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Early Photos of Hurricane Ian’s Landfall in Florida
Alan Taylor | September 29, 2022 | 21 Photos In Focus
"Hurricane Ian: Florida fears catastrophic flooding as storm nears"
Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida yesterday as a Category 4 storm, causing catastrophic flooding, wind damage, and power outages affecting millions. Ian also heavily damaged at least two causeways, cutting off the only land connection to several barrier islands.
Early images are now coming in, showing some of the destruction caused by this unusually intense storm.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/09/hurricane-ian-makes-landfall-florida-photos/671596/
1. A man takes photos of boats damaged by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida, on September 29, 2022. #
4. Damaged homes and debris are shown in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers, Florida, on September 29, 2022. #
8. Smoldering homes are seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, on September 29, 2022, in Fort Myers Beach. #
Authorities transport a person out of the Avante nursing home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, in Orlando, Florida, on September 29, 2022. #
Stedi Scuderi looks over her Fort Myers apartment after floodwater inundated it when Hurricane Ian passed through the area on September
Damaged boats sit on and near the shore in Fort Myers on September 29, 2022. #
Brenda Brennan sits next to a boat that pushed against her apartment during the hurricane on September 29, 2022, in Fort Myers. #
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/09/hurricane-ian-makes-landfall-florida-photos/671596/
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Photos: The Aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Eastern Canada
Alan Taylor |September 26, 2022 | 14 Photos In Focus
After causing heavy damage across parts of the Caribbean and Bermuda last week, Hurricane Fiona moved north toward Eastern Canada, making landfall this weekend as a post-tropical cyclone. The downgraded storm still packed heavy rain and winds, gusting up to 110 mph, driving storm surges and knocking down trees and power lines. Hundreds of thousands remain without power as emergency crews and utility workers work to clear debris and rebuild lines. Below is a collection of recent images from Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/09/photos-hurricane-fiona-canada/671557/
Early Photos of Hurricane Ian’s Landfall in Florida
Alan Taylor | September 29, 2022 | 21 Photos In Focus
Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida yesterday as a Category 4 storm, causing catastrophic flooding, wind damage, and power outages affecting millions. Ian also heavily damaged at least two causeways, cutting off the only land connection to several barrier islands.
Early images are now coming in, showing some of the destruction caused by this unusually intense storm.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/09/hurricane-ian-makes-landfall-florida-photos/671596/
1. A man takes photos of boats damaged by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida, on September 29, 2022. #
4. Damaged homes and debris are shown in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers, Florida, on September 29, 2022. #
8. Smoldering homes are seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, on September 29, 2022, in Fort Myers Beach. #
Authorities transport a person out of the Avante nursing home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, in Orlando, Florida, on September 29, 2022. #
Stedi Scuderi looks over her Fort Myers apartment after floodwater inundated it when Hurricane Ian passed through the area on September
Damaged boats sit on and near the shore in Fort Myers on September 29, 2022. #
Brenda Brennan sits next to a boat that pushed against her apartment during the hurricane on September 29, 2022, in Fort Myers. #
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/09/hurricane-ian-makes-landfall-florida-photos/671596/
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Photos: The Aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Eastern Canada
Alan Taylor |September 26, 2022 | 14 Photos In Focus
After causing heavy damage across parts of the Caribbean and Bermuda last week, Hurricane Fiona moved north toward Eastern Canada, making landfall this weekend as a post-tropical cyclone. The downgraded storm still packed heavy rain and winds, gusting up to 110 mph, driving storm surges and knocking down trees and power lines. Hundreds of thousands remain without power as emergency crews and utility workers work to clear debris and rebuild lines. Below is a collection of recent images from Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.
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Officials say 98,000 Russians enter Kazakhstan after call-up
26 minutes ago
Russians lineup to get Kazakhstan's a Personal Identification Number (INN) in a public service center in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022.
A day after President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization to bolster his troops in Ukraine, many Russians are leaving their homes.
(Vladimir Tretyakov/NUR.KZ via AP)
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — About 98,000 Russians have crossed into Kazakhstan in the week since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine, Kazakh officials said Tuesday, as men seeking to avoid the call-up continued to flee by land and air into neighboring countries.
Kazakhstan and Georgia, both part of the former Soviet Union, appeared to be the most popular destinations for those crossing by car, bicycle or on foot.
Those with visas for Finland or Norway also have been coming in by land. Plane tickets abroad had sold out quickly despite steep prices.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has said that only about 300,000 people with prior combat or other military service would be called up, but reports have emerged from various Russian regions that recruiters were rounding up men outside that description. That fueled fears of a much broader call-up, sending droves of men of all ages and backgrounds to airports and border crossings.
