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The dollar is used for all sorts of legitimate purchases.

No. But I'm also not denying it.

So is cocaine, heroin, hashish, and alcohol.
See my point?

Currently the only buyer of US treasury bonds is the US federal reserve.

Those buyers won't be around when the bonds mature.
Will you be around?

I doubt that. Lots of investors like the security of treasury bonds.

This is coincidental and being used to describe everyone that might attend.

In other words, bullshit scare tactics.

I don't recall claiming that.

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized the release to the media of text messages between two highly placed FBI employees who exchanged criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department has revealed in a new court filing.

Rosenstein also said in the court filing submitted shortly before midnight Friday that he made the decision to share the messages with the press in part to protect FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page from the drip effect of incremental releases of the texts by lawmakers or others.

The essence of irony, Henry Fowler wrote in “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage,” is that it “postulates a double audience” — one that’s in on the joke, and another that isn’t

An attack on a military training camp in Yemen's Marib province has killed at least 38 government soldiers and wounded dozens of others, according to security sources.

The assault late on Saturday "involved three missiles", said Al Jazeera's Mohammed Alattab, reporting from the capital, Sanaa, adding that the targets included a gathering of government forces and a weaponry warehouse.

"The death toll is expected to rise," Alattab said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Saudi state television blamed Yemen's Houthi rebels, who are locked in a years-long conflict with government forces backed by a Saudi-UAE-led military coalition.

Al Ekhbariya television quoted sources as saying the assault was carried out with ballistic missiles and drones, killing 60 military personnel and wounding dozens of others.

Separately, a medical source at a Marib city hospital, where casualties were taken, said at least 70 soldiers were killed in the attack.

The attack on the military training camp followed an ongoing barrage of assaults by Saudi-backed forces on Houthi targets east of Sanaa. Those attacks killed at least 22 people on both sides, according to officials.

Yemen has been torn by violence and chaos since 2014 when the Houthis overran much of the country, including Sanaa.

The crisis escalated in March 2015 when the Saudi-UAE-led coalition launched a devastating air campaign aimed at rolling back Houthi territorial gains and restoring Hadi's government, which is now based in the southern port city of Aden.

Hadi condemned the "cowardly and terrorist" attack on Saturday, according to the official Saba news agency. The report did not give a death toll.

"The disgraceful actions of the Houthi militia without a doubt confirm its unwillingness to (achieve) peace, because it knows nothing but death and destruction and is a cheap Iranian tool in the region," Saba quoted Hadi as saying.

The five-year war, which the United Nations says has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis, is estimated to have killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the country to the brink of famine.

President Donald Trump gave a speech at a private fundraiser that divulged the details of his assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani on Friday evening–but did not mention any “imminent threat” that his administration has cited as the reason for Soleimani’s killing.

On Saturday, CNN obtained audio of the fundraiser, which was held at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

In the audio, Trump is heard telling donors that he had decided to order a drone strike on Soleimani because the military leader was “saying bad things about our country.”

“How much of this **** do we have to listen to?” the President said in his speech. “How much are we going to listen to?”

The “threat” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top administration officials have claimed Soleimani posed to the U.S. did not come up in Trump’s remarks, CNN reported.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee published a new tranche of documents from indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas on Friday night, including texts that further expose Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) ties to President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.

Parnas had several text exchanges with Dereck Harvey, one of Nunes’ aides, that show they had Skyped each other and met in person from at least February through May of 2019.

In the texts, Harvey requested certain documents related to Ukraine

“Any documents for us or are you going to keep working through Solomon?” Harvey asked Parnas on April 3, referring to the Hill columnist John Solomon, who used his platform to spread false information about Biden and then-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.

“I’m in Israel will call you when I get back and we can meet up,” Parnas responded. “Coming to dc tomorrow night.”

“Good,” Harvey replied.

Previously released documents revealed that Nunes, who used his committee’s impeachment hearings to loudly defend Trump against the proceedings, was in contact with Parnas and Rudy Giuliani during Giuliani’s sustained smear campaign against Yovanovitch. Nunes initially denied ever speaking to Parnas, then admitted this week that he had, in fact, spoken to him on the phone.

The documents also include new photos of Parnas palling around with Trump and his son, Don Jr.

National Archives Apologizes for Censoring Protest Signs From Women’s March

...Archives spokeswoman Miriam Kleiman initially defended the changes in a statement to the Post, insisting that the agency removed Trump’s name from signs “so as not to engage in current political controversy” and in an attempt “to keep the focus on the records.” The agency also obscured the anatomy terms out of fear they could be seen as inappropriate for children visiting the museum.

Kleiman pointed out that the Women’s March image was not an artifact the agency was tasked with preserving, but part of a promotional display. She insisted the Archives “only alters images in exhibits when they are used as graphic design components” — but the agency did not provide the Post with any examples of previous alterations.

Jake Tapper
@jaketapper
ACLU Deputy Legal Director Louise Melling responds to National Archives:
“Apologizing is not enough. The National Archives must explain to the public why it even took the Orwellian step of trying to rewrite history and erasing women’s bodies from it, as well as who ordered it."
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