Hurricanes ravage the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, tornadoes sweep across the plains leaving death and destruction, drought conditions revive worries of a return of the “Dust Bowl”. A depleted Ogallala aquifer only adds to the worry; add in the marginal lands that have been turned to corn production to satisfy an EPAethanolrequirement and the possibility is raised exponentially. While the southwest suffers yet another severe drought and outbreaks of Arctic cold dip to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.
“LuridHeadlines” do not begin to tell the story of climate and the cyclical nature of weather events and trends. Nor do they reflect the realities of scientific studies that do not agree with the claims of direconsequences that will occur unless man desists in creating the so-called “GreenhouseGases”.
“Skeptical, I am.” This sums up my stand on the subject, my reasons for skepticism are many. Based on my own powers of observation and looking at historicalweatherevents, what I see is simply the planet going through normalclimaticcycles. I certainly do not deny that weather can be wild; a Colorado squall that contained “Thunder Snow” with the lightning strikes less than a ¼ mile away, suffice it to say I have a healthy respect for Mother Nature.
What makes me so sure? Consider this; accounts of the winters Washington’s Army spent at Morristown, NJ and Valley Forge PA were justasbrutal as the storms that have swept these same areas today. Going further back in history, the Anasazi abandoned their pueblos and cliff dwellings around 1200 AD due to a severedrought, just as the Southwestern US is suffering today.
Anazazi ruins
The one biggestcontributor to the Earth’s weather is the Sun. More sunshine, more warmth, less sunshine, less warmth; yes, I know, it’s a little more complicatedthan that. BUT, and it is aBIGGIE, thesunhasmoretodowithEarth’sweatherthanmanandhisactions.
A decreasing number of sunspots have some scientists comparing this to the Maunder Minimum, clearly one of the contributors to the “Little Ice Age”. Volcanic activity is often considered to be a major contributor and the rise in volcanic activity around the Pacific‘s “Ring of Fire” may force the scientific community to address the fact that the triggers for an “Ice Age” may be fast approaching “critical mass”???
Tree ring studies (dendrochronology) of Bristlecone Pine, some of the oldest living organisms in North America, bear out the cyclical dry to wet cycles with some regularity. With living BCP’s as old as 5,000+ years, and dead trees adding an additional 5,000 years of treeringhistory to verify the ebb and flow of climatic cycles, the hypothesis that man made pollution is driving climate change, excuse the pun, ” justdoesnotholdwater“.
Bristlecone pine
Weatherpatternsarechanging, of that there can be little doubt, but do these changes rise to a level needful of catastrophic adjustment by humankind? I think not, how about you??
The United States government has been given limited permission to appeal the District Court’s decision to block the extradition of Julian Assange from the UK to the U.S. Britain’s High Court ruled that the U.S. government could appeal on some but not all of their requested points. Now a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for August 11th, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, to argue the scope of that appeal, and whether the U.S. government will be allowed to appeal on its other two proposed lines of argument. Assange is expected to attend in person.
The U.S. government set forth five lines of argument for its appeal of the extradition ruling, and two of them were denied. It will be allowed to argue that the judge misapplied section 91 of the 2003 Extradition Act, which says someone can’t be extradited if the “physical or mental condition of the person is such that it would be unjust or oppressive to extradite him,” and that the judge should have notified the prosecution that she found extradition would be unjust or oppressive so that it could have provided “assurances to the Court” ahead of time. Finally, the High Court will allow the U.S. to put forth said assurances in the appeal hearing.
Today August 11th, the High Court will hold a preliminary hearing for the parties to argue these last two grounds.
Assange’s fiancé Stella Moris explained what the U.S. government is attempting to do with this move:
Any losing party, the US in this case, is allowed to attempt to have different judges review the grounds that they have lost on. But the US government’s attack on Dr. Kopelman is particularly vexatious. The US government will try to re-run arguments that have already been settled by two different judges. It is the latest move by the US government to try to game the British legal system. The US government’s handling of the case exposes the underlying nature of the prosecution against Julian: subverting the rules so that Julian’s ability to defend himself is obstructed and undermined while he remains in prison for years and years, unconvicted, and held on spurious charges.