In announcing the number of Russians crossing the border, Kazakhstan Interior Minister Marat Akhmetzhanov said authorities will not send those who are avoiding the call-up back home, unless they are on an international wanted list for criminal charges.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ordered his government to assist Russians entering his country “because of the current hopeless situation.”
“We must take care of them and ensure their safety. It is a political and a humanitarian issue. I tasked the government to take the necessary measures,” Tokayev said, adding that Kazakhstan will hold talks with Russia on the situation.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-estonia-kazakhstan-d851fdd9e99bedbf4e01b98efd18d14b
Remains of soldier who disappeared during Korean War identified
By Mark Pratt, The Associated Press
Sep 25, 11:39 AM
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Defense Department shows
Cpl. Joseph J. Puopolo. (U.S. Defense Department via AP)
BOSTON — A soldier from Massachusetts who went missing during the Korean War and was later reported to have died in a prisoner of war camp has been accounted for using modern scientific techniques, military officials said.
Army Cpl. Joseph J. Puopolo, 19, of East Boston, was accounted for in August, according to a statement Friday from the:
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
"Progress on recovering missing troops, but still a daunting task ahead"
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/09/19/progress-on-recovering-missing-troops-but-still-a-daunting-task-ahead/
It was the news his family — including his now 99-year-old sister Elizabeth Fiorentini — has been awaiting for decades, Fiorentini’s grandson and Puopolo’s grandnephew, Richard Graham, said in a telephone interview Saturday.
“We have all heard about him, and we all knew of him, and we all knew he was a war hero. We always hoped we’d find him,” he said. “But I never thought my grandmother would be here for it.”
Fiorentini had not seen her brother since she was in her 20s, and had mixed reactions on hearing the news that his remains had been identified.
“In her mind it was like he died again,” Graham said.
Puopolo, an artilleryman with the 8th Army, was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, after his unit attempted to withdraw from Kunu-ri, North Korea, following the Battle of Ch’ongch’on, according to the military. Four former POWs reported in 1953 that Puopolo had died at a POW camp in February 1951.
After the war, the sides exchanged remains, but not all could be identified and those were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, the agency said.
A set of previously unidentified remains were disinterred in December 2019, and identified as being those of Puopolo through dental and anthropological analysis, mitochondrial DNA analysis and circumstantial evidence, the agency said.
The family hopes to hold a burial service for Puopolo in another month or so either in a family plot in Malden or the veterans’ cemetery in Bourne, Graham said. Puopolo was one of six children, all of whom had large families of their own, and as many as 60 or 70 relatives might show.
“He has not been forgotten,” Graham said.
https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2022/09/25/remains-of-soldier-who-disappeared-during-korean-war-identified/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=army-dnr
Remains of soldier who disappeared during Korean War identified
By Mark Pratt, The Associated Press
Sep 25, 11:39 AM
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Defense Department shows
Cpl. Joseph J. Puopolo. (U.S. Defense Department via AP)
BOSTON — A soldier from Massachusetts who went missing during the Korean War and was later reported to have died in a prisoner of war camp has been accounted for using modern scientific techniques, military officials said.
Army Cpl. Joseph J. Puopolo, 19, of East Boston, was accounted for in August, according to a statement Friday from the:
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
"Progress on recovering missing troops, but still a daunting task ahead"
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/09/19/progress-on-recovering-missing-troops-but-still-a-daunting-task-ahead/
It was the news his family — including his now 99-year-old sister Elizabeth Fiorentini — has been awaiting for decades, Fiorentini’s grandson and Puopolo’s grandnephew, Richard Graham, said in a telephone interview Saturday.
“We have all heard about him, and we all knew of him, and we all knew he was a war hero. We always hoped we’d find him,” he said. “But I never thought my grandmother would be here for it.”
Fiorentini had not seen her brother since she was in her 20s, and had mixed reactions on hearing the news that his remains had been identified.
“In her mind it was like he died again,” Graham said.
Puopolo, an artilleryman with the 8th Army, was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, after his unit attempted to withdraw from Kunu-ri, North Korea, following the Battle of Ch’ongch’on, according to the military. Four former POWs reported in 1953 that Puopolo had died at a POW camp in February 1951.
After the war, the sides exchanged remains, but not all could be identified and those were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, the agency said.
A set of previously unidentified remains were disinterred in December 2019, and identified as being those of Puopolo through dental and anthropological analysis, mitochondrial DNA analysis and circumstantial evidence, the agency said.
The family hopes to hold a burial service for Puopolo in another month or so either in a family plot in Malden or the veterans’ cemetery in Bourne, Graham said. Puopolo was one of six children, all of whom had large families of their own, and as many as 60 or 70 relatives might show.
