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Since Texas University and JJ Pickle Research Campus share the same land and Intellectual properties.
This next drop will just scratch the surface of the impact they have on Mental health Issues.
This one in particular will be of interest to all.
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https:// tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/vrh01
Trump nominates Admiral Harry Harris to be US ambassador to South Korea
Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the US Pacific Command, has been nominated to become the US ambassador to South Korea.
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - US President Donald Trump on Friday (May 18) nominated Admiral Harry Harris to be US ambassador to South Korea, the White House said, as Trump prepares for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled next month but called into question by Pyongyang.
If confirmed by the Senate, Harris, who serves as head of US Pacific Command, would fill a post that has been vacant since Trump took office in January 2017.
https:// www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trump-nominates-admiral-harry-harris-to-be-us-ambassador-to-south-korea
China offers to buy more US products to reduce trade imbalance
National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow said that the United States continued to press demands about Chinese trade practices.
China offered to boost its annual purchases of US products by "at least US$200 billion (S$268.58 billion)" on Friday (May 18) as two days of talks aimed at averting an open breach between the two countries ended in Washington, a top White House adviser said.
Mr Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, said that he welcomed the Chinese offer and that the United States continued to press demands about Chinese trade practices.
"They have to lower their tariff rates, they have to lower their non-tariff barriers. We have to have a verifiable process whereby the technology transfers and the theft of intellectual property stops," he told reporters at the White House.
Mr Kudlow spoke shortly before the talks between a US delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and a Chinese team headed by Vice-Premier Liu He, one of President Xi Jinping's closest advisers, ended for the day.
"China's come to trade. They are meeting many of our demands," said Mr Kudlow, who called the Chinese approach "constructive".
There was no immediate comment from the White House as of 11pm on Friday, several hours after the talks concluded.
China's state-run media said the discussions were "positive, constructive and fruitful".
Mr Kudlow's upbeat assessment came one day after Mr Trump said that the United States had been "ripped off" by China.
The two sides had swapped hardline demands during a first round of talks in Beijing this month.
The President is insisting on a dramatic reduction in the US trade deficit with China, which was US$375 billion in 2017 and has topped US$100 billion for 16 straight years.
Stepped-up Chinese purchases will focus on US agricultural goods, energy products such as liquefied natural gas and machinery, a senior administration official said.
Still, many economists say that it is difficult to imagine that China - which bought just US$130 billion worth of US goods last year - could somehow add an additional US$200 billion in purchases to that total.
China also repeated its longstanding demand that the United States relax its export controls on items such as supercomputers, riot control equipment, police surveillance systems, helicopters, missiles and various munitions.
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https:// www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/china-offers-to-buy-more-us-products-to-reduce-trade-imbalance
ZTE must change its management to get US reprieve says Larry Kudlow, White House economic adviser
Kudlow said that ‘the Chinese government has asked for a bit of relief on the remedy. Doesn’t mean there won’t be a remedy; there’ll be a very strong remedy.’
Chinese telecoms company ZTE will have to change its management, including by possibly appointing new board members, to win a reprieve from US sanctions that shut it off from key suppliers, the director of the White House National Economic Council said.
“We’re not talking about letting them off scot-free by any stretch,” Larry Kudlow, US President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, said on Friday in an interview on Fox Business Network.
“Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is having a second look at remedies. If there are any structural changes in their case they will be very harsh: change of management. Change of board. Change of everything.”
Trump on Sunday ordered the Commerce Department to get ZTE back into business, weeks after the agency cut the company off from US suppliers as punishment for what Ross described as “egregious” violations of sanctions against trade with Iran. Trump said in a tweet “too many jobs in China lost” because of the Commerce Department action.
His instructions on ZTE were seen as a major reversal by a president who has talked tough for years about Chinese trade practices.
“This is not a real trade issue, this is a legal enforcement issue,” Kudlow said. “And the question is, the Chinese government has asked for a bit of relief on the remedy. Doesn’t mean there won’t be a remedy; there’ll be a very strong remedy.”
ZTE said last week it has suspended all major operations as a result of the US action and its shares stopped trading in Hong Kong last month. Trump said on Thursday that his decision to order a review of US penalties on ZTE came directly at the request of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
http:// www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2146868/zte-must-change-its-management-get-us-reprieve-says
Jury finds US man guilty of abusing Cambodian orphans
US authorities said nine Cambodian children disclosed Daniel Stephen Johnson’s abuse in lengthy interviews with trained child-forensic interviewers.
A US jury found a Christian missionary from Oregon guilty of multiple sex abuse charges for molesting children living at an unlicensed Cambodian orphanage that he operated in Phnom Penh over a period of years.