The “process” is the punishment
The U.S. government purports to give “assurances” that if Assange is extradited to the United States, he won’t be placed in the highest-security prison, Supermax ADX Florence, and he won’t be subjected to Special Administrative Measures (SAMs). But these assurances include caveats that render them meaningless: according to its own filing, the United States can still use these measures if it decides that Assange “do[es] something subsequent to the offering of these assurances that meets the tests for the imposition of SAMs or designation to ADX.”
Amnesty International says, “Such latitude to alter the terms of the core assurances after Assange’s transfer to the US renders them irrelevant from the start since he would remain at risk of ill-treatment in US detention at the point of transfer and afterward.”
Julia Hall, Amnesty International’s Expert on Counter-Terrorism, Criminal Justice, and Human Rights, says, “Those are not assurances at all. It is not that difficult to look at those assurances and say: these are inherently unreliable, it promises to do something and then reserves the right to break the promise.”
Responding to the news of so-called “assurances,” Moris said, “What the US is proposing is a formula
to keep Julian in prison effectively for the rest of his life.”
how convenient is this
FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Aug. 11th
Test Messages Will be Sent to TVs and Radios Along with Select Cell Phones That Have Opted-in to Receive Test Messages
This is strictly an opinion piece, only. As a Canadian contributor to MilVet, I too watched closely as the evening of November 3, 2020 Election unfolded. In my heart I was saying to myself “finally“: the removal of the 8 years of the disastrous policies of that Kenyan, as some refer to him. PS – you would be wrong, though; Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 on Mombasa Island (territory of Zanzibar/ British protectorate). And then the subsequent four years during the Trump Administration; although socially and economically successful….it was embroiled from start to finish in Russian collusion, Impeachments, fake dossier, altered documents by FBI lawyers and every dirty, nasty trick K Street & Wall Street could create. We all sat back and said to ourselves – are there any white hats anywhere?
However, I digress….as I continued to gather reports, studies, opinions and analysis relevant to the November 3 election; the media giants likewise continued to delete my many sources. So, at best this is a skeleton of the material which once was. The planned-demic (mail in ballots = voter fraud) has been embraced by every evil faction the world over….Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, the New World Order, the Depopulation eugenicists (Deagel Report), etc. And leading the election voter fraud – China/CCP.
And this posting is really for D A. Is it private? of course not – it’s just too large to include in a single response/comment. So, he’s receiving his own personal thread. (Wait until you wrap your mind around the Romanian scam)
NY Post: https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/swiss-billionaire-uses-his-fortune-to-help-sway-us-elections/
An Excel file can be downloaded at https://t.co/TVk9mlBQBI years ago, my parents and siblings were the largest family ever released from the communist nation of Poland. A little over a year later, I was born. My parents were farmers from the town of Zakopane, located in the
— Bobby Piton, God Loving American Patriot (@UAmerica333) May 24, 2021
Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election
Issued on: September 12, 2018
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any United States election, foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America’s free and open political system. In recent years, the proliferation of digital devices and internet-based communications has created significant vulnerabilities and magnified the scope and intensity of the threat of foreign interference, as illustrated in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with this threat.
Accordingly, I hereby order:
Section 1. (a) Not later than 45 days after the conclusion of a United States election, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate executive departments and agencies (agencies), shall conduct an assessment of any information indicating that a foreign government, or any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign government, has acted with the intent or purpose of interfering in that election. The assessment shall identify, to the maximum extent ascertainable, the nature of any foreign interference and any methods employed to execute it, the persons involved, and the foreign government or governments that authorized, directed, sponsored, or supported it. The Director of National Intelligence shall deliver this assessment and appropriate supporting information to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security.
(b) Within 45 days of receiving the assessment and information described in section 1(a) of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate agencies and, as appropriate, State and local officials, shall deliver to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Defense a report evaluating, with respect to the United States election that is the subject of the assessment described in section 1(a):
(i) the extent to which any foreign interference that targeted election infrastructure materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, the tabulation of votes, or the timely transmission of election results; and
(ii) if any foreign interference involved activities targeting the infrastructure of, or pertaining to, a political organization, campaign, or candidate, the extent to which such activities materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, including by unauthorized access to, disclosure or threatened disclosure of, or alteration or falsification of, information or data.
