Anonymous ID: 542968 May 10, 2018, 12:14 p.m. No.1360825   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0875 >>0927 >>0950

FCC to roll back Obama's 'net neutrality' regulations June 11

 

Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai said Thursday that “unnecessary and harmful Internet regulations” created under the Obama administration will be removed June 11 as part of the Restoring Internet Freedom Order.

 

“The Internet wasn’t broken in 2015, when the prior FCC buckled to political pressure and imposed heavy-handed Title II rules on the Internet economy. It doesn’t make sense to apply outdated rules from 1934 to the Internet, but that’s exactly what the prior administration did,” Pai said in his statement, referencing the former President Barack Obama administration’s implementation of “net neutrality.”

 

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats filed a discharge petition that would force a vote to restore Obama-era Internet regulations, which would reverse the FCC's ruling that ended the regulation requiring the Internet to be governed like telecommunications companies.

 

“For months, many politicians and special interests have tried to mislead the American people about the Restoring Internet Freedom Order. Now everyone will be able to see the truth for themselves,” Pai said.

 

Due to Democratic backlash to his stance and work on repealing “net neutrality,” Pai has had to cancel public events due to high levels of threats.

 

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/fcc-to-roll-back-obamas-net-neutrality-regulations-june-11

Anonymous ID: 542968 May 10, 2018, 12:20 p.m. No.1360870   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0956 >>0977

Why Hamas wants thousands of Palestinians to die next week

 

Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is arranging for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to march on the Israeli-Palestinian border next Monday and Tuesday. Addressing Palestinians in Gaza, Hamas' leader there portrayed the protests as a peaceful effort to mourn historic wrongs.

 

In reality, this is a Hamas effort to weaponize what the Palestinians refer to as "Nabka" or the "Catastrophe," when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians abandoned their homes during the 1948 war with Israel. But Hamas isn't really interested in remembering history, it simply wants to force a confrontation between Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers guarding the border with Gaza.

 

I think Hamas has three particular motivations.

 

First, the group wants to distract Gaza residents from the pathetic economic and social conditions Hamas governance has given them. Unemployment in Gaza is rampant, wages are spiraling downwards, and hundreds of thousands who rely on the Palestinian Authority or Hamas for their salaries are going without pay. By focusing public anger on Israel, Hamas hopes to distract Palestinians away from the terrorist group's governing failures.

 

Second, Hamas wants to force Israel into killing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Palestinians in order to prevent them from storming across the Israeli border. Hamas knows that while the Israelis can use tear gas and nonlethal weapons up to a point, they cannot constrain a mass movement on the border without employing lethal force. Hamas thus wants to send as many of Palestinians to their deaths as possible, secure in the knowledge that those deaths will attract widespread international condemnation on Israel.

 

Third, Hamas wants to recenter itself alongside the Iranians and the broader Islamic resistance narrative that sustains groups like the Lebanese Hezbollah. Hamas is embarrassed that astride its governance failures it has been unable to carry out a major attack on Israel for a number of years. It might be crude (and speaks greatly to Hamas' nature), but Palestinian bodies filled with Israeli bullets will give the terrorist group renewed credibility. That credibility is crucial if Hamas is to upgrade its funding provision from donors in Qatar and Iran. This is also a concern for the U.S.: With the arrival of a U.S. delegation to open the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Iranian actors or Hamas may attempt a terrorist attack.

 

Still, the ultimate point here is simple and sad: Next week will be a tough one for Palestinians.

 

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Anonymous ID: 542968 May 10, 2018, 12:25 p.m. No.1360913   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump's North Korea strategy is winning over Democrats

 

President Trump's approval rating for his handling of North Korea has jumped 20 points among Democrats over the past month, according to a CNN poll released Thursday.

 

The May 2-5 survey was taken prior to the Thursday arrival of three Americans who had been held captive by North Korea for two years, but found still found Democratic approval of Trump jumped from 6 percent to 26 percent since March 22-25.

 

Among all parties, 77 percent of U.S. adults approve of Trump's plan to meet in-person with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which has been scheduled for June 12 in Singapore. That figure climbed 15 points since last March 22-25.

 

Approval among Democrats on Trump's meet-up with Kim also ticked up dramatically since March from 38 percent to 62 percent now. It grew 12 percent among Independent voters from 67 percent to 79 percent this month.

 

CNN political director David Chalian said Thursday the upward change in support for the president indicates he is "growing beyond his base."

 

"A quarter of Democrats support and approve what he is doing on North Korea. A quarter of Democrats don't ever support or approve ever of what Donald Trump is doing. So this is working broadly politically," Chalian told CNN.

