That EO doesn't apply to Americans.
It's in the language of the EO.
Gag orders are absolutely NOT unconstitutional and the Supreme Court has considered them. First Amendment considerations are part of the equation.
Another part of the equation is something like the right to have a fair trial. We want to have the trial only happens in court and the jury doesn't hear a bunch of rumors or evidence that will not be presented in court.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/gag_order
I was on a civil suit once and we had to determine if the owner of property was negligent. He was sued after a pretty severe accident occurred.
The judge strictly controlled what the attorney suing him could say....in terms of prior incidents of negligence. I found out afterwards, he had multiple cases of negligence on his property. Every time the attorney got close to a question that would plant that in the jury's mind the judge shut him down hard. The idea being we should decide the case in front of us. (dunno if that is an actual gag order.)
Also defendants in criminal trials routinely have restrictions on their rights.
Trump likes posts from people who praise him. It doesn't mean he knows them well.
My point is this. How do we know she taught 25,000 CEOs? She said so.
How do we know the DOD hired her. She said so.
She was the VP of the Overseas Republicans group in the UK, but by the 2016 election, the group told her to stop using their name when she appeared on TV, because she was not longer in the group.
If we are about research, we should research her and her claims. A lot of what made her known on this board seems to come from Charlie Ward who a lot of folks on here distrust.
Buyer beware I say.
You do know that Rudy was a federal prosecutor in NYC right? That's how he rose to political power. And he became prosecutor just after the FBI learned how to use the RICO lawyers and seriously went after the Mafia. They completely changed their approach so they could go after the bosses and not just the street guys and they did a multi-year campaign of wiretapping to build their case. So as Rudy became the US Attorney for SDNY, there was this treasure trove of cases built on each of the five families. Rudy also made a contribution, but a lot of the work had been done starting in the late 1970's
If they are indeed Italians, than the Pope is deeply involved with our politics and the ownership of politicians thereof!
It does not follow. The mafia is definitely Italian Americans. They don't take orders from the pope or priests. If you're looking for Italian Catholic influence in our politics read up on Leonard Leo.
So I get calling the Five Republican Caucuses The Five Families is a reference to the five families of the Mafia......but then he makes a leap that each of the Five Families controls a specific caucus within the Republican side of the House. In fact, this is completely laughable.
Seriously. Even before the FBI destroyed the American Mafia, they did not have power like this. And they did have quite a bit of power. The American Mafia is a shell of what it used to be.
The part about is Sicily is just completely made up. The Mafia started in the 1800s.
To think that JIm Jordan is actually talking about real Mafia is bonkers, it's an interesting story this guy is telling and maybe if we were all high, we would believe it.
Also a lot of American Mafia members were of Southern Italian descent, not Sicilian. For example, Lucky Luciano is Sicilian, but Al Capone's family was from near Naples.
The Godfather families are based on the real NYC families. The book came out a few years after the Valachi hearings where made man Joseph Valachi testified before Congress and named the five families. That's what Mario Puzo was using for his book.
Dude, I'm sorry, but you cited the Gateway Pundit. I'm not sure anyone who works there knows that Russia has tried to take this city since last year
They've tried multiple times to encircle the city this year, going back to March.
They are running into the same problems the Ukrainians are running into elsewhere. When the defensive force is well prepared, you need a LOT of firepower to make gains. A Russian Military blogger was saying today unless they can muster 5x or 10x offensive power, they shouldn't attack.
A BTR-50 APC was destroyed near Avdiivka. Search that on twitter to see why that's significant.
I also believe Musk paid $0 for Twitter, refer to EO 13818 "Trump’s Executive Order 13818 Seizes Assets of ANYONE Involved in Human Rights Abuse or Corruption" https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/DCPD-201700923
You may believe this, but I can assure you, it didn't go down this way.
Twitter was a publicly traded company meaning the people who owned Twitter was anyone who owned Twitter stock. These was tens of thousands of people. There were almost 800 million shares of twitter.
They got paid.
https://smartasset.com/investing/what-will-happen-to-your-twitter-stock
In fact, Musk overpaid and tried to back out of the deal.
Also you should read the text of 13818, it does not apply to Americans.
The text says it only applies to "foreign persons."
Any time a sanctions program is issued you can go on the Treasury's sanctions website and see who is sanctioned, banks and financial companies need to do this to see if their customer is a drug dealer or the brother of the head of Hamas. So you should be able to check what I'm saying.
you should read this comment as well.
