Informational -

Lots of people are pinning the Australian forest fires on global warming.  Not surprisingly, there is more to the story. 

It seems that for millennia, the aboriginal people have known the land there.  When the grass got too stiff, when sticks crack a certain way, they knew that meant the possibility of fire was higher.  So they executed low grade burns, things that didn't burn hot, but that cleared out brush.  They were back burning.

Enter modern "scientific" Europeans.  In order to control the fires, Austrailians have also been burning.  But their problem has been control; their fires burn much higher and hotter and wind up drying out adjacent lands, meaning the overall quantity of fuel has actually increased.  They have only just begun to understand how to execute controlled burns the right way so they can remove the fuel without overdoing it.

So...same as the cause in California, improper land management is the root cause because it's being done by people who only think they know the right policies.

This is why the MMGW crowd has a credibility problem.  it's just one of many examples where they are either outright lying or ignorantly reporting facts that aren't true. 

Of course Giuliani has been in Ukraine for a while.  He was obviously the link that got the Ambassador fired and that's been confirmed.

Question - does his admission that he's been working on getting Ukraine to investigate the Bidens cause problems for Trump?  With the admission that Giuliani has been working on getting an investigation going, it seems to me like that complicates things for impeachment.  There's no doubt that Giuliani's purpose is to cause problems for Biden and that's legal.  But it changes the context of why the president wanted a favor of the investigation.  He previously said it was to ensure corruption was not happening and we have to take that as his word.  But at the same time, his attack dog was digging up the dirt to make the investigation go, so it appears to have other motives.

Giuliani should have kept his mouth shut.  At this point it appears that both Trump and Biden are in trouble.

Flame away, I maintain that this is not a good look for Trump.

https://www.oann.com/judicial-watch-unearths-visitor-log-from-eric-ciaramellas-time-at-the-white-house/

It seems he wasn't very discrete when Obama was president because, after all, there was never going to be another Republican president.

Visitor logs from the White House show him meeting with a number of people on controversial topics - the railroading of Mike Flynn, the steel dossier and multiple contractors from Ukraine researching dirt against Trump.

There is something rotten in the state of denmark.  But we know that.

Trump moving our guys out of the way in Syria because....

I’m willing to entertain the idea that it’s beneficial to let Turkey invade, but I cannot see why. More war destabilizes the whole region.  Another spineless action because he is afraid of casualties?

I don’t get it.  Someone explain?

I’m awake right now because I had a nightmare. The Democrats has won all the branches of government and had just passed a Medicare for All plan. The cost of the plan was so high that the economy was collapsing, taxes were tripling or quadrupling, companies were laying off workers left and right, people were legitimately trying to flee the country but nobody would take them because it caused a global economic collapse too. Then they came offer the guns too, because things were so unsafe.

I really hope this was just a dream and not a future vision.

Summary - Democrat alledge that the president threathened to withhold foreign aid unless Ukraine investigated Joe Biden's son on charges related to Paul Manafort.  An intelligence analyst heard the conversation and blew a whistle.  Then the DNI refused to forward the complaint to Congress

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48268762

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49640830?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cx1m7zg0gzdt/ukraine&link_location=live-reporting-story

I don't think there's anything to the democrats claim because I understand it, the fund threatened to be withheld in July have since been released without an investigation.  What I'm more interested in is how this whistle blower abused the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWA).  He published his complaint as an "urgent concern".  But if you read the law, an urgent concern must pertain to the execution of intelligence activity.  So, what this guy really did was release confidential information about the president's conversation with a foreign leader. 

The whole thing is a Deep State attack.

This is CNN's news page this morning.  Hard quiz, what's missing?

But just to be clear, because the news wasn’t, this was not a final win. It was a stay of the injunction by the lower court pending a 9th Circuit appeal. Construction can move forward using the 2.5 million in funds the president reallocated. But the 9th circuit still has a say, which will likely put this back to the Supreme Court for a decision about whether or not the law is being correctly applied.

This wasn’t a decision of law, it was just nullifying a preliminary injunction while the case moves forward.