Libération : Le successeur du Luxembourgeois Jean-Claude Juncker à la présidence de la Commission ne sera pas l'Allemand Manfred Weber. Les présidents des groupes politiques du Parlement européen, qui se sont réunis mardi matin, n'ont pu que constater qu'il n'existait aucune majorité pour soutenir la tête de liste du PPE (conservateur) qui est arrivé en tête des élections européennes de la semaine dernière. La balle a donc été renvoyée dans le camp des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement où le constat a été identique. La perle rare reste donc à trouver.

Manfred Weber will not be President of the Commission. The EP group presidents' meeting yesterday morning concluded that there was no majority to support the conservative candidate. The heads of State and government concluded likewise.

I used to be afew. I'm still not many.

Nahles, whose SPD is a junior coalition partner in Merkel's ruling alliance, said she would resign as party leader on Monday and step down as head of the SPD's parliamentary group on Tuesday.

"The discussions within the parliamentary faction and feedback from within the party have shown me that I no longer have the necessary support to carry out my duties," Nahles said in a statement released by the SPD.

Earlier, German Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, told Germany's Tagesspiegel that he had ruled out entering another grand coalition as the SPD seeks to regroup after losses in the European parliamentary elections.

Vows by Social Democratic leader Mette Frederiksen, heading the opposition center-left bloc, to boost welfare spending after years of cuts and stick to a tougher stance on immigration, the other big hot-button issue, have gone down well with many Danes. ... Support for Frederiksen's party alliance stood at 54.7% shortly before of the vote, according to an average of polls published by Berlingske Barometer.

LIBERALS TOPS IN EU ELECTION, NOT AT HOME

Contrary to opinion polls, the Liberals overtook both the Social Democrats and the anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DF) to become the biggest Danish group in the EU assembly.

The staunchly pro-Europe Liberals benefited from record-high popular support for the EU in Denmark, but that recipe for success is unlikely to work in Wednesday's national vote. ...Frederiksen, contrary to Nordic counterparts, has taken a harder line on immigration to lure back some voters from nationalist parties like DF. ...Frederiksen's party backed a large part of tougher legislation on refugees and immigrants passed by Rasmussen's center-right minority government, which relied on DF support.

The package included a ban on wearing the body-covering Islamic burqa and niqab face veil in public, as well as a so-called "jewellery bill" that allows police to seize refugees' valuables to help pay their costs.

archived
Danish PM Calls [General] Election That Polls Show He Is Set to Lose
poll smoke, Pornhub, Detention Project &tc.

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to truly represent the full diversity of its population in the Parliament.

Although this election brought a welcome increase in the numbers of racial and ethnic minorities elected, Brexit will roll back most of the gains.
[...]
The United Kingdom elected the most POC ["people of color"] MEPs, and when they leave in October, it will greatly reduce racial representation in the European Parliament. After Brexit, not only will there be seven less MEPs of colour, but there is a risk that commitment to equality and diversity principles such as equality data collection, positive action, and even the acknowledgement of racism as a major issue, is likely to falter.

We also see that minorities are not a monolith and the elected ethnic minority MEPs represent a range of political stances. Far-right parties such as Le Pen's Rassemblement National and the UK's Brexit party will send one MEP each to the European Parliament, and Belgium's New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) - known for its strong opposition to the UN's migration pact - elected Belgium's only MEP of colour, Assita Kanko.

archived Anglo-merican disease
They are not all going back to where they came from.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

But don't repeat this Keynesian heresy; especially not on German public media.

Italy's far-right League was one of the biggest winners in last month's EU elections and its leader, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, has sought to persuade Europe's nationalist parties to set aside their differences and form a 10-party European Alliance for People and Nations in the new assembly.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland's conservative ruling party Law and Justice (PiS), ruled out joining on account of the pro-Russian stance of Salvini, France's National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Nigel Farage's Brexit Party, which won 29 of Britain's 72 seats in the European Parliament, also said it would not join the putative new grouping, though it gave no reason. Britain is due to quit the EU on Oct. 31 but its lawmakers will join the European Parliament in July and stay until Brexit happens.

[Paris] police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who had massed outside government headquarters Wednesday in opposition to a proposed extradition bill that has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater [unitary semi-presidential] control and erosion of civil liberties in the territory.

