Category Archives: Corruption

SCOTUS Overrules Another District Court Judge

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In a stunning 8-1 decision Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court obliterated Clinton-appointed Judge Susan Illston’s May 22 injunction that had blocked President Trump’s sweeping plan to slash federal bloat and reorganize 20 agencies.  SCOTUS blocked a lower court ruling that stopped the Trump administration from reducing the size of government.

Again Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and once again demonstrated her utter lack of understanding about Constitutional law.  Her fellow liberal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, had to coach her on the basics of the case.

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Omaha Raid

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A raid last week on the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking facility in Omaha, Nebraska resulted in the arrest of nearly half of the workforce by immigration agents.  Of over 100 employees who were initially targeted, some 76 were eventually detained.

The civil search warrant that was used noted that fake IDs, fraudulent IDs, or some type of combination of IDs that weren’t real” among workers at the facility were the basis for the raid.

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Odds & Ends

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A USAID official and three government contractors pleaded guilty to a decade-long bribery scheme involving over $550 million in contracts, according to the DOJ.

Beginning in 2013, USAID official Roderick Wilson agreed with corporate executive Darryl Britt to receive bribes in exchange for Watson’s influence to award contracts to a small business named Apprio and its subcontractor Vistant.

Watson received more than $1 million in bribes to steer no-bid contracts to Apprio and Vistant.

Anybody who cares about good and effective government should be concerned about the waste, fraud, and abuse in government agencies, including USAID.

Reducing USAID’s footprint will undoubtedly save taxpayer money.

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Kudos

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There is little doubt at this point in time that DNI Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been the most effective at delivering results for the American people.  Actions speak louder than words and while many on the Trump team talk a good game, the results these two are obtaining outshine the rest of them.

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War on America

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The Democratic Party continues its war on America.  MAGA supporters are routinely characterized as Nazis.  During the OBiden administration, anyone who spoke out against the administration’s ideologies was a potential target for the weaponized DOJ and FBI.

 Parents who spoke out at school board meetings against CRT, DEI and the trans BS were placed on potential investigation lists as domestic terrorists.  Some were arrested for protesting these insane policies.  Catholics who preferred to attend the Latin Mass were seen as domestic extremists by the OBiden FBI.  J6ers who entered the Capitol at the invitation of Capitol Police spent years in jail.

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Trade Court Stayed

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Anyone who has followed the tariffs saga knows that the Trade Court issued an injunction stopping the imposition of tariffs.  The Trump team did their legal due diligence in several aspects of the tariff/trade deficit reset strategy.  It does not appear the New York trade court looked at any of the supportive material from the USTR and the Dept of Commerce.

A full panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a “stay” and paused the lower court ruling pending full appeal outcome and possible Supreme Court intervention.  [Ruling pdf Here]  The President Trump trade tariffs remain in place, and the ridiculous court-ordered refunding of previously collected tariffs is set aside.

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Genocide

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According to Raphael Lemkin, the central definition of genocide was “the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group” in which its members were not targeted as individuals, but rather as members of the group.  From an international law perspective, the Genocide Convention limits it to any of five acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

Those five acts are:

  • Killing members of the group;
  • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
  • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
  • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

The colloquial understanding of genocide is heavily influenced by the Holocaust as its model.  Genocide is innocent victims being targeted for their ethnic identity. Genocide is widely considered to be the epitome of human evil and is often referred to as the “crime of crimes.”

With all of this as background, should the persecution of white farmers in South Africa be considered genocide?

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Thoughts

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There is a lot of thought about the use of Executive Orders (EO’s) within the framework of a particular administration.  Of course, legislation carrying out the idea of an EO is the best final result.  Otherwise, EO’s can be overturned by the next administration.  However, with that underlying point made, one commenter of the political scene has defined much of the differences between this administration and the previous one.

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