random info/memes
https://nypost.com/2021/12/11/president-biden-appears-on-tonight-show-jokes-about-his-own-approval-ratings/
Joe Biden made his first appearance as sitting president on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” Friday and fielded a slew of softball questions from host Jimmy Fallon while bemoaning the lack of civility in politics.
Biden, 79, joined the show virtually for two pre-taped two segments with a fawning Fallon as the two discussed the recent death of Sen. Bob Dole.
“We’re friends, we disagreed, but we were friends,” Biden said of his former GOP adversary.
“We used to have an awful lot of that relationship and it still exists,” he added about his current Republican colleagues.
“Except for the Q-Anon and the extreme elements of the Republican party … it makes it awful hard.” ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney
.. Post–State Department career
In June 2007 Cheney signed on as one of three national co-chairs of Fred Thompson's 2008 presidential campaign. The others were Spencer Abraham and George Allen. In a press release issued at the beginning of his campaign, Thompson said he was "very pleased to announce that former Senators Abraham and Allen, as well as Liz Cheney, will serve as co-chairs of my national leadership team". He added: "These distinguished individuals bring wise counsel and invaluable experience to my campaign leadership team, and they will play a critical role in helping spread my consistent conservative message across America."[39] After Thompson dropped out of the race, Cheney announced on January 27, 2008, that she would work for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy advisor.[40]
In October 2009, Liz Cheney, William Kristol, and Deborah Burlingame launched, as board members, the nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization Keep America Safe. The group's stated purpose is to "provide information for concerned Americans about critical national security issues".[41] It drew strong criticism from conservative lawyers, many of whom had worked for the Bush administration, after its campaign against "The Al Qaeda 7", seven Justice Department lawyers in the Obama administration who previously had worked as defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainees.[42] Shortly after, all information about the organization disappeared from the Internet.[43]
In January 2012, Cheney was hired as a contributor for Fox News. She guest-hosted programs such as Hannity and Fox News Sunday.[44] The network terminated her contract in July 2013 after she announced her intention to mount a 2014 bid for the Senate in Wyoming.[45] ..
>January 29, 2020
https://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/2020/01/29/ex-prosecutor-bryant-would-have-been-convicted-in-colorado/
.. Ultimately, Bryant and the woman reached a civil settlement in 2005.
A consequence of the case, Hurlbert recalls: There was a drop in the number of sexual assault cases being reported to local authorities.
“Victims’ advocates reported that their clients felt they didn’t want to be dragged through the mud just like the victim was in the Bryant case,” he said. “They didn’t want to report. It was years later that the numbers were back up.”
Bryant helped the Los Angeles Lakers win three straight NBA championships from 2000-02, but at the time he was accused, he was far from the beloved figure he would become later in his career.
He feuded with teammate Shaquille O’Neal, and he was often viewed as a petulant and selfish player who wouldn’t sacrifice his own game to mesh with the dominant O’Neal. But as long as the Lakers were winning and he was playing brilliantly, many of the negatives were overlooked.
That changed after Colorado.
McDonald’s dropped Bryant as an endorser, Nike halted his use in ads, and sales of his jersey plummeted. The Lakers stuck by Bryant, who sometimes arrived at games after first traveling to appear in court earlier in the day. But coach Phil Jackson acknowledged that their relationship was damaged by the accusations because his own daughter, Brooke, had been the victim of an assault in college.
“The Kobe incident triggered all my unprocessed anger and tainted my perception of him. … It distorted my view of Kobe throughout the 2003-04 season. No matter what I did to extinguish it, the anger kept smoldering in the background,” Jackson wrote in his book, “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success.”
Bryant was a candidate to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004, which could have boosted his reputation. Instead, the proceedings left him unavailable to play in Athens, where the Americans finished third, and his Olympic debut didn’t come until 2008.
Hurlbert, meanwhile, took solace at the time from residents in his district.
“People were pretty proud of what we were doing,” he said. “It was less about the mentality of having Kobe in the case and more a reaction toward the media.”
