"The Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African country where the Afghans have no ties, is experiencing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with more than 600,000 refugees there already after decades of armed conflict.

VanDiver accused the Trump administration of intentionally offering the Afghan refugees an alternative so bad that they would choose to return to Afghanistan even if it means risking their lives.

"This is insane," he told NBC News in an interview, noting in a separate statement that "you do not solve the world's number one refugee crisis by dumping it into the world's number two."

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Making America Great Again around the world!

"Other countries love me... I mean, America. We are the greatest. We could whip Hulk Hogan, you know, when he was great! The Congo loves us, and the Afghan Families who we promised to bring here if they helped us... they love me, too! They'll love the Congo! It's like a Paradise there. Or Greenland, we could send them there! They'll be a US state, soon! Thank you for your attention to this message."

Pretty funny, really. And he's making more money than he did at the Scam Call Center in Dehli.

#26

"The exception proves the rule" means that the existence of an exception confirms the existence of a general rule, rather than invalidating it.

It originates from a Latin legal principle where highlighting a specific exclusion implies a general rule exists for all other cases."

The Painless Pole... traded in BBQ'd kielbasa for the Cult of Trump, sighs.

Gone, but not forgotten; like Johnny Rotten.

#44

There should be a Sadly Stupid Flag.

He ran away from the other thread on this subject, after having been shown to be foolish tool.

He would have Taco'ed on Kissinger, and tried to date Jane Fonda.

These charges are a bad joke; the kind of Lawfare Jbellyache whines about so much... as proven here:

- And people here running around screaming "White Supremacist were America's greatest threat" were brain washed
#35 | Posted by oneironaut

Hilarious, really.

"White supremacist and white nationalist ideologies are consistently identified by major U.S. law enforcement and research organizations as the primary and most lethal source of domestic violent extremism.

While specific data points shift year-to-year, the broader trend over the last decade shows these groups are responsible for the highest number of domestic terrorist attacks and fatalities in the U.S." FBI, DHS

from the above link:

"It is very thin, (and) does not adequately allege in my judgment any violation of the mail or wire fraud statutes (which are the indictment's key allegations)," said John C. Coffee Jr., a professor at the Columbia University Law School, in a statement.

"SPLC was under no duty to disclose to the world that it was paying secret agents to advise it about the activities of violent organizations. That it paid agents to inform it does not imply that it was supporting these organizations, even if the agents (with mixed motives) gave some of the payments to the organization."

Robertson said that organizations, including the government, regularly use confidential informants because it is an important tool to collect information about groups that actively withhold information about their activities.

In the indictment, the DOJ alleged several instances of wire fraud. But Robertson said "it doesn't seem to me there was any criminal intent at all."

"When you are paying an informant who is deeply embedded in a group that is engaged in violent activity, whether it is terrorism or others, you don't want to risk their lives by making it clear they were receiving payments," she said.

Robertson said the indictment doesn't even go as far as to allege any criminal intent to defraud financial institutions. The allegations were that SPLC tried to hide its activity from its donors.

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"That seems really problematic to me," Robertson said. "I don't believe the donors were, in any way, misled."

In the end, Robertson said the government will likely have a difficult time proving its case.

"I would be surprised if this case made it very far in the process," she said. "I would be absolutely shocked if it went all the way to a conviction. I think it will get dismissed earlier in the process."

"Legal experts skeptical of DOJ's criminal case against Southern Poverty Law Center

One said the 11-count indictment against the civil rights organization amounted to an abuse of the criminal law.'

"The conduct at the core of the indictment, paying confidential sources inside violent extremist groups to gather intelligence, is something federal law enforcement does as a matter of course," said Cassandra Burke Robertson, director of the Center for Professional Ethics at Case Western Reserve University law school.

"Charging a civil rights organization criminally for doing the same thing, in this political context, strikes me as an abuse of the criminal law."

Video version:

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

Video version:

"The manifesto also argues the atomic age is ending and the next era of deterrence will be built on AI.

That makes it essential, the authors claim, that American tech companies build AI weapons and don't give in to protesters, because America's adversaries "will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates" about whether they should build advanced AI weapons.

The argument is aimed squarely at employee resistance that has troubled Palantir and others.

Google declined to renew its Project Maven AI military contract in 2018 after employee protests; Palantir took it on.

Last year, 13 former Palantir employees also wrote an open letter criticizing the company's work with the Trump administration."

Is there any war Trump can win?

I mean other that his War on the American People...

In China they just force you to give your DNA, and surveille the population intensely.

Paying operatives to infiltrate Nazi groups must seem like a far out idea to Chinese trolls.

They didn't get along?

What, he wasn't a drunken wife beater?

- - actual NAZI funders.

But enough about the Republican Party and the Proud Boys they set free after J6.

No food and no flu shots for you!

Real morale builder, that.

World in Changes - Dave Mason | The Midnight Special

We Just Disagree - Dave Mason | The Midnight Special

oops, actual link:

Can't wait to see what China is doing with Battle Bots... oops, don't have to:

Ukrainian Battle Bot video:

This is his America Last program in action.

He's going to bankrupt the US Casino any moment now.

"Soldiers have detailed their impact. Oleksandr Yabchanka, the head of robotic systems for Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves Battalion, previously told Business Insider that one average-sized war robot can carry more than roughly 10 servicemen can.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared last week that Ukraine's ground robot force had carried out more than 22,000 missions on the front lines over the previous three months, saying that means "lives were saved more than 22,000 times when a robot went into the most dangerous areas instead of a warrior."

The president's comments also revealed a big jump in the robots' overall usage. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander in chief of Ukraine's armed forces, said in December that over the previous six months, Ukraine's ground robots had carried out only 2,000 missions.

Then, in half the time, that figure grew to 10 times that."

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"I Robot, you Russian front line fodder."