Month: June 2020

Preliminary Meeting for 5th Meeting of 7th WPK Central Military Commission Held

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Preliminary Meeting for 5th Meeting of 7th WPK Central Military Commission Held

At the preliminary meeting, the WPK Central Military Commission took stock of the prevailing situation and suspended the military action plans against the south brought for the fifth meeting of the Seventh Central Military Commission by the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army.

Kim Jong Un took first step to ease tensions – Military action plans against South Korea suspended:

House Judiciary panel preparing to subpoena Barr

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

House Judiciary panel preparing to subpoena Barr

The House Judiciary Committee is preparing a subpoena to obtain Attorney General William Barr’s testimony July 2, Chairman Jerry Nadler said Monday night.

Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed the idea over the weekend and decided “to be ready” in case Barr declined to show up to testify before the panel, according to Democratic sources familiar with their conversation.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman’s Ouster: The Untold Story

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman’s Ouster: The Untold Story

Goldman Sachs was, at the time of Clayton’s nomination to head the SEC, up to its eyeballs in one of the biggest financial frauds in history – a case involving a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund known as 1MDB. Goldman raised over $6 billion in bond offerings for 1MDB but, according to the Justice Department, $4.5 billion of that was “misappropriated” and used “to fund the co-conspirators’ lavish lifestyles, including purchases of artwork and jewelry, the acquisition of luxury real estate and luxury yachts, the payment of gambling expenses, and the hiring of musicians and celebrities to attend parties.” Goldman made more than $600 million in fees from the bond offerings, according to the Justice Department.

The Progressive International, a Global Green New Deal and the Limits of ‘Left Unity’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Progressive International, a Global Green New Deal and the Limits of ‘Left Unity’ — Ebb Magazine

One must not allow oneself to be misled by the cry for ‘unity.’ Those who have this word most often on their lips are those who sow the most dissension… Those unity fanatics are either the people of limited intelligence who want to stir everything up together into one nondescript brew, which, the moment it is left to settle, throws up the differences again in much more acute opposition because they are now all together in one pot … or else they are people who consciously or unconsciously … want to adulterate the movement.

Frederick Engels, June 1873