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L.A. prosecutors decline to pursue sex abuse charges against CBS CEO Moonves
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles prosecutors said on Tuesday that they had declined to pursue three accusations of sexual abuse against CBS Corp. Chief Executive Les Moonves dating back to the 1980s because the statute of limitations had expired.
The decision to not pursue the accusations was taken in February 2018, according to a copy of a charge evaluation sheet provided by the District Attorney’s office. The claims were made by a woman who was not identified.
“The applicable statutes of limitation have expired as to all three incidents,” the document said.
CBS and Moonves declined comment.
On Friday, New Yorker magazine reported on claims by six women who accused Moonves of sexually harassing them between 1985 and 2006. It was not clear if the woman referenced in the Los Angeles document was among them.
Moonves said in a statement on Friday that he “may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances,” which he called mistakes that he regretted immensely, but that he understood “‘no’ means ‘no'” and never used his position to harm anyone’s career.
On Monday, the CBS board said it had taken steps to select an outside counsel to lead an independent investigation into the matter.
The Los Angeles charge evaluation sheet said that the woman met Moonves “through employment in the television industry” and that she alleged sexual abuse by Moonves in 1986 and on two occasions in 1988. It did not give details of the alleged abuse.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Toni Reinhold)
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U.S. welcomes home remains of presumed war dead from North Korea
WASHINGTON/OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (Reuters) – In a solemn ceremony, the United States welcomed home on Wednesday human remains it said presumably included Americans killed in the 1950-1953 Korean War, and thanked North Korea for making good on a June summit pledge to hand them over.
Only one identification “dog tag” was delivered by the North Koreans, underscoring the long path ahead for U.S. military efforts to identify the remains inside the 55 boxes presented by North Korea to the United States last week.
Vice President Mike Pence hailed the remains’ arrival in Hawaii as evidence of the success of President Donald Trump’s landmark summit in June with North Koran leader Kim Jong Un. Critics say the summit has so far failed to deliver on promised steps toward denuclearization by Pyongyang.
“I know that President Trump is grateful that Chairman Kim has kept his word, and we see today this tangible progress in our efforts to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula,” said Pence, whose father fought in the Korean War.
More than 7,700 U.S. troops remain unaccounted for from the Korea War. About 5,300 were lost in what is now North Korea.
Other countries under the command of the United Nations also lost troops that are still unaccounted for, including the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
Pence, in his address at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, said he trusted that Americans killed in the war were among the flag-draped cases flown to Hawaii on Wednesday.
“Whosoever emerges from these aircraft, today begins a new season of hope for the families of our missing fallen,” he said.
The U.S. military flew the remains from Osan Air Base in South Korea after they had undergone an initial review.
John Byrd, director of analysis for the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), told reporters at Osan that the family of the soldier identified by the dog tag had been notified. But he cautioned it was unclear if that soldier’s remains were among those received from North Korea.
Experts say positively identifying the decades-old remains could take anywhere from days to decades.
Still, the initial field forensic review indicated the “remains are what North Korea said they were,” Byrd said.
The North Koreans provided enough specifics about where each suspected body was found that U.S. officials have matched them to specific battles fought from 1950 to 1951, although not necessarily individuals, he said.
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The pledge to transfer war remains was seen as a goodwill gesture by Kim at the Singapore summit, and was the most concrete agreement reached by the two sides so far.
While it has taken longer than some had hoped, a U.S. State Department official said the process had so far proceeded as expected, and the handover rekindled hopes for progress in other talks with North Korea aimed at getting it to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
But questions have deepened over Pyongyang’s commitment after U.S. spy satellite material detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs despite its pledge to denuclearize.
Air Force General John Hyten, who as commander of the U.S. Strategic Command oversees America’s nuclear forces, said North Korea had clearly demonstrated its commitment to halt flight-testing missiles since none had launched since November.
But he declined to comment on intelligence about any other North Korean research activities when speaking to reporters on Wednesday.
“I won’t say anything about what they’re doing on the ground because that would cause me to reveal intelligence sources,” Hyten told reporters in a briefing.
