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Trump Thinks Your Car's Gas Mileage Is... Your Business

The Clovers are aghast that Trump is threatening to do the unimaginable – and stop threatening the car companies with federal fuel economy fatwas (and add-on fatwas forbidding or restricting how much plant food – carbon dioxide – cars may emit).

He appears to be entertaining the horrible idea that the people who buy cars ought to be free to decide for themselves how much fuel economy matters to them – since they will be the ones paying for both the car and the gas. And – oh my god! – that this is really none of the business of the “concerned” scientists and other professional busybodies who regard their opinions and preferences as holy writ enforceable at gunpoint.

“We’re going to work on the CAFE standards so you can make cars in America again,” said Trump. He should have added the qualifier – affordable cars in America again.

Leaving aside the moral issue – who are these people to tell anyone whether their next car should get 10 MPG or 40 MPG? – the issue never addressed by the media, including the automotive media, is how much will all this cost us?

Obama’s mullahs uluated about the many billions (allegedly) which would be “saved” by force-marching every automaker to build cars that average 54.5 MPG. It is the sort of “savings” one realizes by emptying your bank account to buy something you don’t need that’s 5 percent off.

Only worse, because you’re not given the option to keep your money in the bank.

A week or so ago, executives from the major automakers came to the White House to explain to Donald – who probably already grokked it – that to get a single car to average 54.5 MPG requires more than merely ululating that it will be so. A new Prius hybrid almost manages it – and the hybrid Prius costs several thousand dollars more than an otherwise similar but not 54.5 MPG non-hybrid car.

And to get every car made to average 54.5 MPG – which is what Obama’s EPA ululated in the last weeks of his regime – won’t magically just happen, either – even if the entire regulatory Mecca ululates in unison for a week straight.

In the first place, it requires technology – and new designs. These generally involve work and resources, which cost money. New components don’t generally rain from Allah’s merciful bounty, upon ululation.

The executives pointed this out to Trump – who almost certainly grokked it beforehand, since he appears to be a man who probably knows where the dipstick is under the hood of a car and also what it’s for.

It is doubtful Obama knew – or did.

Or cared.

The current CAFE fatwa is 35.5 MPG and to achieve this without going hybrid across the board has required some very elaborate – some very expensive – technology. Two specific examples: Direct injection and transmissions with eight, nine and lately ten forward speeds.

These are coming online (the new Ford F-150 pick-up, reviewed here,  has a ten-speed automatic and probably two-thirds of all new vehicles are already direct-injected) because of the existing CAFE fatwa.

But they offer no particular advantage to the buyer, in terms of how the car drives or performs. Indeed, cars with these too-many-speeds automatics often have strange driving characteristics.  I can vouch for this; I test drive and review new cars each week.

For instance, the sensation that the car is surging forward (it is) when the transmission skips up three or four gears on a downhill because the computer is desperate to get the transmission into the top overdrive gear as quickly as possible in order to cut engine revs to the minimum in order to squeeze out a teensy uptick in MPGs, for the sake of CAFE.

Direct injection, meanwhile, has supplanted port fuel injection (PFI) with a two-stage system that operates at extreme pressure (3,000 psi vs. 35 or so psi) and which has created a carbon deposit problem inside the engine. In engines fed fuel via PFI or TBI or even a carburetor, the fuel washes over the backsides of the valves as it enters the combustion chamber – and because gas is a solvent, that action keeps the valves from crudding up. But in a DI system, the fuel is sprayed through a hole inside the combustion chamber and there is no solvent effect.

And so, crud forms.

To fix this problem the automakers are adding a separate, additional port-fuel circuit to keep the valves clean. So now you car will have two fuel injection systems – and multiple fuel pumps rather than just one.

It is not free.

What would it take to get all cars to average 54.5 MPG?

Keep in mind that not a single non-hybrid/non-electric new car comes close to that. Obama’s fatwa was in a way an ululation demanding that most if not all cars be hybrids or electric cars – because that is probably the only way to get to a “fleet average” (CAFE terminology) of 54.5 MPG absent the discovery of miracle technologies such as Roswell Crash-style ultra-light metal that is also ultra strong (so that other fatwas regarding “safety” can also be complied with).

