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Pompeo bekijkt opties met Kim Jong-un voor nieuwe top met Trump

De Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Mike Pompeo heeft tijdens een kort bezoek aan Pyongyang met de Noord-Koreaanse leider Kim Jong-un ‘opties uitgewerkt’ voor een nieuwe top tussen hem en de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump.

Washington noemde het een constructief gesprek waarin onder meer de locatie en de datum aan de orde zijn gekomen. Het is “weer een stap voorwaarts”, meldde het Amerikaanse departement zonder in details te treden.

Woordvoerster Heather Nauert vertelde wel dat Kim inspecteurs heeft uitgenodigd naar Punggye Ri te komen om zelf te kunnen vaststellen dat deze basis voor nucleaire testen “onomkeerbaar is ontmanteld”.

Pompeo vloog zondag meteen door naar Seoul om de Zuid-Koreaanse president Moon Jae-in verslag uit te brengen van de vorderingen. Maandag praat hij de autoriteiten in Peking bij.

Kim noemde de gesprekken met Pompeo “fantastisch”, laat het staatspersbureau KCNA weten. “Kim Jong-un is tevreden over de gesprekken met Pompeo. Beide partijen begrepen elkaars standpunten.”

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Wat een baas


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De Democraten wierpen alles in de strijd om de benoeming te verhinderen of tenminste over de midterms te tillen. Juridische kritiek op Kavanaugh was amper voorhanden, waarna ze #MeToo aanscherpten tot politiek wapen. Senator Diane Feinstein uit Californië had al anderhalve maand een brief in de la liggen van een vrouw die zei dat Kavanaugh haar 36 jaar geleden had aangerand. Ze vroeg anoniem te blijven. De Democraten lekten de brief, vlak voor de stemming over Kavanaugh, en haar naam: Christine Blasey Ford, professor psychologie in Palo Alto. Ford kwam in een maalstroom terecht. Er volgden nieuwe hoorzittingen waarbij ze geen bewijzen voor haar beschuldiging leverde. De twee hoorzittingen werden een mediaspektakel met emotie. Maar geen bewijs. De benoeming afwijzen zou betekenen: beschuldiging = schuld. De beschuldigde is weerloos.

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Democraten gooien haar gewoon onder de bus. Imaginemy...

Met oog op de midterms hebben de Democraten een strategische fout gemaakt. Via de #MeToo-actie tegen Kavanaugh wilden ze hun partijbasis motiveren te stemmen. Dat is onnodig, want het presidentschap van Trump doet dat al. De midterms zijn een referendum over hem. Maar de Democraten hebben onbedoeld de Republikeinse partijbasis gemobiliseerd te stemmen. Zij ziet Kavanaugh als slachtoffer van Democratische intriges. En het optreden van activisten die Republikeinse senatoren belagen in de lift, het restaurant of voor de huisdeur, als straatterreur. Democratische senatoren die kandideren in pro-Trumpstaten, zijn nu in problemen. ‘Kavanaugh’ draaide uit op een ‘Kangeroo Court’, zij het met boemerang-effect. Trump voert er campagne om Democraten te laten wegstemmen. Zijn strijdkreet: ‘Kavanaugh!’

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Kavanaugh!

 

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Justice Kavanaugh’s Law Clerks Are All Women, a First for the Supreme Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/politics/kavanaugh-women-law-clerks.html

As a result, more than half of the Supreme Court’s law clerks this year will — for the first time in American history — be women.

Former colleagues of Justice Kavanaugh have described a longstanding reputation of promoting women in law. During his 12 years at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the majority of Justice Kavanaugh’s law clerks were women — 25 of 48 — and during his confirmation hearings he testified that he graduated more of them to clerkships at the Supreme Court than any other federal judge.

Supreme Court clerkships — among the most coveted credentials in American law — offer young lawyers unusual influence over the court’s proceedings.

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Kavanaugh's Clerk Hires: Inside the Diverse, Ivy-Heavy Group of 48
https://www.law.com/nationallawjour...vy-heavy-group-of-48/?slreturn=20180910091725

“As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year. I look for the best,” Kavanaugh told a nationwide audience. “My law clerks come from diverse backgrounds and points of view. I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.”

The National Law Journal collected the available data on Kavanaugh’s 48 clerks. Here are some of the findings.

Gender diversity. As Kavanaugh stated, he has hired more women than men: 25 females and 23 men, to be exact. All four of his law clerks from 2014 to 2015 were women. And 21 of the women went on to U.S. Supreme Court clerkships.

In a July 12 letter to U.S. Senate leaders, a group of Kavanaugh’s female former clerks wrote, “It is not an exaggeration to say that we would not be the professors, prosecutors, public officials and appellate advocates we are today without his enthusiastic encouragement and unwavering support.”

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher associate Kathryn Cherry, who is African-American, clerked for Kavanaugh from 2013 to 2014, said he was “very interested in making sure that we have a seat at the table. He thought it was important, even necessary.” She added, “He urged me to talk more.”

Race and ethnicity. Thirteen of the 48 Kavanaugh clerks are minorities: five African-Americans, six Asian Americans, and two Hispanics. All but four of the minority clerks have gone on to the Supreme Court, though two of those four are recent clerks whose plans are pending.