Friday’s transfer of the remains on the Korean Peninsula coincided with the 65th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended fighting between North Korean and Chinese forces and South Korean and U.S.-led forces under the U.N. Command. The two sides remain technically at war because a peace treaty was never signed.
The United States and North Korea conducted joint searches from 1996 until 2005, when Washington halted the operations, citing concerns about the safety of its personnel as Pyongyang stepped up its nuclear program.
More than 400 caskets of remains found in North Korea were returned to the United States between the 1990s and 2005, with the bodies of some 330 other Americans also accounted for, according to the DPAA.
The Pentagon said last week it was considering the possibility of sending personnel to North Korea to search for additional remains.
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(Reporting by Phil Stewart and Josh Smith; Additional reporting by Steve Holland in Washington; Editing by Nick Macfie and Peter Cooney)
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In Soviet echo, Putin gives Russian army a political wing
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin inspects warships on the Neva river during the Navy Day parade in St Petersburg, Russia. Sputnik/Mikhail Klementyev/Kremlin via REUTERS
By Andrew Osborn
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin has created a new directorate inside the Russian army to promote patriotism, evoking memories of a Soviet practice that once saw soldiers taught the precepts of Marxism and Leninism by political commissars.
The move, approved by Putin in a presidential decree published on Monday, will affect Russia’s around 1 million active military service people and appears designed to ensure soldiers’ loyalty at a time when Moscow is locked in a geopolitical standoff with the West.
“In conditions of a global information and psychological confrontation (with the West) the role of political and moral unity within the army and society drastically grows,” Alexander Kanshin, who sits on a civilian body that shapes military policy, told Interfax news agency in February.
In the Soviet Union, a similar directorate worked to ensure that the army stayed loyal to the then ruling Communist party.
Putin, commander-in-chief of Russia’s armed forces, ran as an independent candidate when re-elected to a new term in March, but is supported by the ruling United Russia Party.
His decree said the new directorate would be responsible for “military-patriotic” work and, in a separate decree, Putin made Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov, a veteran of Russia’s conflict in Syria, its new head and a deputy defense minister.
The defense ministry did not release details of the new directorate, but an unnamed military source told the Kommersant daily that Kartapolov would also be responsible for the activities of the Yunarmiya, a patriotic military youth organization sponsored by the ministry.
After Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea, seen by the Kremlin as a big success, the military has grown increasingly influential in domestic and foreign policy, especially in Syria.
The Bolsheviks, wary of the army’s loyalty, introduced political commissars in 1918. In the late Soviet period, political officers, known as zampolity, tried to ensure soldiers knew their communist doctrine and where their loyalties lay.
Vladimir Scherbakov, a military specialist at the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily, said Putin’s decision to resurrect a version of the Soviet-era directorate raised questions.
“The main question is this. In the Soviet era, the directorate in practice worked in the interests of the Communist Party’s central committee. It’s not completely clear what military-political work the resurrected directorate will do and more importantly in the interests of which political party.”
Others wondered whether the creation of the new directorate was the start of a wider renaissance in ideological education that would draw in schools and colleges, and whether the new instrument would be used to root out young soldiers deemed as too pro-Western.
“All of this is reminiscent of a gradual return to the USSR,” wrote Dmitry Drize, Kommersant’s deputy editor.
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ICE Official Explains Law, Leaves Dem Senator Saying ‘I’m Confused’
Facts warred with foggy perceptions during a Senate hearing on immigration this week, leaving one Democrat complaining, “I’m confused.”
Matthew Albence, executive associate director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
After Albence sought to explain to the senators that federal detention centers for children of illegal immigrants were not as horrible as critics insist, Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono decided to press the point — homing in on the illegal immigrant holding facilities known as family residential centers.
“Would you send your child to FRC?” the Democrat asked.
Albence tried to make it clear that the machinery of government kicked in once the border was crossed illegally.
“Again, I think we’re missing the point. These individuals are there because they have broken a law. There has to be a process,” he said.
Hirono then tried to lay immigration issues at the door of President Donald Trump.
“They have broken a law only as deemed so by the president,” she said.
Albence was ready with a reply.