The report shall identify any material issues of fact with respect to these matters that the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security are unable to evaluate or reach agreement on at the time the report is submitted. The report shall also include updates and recommendations, when appropriate, regarding remedial actions to be taken by the United States Government, other than the sanctions described in sections 2 and 3 of this order.
(c) Heads of all relevant agencies shall transmit to the Director of National Intelligence any information relevant to the execution of the Director’s duties pursuant to this order, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law. If relevant information emerges after the submission of the report mandated by section 1(a) of this order, the Director, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate agencies, shall amend the report, as appropriate, and the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall amend the report required by section 1(b), as appropriate.
(d) Nothing in this order shall prevent the head of any agency or any other appropriate official from tendering to the President, at any time through an appropriate channel, any analysis, information, assessment, or evaluation of foreign interference in a United States election.
(e) If information indicating that foreign interference in a State, tribal, or local election within the United States has occurred is identified, it may be included, as appropriate, in the assessment mandated by section 1(a) of this order or in the report mandated by section 1(b) of this order, or submitted to the President in an independent report.
(f) Not later than 30 days following the date of this order, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence shall develop a framework for the process that will be used to carry out their respective responsibilities pursuant to this order. The framework, which may be classified in whole or in part, shall focus on ensuring that agencies fulfill their responsibilities pursuant to this order in a manner that maintains methodological consistency; protects law enforcement or other sensitive information and intelligence sources and methods; maintains an appropriate separation between intelligence functions and policy and legal judgments; ensures that efforts to protect electoral processes and institutions are insulated from political bias; and respects the principles of free speech and open debate.
Sec. 2. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security:
(i) to have directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in a United States election;
(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any activity described in subsection (a)(i) of this section or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property or interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.
(b) Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015, as amended by Executive Order 13757 of December 28, 2016, remains in effect. This order is not intended to, and does not, serve to limit the Secretary of the Treasury’s discretion to exercise the authorities provided in Executive Order 13694. Where appropriate, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, may exercise the authorities described in Executive Order 13694 or other authorities in conjunction with the Secretary of the Treasury’s exercise of authorities provided in this order.
(c) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order.
Sec. 3. Following the transmission of the assessment mandated by section 1(a) and the report mandated by section 1(b):
(a) the Secretary of the Treasury shall review the assessment mandated by section 1(a) and the report mandated by section 1(b), and, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, impose all appropriate sanctions pursuant to section 2(a) of this order and any appropriate sanctions described in section 2(b) of this order; and
(b) the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate agencies, shall jointly prepare a recommendation for the President as to whether additional sanctions against foreign persons may be appropriate in response to the identified foreign interference and in light of the evaluation in the report mandated by section 1(b) of this order, including, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, proposed sanctions with respect to the largest business entities licensed or domiciled in a country whose government authorized, directed, sponsored, or supported election interference, including at least one entity from each of the following sectors: financial services, defense, energy, technology, and transportation (or, if inapplicable to that country’s largest business entities, sectors of comparable strategic significance to that foreign government). The recommendation shall include an assessment of the effect of the recommended sanctions on the economic and national security interests of the United States and its allies. Any recommended sanctions shall be appropriately calibrated to the scope of the foreign interference identified, and may include one or more of the following with respect to each targeted foreign person:
(i) blocking and prohibiting all transactions in a person’s property and interests in property subject to United States jurisdiction;
(ii) export license restrictions under any statute or regulation that requires the prior review and approval of the United States Government as a condition for the export or re-export of goods or services;
(iii) prohibitions on United States financial institutions making loans or providing credit to a person;
(iv) restrictions on transactions in foreign exchange in which a person has any interest;
(v) prohibitions on transfers of credit or payments between financial institutions, or by, through, or to any financial institution, for the benefit of a person;
(vi) prohibitions on United States persons investing in or purchasing equity or debt of a person;
(vii) exclusion of a person’s alien corporate officers from the United States;
(viii) imposition on a person’s alien principal executive officers of any of the sanctions described in this section; or
(ix) any other measures authorized by law.
Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 2 of this order.
Sec. 5. The prohibitions in section 2 of this order include the following:
(a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; and
(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
Sec. 6. I hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of such persons. Such persons shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).
