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Californië zet zich schrap voor de terugkeer van kritieke brandomstandigheden

Rebecca Falconer

Brandweerlieden werken de Bobcat Fire in het Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles, Californië. De bosbrand heeft verbrand meer dan 114.082 hectare met 63% insluiting, per de Los Angeles County Fire Department. Foto: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Brandweerlieden in het westen van de VS kunnen verwachten "kritische brand weersomstandigheden" zondag, met rode vlag waarschuwingen "over een groot deel van Californië, de centrale Rockies en de High Plains," de National Weather Service (NWS) waarschuwt.

Waarom het er toe doet: Bosbranden hebben verbrand een record 3,6 miljoen hectare in Californië alleen dit jaar, het doden van 26 mensen en razing meer dan 7.500 structuren, per Cal Fire. Nutsbedrijf Pacific Gas & Electric zegt vanaf zondag in delen van 16 provincies de stroom uit te schakelen naar zo'n 89.000 klanten vanwege brandgevaar.

Het grote plaatje: 72 grote branden brandden in de VS in het weekend - waaronder 20 in Californië, 15 in Idaho, 11 in Oregon en 10 in Montana, volgens de National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).
Terwijl de regen brandweerlieden in verscheidene staten "vooruitgang in de richting van insluitingsdoelstellingen" hielp, onder ogen gezien die in Noordelijk Californië in het bijzonder de bedreiging van sterke winden onder ogen, merkt NIFC op. Meer dan 17.000 brandweerlieden had "uitstekende vooruitgang" op de resterende branden in Californië op vrijdag, Cal Fire zei in een verklaring.

Dreigingsniveau: "Droge en winderige omstandigheden blijven verhogen tot kritieke brandweersomstandigheden in een breed gebied van de westelijke VS in de Vlaktes te bevorderen," zei de NWS.
Cal Fire opgemerkt rode vlag waarschuwingen waren van kracht voor zaterdag tot en met maandag, die de meeste gebieden van Trinity County naar beneden door de Diablo Range en Central Sierra Mountains, met een lage luchtvochtigheid brengen kritische brand weersomstandigheden.
"Vlagerige wind en lage luchtvochtigheid zal leiden tot kritisch vuur weer, evenals ongewoon hoge temperaturen," zei Cal Fire.

"Een Fire Weather Watch is van kracht voor later in het weekend in het weekend in het weekend voor sterke wind en lage luchtvochtigheid die de Westelijke Klamath in het noorden en de San Gorgonio Pass en Inland Empire in het zuiden. Hoge druk brengt verhoogde temperaturen in de hele staat door het weekend en in volgende week."
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Lindsey Graham :

I hope to get her out of committee by the 26th of October

video 0:38 minuut
twitter.com/Acyn/status/1310025907923...

Betreft de benoeming van de nieuwe rechter voor de Supreme Court.
Eerst gaat het via de Judiciary Committee van de Senaat, waarvan Graham de voorzitter is.
12 October t/m 16 October hoorzittingen van de judiciary committee met de voorgedragen rechter
Volgens de wet minimaal een week beraadslagingen en stemming
26 October kan zij dan voorgedragen worden aan de Senaat.
De senaat houdt hoorzitting met de nieuwe rechter, waarna tot stemming wordt overgegaan.
Per 26 October ligt het aan Mitch McConnell, de Senate Majority Leader, hoe snel dit gebeurt.
3 november zijn de verkiezingen.
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Russische Ambassade in USA :

We call on @facebook administration to stop avoiding constructive communication with the Russian authorities, to establish a normal dialogue on issues of mutual concern.

twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/13096024...

Bij de 2016 verkiezingen gebruikte de GRU (Russische Militaire Inlichtingen Dienst) Facebook om kiezers te manipuleren in de US.
Welke acties FaceBook heeft ondernomen is mij niet bekend.
Duidelijk is wel dat het Kremlin geïrriteerd is.
Het grappige is wel dat de Russische Ambassade met FaceBook communiceert via Twitter
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Fox News ;
Jeanine (Pirro) tries to convince her audience that Amy Coney Barrett is not going to take away their healthcare

video 0:30 minuut
twitter.com/Acyn/status/1310023913825...
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US President Donald Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett, a favourite of social conservatives, to be the new Supreme Court justice

twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/130996...

Amy Coney Barrett: Who is Trump's Supreme Court pick?

The long-term academic, appeals court judge and mother of seven was the hot favourite for the Supreme Court seat.

Barrett's record on gun rights and immigration cases imply she would be as reliable a vote on the right of the court, as Ginsburg was on the left, according to Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University.

"Ginsburg maintained one of the most consistent liberal voting records in the history of the court. Barrett has the same consistency and commitment," he adds. "She is not a work-in-progress like some nominees. She is the ultimate 'deliverable' for conservative votes."

And her vote, alongside a conservative majority, could make the difference for decades ahead, especially on divisive issues such as abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act (the Obama-era health insurance provider).