“No, ma’am. They’re there for violation of Title 8 of the immigration, of the U.S. and Nationality Act. … That’s illegal entry. It’s both a criminal and civil violation,” Albence retorted. “They are in those FRCs pending the outcome of that civil immigration process. They have broken the law.”
Hirono now appeared lost.
“Well, these are mainly — my understanding is that under zero-tolerance, these are no longer civil proceedings, but in fact were criminal proceedings,” she said. Albence tried to explain how things really worked on the border and who did what.
“They were criminal proceedings when the Border Patrol prosecuted them. But at the conclusion of that process, once the individual came into ICE custody, they would go through administrative proceedings,” he said.
At that point, Hirono admitted, “I’m confused.”
But Albence persisted in explaining the issue.
“The criminal proceeding is the individual being prosecuted for the criminal violation of improper entry,” Albence explained.
As one former ICE official noted on “Fox and Friends,” the law is very clear, Fox News reported.
“When you cross the border (illegally)… it is a misdemeanor,” former acting Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security John Torres told “Fox & Friends” host Ainsley Earhardt .
During Tuesday’s hearing, Sen. John Cornyn asked Albence what would happen if the Democrats got their way and abolished ICE, according to The Washington Post.
“You cannot have strong border security with a void in the interior,” Albence told the Texas Republican.
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U.S. imposes sanctions on Turkish officials over pastor’s detention
FILE PHOTO: Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu arrives to the art gallery where Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot in Ankara, Turkey, December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo
By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on two top officials in Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s Cabinet on Wednesday in a new attempt to get NATO ally Turkey to turn over an American pastor accused of backing a coup attempt against Erdogan two years ago.
The U.S. Treasury Department acted against Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu over the country’s imprisonment of Andrew Brunson. The United States has blamed both for being involved in Brunson’s arrest and detention.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry called Washington’s action a “hostile stance” and said it would retaliate. Relations between the United States and Turkey have plummeted over Brunson, who was in custody for 21 months in a Turkish prison until he was transferred to house arrest last week.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters: “We’ve seen no evidence that Pastor Brunson has done anything wrong, and we believe he is a victim of unfair and unjust detention by the government of Turkey.”
On Tuesday, a Turkish court rejected Brunson’s appeal to be released from house arrest during his trial on terrorism charges.
Anticipation of the U.S. sanctions had already helped to send the Turkish lira to an all-time low against the dollar on Wednesday.
Brunson was accused of helping supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based cleric who Turkish authorities say masterminded the 2016 coup attempt against Erdogan in which 250 people were killed. Turkey has waged a two-year effort to have Gulen extradited from the United States. Brunson was also charged with supporting outlawed PKK Kurdish militants.
Brunson, who has lived in Turkey for more than two decades, faces up to 35 years in jail if found guilty of the charges, which he denies.
U.S. President Donald Trump has raised the case directly with Erdogan, Sanders said. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thought they had a deal to get Brunson’s release last month. When that failed to materialize, they began ramping up pressure on the Turkish government, aides said.
Pence, who has close ties to the evangelical Christian community, has been following Brunson’s case since he was arrested and pressing behind the scenes for action, aides said.
Pompeo, en route to Singapore, said in Anchorage, Alaska, that the Turkish government refused to release Brunson “after numerous conversations between President Trump and President Erdogan and my conversations with Foreign Minister (Mevlut) Cavusoglu.”
“President Trump concluded that these sanctions are the appropriate action,” he said.
Pompeo spoke with his counterpart by telephone and they planned to meet on the sidelines of ASEAN meetings this week in Singapore, spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
Analysts say relations between the United States and Turkey have come under increasing strain in the past two years over the U.S. role in Syria and Turkey’s stronger ties with Russia.
(Reporting by Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton; Additional reporting by Lisa Lambert, David Brunnstrom and Tulay Karadeniz; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Peter Cooney)
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Ohio State places Meyer on paid administrative leave
FILE PHOTO: Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer enters the stadium before the game against the Michigan Wolverines at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 26, 2016. Mandatory Credit: Greg Bartram-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo
Ohio State placed head coach Urban Meyer on paid administrative leave Wednesday while it investigates whether or not Meyer knew of allegations of domestic violence against recently fired receivers coach Zach Smith.
