Bharat Rakshak

he was being interviewed for a job as one of the highest judges in the land, which requires him to display judge like characteristics and given the role of the supreme court not to be overtly partisan, and most importantly not to score own goals by perjuring himself. even republican commentators are writing in the press that BK has failed those tests

all he had to do was to say 'I used to be a bad boy, but I discovered Jesus and I am alright now' - he stayed well away from that line of defence

Whatevah the witnesses may have said, Gentlemen (no Ladies were allowed) Of The Jury, what-what I say, Remembah! that General O'Dwyah Saved The British Empiah!!

"On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man's face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail," the statement said.

During his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Kavanaugh was repeatedly asked about his drinking habits in high school and college and denied having a problem.

A_Gupta wrote:How we know Kavanaugh is lying.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/ ... h-is-lying

Yagnasri wrote:FBI is under serious pressure now. They have done 6 background checkups on one person on whom they were indirectly alleged to have missed a lot with allegations like he was a boy gang rapist and what not. Further, the President went on hammering them ie their leadership for being political hacks and conducted an illegal and partisan investigation into him. Can they now come back and say "Oops sorry we missed that fact that he is a gang rapist for 6 times" and get away with it?

Unless the Deep State is desperate BK will be confirmed and FBI will find nothing. Remember BK is Bush white house staff and said to close to them. He is part of the establishment. Dems are wrong to pick this fight.

President Trump hailed Monday a last-minute agreement with Canada that would in effect rebrand the North American Free Trade Agreement. He called the pact, which also includes Mexico, “a great deal for all three countries [that] solves the many deficiencies and mistakes in nafta.”

The new agreement, announced late Sunday, is being labeled the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA, and it ends months of uncertainty over what Trump’s longtime aversion to nafta would mean for the accord, which went into effect in 1994.

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Among the most significant changes: U.S. dairy farmers will have marginally more access to Canada’s market, a win for the U.S.; the mechanism used to resolve trade disputes is being preserved, despite strong U.S. opposition to it; Canadian and Mexican auto imports will have some exemptions from U.S. auto tariffs; and the new trade agreement will have a sunset clause—16 years, up from the five years the U.S. had demanded. The agreement must be approved by the legislatures in all three countries, which is by no means assured. Until then, nafta remains in place.

The new agreement shows not only how Trump is willing to risk alliances to get the kinds of agreements he believes benefit American workers, but also how, despite protests, U.S. partners have little choice but to go along with much of what the world’s largest economy wants. It also shows how, ultimately, Trump is starting to refashion the Western global order, which the U.S. constructed in the wake of World War II, to align with his own worldview: more transactional, more bilateral, and less reliant on permanent alliances.

US tells China: we want competition not cooperation

Event at Washington embassy highlights difference in the two sides’ perspectives as senior Trump aide Matt Pottinger delivers blunt message


Keegan Elmer
UPDATED : Monday, 1 Oct 2018, 5:53PM

The United States sees its relationship with China as a competition, a senior member of the Trump administration has told Chinese diplomats at an event that highlighted the gulf between the two sides’ world views.

While Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the US, used the reception at his country’s embassy in Washington to highlight the importance of cooperation, Matt Pottinger, a senior director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council, made America’s intentions clear.

“In the United States, competition is not a four-letter word,” Pottinger said.

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“We at the Trump administration have updated our China policy to bring the concept of competition to the forefront. It’s right there at the top of the president’s national security strategy.”

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The notion of freedom and competition sat “at the core” of America’s democracy and market economy, Pottinger said, adding that failing to acknowledge the competition between the two sides would lead to misunderstandings and miscalculations.


“If names cannot be correct, then language is not in accordance with the truth of things. And if language is not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success,” he said, using a quotation from Confucius.

Gyan wrote:USA does seem to have got anything out of new NAFTA deal. Was Trump too desperate to close a deal to prevent all out war with all the economic partners?