The first Turkish Cypriot MEP, Niyazi Kizilyurek, has described his victory as hugely important because it was a result of cooperation between members of both communities.
[...]
The majority of Turkish Cypriots who did vote, 72 per cent voted for Akel, 23.6 per cent voted for the Jasmine Movement, 1.2 per cent voted for Disy, 1 per cent for the Cyprus Socialist Party, 0.8 per cent for Edek and 0.5 per cent for Diko.

[HIO board chair Thomas] Antoniou said the new health system was not a single reform but many combined. It is the first time Cyprus has primary healthcare as part of a universal health system. The island is the last country in the European Union to implement a health system but is among the first to have a fully electronic one.
[...]
[HIO director Athos] Tsinontides said in the past few days there was no problem in registrations with the portal operating smoothly. Certain issues that concern third country nationals or Europeans from other member states relate to technical matters that must be resolved in cooperation with other government departments like the civil registry, to enable them to register.

archived adjustments
the "alien book" registry and social services portfolio

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Germany: Climate activists end coal blockade in Garzweiler

Police have cleared 250 climate activists who stayed overnight at the Garzweiler brown coal mine in western Germany, officials said Sunday. However, some protesters were still blocking nearby train tracks that usually serve as a coal transport route from one of Germany's biggest open-pit mines, near the cities of Düsseldorf and Cologne.
[...]
Although the Ende Gelände protest grabbed most of the headlines, it was a small part of a much larger rally on Saturday from the town of Keyenberg along the edge of the mine.

The Garzweiler lignite coal mine has been the focal point of environmental protests in Germany's Rhineland region since Friday, when 40,000 students rallied for more government action against climate change in the nearby city of Aachen.
[...]
The mine has been the focus of many protests in recent years because the operator, German utility company RWE, planned to cut down a forest to enlarge it. Later Sunday, Aachen police tweeted that RWE had filed a criminal complaint against those protesters who had locked themselves to the tracks. The utility company had stopped mining during the three days of protests.

So far there's a strong promise to end the austerity, but I won't hold my breath. The goon squad in ministry of finance can turn any politician to the dark side.

They will publish the manifesto today, and putative list of ministers, but then the parties have to officially agree on the names, so we expect to get the final list of names by the end of the week.

In fact what is truly regrettable is that Tsípras didn't have the guts to do it.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Saving migrants from drowning at sea should be a crime, says VVD

The plan has a working majority in parliament, thanks to the support of cabinet partner the Christian Democrats (CDA) and the opposition PVV, FvD and SGP, according to NRC. However, the two smaller coalition parties, D66 and the ChristenUnie, are strongly opposed to the move.

President Emmanuel Macron had in May rejected calls by Lambert's parents and others to intervene to keep him alive, saying the decision to stop treatment "was taken after a constant dialogue between his doctors and his wife, who is his legal representative". The European Court of Human Rights also rejected an appeal by Lambert's parents.

"Dear German government, I'm not reopening the ports ... if anything we're going to put ... (the migrants) in a car and take them to the German embassy," [Salvini] said.

"Not being able to travel is a sign of poverty, which finally must be tackled effectively," said Zimmermann, a member of Germany's ex-communist Left party and a former trade union organizer in Germany's eastern state of Saxony.

British children as young as seven are being targeted for grooming, violence and exploitation by drug gangs enslaving them into criminality, a report from the Children's Society has warned.

"I like Nigel a lot. He has a lot to offer - he is a very smart person," Trump said.
[...]
On the Brexit divorce bill, Trump said: "If I were them, I wouldn't pay 50 billion dollars. That is a tremendous number."
[...]
he would have "to know" veteran Socialist Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn before authorizing U.S. intelligence to share its most sensitive secrets with a hard-left government.

Change UK announced that it now had just five MPs, who will be led by the former Conservative business minister and anti-Brexit campaigner Anna Soubry.

The others remaining are the former Labour MPs Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan and Ann Coffey. In their statement, they said they would embark on a "nationwide programme of deliberative democracy", across the UK.

[Heidi] Allen and [Chukka] Umunna have both been advocating closer cooperation with Vince Cable's party. Some of their erstwhile colleagues suspect they may have been offered plum seats, or the backing of Lib Dem activists in their existing constituency, if they defect.

The other four MPs to quit the party were Luciana Berger, who fronted its slick press launch on London's South Bank in February, Gavin Shuker, who had spent months drawing up secret plans for the breakaway group, Sarah Wollaston and Angela Smith.

