Well, folks... great day so far! First the gym... then lunch...
(Bacon, tomato, and asiago cheese on sourdough bread with parmesan mayo...)
And now... newsbiting!
Before I begin today's newsbiting, however, I strongly urge you all to check out ALL of yesterday's newsbites - that is if you didn't yesterday.
(*WINK*)
Anyway...
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* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-mosby-email-20150609-story.html#page=1
About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore police officers — the start of a fatal encounter — the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked police to target the intersection with "enhanced" drug enforcement efforts, court documents show.
* AND THIS IS COMING OUT... NOW...?!?!
* THIS MOSBY IS A REAL PIECE OF SHIT...
"State's Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St," Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby's Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to a Western District police commander.
The email was disclosed for the first time Tuesday in a motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six officers being prosecuted in Gray's arrest and death. The attorneys said Mosby's involvement in the police initiative means that she should be removed from the case.
* OR... CHARGED AS A CO-DEFENDANT!
(*SNORT*)
* NO... BUT SERIOUSLY... WHAT A PIECE OF GARBAGE - HIDING THIS LITTLE TIDBIT WHILE PROCLAIMING HERSELF HOLIER THAN THOU.
"Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the story and as such is a central witness," the defense attorneys argued. "This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the same."
(*SNORT*) (*NOD*)
Mosby, through spokeswoman Rochelle Ritchie, said, "Consistent with our prosecutorial obligations, we will litigate this case in the courtroom and not in the media."
* HA! HA! HA! SHE'S DONE EVERYTHING BUT! AGAIN... WHAT A TWO-FACED, LYING, UNETHICAL PIECE OF GARBAGE...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Mosby's office has dismissed previous defense calls for her recusal, including those based on conflict-of-interest allegations stemming from her husband's post as city councilman in the district where Gray was arrested.
* FOLKS... AMERICA REALLY IS TURNING INTO A THIRD WORLD NATION IN MANY RESPECTS...
(*SIGH*)
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
In their motion Tuesday, defense attorneys said the email exchange shows that Mosby knew the area where Gray was chased was a high-crime location. They said that bolsters their argument that officers were within their rights to detain and handcuff Gray — even before finding a knife and officially arresting him.
"It must be understood that Mrs. Mosby was directing these officers to one of the highest crime intersections in Baltimore City and asking them to make arrests, conduct surveillance, and stop crime," the defense attorneys wrote. "Now, the State is apparently making the unimaginable argument that the police officers are not allowed to use handcuffs to protect their safety and prevent flight in an investigatory detention where the suspect fled in a high crime area and actually had a weapon on him."
(*PURSED LIPS*)
In the March 17 email to Maj. Osborne Robinson, Rosenblatt wrote that Mosby's office wanted to build on the success in reducing crime in the West Baltimore neighborhood through the Operation Ceasefire program by "targeting that intersection for enhanced prosecutorial (and hopefully police) attention." In that program, prosecutors, police and community groups work together to persuade criminals to reform.
On March 20, Robinson forwarded Rosenblatt's email to several Western District officers, including Lt. Brian W. Rice. (He was one of the three officers who arrested Gray and one of the six later charged in Gray's arrest and death.)
Robinson told Rice and the other officers to begin a "daily narcotics initiative" focused on North Avenue and Mount Street, according to the email, and said he would be collecting "daily measurables" from them on their progress. "This is effective immediately," Robinson wrote, noting that the officers should use cameras, informants and other covert policing tactics to get the job done.
Lt. Kenneth Butler, president of the Vanguard Justice Society, a group for minority and female Baltimore police officers, said that when orders such as Robinson's come down to target a specific corner, the response is consistent. "They want increased productivity, whether it be car stops, field interviews, arrests — that's what they mean by measurables," he said.
Butler, who said he has been a shift commander on and off for the past 15 years, added, "You have to use whatever tools you have — whether it be bike officers, cameras, foot officers, whatever you have — to abate that problem. So you're going to have to be aggressive."
Butler said that he has never seen such orders come from the state's attorney's office but that they come at the request of politicians and community leaders all the time.
* SO THE COPS ARE CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD SPOT; DAMNED IF THEY FOLLOW ORDERS AGRESSIVELY, DAMNED IF THEY DON'T.
(*SIGH*)
Defense attorneys for the six officers have argued previously that Mosby should not handle the case because of alleged conflicts of interest, including "the seizing of political and personal gain by" Mosby and her husband, City Councilman Nick Mosby, and close ties between her and attorney William H. "Billy" Murphy Jr., who represents Gray's family.