The big differences are in the automotive market, where higher standards are designed to force more car parts to be made in North America rather than in cheaper labor markets, and in opening Canada’s dairy markets to US exports. Both moves are likely to raise consumer prices in the US, but they match the America First policies pushed by Trump and his trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer.

Philip wrote:Trump is now trump-eting....pardon the pun, that India is rushing to do a similar deal with it, as if we are like a loyal puppy racing towards master to get a bone as a reward for wagging our tails and "fetching" for master whenever he commands us .Nauseating, the way we are treated like grovelling servants by the white massa.

A_Gupta wrote:Kavanaugh might have already known of the Ramirez allegations (second accuser) published by the New Yorker in September and was already planning his defense in July. But then he lied to the Senate Committee when he said the first he ever heard of it was from the New Yorker. So much for "partisan nonsense".

His gender reveal party was on April 23, 2017, according to CNN affiliate KGUN-TV. Expectant parents throw such parties to tell family and friends the gender of their baby. In this case, Dickey's plan was to shoot a rifle at a target containing Tannerite, a highly explosive substance that would have exploded to reveal either blue powder for a boy or pink powder for a girl.
Dickey shot the target, causing it to explode and start a fire that spread and resulted in what was known as the Sawmill Fire, the Department of Justice said.
The Sawmill Fire burned nearly 47,000 acres owned by the state of Arizona and various federal agencies. The Coronado National Forest is federal land operated by the US Forest Service.
Firefighters from at least 20 agencies fought the fire for about a week, the affiliate reported.

jrjrao wrote:Just FYI. Professor Fair, our well-known expert on Terroristan aka Pakisatan, is in the news for lighting up her twitter feed with some truly incredible posts:

Georgetown professor says white GOP senators ‘deserve miserable deaths’ after Kavanaugh hearing
https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgetown-p ... gh-hearing

Gus wrote:It is really a simple question - did kavanaugh lie to the committee or not.

everything else about blah blah blah are just that.

Ulan –

We're fighting to defeat Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination with everything we've got.

Senate leaders have said that they will allow the FBI to investigate multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct – for one week. That means we have just a few days to convince our senators of what is painfully obvious: Kavanaugh is not fit to sit on the Supreme Court.

Now's the time to act: Call your senators today and demand they oppose Kavanaugh's nomination.
CALL NOW

A vote to confirm Kavanaugh tells survivors of sexual abuse that their experiences can be disregarded if they inconvenience their powerful abusers – and that's a grave injustice to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and millions of people with experiences like hers.

We must make clear to our elected officials: If you vote to confirm Kavanaugh despite credible allegations of sexual assault, we will remember at the ballot box. Make your call now – it's time to put senators on notice.

Thanks for fighting,

Faiz Shakir

Faiz Shakir
ACLU National Political Director

PS: We need to do everything we can to stop Kavanaugh's confirmation. Text ACLU to 82623 or sign up here to be the first to know how to take action to defeat this nomination.
ACLU

Ulan –

Imagine an America in which a man who has sexually assaulted women sits on the highest court, wielding the power to judge the whole nation.

Fewer than 24 hours after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony accusing Judge Kavanaugh of sexual assault, the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to plow through the confirmation process and vote to confirm him as our next Supreme Court Justice. At the eleventh hour, senators finally agreed to move forward with an FBI investigation before the full Senate vote.

But Thursday's hearing, along with the inadequate investigation of the allegations of sexual misconduct have made this much clear: Kavanaugh cannot sit on the highest court of the land.