"If I were running it, we would have one leader and a different name and we would have done a deal with all the other remain parties. Then we would be able to give the Brexit party a fight."

Also the Tories are off having one of their (patented) Prime Minister faction fights.

Expect nothing sensible until both conditions have improved.


She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Savage!
"'Doesn't the House of Commons realise that they can't stop a No Deal?' a Commission official asked this reporter following a debate last week."


Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Brexit MEPs turn their backs (Image: PA)

no more likely == NOW more likely!!

There has been some preparations back in February - March, when the first March 29 was approaching and the WA still stuck in the HoC. Since then, the things have been put mostly on hold. Contingencies are one thing, but no point on planning now when we cannot tell what the new PM will be up to. Folks in Brussels affect not to take BoJo's bluster at face value and they have more urgent things on their plate right now, with the increasingly ugly fight for the EU's top posts.

Once PM, BoJo could go any direction and has already flip-flopped more than once in the past; actually, since we're talking about Brussels, the term "waffling" is definitely appropriate.

All of this is similar, in a way, to Brett Kavanaugh's battle plan in the US: don't neutralise the anger, redirect it.

Seymour spelled either Donald Trump or US Congress rong

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Reinstating Indiana rules that require aborted fetuses to either be buried or cremated, the Supreme Court chided the Seventh Circuit

PER CURIAM decision: Q1 reversed, Q2 denied
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al.
vs.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, et al.

on Tuesday for failing to recognize the state's legitimate interest.

Though Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg complained in a partial dissent that the case represented "a waste of the court's resources," Justice Clarence Thomas devoted 20 pages to Indiana's "Sex Selective and Disability Abortion Ban."

Pelosi said in San Francisco that she is no longer giving Facebook the benefit of doubt that it is "unwittingly" spreading false information. She said Facebook is serving an accomplice and enabler of false information and Russian elections interference.

archived derivative work
"PELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE" (Twitter) and link to event, A/V source (full running time); USAToday "false information", link to second event, A/V source (full running time).

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The Spokane Public Library on the South Hill hosted a Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday for about 50 children and their families, but dozens of children were turned away because the reading room filled up.

Outside, on the library's lawn and sidewalk, about 400 gay-rights activists stood in support of the library, while across South Perry Street, about 200 protesters held signs and voiced their opposition, several speaking through megaphones.

The arrest comes after a New York federal appeals court ordered last week the release of 2,000 pages of judicial documents related to Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who are suspected of taking part in an international sex trafficking operation.

The decision comes two days after the Miami Herald urged the court to issue a ruling in the civil case in the wake of last week's Justice Department announcement in the federal criminal case that it would not void Epstein's controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement.

Using others as recruiters, Epstein lured underage girls to his waterfront estate in Palm Beach from 1997 to 2006 under the guise that he was hiring them to give him massages. He sexually abused them, the girls told authorities, then paid them to recruit other girls, mostly 13 to 16 years old.
[...]
Maxwell, 57, the daughter of the late publishing magnate Robert Maxwell, has never been charged with a crime and has denied allegations that she acted as a "madam" of the operation. She nevertheless fought to keep the records in the New York civil case sealed.

Epstein was closely connected to former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, reigning monarch of the United Kingdom. Both flew frequently on Epstein's private jet, dubbed the "Lolita Express." President Trump was Epstein's neighbor in Palm Beach and a former friend. He also flew on Epstein's plane.

archived FOSTA/SESTA
Jeffrey Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, and Pals Accused of Sex-Trafficking Ring
## Sociopaths teaching sociopaths manners.
Mann Act revival, illustrated
tears, sippy cups, "neatly combed brown hair to her chin"
PS: Raniere convicted on all counts
$44 million settlement reportedly close
lawsuits accusing Harvey Weinstein or the company of misconduct racketeering

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archived
this piece on motherhood by @KamalaHarris ...
Kamala!? rents a baby. 28 January 2019

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

The start is the best part "I'm gonna write you a wonger answer." Powerful.

— Nate's Liver (@SilERabbit) May 29, 2019

I'm dying pic.twitter.com/z05Wup2Fgm

— Andrew 'It's Still Easter' Egger (@EggerDC) May 30, 2019

Someone is going to run out in front of a tank and someone else will take a picture of them and we will never stop hearing about them for the rest of eternity. Happy 4th of July!