This brings us back to the moral issue: Why is how much or little fuel our cars use anyone else’s business, since we pay for the car and the fuel? If gas “costs too much,” we can buy a different car that uses less.

And there is another issue, very obvious, but – like the cost of the fatwas – never asked or discussed:

If the market is so “concerned” about fuel economy – as the various scientists, “public citizens” and other such self-appointed voxxers of the populi claim, why not allow the market to apply the pressure?

Can’t have that. Pressure must come from above.

It doesn’t matter that there are already cars available that were designed to deliver much higher-than-average mileage – the Prius, for instance – which people are free to pay for if that is their priority. What the various “concerned” and the mullahs within the EPA and federal apparat are really concerned about is that people can choose not to buy such. That they are free to buy something else.

For the ululators, everyone must buy the same thing – the thing the uluators insist they buy. Or else.

Always, collectivism and coercion.

Never free choice, liberty – the market.

It’s worth recalling that the literal translation of laissez-faire is… leave us alone.

Exactly.

Good on Donald.

http://linkis.com/www.zerohedge.com/ne/ur3mB

Trump Wins: G-20 Drops 'Anti-Protectionist, Free-Trade, & Climate-Change Funding' Pledge

After delays and hours of discussions amid tensions over 'trade' comments between the United States and the rest of The G-20, it appears President Trump has 'won'. While China was "adamantly against" protectionism, the finance ministers end talks without renewing their long-standing commitment to free trade and rejection of protectionism after US opposition.

The world's financial leaders are unlikely to endorse free trade and reject protectionism in their communique on Saturday because they have been unable to find a wording that would suit a more protectionist United States, G20 officials said.

This would break with a decade-old tradition among the finance ministers and central bankers of the world's 20 top economies (G20), who over the years have repeatedly rejected protectionism and endorsed free trade.

But the new administration in the United States is considering trade measures to curb imports with a border tax and would not agree to repeat the formulations used by previous G20 communiques, clashing with China and Europe, the officials said.



"Unless there is a last minute miracle, there is no agreement on trade," one official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.  "This is not a good outcome of the meeting," a G20 delegate quoted Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann as saying.

In a partial face-saving move, as The FT details, G20 finance ministers meeting in the German resort town of Baden-Baden noted the importance of trade to the global economy, but dropped tougher language from last year that vowed to “resist all forms of protectionism”.

The new communique said: “We are working to strengthen the contribution of trade to our economies. We will strive to reduce excessive global imbalances, promote greater inclusiveness and fairness and reduce inequality in our pursuit of economic growth.”

The watered-down commitments on free trade reflected the anti-globalisation mood that Donald Trump has brought to Washington and came in the first G20 meetings between Steven Mnuchin, the new US Treasury Secretary, and his foreign counterparts.

US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin spoke to reporters after the meeting:

• *MNUCHIN: LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING CLOSELY W/ G-20 COLLEAGUES
• *MNUCHIN: CONFIDENT U.S. CAN WORK CONSTRUCTIVELY WITH PARTNERS
• *MNUCHIN: U.S. BELIEVES IN FREE, BALANCED TRADE
• *MNUCHIN SAYS WILL LOOK AT TRADE SURPLUSES WITH VIEW TO CORRECT
• *MNUCHIN SAYS MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS HAVE VERY IMPORTANT PLACE
• *MNUCHIN SAYS U.S. WANTS TO RE-EXAMINE TRADE DEALS INCL. NAFTA
• *MNUCHIN: U.S. BELIEVES IN APPROPRIATE REGULATION
• *MNUCHIN SAYS IMPORTANT BANKS CAN PROVIDE LIQUIDITY IN MARKETS

Reuters also points out another potential win for Trump as the communique will also drop a reference, used by the G20 last year, on the readiness to finance climate change as agreed in Paris in 2015 because of opposition from the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Trump has called global warming a "hoax" concocted by China to hurt U.S. industry and vowed to scrap the Paris climate accord aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

Trump's administration on Thursday proposed a 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency's budget as the White House seeks to eliminate climate change programs and trim initiatives to protect air and water quality.