As Kavanaugh told NLJ last year in an interview for a story on law clerk diversity, he has spoken often to black law student groups to interest them in clerkships. “A big part of it is demystifying the process, having a conversation about how it works, and encouraging the students to apply,” he said.

Latham & Watkins partner Roman Martinez, who is Hispanic and clerked for Kavanaugh in 2008, attributes Kavanaugh’s interest in diversity in part to his mother, who became a lawyer, prosecutor and judge. “He saw firsthand some of the stumbling blocks his mom faced,” Martinez said.

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‘THE GOOD CENSOR’: Leaked Google Briefing Admits Abandonment of Free Speech for ‘Safety And Civility’
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018...nment-of-free-speech-for-safety-and-civility/

Key points in the briefing can be found at the following page numbers:

P2 – The briefing states that “users are asking if the openness of the internet should be celebrated after all” and that “free speech has become a social, economic, and political weapon.”
P11 – The briefing identifies Breitbart News as the media publication most interested in the topic of free speech.
P12 – The briefing says the early free-speech ideals of the internet were “utopian.”
P14 – The briefing admits that Google, along with Twitter and Facebook, now “control the majority of online conversations.”
P15 – Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is linked to Google’s position as a platform for free expression. Elsewhere in the document (p68), Google and other platforms’ move towards moderation and censorship is associated with the role of “publisher” – which would not be subject to Section 230’s legal protections.
PP19-21 – The briefing identifies several factors that allegedly eroded faith in free speech. The election of Donald Trump and alleged Russian involvement is identified as one such factor. The rise of the populist Alternative fur Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party in Germany – which the briefing falsely smears as “alt-right” – is another.
PP26-34 – The briefing explains how “users behaving badly” undermines free speech on the internet and allows “crummy politicians to expand their influence.” The briefing bemoans that “racists, misogynists, and oppressors” are allowed a voice alongside “revolutionaries, whistleblowers, and campaigners.” It warns that users are “keener to transgress moral norms” behind the protection of anonymity.
P37 – The briefing acknowledges that China – for which Google has developed a censored search engine – has the worst track record on internet freedom.
P45 – After warning about the rise of online hate speech, the briefing approvingly cites Sarah Jeong, infamous for her hate speech against white males (Google is currently facing a lawsuit alleging it discriminates against white males, among other categories).
P45 – The briefing bemoans the fact that the internet has until recently been a level playing field, warning that “rational debate is damaged when authoritative voices and ‘have a go’ commentators receive equal weighting.”
P49 – The document accuses President Trump of spreading the “conspiracy theory” that Google autocomplete suggestions unfairly favored Hillary Clinton in 2016. (Trump’s suspicions were actually correct – independent research has shown that Google did favor Clinton in 2016).
P53 – Free speech platform Gab is identified as a major destination for users who are dissatisfied with censorship on other platforms.
P54 – After warning about “harassment” earlier in the document, the briefing approvingly describes a 27,000-strong left-wing social media campaign as a “digital flash mob” engaged in “friendly counter-commenting.”
P57 – The document juxtaposes a factoid about Russian election interference with a picture of Donald Trump.
P63 – The briefing admits that when Google, GoDaddy and CloudFlare simultaneously withdrew service from website The Daily Stormer, they were “effectively booting it off the internet,” a point also made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the FCC in their subsequent warnings about online censorship.
P66-68 – The briefing argues that Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are caught between two incompatible positions, the “unmediated marketplace of ideas” vs. “well-ordered spaces for safety and civility.” The first is described as a product of the “American tradition” which “prioritizes free speech for democracy, not civility.” The second is described as a product of the “European tradition,” which “favors dignity over liberty and civility over freedom.” The briefing claims that all tech platforms are now moving toward the European tradition.
P70 – The briefing sums up the reasons for big tech’s “shift towards censorship,” including the need to respond to regulatory demands and “expand globally,” to “monetize content through its organization,” and to “protect advertisers from controversial content, [and] increase revenues.”
P74-76 – The briefing warns that concerns about censorship from major tech platforms have spread beyond the right-wing media into the mainstream.

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Toch vreemd dat die mensen niet doorhebben hoe zelfdestructief ze bezig zijn.

 

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Trump Signs Landmark Music Bill Into Law
“They were treated very unfairly,” Trump says of musicians who will benefit from Music Modernization Act
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/trump-signs-music-modernization-act-736185/

 

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Knettergek die gozer. Onvoorstelbaar voor ons, maar in de VS is dit blijkbaar vrij normaal.

 

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Federal Court Orders Hearing in Judicial Watch Case Seeking Testimony of Hillary Clinton

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court ordered a hearing for Friday, October 12, regarding a request for testimony under oath from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills and several other State Department officials about Clinton email searches in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit about the Benghazi terrorist attack.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press...ch-case-seeking-testimony-of-hillary-clinton/

 

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Ye is net als Trump bijzonder intelligent. Niet op alle vlakken. Dit was een warrig optreden. De enige reden dat hij daar is komt doordat hij een bepaalde achterban heeft, zelfde geldt voor zijn vrouw.