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Michael Novakhov retweeted:
We welcome the resumption of Venezuelan-led negotiations in Mexico as an important step toward restoring democracy to Venezuelans. We will look to the parties to achieve lasting agreements that set the course for free and fair presidential elections in 2024.
Michael Novakhov retweeted:
$30-40 должен составлять потолок цен на нефть РФ, считает Владимир Зеленский. G7 рассматривает вариант около $65 за баррель. “Россия заработает десятки миллиардов сверхприбыли и будет использовать их против нас”, – отметил президент Украины. Хроника DW: p.dw.com/p/4K7Kn?maca=r…
Michael Novakhov retweeted:
Since October 10 Russia has repeatedly terror bombed Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure – mainly electricity & hospitals.
What has the West done? Delivered some air defense, generators & winter clothes.
This is not enough. The West must respond firmly & asymmetrically.
Some ideas:
Michael Novakhov retweeted:
So filth such as MAGA GOP Trump, desire their leader Trump select his own pseudo greatness…over the People’s choice:
“There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man ‘discovered’ through an election.” — Adolf Hitler
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Oct. 22, 2022 in Robstown, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images.)
After facing a brutal reception before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for former President Donald Trump tried to salvage a lower court’s ruling gumming up the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation of records seized at Mar-a-Lago by pointing to the case of his lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The 11th Circuit’s three-judge panel, comprised of two Trump appointees and a George W. Bush appointee, asked Trump whether a court ever asserted equitable jurisdiction to block the government from reviewing seized records pending review by a special master. Trump’s legal team claimed that the Giuliani case provided a precedent for that.
In a short but sharp reply on Thursday, special counsel Jack Smith replied that the comparison was inapt.
“That is incorrect,” the single-paragraph letter, signed by Smith and U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez, states in part.
In Giuliani’s case, the judge did not “enjoin the government” from reviewing records seized from the ex-New York City mayor’s apartment. Federal prosecutors themselves requested a special master because Giuliani’s status as a lawyer implicated attorney-client privilege concerns.
The government notes that is not the case with Trump.
“Moreover, the records there were seized from an attorney’s office, the review was conducted on a rolling basis, and the case did not involve a separate civil proceeding invoking a district court’s anomalous jurisdiction,” Smith’s letter states.
“None of those is true here” in the Trump case, Smith added.
Federal prosecutors ultimately declined to recommend charges against Giuliani, but the investigation of Trump continues. The search warrant indicated that authorities suspect possible violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and concealment and removal of government records.
As of press time, the 11th Circuit has not ruled on whether to allow the special master review currently pending before Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie to proceed. The three-judge panel appeared to leave little doubt earlier this week, however, that they believed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s rulings stood on shaky jurisdictional ground. Cannon’s ruling conceded that Trump did not prove a “callous disregard” for his rights by the FBI, and Trump’s attorneys agreed at the hearing that they had not proven that.
“If you can’t establish that, then what are we doing here?” Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr., the sole George W. Bush appointee on the panel, bluntly asked Trump’s attorney James Trusty.
The two other members of the panel, U.S. Circuit Judges Elizabeth “Britt” Cagle Grant and Andrew L. Brasher, are Trump appointees who ruled against the former president before when they reversed portions of Cannon’s ruling related to classified materials. The FBI found more than 100 documents marked classified up to “Top Secret” and above in Mar-a-Lago, and Cannon initially ordered the government to stop scrutinizing them for their investigation until a special master reviewed them.
Federal prosecutors have continued investigating those materials ever since the 11th Circuit’s ruling in September, and now, they are hoping the court will allow them unfettered access to the tens of thousands of other files without classification markings.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A surprise opening-match loss has Germany headed into its second game seeking an easy victory to avoid a second consecutive early World Cup exit.
Too bad the Germans play Spain in what should be anything but a leisurely Sunday stroll.
Spain routed Costa Rica 7-0 in its opening match for the most lopsided game of this year’s tournament. It was the largest margin of victory for La Roja in a World Cup game and its first opening-match win since 2006.
Germany should be concerned about its fate as it tries to avoid losing three consecutive World Cup games. Prior to Germany’s early elimination in 2018, the men’s team had not failed to advance out of group stage since 1938.
