JULY 27, 2018


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NO COLLUSION !!!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-denies-knowing-about-trump-tower-meeting-contradicting-what-cohen-is-willing-to-tell-mueller/
CBS NEWS July 27, 2018, 8:29 AM
Trump denies advance knowledge of son's meeting with Russian lawyer

President Trump took to Twitter Friday morning to deny that he knew about his son's meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016, following news that his longtime attorney Michael Cohen is willing to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that the presidential candidate knew about the meeting in advance.

CBS News' Paula Reid confirmed Friday night that Cohen is willing to tell Mueller that Mr. Trump knew of the meeting involving Donald Trump Jr., top campaign officials and a Russian lawyer in advance, although Cohen has no evidence to offer that corroborates his claim. Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and onetime-campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower in a meeting Trump Jr. arranged when he believed the Russian lawyer had damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Veselnitskaya worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

In July 2017, when the New York Times first reported the 2016 meeting, the president said he learned about the meeting "two or three days ago," meaning in 2017.

Cohen, who is under federal investigation for his business dealings and involvement in payments to women on behalf of Mr. Trump, has been under immense pressure to cooperate with federal investigators in the separate Mueller probe.

"I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary's lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!" the president tweeted Friday morning.

Mr. Trump could be referring to May reports that Cohen's onetime taxi cab partner is willing to cooperate with Mueller, and separately, to the fact that Lanny Davis, who worked as a special counsel for Bill Clinton, is helping represent Cohen.


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.....I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!

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RELATED -- How statements on Trump Tower meeting have changed

The facts surrounding the Trump Tower meeting have long been a point of interest.

For months last year, the president's personal legal team and the White House press secretary said Mr. Trump did not dictate or help draft a statement in response to the Times' reporting about the Trump Tower meeting. But in a January letter to Mueller, the president's lawyers said the president "dictated a short but accurate response" to the report.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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TRUMP TOWER MEETING -- JUNE 5 REPORT

"I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THEY GOT IT WRONG, BUT THEY GOT IT WRONG," HE SAID, DISMISSING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONTROVERSY. "IT WAS A MISTAKE. I SWEAR TO GOD IT WAS A MISTAKE."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-statements-on-trump-tower-meeting-have-changed/
CBS/AP June 5, 2018, 7:02 AM
How statements on Trump Tower meeting have changed

PHOTOGRAPH -- Sons Eric Trump (L) and Donald Trump Jr go down escalators outside offices of Republican president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, New York, U.S. November 14, 2016. REUTERS/CARLO ALLEGRI

For months, President Donald Trump's legal team, the White House press secretary and others in Trump's orbit said he did not dictate or help draft a June 2017 statement trying to explain the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his eldest son and a Russian lawyer.

Turns out, that wasn't true.

In a January letter to special counsel Robert Mueller, Mr. Trump's lawyers said the president "dictated a short but accurate response" to the first report that his son, Donald Trump Jr., and others had met with the Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election. The New York Times revealed the existence of the letter on Saturday.

The Trump Tower meeting — and the White House's initial response to the first reports of the meeting — has been a key moment in Mueller's investigation into whether anyone on the campaign colluded with Russia and whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice. The lawyers' statement is buried near the end of the 20-page memo, which asserts that Mr. Trump cannot be forced to testify and argues that he could not have legally committed obstruction of justice.

In the initial written statement from Trump Jr. on June 8, 2017, he said the Trump Tower gathering was a "short introductory meeting" focused on a disbanded program that had allowed American adoptions of Russian children. Moscow ended the adoptions in response to Magnitsky Act sanctions created in response to alleged human rights violations in Russia.

While the Magnitsky Act was discussed, it was later revealed that the meeting was held on the promise of damaging information about his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr. did not mention the promise of dirt on Clinton until a statement the next day.

Trump Jr. later told Senate investigators in September 2017 that he had agreed to a meeting with attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton because he wanted to determine her "fitness" for office.