Daniel Stephen Johnson, 40, was convicted of six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and one count each of travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and aggravated sexual assault with children. He faces a minimum of 30 years in prison when sentenced in August in Eugene, Oregon.
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US authorities said nine Cambodian children ranging in age from 7 to 18 have disclosed Johnson’s abuse or past abuse in lengthy interviews with trained child-forensic interviewers.
The FBI launched an extensive investigation of Johnson and his potential victims after learning of the case in 2013, the US Attorney’s Office in Portland said.
“The despicable nature of this defendant’s conduct is beyond understanding,” said Billy Williams, US attorney for the District of Oregon.
“The fact that this defendant abused children under the guise of being a missionary and orphanage director is appalling.”
Johnson first molested a child at the orphanage during a trip in 2005, according to court documents.
Local law enforcement issued a warrant for Johnson’s arrest in an unrelated matter in 2013 in Lincoln County, Oregon.
Johnson was located overseas and his passport as revoked based on the Oregon warrant.
The FBI then partnered with a non-profit that combats child exploitation in Cambodia and the Cambodian National Police to locate Johnson in Phnom Penh.
He was arrested in 2013 by Cambodian authorities and indicted the following year in the US on one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place.
Johnson was extradited to the US after completing a one-year prison sentence in Cambodia as US authorities sought to build their case.
Seven more charges were added in 2017.
While in custody, Johnson tried to tamper with witnesses and contact his victims online, bribing them with gifts and promises of money to change their testimony, the US Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
http:// www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2146566/jury-finds-us-man-guilty-abusing-cambodian-orphans
Democrats and the media lost the argument on immigration, so now they're lying
President Trump has repeatedly proven himself unbeatable on immigration, but why should that stop Democrats and the national media from trying again?
Democratic lawmakers and news reports this week wrongly accused Trump of having described immigrants in general as “animals” when he had actually been referring to violent members of gangs like MS-13.
“You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are," Trump said Wednesday at the White House during a meeting with immigration and law enforcement officials based in California. "These aren’t people. These are animals. And we're taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that's never happened before.”
He had been replying to Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims who had just complained that California law prohibits local police from communicating with federal authorities, even if she knows an illegal immigrant is a gang member.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tweeted in response, “When all of our great-great-grandparents came to America they weren’t ‘animals,’ and these people aren’t either.”
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., called on the officials present for Trump’s remarks to “denounce” him.
And CNBC’s John Harwood, competing for Most Woke White Man of the Year, said on Twitter that “however repugnant their actions, MS-13 gang members are human beings…”
At least Harwood got the context of what Trump said right.
The New York Times and USA Today both published news articles that made it seem as though Trump was disparaging all illegals trying to get into the country.
Democrats and the media have failed to convince the country that Trump is wrong on immigration using policy arguments, and so now they’re just lying about what he says.
This is only the latest incident in a very recent history of Democrats and journalists making complete clowns out of themselves in the immigration debate (insofar as it's a “debate” and not just Jim Acosta pointing to a poem carved in a statue as proof that the U.S. should be flooded with foreigners).
Congressional Democrats shut down the government in February in an attempt to get Trump to extend protections for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals people in exchange for — funding the government!
So confident in their stunt, Schumer caved not even six hours later.
Remember the two pairs of black parents who were invited to the State of the Union by Trump in order to show the country how tragic our immigration system is?
Probably not, because the media effectively ignored Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens, whose teenage daughters were brutally beaten and sliced to death by gang members who had been dumped into their Long Island county by way of our compassionate immigration laws.
Reporters in the White House press briefing room kicked and screamed in August last year when the administration backed a Republican bill that aims to cut immigration in half and prioritize higher-skilled foreigners, two proposals in perfect harmony with what the public wants.
A Harvard-Harris poll released in January said 79 percent of Americans would prefer that immigrants be selected for entry “based on a person’s ability to contribute to America.”
Another majority, 62 percent, said the U.S. should be admitting less than a million immigrants each year. Among those people, most of them said it should be less than a quarter of a million.
Under our current policy, more than a million immigrants are coming into the country each year. In 2016, it was nearly 1.5 million.
It’s no mystery why Trump can’t be beaten on immigration. The American people are on his side of the issue.
https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrats-and-the-media-lost-the-argument-on-immigration-so-now-theyre-lying
I wonder if they are starting to feel the burn of winning.
Devin Nunes disregards DOJ invite to resume talks on Mueller documents he seeks
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes did not seize an opportunity to continue talks Friday with government officials about documents he seeks related to the Russia investigation.