The four-time World Cup champions were upset by Japan 2-1 on Wednesday. Spain and Japan lead Group E with three points each, while Germany and Costa Rica have no points.
“We are optimistic,” Germany coach Hansi Flick said Saturday. “We have to be brave and believe in our quality. We want to stick to our game because we have the quality. We trust the team. We’re positive and just really want to see that we approach this game on Sunday against Spain positively.
“It’s simply important to deal with defeats, but also to clear your head and focus on the new task, and that’s our goal, to get the team to the point where they naturally believe that they can push this thing in the right direction on Sunday.”
Spain, meanwhile, has only lost once in its previous seven matches against Germany. This will be the fifth meeting between the teams at the World Cup and Spain won the last outing, 1-0 in the semifinals of the 2010 tournament.
Spain was so dominant against Costa Rica that its 81.9% possession was the most in a World Cup match since 1966, when statistical service Opta began tracking the data. The previous mark was 80.3% set by Argentina in 2010.
Spain has only won its first two games of a World Cup three times, and not since 2006, so coach Luis Enrique has cautioned his group about being too confident.
“Against a team like Germany we can’t be overconfident otherwise they will trounce you,” Luis Enrique said. “It’s a rival that requires all of our attention and effort. It’s a great challenge for us.”
CROATIA-CANADA
Back in the World Cup for the first time in 36 years, Canada fell flat with a 1-0 opening loss to Belgium. In the post-game huddle, coach John Herdman was explicit in what he told his squad to do next when it faced Croatia.
“I told them they belong here. And we’re going to go and ‘F’ Croatia,” Herdman smiled as he used the single letter to avoid profanity. “That’s as simple as it gets.”
His words made their way back to Croatia, where a tabloid ran a full-page photo of a naked Herdman with Maple Leaf flags over his mouth and genitals and a headline that translated to: “You have the mouth, but do you have the (guts) as well?”
“This way of putting words together is not a sign of respect,” Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić said Saturday through a translator, who repeated the word “respect” 13 times in English as he relayed Dalić’s remarks.
“The way we play, the way we behave and the way we respect all others are the reasons we are worthy of respect.”
Herdman said he did not mean any disrespect.
“You say those things in an impassioned moment trying to inspire your team in a huddle, and when you’re asked the question what you said in that huddle, yeah, it was what I said,” he said.
“It’s not massively respectful to Croatian people and the Croatian national team. I understand very well where they’re at on the world stage. But in that moment, you’ve taken your men to that next place.”
Croatia lost the 2018 final to France and the world’s 12th-ranked team opened the World Cup with a 0-0 draw against Morocco. Canada has played only four World Cup games in its history and still is searching for its first goal.
JAPAN-COSTA RICA
The Japan match against Costa Rica features two teams on opposite ends of the spectrum: Japan surprised Germany with 2-1 upset, while Costa Rica was routed 7-0 by Spain in the most lopsided game so far of this year’s World Cup.
The seven goals allowed by Costa Rica were as many as the team had allowed in its previous eight World Cup matches dating to 2014. The team also failed to take a single shot against Spain, marking only the second time since 1966 a squad did not have an attempt on goal. That team? Costa Rica against Brazil in 1990.
Costa Rica coach Luis Fernando Suarez was blunt in assessing his team’s performance.
“I’ll have to be very direct: We did a lot wrong. We made mistakes, and I think we should all be very clear about what our mistakes have been, starting with myself, my tactical responsibility,” he said. “We have to forget about the result. It will be very difficult. But we do have players who are good enough to play differently.
“We have to improve a great deal. We need to take on that responsibility and the blame, but also the way to move on is by focusing on positive results and to forget.”
Costa Rica has never beaten Japan and lost three of their previous four meetings.
Japan is seeking consecutive World Cup victories for the first time since 2002 and has never reached the quarterfinals of the tournament. Japan is making a seventh consecutive World Cup appearance and made it to the round of 16 three times, including in Russia in 2018 when it blew a 2-0 lead to lose to Belgium 3-2.
BELGIUM-MOROCCO
When he was told he’d been named player of the match following Belgium’s 1-0 win over Canada in its opening match, midfielder Kevin De Bruyne was embarrassed to receive the award.