— neontaster (@neontaster) July 3, 2019

"Busing students should be considered by a school district trying to desegregate its locations, but ... it should not be federally mandated Day

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

His campaign was only with us for a short time, but I think I speak for everyone when I say we will never forget the candidacy of Derek [sic] Stalwell pic.twitter.com/kFL1EQFO5x

— Sweet Meteor O'Death (@smod4real) July 8, 2019

The state moved its primary to the Super Tuesday round of voting on March 3, joining at least 13 other states after votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. In 2016, the California primary was held in June.
[...]
Warren's thinly veiled jab at Biden set the tone for others who followed.

Some dude in a man bun jumping up on a stage full of women talking about pay equality and ripping a microphone out of a US senator's hands so he could talk about the issue HE wants to talk about is perhaps the defining image of our time

— Anti-Alex-Griswoldism (@HashtagGriswold) June 2, 2019

"I'm not anticipating a very large pushback," [CO-6 Rep. Jason] Crow said in an interview. "There's already similar language that we've synced up with on the Senate side."
[...]
On Wednesday, [WA-10] Rep. Denny Heck said he would introduce legislation to establish a so-called climate security intelligence center at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence [DNI]. And after the Pentagon produced a climate report in January and only studied 79 of its hundreds of military bases, House Democrats directed the department to update its work.

As a party, Democrats didn't expressly state opposition to the Hyde Amendment until 2016. The Democratic platform that year also introduced a specific mention of Planned Parenthood, as it was adopted amid a rash of Republican-run state legislatures trying to strip Medicaid financing for the women's health giant whose services include abortion and abortion referrals.

archived
DO Mess with Texas!, 2007
Happy birthday, Roe v Wade., 2009
PPACA ("Obamacare")
ACA-MSM was currying factional acrimony over Hyde Amendment funding prohibition, 2010
longstanding Federal statutory restriction that is commonly known as the Hyde Amendment, 2010
since the US Congress passed the motherfuckin Hyde Act., 2018
You Don't Have to Overrule Roe to Overrule Roe, 2018

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While the new information could inflame the political tensions of the case, it's unclear how it might affect that decision or if the Supreme Court would even consider it.

(1) Whether the district court erred in enjoining the secretary of the Department of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census on the ground that the secretary's decision violated the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 701 et seq;
(2) whether, in an action seeking to set aside agency action under the APA, a district court may order discovery outside the administrative record to probe the mental processes of the agency decision maker* ...;
(3) whether the secretary's decision to add a citizenship question to the decennial census violated the enumeration clause of the U.S. Constitution.

reference
State of New York v. U.S. Dep't of Commerce | NEW! exhibits of perjury
"A. He [Tom Hoffler] said that after the long-form data went away in 2000, that the quality of block level citizen voting age population had now diminished. So the -- so the ability to draw a district which would elect a Latino in a population where there were non-citizens was very, very difficult."
The Racial Dot Map | 2010 Census Block Data
"a closer look reveals a greater degree of racial segregation between different neighborhoods"
Segregation's Legacy
"Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act was signed, America is nearly as segregated as when President Lyndon Johnson signed the law."
--
* The "revelation" maintains that Commerce Dept. agents lied about the purpose of the survey question. It is not to improve Voting Rights Act enforcement. It is to improve GOP gerrymandered district mapping by "non-citizen". After gain/loss of House seats among the states. Because GOP "voter fraud" suppression is rife.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Angola State Prison
House: 59 (R), 35 (D), 3 (I), 7 (VACANT); Fun Fact: $16,800/year salary, 4 year term
Senate: 25 (R), 14 (D)

22 chamber slaves of the patriarchy
10 (D), 12 (R)
wut: "The board's ruling on child care upset several public officials once it went public."

archived public property

"without restriction as to reason"
Europe+ table, world map

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Lawmakers gave final approval to the bill last week and sent it to Gov. Kay Ivey.
[...]
The Alabama bill, sponsored by Republican Rep. Steve Hurst, would require sex offenders whose crimes involved children younger than 13 to receive the medication before being released from prison on parole. They would then be required to continue the medication until a judge decided they could stop. "If it will help one or two children, and decrease that urge to the point that person does not harm that child, it's worth it," Hurst said during debate on the bill in the House of Representatives.