“He has not been forgotten,” Graham said.
https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2022/09/25/remains-of-soldier-who-disappeared-during-korean-war-identified/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=army-dnr
Trump Claims Justice Department Cannot Prove He Ever Acted as a President
By Andy Borowitz
July 27, 2022
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Predicting that “their case is about to fall apart,” Donald J. Trump claimed that the Department of Justice has “zero proof” that he ever acted as a President.
“This is the greatest witch hunt of all time,” Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “Merrick Garland and the D.O.J. will never, ever find evidence of me doing something a President would do.”
“This is like accusing Rudy Giuliani of being a lawyer,” he added.
As for the White House aides who have been called before a grand jury, Trump said, “If any of them come up with even one example of me being a President, they’re lying.”
Calling the D.O.J.’s investigation of him a “disgrace,” he warned, “If I can be accused of being a President, then anyone can. This should never be allowed to happen in our country.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-claims-justice-department-cannot-prove-he-ever-acted-as-a-president
" trump no exception plus selling his brand "TRUMP" was part of his income stream-- so he exaggerated '
LOLOL
LYIN' TRUMPlies almost every time he opens his mouth....and he doesn't pays al his bills
In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims
The Fact Checker’s database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump while in office.
Updated Jan. 20, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_9
TRUMPOLOGY -- Trump’s Tall Tales Have Finally Caught Up With Him
Trump has built his brand on yuge exaggerations. Now, that superpower could crumble his empire.
What had been passed off as exaggerations, misstatements or even jokes — Trump just being Trump — were exposed as fabrications, and he responded with taunts, vicious accusations and a full-on assault on truth.
POLITICO MAGAZINE
By GWENDA BLAIR
09/23/2022 04:30 AM EDT
( Gwenda Blair is the author of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders And A President and an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. )
On Wednesday, September 21, New York State Attorney General Letitia James filed a 220-page lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court accusing Donald Trump and three of his children of using wildly inaccurate evaluations of Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago and multiple other properties to defraud lenders and cheat on taxes. The result, she said, was a “staggering” and “astounding” scheme that yielded an estimated $250 million in ill-gotten gains.
James termed these financial manipulations “the art of the steal,” a play on the title of Trump’s 1987 bestselling memoir The Art of the Deal.
In that book, Trump (or, more likely, his co-author, journalist Tony Schwartz) called his aggressive salesmanship “truthful hyperbole,” which was explained as “an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.”
The reason, Trump (or Schwartz) said, was that “people want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular,” and Trump was more than willing to oblige them. His flair for tall tales would be his MO for more than four decades and arguably catapulted him to the presidency. But now, his main tactic has left him open to a civil suit that threatens to unravel his empire.
He’d started back in the mid-70s with his first Manhattan project, the Grand Hyatt Hotel. It was a gut rehab of an older hotel, and the young developer was stuck with the original height. But he managed to make it seem new and exciting by attaching a glass skin to the old brick façade and by inflating the floor numbers so that guests staying on what would previously have been floors six to 26 could boast to friends that they were on higher and more exclusive-sounding floors 14 to 34. Likewise, he declared his hotel’s ballroom the biggest in the city and insisted this was the case even after he was told otherwise. On his next project, Trump Tower, what would be the 59th story elsewhere became the 68th floor, and the 700-foot-high building was billed as the world’s tallest concrete structure despite being third in line behind Chicago’s Water Tower Place (850 feet) and the MLC Center in Sydney, Australia (771 feet).
His father, Fred Trump, had built a real estate empire in Brooklyn and Queens with far more modest signature touches like an extra closet and a garage underneath each row house. Now Donald Trump was taking this idea to the next level, using a grab-bag of gimmicks (renumbered floors, biggest ballroom) to seize attention and bump up profits. People who had balked at paying $20 a night to stay at the Grand Hyatt’s predecessor were thrilled to fork over many times that amount to stay in essentially the same building once it was sheathed in glass and touted as the latest thing. At Trump Tower, residents paid top prices for condos and seemed oblivious that their view was no better than that available in adjacent buildings on floors that were at the same height but labeled with numbers nine digits lower. They wanted in on Trump’s eye-catching version of superluxury and glamour, and if the dramatic combination of pink marble, mirrors and shiny brass on offer at Trump Tower was perhaps a bit over-the-top, all the better.
Just how precarious the fortune Donald Trump supposedly made was would come out in a string of corporate bankruptcies in the 1990s, but the consequences for Trump himself were relatively slight. He’d turned the Trump brand into something that was perceived to add such value that the banks to which he owed nearly $1 billion let him off with what amounted to little more than a slap on the wrist. It was a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose world, and he was an expert. With the providential debut of the TV show “The Apprentice” in 2004, he reclaimed his reputation as a business genius in living rooms all over the country. It was initially a smashing ratings success, but in typical hyperbolic fashion, Trump said it was the top show on television for years, even when it didn’t make the top 20. Over the next decade, he developed the political gimmicks and stunts — challenging Obama’s citizenship, accusing Mexican immigrants of being rapists, promising to appoint anti-abortion Supreme Court justices — that took him all the way to the White House.