Asked about climate change funding, Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, said on Thursday, "We consider that to be a waste of money."

The G20 do agree, however, to show continuity in their foreign exchange policies, using phrases from the past on foreign exchange markets.
As we noted earlier, needless to say, such an acrimonous end to the weekend's summit would likely result in a surge in FX volatility when markets open for trading late on Sunday, reflecting the new state of global trade flux, in which the future of the US Dollar is completely unknown, and reflecting the emerging chaos over the future parameters of trade.





http://linkis.com/www.zerohedge.com/ne/AQSvC

23 countries will not take back their criminal migrants

23 countries refuse to take back criminal aliens

Somalia, on Trump's terror list, is 1 of worst

03/18/2017 at 5:36 PM
Leo Hohmann

More than 2,000 criminal non-citizens, including many here illegally, are released from prison every year onto the streets of American cities.

Americans like Casey Chadwick, 25, have paid with their lives. She was stabbed to death outside her apartment in Norwich, Connecticut, by an illegal criminal alien from Haiti who had already served 17 years in prison for attempted murder. ICE had tried to deport him several times but Haiti would not accept him.

Haiti refused to accept Jean Jacques.  ICE was forced to free him under a 2001 Supreme Court ruling.

The problem is that 23 countries will not take back their criminal migrants, according to a DHS report cited by Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The government has not named all 23 uncooperative nations but WND has been able to identify 13 of them.

 

The five worst are Cuba, China, Somalia, India and Ghana.  Others on the list include:

• Iraq
• Iran
• Afghanistan
• Libya
• Algeria
• Vietnam
• Haiti
• Zimbabwe

The majority of the countries on the list are either communist or Islamic.  Three of the countries – Somalia, Iran and Libya – are on President Trump’s list of terrorist sponsoring countries from which he wants to ban travel into the U.S. for 90 days while better vetting programs can be developed. 

His executive order on the temporary travel ban is being held up by federal district judges in Hawaii and Maryland.  The criminals include murderers, rapists and child molesters.

Fair is fair right?

Adding to the indignity and lack of fair play, the U.S. continues to grant visas and refugee status to foreign nationals from these 23 countries. And in many cases, the U.S. also continues to send foreign aid to these recalcitrant nations that refuse to cooperate with ICE in taking back their criminals.

Several congressmen have tried to rectify the injustice but have yet to get their bills passed. 

The latest is Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, who has introduced a bill that would cut off all foreign aid to countries that don’t cooperate with ICE deportation efforts.

In a statement emailed to WND Babin’s office said:

“There is absolutely no reason that criminal aliens should be released back onto America’s streets, yet that is exactly what is happening by the thousands each and every year because their countries of origin refuse to take them back. My bill upholds the rule of law and holds these countries accountable by stripping their foreign aid and travel visas if they fail to cooperate. President Trump has announced that deporting the roughly 2 million criminal aliens in our country is a top priority for his presidency – and this legislation is a critical component to any such effort.”

Babin said only one Democrat in the House has supported his bill – Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas. (No surprise there!)

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson interviewed Cuellar for her upcoming Sunday edition of Full Measure in which she asked the congressman about the outrageous leniency with which the U.S. treats the 23 nations refusing to cooperate with U.S. immigration officials on deportations.

In addition to the 23 countries that don’t cooperate at all with ICE, another 60 cannot be counted on to consistently cooperate. (The leaders are no fools - they do not want to deal with the problems these criminals are causing in their nations, thus refusing to allow the U.S. to return them. Once here, it becomes our problem - period.)

“There are about 30 countries that have been very difficult to work with that won’t take back their criminals, but at the same time we’re issuing business visas or student visas to those countries,” Cuellar told Attkisson.

“So while we’re giving them the opportunity to come to the United States, they’re refusing, should I say, to take back the criminal aliens that belong to those countries.”

A bizarre Supreme Court opinion

Attkisson said a big part of the problem can be traced to a 2001 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Zadvydas v. Davis. In that case the high court ruled ICE may not keep criminal aliens in custody for longer than 180 days, with a few exceptions, from the time they are released from prison. Jacques was held for 205 days, but ultimately freed less than six months before he killed Chadwick.

