“Wiserway” is about extremes – the main elements are a bass line and an autoharp, so there’s an ocean of space between them. It’s meant to resemble a tornado in that way – destructive when its close-up and so peaceful from a distance. http://screamingguitars.com/pavo-pavo-wiserway/
i miss much of the lyrics and can't find a copy of them .. if anyone could that would be mucho appreciated by this in some musical cases sorta hard of hearing guy .. lol .. :)
Donald Trump's Foundation gave money to a state attorney general's re-election bid. Shortly after, she didn't pursue a case involving Trump University. Joy Reid talks with Washington Post reporter David Farenthold about the latest developments in the Trump Foundation saga.
The father, who spoke on camera to the TV station but asked not to show his face, said he learned of the nickname when he asked his son, like he does every night after school, what he had learned that day. He couldn’t understand how the teacher, who he told Fox 4 was white, could assign such a derogatory — and commonly known — racial slur for a black person to a group of children in a school that is majority-minority.
“I had to see it myself,” he said.
He stopped by the classroom when it was empty, the father told Fox 4, and found evidence of the nickname tacked to the wall. On a laminated sheet of white paper, bordered by green construction paper, a classroom mantra-type sign bore the slur:
“Mrs. _____’s Jighaboos are at school today to achieve our 6th grade goals and prepare for 7th grade,” the sign read, according to a photo the dad sent Fox 4. “We want to achieve higher reading levels and score level III on the Reading STAAR test. We can make this happen by reading more challenging books, working as a team, and always giving 1oo percent while having fun!”
Around the sign’s border, it appears the students scrawled their initials.
School administrators conducted an investigation once the slur was brought to their attention, the Telegram reported.
The district told local media the teacher, who has not been identified, was not aware “jighaboo” — proper spelling jigaboo [ http://www.yourdictionary.com/jigaboo ] — was a racial slur.
“[We] would like to extend an apology for the inappropriate actions taken by one of our elementary teachers who failed to vet a class name,” a statement [ http://www.fox4news.com/news/198007868-story ] from the district said. “We take this situation seriously and the issue was immediately addressed with the principal and classroom teacher. Both the principal and the teacher have apologized to the parent reporting this concern.”
Fox 4 reported that the parents of the rest of the children in that class were to receive an apology as well, but it was unclear whether that had yet happened. The students in that class are white, African American and Latino. State data shows that during the 2014-15 academic school year, the 759 elementary students were 36 percent Anglo, 23.5 percent African American and 26.9 percent Hispanic.
The father who initially reported the transgression said he was unimpressed with the teacher’s response.
“Ignorance is not a defense,” he told Fox 4. “It is not a defense.”
But it’s a defense that has been used before.
In 2015, a Fox News anchor in Cleveland was commenting during the morning show about Lady Gaga’s performance at the Oscars when she said this [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Rl65upsqE (next below; with comments)]:
“It’s usually so hard to hear her voice with all that — jigaboo music, whatever you want to call it [in the background].”
In the wake of criticisms that followed, political analyst Jason Johnson wrote a scathing critique on NBC News.
“ ... The idea that Kristi Chapel had no idea that ‘jigaboo’ was a negative reference to black people is a total stretch,” Johnson wrote [ http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/oped-why-jigaboo-apology-gaga-comment-not-enough-n312626 ]. “She didn’t make an ‘insensitive’ statement she made a racist statement, and to believe her story you’d have to believe that a woman with a degree in journalism uses words on television that she doesn’t know the definition of.”
“It’s mind-boggling that a teacher in racially sensitive 2016 would adopt a term she doesn’t know, display it and have her students recite it,” Leona Allen wrote. “I’m left with a lot of questions.”
She said this situation demonstrates why a diverse staff is important, and that it prompts teachers to be more proactive in learning about the historical backgrounds of their racially diverse students.