A report by college football reporter Brett McMurphy earlier in the day contradicted Meyer’s recent comments at Big Ten media day that he was unaware of allegations against Smith. The report said Meyer was aware that Zach Smith was accused of domestic violence by his wife, Courtney Smith, since at least Oct. 2015.
Offensive coordinator Ryan Day, who also coaches quarterbacks, will serve as acting head coach during the investigation.
“The university is conducting an investigation into these allegations,” Ohio State said in a statement. “During the inquiry, Urban Meyer will be on paid administrative leave. Ryan Day will serve as acting football coach during the investigation.
“We are focused on supporting our players and on getting to the truth as expeditiously as possible.”
Meyer discussed the situation with athletic director Gene Smith and said he was on board with the decision by the university to place him on leave.
“Gene and I agree that being on leave during this inquiry will facilitate its completion,” Meyer said in a statement. “This allows the team to conduct training camp with minimal distraction. I eagerly look forward to the resolution of this matter.”
At last week’s Big Ten media days, Meyer claimed to know nothing about the 2015 allegation against Zach Smith.
“I was never told about anything,” Meyer said. “Never anything came to light, never had a conversation about it. So I know nothing about it.”
Meyer termed firing Zach Smith, which happened July 23, as a “very tough call.”
Wednesday’s report included text messages between Courtney Smith, Shelley Meyer (Urban’s wife) and other coaches’ wives showing Urban Meyer was aware of the allegations. Courtney Smith also said that she sent photos of the abuse to Shelley Meyer.
In an interview with Stadium posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Courtney Smith said she is unsure whether Shelley Meyer actually told her husband about the abuse, but said the Meyers should have taken responsibility.
“When somebody is crying out for help, the coach, along with the coach’s wife, have a duty … they have a duty to do something, to help,” Courtney Smith said in the interview.
Zach Smith also was arrested for battery of Courtney Smith in 2009 when he was on Urban Meyer’s staff at Florida, an incident Meyer said last week he reported to supervisors at the time. Zach Smith wasn’t charged in the case.
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Massive U.S. defense policy bill passes without strict China measures
U.S. Army soldiers carry a large U.S. flag as they march in the Veterans Day parade on 5th Avenue in New York November 11, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate passed a $716 billion defense policy bill on Wednesday, backing President Donald Trump’s call for a bigger, stronger military and sidestepping a potential battle with the White House over technology from major Chinese firms.
The Senate voted 87-10 for the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. The annual act authorizes U.S. military spending but is used as a vehicle for a broad range of policy matters as it has passed annually for more than 50 years.
Since it cleared the House of Representatives last week, the bill now goes to Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.
While the measure puts controls on U.S. government contracts with China’s ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd because of national security concerns, the restrictions are weaker than in earlier versions of the bill.
This angered some lawmakers, who wanted to reinstate tough sanctions on ZTE to punish the company for illegally shipping products to Iran and North Korea.
In another action largely targeting China, the NDAA strengthens the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews proposed foreign investments to weigh whether they threaten national security.
Lawmakers from both parties have been at odds with the Republican Trump over his decision to lift his earlier ban on U.S. companies selling to ZTE, allowing China’s second-largest telecommunications equipment maker to resume business.
But with his fellow Republicans controlling both the Senate and House, provisions of the NDAA intended to strike back at Beijing and opposed by the White House were softened before Congress’ final votes on the bill.
Separately, the NDAA authorizes spending $7.6 billion for 77 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets, made by Lockheed Martin Corp.
And it would prohibit delivery of the advanced aircraft to fellow NATO member Turkey at least until after the production of report, another measure that was stricter in earlier versions of the bill.
U.S. officials have warned Ankara that a Russian missile defense system Turkey plans to buy cannot be integrated into the NATO air and missile defense system. They are also unhappy about Turkey’s detention of an American pastor.