“The Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. cannot indefinitely hold immigrant criminals if their own countries refuse to take them back. Cuban-born Abel Arango had multiple felony convictions in the U.S. for armed robbery, burglary and grand theft,” Attkisson said.

“A judge ordered his deportation, but Cuba refused to take him back. He was released in Miami, later arrested for five felony cocaine charges, released again, and — in 2008— he gunned down a Ft. Myers, Florida police officer, Andrew Widman,” she added.

An existing law goes unenforced

Cuellar, while backing Babin’s bill, said there is already a law on the books that the U.S. could enforce and clean up the mess with uncooperative nations.

While it doesn’t cut funding to those nations like Babin’s bill would, the existing law allows the U.S. to hold the visas of foreign nationals from nations not cooperating with ICE on criminal deportations.

“We found out that there’s a law already that allows us to hold those visas if a country’s not planning to take back their criminals,” he said in the Full Measure interview.

“We’re not enforcing it, which is amazing,” he added. “So now my intent is to go back to our committee on appropriations and affect their funding until they do that.”

Because of the Supreme Court decision, “that means you’re releasing criminals into our streets because those countries refuse to take back those criminal aliens. 

That’s wrong,” Cuellar said. “And especially I think it’s even worse that this is already on the books, and we’re still issuing business tourist visas and student visas to countries that refuse to take back their criminal aliens. 

That’s wrong, and we’re hoping to change that.  So why does the U.S. not enforce an existing law that would provide a measure of pay-back to uncooperative nations? Cuellar lays the blame at the feet of the U.S State Department.

“… I’ve been working on this issue and they said ‘well you know you gotta understand diplomacy, we don’t wanna upset some of those countries,'” Cuellar told Attkisson.

“But my response is, but we can upset our constituents, we can upset our way of life that we have here by allowing those criminals to be released? And basically the response from the State Department is because you have to work with the State Department and Homeland Security. And the State Department, with all due respect, was focused on diplomacy. I understand that, but I’m also concerned about individuals here who are in their neighborhoods; and you can release a criminal because we can’t hold them anymore and that county refuses to take back that criminal alien.”

Cuellar says he plans to press for the U.S. to withhold visas from countries that won’t accept the return of their criminals.

http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/23-countries-refuse-to-take-back-criminal-aliens/

House passes bill enabling gun sales to veterans

HOUSE  PASSES  BILL  ENABLING  GUN  SALES  TO  VETERANS  DEEMED  'MENTALLY  INCOMPETENT'

House  OKs  Bill  To  Stop  VA  From  Blocking  Right  To  Own  Guns  For  Vets

“So  many  people  have  been  trapped ..."

by Jack Davis March 17, 2017 at 6:25am

The House of Representatives on Thursday took the first step in scrapping a law that denies thousands of veterans the ability to own a gun.

The House voted 240-175 for the Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act to go to the Senate. The White House has signaled that President Donald Trump will sign the legislation if it passes the Senate.

The bill would end the current practice under which the Department of Veterans Affairs rules that veterans who cannot manage their financial affairs are automatically entered into National Instant Criminal Background Check System as unable to own a gun.

The bill would require a judge to assess the veteran to determine if he or she is truly a threat to anyone before the veteran is added to the database.

The bill’s supporters said there is no connection between fiscal acuity and gun ownership.

“What it says (is) if you can’t balance a bank account, you can’t handle a firearm. There is no relation between the two,” said Rep. Ken Buck, R-Fla. “So many people have been trapped by this over broad rule.”

Others said the law abridged Second Amendment rights. “I strongly believe we must do everything in our power to protect the rights guaranteed to all Americans, especially the men and women who have served, by the Constitution,” said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn.

The bill is backed by the National Rifle Association. “No veteran should have their fundamental right to self  defense arbitrarily revoked by a government bureaucrat,” said NRA Executive Director Chris Cox.

“Receiving assistance to handle personal finances does not mean an individual is unable to safely own a firearm. Our brave men and women in the military should not be stripped of their constitutional rights without due process of law,” he added.

Critics of the law said it would increase suicides among veterans. “It’s going to result in more deaths, more suicides of veterans throughout this nation,” said retired Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. “It weakens our background-check system and makes our country a less safe place.”