“I don’t think I played a great game. I don’t know why I got that trophy,” he said. “It’s maybe because of the name.”
He gets a chance at improving his play Sunday against Morocco, and a win for Belgium would be its ninth consecutive in group play dating to the 2002 tournament. Belgium did not make the 2006 and 2010 World Cups.
Morocco held Croatia to a goalless draw in its Group F opener and doesn’t seem to be intimidated by Belgium after neutralizing Luka Modric in that match. But the team is still getting to know one another, including coach Walid Regragui, who was hired at the end of August and coached only three friendly games before arriving at the World Cup.
“Arriving in these conditions is not easy, but I accepted the challenge,” Regragui said.
Belgium are unbeaten in their four World Cup meetings with African teams.
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It’s repeated to the point that it has become a cliche. Merrick Garland has underlined it in his rare public utterances. “No one is above the law.” That is a foundational bedrock of the American system of justice. While it may be an ideal that Americans sincerely endeavour to achieve, the end result isn’t always perfection. Even so, there cannot be any doubt that equal justice under the law is always the aim.
I hope you’ve noticed in the above paragraph that I have done a little bait and switch. I interchanged two sentences. I have suggested that the notion that “no one is above the law” is the same as “equal justice under the law.” They are not, and I believe that the attorney general Merrick Garland has always been careful never to suggest that they are the same. Whenever he has made a statement about what he’s up to, he’s always careful to say that “no one is above the law.”
It’s an important distinction because, if you think about it, “equal justice under the law” is not only not true in the narrow sense we are discussing it now, it’s probably best that it’s not true. We know, for example, that if anyone other than a former president of the United States had brought home classified and top secret documents, refused to give them up and went around telling anyone who would listen that they have no intention of giving them up, they would be in prison right now. If you have any doubt about that then just ask Reality Winner.
That is not equal justice under the law. We give presidents and former presidents different treatment from the rest of us, and for good reason. We need to give them the benefit of the doubt because, for better or worse, we the people of the United States put them where they are, more or less, and we need to make absolutely certain that we get it right when we accuse them of crimes.
To be sure, some people do not merit the benefit of the doubt — and Donald Trump is a notable example. But when we treat him the way we do it’s because we are respecting the office of the President and not the man. The man is a quivering pile of crap. The presidency, on the other hand, is a sacred institution enshrined by the Constitution. Caution must be observed.
It’s the final conclusion that we have to get right. Unquestionably, if Reality Winner went to prison then Donald Trump should go to prison. Justice and the stated ideal that no one is above the law demands that the end result be the same. Their paths may be very different but the end must be the same. Just remember that the notion of equal justice under the law is a fairy tale we tell ourselves.
If justice were hasty when it came to presidents then that haste would be abused by evil men and women. The next Congress is a case in point. Come January we will be glad that the justice system isn’t hasty with presidents when Republicans take over Congress, because if it were otherwise they would immediately abuse that haste and unjustly throw Joe Biden and Kamala Harris straight into prison, in imitation of tinpot banana republics everywhere. That is the calibre of the political hacks that comprise the Republican Party today.
If Trump never goes to prison then we can call foul. In the meantime it’s best we err on the side of caution. Having a clear eyed understanding of the important distinction between no one being above the law and equal just under the law should make it easier while we wait. Something tells me we won’t have to wait much longer. And, as ever, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, stay safe.
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Restrictions on power provide are now in put in 14 areas and in Ukraine’s funds, Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in a new movie handle, in accordance to an Ukrinform correspondent.
In accordance to him, Ukrainian electric power engineers ongoing to restore the country’s electric power grid on November 26.
“And we by now have a lot more prospects to deliver and supply electrical energy. But, regretably, that is not adequate to make the source absolutely steady. As of this morning, 50 percent as numerous subscribers have been disconnected from the grid as past evening. Having said that, in 14 regions and in Kyiv, there are continue to constraints for more than 100,000 subscribers in each individual of the regions,” he mentioned.
Zelensky famous that if electric power intake grows in the night, the range of ability outages may possibly maximize. “This when all over again shows how essential it is to help you save power and consume it wisely,” he reported.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Saturday, November 26, that 25% of customers in the town remained devoid of electricity.
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