Mackey didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment. The alleged victim's attorney, L. Lin Wood, didn’t respond to a message for comment; co-counsel John Clune declined to comment.
headlines 12/11/2021 https://www.clickondetroit.com/
re Michigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan
.. Government
• Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D)
• Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist (D)
Legislature Michigan Legislature
• Upper house Senate
• Lower house House of Representatives
Judiciary Michigan Supreme Court
U.S. senators Debbie Stabenow (D)
Gary Peters (D)
U.S. House delegation 7 Democrats
7 Republicans (list) ..
Michigan update 12/11/2021
random u1 info/memes
re cfius re hrc
o7
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration
.. Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.
The first decision occurred in October 2010, when the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, giving Moscow control of more than 20 percent of America’s uranium supply.
When this sale was used by Trump on the campaign trail last year, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman said she was not involved in the committee review and noted the State Department official who handled it said she “never intervened … on any [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] matter.”
In 2011, the administration gave approval for Rosatom’s Tenex subsidiary to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants in a partnership with the United States Enrichment Corp. Before then, Tenex had been limited to selling U.S. nuclear power plants reprocessed uranium recovered from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons under the 1990s Megatons to Megawatts peace program.
“The Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns. And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those decisions,” a person who worked on the case told The Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian officials.
The Obama administration’s decision to approve Rosatom’s purchase of Uranium One has been a source of political controversy since 2015.
That’s when conservative author Peter Schweitzer and The New York Times documented how Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees and his charitable foundation collected millions in donations from parties interested in the deal while Hillary Clinton presided on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
The Obama administration and the Clintons defended their actions at the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national security reason for any member of the committee to oppose the Uranium One deal.
But FBI, Energy Department and court documents reviewed by The Hill show the FBI in fact had gathered substantial evidence well before the committee’s decision that Vadim Mikerin — the main Russian overseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States — was engaged in wrongdoing starting in 2009.
Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was among the Obama administration officials joining Hillary Clinton on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States at the time the Uranium One deal was approved. Multiple current and former government officials told The Hill they did not know whether the FBI or DOJ ever alerted committee members to the criminal activity they uncovered.
Spokesmen for Holder and Clinton did not return calls seeking comment. The Justice Department also didn’t comment.
Mikerin was a director of Rosatom’s Tenex in Moscow since the early 2000s, where he oversaw Rosatom’s nuclear collaboration with the United States under the Megatons to Megwatts program and its commercial uranium sales to other countries. In 2010, Mikerin was dispatched to the U.S. on a work visa approved by the Obama administration to open Rosatom’s new American arm called Tenam.
Between 2009 and January 2012, Mikerin “did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire confederate and agree with other persons … to obstruct, delay and affect commerce and the movement of an article and commodity (enriched uranium) in commerce by extortion,” a November 2014 indictment stated.
His illegal conduct was captured with the help of a confidential witness, an American businessman, who began making kickback payments at Mikerin’s direction and with the permission of the FBI. The first kickback payment recorded by the FBI through its informant was dated Nov. 27, 2009, the records show. ..
1 night i went digging u1 hrc wyoming canada rosatom RUS bill speeches $500,000
basically someone signed for hrc and obama signed it because all cfius signed on to it
2 excuses
hrc-my aid signed it, i wasn't there
bho-all memebers signed so i signed it due to complete agreement
at least thas the jist of what i member kek
sneaky sneaky hrc bho imo
1 time hrc mentioned a director friend
i checked oliver stone but i don't think it was him based on search results
so i guess it was steven speilberg
caught the last half of this
lots of info and pics i never seen, not that i studied JFK that much
it's like all the stories of JFK were like 'it might have happened like this' and i be like 'well let me know when you are for sure'
still waiting kek
sad the secrets Americans keep from Americans on the most important topics/events
feels like treason when they hide it like that imo
2:23 PM fox seems to be hoping for more deaths re tornados
i bet cnn and msdnc are talking climate change kek
meanwhile not 1 network talks about streaks in the sky behind planes
>sad the secrets Americans keep from Americans on the most important topics/events
idk why i always see 'a s s reveal' on #3 kek