But the falsehoods that had worked to sell condos and attract bank loans worked less well in Washington. Redrawing a weather map with a black Sharpie, pushing unproven remedies on victims of Covid and pressuring Ukrainian president Zelenskyy to investigate Biden’s son in exchange for weapons that had already been appropriated created problems rather than solutions. A vast federal bureaucracy had replaced the small, intensely loyal staff that Trump had controlled as a real-estate developer, and the same mainstream media that had enabled his rise to super-stardom was subjecting him to relentless scrutiny.
What had been passed off as exaggerations, misstatements or even jokes — Trump just being Trump — were exposed as fabrications, and he responded with taunts, vicious accusations and a full-on assault on truth. Anyone who disagreed with him was a loser; press coverage that questioned his actions was fake news. Disruption, controversy and grievance were what he was selling now, and his salesman instincts were even more finely honed. In effect, he had undermined the very idea of truth, replacing it with what his senior White House consultant Kellyanne Conway famously called “alternative facts.”
In the process, what had once been his super power, hyperbole, crossed the line from what Trump called “truthful” and Stephen Colbert might have described as “truthiness” to outright lies. Financial statements used for loans and appraisals claimed his 11,000 square-foot apartment was 30,000 square feet and worth an eye-popping $327 million, nearly $100 million more than the most expensive condo sale in New York history; that Mar-a-Lago and other properties could be subdivided and developed into McMansions despite conservation easements; and that cash controlled by a business partner was his. Such actions weren’t innocent exaggerations; they were violations of the law.
And finally, despite Trump’s well-known avoidance of emails, texts and paper trails, there was evidence — lots of it.
Citing more than 65 witnesses, millions of documents and a decade’s worth of inaccurate annual financial statements containing more than 200 grossly misleading evaluations, Attorney General James filed a civil suit in state court and sent a criminal referral to federal prosecutors in Manhattan and a tax fraud referral to the IRS.
When I was writing my biography of the Trump family, I interviewed a real-estate lawyer named Eugene Morris who had done work for both Donald Trump and his father. Morris’s first cousin was the notorious political fixer Roy Cohn, who served as Donald Trump’s lawyer and mentor, and Morris told me that the younger Trump seemed particularly impressed by Cohn’s ability to avoid prison despite having been indicted for tax fraud.
No doubt Donald Trump is hoping that he will have the same fate, but he should be careful what he wishes for. James filed suit in civil court, which cannot sentence a defendant to jail, but if she prevails, she will demand repayment of the $250 million he allegedly pocketed through fraud and that he and his children be permanently banned from doing business in New York. The Trump Organization would be devastated, but in an O. Henry twist, Trump and his children would truly be sharing what might be seen as the equivalent of Cohn’s ultimate fate, being disbarred two months before he died.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/23/trump-tish-james-fraud-00058475
What did Trump really do?
Everything Trump touches turns to shit!
The Definitive Roundup of Trump’s Scandals and Business Failures
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The Effects of Climate Change
The effects of human-caused global warming are happening now, are irreversible on the timescale of people alive today, and will worsen in the decades to come.
https://climate.nasa.gov/
NO... Not Joe !!!!!!
No one lied as much as LYLIN' TRUMP about the Coronavirus
An unfinished compendium of President Trump’s overwhelming dishonesty during a national emergency
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It’s Just Fraud All the Way Down
The complaint filed today by New York Attorney General Letitia James is remarkable not for the shrewdness of the misconduct it alleges, but for its audacity.
By David A. Graham
September 21, 2022, 1:26 PM ET
At times in his prepresidential life, Donald Trump represented himself as a real-estate mogul, a television star, a business visionary, and a salesman par excellence.
But according to a complaint filed today by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Trump Organization was actually just a massive fraud with incidental sidelines in property development, merchandising, and entertainment.
The basic scheme alleged in the complaint is straightforward.
Trump would use different valuations for properties depending on what he needed: When he wanted to lower his taxes, he’d claim a low valuation; if he wanted to obtain loans on more favorable terms, he would inflate the valuation. His overarching goal was to inflate his claimed personal net worth year over year, which in turn allowed him to obtain better loans by personally guaranteeing them—all built on bogus claims about his assets.
“Claiming you have money you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal,” James said at a press conference. “It’s the art of the steal.”
