tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84305145399200458112024-03-14T04:43:48.896-04:00Neocon Panic AttacksStories related to and about the struggle to expose the illegitimate arguments of neocons and their bad habit of over-reaching.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-34800509816372159942023-07-07T01:30:00.001-04:002023-07-07T01:30:58.454-04:00Eastern Mediterranean Comment<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJGhNBwoKxLYrdTXoDbfoZHQMOt-UNjF-eFWAr6w-owW72Np7p15ZLD9k3X63Jyv6wxIU5sU0nfnoJUO7SKj5Z8kZRWIq5C7xxmB_J3m_YcsAz0Hk8mW0XCIps9YLOQUoluqeu7dXJ0LAazG1JkFixGeseMd3PMXHnp3uf8pYSdgnkZR8S5kIlFTWUk0U/s1600/ISBN%200-87044-347-Xsmlp181.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJGhNBwoKxLYrdTXoDbfoZHQMOt-UNjF-eFWAr6w-owW72Np7p15ZLD9k3X63Jyv6wxIU5sU0nfnoJUO7SKj5Z8kZRWIq5C7xxmB_J3m_YcsAz0Hk8mW0XCIps9YLOQUoluqeu7dXJ0LAazG1JkFixGeseMd3PMXHnp3uf8pYSdgnkZR8S5kIlFTWUk0U/s1600/ISBN%200-87044-347-Xsmlp181.png"/></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-59505409622253447932022-12-25T01:09:00.000-05:002022-12-25T01:09:49.697-05:00Here’s to our National Grid and the Interstate Commerce Act<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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wind <a href="https://www.fractracker.org/2014/08/wind-n-fracking/">setbacks</a>
(2014) have interrupted a “normal” Christmas for people not only
in Ohio but those on the national grid.</p><p>
Remember Texas of
another sort. With the coldest Christmas this side of the Solar
cycle, <a href="http://app.aepinfo.com/e/es?s=1671958852&e=169488&elqTrackId=27ec0fb3f76941dd8066be07530083c0&elq=a968d16416e941dc988888d9aa45c846&elqaid=3034&elqat=1">people
in Ohio are being asked to cut back on energy usage with the
possibility of outages.</a><br />
<br />
With the inauguration of a
national <a href="https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/uniting-us-power-system">grid
unification program</a>, we are all or will be <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/20/21293952/renewable-energy-power-national-grid-transmission-microgrids">interconnected</a>.
Failure of politics in Ohio to recognize a national progressive
energy strategy in lieu of fossil fuel emphasis makes us all pay more
and we have been paying.<br />
<br />
Ohio HB6, the biggest statewide
corruption ever, <a href="https://energynews.us/2022/12/07/eye-on-utilities-householder-trial-set-to-begin-next-month/">is
still being prosecuted</a>. It also continues to pour subsidies to
coal plants outside of Ohio that have yet to be rescinded even though
the bill has been leveraged on <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ohio+hb6+%22kickbacks%22&sxsrf=ALiCzsaqiZ2lToEivVNbzJ2k4jI8Afytwg%3A1671919673917&ei=OXinY7vGN9ur5NoP8b6C0AE&ved=0ahUKEwj7xoaSopP8AhXbFVkFHXGfABoQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=ohio+hb6+%22kickbacks%22&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIICCEQwwQQoAEyCAghEMMEEKABMgUIIRCrAjoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoFCCEQoAFKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQ-wtY7CNg-SVoAXABeACAAYsBiAH-AZIBAzAuMpgBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp">bribes,
kickbacks and absolute corruption</a>.<br />
<br />
Consider
California’s <a href="https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/12/15/california-pulls-the-plug-on-rooftop-solar/">recently
passed legislation</a>, California’s philosophical energy crisis,
denying solar grid ties their fair share of energy dollars, killing
any incentive to add solar to their homes. The ignorant rebirth of
Diablo or any wack-a-mole nuclear renaissance is not going save
us.<br />
<br />
We need interstate commerce act enforcement. <br />
<br />
If
people are tied to the grid with solar then it is in everyone’s
interest connected to the grid and should be encouraged with
unfeigned severity. The climate isn’t going to change dodging these
politics. Fossil fuel’s literal grip on our necks must end. Rooftop
Solar and all grid tied alternative energy sources should be freed
from unjust financial infringement, especially from those with the
current energy monopolies.<br />
<br />
Remember in whose hands the
U.S. house will be in in January. Will it keep going the way of Cong
(coal, oil, nukes gas)?<br />
<br />
It’s up to us, our thoughts and
of course, our actions to steer this, our earth-ship in the right
direction.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-49063383822118314132020-02-22T23:46:00.001-05:002020-02-22T23:46:54.481-05:00Unreported Opposition Violence Continues in Venezuela<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/95hONcnRcGk" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-6410355274992060952020-02-10T00:23:00.001-05:002020-02-10T00:23:03.833-05:00Shale Gas & Oil Radioactive Wastes from the Marcellus and Utica Shales:<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CGGOX9NxOb4" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-81171379323448137582020-01-31T13:59:00.001-05:002020-01-31T13:59:33.045-05:00Esther Iverem Speaks Out on Her Petition For Embassy Protectors in DC<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Blh1Em1JSjk" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-68908108433844872722020-01-27T14:36:00.001-05:002020-01-27T14:36:45.088-05:00Bombshell Development In Julian Assange Case (Web Exclusive)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Doq971L7Rjw" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-4845169999217573952019-11-13T17:05:00.001-05:002019-11-13T17:05:08.061-05:00Interview With Chomsky On Post RNC-DNC Activism 10/05 by alexrafa1 | Politics<a href="https://www.blogtalkradio.com/alexrafa1/2012/10/05/interview-with-chomsky-on-post-rnc-dnc-activism#.Xcx-BS8J0O8.blogger">Interview With Chomsky On Post RNC-DNC Activism 10/05 by alexrafa1 | Politics</a>: Now that the protests at the RNC & DNC are over, Professor Noam Chomsky talks with me about the so-called '2 Party System' and the current stage of Occupy in American activism, and the movement worldwide for revolutionary non-violence.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-30810613815760470462019-10-31T01:53:00.001-04:002019-10-31T01:53:08.523-04:00CC Podcast #80: U.S. Journalist Arrested, Bernie Winning & California Bu...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LUrEQU9gP7A" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-74706594928314711952019-10-19T12:41:00.001-04:002019-10-19T12:41:11.028-04:00The Koch Brothers' "Dark Money" | Jane Mayer (See Also AFP)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B6zSy5lAxd0" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-91221036983448977552019-10-03T15:34:00.000-04:002019-10-03T15:34:35.263-04:00Dictator-wannabe Donald J. Trump and 13 of his “Favorite Authoritarians”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Israel’s
influential center-left newspaper, Haaretz, commented recently on the
Netanyahu/Trump relationship:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
historically deep ties that bind the United States and Israel were profoundly
damaged Thursday when the government of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
succumbed to pressure from the Trump Administration…’</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The ‘wannabe
authoritarian tag-team’ (ie, ‘Trump and Netanyahu’) has committed a reckless,
racist, contemptible act driven by stunningly short-sighted political
calculations by barring [US House of Representatives members] Omar and Tlaib
from visiting Israel. The action will have fateful repercussions…”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
instructive to recall that in the 1995 campaign for Israeli Prime Minister, a
number of violent hate-group protests were organized by Netanyahu’s Likud Party
which caused serious divisions in the state of Israel – quite similar to the
divisions that have occurred in the US since the campaign for president by
Donald Trump. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The hateful
rhetoric coming from right-wing Likud party led to the assassination of the
left-wing, peace, justice and reconciliation candidate Yitzhak Rabin, who
pledged during his campaign to adhere to the Oslo Peace Accords – which the
Likud Party ultimately succeeded in killing. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Rabin
assassination took place when a far right-wing Jewish student with a
semi-automatic pistol murdered Rabin, managing to fire 3 shots before he was
subdued by bodyguards. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">During the
hate-filled anti-peace process campaign that was largely orchestrated by
Netanyahu’s party, there were many totally unjustified campaign depictions of
Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform, with some placards showing Rabin in the
crosshairs of a gun. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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protesters also compared Rabin’s Labor party to the Nazis and Rabin to Adolf
Hitler. Chants "Rabin is a murderer" and "Rabin is a
traitor" were also common.<sup> </sup>In July 1995, </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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even led a mock funeral procession featuring a coffin and a hangman's noose at
a rally where protesters chanted, "Death to Rabin". </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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shameful anti-Rabin character assassination campaign ultimately came to its
successful conclusion – physical assassination – a few months later, in early
November 1995.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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President Donald Trump, who has never read history books, is therefore
justifiably labeled as being historically-illiterate and likely has no
knowledge of the USS Liberty scandal or the Likud/Netanyahu role in the
assassination of Rabin, also is likely unaware of the historical backgrounds of
nation-states like Egypt, whose current leader is </span><b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Abdel Fattah Al Sisi</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, who
became dictator after a violent coup against the first and only
democratically-elected president in the history of Egypt. Trump once called Al
Sisi “my favorite dictator”.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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authoritarian leaders that the similarly authoritarian Trump has proudly been
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre;"> </span>China:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> from the oppressive fascism of Chiang Kai-Shek to the oppressive, anti-fascist, communist revolution of Mao to the anti-democratic capitalist chairman Xi Jinping; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">4.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre;"> </span>North Korea:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> from the brutal occupation of Japan before and during WWII, the US-led Korean War through the communist revolution and the dictatorship of Kim Jung-Un and his father; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">5.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre;"> </span>The Philippines:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> from the oppressive Spanish colonization, through the oppressive occupation of the United States to client state status, independence and now to strong-arm President Roberto Duterte; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">6.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre;"> </span>Turkey:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> from the Ottoman Empire (which was destroyed during WWI), to support of the Nazis during WWII, to the current authoritarian rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">7.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre;"> </span>Brazil:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> from the oppressive rule of the Portuguese, through the series of Fascist Military Dictatorships (and their “death squads), to the massive exploitation of its mineral resources by multinational corporations to current President Jair Bolsenaro; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">8.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre;"> </span>India:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> from the fiefdoms, the oppressive rule of the British Empire to the non-violent revolution led by Gandhi, et al to the authoritarian presidency of President Narendra Modi.</span></span></div>
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Dictator </span></b><b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Xi Jinping</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Vladimir Putin, India’s Narendra Modi and China’s Xi Jinping </span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And while I’m
showing disturbing photos of Trump and prominent authoritarians, here are a few
more photos of Trump with some politically-prominent Fundamentalist Christian
Dominionists (aka “Christian Reconstructionists” aka “The Family”). One of the
movement’s hidden agendas is the gradual establishment of a theocratic
government to replace American democracy! Seriously! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
important for all US voters to watch NetFlix’s new series, titled <b>“The
Family”</b> (or read the book by that name, both authored by Jeff Sharlet).