A look at the evolving explanations from the administration on how the statement was drafted:

JULY 16, 2017: In one of a series of interviews in June, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow said on NBC's "Meet The Press" that "the president was not, did not, draft the response. The response came from Donald Trump Jr. and, I'm sure, in consultation with his lawyer."

He added: "The president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. It came from Donald Trump Jr. So that's what I can tell you because that's what we know."

JULY 31, 2017: In response to a Washington Post report that Trump had dictated the statement, Sekulow issued a statement: "Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent."

AUGUST 1, 2017: White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump "certainly didn't dictate, but he — like I said, he weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do." Sanders argued there was "no inaccuracy" in the statement.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017: In a closed-door interview with Senate Judiciary Committee staff, Trump Jr. was asked by investigators whether his father was involved in drafting the statement. He said he didn't know, and that he had never spoken to his father about it. Asked again, Trump Jr. said his father "may have commented through Hope Hicks," who was Trump's longtime aide.

Investigators then asked if Trump Jr. knew if any of Trump's comments were incorporated into the final statement.

"I believe some may have been, but this was an effort through lots of people, mostly counsel," Trump Jr. responded.

Trump Jr. said he was asked if he wanted to speak to his father as the statement was drafted, but he said he "chose not to because I didn't want to bring him into something that he had nothing to do with."

JANUARY 29, 2018: In the letter to Mueller, Trump's then-lawyers wrote: "You have received all of the notes, communications and testimony indicating that the President dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son, Donald Trump, Jr. His son then followed up by making a full public disclosure regarding the meeting, including his public testimony that there was nothing to the meeting and certainly no evidence of collusion."

JUNE 4, 2018: Asked about the discrepancies on Monday, Sanders repeatedly declined to answer and referred reporters to Trump's personal lawyers.

"This is from a letter from the outside counsel and I direct you to them to answer that question," she said.

In an evening appearance on CNN, one of the president's lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, said Sanders and the others had made a mistake and rejected the idea it was a lie.

"I have no idea how they got it wrong, but they got it wrong," he said, dismissing the significance of the controversy. "It was a mistake. I swear to God it was a mistake."

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BERNIE SANDERS NEWS – THREE ARTICLES

I’M NOT TRYING TO BE VULGAR, BUT THE BEHAVIOR OF POLITICAL OPERATIVES LIKE THIS ISN’T UNLIKE THAT OF PROSTITUTES. DEVINE IS NOW WORKING WITH MUELLER. HIS SWITCH FROM CANDIDATE TO CANDIDATE IS SO CLEARLY A SIGN THAT HE HAS NO REAL AFFILIATION WITH EITHER ONE. HE’S WHAT USED TO BE CALLED A “SOLDIER OF FORTUNE,” I SUPPOSE. THE LACK OF PERSONAL CONVICTION ANNOYS ME, THOUGH, EVEN IF I DO ACCEPT IT AS A PRACTICAL REALITY.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/26/former-sanders-consultant-assisting-mueller-investigation-745124
Former Bernie Sanders consultant assisting Mueller investigation
Tad Devine was one of a number of American consultants who assisted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on his work in Ukraine.
By THEODORIC MEYER 07/26/2018 10:10 PM EDT

PHOTOGRAPH -- Tad Devine, a veteran Democratic operative who worked as a senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, is assisting special counsel Robert Mueller in his prosecution of Paul Manafort. | Mary Altaffer/AP Photo

Tad Devine, a veteran Democratic operative who worked as a senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, is assisting special counsel Robert Mueller in his prosecution of Paul Manafort, according to Devine's consulting firm.

Long before Manafort became chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, Devine was one of a number of American consultants who worked with Manafort in 2010 to help elect Viktor Yanukovych as president of Ukraine. Mueller has examined Manafort’s work in Ukraine as part of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Julian Mulvey, a partner at Devine’s firm, Devine Mulvey Longabaugh, said in statement that Mueller had assured the firm that it has “no legal exposure and did not act unlawfully.”