Barrett's legal opinions and remarks on abortion and gay marriage have made her popular with the religious right, but earned vehement opposition from liberals.
But as a devout Catholic, she has repeatedly insisted her faith does not compromise her work.

www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-543...
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Sealed Docs: FBI Investigating Jacob Wohl Over Roger Stone Trial Leaks

The hapless operative and his sidekick(Burkman) are being probed for potential witness harassment, criminal contempt, and obstruction of justice, according to a sealed filing.

The FBI is investigating blundering conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for a series of possible crimes, according to a document filed by federal prosecutors.
( Wohl and Burkman, who have become notorious in the political world for their quickly foiled schemes to smear Trump opponents with bogus sexual assault allegations.)

Ironically, the document revealing the investigation was filed just days after Wohl and Burkman staged a fake FBI raid on Burkman’s home in a bid for media attention.

The FBI investigation centers on Wohl and Burkman’s February release of confidential juror questionnaires from the trial of Trump associate Roger Stone. The FBI is investigating the pair for potential witness harassment, criminal contempt, and obstruction of justice, according to the filing.

The case could mark more legal trouble for the pair, who have become notorious in the political world for their quickly foiled schemes to smear Trump opponents with bogus sexual assault allegations.

www.thedailybeast.com/sealed-docs-rev...
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Ironically, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are facing a real FBI investigation just days after staging a fake, unrelated FBI raid on Burkman's house for media attention.

2de tweet
twitter.com/willsommer/status/1309936...

Blundering conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are under FBI investigation, according to a confidential court filing from federal prosecutors.

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Wadloper; Ik stel je voor om elke avond voor het slapen gaan 'n pilletje Temesta in te nemen.
Helpt echt tegen angstdromen.
hirshi
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het zwaard schreef op 27 september 2020 11:59:

Wadloper; Ik stel je voor om elke avond voor het slapen gaan 'n pilletje Temesta in te nemen.
Helpt echt tegen angstdromen.
Heb je daar ervaring mee?
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In de Senaat trekt senator Amy Klobuchar van leer tegen de Republikeinse senator Ted Cruz.
Cruz voerde aan dat het noodzakelijk was snel een rechter aan te stellen bij de Supreme Court.

Ze laat duidelijk merken dat zij Trump's spelletjes zat is.

lange versie 9:34 minuut
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8...

korte versie 6:59 minuut
twitter.com/Jayekanan/status/13091931...
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closer schreef op 20 september 2020 20:22:

Het begint al aardig op The Handmaid's Tale te lijken.
The false link between Amy Coney Barrett and The Handmaid’s Tale, explained

They’re not actually connected. But the story spread anyway.

On Saturday, President Donald Trump chose Notre Dame law professor and federal appellate judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to take Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court. The news threatens to reignite a storm of controversy around Barrett’s religion that has been building since 2017.

Barrett is a devout Catholic. She has written before about her belief that Catholicism should affect a judge’s jurisprudence, and Democrats discussed her views widely when she was nominated to the federal bench in 2017. In a moment that has become infamous on the right, Sen. Dianne Feinstein declared that “the dogma lives loudly within you” during Barrett’s hearing, a phrase some conservatives took to be an attack on Barrett’s Catholicism.

Barrett is also part of a small Catholic group known as People of Praise, and that’s where her religious affiliations get especially touchy. Some liberals argue Barrett’s membership in this group, which teaches that husbands are the heads of families and have authority over their wives, signals that she will hand down religiously motivated conservative opinions if confirmed to the Supreme Court, particularly when it comes to women’s reproductive freedom and the rights of the queer community.

Meanwhile, conservatives reply that Barrett is a high-powered federal judge who is also married, so she can’t be all that oppressed by her husband, and that liberal critiques of the way Barrett’s religion affects her judicial obligations are nothing more than anti-Catholic prejudice at work.

One of the weirder ways this debate has played out since Barrett was first discussed as a potential Supreme Court nominee is the fight over whether or not People of Praise, the group she belongs to, is also one of the inspirations for The Handmaid’s Tale. In Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel (and its recent TV adaptation), fertile women are forced to live as childbearing slaves called handmaids. The group isn’t an established inspiration for the book — but the story has developed legs anyway.

www.vox.com/culture/21453103/amy-cone...

To be absolutely clear: People of Praise is not an inspiration for The Handmaid’s Tale, and the group does not practice sexual slavery or any of the other dystopian practices Atwood wrote about in her novel. But the argument over whether or not the two are connected reflects the deeply contentious atmosphere in which Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court occurs — and the immense symbolic weight The Handmaid’s Tale carries in American popular culture.

Asked about her inspiration for The Handmaid’s Tale by Politico as the controversy heated up, Atwood said she wasn’t sure which group she was talking about in 1987. Her archive of work and research is at the University of Toronto, where she can’t currently access it due to Covid-19 restrictions. But she’s on the record as going through her Handmaid’s Tale archives for journalists plenty of times in the past, and during those interviews, she’s always cited People of Hope, a different Catholic charismatic spinoff that calls women handmaids.

