This is the case before the SCOTUS which promises to rein in the administrative state—i.e. rule by hired “professionals” who tell citizens what to do. For some reason, people who call themselves conservatives have decided the administrative surge has been engineered by people they consider liberal. That the administrative cadre has been aiming for agency autonomy ever since the technocrats were touted as America’s saviors has escaped the perception of people who were content to be represented by non-governmental corporations (eleemosynary, commercial, industrial, educational). That the authoritarians had captured all those entities to the detriment of natural persons escaped their notice as long as only select natural persons were disempowered.
Category Archives: Down the drain
Public Officials in Hiding
Is that a new tactic in the administrative state after the judicial ruling that all communications with and from the public must be archived?
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Manafort Timeline
Just because the Dude actually has reason to be increasingly antagonistic towards John McCain.
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Dr. Fred Speaks
Is any body going to listen?
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Advancing the story
On January 11, 2017, when Trump called a press conference to announce: Continue reading
Manafort Timeline updated
MANAFORT TIMELINE
1949, Paul John Manafort born April 1st
1965, M. New Britain, CT resident
1967, M. St. Thomas Aquinas High School grad
1970, M. meets Roger Stone at Rep state convention CT
1971, M. Georgetown grad
1972, Roger Stone’s dirty trick in NH for Nixon
1974, M. earns JD from Georgetown U.
1975, M. employed in Nixon White House w. Stone
— set up NickPAC, National Conservatives PAC
1976, M. delegate co-ordinator in Gerald Ford campaign
1977, M. orchestrated election of Stone as head of Young Reps
— joined Vorys, Sater,Seymour & Pease law firm
1978, M. organizer of Reagan campaign in U.S.South
1980, M. Director of W H Personnel for Reagan
— set up Black, Manafort and Stone pr firm
— Stone meets w. Donald Trump
— Director of Overseas Private Investment Corp.
1982, Kelly added to Black, Manafort and Stone pr firm
1983, International Republican Institute organized
1984, M. advisor to Savimbi and Saudi Arabia
1986, M. resigned as Director of OPIC
1988, M. advisor to GHWB campaign
1989, M. hired as advisor to Zaire
1991, sale of BMSK to Barston Marsteller
1994, M. hired as advisor to Pakistan
1995, M. advisor to Balladus in France,
—Kilimnik hired by McCain’s Internat. Repub.Inst
1996, M. advisor to Bob Dole campaign
—left Barston Marsteller
—set up Davis, Manafort, Freedman
2003, M. advisor to Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych
2004, M. employed Kilimnik as strategist
2005, Kilimnik fired by Internat. Repub. Inst.
— Rick Davis intro of Deripaska to McCain
— M. hired by Akhmetof
2006, McCain celebrates birthday in Montenegro w. Deripaska
2008, M. as John Hannah LLC purchased Trump Tower condo,
— Davis manager of McCain campaign
2010, M. gets $10 million loan from Deripaska
2013, M. sets up European Center for Modern Ukraine
— Global Endeavor Corp. set up in St. Vincent
2015, Kilimnik & Patten set up Begemot internat.
2016, M. manages Trump campaign March to August
— M. advisor to Party of Regions in August
2017, M. explored China connections, advisor to Kurds
2018, M. indicted, arrested, jailed, convicted of fraud, etc
2019, Stone indicted and arrested for obstruction,lying
2019, Victor Yanukovych convicted of treason in Ukraine
2019, M. sentenced to 48 months in prison for being blameless
No conflict of interest provision
SO, HE HAD AN AGENDA AND EVEN BEFORE HE WAS SWORN IN, HE SET UP HIS DEFENSE CLAIMING NO CO-ORDINATION WITH THE RUSSIANS AND, AFTER HE IS SWORN IN, HE WILL DO DEALS. Continue reading
Still reading docs
Beach protectors. Note how in the brochure they are set parallel to the shore, not sticking out into the tide.
In response to faux behavioral analyses.
In his “Foreword” to the undated “Glynn County Hurricane Plan” posted on the Glynn County website, Captain Jay Wiggins, Director of the Glynn County Emergency Management Agency, states that “This plan includes incorporating the lessons learned from . . . research studies on . . . behavioral analyses of attitudes toward evacuation.”
Having read and studied the “Glynn County Hurricane Plan”, I can find no reference to any “research studies on . . . behavioral analyses of attitudes toward evacuation” nor any statements regarding “attitudes toward evacuation”.
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Why the Georgia coast and marshes are not being protected.
The first reason is that the official bodies charged with protection, the Shore Protection Committee (SPC) and the Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee (CMPC) are being serviced by the staff of the Coastal Resources Division (CRD) of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the CRD is the marketing arm of the DNR. That is, their mission is to promote industry and commerce. Which is why they issue permissions such as the following:
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