archived sex crimes
Legislature
US Bill of Rights, 8th Amd; 13th Amd exception
cockroach alert
the last slave ship
"Egyptian and Italian Black Sea Trade, 1250-150""
Mamluk and christian slave discrimination

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In Gamble v. United States, #SCOTUS reaffirms "separate sovereigns" exception to Constitution's double jeopardy clause; ruling means that federal and state governments can prosecute defendant for same conduct without violating Constitution

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 17, 2019

< wipes tears >
Buh-bye, 5th Amd. We hardly knew yee.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

wut: "the word scandalous can be narrowed to bar only the registration of 'obscenity, vulgarity and profanity.' "
9-0 score; opinion for the court by KAGAN, joined by GINSBURG, Samuel "Scalito" ALITO, GORSUCH, KAVANAUGH, Clarence "Separate but Equal" THOMAS; ROBERTS concurring joined by BREYER; SOTOMAYOR concurring in part, dissenting in part joined by BREYER
Lancu vs Brunetti

wut: Ihren trade secrets, bitte? No. But not hell no.
6-3 score: opinion for the court by GORSUCH, joined by ROBERTS, KAGAN, Samuel "Scalito" ALITO, KAVANAUGH, Clarence "Separate but Equal" THOMAS; BREYER concurring in part, dissenting in part joined by GINSBURG, SOTOMAYOR
Food Marketing Institute vs Argus Leader Media

reference
Venice Commission, STUDY ON INDIVIDUAL ACCESS TO CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE (2010)
"18. A fundamental shift in the importance of  constitutional protection of human rights has occurred over the past 60 years in Europe and beyond. ...

archived
lawyers jealously guard their dictionaries, the lexicons

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

The Mike Gravel campaign is proud to announce that we've been endorsed by @muntazer_zaidi, most famous for throwing his shoes at George W. Bush. Thank you, Muntadher! https://t.co/sChNL3BfVy

— Sen. Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) 7. Juni 2019

I'm not a trifle surprised that Trmp's latest, self serving grasp of international human rights "norms" earned no credit for flash of sanity (EU edition).

OTOH, I am alarmed to find this declaration by someone claiming accreditation by US authorities to teach others.

Never before have we had a President who struggled with a major decision, or one who made the final call at the last minute.  Unclear how much longer we can go on like this.

— Andy Grewal (@AndyGrewal) June 21, 2019

"Marianne Williamson just gave a real-life demonstration of the values behind her rather unusual campaign for president." https://t.co/HSrzsxC7FK

— Andy Grewal (@AndyGrewal) July 8, 2019

a portentous sign: Ark
Huawei Pushes Ahead With Trademarks for Own OS in Europe Amid US Crackdown

Huawei Technologies  Co is pressing ahead with a top-notch propriety operating system (OS) for smartphones and computers, after the Chinese telecom titan is reported by Global Times to have applied for its OS and other software trademarks on European soil, with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), weeks after the US proceeded with its all-embracing ban.

The EUIPO's website suggests that Huawei filed at least three different trademark application - the Huawei Ark Compiler, Huawei Ark and the Huawei Ark OS as recently as Friday with their descriptions stating that the company is seeking trademarks for compiler software and OS for electronic devices.

Swedish Sex Pistol [?!] Aimed at Assange

If, per the Guardian, the UK really has the ethical obligation [?!] to defend Assange from US prosecution, then it must carry that defense through any process of extradition to Sweden. And it can. The Swedish Prosecutorial Authority tells us so:

Once the British authorities enforce the UK Supreme Court's decision to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden, Sweden is bound by the so-called "Doctrine of Speciality" which means that Sweden cannot extradite him further to a third country, for example the USA, without permission [?!] from the UK. This means that Julian Assange would be in the same position in Sweden as he would be in the UK with regard to further extradition to a third country.

Did you know [?!] about this rather significant point of law, which is publicly posted on the internet? Did the 70+ British MPs, and the entire editorial staff of the Guardian and of liberal politicians and media organizations crying for extradition to Sweden not know about this? Or did they just ignore it? Which is more damning?

archived Mommy, where do norms come from?
PUBLIC PROPERTY BULLETIN:...