Here is the link to the trailer: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knN2TXQPzw" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knN2TXQPzw</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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annual “Family”-sponsored National Prayer Breakfast.</span><span style="background: white; color: black;"> </span></i><i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 11.0pt;">(Photo from the Guardian’s important
article, “The Family: </span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt;">Inside
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here is a
definition of the theocratic </span><b><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Christian
Reconstructionist<i> </i></span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">movement that has been
increasingly – and successfully - trying to gain control over the Republican
Party for decades. The definition comes from Julie J. Ingersoll, the author of
a new book on the subject, titled </span><b><i><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Building God's Kingdom:
Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Christian
Reconstructionists </span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(believers in biblical
inerrancy and male Christian supremacy, among other dogmas, including expanding
the death penalty for sins mentioned in the Old Testament)<b><i> are a small
but influential group of conservative Christians who argue that biblical law as
it is contained in the Old and New Testaments should be the basis of our modern
legal system and the organizing mechanism regulating every aspect of human
life. Most known for “dominionism,” they have had an important, but often
hidden, influence in the culture, the agenda, and the framing of concerns of
conservative American Protestantism.” –</i> Julie J. Ingersoll</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A recent
Counterpunch article written by Karl Grossman, Professor of American
Studies at SUNY, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">does
a good job of explaining the movement and the implications for the US and VP
Mike Pence if Trump is removed from office. <span style="background: white; color: #111111;">Read it at: </span><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/30/a-theology-of-power-mike-pence-and-the-dominionists/" target="_blank">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/30/a-theology-of-power-mike-pence-and-the-dominionists/</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr Kohls is a retired family
physician from Duluth, MN, USA. Since his retirement from his holistic mental
health solo practice, he has been writing weekly columns for northeast
Minnesota’s alternative newsweekly magazine, the Duluth Reader. His columns,
which are widely re-published around the world, deal with a large variety of
justice issues, including the dangers of American fascism (including religious
fascism), conscienceless corporatism, militarism, racism, xenophobia,
industrial pollution, climate geo-engineering/solar radiation management, the
dangers of electromagnetic radiation, Big Copper Mining’s attempts at exploitation
of northeast Minnesota’s water-rich environment, Big Medicine’s and Big
Pharma’s over-charging, over-screening, over-diagnosing, over-drugging, and
over-vaccination agendas, as well as other corporate global movements that
threaten human health, the environment, democracy, civility and the
sustainability of life on earth. Many of his columns have been archived
at a number of websites, including these four: </span><a href="http://duluthreader.com/search?search_term=Duty+to+Warn&p=2;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">http://duluthreader.com/search?search_term=Duty+to+Warn&p=2;</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/gary-g-kohls" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/gary-g-kohls</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">; </span><a href="http://freepress.org/geographic-scope/national" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">http://freepress.org/geographic-scope/national</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">; </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and </span><a href="https://www.transcend.org/tms/search/?q=gary+kohls+articles" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">https://www.transcend.org/tms/search/?q=gary+kohls+articles</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The verdict is now plain. North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders — not actually leaders, but connivers — are beyond shame.</div>
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In a stunning display of contempt for democracy, House Speaker Tim Moore, a Cleveland County Republican, called <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article234962017.html#storylink=cpy" rel="Follow" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: var(--ld);" target="_blank">a surprise vote</a> to overturn Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the state budget just after a session opened at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Democratic lawmakers and the media had been told by Republican leaders that there would be no vote in the morning.</div>
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Most Democrats were absent. Enough Republicans, aware of the secret plan, were there. When Rep. Jason Saine, a Lincolnton Republican, made the motion to reconsider the state budget, the handful of Democrats on hand objected strenuously.</div>
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Is America at risk for Great earthquakes spanning across the full United States? “Cracks Across America”, in Rift zones, may conceal large fracture type faults where scientists may not be able to identify where these hidden fractures may unleash catastrophic earthquakes.</div>
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LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) – In Nov 1981, a study was published that rocked the scientific world, and sparked concern in FEMA circles, in which a 1,700 mile “Crack Across America” was discovered. Worse yet, this crack cuts through the New Madrid Seismic Zone, where in 1811 and 1812 three giant earthquakes devastatingly struck the center of America. Scientists have been struggling, since then, to answer the question of what risk this mega feature may pose to our heartland today. Recently, and less known, is a study from an independent geologic research set of work [2], that has identified a possible second “Crack Through America” that crosses into and through the same volatile New Madrid Seismic Zone.</div>
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The original 1,700 mile “Crack Across America” was found using modern day gravity mapping satellite data, and using computers, to process the measurements [1]. In 1981, Dr. Raymond E. Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis used data processing techniques where 600,000 discrete gravity measurements, from 20 years of scientific data gathering, to synthesize a map. The results revealed an astonishing ancient rift in the North American crust that extends some 1,700 miles from Idaho to the southern Appalachian Mountains. New discoveries, from more recent research, has extended this “Crack” anomaly in where it combines with a MegaShear [3] zone to the middle of Washington State and possibly with the Olympic-Wallowa Lineament (OWL) [2] – which reaches to the Pacific Ocean near Port Angeles Washington. Thus the total length may total nearly 2,200 miles.</div>
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This ancient rift, estimated to be a billion years old, was dubbed the “Missouri Gravity Low” in the eastern most section of the “Crack Across America”. Another rift, 60 miles by 30 miles, underlying the Mississippi river valley, called the “Reelfoot Rift”, was found to cross through the Missouri Gravity Low and head to the northeast/southwest. These two rift zones intersect at the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Over 4,000 small earthquakes have been mapped within these intersecting “rift” regions since 1974.</div>
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A maverick geologist, Jack Reed, performed a study in mapping the frequency and location of larger magnitude earthquakes trending along the northeast trending lineament of the “ReelFoot Rift”. The resulting data indicated another concerning revelation – that a possible second “Crack Through America” connects the Reelfoot Rift with the well known St. Lawrence rift zone in Canada. Just as the New Madrid Seismic zone revealed its active potential in its “rift zones”, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake, in 1663, struck near Charlevoix and revealed its power in the St. Lawrence rift zone.</div>
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Perhaps a partial clue to what may link to the existence and nature of the “Crack Across America” and the “Crack Through America” is the Midcontinential Rift (MCR) System. Research has identified that a movement direction of the MCR, from tremendous intraplate pressure, forced a southern expansion of this large rift, where the southern edge traversed directly towards the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The Midcontinental Rift thus forms a horseshoe that straddles and reaches, by its tips, at or near the two major “Crack” lineaments. Intraplate pressure could be intensified into these intersecting lineaments, including the resulting pressure(s) at the New Madrid Seismic Zone.</div>
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<img alt="Fig 1. 1,700 mile to 2,200 mile "Crack Across America", "Crack Through America", and Midcontinental Rift (MCR)" class="size-full wp-image-11394" height="376" src="https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig1-CrackAcrossAmerica.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="700" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 12px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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What can make these – 70-90 mile wide and thousands of miles long – low gravity crack lineament features so dangerous is their hidden fractures, buried in the earth’s crust below. These low gravity areas are called “Rift zones” where the continental crust tried to pull itself apart, but failed. The thinning of the crust enabled lighter density young rock to intrude, thus resulting in the lower gravity characteristics in the rift zones. Other recent studies have suggested that the thinning of the crust may occur from the delamination of heavier crustal rock “falling” down into the earth’s mantle. However, in the case of linear features of these long distance “lineament rift zones”, the case of random delamination from “falling” into the mantle would not be able to explain these highly organized structures.</div>
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What is known, is that these linear rift zones have exhibited the ability to unleash very large earthquakes. This has been aptly demonstrated by the three 1811-1812 New Madrid M7-M8 earthquakes and the large 1663 M7.9 Charlevoix Earthquake. Since the regularity of such earthquakes are measured in centuries, scientists are unable to identify if any section of these linear rift zones may be at risk of a sudden large earthquake.</div>
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The bigger the length and depth of a buried fracture and its subsequent pressure induced release, the greater the chances for this rupture to unleash a giant earthquake. Indeed, the three 1811 to 1812 M7-M8 earthquakes had rupture release areas comparable to any single biggest locked segment of the San Andreas CA fault region could do – except in the New Madrid quakes, it did it all in the same location with each huge quake spaced only a month apart. With thousands of miles of possible buried fractures within these lineaments, it’s possible that changes in intraplate pressure may be all that is necessary to activate a segment. Another unanswered question is if Yellowstone Supervolcano is susceptible or interactive with this lineament. Indeed, in 2002, geologists observed distant triggering of earthquake swarming at Yellowstone from the M7.9 Denali Alaska earthquake [4]. As the Denali earthquake was 2,000 miles distant, what would happen if a large earthquake within a rift zone lineament was much closer to Yellowstone? Certainly it would be useful to know if there were any susceptible buried fractures in the nearby lineament that traverses near Yellowstone Supervolcano.</div>