The fiscal 2019 NDAA was named to honor McCain, the Armed Services Committee chairman, war hero, long-time senator and former Republican presidential nominee, who has been undergoing treatment for brain cancer.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, additional reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by James Dalgleish and David Gregorio)
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Judge orders further extension of aid to Puerto Rico storm evacuees
WORCESTER, Mass. (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday extended until Aug. 31 an order preventing the eviction of hundreds of Puerto Rican families who fled the hurricane-ravaged island in 2017 and have been living in hotels and motels across the United States.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Hillman in Worcester, Massachusetts, issued the order after hearing arguments over whether he should issue a longer-term injunction barring the federal government from cutting off housing assistance to people who were forced to leave their homes because of Hurricane Maria.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had planned to end the assistance program on June 30. Hillman’s decision on Wednesday extended a previously-imposed temporary restraining order that allowed the families to remain in hotels until checkout time on Aug. 7.
Hillman extended the order to allow the government time to respond to new arguments raised by lawyers representing evacuees in a proposed class action challenging FEMA’s actions.
“It’s going to take us time sort through this,” he said.
Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on Sept. 20 with winds close to 150 miles per hour (240 kph), causing an estimated $90 billion in damage to the already economically struggling U.S. territory.
According to FEMA, 1,040 families displaced by Maria are currently receiving aid under a program that pays for hotel lodging. In total, the program has since its launch helped 7,032 families displaced by Maria, FEMA said.
Critics have said the federal government responded poorly to the disaster and provided inadequate aid. They contend that President Donald Trump’s administration viewed Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens, a claim it denies.
Four Puerto Ricans are pursuing the lawsuit, which was filed in June and contends that FEMA’s actions violate their due process rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Lawyers for the displaced Puerto Ricans argued in court that FEMA is legally obligated to continue to provide assistance to the evacuees, who they contend face potential homelessness if the program is prematurely ended without providing other assistance.
“They have no place to go back to, and what they’re seeking is assistance from the agency that already promised to give it to them,” said Natasha Bannan, an attorney with the advocacy organization LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
But Danielle Wolfson Young, a lawyer with the U.S. Justice Department representing FEMA, argued that the families had no right to continued assistance.
“FEMA has the discretion to implement and also to determine when to end the program,” she said.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in; Worcester; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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Trump Makes Surprise Call to Limbaugh on Talk Show Host’s 30th On-Air Anniversary
President Donald Trump surprised Rush Limbaugh by calling in to congratulate the prolific talk show host on his 30th anniversary on the airwaves.
“You’re a very special man, Rush, and you have people that love you. I’m one of them,” Trump said to Limbaugh who appeared completely caught off guard by the call-in. “What you do for this country, people have no idea how important your voice is.”
“Well, I — I thank you so much,” replied Limbaugh, who launched his nationally syndicated talk show on August 1, 1988. “It’s such a thrill to hear from you.”
Trump later highlighted how difficult it was to remain at the top conservative talk mountain for so long.
“You know, people don’t realize what a great achievement 30 years is in that cutthroat business that you happen to be in,” the president said. “You know, you might not find that ’cause you’re so good at what you do.”
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“But that is a cutthroat business, and for you to do this for 30 years is truly an amazing accomplishment, and there’s no voice like it. Even your friend Hannity agrees with that. He said, ‘There’s nobody like this man.'”
During the approximately 15 minute back-and-forth, Limbaugh thanked Trump for holding true to the promises he made in 2016 as a candidate.
“And you are consistent,” said the National Radio Hall of Fame recipient. “Things you said during the campaign are things you still say today. You haven’t given anybody reason to doubt you. You haven’t betrayed anybody or made them think that you’re going to.”
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Trump responded by noting one high profile promise of repealing Obamacare that he was not able to fully accomplish came just one vote short thanks to Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain, though he did not identify him by name.
“We had Obamacare repealed and replaced, and a man — I won’t mention his name,” said the president. “But a man at 2 o’clock in the morning went thumbs down, and he campaigned for years on repeal and replace.
“We had the chance. Nobody even spoke to him about it, because it was something that was unthinkable what he did … And, frankly, it cost $1 trillion because we would have saved $1 trillion, on top of which we would have had good health care.”
The chief executive pointed out regardless of that vote the GOP was at least able to end the individual mandate, which is the most onerous part of the program.
The other big-ticket agenda item Trump has not been able to push through Congress is getting significant funding for a border wall with Mexico.