Sec. 7. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
Sec. 8. For the purposes of this order:
(a) the term “person” means an individual or entity;
(b) the term “entity” means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization;
(c) the term “United States person” means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person (including a foreign person) in the United States;
(d) the term “election infrastructure” means information and communications technology and systems used by or on behalf of the Federal Government or a State or local government in managing the election process, including voter registration databases, voting machines, voting tabulation equipment, and equipment for the secure transmission of election results;
(e) the term “United States election” means any election for Federal office held on, or after, the date of this order;
(f) the term “foreign interference,” with respect to an election, includes any covert, fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful actions or attempted actions of a foreign government, or of any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign government, undertaken with the purpose or effect of influencing, undermining confidence in, or altering the result or reported result of, the election, or undermining public confidence in election processes or institutions;
(g) the term “foreign government” means any national, state, provincial, or other governing authority, any political party, or any official of any governing authority or political party, in each case of a country other than the United States;
(h) the term “covert,” with respect to an action or attempted action, means characterized by an intent or apparent intent that the role of a foreign government will not be apparent or acknowledged publicly; and
(i) the term “State” means the several States or any of the territories, dependencies, or possessions of the United States.
Sec. 9. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 2 of this order.
Sec. 10. Nothing in this order shall prohibit transactions for the conduct of the official business of the United States Government by employees, grantees, or contractors thereof.
Sec. 11. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may re-delegate any of these functions to other officers within the Department of the Treasury consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order.
Sec. 12. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to submit the recurring and final reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in this order, consistent with section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).
Sec. 13. This order shall be implemented consistent with 50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1) and (3).
Sec. 14. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday under threat of impeachment following the release of a scathing attorney general report in which investigators concluded that he sexually harassed several women in violation of state and federal law.
“I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside,” Cuomo said from his Manhattan office.
Cuomo’s resignation will be effective in 14 days, the governor said.
Under state law, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will assume the role of governor, becoming the first woman to lead the Empire State.
Cuomo’s resignation marks a stunning, ignominious end to the Democrat’s three-term run as governor, the same number of terms to which his late father — Gov. Mario Cuomo, whom the younger Cuomo idolized — was elected.
It also represents a reversal from Cuomo’s repeated refusal to resign, after documentation of his rampant, illegal sexual harassment was released by Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation.
The defiant public statements refusing to step aside included Cuomo releasing a bizarre, pre-recorded video that included a montage of the governor kissing and touching people, and Cuomo’s outside lawyers attacking some of the women who accused him of sexual harassment and questioning the credibility of James’ investigation.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned amid a barrage of sexual harassment allegations.
He initially defied demands to step aside from the United States president, dozens of major New York Democrats, and regular Empire State residents.
President Joe Biden said, “I think he should resign,” in the wake of the Attorney General probe.
In addition, unions that formed the core of his political base jumped ship following the release of James’ probe, as did Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs, formerly a close ally, leaving few Cuomo backers left. By the day after James’ office’s findings were released, a majority of state Assembly members favored impeachment.
Cuomo’s resignation marks an end to his three-term run as governor — the same number of terms to which his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo, was elected.
The avalanche of officials saying it’s time for Cuomo to go came as public opinion quickly shifted against him, as 59 percent of New York State residents believed he should resign and an equal amount say he should be impeached if he didn’t, according to a poll conducted the same day the report was released.
A subsequent survey showed that 70 percent of voters believed the governor should resign, and 63 percent were in favor of state lawmakers impeaching the governor.
Those assessments of Cuomo’s popularity came before administrative assistant Brittany Commisso — previously identified in James’ report as “Executive Assistant #1” — revealed her identity and spoke on national TV about her creepy encounters with the 63-year-old governor. Commisso, 32, charges the governor groped her on two occasions — allegations that mean Cuomo could face “a couple” of misdemeanor charges as a result of a criminal complaint she filed in Albany.
On the heels of the escalating fallout, Melissa DeRosa, a longtime top aide to the governor, stepped aside, and a handful of local politicians took early steps toward running to succeed Cuomo as the state’s chief executive.
The fallout was not solely political.