The VA had given the database 167,815 names as of Dec. 31.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/house-oks-bill-to-stop-va-from-blocking-right-to-own-guns-for-vets/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTDailyEmail&utm_content=2017-03-17

http://www.stripes.com/news/us/house-passes-bill-enabling-gun-sales-to-veterans-deemed-mentally-incompetent-1.459052#.WM3g-I0o73j 

Democrat Bill to Strip Citizens of Gun Rights

LAWMAKERS   STUNNED  AT  WHERE  THEY  FOUND  DEMOCRAT  BILL  TO  STRIP  CITIZENS  OF  GUN  RIGHTS




The maxim “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” is meant to instill in those who hear it that the answer to failure isn’t despondency, it’s hard work.

Apparently New Mexico Democrat lawmakers took that to heart as they took a gun control bill that already failed, re-branded it, and put it back out for consideration as if their peers were that stupid.

The initial bill, HB 50, mandated universal background checks on gun purchases throughout the state, Breitbart reported. When that bill failed, which, of course it did, Democrats simply refiled substantially the same legislation under a different number, HB 548, in hopes of getting that one through the House Judiciary Committee on Monday, according to Bearing Arms.

The newly numbered bill didn’t make it either.

“A New Mexico state bill to expand background checks to most private gun transactions has been voted down by a legislative panel, ending chances for approval this year,” The Associated Press reported.

“The House Judiciary Committee on Monday failed to endorse the Democrat-sponsored initiative designed to extend background checks to gun sales arranged over the internet or on the sidelines of guns shows that don’t involve a licensed dealer,” AP continued.

No, Democrats, your fellow lawmakers are not that dumb.

Neither are American people, for that matter. Besides Bearing Arms, Breitbart and the NRA-ILA ran stories warning responsible Americans that Democrats were being, well, Democrats.

They’ll just have to settle for looking for other ways to undercut our freedoms for now.

http://conservativetribune.com/lawmakers-stunned-at-where/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTDailyEmail&utm_content=2017-03-17

Overthrowing America in Twelve Steps

Overthrowing America in Twelve Steps

How America Was Being SYSTEMATICALLY Overthrown In 12 Steps…Until Trump

March 4, 2017 by State of the Nation  

Over Throwing America in Twelve Steps

Published on Mar 4, 2017

The hundred-year attack on America has been accomplished in 12 steps that spell out the demise of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Bill of Rights. Each step is explained in detail and adds another picture to the puzzle of the apparent “regime change” that George Soros and his “bought and paid for” activists groups are conducting against Trump. The 12th step in the overthrow of America was to be the election of Hillary Clinton and the continuation of the Bush/Clinton/Obama CIA White House. Trump’s victory is the wrecking ball that is tearing down the walls that surround DC political corruption and the sell-out of American liberties.

The corresponding article can be found at http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=67504 or
http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/0...

LABOR NOMINEE ALEX ACOSTA MUST TO TO JAIL!

To Criminal Division of the Department of US Attorney General!

  

LABOR NOMINEE ALEX ACOSTA MUST TO TO JAIL!  

JAIL IS HIS PLACE!

ALEX ACOSTA! 

Your place is in jail!

PEDOGATE: ALEX ACOSTA’S NOMINATION FOR LABOR SECRETARY MUST BE REJECTED

Posted by stevew | Mar 18, 2017 | 2017, Conspiracy, Cabal, and Government, Daily Blog, Government Laws, Policies, Politicians, Militar   

PEDOGATE: ALEX ACOSTA’S NOMINATION FOR LABOR SECRETARY MUST BE REJECTED

March 15, 2017

State of the Nation

 

THE FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY OFFERED AN UNPRECEDENTED “SWEETHEART PLEA DEAL” TO SERIAL SEX OFFENDER JEFFREY EPSTEIN

 

#PIZZAGATE :: LABOR NOMINEE ALEX ACOSTA WAS AT THE CENTER OF SEX OFFENDER JEFFERY EPSTEIN’S OUTRAGEOUS PLEA DEAL

State of the Nation

If Alexander Acosta is remembered for one thing throughout his entire law career, it will be his serious mishandling of the child sex case of West Palm Beach billionaire and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Most Radioactive ‘SCANDAL Of The MILLENNIUM’