She also offered background on the origins of the slur:
"A little history:
The slur is rooted in slavery. It was used as a derogatory term for a black person deemed too dark-skinned, hair too kinky, and therefore somehow thought of as less attractive — just undesirable period — than someone born with lighter skin and straighter hair.
It insidiously became a way that black people compared themselves."
By Mark Siegel 09/03/2016 04:44 pm ET Updated September 3, 2016
If you look at Donald Trump’s website you’ll find an application form for election monitors “to help stop crooked Hillary from rigging this election.” It is Trump’s purpose to undermine the fair electoral process as a face-saving alibi for his impending electoral defeat.
Trump has said that he expects fraud in “certain areas of states”. Given all of his campaign rhetoric it is not unreasonable to expect that Mr. Trump’s vigilante “monitors” would harass and intimidate voters specifically in black, Asian and Hispanic communities where he has little support. The resulting images of chaos, and the possibility of violence, that would likely ensue would undermine the very sanctity and legitimacy of American democracy.
Given the hostility between Trump and the Republican National Committee, it is highly unlikely that these so- called monitors would receive appropriate instruction or education, but rather would simply be turned loose on these “certain areas of states”, Trump’s euphemism for minority districts. As a long-time poll watcher in the United States, South Asia and South America, I have seen how electoral processes can be disrupted by frivolous challenges, malicious signature and ID checking, and other forms of voter intimidation.
Such harassment would likely lead to huge back-ups, multi-hour-long voting lines and even potential violence. It would ultimately undermine the confidence of the American people in the election outcome.
And this is exactly what Mr. Trump wants - a preemptive alibi for his anticipated electoral catastrophe.
Electoral violence is rare in the United States but not uncommon in the developing world. Violence abroad is most often incited by incumbent governments who believe that they will lose a fairly contested election, or by opposition parties that know they are about to lose and thus attempt to preemptively delegitimize the outcome.
International Federation of Election Services (IFES) officials William Sweeney, Chad Vickery and Katherine Ellena have recently noted that they have “witnessed the emergence of a campaign strategy whereby candidates...cast doubt on the integrity of the electoral process and the institutions that manage it during the pre-election period...to derail or establish lasting doubts about the legitimacy of the outcome.”
Let’s look at Pennsylvania as one case in point. Although Donald Trump has said the only way he can lose Pennsylvania is by election rigging, the Pennsylvania voter ID law, enacted by a Republican legislature and governor, was overturned by the court when not a single case of voter fraud could be produced as evidence to support the restrictive law. So when Trump claims that he can only lose Pennsylvania to Clinton as a result of rigging - despite polls consistently showing him ten points behind her - we should assume his comments are deliberate attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the Pennsylvania election.
And Pennsylvania is only one of many possible examples. Seventeen Republican-controlled states have enacted restrictive voter ID laws ostensibly to prevent fraud. But given the absence of any credible evidence of fraud, we must assume that voter suppression is the agenda. In case after case challenging these restrictive state laws, courts have found them to be unconstitutional, most recently in North Carolina.
There are approximately 185,000 precincts where Americans will vote in this year’s Presidential election. In the more closely contested states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia there are over 45,000 precincts. Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio allow citizens to carry concealed weapons anywhere.
Let us assume that 20% of the precincts in contested states are in areas where a majority of the voters are black, Hispanic or Asian. That would leave 9,000 precincts as ripe targets for harassment and intimidation. If goon squads provoked violence even in only 5% of these precincts, America and the world would see a spectacle of political chaos in 450 U.S. voting precincts.
The danger of violence is real. Mr. Trump shouts at his rallies for his supporters to “beat the crap out of them [demonstrators]” and “take them out on stretchers” significantly contribute to this danger. A coalition of 76 civil rights organizations has thus recently urged both the Republican and Democratic Parties to denounce attempts to have untrained citizen monitors positioned at or near polling centers on election day.
