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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aug 19 2022
Saturn: 1993 - 2022
Saturn is the most distant planet of the Solar System easily visible to the unaided eye. With this extraordinary, long-term astro-imaging project begun in 1993, you can follow the ringed gas giant for one Saturn year as it wanders once around the ecliptic plane, finishing a single orbit around the Sun by 2022. Constructed from individual images made over 29 Earth years, the split panorama is centered along the ecliptic and crossed by the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Saturn's position in 1993 is at the right side, upper panel in the constellation Capricornus and progresses toward the left. It returns to the spot in Capricornus at left in the lower panel in 2022. The consistent imaging shows Saturn appears slightly brighter during the years 2000-2005 and 2015-2019, periods when its beautiful rings were tilted more face-on to planet Earth.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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Dem Congressman Rented Office Space From Convicted Drug Trafficker, Records Show
August 19, 2022 12:06 PM ET
Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny Davis rented office space from a butcher previously convicted for his involvement in a multimillion dollar Chicago cocaine trafficking ring, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
Davis’ campaign paid Mario’s Butcher Chop in Chicago more than $20,000 between 2014 and 2020, primarily for office rent and also groceries and catering, FEC records show. Mario’s Butcher Shop is owned by Mariano “Mario” Lettieri and his wife, and took center stage in a 1990 drug bust involving Lettieri, the Chicago Tribune reported in 1990.
Lettieri was sentenced to roughly 16 years in prison in 1990 for being the primary supplier for a drug ring run by a former police officer, the Chicago Tribune reported. The butcher reportedly supplied his contact with up to six kilograms of cocaine each month for six months, charging $33,000 per kilogram.
A spokesman for Davis did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. The congressman’s chief of staff told The Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on the payments, that Davis supports giving people “second chances.”
“We’ve often questioned why Congressman Davis says one thing and yet his actions seem to go in a different direction,” Jeff Fiedler, a spokesman for the Chicago Republican Party, told the DCNF. “Second chances are admirable intent, but in this case we’re wondering why he would make such a questionable decision when there are thousands of other options for office space on the West side.”
Davis notably unveiled “a coalition of drug prevention groups” in 2021 to fight opioid overdose deaths in Illinois, the Chicago Crusader reported. The congressman in 2006 demanded $4 million in emergency funds go toward addressing drug addiction in Cook County, WBEZ Chicago reported.
“We got to do something to break the cycle of opioid deaths,” said Davis in 2021, according to the Chicago Crusader. “Last year, we had one block where five or six people overdosed within a week’s time. Drug use, opioid addiction is out of hand and more must be done.”
Davis, whose 7th Congressional District represents most of western Chicago, beat out his Democratic challenger Kina Collins in the June primary. Davis does not currently have a Republican challenger in his district, which voted by a rate of more than 80% in 2020 to re-elect him.
The DCNF has reached out to Mario’s Butcher Shop for comment.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/19/dem-congressman-rented-office-space-from-convicted-cocaine-trafficker-in-chicago/
The Move to the Launchpad Ahead of Our Artemis I Flight Test on This Week @NASA – August 19, 2022
The move to the launchpad ahead of our Artemis I flight test, discussing priorities for national space activities, and cargo and science head home from the space station … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
https://youtu.be/MWdvrhY-pYw
https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/this-week-nasa-aug-19-2022
Kash’s Corner: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Docs; Forcing Their Release; and the Iranian Fatwa on Salman Rushdie
This episode will premiere on Friday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m. ET.
In this episode of Kash’s Corner, Kash Patel addresses the Iranian fatwa on Salman Rushdie, possible U.S. reentry into the nuclear deal, and recent developments surrounding the Mar-a-Lago raid.
“There is no way on planet earth that the Department of Justice did not tell the White House Counsel’s Office of this raid,” claims Kash.
Kash Patel discusses details that have been omitted from media coverage of the raid and demands the release of concealed documents relating to Mar-a-Lago and Russiagate.
“And the attorney general made it abundantly clear when he came out to the podium and spoke to the American public: ‘I personally authorized the search.’ Okay. Who did you and your team talk to?” asks Kash.
Kash Patel also explains how Congress can compel intelligence agencies to hand over unreleased documents.
“When you call the DOJ and FBI and you place a hold … on the distribution of taxpayer dollars to fund those agencies, they will overnight provide you with thousands of documents.”
https://youtu.be/5e6uymR47Qs
https://www.theepochtimes.com/kashs-corner-the-mar-a-lago-raid-docs-forcing-their-release-and-the-iranian-fatwa-on-salman-rushdie_4676140.html?
Biden Raid on Trump Home is a Scam! Judicial Watch Special Court Update
Aug 19 2022
Judicial Watch President @TomFitton discusses the latest news about the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home as well as a key Judicial Watch court victory over the Biden DOJ’s effort to keep the related search warrant affidavit completely sealed.
https://youtu.be/AQWyEq0Qli4
https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-nara-clinton-tapes-transcript-01834/