Specifically, People of Hope is a fundamentalist group in New Jersey that some former members have said behaves like a cult and which has allegedly arranged marriages between teenagers. The People of Hope call wives “handmaids,” and when Atwood saw that word in an Associated Press clipping about the group, she underlined it in pen. It’s rumored that it’s here that she developed the idea of using the name to begin with.
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Amy Coney Barrett, John Roberts & Brett Kavanaugh all worked on George W. Bush‘s legal team during 2000 recount in Florida & worked to stop votes from being counted.

John Roberts en Brett Kavanaugh zijn nu Supreme Court rechters. Kavanaugh is aangesteld door Trump.

twitter.com/AriBerman/status/13098964...

Likely Trump SCOTUS Pick Worked To Overturn 2000 Election
Trump says he expects the high court to decide the 2020 election — and if Barrett is appointed, the court will have 3 justices who worked directly on Bush v. Gore

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election.

The Supreme Court decision allowed the previous vote certification to stand, as made by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, for George W. Bush as the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes. Florida's votes gave Bush, the Republican candidate, 271 electoral votes, one more than the required 270 to win the Electoral College, and the defeat of Democratic candidate Al Gore, who received 266 electoral votes (a "faithless elector" from the District of Columbia abstained).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

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Likely Trump SCOTUS Pick Worked To Overturn 2000 Election

Trump says he expects the high court to decide the 2020 election — and if Barrett is appointed, the court will have 3 justices who worked directly on Bush v. Gore

President Donald Trump this week said he wants to immediately fill the new Supreme Court vacancy because he expects the panel to decide the 2020 presidential election.

On Friday, multiple news outlets reported that Trump intends to nominate Amy Coney Barrett, who would be the third justice on the court to have worked for Republicans directly on the Bush v. Gore case that handed the 2000 election to the GOP. She would be the second installed on the court by Trump.

Three years ago, Barrett told the Senate Judiciary Committee that “one significant case on which I provided research and briefing assistance was Bush v. Gore.” She said she worked on the case with the law firm Baker Botts while it was in Florida courts. She declined to detail the scope of her work on the case and for other clients at the firm, saying: “I no longer have records of the matters upon which I worked.”

Earlier this week, Trump refused to say that he would peacefully transfer power if he loses the election in November. He further suggested the Supreme Court will likely decide the election, underscoring the need to fill the seat left open by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.

"I think this will end up in the Supreme Court,” he said. “And I think it's very important we have nine justices.”

If Coney is confirmed, she will join two other lawyers from the Republican team that worked on the case that handed the GOP the presidency in 2000.

Chief Justice John Roberts counseled then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during that election, according to emails. The Los Angeles Times reported that Roberts “traveled to Tallahassee, the state capital, to dispense legal advice” and “operated in the shadows at least some of those 37 days” that decided the election. Roberts has a long record of working to limit voting rights.

It is a similar story for Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The Miami Herald reported that during the Florida standoff, “Kavanaugh joined Bush’s legal team, which was trying to stop the ballot recount in the state.” Kavanaugh appeared on national television to push for the ruling that halted the statewide recount and handed Bush the presidency.

www.dailyposter.com/p/likely-trump-sc...
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Hirshi: Heb je daar ervaring mee?

Ja, heb het gezien bij mijn buurman. Is 'n gans ander mens geworden door dit middel. Gedaan met zijn nare dromen over hoe slecht het wel is om te leven in dit land vol met vreemden. Ik raad het iedereen aan. Misschien ook 'n goed tip voor Wilders en Baudet.
closer
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luchtschip schreef op 27 september 2020 12:52:

The false link between Amy Coney Barrett and The Handmaid’s Tale, explained
Ja, ik had dat ook gelezen. Maar toen ik de vergelijking met The Handmaid’s Tale maakte kende ik de People of Praise nog niet. Het sloeg dan ook niet op specifieke details of personen, meer op de algehele dystopie die langzamerhand werkelijkheid wordt.
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Donald Trump op twitter

I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night. Naturally, I will agree to take one also. His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly. Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???

Daar kan Joe Biden alleen maar op reageren met :

It's hard to respond to something so idiotic

twitter.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1310...
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Battle for power in US elections as Trump and Biden gear up for presidential debates

The Trump-Biden race is moving so fast that you can barely catch your breath. After Biden's nomination of Kamala Harris to the vice-presidential slot, money poured into his campaign.

www.express.co.uk/news/world/1340480/...
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Aardig artikel in De Volkskrant:
Biden of toch weer Trump: klopt de voorspelling van de Amerikaanse peilingbureaus ditmaal wél?

De winst van Donald Trump in 2016 kwam als verrassing, nadat de peilingen Hillary Clinton aanwezen als winnaar. Ditmaal ligt Joe Biden flink voor. Kunnen we de voorspellingen nu wél vertrouwen?

www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/biden-of...
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