The way Trump did this was often brazen, in James’s account. In 2011, for example, he obtained an appraisal for his property at 40 Wall Street, valuing the building at $200 million. But Trump claimed the building was worth nearly $525 million (even while attributing the valuation to information from the appraiser). In another case, he calculated an astronomical value of his apartment at Trump Tower by claiming that its square footage was roughly triple the true figure. He also changed values by shifting the methods he used to calculate them from year to year, so that, for example, the claimed value of undeveloped land at a golf course in Westchester County, New York, quadrupled from about $25 million in 2012 to nearly $102 million in 2013.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/ny-attorney-general-trump-organization-was-fraud/671500/
All the President’s Lies About the Coronavirus
An unfinished compendium of Trump’s overwhelming dishonesty during a national emergency
Christian Paz, August 31, 2020
President Donald Trump has repeatedly lied about the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s preparation for this once-in-a-generation crisis.
Here, a collection of the biggest lies he’s told as the nation endures a public-health and economic calamity.
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TRUMP WAS WORST PRESIDENT EVER ---- VERIFIED
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LOLOL. The real issue is LYIN' TRUMP and his 3 children.
AND..
The Definitive Roundup of Trump’s Scandals and Business Failures
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MORE: President Trump' , his business and three of his adult children in lawsuit
By Kaia Hubbard
Sept. 21, 2022, at 12:55 p.m.
New York’s attorney general announced a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, his business and three of his adult children on Wednesday, accusing them of engaging in “years of illegal conduct” that overstated their wealth on hundreds of occasions and could lead to broader criminal charges.
“I am announcing that today we are filing a lawsuit against Donald Trump for violating the law as part of his efforts to generate profits for himself, his family and his company,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said during a press conference on Wednesday. “The complaint demonstrates that Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system, thereby cheating all of us.”
New York Attorney General Announces Trump Lawsuit: ‘No One is Above the Law’
New York’s attorney general said Trump and his children violated multiple state laws, including falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements and insurance fraud.
The “major announcement” was the fruit of a years-long investigation by James’ office into the Trump Organization, spurred by testimony to Congress on what Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen described as misleading asset valuations.
James’ office revealed in March that the investigation had uncovered “significant evidence” suggesting that the Trump Organization for more than a decade relied on misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to “secure economic benefits,” the office said in court filings.
On Wednesday, after her office reportedly rejected a settlement offer from Trump’s team earlier this month, James announced the lawsuit, saying that Trump and his children violated multiple state laws, including falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements and insurance fraud. Additionally, James said that her office believes Trump’s conduct violates federal criminal law and will make a federal referral accordingly.
“This investigation revealed that Mr. Trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of New York,” James said Wednesday. “Claiming that you have money that you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal – it’s the art of the steal. And there cannot be different rules for different people in this country or in this state – and former presidents are no different … because no one, no one is above the law.”
The attorney general emphasized the intentional and deliberate nature of Trump’s conduct, pointing to multiple examples of how the former president inflated his net worth, like by inflating the square footage of his apartment from less than 11,000 square feet to 30,000 square feet on official documents, setting its value at $327 million.
“To this date, no apartment in New York City has ever sold for close to that amount,” she said.
James said that the lawsuit seeks to ban Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump from serving as an officer or director of any corporation or similar entity in New York, from acquiring any New York commercial real estate and from applying for any loan in a New York financial institution for five years.
Trump for months sidestepped a subpoena from James’ office requiring him to answer questions under oath, arguing that the civil investigation was being conducted to aid a criminal investigation, which James’ office is also involved in. When Trump finally did appear before James last month, he “declined to answer” questions under oath, invoking the Fifth Amendment – which guarantees a right to refuse to answer questions to avoid incriminating oneself.
Trump has repeatedly disparaged James, whom he described as a “renegade and out-of-control prosecutor” for making a career out of attacking the former president.
James said on Wednesday that “the pattern of fraud and deception that was used by Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization for their own financial benefit is astounding,” saying that it was all “in stark violation of the law.”
The development comes as Trump and his company have faced a number of other investigations, some of which have come to a head in recent weeks.
The Trump Organization also faces an upcoming trial on criminal tax charges, although Trump himself is not implicated. Last month, the business’ longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to related charges, agreeing to testify at next month’s trial if called.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-09-21/new-york-attorney-general-announces-trump-lawsuit-no-one-is-above-the-law
"The Queen Met 13 Sitting U.S. Presidents, Who Basked in Her Global Prestige"
Great article about the QUEEN meeting with the 13 sitting U.S Presidents.
" Queen Elizabeth II was a gracious host and guest over the last seven decades,
even when faced with protocol mistakes and awkward missteps. "
And of course the ORANGE FACED CLOWN
stumbled thru the event, making a fool of himself as he usually does
Trump Walks in Front of Queen Elizabeth, Causing Social Media Frenzy
President Trump briefly walked ahead of Queen Elizabeth II during his visit to Windsor Castle on Friday.
