The Scheme 31: The Crooked Stick and the Supreme Court
April 30 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, delivers the thirty-first in a series of speeches titled "The Scheme," exposing the machinations by right-wing donor interests to capture the Supreme Court and achieve through the Court what they cannot through the elected branches of government.
Whitehouse compares the prosecutions of government officials for failing to properly disclose gifts of free vacations, event tickets, lodging, or travel, with the lack of accountability for the right-wing Court justices who have received similar undisclosed gifts.
"Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.
In 1967, at the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched an unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty, a US Navy spy ship that was monitoring the conflict from the safety of international waters in the Mediterranean.
Israeli jet fighters hit the vessel with rockets, cannon fire and napalm, before three Israeli torpedo boats moved in to launch a second more devastating attack. Though she did not sink, the Liberty was badly damaged. Thirty-four US servicemen and civilian analysts were killed, another 171 were wounded.
Later Israel apologised for what it claimed to be a tragic case of mistaken identity. It said that it had believed the ship to be hostile Egyptian naval vessel. US President Lyndon Johnson was privately furious but publicly the White House chose not to challenge the word of its closest Middle East ally and accepted that the attack had been a catastrophic accident.
However, as this exclusive Al Jazeera investigation reveals, fresh evidence throws new light on exactly what happened that fateful day – and the remarkable cover up that followed."
New Hampshire House State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee Hearing on Bill HB1041 "Relative to Establishing a Commission to investigate the USS Liberty Incident and its Aftermath." USS Liberty Survivors Larry Bowen, Phil Tourney and Bryce Lockwood Testify.
New Hampshire House Bill HB 1041, Title: relative to establishing a commission to investigate the USS Liberty incident and its aftermath.
Wikipedia, USS Liberty incident (Memorial Day 2024). The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship (spy ship), USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War.[2] The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian NSA employee), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship.[3] At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nautical miles (47.2 km; 29.3 mi) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.[1][4]
Israel apologized for the attack, saying that the USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship.[5] Both the Israeli and U.S. governments conducted inquiries and issued reports that concluded the attack was a mistake due to Israeli confusion about the ship's identity.[6] Others, including survivors of the attack, have rejected these conclusions and maintain that the attack was deliberate.[7][8] Read more on Wikipedia
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, delivers the thirtieth in a series of speeches titled "The Scheme," exposing the machinations by right-wing donor interests to capture the Supreme Court and achieve through the Court what they cannot through the elected branches of government.
Whitehouse recaps what we know about the right-wing special interest Court capture operation and the ethics-free zone around the Supreme Court. Whitehouse also provides an update on his ongoing legislative and oversight efforts on courts issues.
Hello, my name is Neil J. Gillespie, and I want to earn your vote for president in 2024. I am not a politician; I am an advocate with a cause. I want government of the People, by the People, and for the People, as envisioned by President Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address. Otherwise we are left with government of the powerful, by their lawyers, for the corporations.
On February 1, 2024, I filed a lawsuit in the Marion County Circuit Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit, Florida, for possession of my Google Account neilgillespie@mfi.net and my recovery phone number 352-615-3819. I am the Plaintiff pro se in case no. 2024-CA-0209 against Alphabet Inc., Google LLC, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Wireless Services LLC, and Tracfone Wireless Inc. On February 28, 2024, Defendants Alphabet Inc. and Google LLC, removed my Florida lawsuit to federal court, in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Ocala Division, case no. 5:24-cv-00101. On March 26, 2024, U.S. District Judge Marcia Howard remanded the case back to Florida. On April 8, 2024 I filed a First Amended Complaint in state court. On April 10, 2024 I gave Notice of Voluntary Dismissal Without Prejudice. On April 22, 2024 The Florida Bar responded to my complaint against Google’s lawyers.
Note: The dates and times of the first five blog posts appearing on this blog were not synchronized to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, but were arbitrary to compensate for the lack of a Google Blogger design feature to allow pinning a post to the top of the blog. Today I updated this blog to fix that issue. Henceforth my posts will correspond to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
