[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #583: Criminal justice reform

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The stout man with the gray goatee and the gentle demeanor dared to disagree with his country’s government. He told the world the truth about its brutality toward those who would speak out. And he was murdered for it.

Every detail of Jamal Khashoggi’s killing made it a sensation: the time stamp on the surveillance video that captured the Saudi journalist entering his country’s Istanbul consulate on Oct. 2; the taxiway images of the private jets bearing his assassins; the bone saw; the reports of his final words, “I can’t breathe,” recorded on audio as the life was choked from him.

But the crime would not have remained atop the world news for two months if not for the epic themes that Khashoggi himself was ever alert to, and spent his life placing before the public. His death laid bare the true nature of a smiling prince, the utter absence of morality in the Saudi-U.S. alliance and—in the cascade of news feeds and alerts, posts and shares and links—the centrality of the question Khashoggi was killed over: Whom do you trust to tell the story?

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 17:15 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op dinsdag 11-12-2018 om 16:11:46 The U.S. now joins Saudi Arabia and Russia in a proposal to weaken references to a key scientific report on the severity and dire consequences of global warming.Nations, like individuals, can be measured by the company they keep. https://t.co/SnwruODf4w reageer retweet

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The Latest: Jury recommends life in prison for Fields
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on jury deliberations on a sentencing recommendation for a man convicted of murder and other charges for driving his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally (all times local):

12:15 p.m. A jury has recommended life in prison plus 419 years for a man convicted of murder for driving his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally last year. (AP).

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 19:30 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
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Prachtige foto van het overleg van vanmiddag tussen Dems en Trump. Vat mooi de uitkomst van het gesprek samen: meer onenigheid. En dan Pence die er als een haast apathisch derde been tussen zit.

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 19:34 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Dems hebben wel een paar mooie quotes van Trump over de dreigende shutdown kunnen scoren. "I would love to shut down the Government" zei Trump onder andere. Hij is er wat dat betreft met open ogen ingetrapt

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 19:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Kelly to remain as White House chief of staff through Jan. 2 or longer, official says


Pijnlijk.

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JOHN KELLY IS 'FURIOUS' AT IVANKA TRUMP AND JARED KUSHNER FOR HIS FIRING: REPORT

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According to The Times, both Kushner and his wife, adviser to the president Ivanka Trump, had lobbied for Ayers to be made chief of staff for months, which many saw as a "coup attempt."

Rather than dismiss Kelly himself, however, Trump reportedly "looked for others to do the work for him last week," even attempting to "arrange for" Ayers to fire Kelly, the news outlet reported, citing three people familiar with the events.

https://www.newsweek.com/(...)kelly-report-1253034

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 19:34 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Dems hebben wel een paar mooie quotes van Trump over de dreigende shutdown kunnen scoren. "I would love to shut down the Government" zei Trump onder andere. Hij is er wat dat betreft met open ogen ingetrapt

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 19:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Kelly to remain as White House chief of staff through Jan. 2 or longer, official says


Pijnlijk.

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 21:52 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Deze wil ik.

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Minutes after a very public showdown with Donald Trump over his border wall with Mexico, the California Democrat returned to the Capitol and railed against the president in a private meeting with House Democrats.

Trump “must have said the word ‘wall’ 30 times,” the House minority leader said, according to multiple sources in the room.

“I was trying to be the mom,” she added, but “it goes to show you: you get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you.”

And then, Pelosi went for the most sensitive part of Trump’s ego.

“It’s like a manhood thing with him — as if manhood can be associated with him,” she deadpanned. “This wall thing.”

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 22:38 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Waarom doen Pelosi, Schumer en Trump dit?!

Althans, ik snap niet waarom beide groepen hier wat mee te winnen denken te hebben of is het traditie? Het is niet alsof er ooit een akkoord zou komen op deze manier.

Dat Trump voornamen gebruikt vind ik ook vrij respectloos over komen eerlijk gezegd, maar daar zal zijn achterban vast heel anders over denken.

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Op dinsdag 11 december 2018 22:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Pelosi privately disses Trump’s manhood after White House meeting

The House minority leader told Democrats that Trump’s push for the border wall is ‘a manhood thing.’

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