OKTOBERFEST 2022
THE OFFICIAL PAGE FOR THE 187TH FESTIVAL FROM 17.9. TO 3.10.2022
Today the Munich Beerfest traditionally takes place during the sixteen days up to and including the first Sunday in October with Oktoberfest 2020 starting on Saturday, 19th of September until Sunday, 4th of October.
With pomp and sorrow, world bids final farewell to Queen Elizabeth
By Michael Holden
, Kate Holton and Alistair Smout
02:29
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-world-prepare-say-last-farewell-queen-elizabeth-2022-09-18/;;
With pomp and sorrow, world bids final farewell to Queen Elizabeth
By Michael Holden
, Kate Holton and Alistair Smout
02:29
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-world-prepare-say-last-farewell-queen-elizabeth-2022-09-18/;;
Queen Elizabeth II mourned by Britain and world at funeral
By DANICA KIRKA, MIKE CORDER and SAMYA KULLAB
48 minutes ago
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom and the world bade farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday with a state funeral that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers — and crowds in the streets of London and at Windsor Castle — to honor a monarch whose 70-year reign defined an age.
In a country known for pomp and pageantry, the first state funeral since Winston Churchill’s was filled with spectacle: Before the service, a bell tolled 96 times — once a minute for each year of Elizabeth’s life.
Then, 142 Royal Navy sailors used ropes to draw the gun carriage carrying her flag-draped coffin to Westminster Abbey, where pallbearers carried it inside and about 2,000 people ranging from world leaders to health care workers gathered to mourn.
King Charles III, Camilla, the Queen Consort and members of the Royal family follow behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, as it is carried out of Westminster Abbey after her State Funeral, in London, Monday Sept. 19, 2022. The Queen, who died aged 96 on Sept. 8, will be buried at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year. (Danny Lawson/Pool Photo via AP)
The trappings of state and monarchy abounded: The coffin was draped with the Royal Standard and atop it was the Imperial State Crown, sparkling with almost 3,000 diamonds, and the sovereign’s orb and scepter.
But the personal was also present: The coffin was followed into the church by generations of Elizabeth’s descendants, including King Charles III, heir to the throne Prince William and 9-year-old George, who is second in line. On a wreath atop the coffin, a handwritten note read, “In loving and devoted memory,” and was signed Charles R — for Rex, or king.
“Here, where Queen Elizabeth was married and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth, and from the nations of the world, to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer,” the dean of the medieval abbey, David Hoyle, told the mourners.
The service ended with two minutes of silence observed across the United Kingdom, after which the attendees sang the national anthem, now titled “God Save the King.”
The day began early when the doors of Parliament’s 900-year-old Westminster Hall were closed to mourners after hundreds of thousands had filed in front of her coffin.
Monday was declared a public holiday in honor of Elizabeth, who died Sept. 8 — and hundreds of thousands of people descended on central London to witness history. They jammed sidewalks to watch the coffin wend its way through the streets of the capital after the service. As the procession passed Buckingham Palace, the queen’s official residence in the city, staff stood outside, some bowing and curtseying.
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The funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in central London, Monday Sept. 19, 2022. The Queen, who died aged 96 on Sept. 8, will be buried at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP)
The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is pulled past Buckingham Palace following her funeral service in Westminster Abbey in central London, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. The Queen, who died aged 96 on Sept. 8, will be buried at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, Pool)
Kullab reported from Windsor, England. Associated Press journalists Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless in London and David Keyton in Windsor contributed.
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The trappings of state and monarchy abounded: The coffin was draped with the Royal Standard and atop it was the Imperial State Crown, sparkling with almost 3,000 diamonds, and the sovereign’s orb and scepter.
But the personal was also present: The coffin was followed into the church by generations of Elizabeth’s descendants, including King Charles III, heir to the throne Prince William and 9-year-old George, who is second in line. On a wreath atop the coffin, a handwritten note read, “In loving and devoted memory,” and was signed Charles R — for Rex, or king.
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Queen Elizabeth II mourned by Britain and world at funeral
By DANICA KIRKA, MIKE CORDER and SAMYA KULLAB
48 minutes ago
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom and the world bade farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday with a state funeral that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers — and crowds in the streets of London and at Windsor Castle — to honor a monarch whose 70-year reign defined an age.
In a country known for pomp and pageantry, the first state funeral since Winston Churchill’s was filled with spectacle: Before the service, a bell tolled 96 times — once a minute for each year of Elizabeth’s life.