Prosecutors in at least five New York State counties — including Nassau County, Manhattan, and Westchester County as well as Albany — have launched separate criminal probes following the report’s substantiations of forcible touching of multiple women. And with Cuomo spending time fighting for political survival — including by orchestrating a failed deal to agree not to seek a fourth term in exchange for lawmakers dropping their impeachment process — New York State’s bureaucracy came “to a grinding halt.”
In his third term, Cuomo, 63, was beset by explosive twin scandals, including accusations of sexual harassment against 11 women that were documented in an exhaustive probe by Attorney General Letitia James. In it, Cuomo was exposed as a creep who sexually harassed female subordinates less than half his age — including by touching their “intimate body parts” without consent.
“These interviews and pieces of evidence revealed a deeply disturbing yet clear picture: Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed current and former state employees in violation of federal and state laws,” said James at a press conference Tuesday.
Lindsey Boylan claimed in a Medium article that Cuomo suggested they play strip poker together.
“This investigation has revealed conduct that corrodes the very fabric and character of our state government, and shines light on injustice that can be present at the highest levels of government.”
In the most disturbing of the claims, Commisso, the current aide, who was previously anonymous, alleged that the governor summoned her to his quarters at the Executive Mansion, then reached under her blouse and groped her, according to testimony she provided for the probe.
In a previous statement, Cuomo called that woman’s account “gut-wrenching,” but denied inappropriate physical contact with her or anyone else — a denial he has repeated frequently since the scandal erupted.
The torrent began in late February, when Lindsey Boylan, 36, penned a Medium article accusing Cuomo of kissing her on the lips without warning and suggesting that they pass a flight by playing strip poker.
Less than a week later, Charlotte Bennett, 25, told the New York Times that Cuomo asked probing questions about her sex life that left her convinced he “wanted to sleep with” her.
One day after Bennett came forward, Cuomo half-heartedly apologized for making what he characterized as “jokes” that he admitted could be construed as “unwanted flirtation,” but denied any bad intentions and maintained he never touched anyone inappropriately.
But they were quickly followed by a series of allegations.
On March 1, Anna Ruch, 33, alleged that Cuomo grabbed her and kissed her cheek as she tried to pull away at a 2019 wedding — the first time they met.
Charlotte Bennett said that Cuomo asked her about her sex life.
And on March 6, another two former staffers came forward.
Ana Liss, 35, told the Wall Street Journal that Cuomo once kissed her hand, asked if she had a boyfriend and made other remarks that left her feeling like “just a skirt.”
And Karen Hinton, 62, told the Washington Post that in 2000, Cuomo, then the head of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, grabbed her in a “very long, too long, too tight, too intimate” embrace inside a dimly lit hotel room in Los Angeles.
In an Albany press briefing held between Ruch’s allegation and those of Liss and Hinton, an “embarrassed” Cuomo offered a conditional apology “if [his accusers] were offended,” while denying allegations that he touched anyone inappropriately.
Cuomo accuser Anna Ruch said the governor grabbed her and kissed her on the cheek during their first encounter.
At the time, he vowed not to resign.
After Liss and Hinton spoke up, Cuomo repeated that promise during another briefing, which also saw him try to explain away his treatment of Liss as “commonplace” niceties in his line of work, while characterizing Hinton as a “longtime political adversary” with ulterior motives.
Since, a state trooper assigned to the unit tasked with protecting Cuomo joined the ranks of the accusers.
The trooper, who has not been publicly named, told investigators that Cuomo had her transferred to the Protective Services Unit following a chance meeting at the RFK Bridge in 2017, despite her not meeting the qualifications for the unit.
Ana Liss
https://www.linkedin.com/in/analiss/detail/photo/
Once she was assigned to the unit that kept her in close contact with Cuomo, the governor kissed her on the cheek, touched her without warning on the back and stomach, and made numerous sexually suggestive comments in her presence, she told investigators.
The sexual harassment scandal exploded as Cuomo was already facing significant scrutiny for his administration’s handling of the COVID-19 in nursing homes.
As the contagion reached New York in March 2020, Cuomo’s Department of Health issued a directive forbidding nursing homes from turning away patients on the basis of a positive coronavirus test — even as he publicly acknowledged the ferocity with which the virus preyed upon the elderly.
Though Cuomo quietly shelved the policy in May 2020, he never fully admitted to its potentially fatal implications, as the death toll among nursing home residents rocketed into the thousands. A New York State Bar Association report found that the state directing to admit COVID-19-positive patients was responsible for more deaths in the facilities.