We have high standards for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. That standard is not met when there are credible allegations of sexual assault against a nominee. The burden of proof is on the nominee – and Judge Kavanaugh has thus far failed to prove himself fit to serve. {New Constitutional point from the American CIVIL LIBERTIES Union}

Our elected leaders are willing to more fully investigate the nominee for this lifetime appointment. This is the direct result of courageous people who've demanded justice. We the people will keep fighting back with everything we have. We're mobilizing the full force of the ACLU – with millions of supporters like you – to stop the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

The ACLU has argued in front of the Supreme Court more than any other private organization in our nearly 100-year history – so we don't take this lightly. After hearing from both him and Dr. Blasey Ford, it became strikingly clear that this is not someone who can sit on the highest court for life and make decisions about our civil rights and liberties for generations to come. And he is certainly not someone who should be allowed to rule on the rights women have over their own bodies.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have shown us they don't take sexual assault allegations seriously, but we do. We must remind senators that they work for us – and that we, the people, will not accept Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice.{Hey, Rakesh!!! The ACLU agrees with me!!}

Dr. Blasey Ford put everything on the line to perform her civic duty. Let that be an inspiration, because it's going to take every single one of us to stop Kavanaugh from sitting on the highest court of the land. Before the vote goes to the full Senate – expected in just a week – we're going to give this everything we've got. Stay tuned for more ways to fight back.

Thanks for raising your voice,

UlanBatori wrote:So now the only outstanding international Bissing Contest is vs. cheen. Although for now it looks like Yoo Ess stock market is rising while cheen is headed the other way.

The ethical sticking points for Kavanaugh are multifold whether he joins the Supreme Court or stays on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, where he currently sits. Kavanaugh's angry jabs at Democrats and liberal groups could be grounds for recusal requests in either court. Ethics complaints have been filed against Kavanaugh in the DC Circuit, including at least one claiming he lied about the sexual assault allegations against him. Ethics experts say there's no precedent for what happens to those complaints if he's elevated to the Supreme Court. For now, they're under the purview of the DC Circuit chief judge — former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.

New York Times says it was a mistake to enlist writer who posted anti-Kavanaugh tweet to report on him
From CNN's Oliver Darcy
The New York Times said on Tuesday that it should not have allowed a staff writer who had tweeted negatively about Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, to report on the judge for a story published Monday.
Emily Bazelon, who is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and a fellow at Yale Law School, co-authored a story published on Monday about a bar fight in 1985 during which Kavanaugh was accused of throwing ice at another customer. The Times' story was based on a police report about the incident.
But Bazelon had posted a tweet in July in which she called Kavanaugh a "5th vote for a hard-right turn on voting rights and so much more that will harm the democratic process & prevent a more equal society."
That tweet drew the attention of a number of critics who contended Bazelon's opposition to Kavanaugh presented a conflict of interest for The Times.
Democrats desperately attack Judge Kavanaugh for throwing ice during college. What motivated New York Times reporter to write this ridiculous story? Throwing ice 33 years ago, or her opinion of Judge Kavanaugh in July? https://t.co/JwiP3ELqkD
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 2, 2018

JE Menon wrote:>>So far, India has come out smelling of roses and her every move with regard to the CPEC fiasco has paid off.

Hameen!!!

And so far, not a peep from our gloriously objective media about this at all.

By late Monday, more than 800 Harvard Law School alumni had signed a letter calling for the school to rescind Kavanaugh's lecturer appointment.
"HLS must send a clear message that it takes sexual violence seriously," the letter reads, and adds that the accusations made against Kavanaugh, including those by Christine Blasey Ford of sexual and physical assault, are "credible and grave."
"They seriously call into question his character and morality," the letter reads, "and should disqualify him from a lifetime appointment as a Supreme Court Justice" and a Harvard Law School lecturer.
"We believe that Judge Kavanaugh's appointment as an HLS lecturer sends a message to law students, and in particular female students, that powerful men are above the law, and that obstructive, inappropriate behavior will be rewarded," the letter reads. "HLS would be tarnished to have him on campus in any position of authority."

JE Menon wrote:>>So far, India has come out smelling of roses and her every move with regard to the CPEC fiasco has paid off.

Hameen!!!

And so far, not a peep from our gloriously objective media about this at all.