As U.S. Attorney, Acosta negotiated an unprecedented plea agreement for Jeffrey Epstein in what is now known as one of the most grotesque miscarriages of justice in Florida history.  There are attorneys throughout the state who are still seriously questioning (and extremely angry about the trampling of the rule of law) the final disposition of this deliberately bungled case.  Some of those attorneys are actually litigating it on behalf of their aggrieved female clients. The details are explained in the article below:

Jeffrey Epstein’s victims sue and claim he was given a ‘sweetheart deal’ giving him immunity after he pleaded guilty to hiring teen for sex

The essence of the various allegations, which essentially assert prosecutorial misconduct without saying it, revolve around a number of extreme irregularities by Acosta in the process of prosecuting Epstein. However, the most egregious departures from the most basic rules of law concern two issues.

First, that Jeffrey Epstein was afforded the opportunity to cop a plea that had absolutely no relationship to the seriousness of the multiple underage sex crimes which he pled guilty to.

Epstein, then 55 and defended by an all-star legal team, pleaded guilty to a state charge of soliciting minors for prostitution. He registered as a sex offender in Florida and agreed to pay damages to 40 female victims ranging in age from 13 to 17 years old. As part of the plea agreement negotiated by Acosta’s office, Epstein wouldn’t be charged in federal court — even though the feds had drawn up a proposed 53-page indictment that carried potential punishment ranging from a mandatory 10 years in prison up to a life sentence.
(Source: Labor nominee Alex Acosta was at the center of sex offender Jeffery Epstein’s outrageous plea deal)

Secondly, that the victims themselves — and there were at least 40 girls involved — had no knowledge whatsoever of the “sweetheart plea deal” that was made with defendant Epstein by prosecutor Acosta.

“The Government and Epstein conspired to conceal the NPA (non-prosecution agreement) from the victims to prevent them from joining any objection, and to avoid the firestorm of controversy that would have arisen if it had become known that the Government was immunizing a politically-connected billionaire and all of his conspiracies from the prosecutions of hundreds of federal crimes against minor girls,” the plaintiff’s attorneys wrote in a recent filing.
(Source: The Shameful Way Feds Protected Convicted Pedophile Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein)

PEDOGATE IN HIGH PLACES

There appears to be one reason — above all others — as to why this case was handled in a manner that defies the applicable federal statutes, state laws and relevant legal precedents. That reason concerns the far-reaching ramifications of Epstein’s “black book” which was kept by his butler Alfredo Rodriguez.  The many names in that “black book” read like a list of the world’s rich and famous, powerful and well-connected.  The following names are just a few that are listed:

Queen Elizabeth

Prince Andrew, Duke of York

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman

Edward de Rothschild

Evelyn de Rothschild

David Rockefeller

*****

Ehud Barak

David Blaine

Tony Blair

Michael Bloomberg

Edgar Bronfman
(Source: Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book: A Sampler)

What makes the Jeffrey Epstein affair so very concerning is that it brings into sharp relief the two radically systems of criminal justice that operate 24/7 throughout America: one for the rich and powerful; and one for the poor and those who have relatively ‘little standing’ in society.

Especially where it concerns crimes of pedophilia and pederasty, the ruling class seems to have a pass to do whatever they damn well please.  The plea deal negotiated by Alex Acosta is a perfect example of such a travesty of justice.  That the administrators of this two-tier justice system continue to operate with apparent impunity, in spite of the extraordinary public scrutiny, ought to give reason to really pause on this one.

ALEX ACOSTA IS UNFIT TO BE SECRETARY OF LABOR

After his stint as U.S. Attorney for Southern District of Florida, Acosta became the second dean of the Florida International University College of Law in Miami.  It ought to be pointed out that he had previously functioned as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice and also served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division.  Civil rights?! Who, pray tell, neglected to protect the civil rights of the 40 plus sexually abused underage girls enslaved by Epstein’s sex crime syndicate?