I think the ruling addresses this. She didn't grant everything the DOJ asked for
He's a defendant on release pending a criminal case. Restrictions on defendants are routine.
One restriction already in place he cannot talk to any witnesses without counsel present.
???
Gag orders are routine in criminal cases.
Here's one in a famous a case a decade ago
This is not true
It only applies to the DC case, but the location doesn't affect what would be a violation.
You think Trump wants to spend even a day in jail?
Also why would this trigger the storm?
I don't know if you trust ISW, but there maps are geolocated and have been accurate over the course of the war. Plus they link to their primary sources
In their latest report they point this assessment by a Russian military blogger https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8anr-qX0AE7vmN?format=jpg&name=large
Russian is gaining 10 meters a day he says and suffering heavy losses, and he asks even if they take the town after a while, can this considering success.
Putin not using the word counteroffensive, but instead active defense I also think is telling. I agree that this seems to be managing expectations
https://x.com/UKikaski/status/1713484368469950869?s=20
Both Ukraine and Russia are preparing for winter. Trying to make gains before everything slows down and each side builds reinforcements.
Judge is speaking in court. Written ruling to follow.
Gateway Pundit seems behind the news in Avdiivka.
Avdiivka has not gone well for the Russians. They tried a surprise attack to encircle the city. If you look at Avdiivka, Russia is occupying land both above and below it. The northern advance gaining a few hundreds meters the first day and the southern attack failed almost entirely. Last week they were trying 60 attacks a day, now they are trying 15 per day.
Analysts have noted that a few days ago, Russian officials saying they were conducting "active combat operations," not Putin himself, changed it to "active defense operations."
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1713710394206724600/photo/1
So Russia had made small gains at a very high cost.
On Oct 13, Russia was estimated to have lost 1,000 troops 25 tanks 50 armored personnel carriers 44 artillery systems 33 fuel vehicles.
One reason for this is supposedly Urkaine blew up a crucial bride used for supplies 30 KM behind Russian lines.
It's possible Russia is going to regroup and eventually take Avdiivka, but these are some of the worst Russian losses in the whole war.
as she’s from President Trump’s transition team, is on a DoD task force,
Sez Who?
Is there any confirmation of this, other than from Halper herself?
The Presidential Transition is a paid organization funded from the Federal governement https://web.archive.org/web/20161110181453/https://www.greatagain.gov/presidential-transition.html
There's probably ways to find out who exactly worked on it.
There's also room for fudging of this. Jan Halper lived in the UK in 2016 it appears, so it seems odd she would be part of the official transition, but not impossible. There's a ton of jobs to fill, so it's possible that people looking to fill these jobs put out feelers to their entire network, like
"Do you know anyone who would be good as the Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement?"
Getting an email like this can be fudged into being involved with the Transition, but it doesn't make you a member of the Trump Transition Team.
A Hamas official said this had been planned for two years.
BREAKING -- JIM JORDAN wins validation vote 152-55
WAY short of a total to be in a position to go to the floor.
He's 65 votes short of 217.
Republicans are going home.
No speaker over the weekend.
Um, this is intended as a joke right?
Laverne DeFazio & Shirley Feeney didn't have dream jobs. They had working-class jobs on an assembly line. They put bottecaps on beer bottles.
Also what's the deal about the big city? We are aware that women live in big cities aren't we? Also the big city was Milwaukee. Not then or now a glamour city. in fact, Laverne grew up in Brooklyn, so her family moved to smaller city.
You are aware that working class women worked right?
Also the show is set in the 1950s.....shortly after the 1940's when women went to work in factories to make up the shortage of male workers who went about to war.
Lenny was truck driver. Squiggy was a greaser or a parody of greaser
Shirley dated a boxer.
I mean did anyone watch this show?
So Jordan got more than Scalise did, but
The vote was conducted by secret ballot, with 113 members voting for Scalise, 99 for Jordan
OK, now they are doing another vote to see if Jordan can get all the votes he needs
HOUSE REPUBLICANS are doing a second ballot right now on JORDAN.
"Will you support Jordan on the floor." https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1712924743186227567?s=20
OK.
so pretty unlikely it was the Balfour Declaration.
Or it means, there's a lot of other charges can apply.
The Rosenbergs, for example, were not tried for treason.
I have a question.
Did you read what the Congressman's letter says?
I was expecting something big. It's not there.