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<img alt="Fig 2. Reelfoot Rift zone image mapped via magnetometer data with overlay of thousands of small earthquakes (red dots). Map shows the northeast trending "Crack Through America" intersection at New Madrid Seismic Zone - follows line of earthquakes." class="size-full wp-image-11395" height="768" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" src="https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig2-ReelfootRiftZone.jpg" srcset="https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig2-ReelfootRiftZone.jpg 700w, https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig2-ReelfootRiftZone-273x300.jpg 273w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="700" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 12px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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However, scientists are placed at a disadvantage, in earthquake risk assessment, since any hidden fractures are buried deep in what is called the “Midcontinental Basement”. Without having any data to the size, length, and number of any hidden fractures, it renders any risk analysis “blind”. Only a paleogeologic assessment of past locations, patterns, frequency, and magnitude of earthquakes are scientists able to form a type of a risk assessment. Compounding any risk assessment is understanding the rupture process of these hidden fractures. Scientists refer to these as “Intraplate earthquakes” as the quake occurs within the interior of a tectonic plate. Pressure, within the buried fracture (i.e. “fault”), may instigate an earthquake. GPS, strain sensors, and even inSAR (interferometric Synthetic Aperature Radar) are of no use to proffering answers to these questions as these fractures are inaccessible since they are deep below – while the sediment or crust above hides any telltale sign of crustal creep or stress.</div>
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<img alt="Fig 3. Estimates of the severe impact from a study commissioned by FEMA if a New Madrid Earthquake of M7.7 were to occur." class="size-full wp-image-11396" height="392" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" src="https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig3-AnEQToday.jpg" srcset="https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig3-AnEQToday.jpg 700w, https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig3-AnEQToday-300x168.jpg 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="700" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 12px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Because of risk assessment uncertainty, FEMA and other emergency agencies are left to estimating the risk to America’s infrastructure based on a worst case paleogeologic history (i.e. the maximum at any moment). Indeed, in 1999, FEMA listed as one of the major top four hazards in the United States, as “catastrophic”, would be a giant earthquake striking the central U.S.</div>
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Because scientists are unable to predict the timing nor the location of the next large earthquake in these Rift zones, there is a difference of viewpoints, regarding cost tradeoffs of implementation and/or upgrades of rigorous seismic building codes, between the scientific community and the emergency management organizations. Complicating this situation is that earthquakes, that occur in the central or eastern United States, affect much larger areas than similar magnitudes in the western United States. The FEMA guide references that the 1906 M7.8 San Francisco CA earthquake was felt 350 miles away in the middle of Nevada. In contrast, the 1811 New Madrid Earthquake was reported to have rung church bells in Boston, Massachusetts, 1,000 miles away. Differences in the geologic makeup of the earth’s crust east and west of the Rocky Mountains are noted to be the cause of this stronger conduction of the earthquake’s P-waves and S-waves creating the distant shaking contrast.</div>
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As the rate of earthquakes have been increasing in the New Madrid Seismic Zone and in other parts of the Central United States, such as in Oklahoma, there are concerns that intraplate tectonic pressure may be driving these trends. Other areas, such as the Wabash Valley and East Tennessee Seismic zones also produce earthquakes on a regular basis. Quoting from the CUSEC – “Depending on earthquake magnitude and location, each of these zones could impact multiple states, causing major physical, social and economic disruption in a region that is home to more than forty million people.”… “On April 18, 2008, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck near Mt. Carmel, Illinois. This relatively minor earthquake was felt in 28 states and Canada and was responsible for an estimated $3 million in non-structural damages and damaged at least 240 structures in Illinois alone. The Mt. Carmel earthquake shows the widespread impact a larger earthquake might have on the region”</div>
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Scientists now believe the Eastern U.S. could have a major quake of its own, and events like the New Madrid Great quakes may happen again, but there is no way to guess where or when.</div>
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<img alt="Fig 5. Mid Continental Rift System (MCRS) rotation movement & direction towards the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The direction of the blue arrows show the historical intraplate pressure & movement from the southern edge of the Midcontinental Rift System (MCRS) towards the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The MCRS is estimated to be 1.1 Billion years old." class="size-full wp-image-11398" height="658" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" src="https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig5-MCR.jpg" srcset="https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig5-MCR.jpg 700w, https://bendedreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Fig5-MCR-300x282.jpg 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="700" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 12px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">Austal USA in Mobile, AL</td></tr>
</tbody></table><br />Former Alabama Gov. Bob Riley is the chief lobbyist for <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2019/01/austal-usa-subject-of-federal-investigation-raid.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">a Mobile ship-building company that federal investigators raided last week</a>. Austal USA, with its international headquarters in Henderson, Western Australia long has been a pet project for Riley -- both while he was governor and since he left office.<br /><br />Austal USA is one of Mobile's largest employers, with a workforce of about 4,000. It builds Littoral Combat Ships and Expeditionary Fast Transports for the U.S. Navy, and <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2019/01/austal-usa-subject-of-federal-investigation-raid.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>al.com</i>reports it is competing in a selection process for a series of next-generation frigates</a>.<br /><br />The nature of the investigation remains unclear, but it appears to have grown from a financial probe in Australia. From <a href="https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/austal-confirms-investigation-into-its-market-announcements" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">a report at <i>maritime-executive.com</i></a>:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow;">Australian ferry and defense shipbuilder Austal is cooperating with an Australian probe into market disclosures it made in 2015 regarding cost overruns on LCS-6, the Littoral Combat Ship USS Jackson.</span> Austal builds one of the U.S. Navy's two LCS variants, the aluminum-hulled Independence-class ships.<br /><br />In a filing released through the Australian Stock Exchange on Thursday, Austal confirmed that it is "assisting an investigation by ASIC (the Australian Securities and Investments Commission) into market announcements . . . with respect to earnings from its Littoral Combat Ship program." <span style="background-color: yellow;">Its American division, Austal USA, confirmed Friday that it is also cooperating with the U.S. Navy in an unspecified investigation. Local media reported that officials from the Department of Defense, the NCIS and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service were spotted at the Austal USA yard in Mobile, Alabama.</span></blockquote><br />A <a href="https://news.usni.org/2019/01/24/austal-usa-part-unknown-investigation-federal-agents-comb-shipyard" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">report at <i>usni.org</i></a><i> </i>provides additional details about the possible focus of the investigation and the U.S. agencies involved:<br /><br /><blockquote>Federal agents visited Littoral Combat Ship manufacturer Austal USA in its Mobile, Ala., shipyard as part of an unspecified investigation involving the U.S. Navy, according to local media.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">“Department of Defense, NCIS and [the Defense Criminal Investigative Service] have been seen on site,” according to NBC 15 in Mobile, Ala. “Investigators are expected to be on site for several hours.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">In a brief Thursday statement, Austal said the company was cooperating with authorities but gave no additional details as to the nature of the inquiry.</span><br /><br />“Austal USA is working with the U.S. Navy on an open investigation,” reads the statement. “We are unable to provide additional details due to the nature of the investigation. We are continuing business as usual, executing our existing and recently awarded contracts.”</blockquote><br />Here is more from <i>usni.org</i> about Austal's operations in south Alabama and the company's unstable financial picture:<br /><br /><blockquote>The Mobile shipyard employs 4,000 workers and builds the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport and Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship for the Navy. Austal USA is the American branch of Australian aluminum shipbuilder Austal. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Earlier Thursday, Australian media reported Austal was under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission over market updates related to losses around the Independence-class LCS.</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">The Australian authorities are said to be focusing on statements issued by Austal regarding the blow out, or sudden increase in costs, associated with finishing USS Jackson (LCS-6)</span></blockquote><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table> On December 10, 2015, Austal announced it was experiencing “schedule and margin pressure on Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 6.”<br /><blockquote><br />Jackson was a challenging ship in two respects. First, it was the first ship Austal USA had built as the prime contractor, whereas USS Independence (LCS-2) and USS Coronado (LCS-4) were built at the Austal yard with General Dynamics serving as the prime contractor on the project. Second, Jackson was the first LCS to be built under a block buy contract from the Navy. Austal implemented a new manufacturing process for the block buy ships meant to reduce cost and schedule down the line through serial production, but Jackson being the first serial production ship still meant there were lessons to be learned and procedural kinks to be worked out.</blockquote><br />Austal's finances have been shaky since 2015-16, according to <i>usni.org</i>:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow;">Austal officials conceded in the Dec. 2015 statement that their ability to boost LCS earnings through these new production processes did not live up to expectations. Savings on the LCS-8 and LCS-10 production were also more limited than anticipated, Austal officials said in the Dec. 2015 statement.</span><br /><br />“Austal’s ability to apply lessons learnt and productivity enhancements from LCS 6 to vessels in advanced construction, namely LCS 8 and LCS 10, has been more limited than anticipated,” the statement said.<br /><br />“The LCS program is maturing more slowly than we had expected, however we are working hard to manage the risks and expect an improvement across the program after delivery of LCS 10,” Andrew Bellamy, who then served as Austal’s chief executive, said in the December 2015 release.<span style="background-color: yellow;"> “Austal has a strong balance sheet and is generating good cash flow, which is enabling further investment in the business during the 2016 financial year to best position the Company to win additional contracts and service work to build our order book, revenue, and earnings into the future.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">However, according to Austal’s Fiscal Year 2016 annual report, the company reported a loss of A$84.2 million, compared to a profit of A$53.2 million in 2015.</span></blockquote><br />Could this develop into a full-blown scandal, with Bob Riley at the center of it? It's too early to tell, but Riley (often in conjunction with one or both of his oily children -- Rob Riley and Minda Riley Campbell) <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/08/as-head-of-senate-committee-john-mccain.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">has been tied to corruption for years</a>. So far, the Rileys have managed to mostly dodge accountability. But if they are found to be involved in an international financial scam, involving misuse of U.S. defense funds . . . that tune could change.<br /><br />Either way, Alabamians should be keeping a close eye on this story. Riley and his successor as governor, Robert Bentley, dumped millions of taxpayer dollars into Austal USA. 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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">Carol Shuler X-ray No. 1</td></tr>
