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Trump administration 2024-2028

IOW: 'National' Socialism...


The U.S. government has taken a stake in Intel. Defence industry contractors could be next​



A Bloomberg report on the Intel transaction on Friday said Trump was embracing "a new brand of economic statecraft." But an official in his first administration had a more caustic take.

"Washington is embracing what can only be called corporate socialism — profits privatized, losses socialized and taxpayers held hostage to the fortunes of politically connected firms," wrote Vance Gunn, an associate director for economic policy in the White House's Office of Management and Budget between 2019 and 2020, this week for the liberal think-tank American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).

 
Point of view from the Democrats.
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Norway, and or the Committee members are next on the WH sanctions list!

Nobel Prize Committee Drops SURPRISE TRUMP BOMB​

 
U.S. Ambassadors all over being invited in for chats ....
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Is the U.S. running a secret operation in Greenland? Denmark summons American envoy

Danish intelligence services uncovered at least three people working on pro-U.S. "influence operations" in Greenland, a state broadcast outlet said.
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Denmark Summons U.S. Amb. Over 'Covert Influence Ops' in Greenland

Alleged goal of 'Covert Influence Operations' is to weaken relations with Denmark from within Greenlandic society.
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US ally summons Trump ambassador over 'unacceptable' antisemitism allegations

U.S. ambassador Charles Kushner faces a diplomatic rebuke from France over his letter linking Palestinian state recognition to antisemitic incidents.
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France summons US envoy over antisemitism claims

France denies allegations it is failing to tackle a surge in antisemitism since the Gaza war began.
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There’s a saying down south that a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich.

Not anymore.


No indictment against man accused of throwing sandwich at CBP agent: Sources​

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Prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against the man accused of throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol agent in Washington, D.C., sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday.
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Prosecutors similarly failed to convince a federal grand jury in D.C. to indict a woman, Sidney Reid, accused by the government of assaulting and FBI agent during an inmate swap with ICE, despite three separate attempts.
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Back to the sandwich thrower…

The White House went as far as releasing a video showing a cadre of heavily armed agents carrying out his arrest, despite his attorney saying he had previously offered to surrender willingly.
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RangerRay said:
There’s a saying down south that a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich.

Not anymore.





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Back to the sandwich thrower…
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Good. That was an absolute farce. He was a drunken idiot who deserves a liquor ticket and maybe a night in the drunk tank. Instead they tried to go full federal on him including a super cringey high resolution video of a full tactical raid on his residence. Even within the law enforcement community - and I’m in some US-dominated LEO-only social media space - we were almost universally saying it was embarassing. That drunk idiot winning the foot pursuit and getting away wasn’t any better.

This is the video the White House posted of the raid on the sandwich-thrower. This is after he can contacted them and offered to turn himself in mind you.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956114803295953325
 
QV said:
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DC Mayor Bowser reverses course, admits Trump's federal crime crackdown is working

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser changed her stance on President Donald Trump's federal officer surge after initially calling it "unsettling," now praising its effectiveness in reducing crime.
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Sounds like Trump made the right call.
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Well no shit, if you temporarily and unsustainably flood an area with police you’re going to see crime go down in that patch of ground for the time that surge is sustained. Any of us who did time in Kandahar were playing a similar game. But it won’t be sustained. FBI, HSI, CBP etc all have their actual work to do and it’s not getting done. Every day some FBI guy is standing on a corner in DC getting beaked off at by a drunk, they aren’t investigating extremism, cybercrime, child porn, counterintelligence… And the federal deployment ends at the municipal borders of DC. They don’t cross the street (literally) into the neighbouring municipalities. It would be like dumping the federal portion of the RCMP into policing Vancouver but meanwhile everything just temporarily flows from the downtown east side into Burnaby or Richmond or Surrey.

Once this deployment ends - and it must and will - there will be a reversion to the norm (which as a reminder was already decreasing crime rates). And in the meantime a whole bunch of actual federal criminal files will have been neglected.

Total amateur hour. It’s not an actual law enforcement initiative; it’s a federal administration continuing to figure out what buttons it can press to normalize and legitimize federal overreach. They still haven’t said, if the deployment was already making DC safe, then by it was necessary to newly arm the Guard members there.

But at least they got a great video of the tactical raid on the drunken sandwich artist after he offered to turn himself in and before the grand jury declined to indict.
 
The Bread Guy said:
Poke, poke, poke ...
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Trump slaps sanctions on Canadian International Criminal Court judge

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration slapped sanctions on a Canadian judge on the International Criminal Court as the U.S. State Department continues to push back on the tribunal.
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More than just the CAN judge according to the State Dep't info-machine - highlights mine
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And Canadian jurists await Canada's response to the poking ....
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Law advocates slam Ottawa for silence on Trump sanctioning Canadian ICC judge

OTTAWA - Advocates for international law say Ottawa is letting Washington chip away at the global rules-based order by remaining silent a week into American sanctions against a Canadian jurist.
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The Bread Guy said:
And Canadian jurists await Canada's response to the poking ....
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Law advocates slam Ottawa for silence on Trump sanctioning Canadian ICC judge

OTTAWA - Advocates for international law say Ottawa is letting Washington chip away at the global rules-based order by remaining silent a week into American sanctions against a Canadian jurist.
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Probably a case of picking our battles. There’s no win in this one, nor any likelihood we can budge the U.S. position on the ICC where their investigations implicate U.S. personnel or allies. We have plenty more Canadians working for them who face this risk too. Unfortunately it’s a reality at this point that working for international bodies in a manner deemed contrary to U.S. policy or interests brings a sanctions risk.
 
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