Is the possibility of harassment, intimidation and violence far-fetched? Anyone who has observed Trump rallies where Trump’s hyperbolic rhetoric has turned crowds into mobs, cannot but be concerned that the rabidity of his most ardent supporters could morph into such a result on election day. A Pew survey recently found that only 11% of Trump supporters believe that the presidential vote will be accurately reported all across the country. Thus close to 90% of Trump supporters already accept Mr. Trump’s declaration that the election will be rigged against him. These are the people that Donald Trump wants to fan out across America in black, Hispanic and Asian neighborhoods on November 8th. And thousands of them could be armed. In the biggest contested electoral prize - Florida - over one million citizens are licensed to carry concealed weapons.
What can be done to prevent this threat to American democracy? Local and state officials must immediately rise to the unfolding challenge. Clearly, Democratic and Republican state parties should carefully train and educate monitors for election day, and certify only legitimate poll watchers. Any group of de facto Trump election monitors, not trained and certified by responsible party committees, should not be permitted on or near polling sites. Police should be assigned to polling places in minority areas to make sure that voters who are waiting in line to vote are not harassed or have their identities frivolously challenged.
In addition, if it appears that significant harassment and possible violence are likely at polling places, state governors should preemptively mobilize their National Guards. And if governors refuse to act, the President should be prepared to federalize the National Guard.
The press should be positioned at black, Hispanic and Asian neighborhoods to record incidents of harassment and incitement to violence.
The League of Women Voters, the Urban League, the NAACP, La Rasa, CAIR, various Hispanic and good government groups all across the nation should prepare to have their own monitors at potential flash points in minority precincts.
Mr. Trump’s rhetoric, policy and personality have already fundamentally undermined the Republican Party of the United States. But we should not allow him to unleash goon squads to undermine the American political process itself.
On this Sunday, September 4 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we cover a variety of pressing issues including the plague of social justice warriors and the rise of the Trump campaign. We also analyze some recent Trump speeches you may not have heard because the mainstream media is censoring anything that makes Trump look good. And today's broadcast includes the release of several brand new, in-depth investigative reports.
Nazis and nationalists on Twitter are obsessed with Trump: report Donald Trump using a graphic from a fringe right-wing website at a rally last month. The original image featured a Star of David. Donald Trump is #trending with neo-Nazis and white nationalists on Twitter. September 4, 2016 A new report [ https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/cchs.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Nazis%20v.%20ISIS%20Final_0.pdf ] on online extremism found that haters on Twitter are obsessed with Donald Trump, and tweet about him more than nearly anything else. The study, from George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, blamed the GOP’s hater-in-chief for fueling the fires of haters online. His rise to the Republican presidential nomination mirrored the rise in viral hate — with the popularity of Nazi and nationalist accounts spiking more than 600% between 2012 and today. “Followers of white nationalists on Twitter were heavily invested in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign,” the report says. “White nationalist users referenced Trump more than almost any other topic, and Trump-related hashtags outperformed every white nationalist hashtag except for #whitegenocide.” According to the report, the hashtags “#trump,” “#trump2016” and “#makeamericagreatagain” are among the most popular with Nazi and nationalist users — along with “#altright,” “#antiwhite” and “#stopislam.” The paper also listed about 20 “seed accounts” that unite most haters, one of which is the personal account for David Duke — a former Ku Klux Klan leader who is a die-hard Trump supporter [ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ex-kkk-leader-david-duke-hopes-donald-trump-article-1.2732089 ]. The report found that even as Twitter has cracked down on accounts tied to ISIS, it has let extreme right-wing users spew hate “with relative impunity.” [...] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nazis-nationalists-twitter-obsessed-trump-report-article-1.2777738
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Trespassed: Craig Jungwirth Arrested & Facing Federal Charges
By Tim Peacock September 4, 2016
Scam artist and potential domestic terrorist Craig Jungwirth was apprehended by police this weekend and now faces federal charges for messages posted to Facebook promising to engage in an Orlando-style massacre of LGBTQ people in the Fort Lauderdale area.