</tbody></table><br />My wife, Carol, is recovering nicely from <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/11/carols-first-visit-to-orthopedist-shows.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">the broken left shoulder she sustained from a fainting spell</a> at the Social Security Administration Building in Springfield, MO. In fact, her doctor stated on her most recent visit ( 1/9/19 ) that her range of motion in the joint is good enough that she does not need to continue with formal physical therapy. She will continue with at-home exercises, and her diligence with those probably helps explain her solid recovery.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">Carol Shuler X-ray No. 2</td></tr>
</tbody></table>That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that, having been cheated out of our jobs and health insurance in Alabama, we have <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/10/carol-is-released-from-cox-south.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">limited ability to treat the underlying causes of Carol's fainting spell</a>. Medical personnel from Cox South Medical Center stated that tests from her ER visit and hospital stay after the incident <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/10/carol-is-released-from-cox-south.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">showed no clear medical issue that caused Carol to faint.</a> They attributed it mainly to the financial and emotional stress we've experienced (which likely contributed to Carol's dehydration) since I was <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/04/alliance-between-ag-steve-marshall-and.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">thrown in jail "for blogging"</a> and we <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2017/01/newly-discovered-evidence-suggests-gop.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">lost our home of almost 25 years in Alabama</a>, only to move to Missouri and be targeted for <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/09/was-our-missouri-eviction-conducted-for.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">an unlawful eviction that ended with deputies breaking Carol's arm</a> just above the elbow -- a <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2017/07/severity-of-carols-injuries-went-way.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">comminuted fracture that required roughly eight hours of trauma surgery</a>.<br /><br /><div></div>Fortunately, we were covered by Medicaid to repair the thug-cops' handiwork. But the forced move, and one other move due to unhealthy living conditions at our residence, caused paperwork to not reach us in the mail -- and our Medicaid coverage lapsed. Social workers at Burrell Behavioral Health helped us get on Medicaid, but they have been unwilling or unable to help us with much of anything -- especially since we learned <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2017/09/bogus-911-call-related-to-our-eviction.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">they were responsible for the bogus 911 call</a> that caused cops to appear at our home in SWAT gear. Bottom line: We've been without health insurance for about 30 months.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7XSTZxEXn-YF6uKl0HR7rd8rpAm4TKqLN5qqshK0kWmcZmhMIXcj-PLpmy5gpo3pXfbqXCp4866QR-nu-iqtvE65zJKP6_eMdVAoOISSrZHiDRXBaCVM6C5KM30YenrcfT7y1BcAT00I/s1600/Carol+SSA+X-ray3-page+%2528Z%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #7d181e; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1237" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7XSTZxEXn-YF6uKl0HR7rd8rpAm4TKqLN5qqshK0kWmcZmhMIXcj-PLpmy5gpo3pXfbqXCp4866QR-nu-iqtvE65zJKP6_eMdVAoOISSrZHiDRXBaCVM6C5KM30YenrcfT7y1BcAT00I/s320/Carol+SSA+X-ray3-page+%2528Z%2529.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="247" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">Carol Shuler X-ray No. 3</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Let's get back to the good news by examining the healing process revealed in recent X-rays of Carol's shoulder. X-ray No. 1 (top), taken the day of the break on 10/23/18, shows hardware in Carol's elbow was not effected by the second injury. You almost have to be a radiologist to see it, but the shoulder area includes a number of fracture lines. The injury was not nearly as obvious or severe as the elbow injury<br /><br />X-ray No. 2 (left, above), taken on 11/17/18, shows fracture lines in the shoulder that are faint to the untrained eye.<br /><br />X-ray No. 3 (right), dated 11/28/18, still shows faint fracture lines, but it also shows a white area on the outer shoulder, which is a sign of healing and new-bone development.<br /><br />X-rays No. 4 and 5 (below), dated 1/9/18. are the most recent we have and show more signs of healing and new-bone development. Carol's doctor said she almost certainly will experience ongoing stiffness in the shoulder, so it never will be "good as new." But we are grateful for a solid recovery.<br /><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(<u>Note</u>: <i>Legal Schnauzer </i>needs your help. Loyal readers have sustained this blog for years, and support is urgently needed now that <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-medical-emergency-strikes-schnauzer.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">my wife, Carol, is recovering from a fainting spell</a>, which led to a recent broken arm. <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/10/carol-is-released-from-cox-south.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">The healing process has started for Carol</a>, but statements from her doctors indicate this likely was fallout from <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2012/07/jerry-sandusky-case-unmasks-morally.html" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">political thugs cheating both of us out of our jobs</a> [and health insurance] in Birmingham -- and the stress of dealing with financial wreckage that comes from being targeted for right-wing attacks. </b><b style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If you are able to help along our journalism journey, please click on the yellow donate button in the upper right corner of the blog, under the "Support the Schnauzer" headline. We are deeply grateful for your support through the years.)</b><br /><b style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></b><b style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></b><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">Carol Shuler X-ray No. 4<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">Carol Shuler X-ray No. 5</td></tr>
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</tbody></table><br />Roger Stone, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/longtime-trump-adviser-roger-stone-indicted-by-special-counsel-in-russia-investigation/2019/01/25/93a4d8fa-2093-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?utm_term=.1458cb352d86" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">the latest indictee in Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia investigation</a>, apparently has tried some of the dirty tricks for which he is renowned here at <i>Legal Schnauzer</i>. Why do we say that? Well, it goes back to <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2017/01/evidence-suggests-trump-ally-roger.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">a post we wrote in January 2017</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote>Evidence in our spam folder here at <i>Legal Schnauzer</i> suggests a Donald Trump ally and former Richard Nixon dirty trickster somehow is involved in <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2016/12/in-wake-of-our-reports-about-jeff.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">a series of harassing, profanity-filled e-mails we started receiving about seven weeks ago</a>.<br /><br />The ugly e-mails <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2016/12/in-wake-of-our-reports-about-jeff.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">started around the middle of November [2016] after we wrote posts about two Alabamians</a> -- Jeff Sessions (Trump's pick for U.S. attorney general) and Bill Pryor (a Sessions protege and likely Trump nominee for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court).<br /><br />Who is the notorious Trump ally, known as "The High Priest of Political Hijinks," who appears to be involved with the dozens of nasty missives we've received -- most of which I've deleted or sent to spam because they are so utterly devoid of taste, rational thought, meaningful discourse (or all three)? We are talking about Roger Stone, <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2016/12/in-wake-of-our-reports-about-jeff.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">who has been involved with every Republican campaign or administration since Nixon</a> and perhaps now is best known as a regular guest on Alex Jones' conspiracy-filled <i>InfoWars </i>show.</blockquote><br />Wouldn't a veteran political thug of Stone's stature have better things to do than fool around with our little Birmingham blog? A rational person might think so. But then again, Sessions was set to become Trump's AG, and Pryor (at the time) was consider a strong candidate to be a Trump nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. And we had been writing a series of highly unflattering posts on both. (See <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2016/03/donald-trump-builds-strange-alliance.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>, and <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2016/11/our-posts-about-judge-bill-pryors-ties.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>.)<br /><br />What specifics point to Stone, or his surrogates, targeting <i>Legal Schnauzer?</i> Here you go:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Would Stone, or someone close to him, actually have time to mess around with our little blog? After all, this is the guy credited with orchestrating "The Brooks Brothers Riot," which helped give us eight years of George W. Bush in the White House. Stone even has ties to Watergate; some surely would say Stone is too much of a heavyweight to mess with <i>Legal Schnauzer. </i>But there is evidence to suggest it is true. How do we know? </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Quite a few of the argumentative and ugly e-mails came from someone who has gone by the name "Sarah." I tried engaging "Sarah" a few times in rational back-and-forth, but that proved to be an exercise in futility. So I started deleting or sending most of her comments to spam. Such e-mails generally have an identifier attached, such as "Anonymous" or "Sarah," if the person chooses to use a first name -- which might or might not be her actual name. </span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: yellow;">I've received so many such e-mails in recent weeks -- maybe more than 200 -- that I occasionally scroll through the spam folder just to keep a rough track of how many have arrived. During one recent scroll, I noticed that at least one spam e-mail had more than a one-word identifier; it had two words -- "Sarah Jameson."