmission (See For Health Officials and School Boards: Asymptomatic Transmission is Real). I made the point that the logic of excluding the unvaccinated from schools is therefore dangerous because schools cannot know that they have an active transmission chain of measles, mumps, pertussis or chickenpox unless some kids develop symptoms, and therefore excluding the unvaccinated places the immunocompromised at higher danger of unknowingly being exposed. Therefore, the unvaccinated are a boon to public health. This reality shows the fatal flaw in the logic of excluding the unvaccinated from school: it only works if you deny asymptomatic transmission.
The people who use vaccine exemptions often do so after first-hand experience with vaccine injury. CDC classifies febrile seizures as mild, and yet they can lead to seizure disorders and can kill. CDC denies that vaccines cause autism (although not all vaccines have been tested for causing autism and the studies conducted on the MMR are truly poor science).
In Salem yesterday, after I left to fly back to Pittsburgh, the vote passed out of the first Ways and Means Committee along party lines. Democrats who want to pass legislation mandating this and other flawed products are mandating them not only for Democrats but also for children of Republicans, for Independents, and for Greens.
There is a strong message here for those who seek truth. Vaccines are not only not safe for everyone. Vaccines also perpetuate the perception of the need for vaccination while perpetuating invisible transmission chains that can kill the immunocompromised via asymptomatic transmission. The palliations that the pediatricians will provide medical exemptions are unfathomably untrue: the CDC’s misinformation campaign that “Vaccines Are Safe” requires vaccine risk, injury and death denialism, and medical doctors are facing persecution in California where Senator Pan was pushing a bill the very same day as HB3063 to restrict medical exemptions because, according to him, there are too many medical exemptions.
This issue is quickly become a very risk, divisive and partisan issue. I know ten people in Oregon who told me yesterday that they left the Democratic Party. A lifelong Democrat myself, I left last year and registered as an Independent.
There is an even more dire message here for Democrats: The vaccine injured population grows every week with more and more families joining as a result of vaccine injury. These families have massive amounts of pent up anger and resentment which has been building up since Congress indemnified Pharma and doctors for vaccine injury.
I predict that if the bill passes in Oregon, it will be eventual political undoing of the Democratic party in that legislature.
I predict that if HB3063 passes, the blame for all vaccine injuries and deaths from 2019 may fall at the feet of the Democratic Party, and pending a party line vote to pass the bill, that is, in my somber but professional view, precisely where the responsibility will belong.
The Senator who brought HB3063 forward had previously pulled a similar bill in 2015 because the discussion centered on the science instead of what she called the health of the people of Oregon. The health and lives of the vaccine intolerant and the vaccine risk aware matter. I did some calculations while in Oregon: there are between 35,000-40,000 families who are not fully vaccinated. Of these, if 80% stopped vaccinating due to injuries, Oregon can expect between 18,000-22,000 new vaccine injuries per year. Vaccines risk is likely genetic. While vaccines do not check your party affiliation before they injure, they also create political activists who are vaccine risk aware, and they turn Democrats into Independents or Republicans.
Listen to Oregon State Senator Dallas Heard’s passionate plea to his colleagues made just prior to the vote.
ok guys and gals ~ i don’t know what POTUS means by this. some say he’s trolling the media – getting the left masses to investigate the issue as they think everything he says is fake/false/a lie. some say he’s showing his true colors. i am linking a page that shows a collection of his tweets on the issue over the years. one thing i and so many of you and others know: the term “safe vaccines” is an oxymoron. we do not need vaccinations. period. (dr. dale brown is just one of the many many health care practitioner hero’s on this one) vaccines are just another arm on the octopus of control put there by the controllers……i’m frankly too dang tired to dive into this and feel into it much. the insanity of the issue though has reached a critical point where individual freedom’s are being grossly violated and people are fighting back . mandated vaccinations being pushed through a growing number of states. this is going to fought in the courts. and it has to be soon – asap – immediately – for people in new york (as you will see below) are already being fined. and now that they’re targeting our children, they are focused on targeting the adults.
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By Dartunorro Clark
President Donald Trump on Friday urged parents to get their children vaccinated after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that measles cases had reached a record high since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.
“They have to get the shot. The vaccinations are so important,” Trump said outside the White House on his way to Indianapolis to address the NRA. “This is really going around now, they have to get their shot.”
ISLAMABAD — Two gunmen on motorcycle shot and killed a polio vaccinator in the southwestern Pakistani city of Chaman on Thursday, bringing the death toll among vaccinators working in the country’s anti-polio drive to at least three this week, officials said.
The shooters opened fire on a group of vaccinators when they were at the front gate of a house in the remote village of Sultan Zai, near the border with Afghanistan, said Samiullah Agha, who is the assistant commissioner of Chaman.
Two members of the vaccination team were hit: Nasreen Bibi, 35, was killed, and Rashida Afzal, 24, was critically wounded, Mr. Agha said in an interview. Vaccination was suspended for an indeterminate period of time in the Chaman area after the shooting.
Although the image I use is with a “brightly lit and inspired” face, there are times that I don’t feel that way. My body was extremely drained (zonked) after (and during) this trip and after returning I really haven’t been highly “emotion stable”. So I’m not “3D perfect”. So there.
There’s still a coqui frog right overhead in my kitchen and it is so loud (from 6PM to midnight – 2AM) I have to wear headphones plugged into my Roku remote to hear what’s playing. I definitely felt the “PO’d as hell” emotions about that, as I had just gone out earlier, when it started chirping, climbed up a ladder, and threw baking soda powder on the spot on the roof I thought it was. No difference at all. Still chirping. CRAP!!!
I’m not going to try to bring in a “spiritual connection” with all this, and be “sane and spiritually balanced” about it. Hell with that! But I know these things “coming up” emotionally hold a message.
This could be another message that it is coming time to move… physically. We’ll see where that goes. I may begin at least looking for another place.
Not sure where that would be. I’m still enjoying Big Island, but even something about that feels “ended”. I did not really feel drawn to Maui (for living) this time; Kihei felt like a tourist zoo, and it (and Maui in general) just didn’t feel like my “place to move to”.
All these things could change. This period of time still feels like a “completion phase”, and like it is the end of that phase… for myself and many others.
Bottom line now is that I don’t know what I’m doing, and I don’t know where I’m going.
So that’s where I will leave this. Thank you all for just reading and listening to my occasional e-rants and blowing off some emotional steam.