A Broward County judge on Saturday held an emergency hearing to issue an arrest warrant for Craig Jungwirth, 50, for a violating bond conditions in an unrelated pending misdemeanor case.
But his attorney, Ron L. Baum, said he did not appear in court because he lives in Orange County, and was not able to get to the emergency hearing in time.
He was arrested by troopers after driving on a suspended license in Osceola County, said Orlando Police Lt. Richard Ruth. [SNIP]
The alarming Facebook posts were not openly discussed in court on Saturday.
Jungwirth was charged with defrauding an innkeeper for allegedly failing to pay a food and drink bill at a Wilton Manors establishment in late 2014. In a separate incident, in May, he was accused of damaging windows at Rumors Bar & Grill, also in Wilton Manors, and charged with criminal mischief, court records show.
The judge Saturday said Jungwirth’s violation of bond conditions and “escalating concerns of public safety,” along with his failure to appear in court Saturday, called for the “extraordinary measure” of revoking his bond and issuing an arrest warrant.
After being taken into custody, the FBI stepped in with the evidence they’d been accumulating (thanks to local and national advocates we’ve mentioned in previous coverage [ http://www.peacock-panache.com/tag/craig-jungwirth ]). Based on the information they assembled federal charges will be filed against Jungwirth this week.
Craig Allen Jungwirth, 50, was arrested Saturday by the FBI, after messages were posted threatening gay people in Wilton Manors, a small city in Broward County. [SNIP]
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is also investigating the Pulse shooting, began investigating these threats the day they were reported on Tuesday, Aug. 30.
FBI agents contacted Wilton Manors Police, who identified Craig Jungwirth as a known person and former city resident “… who had previously been the subject of numerous complaints involving the harassment and stalking of Wilton Manors residents.”
The arrest affidavit also said “Multiple complaints for stalking and harassing behavior were documented, as well as incidents of sabotage, vandalism, and trespassing.” [SNIP]
Jungwirth was arrested Saturday.
The FBI has charged him with one count of “threatening communications.”
He is in federal custody at the Seminole County Jail and is expected to have his initial appearance before a judge on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Orlando.
The ‘threatening communications’ indictment charges Jungwirth with knowingly transmitting “in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another.”
Though he denied allegations that he made the threats (as we reported previously, he attempted to argue he was “hacked [ http://www.peacock-panache.com/2016/09/craig-jungwirth-24394.html ]”) the FBI announced they have evidence he indeed committed the threatening acts. “The FBI subpoenaed Facebook, which identified Jungwirth as the user of the Facebook account that posted the threats, and traced the internet account with Brighthouse Networks to Jungwirth’s address,” WESH reported.
Reacting to the news of his arrest, Wilton Manors residents breathed a sigh of relief.
“Now with the new federal charges, he’s done. It’s over and we can all let our guard down and enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend,” added Rumors owner Nick Berry. “Wilton Manors Police did a fantastic job.”
Another Wilton Manors resident – Robin Almodobar – added [id.], Wilton Manors doesn’t have to be in fear anymore.”
My events are selling out cause you faggots are total patsies. None of you deserve to live. If you losers thought the Pulse nightclub shooting was bad, wait till you see what I’m planning for Labor Day.
After Facebook user David Herbert said he was contacting the police, Jungwirth added:
You can’t never catch a genius from MIT and since you faggots aren’t dying from AIDS anymore, I have a better solution to exterminate you losers. [SNIP]
I’m gonna be killing you fags faster than the cops kill niggers. It’s time to clean up Wilton Manors from all you AIDS infested losers.
Donald Trump’s Donation Is His Latest Brush With Campaign Fund Rules
"Donald Trump and the Mob"
By STEVE EDER and MEGAN TWOHEY SEPT. 6, 2016
Donald J. Trump with Florida’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, before speaking at a campaign event in Tampa on Aug. 24. Damon Winter/The New York Times
Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly denounced pay-to-play politics during his insurgent campaign, is now defending himself against claims that he donated $25,000 to a group supporting the Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi, to sway her office’s review of fraud allegations at Trump University.