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He emphasized his willingness to shut down the government, even before the midterm elections if necessary, to get the funding for the wall.
“I happen to think it’s a great political thing, because people want border security,” he said. “It’s not just the wall, Rush, as you know. It’s border security. It’s getting rid of catch-and-release, where you catch somebody, he can be a criminal of the highest order, and you have to release him!”
“I think immigration is the largest reason you got elected, your consistency on that,” Limbaugh observed. “I mean, it reverberates all across the country … It’d be silly for you to abandon this issue now, going into the midterms.”
The president wrapped up his call-in encouraging Limbaugh to say on the airwaves another 30 years.
Limbaugh answered, “I will do that. Just that. I will stay around as long as you do.”
Trump shot back: “OK. You have a deal.”
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White House Shouts Down Whiny Jim Acosta, ‘Keep It Moving Jim, Let’s Go!’
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Tired of the Media’s Trumpocalypse Hysteria: I Feel Fine
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of the Trumpocalypse.
In 1987, R.E.M. released a song called “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” which included the lyrics, “and I feel fine.” I find that song running through my head these days as I read hysterical news articles about how very, very bad everything is.
For example, a Politico writer compared Russia’s possible meddling in the United States 2016 election to two unfathomable American tragedies. “This is our Pearl Harbor or our 9/11,” wrote Mark Hertling and Molly K. McKew. “In the past, we have risen to the defense of our values, our ideologies and our institutions. It’s time for another fight.”
This staggering lack of perspective actually baffles me, but it also just makes me tune it all out. If you believe reporters, everything is the end of the world.
It’s the end of the United States, the end of our economy. A nuclear war is coming, the Russians are defeating us, NATO is destroyed, Trump is Hitler, Trump is going to be impeached, Trump is going to be removed by Congress for mental incompetence, Trump is going to be indicted, Trump is going to resign and so on.
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The hysteria is exhausting. Meanwhile, back in reality, things are empirically good.
The economy is booming, consumer confidence is sky high, manufacturing confidence is elevated, unemployment is at record lows for African-Americans, Hispanics, women (everyone). In fact, there are more jobs, than people who can fill them. Plus, there are more people in the workforce than in a very long time.
NATO members are stepping up and spending more on defense. Russia is being pressured by Trump more than any time in modern history; North Korea is struggling under stronger sanctions than any time in history (and it appears to be working); our trading partners all seem to be willing to negotiate deals better for the U.S.
The Supreme Court is likely to be dominated by the right (or at least lean that way) for a generation due to an unprecedented number of vacancies and spectacular picks by Trump. And, speaking of the Supreme Court, they’ve been on a constitutional roll lately. Thanks to the Janus decision, public employee unions have been gutted. Thanks to the Masterpiece Cake decision, religious freedom has been upheld. At the federal level, massive reform is taking place in civil service and the regulatory sphere.
Do you feel fine about the state of America under President Trump?
And for all the outrage over “fake news,” the leftist media is enjoying great profitability due to Trump’s unrelenting attacks. Right-wing media is experiencing the same due to the excitement of the base.
There’s even good news for people who practice the religion of Holy Climate Change: the CO2 emissions of the U.S. are dramatically down, far more than the European Union, Japan, China, Russia, India, or anywhere else. And guess what? This is not due to government intervention.
Welcome to the Trumpocalypse. Can we just get a tiny bit of reality in the mainstream media coverage? Just a teeny bit?
Every day is Doomsday in the media. It’s like the boy who cried wolf, only it’s the reporter who cried Armageddon.
Didn’t Mitt Romney tell us that Russia was our greatest geopolitical foe? Strangely, Obama told him that “the 80’s are calling and they want their foreign policy back.” The left just laughed and laughed. And now, we’re supposed to take the left seriously when they warn us — in hyperbolic terms — that Russia is our “greatest geopolitical foe.”
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With all this Russia talk, I guess it’s fitting that a song from the 1980s is running through my mind. If this is the end of the world, bring it on.
Like most of America, I feel fine.
Mark Meckler is the President of Citizens for Self-Governance, a grassroots activist, and a co-founder of the tea party movement.
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