Karen Hinton said Cuomo grabbed her in a “very long, too long, too tight, too intimate” embrace in 2000.
“Although a determination of the number of additional nursing home deaths is beyond the capacity of the Task Force, there are credible reviews that suggest that the directive, for the approximately six weeks that it was in effect, did lead to some number of additional deaths,” read the report.
Meanwhile, the Cuomo administration undercounted deaths in the facilities by as much as 50 percent, according to a damning investigation by state AG James, released in January.
Privately addressing Democratic state lawmakers the next month, top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admitted that the administration intentionally obscured the numbers because it feared a federal probe, The Post exclusively reported at the time.
Ironically, that attempted cover-up incurred the very federal Department of Justice investigation that the administration had been seeking to dodge.
Cuomo has never fully admitted the potentially fatal implications of his nursing home policy as the death toll among residents skyrocketed.
As Cuomo sought to contain that scandal, his intimidation tactics drew scrutiny, with a slew of New York political veterans decrying him as a bully.
Shortly after The Post broke the news of DeRosa’s admission, an enraged Cuomo allegedly phoned state Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens), a frequent critic, at his home, demanding his help in mitigating the fallout — and threatened to “destroy” him if he refused.
Cuomo — who served as state Attorney General after he was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton — has disputed Kim’s characterization of the call, insisting he never threatened him.
Former Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admitted in February 2021 that the administration provided inaccurate nursing home death numbers to avoid a federal probe.
Along with the governor’s rampant sexual harassment documented by the Attorney General probe and nursing home controversy, Cuomo faced an inquiry into the $5.1 million book deal he inked for his pandemic memoir. The New York state Assembly’s Judiciary Committee had “detailed discussions” with its lawyers about Cuomo’s book deal, implicating DeRosa via “instructions she gave to the staff in the governor’s office to help with the manuscript for Cuomo’s book being pitched to publishers,” a source previously told The Post.
the Flu shot has been around for like 70 years and….. we still have the flu
up until last year, then a follow the science miracle happened
inserts something cool from Italy
Will America find such common ground?
it’s getting bad out here, best stay in the cities where it’s safe
Michigan’s white-tailed deer exposed to COVID-19
As researchers continue to observe the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on humans, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is studying its effect on wildlife. A recent study from the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service discovered that white-tailed deer populations in Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania had been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
And just like that… CWD has disappeared
imagine that
food for thought:
A scenaro one may of thought about , while wondering what it would look like
3 groups from south of Panama
the Military protecting the people from the police
Ed W. “Too Tall” Freeman (November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008) was a United States Army helicopter pilot who received the United States military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War.
Air Force Releases High-Speed Ad After Army’s Woke Attempt at Attracting Recruits Draws ‘Significant’ Negative Commentary
For those who may not have viewed the Army’s “woke” recruiting ad, here it is. I would, strongly, advise you to have nothing in your mouth to avoid regurgitating.
It would appear the Air Force made the decision to focus their recruiting ad on their purpose as a service.
When the Army ad was out, the comments section had to be closed down due to ‘negativity’. Color me shocked…NOT. it will be interesting to see/hear the reaction to an ad that is about reality versus wokeness.
Bobby Sullivan of Icebreaker Charters took the Ortonville family to Sable Point to cast their lures for chinook salmon, and it wasn’t long before they had a bite, the outlet reported.
Martinez admits he fell asleep during the ride and his mother woke him up when they arrived at the fishing spot
Wake up, look alive ffs
Around 7 a.m., a bleary-eyed Martinez was handed a fishing rod and told to reel. And so his battle with the nearly 48-pound salmon began.
“The first 10 minutes were quite a fight. Around the 20s, 30s (minutes or so), he started jumping out of the water. That’s when we pulled it out and landed it in the boat,”
Now some may be wondering why Luis is now known as DOG well it only took Luis 19 years
to find what fishing is all about
It’s time well spent in the fun department of Life
So one could say Luis has been laying around for 19 years
like a cut dog laying on a porch
on a warm summer day
watching the world by
am I green eyed no
Thinkin Luis has found a whole new world he never knew exited before