In the 1980s, Mr. Trump was compelled to testify under oath before New York State officials after he directed tens of thousands of dollars to the president of the New York City Council through myriad subsidiary companies to evade contribution limits. In the 1990s, the Federal Election Commission fined Mr. Trump for exceeding the annual limit on campaign contributions by $47,050, the largest violation in a single year. And in 2000, the New York State lobbying commission imposed a $250,000 fine for Mr. Trump’s failing to disclose the full extent of his lobbying of state legislators.
For the most part, Mr. Trump has seemed unrepentant. Testifying in 1988 about a $50,000 bank loan he had first guaranteed, and then repaid, on behalf of Andrew J. Stein’s successful campaign for New York City Council president, Mr. Trump made no bones about the move.
Mr. Trump and Ms. Bondi, who is supporting his campaign, have denied any connection between his donation and her office’s decision not to proceed with an investigation. Asked about the subject on Monday, he called Ms. Bondi “beyond reproach” and said that he “never spoke to her about that at all.”
A spokesman for the Florida attorney general’s office, Gerald Whitney Ray, said the office’s inquiry never came across Ms. Bondi’s desk: Lower-level staff members made the decision not to proceed with an investigation of their own. Mr. Ray also said the office never gave any thought to joining in the New York attorney general’s case.
But Democrats and liberal watchdogs seized the opportunity to accuse Mr. Trump of practicing exactly the sort of corrupt politics that he rails against on the campaign trail.
Campaigning in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton demanded details of the conversation in which Ms. Bondi solicited Mr. Trump’s donation. “The American people deserve to know what was said, because clearly the attorney general did not proceed with the investigation,” she told reporters.
And Jordan Libowitz, a spokesman for the liberal-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said Mr. Trump’s donation to Ms. Bondi gave new meaning to his more recent boasts about the efficacy of his political giving. “It sure looks like that is what is going on here,” said Mr. Libowitz, whose group filed a complaint about the donation with the I.R.S.
Though Mr. Trump denies it in the case of Ms. Bondi, he has been brazen in asserting that he has used political donations to buy influence — and routinely asks voters to trust that, because he possesses that insider’s knowledge, he can reform a system that he calls “rigged.”
During a Republican debate last summer, Mr. Trump responded about his ability to curry favor with public officials when he was confronted with one of his own statements: “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.”
“You’d better believe it,” Mr. Trump responded. He added: “When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.”
Indeed, Mr. Trump’s history of political giving stretches back decades — and has repeatedly drawn regulatory scrutiny.
When a New York State commission investigated contributions to state and local officials in the 1980s, it subpoenaed Mr. Trump, who had contributed $150,000 to candidates in 1985. Under oath, he said he had circumvented the state’s $50,000 individual and $5,000 corporate contribution limits by disbursing his contributions to Mr. Stein, the city councilman, through 18 subsidiary companies.
“My attorneys basically said that this was a proper way of doing it,” Mr. Trump testified.
In an interview, Mr. Stein said he did not recall what Mr. Trump had sought in return for his contributions, or for a $50,000 campaign loan that Mr. Trump first guaranteed and then repaid. He denied ever agreeing to do Mr. Trump any favors.
Years later, Mr. Trump came under fire from the Federal Election Commission for violating a $25,000 annual limit on contributions in the late 1980s. Mr. Trump resisted paying a fine, insisting that he had been unaware of the federal limit and that, once informed of it, he sought refunds.
Only when the commission threatened to take him to court did Mr. Trump agree to a $15,000 civil penalty, records show.
“We were going to fight it, but it would have cost more money than the settlement,” Mr. Trump said at the time.
It was with similar reluctance that in 2000, Mr. Trump apologized for failing to disclose to New York State officials that he had spent $150,000 to finance ads opposing a proposed casino in the Catskills, which he saw as a threat to his Atlantic City properties. The ads were created and placed by a political consultant, Roger Stone, and appeared under the name of a front group, the Institute for Law and Society.