</span></blockquote><br />Sarah Jameson? Who in the heck is that? Well, she has a <i>Facebook</i> page that is pretty much a shrine to Roger Stone -- and it doesn't appear to have changed much since we first encountered it more than two years ago. Here are our thoughts upon finding the Jameson <i>Facebook</i> page in January 2017:<br /><br /><blockquote>That was enough to make me go "hmmm." A <i>Google</i> search produced the <i>Facebook</i> page for a Sarah Jameson, who apparently lives in Plantation, Florida. That is in Broward County, close to Stone's home in Oakland Park. What does the "Sarah Jameson" <i>Facebook </i>page reveal? It's devoted almost entirely to videos and memes of Donald Trump and Roger Stone -- mostly Stone, also known as "The dapper don of dirty deeds."<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">There is a video of Stone hawking his books. Here is Stone touting the choice of Steve Bannon as Trump's chief strategist. There is Stone being touted as a "genius" in an interview after Trump's "victory."</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">"Sarah Jameson" sure seems to dig Roger Stone. In fact, she apparently has no time for anything else. She only has 18 <i>Facebook</i> friends, and I know squirrels in the forest who have bigger followings than that.</span></blockquote><br />I'm still not sure what to make of Sarah Jameson and her fascination with Roger Stone. Here is <a href="https://twitter.com/s_jameson82" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">a link to her <i>Twitter</i> account</a>, which seems to consist mostly of more flagellation of Roger Stone. From our earlier post:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The <i>Facebook </i>page makes me wonder if "Sarah Jameson" is even real. Did someone pick clip art of an anonymous young blonde woman and use it to create a fake page, one that actually is run by Roger Stone or one of his surrogates?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: yellow;">My best guess is that Stone is concerned about our unflattering reports (both completed posts and those that are coming) about Jeff Sessions and Bill Pryor and is trying to harass me into inaction or avoidance. I would suggest that Stone come up with something better than that, because his current track is not going to work. </span></blockquote><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table> <span style="background-color: yellow;">I don't think it's so odd that Trump and his surrogates would focus on Alabama. Sessions, one of his closest advisers during the campaign, is from Alabama. One of Trump's likely high-court nominees is from Alabama. And one of Trump's top campaign stops was in Mobile, Alabama. </span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: yellow;">As a progressive blogger from Alabama, who has been unlawfully jailed for my reporting on GOP corruption, perhaps I am a thorn -- maybe small, maybe big -- in their side. And so, Roger Stone has been assigned, or taken it upon himself, to mess with me.</span></blockquote>:<br />How is this for irony? <i>The New York Times</i> reports that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/opinion/roger-stone-indictment-mueller-investigation.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Mueller's primary interest with the Stone indictment might not be the dirty trickster himself, but rather his electronic devices</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow;">Federal agents were “seen carting hard drives and other evidence from Mr. Stone’s apartment in Harlem, and his recording studio in South Florida was also raided.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">The F.B.I., in other words, was executing search warrants, not just arrest warrants. Even the timing and manner of Mr. Stone’s arrest — at the absolute earliest moment allowed under federal rules of criminal procedure without persuading a judge to authorize an exceptional nighttime raid — suggests a concern with preventing destruction of evidence: Otherwise it would make little sense to send a dozen agents to arrest a man in his 60s before sunrise.</span></blockquote><br />What if a review of Stone's electronic devices provided clues about attacks on <i>Legal Schnauzer?</i> What if it provided clues about the identify of Sarah Jameson? We suspect Mueller's team will have bigger issues on their plates than those, but we will have our ears in the "upright and locked position" in case tidbits that hit close to home rise to the surface.</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2966333898479815053" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 536px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2966333898479815053" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 536px;">Original Post link: <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2019/01/as-roger-stone-heads-down-possible-path.html">https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2019/01/as-roger-stone-heads-down-possible-path.html</a></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2966333898479815053" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 536px;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430514539920045811.post-72496681241626034272019-01-18T03:04:00.001-05:002019-01-18T03:04:13.933-05:00Question about the jailing of journalists catches Donald Trump AG nominee William Barr off guard, but here is the harsh reality of current U.S. law<header style="background-color: #fcfbf5; 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font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8625828737948877410" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 1.3; position: relative; width: 338px;"><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="210" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nl8mpcDbj34" width="280"></iframe><br /><br /><br />Trump attorney-general nominee William Barr said at his confirmation hearing this week that <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/barr-can-conceive-jailing-journalists-last-resort-194811931.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">he "can conceive" of jailing journalists "as a last resort.</a>" I am the most recent U.S. journalist to be incarcerated -- <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/07/jarrod-ramos-fatal-shooting-at.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">from Oct. 23, 2013 to March 26, 2014</a> -- and my five-month stay behind bars was <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2015/05/my-incarceration-in-shelby-county.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">the third longest in American history</a>. It was, by far, the longest for a journalist in a purely civil matter, and it apparently was the only one involving an alleged violation of a preliminary injunction that was unlawful on its face--<a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2013/10/judge-in-rob-rileys-lawsuit-violates.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">running contrary to more than 200 years of legal precedent</a>.<br /><br />In short, <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2015/04/judge-claud-neilson-earns-dubious-award.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Judge Claud Neilson's arrest order in my case</a> likely was the most unlawful First Amendment ruling in U.S. history.<br /><br />The issue of jailing journalists hits close to home, and I've written extensively on the topic. Since Barr did a poor job of explaining U.S. law on the matter -- in fact, he seemed flummoxed by the question from U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) -- I decided, in the interest of clarity, to help him out. (And yes, it's scary that an incoming chief law officer in the United States knows so little about a profound constitutional issue that he needs my help.) From <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/barr-can-conceive-jailing-journalists-last-resort-194811931.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">a report at <i>Yahoo News</i></a>:<br /><br /><blockquote>During his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, attorney general nominee William Barr was asked by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., whether his Justice Department would “jail journalists for doing their jobs.”<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">Barr, President Trump’s pick for the nation’s top law enforcement officer, said he could envision a situation where a news organization or individual journalist could be held in contempt of court.</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span>“I think that, uh, you know I know there are guidelines in place,” Barr said after a seven-second pause. “And I can conceive of situations where, uh, you know, as a last resort, and where a news organization has run through a red flag or something like that, knows that they’re putting out stuff that will hurt the country. There might — there could be a situation where somebody could be held in contempt.”</blockquote><br />Barr is correct that contempt of court often is an issue that leads to the incarceration of a journalist. A judge might order a reporter to produce documents related to a criminal matter, or to avoid publishing an article that could affect national security -- and if the reporter refuses, he can lawfully wind up behind bars. Do I agree with that? No. Is it the law of the land? Yes.<br /><br />And it is not just a matter of "guidelines." It is based on a U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling -- <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/408/665" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972)</i></a> -- in a case that is getting close to 50 years old. Here is how we explained it -- and compared jailings related to criminal matters and my incarceration on a 100-percent civil matter -- <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2015/03/supreme-courts-ruling-in-branzburg.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">in a March 2015 post</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote>Five of <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2015/01/i-am-only-american-journalist-in-2000s.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">the six American journalists who have been jailed in the 2000s</a>, had their freedom taken away based largely on a U.S. Supreme Court case styled <i>Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972).</i><br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">The sixth journalist is me, and my freedom was taken away for five months based on . . . nothing. No U.S. law supports it. In fact, a long line of U.S. Supreme Court and state high-court cases specifically state that a preliminary injunction in a defamation case is an unlawful prior restraint under the First Amendment--and yet, I spent five months in the Shelby County, Alabama, jail after Republican political figure Rob Riley and lobbyist Liberty Duke sought my arrest because I allegedly had violated a preliminary injunction in their defamation case, a civil matter that involved no criminal allegations of any kind.</span><br /><br />Never mind that the material in question was not found to be defamatory at trial. That's because, under specially appointed judge Claud Neilson, there was no trial--only a hearing, with no discovery, no cross-examination, almost no evidence, no jury . . . well, you get the idea. It was, in fact, a joke--as I stated to the court that day.</blockquote><br />The other five U.S. journalists to be arrested in this millennium, whether I like it or not, were lawfully arrested under <i>Branzburg</i>:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow;">What separates my case from the other five that involve incarceration of journalists? Numerous differences come to mind, but the main one is this: <i>Branzburg </i>was the primary governing law in the other cases, and while I don't agree with the finding in <i>Branzburg,</i> it means that the other incarcerations probably were legal. Mine clearly was not legal, and even knowledgeable legal analysts who differ with me politically, agree on that.</span><br /><br />The key issue in the other five cases involved efforts by journalists to protect confidential sources in criminal matters. Here is the core finding from <i>Branzburg</i>:<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">The First Amendment does not relieve a newspaper reporter of the obligation that all citizens have to respond to a grand jury subpoena and answer questions relevant to a criminal investigation, and therefore the Amendment does not afford him a constitutional testimonial privilege for an agreement he makes to conceal facts relevant to a grand jury's investigation of a crime or to conceal the criminal conduct of his source or evidence thereof.