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

The protests came as the government officially began deploying the National Guard to try to seal the country's porous southern border and control immigration and crime. The demonstrations threatened to complicate the formation of the new force, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has bet Mexico's future security on.
[...]
[President Andrés Manuel López Obrador] has been dismissive of the federal police, characterizing them as a failed security force. He gave military officers the bulk of the responsibility for the National Guard. The new agency is also seeking new recruits. Protesting police at the command center in the capital's Iztapalapa borough said their seniority, rank and benefits would not be recognized within the National Guard.
[...]
"I am federal police. I respect the principles of my institution, and I want to have a dialogue," [National Guard Commandant Patricia Rosalinda] Trujillo [Mariel] shouted over the crowd.

Police officer Alejandra Baez Villanueva said the police need their jobs to support their families.

"We aren't protesting. We're just demanding our rights," she said. "We just want them to respect our seniority, because for (members of) the army and the navy, they respect it, and for us as federal police they don't."

archived
Living Off BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS a
cholera cases jump to 139 a day after outbreak
Living Off BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS b
High winds and dense clouds hamper military rescue
"debt trap" marketing, 2017
[T]here is no basis -- in either Mozambican or English law ...
re-balance summer/winter production peaks
Desertec PR

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

China says Tiananmen crackdown was 'correct'

The response was a rare acknowledgment of the killings, which had followed seven weeks of protests in 1989 by students and workers calling for democracy and an end to corruption.

Hundreds, possibly more than 1,000 people were killed when soldiers and tanks chased protesters and onlookers in the streets around the square. One secret British diplomatic cable put the possible number of dead at up to 10,000.

Morsy, 67, had been on trial for an espionage case when he suffered a heart attack, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram online reported.
[...]
Last year, in a report from a panel commissioned by Morsy's family and made up of British Parliamentarians said that the conditions of his detention "would constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment," and "could meet the threshold for torture in accordance (with) Egyptian and International law." The panel wrote that Morsy is receiving inadequate medical care "which is likely to lead to premature death."

Steady progress is being made on building a solid legal case [?!] for [ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS], but the main obstacle is the uncertain impact it could have on a mediation effort by Norway between representatives of Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó, the sources added.

After two rounds of meetings in Norway, the opposition had not agreed by Saturday to a third round scheduled to begin next week in Barbados, three diplomats told AP. Guaidó ... has pledged not to return to the negotiating table until Maduro is ready to call early presidential elections.

The Swedish government also confirmed Friday that it hosted talks this week between major powers with interests in Venezuela. The talks in Stockholm were not attended by either side in the Venezuelan power struggle but did include diplomats from Russia -- Maduro's main financial and military backer -- as well as Enrique Iglesias, the new EU envoy for Venezuela.

Underscoring that strategy, Lilian Tintori, the wife of prominent Venezuelan opposition activist Leopoldo López, on Friday met with Spain's foreign minister and called on the country and the EU to tighten restrictions and increase "pressure on the cruel dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro."

Yet the mental midgets running around online forming look-like-me foundations and change dot organs, shucking subscribers, candidates, and wallets, can't even spell HYDE.

Give me a migraine.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

`Central Park Five' To Trump: Death Penalty Ad Put A `Bounty On Our Head' - HuffPo

One of the five men who was falsely convicted in the so-called Central Park Five case slammed President Donald Trump for his vicious 1989 attack ads during a Friday event at which the group received a courage award.

Trump infamously took out full-page ads in New York City newspapers calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in conjunction with the arrests of the five teenagers accused of the brutal rape of a white female jogger in Central Park three decades ago. The case is now seen as an example of racial injustice within the U.S. legal system, but Trump has never apologized.

Netflix series renews outcry over Donald Trump's role in the 'Central Park Jogger' case - ABC News

When pressed about his involvement in the case during his 2016 campaign, the then-Republican candidate still maintained his belief that the men who were exonerated in the Central Park Jogger case are guilty. The White House did not respond to ABC News' request for comment about the case.

(Reuters) - Boeing Co engineers are reducing the scope and duration of certain costly physical tests used to certify the planemaker's new aircraft, according to industry sources and regulatory officials.

But the strategy could be at risk if regulators and U.S. lawmakers probing two deadly Boeing plane crashes require even more rigorous safety tests before certifying new aircraft as passenger-worthy.

As Boeing kicks off the year-long flight testing process on its new 777X, its engineers will cut hours off airborne testing by using computer models to simulate flight conditions, and then present the results to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as part of the basis for certification, according to two people with direct knowledge of the strategy.

"I wouldn't even say it's a good start."

Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee wants the U.S. to shape all foreign policy decisions around a commitment to combat the climate crisis, including willingness to use tariffs, other trade incentives and international finance rules to compel other nations to reduce carbon pollution.

"Our goal is to re-establish American leadership in the fight against climate crisis and use all the tools in the international relations toolbox," Inslee told The Associated Press.

A source close to the French carmaker's board said Fiat Chrysler made the move after France sought to delay a decision on the deal in order to win the support of Nissan Motor Co , Renault's Japanese alliance partner.
[...]
The French government, which owns a 15% stake in Renault, had also pushed Fiat Chrysler and Renault for guarantees that France would not lose jobs, and for a dividend to be paid to Renault shareholders, including the government, people familiar with the talks said.

Fiat Chrysler stood to gain access to Renault's superior electric drive technology to meet ["]mandates for zero-emission["] cars.

Renault would have had a share of the Italian-American company's lucrative Jeep sport utility vehicle and RAM pickup truck franchises.

Renault's previous alliance and cross-shareholding [joint venture] with Japanese automaker Nissan had loomed all along as a potential snag. Nissan Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa met last week with Renault Chief Executive Jean-Dominique Senard, and said he did not see "any particular negative aspect" to the proposed Renault-Fiat Chrysler merger.

Since May 7th, the Baltimore's city government has been dealing with a ransomware attack that has shut down everything from its email to the systems that allow residents to pay water bills, purchase homes, and other services. According to a report in The New York Times, the tool that has crippled the city is a National Security Agency creation called EternalBlue, which has been used in other high-profile cyberattacks.

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Thomas, RBG align in 5-4 rulings

Is this the start of something new?

Actually, no. Thomas and Ginsburg have been together in 42 cases in the court's closest outcomes during Ginsburg's nearly 26 years as a justice.
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The two cases this term are a bit above the average of 1.6 times per term they have agreed in decisions in which there was a bare majority of five justices.

The numbers are courtesy of Adam Feldman, whose Empirical Scotus website runs all kinds of interesting numbers about the court.

ABOUT Optimized Legal Solutions LLC. "The extent of litigation in the U.S. is staggering..."

The justices themselves never tire of telling the public that their disagreements are not personal, even when their pointed opinions call out a colleague by name.

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Free Speech
the "ideological leanings" of the US Supreme Court over time

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

"The criminal-justice system has had a horrible impact on people of color in this country, especially African Americans, for generations," [DA George] Gascon said in an interview ahead of the announcement. "If all prosecutors took race out of the picture when making charging decisions, we would probably be in a much better place as a nation than we are today."
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Gascon's office worked with data scientists and engineers at the Stanford Computational Policy Lab to develop a system that takes electronic police reports and automatically removes a suspect's name, race and hair and eye colors.

The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has surpassed 2,000 cases and is picking up speed. ... The outbreak declared in August, the second-deadliest in history, has killed more than 1,300 people in a volatile region where rebel attacks and community resistance have hurt containment efforts. ... Each attack keeps health workers from the crucial work of vaccinating people and tracking thousands of contacts of victims. ... Misunderstandings have been high in a region that had never [?!] experienced an Ebola outbreak until now
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Amid the challenges, WHO and others have pointed out signs of progress. Notably, more than 129,000 people have received an experimental but effective Ebola vaccine in its first widespread use.

[11 June 2018, unidentified vaccine]
She said the hospital never showed her records confirming he'd tested positive for the virus.
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Congo's health ministry and the WHO rushed in 7,500 doses, created by the Public Health Agency of Canada and owned by Merck.
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The vaccine must be kept at a temperature of minus 76 to minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 to minus 80 degrees Celsius), and can only be kept in mobile freezers for up to seven days.
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Next year, Merck plans to seek approval of the vaccine from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, based on previous studies [?] of the shots. While the vaccine is[ not] being formally studied in the current Congo outbreak, regulatory authorities would want to know if unforeseen side effects crop up.

"If it's fully approved then in each outbreak it'll be the first measure and could be used all over the region," Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director general of the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa told the AP.

In ["]West Africa["], a large study is underway that compares the Merck shot and a second vaccine candidate [?] made by Janssen Pharmaceuticals to determine best vaccination strategies and track how long [?!] protection lasts.

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Ebola Vaccines Shipped to Congo, WHO Chief Says; AFRICOM Gen.Thomas Waldhauser, Haley, Kabila 2017 bargaining

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.