A settlement led to what, at the time, was the largest penalty imposed by the state lobbying commission: Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts paid $50,000, and Mr. Stone and the front group each paid $100,000, without admitting wrongdoing. In a statement, all three said they “apologize if anyone was misled.”
In recent years, Mr. Trump has made tens of thousands of dollars in contributions to at least four state attorneys general — Ms. Bondi of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas, both Republicans, and the Democrats Eric Schneiderman of New York and Kamala Harris of California — whose offices have looked into complaints about Trump University.
Ms. Harris’s office said it, too, was investigating the company, and an aide said that she donated the $6,000 from Mr. Trump to charity.
Mr. Schneiderman’s fraud lawsuit is still pending. But Mr. Trump, whose donation of $12,500 to Mr. Schneiderman preceded his election, filed a state ethics complaint alleging that Mr. Schneiderman continued to seek donations, calling the fraud case a “shakedown.”
Law professor: Trump can be impeached for fraud and racketeering before he even takes office
"Donald Trump and the Mob"
David Ferguson 21 Sep 2016 at 12:39 ET
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is interviewed by ABC News on June 16, 2015. [ABC News]
A legal researcher at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law says that current lawsuits against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are sufficient grounds to impeach him from the presidency.
“In the United States, it is illegal for businesses to use false statements to convince consumers to purchase their services,” Peterson wrote in a paper published Monday .. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2841306 .. titled Trump University and Presidential Impeachment. “The evidence indicates that Trump University used a systemic pattern of fraudulent representations to trick thousands of families into investing in a program that can be argued was a sham.”
“Fraud and racketeering are serious crimes that legally rise to the level of impeachable acts,” he said.
Trump University, say a number of litigants, was billed as a series of seminars with Donald Trump and top real estate professionals that would teach enrollees to wheel and deal in high-value properties and amass millions in profit.
Peterson said that evidence in the case thus far shows that in no way was Trump University an actual educational seminar, but in fact a “sales environment” where enrollees were urged to put more and more of their own money into the program.
“Sales practices at each seminar were systematically designed, painstakingly choreographed, and implemented ruthlessly,” he wrote, based on internal memos between Trump University administrators and staff. “Posing as teachers, sales staff were trained to manipulate students’ emotions in order to sell expensive ‘Trump elite’ packages.”
“Trump University trained staff to find the emotional vulnerabilities of students and exploit those vulnerabilities to sell additional Trump University packages,” he said.
Many attendees were left bankrupt with their credit ruined. Then when they attempted to seek redress, their calls weren’t returned and the company appeared to evaporate into thin air.
“Somehow in the cacophony of the 2016 presidential campaign, no legal academic has yet turned to the question of whether Trump’s alleged behavior would, if proven, rise to the level of impeachable offenses under the impeachment clause of the United States Constitution,” said Peterson, who specializes in consumer protection and litigation of predatory scams.
-- ·Fraud and racketeering are serious crimes. Both fraud and racketeering are considered felonies under state and federal law. First-degree fraud is punishable by up to four years in prison in Trump’s home state of New York. Racketeering is punishable by up to 20 years in prison under federal law.
·Civil cases can legally inform Congress on whether impeachment is justified. The U.S. Constitution has never required criminal conviction prior to impeachment proceedings.
·Impeachment for pre-incumbency conduct is legally permissible under the U.S. Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution’s text requires impeachable conduct to have occurred while the president is in office. The framers rejected alternative formulations of impeachable offenses that included limitations to incumbent activity.
Peterson has written multiple books on consumer protection and predatory scams, including Consumer Law: Cases and Materials and Taming the Sharks: Towards a Cure for the High Cost Credit Market.
Regarding the Trump Foundation's payment of Trump legal obligations, are you saying, Kellyanne, that Trump's Foundation is not-so-much a charity as it is just a checkbook through which Trump channels funds to whatever use suits him? http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125298160
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