If confirmed by the Senate committee as U.S. Secretary of Labor, Alex Acosta will be the Trump Administration’s senior officer overseeing the nation’s work force, corporate labor practices and labor law enforcement.  In this role he will be concerned with the maltreatment of seasonal migrants, plight of working illegal aliens and especially the rampant child slavery that has seeped into Corporate America.  Human trafficking for purposes of acquiring cheap corporate labor has become a major responsibility for the labor secretary.

There are many other issues which concern those workers who have no real voice in matters of employment and/or are powerless in the workplace, which fall under the purview of Labor.  Hence, we trust that the upcoming confirmation hearing will see the committee’s duties executed in the most judicious manner in view of Acosta’s dubious record.

At the risk of sounding redundant, in light of the reckless misconduct concerning the Jeffrey Epstein case, the scales of justice have fallen decisively against the confirmation of Alex Acosta.  It should be pointed out that neither Mr. Acosta nor his staff ever provided a single explanation for his unjustifiable leniency toward Mr. Epstein.

“Despite the fact that this case has been in litigation for more than seven years … the government does not write even a single sentence explaining why it entered into [a non-prosecution agreement] with a sex offender who had committed hundreds of federal sex offenses against young girls,” the lawyers wrote.(Source: Feds deceived us about billionaire sex offender’s ‘sweetheart deal,’ teen victims say)

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Special Note:
The real $64,000 question here is: Why did President Trump even make such a totally radioactive nomination?  Not only do both he and Epstein live in West Palm Beach, FL, Epstein has been to Trump’s gala events.  As determined to also drain the nasty Florida swamp as the POTUS has expressed, perhaps he has purposefully engineered the upcoming confirmation hearing in such a way that Congress will be forced to confront the Jeffrey Epstein legal scandal, once and for all.  There is simply no other Pizzagate event that has such HUGE potential to blow Pedogate wide open.  Surely, Trump knows that the “sweetheart plea deal” that Epstein inexplicably received from U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta is enough to bring the whole Pedogate scheme crashing down.
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CONCLUSION

Both the Trump transition team, and now the Administration, have repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to float the names of notorious political operatives who are downright dangerous were they to be prominently configured in the president’s cabinet. However, none of those bad actors has gotten even close to a full-blown Senate confirmation hearing.  That’s exactly where the Alex Acosta appointment is at this very moment.

Particularly in view of the Pizzagate scandal in Washington, D.C., as well as the much larger Pedogate global crime spree, it’s imperative that the POTUS reserve any and all appointments for individuals who are unimpeachable in their previous professional conduct.  Likewise, they should be completely beyond reproach where it concerns their personal business and private life.

PEDOGATE: Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened for Deep State and the C.I.A.

As revelations about both Pizzagate and Pedogate continue to produce such shocking disclosures about systematic child trafficking, child sexual abuse, child pornography, child snuff films production, child organ, tissue and blood harvesting, etc., it’s never been so critical for every organ of the U.S. Federal Government to root out those elected officials and appointees who have abetted this flagrantly criminal behavior, wittingly or unwittingly.

Perhaps the worst repercussion of such a disastrous Labor appointment is that the Trump Administration will have effectively swallowed a Pedogate poison pill.   In so doing they will be rendered impotent in prosecuting what is surely the most powerful crime syndicate in the USA—the Pizzagate perpetrators who have always ruled inside the Beltway.  Consequently, this pervasive and profound social ill of child exploitation will continue unabated as it eludes the necessary medicine that only strict and unwavering law enforcement can bring to bear.

State of the Nation
March 15, 2017

Author’s Note

What is quite unusual about the above story is that it was first published on March 3, 2017 by the Mainstream Media in the wake of the Acosta nomination.  That the Miami Herald (MH) would put out such a fact-filled article regarding such a sensitive criminal issue speaks volumes about them leaving the reservation of political correctness.  While its parent company is the Sacramento-based media empire — The McClatchy Company — the Left clearly has much more to lose over Pedogate exposés than does the Right.  Here’s the original MH story that precipitated from Trump’s Acosta announcement: Trump labor nominee talked tough on sex crimes but gave billionaire a ‘sweetheart’ deal.

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=68670