</span></blockquote><br />Bottom line: If a U.S. reporter fails to appear and answer questions, per a court order in a criminal investigation, he can lawfully wind up behind bars. I suspect many Americans have no idea the First Amendment can become so squishy under certain circumstances --and William Barr did a poor job of explaining it.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLQoL7ZKod0NFBxJTjS_1BdS4XW82KRCboYLC_um96jOR57caFhbwCAZcbFURqv4yBaROTMLJN6dnJmx0b4ryhG_9W9yMTN05zTbmilbuSuKkoWGIuh01kGpCNb4Od5hetxGTfl6YoLk/s1600/Jailing+journalists.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLQoL7ZKod0NFBxJTjS_1BdS4XW82KRCboYLC_um96jOR57caFhbwCAZcbFURqv4yBaROTMLJN6dnJmx0b4ryhG_9W9yMTN05zTbmilbuSuKkoWGIuh01kGpCNb4Od5hetxGTfl6YoLk/s280/Jailing+journalists.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="280" /></a></div>The lawful incarceration of an American journalist almost always involves criminal investigation -- and the reporter's effort to protect a confidential source. My unlawful incarceration, on the other hand, involved a prior restraint -- and except for matters of national security -- those almost always fall outside the law. That Alabama lawyer Rob Riley and Liberty Duke did not appreciate my accurate reporting (<a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2015/12/dothan-tv-reporter-perpetuates-myths.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">it's never been proven false or defamatory, as a matter of law</a>) hardly is a matter of national security.<br /><br />In <i><a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/510/1315.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">CBS, Inc. v. Davis, 510 U.S. 1315 (1994</a></i>), SCOTUS addressed the "exceptional cases" where a prior restraint might be proper. The opinion is from Harry Blackmun:<br /><br /><blockquote>Although the prohibition against prior restraints is by no means absolute, the gagging of publication has been considered acceptable only in “exceptional cases.” <i>Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 716, 51 S.Ct. 625, 631, 75 L.Ed. 1357 (1931)</i>. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Even where questions of allegedly urgent national security, see <i>New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 91 S.Ct. 2140, 29 L.Ed.2d 822 (1971)</i>, or competing constitutional interests, <i>Nebraska Press Assn., 427 U.S., at 559, 96 S.Ct., at 2802</i>, are concerned, we have imposed this “most extraordinary remed[y]” only where the evil that would result from the reportage is both great and certain and cannot be mitigated by less intrusive measures. Id., at 562, 96 S.Ct., at 2804.</span></blockquote><br />William Barr probably was interested mainly in obtaining a fancy title and more or less phoned it in for his confirmation hearing. He certainly did a poor job of educating the public. 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</tbody></table><br />Donald Trump has paid roughly $30 million to settle child-sex complaints brought against him since 1989, according to a D.C.-based investigative journalist.<br /><br /><i><a href="https://www.waynemadsenreport.com/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Wayne Madsen Report (WMR)</a>, </i>which is a subscription site, describes the settlements in a Jan. 14-15 post titled "Why is Trump so afraid of Cohen's testimony?" From the article:<br /><br /><blockquote>Donald Trump continues to lash out at his former lawyer and "fixer," Michael Cohen, as the February 7 public testimony by Cohen before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), draws nearer. Cohen said he wants to "give a full and credible account of the events that have transpired."<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">While Cohen will avoid certain subjects still under investigation by Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller, he may provide some insight into the types of embarrassing things he "fixed" for Trump, before they ended up in scandalous court trials. This may include Cohen assisting Trump in paying off victims of Trump's sexual assaults over the years.</span></blockquote><br />The cases go way beyond those widely reported in the mainstream press, <i>WMR</i> reports. They also go beyond cases that involve women and adults. They indicate Trump has a disturbing taste for children:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow;">In addition to Stephanie Clifford, aka porn actress "Stormy Daniels," and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, Cohen reportedly helped settle a number of rape cases involving Trump. <i>WMR</i> received a list from a reputable Republican source of these settlement claims, all of which involve male and female minors:</span><br /><br />(1) Michael Parker, 10-years old, oral rape, Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL, 1992. Trump paid his parents a $3 million settlement.<br /><br />(2) Kelly Feuer, 12-years old, $1 million settlement paid in 1989, allegations of forced intercourse, Trump Tower, NY, NY.<br /><br />(3) Charles Bacon, 11-years old, $3 million, allegations of oral and anal intercourse, 1994, Trump Tower, NY, NY.<br /><br />(4) Rebecca Conway, 13-years old, intercourse and oral sex. <a href="https://www.trumpwinery.com/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Vineyard Estates</a>, Charlottesville, VA, 2012, $5 million settlement.<br /><br />(5) Maria Olivera, 12-years old. Her family was paid $16 million to settle allegations of forcible intercourse occurring in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL, 1993.<br /><br />(6) Kevin Noll, 11-years old, anal rape, Trump Tower, NY, NY. 1998. Settlement details unknown.</blockquote><br />Five of the six alleged incidents took place at two of Trump's best-known properties -- Trump Tower in New York City and Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL. The exception is incident No. 4, which is the most recent (2012) and took place at <a href="https://www.trumphotels.com/albemarle-estate" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Albemarle Estate at Trump Winery</a>. Donald and Eric Trump <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2015/06/17/how-donald-trump-bought-a-home-once-listed-at-100-million-for-pennies-on-the-dollar/#50b93ada4022" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">opened the facility as a bed-and-breakfast in May 2015</a>.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Trump started negotiating to acquire the property after it went into foreclosure in 2011. Trump formally purchased the entire estate in October 2012.<br /><br />The child-sex settlements might explain Trump's reluctance to disclose his tax returns, <i>WMR</i>reports, and documents indicate our "president" is a deeply disturbed individual:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow;"><i>WMR's</i> GOP source indicated that Trump has refused to release his tax returns because they will reveal the many out-of-court settlements he has paid to silence his assault victims and their families. The list of Trump's child victims came with an interesting reference point that was apparently part of the documentation in the settlement cases. Trump was designated with a psychiatric disorder referenced in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5). 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Under a U.S. Supreme Court case called Alabama v. Shelton, Carol's sentence of probation in Missouri "assault" case is invalid and due to be reversed</h3>
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The suspended sentence that a Missouri judge placed on my wife, Carol, in a bogus "assault of a law enforcement officer" case is "invalid" and a "nullity," and it must be reversed, according to U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) precedent.<br />
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We already have shown that, by placing a suspended imposition of sentence (SIS) on Carol, Judge Jerry Harmison Jr. <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/06/missouri-judges-sentencing-shenanigans.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">ensured there is no final, appealable judgment in the case</a> and <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/08/judge-jerry-harmisons-handling-of.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">no conviction</a> (even though Carol, contrary to fact and law, <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/08/judge-jerry-harmisons-handling-of.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">was found guilty</a>). Now, we learn that the SIS and two-year probation Harmison imposed are unlawful and due to be vacated.<br />
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How many ways can one compromised judge screw up a case?<br />
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This all goes back to Missouri's denial of Carol's right to counsel, and the relevant law comes from the nation's highest court in a case styled <i><a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/535/654/case.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Alabama v. Shelton, 535 U.S. 654 (2002)</a></i>. How rich is the irony that the cheat job heaped on Carol in Missouri would be -- or should be -- decided by a SCOTUS case that originated in Alabama?<br />
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (with dissents from -- surprise, surprise -- Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, William Rehnquist, and Anthony Kennedy) wrote the opinion in <i>Shelton.</i>Here is it's central holding:<br />
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Held: <span style="background-color: yellow;">A suspended sentence that may "end up in the actual deprivation of a person's liberty" may not be imposed unless the defendant was accorded "the guiding hand of counsel" in the prosecution for the crime charged.</span> <i>Argersinger, 407 U. S., at 40. Pp. 660-674.</i></blockquote>
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What does this mean for Carol's case?<br />
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(1) She was placed on probation, but a violation of its terms could lead to a jail term. That, SCOTUS found in its 2002 <i>Shelton </i>ruling, is not allowed under the Sixth Amendment;<br />
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(2) Carol at one point had an attorney -- public defender Patty Poe -- but when Poe bailed out of the case, jail was waived as a possible punishment, by law;<br />
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(3) Carol never had another attorney, and she never waived her right to counsel, so Harmison committed a huge blunder by adding probation to the equation -- and probation, by definition, means jail is on the table. And that, Justice Ginsburg found, is a no-no.<br />
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(4) Both Poe and Margaret Palmietto (the original judge in Carol's case) apparently have more functioning brain cells than Harmison, who took over after Palmietto recused -- or maybe Poe and Palmietto are slightly less corrupt than Harmison. Either way, Poe told us upon exiting that, with jail off the table, the court could only sentence Carol to a fine, community service, or some type of educational course. Palmietto, in her final days on the case, said multiple times in open court "it's just a fine" -- as if Carol should have no problem being fined for an offense she did not commit, even <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2018/06/after-last-weeks-sentencing-carols.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">according to the written and verbal statements of the so-called "victim."</a><br />
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Where does the SCOTUS case have its roots? The <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9209618783847243789&q=LeReed+Shelton&hl=en&as_sdt=4,1" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">answer is Etowah County, Alabama,</a> (county seat is Gadsden), where LeReed Shelton represented himself and twice was found guilty of third-degree assault -- being sentenced to a suspended 30-day jail term and unsupervised probation. Shelton appealed, and the Alabama Supreme Court ultimately reversed his sentence, finding it invalid because he did not have counsel, violating his Sixth Amendment rights.<br />
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SCOTUS upheld the Alabama Supreme Court's finding, with these words from Ginsburg:<br />