(Murphy supported Marilyn Mosby's election campaign, served on her transition committee and represented her in a matter before the Attorney Grievance Commission.)
Murphy declined to comment Tuesday; Nick Mosby did not respond to a request for comment.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-09/countries-don-t-report-iran-sanctions-violations-un-report-says
United Nations monitors...
* ...CAN'T BE TRUSTED - AS THIS ARTICLE DEMONSTRATES.
(*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*)
BUT... LET'S START FROM THE BEGINNING, SHALL WE?
United Nations monitors said governments reported no new incidents of Iran violating Security Council sanctions against its nuclear program, even though some have unfolded in plain sight.
* KEY WORD: "REPORTED."
(*SMIRK*)
“The current situation with reporting could reflect a general reduction of procurement activities by the Iranian side or...
* OR...???
... or a political decision by some member states to refrain from reporting to avoid a possible negative impact on ongoing negotiations” between Iran and six world powers, said a panel of experts for the UN committee on Iran sanctions in its latest report, dated June 1 and made public Tuesday.
* YA THINK...?!?!
While the panel found that Iran “implemented its commitments” under an interim framework easing economic sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear activities, the report raised questions about whether countries, including the U.S. and its European allies, have looked the other way on some sanctions violations.
(*SNORT*)
* "RAISED QUESTIONS..." UH-HUH. RIGHT. (READ ON!)
No country reported that General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the elite Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, violated a UN-mandated travel ban despite “a number of media reports with photographs and videos” showing him in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, “reportedly organizing and training militia and regular forces in those countries.” The report included examples of such photos.
While Iran unveiled no new types of ballistic missiles and is keeping its uranium enrichment below an agreed-upon threshold, the panel said that the U.K. on April 20 reported that Iran has an active nuclear procurement network linked to two blacklisted firms.
One country that wasn’t named also reported that Iran tried to import a nuclear compressor illegally, the panel said, adding that it didn’t have enough time to investigate the information for this report.
Two unnamed governments informed the panel that Iran was carrying out nuclear procurement-related financial transactions through banks outside Iran that aren’t under sanctions.
(Iranian businessmen acquired majority shares in one of the banks in 2011, according to the report.)
The report provides fresh ammunition for critics, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of both parties in the U.S. Congress who say that President Barack Obama and America’s allies are too eager for a deal with Iran. The Islamic Republic, they say, is likely to cheat on any nuclear accord reached in negotiations that face a self-imposed June 30 deadline.
“This is a clear political decision not to publicize these examples of sanctions evasion in order to ensure that public reporting on this doesn’t in any way jeopardize the talks or harden congressional resolve,” Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has advised Congress on expanding sanctions, said in an interview. “The Obama administration has bent over backwards to try and whitewash Iranian violations both on the nuclear side and also on the sanction-busting side.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/obamas-epa-regulations-6552x-long-constitution-46x-long-bible
Since President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the EPA has issued 3,373 new "final regulations," equaling 29,770 pages in the Federal Register and totaling approximately 29,770,000 words...
The Gutenberg Bible is only 1,282 pages and 646,128 words.
The Obama EPA regulations have 27 times as many words as the entire Harry Potter book series, which includes seven books with 1,084,170 words.
The EPA regulations have more than double the number of words of the ObamaCare regulations, which have 11,588,500 words and are 78 times as many words as the ObamaCare law itself, which contains 381,517 words.
The EPA regulations, to date, have 6,552 times as many words as the U.S. Constitution, which has 4,543 words, including the signatures; the regs also have 20,418 times as many words as the Declaration of Independence, which has 1,458 words including signatures.
Over the course of Obama’s presidency, the EPA has greatly expanded its regulatory overreach. In President Obama’s first year in office in 2009, the EPA issued 365 regulations, averaging one rule per day. In 2010, the EPA issued 454 regulations and in 2011, the EPA issued 557 regulations.
The number of rules issued during the Obama years peaked in 2012 with 646 final rules issued - 76.9% more than issued in Obama’s first year. In 2013, the EPA issued 548 regulations and in 2014 the EPA issued 564 regulations.
So far, in 2015, the EPA has issued 241 regulations.
There have been 2,329 calendar days since Obama has taken office, meaning the EPA has issued an average of about 1.45 regulations per calendar day.
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