https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/1263082469311553538
is everyone on chinas payroll
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pompeo-s-elite-taxpayer-funded-dinners-raise-new-concerns-n1210746
new 4am talking points
May 19, 2020, 10:05 PM EDT / Updated May 19, 2020, 10:38 PM EDT
By Josh Lederman, Laura Strickler and Dan De Luce
WASHINGTON — As federal workers file out of the State Department at the end of a Washington workday, an elite group is often just arriving in the marbled, flag-lined lobby: Billionaire CEOs, Supreme Court justices, political heavyweights and ambassadors arrive in evening attire as they're escorted by private elevator to dinner with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Until the coronavirus shut them down in March, the gatherings were known as "Madison Dinners" — elaborate, unpublicized affairs that Pompeo and his wife, Susan Pompeo, began in 2018 and held regularly in the historic Diplomatic Reception Rooms on the government's dime.
State Department officials involved in the dinners said they had raised concerns internally that the events were essentially using federal resources to cultivate a donor and supporter base for Pompeo's political ambitions — complete with extensive contact information that gets sent back to Susan Pompeo's personal email address. The officials and others who attended discussed the dinners on condition of anonymity.
An NBC News investigation found that Pompeo held about two dozen Madison Dinners since he took over in 2018. NBC News obtained a master guest list for every dinner through the end of 2019, as well as internal State Department calendars from before the pandemic emerged, showing that future dinners were on the books through at least October. The master list includes the names of nearly 500 invitees and specifies who accepted, although it is possible some people RSVP'd but didn't show up in Foggy Bottom for dinner.
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https://twitter.com/Militarydotcom/status/1263103732201353216
20 May 2020
MLive.com, Walker, Mich. | By Cole Waterman
HAMPTON TWP, MI – An Omer man has been charged with four felonies, with police alleging he threatened to shoot central dispatchers and then drove nearly 50 miles to threaten staff at a U.S. Coast Guard station.
The incident began at 7:58 a.m. on Sunday, May 17, when Arenac County Central Dispatch received a call from 70-year-old Jesse T. McFadden, who said he was going to come shoot up staff there and “to quarantine them,” said Hampton Township Police Lt. Michael Wedding. McFadden also said he was going to a Standish hospital to shoot out the power and demand keys to ambulances, Wedding said.
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McFadden went on to say he was going to the U.S. Coast Guard Station Saginaw River in Bay County to get a helicopter or a boat, Wedding said.
Arenac County Central Dispatch passed on the information to area police, adding McFadden was believed to be driving a black Ford Explorer. Dispatchers also told police McFadden may have been a former Michigan Militia member who could have machine guns or an M-16 with him, Wedding said.
“This heightened everything,” Wedding said.
At 10:37 a.m., McFadden arrived at the Coast Guard station at 2405 Weadock Highway in Essexville and tried punching in a code at their locked gate. Unable to gain entry, McFadden had a conversation through a speaker with personnel inside and threatened to ram the gate, Wedding said.
McFadden eventually drove away from the military base.
Shortly, police from numerous agencies converged at McLaren Bay Region hospital in Bay City after a vehicle matching the description of McFadden’s was spotted there. Officers soon determined that vehicle was not in fact McFadden’s.
At 11:17 a.m., a Michigan State Police trooper spotted a black Ford Explorer parked at the Speedway gas station at 1504 Center Ave. in Hampton Township. Its driver’s side door was open and its engine was still running, Wedding said.
Troopers, Bay County Sheriff’s deputies, and Hampton Township and Essexville public safety officers converged in the parking lot. A few moments later, McFadden exited the store and was stopped by a trooper, who engaged in him in conversation.
As the two spoke, Wedding snuck around to the passenger side of McFadden’s Ford, opened that door, and turned off the ignition. In the passenger seat beneath a black leather jacket was a .12-gauge Mossberg shotgun, the barrel pointed toward the floorboard and the stock upright, Wedding said.
“He could have literally grabbed it with one hand, pulled it up, and come out shooting,” Wedding said. “We were very fortunate he happened to walk into that store for two minutes.”
Once McFadden saw Wedding had the gun, he slapped the forearm of the trooper he was talking with and pushed him away. An Essexville officer then pulled his Taser and deployed it, though one of the barbs struck a button and rendered the jolt ineffective.
McFadden then swung at the officer before several more took him to the ground and managed to get him in handcuffs and arrest him.
“He was swearing at us the whole time,” Wedding said.
Police found no other weapons on McFadden or in the vehicle. They did find some prescription medication and marijuana, Wedding said.
McFadden told police he had the gun for skeet shooting. The shotgun had been loaded with five shells, Wedding said.
McFadden on Monday, May 18, appeared in Bay County District Court for arraignment on three counts of assaulting, resisting, or obstructing police and one count of transporting a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle. Both charges are two-year felonies.
Arraigning Chief District Judge Dawn A. Klida freed McFadden on a personal recognizance bond and scheduled his case for a settlement conference on May 29.
https://twitter.com/1stArmoredDiv/status/1263102395871092736
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1263095144112422912
Yet again the president uses the death of Lori Klausutis, 28, to attack Joe Scarborough. In 2001 she fainted, hitting her head. An autopsy revealed a heart condition. There’s no cold case. It’s a tragedy he cruelly exploits. Indecent.
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?472323-1/secretary-pompeo-news-conference
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dr-michael-berkland-former-medical-examiner-arrested-for-storing-human-body-parts-in-fla-storage-unit/
(CBS/AP) PENSACOLA, Fla. - Police arrested former medical examiner Michael Berkland on Friday for allegedly keeping crudely preserved human remains in a rented storage unit in Florida last month.
Berkland, 57, was charged with of improper storage of hazardous waste, keeping a public nuisance and driving with a suspended license. He was released on $10,000 bail.
State Attorney Bill Eddins said more charges may be filed. Berkland's attorney, Eric Stevenson, reportedly said that he and Berkland will start preparing their defense next week.
Crudely preserved brains, hearts, lungs and other organs and specimens were discovered in more than 100 containers last month in a Pensacola storage unit that Berkland rented for about three years. The unit was auctioned off after Berkland defaulted on his payments, according to an arrest affidavit.
Ten cardboard boxes stacked in a corner of the unit contained "numerous individual containers with … human remains stored in a liquid substance," according to the affidavit.
Berkland declared the contents to be household goods, furniture, boxes, sporting goods and landscaping equipment. A man who bought the unit's contents discovered the human organs after becoming overpowered by a strange smell while sifting through the items, authorities said.
Most of the containers were labeled. About half the containers were medical grade and the other half included soda cups and plastic food containers, according to the affidavit.
Authorities said the organs were stored in a liquid solution containing formaldehyde and methyl alcohol.
"The remains included tissue samples and dissected organs. (Investigators) also advised that there were numerous whole organs, including hearts, brains, a liver and a lung," according to the affidavit.
Berkland worked at the District 1 Medical Examiner's Office in Pensacola from 1997. He was fired in 2003 for not completing autopsy reports. Berkland's license to serve as a medical examiner in Florida was also withdrawn.
Before arriving Florida, Berkland was fired as a contract medical examiner in 1996 in Jackson County, Missouri, in a dispute over his caseload and autopsy reports. His doctor's license was ultimately revoked there.
The Penasacola's medical examiner's office said the organs found in the storage unit appear to have come from private autopsies Berkland performed between 1997 and 2007 at funeral homes in the Florida Panhandle and in Tallahassee.
Jeff Martin, director of the medical examiner's office, said about 10 families have been notified that their relatives' remains were in the unit.
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