A Justice Department official confirmed to the Washington Examiner that they never heard back after sending an invitation to Nunes on Tuesday to "answer the questions he posed last week."
Neither Nunes' nor Gowdy's offices replied to a request for comment.
Earlier this month, the California Republican subpoenaed the Justice Department after the agency did not respond to a classified letter he sent with his request regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The subpoena reportedly demanded documents related to a U.S. citizen who contributed to the probe as a confidential intelligence source. However, the Justice Department — backed by the White House — withheld the documents and told Nunes in a follow-up letter that turning over the requested information would be a risk to national security and specifically put at risk the lives of the informant and the informant's sources.
But tensions between Nunes and the DOJ appeared to cool after a classified briefing last week that included Nunes and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, DOJ, and FBI.
Noting they had a "productive discussion," Nunes and Gowdy wrote, "The officials committed to holding further discussions of these matters, and we look forward to continuing our dialogue next week to satisfy the Committee’s request.”
The debate over this FBI informant has taken a tumultuous turn this week as conservative lawmakers and media have pushed the unsubstantiated reports that the source may have been a plant to spy on the Trump campaign for investigators.
However, U.S. officials told CNN that this was not the case and the New York Times, which claims to have identified the informant but has not disclosed an identity, reported Friday that the FBI source was used to look into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
Still, the matter has escalated to the point where President Trump has tweeted about a spy scandal that could be "bigger than Watergate!"
Democrats have fought back against what they fear might be a political ploy by their Republican counterparts to undermine Mueller's investigation, which not only is looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but also possible collusion between the Trump camp and the Kremlin.
“It would be at best irresponsible, and at worst potentially illegal, for members of Congress to use their positions to learn the identity of an FBI source for the purpose of undermining the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in our election," Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.
There is also dispute about whether the Justice Department will ever fully comply with Nunes' subpoena, as well another by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., for information on matters related to the Russia investigation.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, told CNN that a DOJ official told him the agency had "no intention" of complying with Nunes' subpoena. Meadows added that he is not "optimistic that the Department of Justice will voluntarily comply with the two outstanding subpoenas that are there."
However, a source familiar with the situation told CNN that Meadows was off the mark in his characterization of the negotiations.
Whether or not there is continued resistance from DOJ, Nunes may soon have some more leverage with DOJ with a helping hand from Trump. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer, told the Washington Post on Thursday that he now believes Congress should secure the release of classified information regarding Mueller’s Russia investigation.
“It’s ridiculous,” Giuliani said. “You guys in the press should have them. I don’t know why the current attorney general and the current director of the FBI want to protect a bunch of renegades that might amount to 20 people at most within the FBI.”
Meanwhile, Nunes has sought other ways to pressure the Justice Department.
Earlier this month, Nunes threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress over the Justice Department pushback on requests for information related to the Russia investigation.
But, in speaking with Sinclair Broadcasting Group on Thursday, Nunes shifted his sights to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing Mueller's operation since Sessions recused himself, saying he should be the one held in contempt of Congress.
https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-disregards-doj-invite-to-resume-talks-on-mueller-documents-he-seeks
The new Republican group that just entered the battle for the House
Another Republican big-money group is entering the battle for control of the House, as AR2 moves to upend Democratic candidates by digging up damaging information and feeding it to local media.
The political nonprofit is affiliated with America Rising, an established super PAC that specializes in opposition research. “AR2,” federally prohibited from overt politicking, aims to use its research and communications expertise to put Democrats on the defensive on policy matters.
The group hopes to tip the scales toward the Republicans in crucial battleground districts, beginning with those in Minnesota, Florida, Nebraska, and states in the Northeast. AR2 is being advised by two veteran Republican campaign operatives, Andrea Bozek and Kirsten Kukowski.
Another Republican big-money group is entering the battle for control of the House, as AR2 moves to upend Democratic candidates by digging up damaging information and feeding it to local media.
The political nonprofit is affiliated with America Rising, an established super PAC that specializes in opposition research. “AR2,” federally prohibited from overt politicking, aims to use its research and communications expertise to put Democrats on the defensive on policy matters.
The group hopes to tip the scales toward the Republicans in crucial battleground districts, beginning with those in Minnesota, Florida, Nebraska, and states in the Northeast. AR2 is being advised by two veteran Republican campaign operatives, Andrea Bozek and Kirsten Kukowski.
https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/new-gop-group-enters-battle-for-house-america-risings-ar2
Sorry, in and out of the bread reading so I missed your post. :(
Sounds like talking is over, and I completely agree with your position.