Then, 142 Royal Navy sailors used ropes to draw the gun carriage carrying her flag-draped coffin to Westminster Abbey, where pallbearers carried it inside and about 2,000 people ranging from world leaders to health care workers gathered to mourn.
King Charles III, Camilla, the Queen Consort and members of the Royal family follow behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, as it is carried out of Westminster Abbey after her State Funeral, in London, Monday Sept. 19, 2022. The Queen, who died aged 96 on Sept. 8, will be buried at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year. (Danny Lawson/Pool Photo via AP)
The trappings of state and monarchy abounded: The coffin was draped with the Royal Standard and atop it was the Imperial State Crown, sparkling with almost 3,000 diamonds, and the sovereign’s orb and scepter.
But the personal was also present: The coffin was followed into the church by generations of Elizabeth’s descendants, including King Charles III, heir to the throne Prince William and 9-year-old George, who is second in line. On a wreath atop the coffin, a handwritten note read, “In loving and devoted memory,” and was signed Charles R — for Rex, or king.
“Here, where Queen Elizabeth was married and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth, and from the nations of the world, to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer,” the dean of the medieval abbey, David Hoyle, told the mourners.
The service ended with two minutes of silence observed across the United Kingdom, after which the attendees sang the national anthem, now titled “God Save the King.”
The day began early when the doors of Parliament’s 900-year-old Westminster Hall were closed to mourners after hundreds of thousands had filed in front of her coffin.
Monday was declared a public holiday in honor of Elizabeth, who died Sept. 8 — and hundreds of thousands of people descended on central London to witness history. They jammed sidewalks to watch the coffin wend its way through the streets of the capital after the service. As the procession passed Buckingham Palace, the queen’s official residence in the city, staff stood outside, some bowing and curtseying.
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The funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in central London, Monday Sept. 19, 2022. The Queen, who died aged 96 on Sept. 8, will be buried at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP)
The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is pulled past Buckingham Palace following her funeral service in Westminster Abbey in central London, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. The Queen, who died aged 96 on Sept. 8, will be buried at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, Pool)
Kullab reported from Windsor, England. Associated Press journalists Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless in London and David Keyton in Windsor contributed.
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The trappings of state and monarchy abounded: The coffin was draped with the Royal Standard and atop it was the Imperial State Crown, sparkling with almost 3,000 diamonds, and the sovereign’s orb and scepter.
But the personal was also present: The coffin was followed into the church by generations of Elizabeth’s descendants, including King Charles III, heir to the throne Prince William and 9-year-old George, who is second in line. On a wreath atop the coffin, a handwritten note read, “In loving and devoted memory,” and was signed Charles R — for Rex, or king.
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Queen Elizabeth II mourned at funeral by Britain and world
By DANICA KIRKA, MIKE CORDER and JILL LAWLESS
30 minutes ago
https://apnews.com/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-funeral-bfe59d9c8f31d339f2cec2f8479cc3ce
Order of Service for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral
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Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral | Live updates
By The Associated Press
an hour ago
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Biden, other VIPs lie low as spotlight stays on late Queen
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
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By the numbers: Facts and figures about the queen’s funeral
By The Associated Press an hour ago
LONDON (AP) — Events surrounding Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral on Monday cap 10 days of national mourning and are expected to be watched by hundreds of thousands of people packed onto the streets of London and millions around the world.
Those are just a few of the staggering array of numbers generated by the death of the 96-year-old monarch after a 70-year-reign.
Here are some figures on the queen’s funeral and events marking her death:
— 2,000: Dignitaries and guests in Westminster Abbey for the the state funeral, ranging from King Charles III and other royals to world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden to members of the British public who helped battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
— 800: Guests at a committal service later Monday at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.
— 5,949: Military personnel deployed throughout the meticulously choreographed operation that began with the queen’s death on Sept. 8 at her Balmoral Estate in the Scottish Highlands. That number comprises 4,416 from the army, 847 from the navy and 686 from the air force. In addition, around 175 armed forces personnel from Commonwealth nations have been involved.
— 1,650: At least that number of military personnel involved in the pomp-filled procession of the queen’s coffin from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch after her funeral. A further 1,000 line the streets along the procession route When the coffin reaches Windsor, 410 military personnel will take part in the procession, 480 will line streets, 150 will be in a guard of honor and line steps and 130 more will fulfil other ceremonial duties.
— 142: Royal Navy ratings tasked with pulling the state gun carriage carrying the queen’s coffin on Monday from the Houses of Parliament for her funeral and afterward for a procession through London.
— More than 10,000: Police officers. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the “hugely complex” policing operation is the biggest in the London force’s history, surpassing the London 2012 Olympics which saw up to 10,000 police officers on duty per day.