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Defendant-respondent Shelton represented himself in an Alabama Circuit Court criminal trial. The court repeatedly warned Shelton about the problems self-representation entailed, but at no time offered him assistance of counsel at state expense. He was convicted of misdemeanor assault and sentenced to a 30-day jail term, which the trial court immediately suspended, placing Shelton on two years' unsupervised probation. <span style="background-color: yellow;">The Alabama Supreme Court reversed Shelton's suspended jail sentence, reasoning that this Court's decisions in<i>Argersinger v. Hamlin, 407 U. S. 25</i>, and <i>Scott v. Illinois, 440 U. S. 367,</i> require provision of counsel in any petty offense, misdemeanor, or felony prosecution, Argersinger, 407 U. S., at 37, "that actually leads to imprisonment even for a brief period," id., at 33. The State Supreme Court concluded, <i>inter alia</i>, that because a defendant may not be imprisoned absent provision of counsel, Shelton's suspended sentence could never be activated and was therefore invalid. . . . </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The Sixth Amendment does not permit activation of a suspended sentence upon an indigent defendant's violation of the terms of his probation where the State did not provide him counsel during the prosecution of the offense for which he is imprisoned.</span> A suspended sentence is a prison term imposed for the offense of conviction. Once the prison term is triggered, the defendant is incarcerated not for the probation violation, but for the underlying offense. <span style="background-color: yellow;">The uncounseled conviction at that point "result[s] in imprisonment," <i>Nichols v. United States, 511 U. S. 738, 746;</i> it "end[s] up in the actual deprivation of a person's liberty," <i>Argersinger, 407 U. S., at 40.</i> This is precisely what the Sixth Amendment, as interpreted in <i>Argersinger</i> and <i>Scott,</i> does not allow.</span></blockquote>
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Carol was the victim of an uncounseled (and unlawful) conviction, and SCOTUS makes clear that her sentence must be reversed as invalid. Whether the dictates of the nation's highest court has any impact on Jerry Harmison Jr. -- or anyone else in Missouri's perverse "justice system" -- remains to be seen. But it's clear Carol's sentence is a nullity, meaning it is legally void and is based on . . . well, nothing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">Outgoing Moran Sheriff Ana Franklin<br /><i>(Decatur Daily)</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><br />An Alabama prosecutor is suing his county sheriff for <a href="https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/morgan_county/lawyer-franklin-used-surplus-jail-food-money-to-pay-legal/article_f2a23ab7-6482-5649-8c44-1fc36b98ab00.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">using funds intended for feeding jail inmates to pay her own legal fees</a>. In another sign that nontraditional journalism has immense value, a groundbreaking blog puts the important (and largely unseen) issue in perspective.<br /><br />Morgan County District Attorney <a href="https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/morgan_county/morgan-da-sues-sheriff-over-use-of-jail-food-money/article_c0cbd8cb-0d25-53fa-9224-7a81d1a41ddf.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Anderson filed a lawsuit on December 21</a> seeking <a href="http://morgan.morgancountywhistleblower.com/2018/12/circuit-court-sheriff-ana-franklin.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">to recover funds outgoing Sheriff Ana Franklin allegedly had used for personal expenses</a>. William Gray of Birmingham, one of Franklin's attorneys, said the sheriff used surplus jail-food money to pay lawyers who helped negotiate a deal with federal prosecutors that recently ended with <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2018/12/alabama-sheriff-agrees-to-plead-guilty-to-federal-tax-charge.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Franklin pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for willful failure to file a tax return</a>. From <a href="https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/morgan_county/lawyer-franklin-used-surplus-jail-food-money-to-pay-legal/article_f2a23ab7-6482-5649-8c44-1fc36b98ab00.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">an article by Eric Fleischauer</a>, of the <i>Decatur Daily</i>:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow;">Some money originally earmarked for feeding Morgan County jail inmates has gone to pay lawyers for Sheriff Ana Franklin, one of her attorneys said.</span><br /><br />The legal expenses may be part of at least $105,000 in jail-food money that Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson alleges the sheriff has taken or spent.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">Anderson [on Dec. 21] filed a civil lawsuit against Franklin alleging she has illegally kept and spent state-issued jail food money that she should have been holding in trust exclusively for the feeding of inmates.</span></blockquote><br />This issue has particular resonance here at <i>Legal Schnauzer </i>since <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-alcom-post-focuses-on-my-release.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">I spent more than five months in an Alabama jail (Shelby County) in 2013-14 </a>for reporting on state legal and political corruption, mostly among Republicans. I became <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2015/05/my-incarceration-in-shelby-county.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">the only U.S. journalist to be incarcerated since 2006 </a>and probably the only American in history to essentially be "arrested for blogging," <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2015/05/study-indicates-i-am-only-journalist-in.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">due to a preliminary injunction that has been an unlawful "prior restraint"</a> under more than 200 years of First Amendment law.<br /><br />I know what it's like to eat Alabama jail food; I survived on it for more than five months. Since then, we've learned that <a href="http://morgan.morgancountywhistleblower.com/2018/12/strange-times.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Alabama sheriffs make it a practice to to pocket money intended for jail food and use it for their own purposes</a>. That issue first hit the press in early 2018 when former Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin was found to have <a href="https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/03/etowah_sheriff_pocketed_over_7.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">pocketed $750,000 in jail-food funds and used most of the money to purchase a beach house</a> in north Florida.<br /><br />A recent report at <i>al.com</i> shows Entrekin, who lost his bid for re-election, <a href="http://morgan.morgancountywhistleblower.com/2018/12/can-you-imagine-how-much-money-has-been.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">made more than $1.5 million from funds</a> that were supposed to be used for feeding federal immigration detainees at the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">Morgan County Prosecuting Attorney Scott Anderson<br />(<i>Decatur Daily</i>)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Here is the equation for Entrekin, Franklin, and other sticky-fingered Alabama sheriffs: The less money you spend on feeding inmates, the more money you will have for your own ventures. The headline on this post might as well be "Alabama sheriffs live in high style by starving inmates." I once was one of those starving inmates; I lost 25 pounds during my five months in jail, and it would have been worse if I had not had resources to take one of the few survival options available to Alabama inmates.<br /><br /><i>Morgan County Whistle Blower</i>, a ground-breaking blog that has broken one story after another in the Ana Franklin scandal, summarized Alabama's inmate-food crisis in <a href="http://morgan.morgancountywhistleblower.com/2018/12/lawrence-county-citizens-speak-up-we.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">a Dec. 23 post that focused on the Lawrence County Jail</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote>Folks these jails have become all about the almighty dollar. They are no longer about corrections or punishment. They are about how much money can we make off the inmates and their families or loved ones.<br /><br />In Lawrence County, if you bond someone out of jail they now charge a $35.00 jail processing fee. Not sure where this money goes or what it is used for or who gets it. Not sure what the purpose of this fee is since in Lawrence County everyone who is arrested or gets a ticket when paying their fine and court costs pays a $35.00 jail fee. This fee is to pay for the construction of the current jail which is 20 years old. Just another burden added to the families for the money maker. This applies to property bonds and bail bondsmen but the $35.00 is separate from what you have to pay the bondsman and must be paid by the person making the bonds. I think this is a clear case of double dipping. The $35.00 jail fee is being paid twice.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">As if that is not bad enough as soon as you walk into the doors of the jail you immediately have access to two machines, the first is so you can put money into their account so they can buy items from the jail including food. This seems like a racket to me; first, you don’t feed them adequately and then sell them overpriced food all the while getting rich off leftover jail food money. Next to the first money machine is another money machine to put money into an account so they can use the phones.</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">These things put a burden on the families, many of whom are already struggling financially. The phones they can do without but when a loved one calls and says they are hungry and it has been well documented they are not being fed properly by these greedy sheriffs it is hard to not rake and scrape and come up with money for them to buy something to eat.</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span>This whole operation just seems to swirl around how we can make money off people who are in jail and contrary to popular belief most are not hardened criminals like the sheriff portrays them. The food is about like this jail processing fee, it all seems like double dipping to me, getting money from the State for food and then getting money from the inmates for food.<br /><br />The operations of the Sheriff's Department has gone from one of law enforcement to one with multiple systems within the organization that is totally focused on making money.</blockquote><br />That is very well stated, and the highlighted portion particularly hits home because I lived under those conditions for five months. I can add one point to this, and I know about it only because I've experienced it firsthand. 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Crowdfunding scams have become a regular topic for our reporting at <i>Legal Schnauzer,</i>and such a story even was in the news over the Christmas holiday. We have reported on two such incidents where we currently live (in Missouri) -- both involving lawyers, surprise, surprise -- with no signs that authorities have taken note. Recent events in the Philadelphia area, however, suggest using sites like <i><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">GoFundMe (GFM)</a> </i>and <i><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Kickstarter</a></i> to fraudulently relieve donors of their money might not be such a hot idea.<br />
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How far will crowdfunding go? Donald Trump supporters <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/12/border-wall-crowdfunding/578884/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">have started several sites to raise money for a border wall with Mexico</a>, and one such site reportedly <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/12/border-wall-crowdfunding/578884/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">has raised more than $14 million</a>. That's a long way from the $5 billion Trump is seeking from Congress, but where will that crowdfunding cash actually go? The possibilities for fraud seem endless.<br />
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Authorities near Philadelphia have made it clear they will go after those who perpetrate such scams. We intend to notify the appropriate Web sites and law-enforcement authorities about stories of which we are aware in Missouri. We will keep you posted about determinations law-and-order types in the Midwest make on these matters.<br />