WHO finds Ebola outbreak not an emergency situation yet
A World Health Organization panel found that the latest outbreak of Ebola in Congo does not meet the conditions for a public health emergency declaration yet.
Members of the WHO’s emergency committee met on Friday to discuss the declaration, which brings with it more funding.
The WHO did issue an emergency declaration for the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but the international body was criticized back then for dragging its feet on the declaration. The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people.
The WHO panel did find several characteristics of the Congo outbreak that were concerning, chief among them the risk of “more rapid spread given that Ebola has now spread to an urban area; that there are several outbreaks in remote and hard to reach areas; that healthcare staff have been infected, which may be a risk for further amplification.”
But the committee said the response from Congo and WHO has been rapid and comprehensive. It said that work underway now provide a “strong reason to believe that the outbreak can be brought under control.” The panel may meet again if there is international spread of the virus or if the outbreak expands significantly.
So far 23 people have died and 44 Ebola cases have been reported in Congo. Health officials are sending shipments of an experimental Ebola vaccine to the country.
https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/who-finds-ebola-outbreak-not-an-emergency-situation-yet
Power of Love Huey Lewis & The News
The power of love is a curious thing
Make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
More than a feeling that's the power of love
Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream
Make a bad one good make a wrong one right
Power of love that keeps you home at night
Chorus 1:
You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the power of love
That's the power of love
First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Next time you feel it it might make you mad
But you'll be glad baby when you've found
That's the power makes the world go'round
Chorus 2:
And it don't take money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden it can be cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
They say that all in love is fair
Yeah, but you don't care
But you know what to do
When it gets hold of you
And with a little help from above
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
Can you feel it?
Hmmm
Chorus 3:
It don't take money and it don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel
You won't feel nothin' till you feel
You feel the power, just the power of love
That's the power, that's the power of love
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
Feel the power of love
Tucker Dings CNN’s Ana Navarro Without Even Saying Her Name
Fox News host Tucker Carlson managed to take a shot at CNN’s Ana Navarro on Friday without even mentioning her by name.
Carlson brought up Navarro while debating the appropriateness of President Trump calling MS-13 members “animals” with progressive radio host Leslie Marshall.
The Daily Caller co-founder recalled that Navarro had called Trump an “animal” in an old tweet, despite the fact that she later accused Trump of “dehumanizing” gang members by calling them the same thing.
Even though Carlson admitted he couldn’t remember her name, his description of Navarro was downright hilarious and deadly accurate.
“I hope that you will denounce that — I can’t even remember her name, that CNN contributor who’s always getting crazy on TV who called him an animal,” Carlson said with a huge burst of laughter.
http:// dailycaller.com/2018/05/18/tucker-dings-cnn-ana-navarro/
Grassley Wants To See Memo That Lays Out Scope Of Mueller Probe
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking the Justice Department for a document that lays out the full scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
In a letter sent to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on May 18, Grassley, an Iowa Republican, noted Mueller’s team recently provided a federal judge in Virginia with an unredacted copy of the memo, which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote on Aug. 2, 2017.
The special counsel’s office provided the memo to Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman indicted for bank and tax fraud related to his work in Ukraine. Congress is also entitled to see the document, Grassley said.
“This Committee likewise should be permitted to review the true nature and scope of the special counsel’s investigation. Like the Judiciary, Congress is a separate branch of government with its own constitutional duties that often require access to Executive Branch information. In this case, the interests relate to both legislative and oversight responsibilities,” Grassley wrote in his letter to Rosenstein.
Mueller did not have the jurisdiction to investigation areas not related to possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government, Manafort’s team has argued.
Manafort’s lawyers have also questioned the timing of the memo, which Rosenstein wrote nearly three months after Mueller was appointed special counsel.
Several days before Rosenstein wrote the memo, Mueller executed a search warrant on Manafort’s Virginia residence. Manafort’s lawyers and other observers of the case have questioned whether the Rosenstein memo was written to retroactively provide cover for the Mueller raid.
Grassley also appears interested in the timing of the Rosenstein memo.
“The August Memorandum states that it addresses the special counsel’s authorization as of the date he was appointed. Why was this memorandum not drafted until August 2017?” Grassley asked.
Grassley has been a supporter of the Mueller investigation, the committee chairman noted. He has publicly warned President Trump against taking steps to shut down the investigation or fire Mueller.
“As I have said numerous times, that investigation should be free to follow the facts wherever they lead without any improper outside interference. However, that does not mean that it is immune from oversight or that information about the scope of its authority under existing Department regulations should be withheld from Congress,” Grassley said.
http:// dailycaller.com/2018/05/18/grassley-mueller-memo/