 

For the first time since August 2017 - when CNN began this survey - the majority of adults are happy with Trump's approach to North Korea. Exactly 53 percent support his foreign policy in this area while 35 percent do not.

 

The landline and cell phone poll was conducted among 1,015 U.S. adults nationwide and had a 3.6 percentage point margin of error for all respondents.

 

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Anonymous ID: 542968 May 10, 2018, 12:27 p.m. No.1360930   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Nurse charged in the death of H.R. McMaster's father

 

PHILADELPHIA — A nurse was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and falsifying documents to make it appear she had performed required exams on President Trump's former national security adviser's father before he died at a Philadelphia senior care facility last month

 

Christann Shyvin Gainey, 30, was charged in the death of H.R. McMaster Sr., who died April 13 about eight hours after falling and hitting his head at the Cathedral Village retirement community.

 

Surveillance video showed that Gainey failed to conduct a series of neurological evaluations of McMaster as required, the Pennsylvania attorney general's office said. Prosecutors say she falsified documents to make it appear she had.

 

It wasn't immediately known if Gainey, who worked at the facility as a contract employee, had an attorney to comment on her behalf. Phone numbers listed for her rang unanswered Thursday afternoon.

 

McMaster was an 84-year-old retired U.S. Army officer. His son served as Trump's national security adviser from February 2017 until March 22, when he resigned.

 

The Philadelphia Medical Examiner's office said last month that McMaster died of "blunt impact head trauma."

 

Facility officials said last month that they were cooperating with investigators. They also said they contacted the Health Department and launched an internal investigation.

 

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Anonymous ID: 542968 May 10, 2018, 12:33 p.m. No.1360988   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Jared Kushner scores first major bipartisan deal for Trump in Congress

 

An effort led by senior White House adviser Jared Kushner to both increase prison security and provide a pathway out for some 4,000 well-behaved prisoners has scored a major, and lopsided, victory, the first major bipartisan deal for the Trump White House.

 

The House Judiciary Committee voted 25-5 to back the “First Step Act,” a shocking turn after the media had earlier written off chances that it would pass.

 

“We see it as a big win,” said an administration official involved in the talks between House Republicans and Democrats.

 

While it falls short of everything both sides had sought, especially sentencing reforms wanted by Democrats, some in the White House see the negotiations as a compromise “model” for future legislative projects.

 

White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said, “The president and his administration are pleased the House Judiciary Committee has voted to pass prison reform legislation. This is a bipartisan issue with bipartisan support because studies show this bill will reduce crime and save taxpayer dollars. We are encouraged by the committee’s passage of the bill and look forward to a vote in the full House.”

 

To win support, Kushner, the White House and the bill sponsors had to maneuver through a political minefield and competing interests. Democrats were eager for easing prison terms, Republicans wanted to get tough and Attorney General Jeff Sessions had as a senator vowed to fight prison reform initiatives.

 

President Trump's son-in-law also formed unusual alliances. For example Kushner joined ultra liberal Van Jones and conservative icon Grover Norquist to promote the issue to the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus.

 

He also traveled to Capitol Hill twice with former Sen. Jim DeMint, also the former Heritage Foundation president who is part of the Right On Crime effort.

 

In the end, the First Step Act, which now goes to the full House for a vote, provides help for inmates who are a low security threat, barring help to sexual offenders and murderers.

 

It also spends more on prisons while trying to figure a way to cut incarcerations.

 

“The mass incarceration epidemic is 50 years in the making. Fixing our broken criminal justice system will take an all-hands-on-deck effort from my colleagues on both sides of the aisle,” said Democratic sponsor Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York.

 

“The vast majority of federal prisoners will someday be released from prison and it is important to give them tools to become more productive citizens so that they don’t return to a life of crime,” said committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte.

 

In the Senate, Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who is working on a similar prison reform bill, praised the House action.

 

“I'm not naive enough to think that people that go prison will be able to salvage and save every single one who comes out. But I do believe we can do much better if we give people the opportunity, those who have the will and the determination to take advantage of the opportunity to turn their lives around, to deal with their addiction, to deal with their lack of skills and education, and if when given the opportunity to do so decide they want to take advantage of that to turn their lives around,” he said.

 

In a statement, DeMint added, "I applaud the House Judiciary Committee for approving the FIRST STEP Act. Prison reform has proven successful in reducing recidivism, improving public safety and saving taxpayer dollars in states like Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina. Passing this bill out of committee is the first step toward implementing similar reforms at the federal level and giving incarcerated people the tools they need to become productive members of society."