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Folks in and around Mount Holly, New Jersey, have reason to know crowd-funding scams are taken seriously in their neck of the woods. That's where a couple -- Johnny Bobbitt and Katelyn McClure -- allegedly schemed with a homeless veteran from Philadelphia, Mark D'Amico, to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/gofundme-says-donors-homeless-man-refunded-164711800.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">scam donors out of more than $400,000</a>. <i>GoFundMe</i> announced on Christmas Day that <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/gofundme-says-donors-homeless-man-refunded-164711800.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">it has refunded everyone who contributed</a> to the campaign. From a report at Associated Press:<br />
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<i>GoFundMe </i>spokesman Bobby Whithorne said Tuesday that "all donors who contributed to this <i>GoFundMe</i> campaign have been fully refunded" and the organization is cooperating fully with law enforcement. . . .<br />
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Whithorne said campaigns involving misuse "make up less than one tenth of one percent" of all <i>GoFundMe</i> campaigns, but such behavior "is unacceptable" and "has consequences."<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">"We have a zero tolerance policy for fraudulent behavior," he said. "If fraud occurs, donors get refunded and we work with law enforcement officials to recover the money."</span></blockquote>
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What about consequences in the Philadelphia case? Here is more from AP:<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Burlington County prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Johnny Bobbitt conspired with Katelyn McClure and her boyfriend at the time, Mark D'Amico, to concoct a feel-good story about Bobbitt giving McClure his last $20 when her car ran out of gas. They raised $400,000, which authorities say was spent on luxury items and casino trips.</span></blockquote>
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What about apparently underhanded crowdfunding cases in Missouri? One involves former secretary of state and U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander and his wife -- <i>New York Times</i>best-selling author Diana Kander. From <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2016/10/missouri-democrat-jason-kander-has.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">an October 2016 post about information released from a watchdog group</a> in a 127-page, heavily research document called <i>The Kander Memo</i>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Beginning in spring 2014, evidence shows the Kanders operated an Internet "crowdfunding" effort to raise online charitable donations. But the memo alleges the Kanders used the money, more than $31,000, to buy new-author Diana Kander's way onto <i>The New York Times </i>bestseller list.</span> In fact, <i>amazon.com </i>promotes Ms. Kander's book, <i>All In Startup: Launching a New Idea When Everything Is On the Line,</i> as part of the prestigious <i>New York Times </i>lists, and the book is promoted as such at the author's Web site, <i>dianakander.com.</i><br />
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How did this benefit the Kanders and Jason Kander's U.S. Senate campaign. <i>From The Kander</i> <i>Memo</i>:<br />
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The success of the Kander scheme has: (1) Provided the Kanders with a ruse to represent to the American public and Missouri voters that Diana Kander is "a <i>New York Times </i>Bestselling Author," when the truth is the Kanders used a deceptive scheme to raise money from the public in order to help Diana Kander buy her way onto those prestigious bestseller lists; (2) Empowered Diana Kander to break into the lucrative U.S. "Public-Speakers Circuit" so she can now pocket substantial speaker fees as a purported "<i>New York Times</i>Bestselling Author"; and (3) Enabled the Kanders to use the public contributions they collected from their Internet "crowdfunding" campaign in order to make the Kanders look . . . more prestigious and more accomplished, and to help Jason Kander win election to the United States Senate.</blockquote>
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Jason Kander lost his U.S. Senate race to incumbent Roy Blunt, but questions remain about the Kanders' deceptive use of crowd-funding. <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2016/10/missouri-democrat-jason-kander-has.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">From our earlier post</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">According to <i>The Kander Memo</i>, the book effort likely violated solicitation-registration and felony anti-fraud statutes in every U.S. jurisdiction -- federal and state. It also likely violated statutes in all 50 states that make it a crime to commit, or attempt to commit, theft by deceit. From the memo:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">[This] is not only an audacious and shameless scheme, it is a patently criminal scheme . . . a "50-state crime spree."</span></blockquote>
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What about the second story of dubious crowdfunding in Missouri? It involves my brother, Missouri lawyer David Shuler. We first reported on it in an Oct. 3, 2017, post titled "<a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2017/10/my-lawyer-brother-and-his-wife-owners.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">My lawyer-brother and his wife, owners of more than $1 million in real estate, seek funds to help cover costs of therapy for their son with Hurler syndrome</a>":<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">A Missouri couple who own more than $1 million in real estate <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/jacks-miracle-life" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">have established a <i>GoFundMe (GFM)</i> site</a> seeking money for their disabled son's therapy.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">The couple are Gina Hayes and David Neal Shuler, my sister-in-law and lawyer/brother. Is it proper for a couple of such wealth to seek crowd-sourcing funds, especially for their own family needs -- which public records indicate they clearly can pay on their own?</span> I'm hardly an expert on the rules, regulations, and etiquette of crowd-sourcing, so I have a few questions:</blockquote>
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* Is <i>GFM </i>meant to directly assist people who own more than $1 million in real estate -- and that doesn't reach their total net worth, which likely includes cash, savings, investments, personal property, real property in other counties or states (the $1 million is just in Greene County, MO), and other assets. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Gina and David Shuler might be millionaires several times over. Are they supposed to be directly benefiting from <i>GFM</i>?</span><br />
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* Could this be unlawful, even fraud? <span style="background-color: yellow;">I'm familiar with a site called <i>GoFraudM</i>e, which apparently researches possible incidents of crowd-sourcing fraud. Is this something<i>GoFraudMe</i> should look into?</span></blockquote>
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Here is perhaps the central question in the Shuler situation:<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Most of the cases of fraud that I've read about involve a precipitating event that did not really occur. For example, someone claims to need funds to recover from a house fire, but the fire did not happen. Is it fraud for a couple to seek money for an issue they clearly can cover on their own -- probably with no hardship whatsoever on the family?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">The issue for Gina and David Shuler is real. Their 15-year-old son, Jack, has<a href="https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001204.htm" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Hurler syndrome</a>, a vicious metabolic disease, which can effect almost every organ system of the body. . . . </span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">The <i>GFM</i> page, of course, makes no mention that Jack's parents are millionaires. Should it? Should a campaign like this even be on <i>GoFundMe</i>?</span></blockquote>
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We will let officials with <i>GFM</i> and law enforcement ponder those questions. By satute, Missouri has an offense called "stealing by deceit." Facts of the Shuler case suggest it might come under that statute, with the key questions: Does this constitute deceit? Is it deceit to advertise that you need money when you really don't -- even though the cause in question (an illness) is real?<br />
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This is from a followup post, titled "<a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2017/10/david-and-gina-shuler-who-own-more-than.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">David and Gina Shuler, who own more than $1.161 million in Missouri real estate, are seeking financial assistance for their son's therapy on</a><i><a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2017/10/david-and-gina-shuler-who-own-more-than.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">GoFundMe</a></i>": The post includes a listing of the Shulers' real-estate holdings, and the list might not be complete:<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Is it OK for wealthy people to seek crowd-sourcing funds for their own family needs, which public records indicate they easily could pay for themselves . . . ?</span><br />
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Different people might answer the question in different ways. But the individual who tipped me off to the story -- I call that person a Source Close to the Situation (SCTS) -- had strong feelings on the matter, and they were not favorable to Gina and David. Said SCTS:<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Here's my bitch of the day. Gina and David are on gofundme raising money for rehab for Jack. Now i feel sympathy for Jack, but gina and david don't need any sort of financial assistance. what does david make a year? $250,000??? or more. Gina probably made $100,000 before she retired [as an air-traffic controller]. my god they live in Millwood in a house appraised at $634,000. disgusting.</span><br />
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people like them don't deserve any help with medical bills when so many are suffering with no help. outrageous. arrogant. privileged.</blockquote>
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I added my two cents on the issue:<br />
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It didn't take me long to decide I agreed with SCTS. In fact, I could even add a few descriptive terms to describe David and Gina's actions -- "shameless," "tasteless," "conniving," "self-centered," "attention-seeking."<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">My understanding is that David and Gina have not let much cramp their style. They have taken vacations to California, Utah, and various parts of Europe, family members have told me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">How wealthy are these folks who claim on GFM to need money? As SCTS notes, <a href="https://www.murney.com/subdivisions/millwood#property-search-section" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">they live in Millwood</a>, a <a href="https://millwoodgolf.com/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">golf-course/tennis club community southeast of Springfield, MO</a>. Their residence, <a href="https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3825-San-Poppi-Ct-Springfield-MO-65721/103674211_zpid/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">3825 San Poppi Ct.</a>, is listed as being in Ozark, MO. Greene County property records show the residence is appraised at $621,300, so SCTS was almost right on the nose.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: yellow;">That figure, however, does not reflect the house's actual market value. It has 4 bedrooms. 4.5 baths, 5,557 square feet, and Zillow puts the market value at $718, 345.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The residence is only the beginning of Gina and David Shuler's real-estate holdings. They own seven properties in Greene County, Missouri, totaling more than $1 million. The exact appraised total is $1,161,500. A reasonable estimate of the market value is $1.3 million.</span></blockquote>
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