— 262: Years since the last time a funeral was held at Westminster Abbey for a British monarch. King George II’s funeral was held at the abbey in 1760.
— 22: Miles (36 kilometers) of barriers erected in central London alone to control crowds and keep key areas around the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace secure.
— 1 million: The number of people London transport authorities estimated to visit the capital on Monday. Around 250 extra rail services will run to move people in and out of the city.
— 5: Miles (8 kilometers) of people who lined up to file past the queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall. The mammoth queue stretched back from the Houses of Parliament along the south bank of the River Thames to Southwark Park. The number of people who viewed the coffin over four days is not yet known.
— 125: Movie theaters that opened their doors to broadcast Monday’s funeral live.
— 2,868: Diamonds, along with 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 269 pearls, and 4 rubies, sparkle in the Imperial State Crown that rested on the queen’s coffin as it lay in state.
— 2: Minutes of silence at the end of the funeral at Westminster Abbey.
— 1: Coffin. The silent eye in the days-long storm of pomp, pageantry and protection is a single, flag-draped oak coffin carrying the only monarch most Britons have ever known.
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The Good Old Days indeed had it's own problems.
The old photos help us to appreciate how lucky some of us are today. Cheers.
YES, where was the National Guard
Original caption: "The War Department has assigned the 63rd Infantry as a permanent National Guard of Washington, D.C.
It will be the duty of the unit to guard the National Capitol in peace times as well as war."
100 Years Ago in Photos: 2022
A Look Back at 1922
Alan Taylor 2:48 PM ET
30 Photos In Focus
A century ago, the newly established Irish Free State was descending into civil war, Russia was still enduring a terrible famine, construction of the Lincoln Memorial was completed in Washington, D.C., Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party seized control of the Italian government, and much more. Please take a moment for a look back at some of the events and sights from around the world 100 years ago.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/09/photos-of-1922/671430/
1. The original caption, dated April 15, 1922, reads: "Speed demons beware. The Los Angeles Motor Corps with their new fleet of Indian motorcycles all ready and waiting to set out after Californian motorists who like to step on the gas." #
3. Charlie Chaplin (center) agreed to act as referee in an encounter between his colleague Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (left) and Joe Benjamin, a contender for Benny Leonard's lightweight crown on January 24, 1922. #
9. A boat race takes place in Mandalay, Burma, photographed during a tour by England's Prince of Wales. #
10. People tour through a snowfield in the Alps in cars fitted with caterpillar tracks and skids. #
6. In the Vinohrady district of Prague, primary-school students knit and crochet for Russian aid, volunteering for the Prague Czecho-Slovak Junior Red Cross on March 8, 1922. #
17/ The expert sharpshooter and performer Annie Oakley came out of retirement to practice for the Fred Stone Circus and Motor Hippodrome at the Mineola Fairgrounds on Long Island on July 27, 1922. Oakley performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show from 1885 to 1902. #
22. Original caption: "This bird-like glider is a plane belonging to the Berlin Aero Club, which covered a distance of three miles in the astounding motorless plane contests recently held in Germany." #
A military parade takes place on the fifth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, in Moscow, on November 20, 1922. With horses being scarce, the Red Army had to use American tractors to pull their artillery. #
22. The American baseball player Babe Ruth (center, wearing bow tie) poses with a crowd of young fans in New York City in 1922. #
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/09/photos-of-1922/671430/
100 Years Ago in Photos: 2020
A Look Back at 1920
Alan Taylor January 30, 2020
33 Photos In Focus
A century ago, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified—guaranteeing women the right to vote. In Europe, two short-lived but consequential wars were under way, the Polish-Soviet War and the Irish War of Independence. The 1920 Olympic Games were held in Belgium, an unsolved bombing on Wall Street killed 38 people, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio was elected as America’s 29th president, and much more. Please take a moment to look back at some of the events and sights from around the world 100 years ago.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/1920-photos-100-years-ago/605794/
1. In April 1920, Herbert McBride broke the world's motorcycle record for amateurs with a speed of 104.4 miles per hour....
Japanese women hold a demonstration to protest low wages paid to female factory workers
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, then a vice-presidential candidate, at his summer home in Campobello with his 14-year-old daughter Anna, in August 1920, on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. #
11. A "human bird" airplane is displayed at an "aero show" in July 1920. #
33. Original caption from December 19, 1920: "Mary Pickford takes a picture of husband Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who is executing a handstand on the roof of a building." #
15. Original caption: "Wall Street bomb explosion, September 16th, 1920, thirty dead." Another eight of the several hundred who were wounded later died in the hospital. Those responsible for the bombing attack in New York's financial district were never identified, though several anarchist and communist groups were suspected and investigated for years. #
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/1920-photos-100-years-ago/605794/