Devine stopped working for Yanukovych after his government’s arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister and his political rival. Tymoshenko was later imprisoned by Yanukovych’s government on what were widely condemned at the time as politically-motivated charges.

“After the administration of the presidential candidate we had worked for arrested his political opponent, we quit,” Mulvey said in his statement. “We then declined additional offers to work on his later campaigns.”

Documents filed in court by Manafort’s lawyers on Thursday confirm that Devine declined to work with Manafort on the 2012 Ukrainian elections.

However, less than three months before the elections, Devine sent Manafort a memo with advice on how Yanukovych’s party could get on “more favorable message terrain.” The memo also indicates that Devine and Manafort had spoken recently.

“It was great to talk to you, and I hope we catch up in person soon,” Devine wrote in the memo.

And after Yanukovych was forced from power and fled to Russia in 2014, Manafort again recruited Devine to help him build a new Ukrainian political party.

“My rate for something like this would be $10,000/day, including travel days,” Devine wrote in a 2014 email to Manafort’s deputy, Rick Gates. “So if you want me to leave the US on Monday 6/16 and return on Friday 6/20 that would be 5 days at $10G/day for $50,000.00. You would need to make the travel arrangements, and transfer the $50G before the trip.”

Devine ended up making the trip, emails included in the documents filed by Manafort’s lawyers show. Less than five months later, Devine signed on to work on Sanders’ presidential campaign.



I AM SO GLAD TO SEE UNIONS WINNING. FOR THIRTY OR MORE YEARS, BETWEEN NEW LAWS RESTRICTING THEIR ABILITY TO ORGANIZE WITHIN A BUSINESS AND A DECLINE IN THE FACTORY JOBS WHICH ARE USUALLY UNIONIZED, THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF GOOD WAGES FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS DISAPPEARED. I THINK NOW THE COUNTRY IS SICK AND TIRED OF THE PROBLEMS WORKERS ARE HAVING, AND THE POLITICAL LEADERS WILL HELP THEM OUT IN CONGRESS AGAIN; AND IN THIS CASE A LONG STRIKE HAS BROUGHT DISNEY AROUND. BUSINESSES ALWAYS CRY OUT AS THOUGH IN PAIN OVER THE POWER OF WORKERS, WHILE THEY ARE MAKING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS YEARLY. THEY DON’T NEED HELP. WORKERS DO.

https://www.commondreams.org/tag/bernie-sanders?gclid=CjwKCAjwhevaBRApEiwA7aT532RUg4pq3HMmVKuPaAphhErycU5rF_zLOtTivHmsoxMKayVSQBVOAhoC5EwQAvD_BwE
Bernie Sanders
In Victory for Workers Demanding 'Justice and Dignity,' Disneyland Employees Secure $15 Minimum Wage

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byCommon Dreams
byJulia Conley, staff writer

In Victory for Workers Demanding 'Justice and Dignity,' Disneyland Employees Secure $15 Minimum Wage
"It's important for Disney, as the largest employer in Orange County, to recognize the struggles workers go through as the cost of living continues to rise in the area."


PHOTOGRAPH -- Disneyland workers and supporters rally while protesting low pay and calling for a living wage at the Disneyland entrance on July 3, 2018 in Anaheim, California. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Weeks after joining in union organizers' months-long fight to secure a living wage for thousands of Disneyland workers, Sen. Bernie Sander (I-Vt.) was among the progressives who applauded a new three-year contract for workers at Orange County, California's largest employer, giving employees an immediate raise followed by one that will bring the park's minimum pay up to $15 per hour next year.

Nearly 10,000 workers represented by four unions submitted secret ballots Thursday, with the majority voting in favor of a new contract that will raise their hourly wages by 20 percent, effective immediately.

The victory for workers comes months after a poll by the unions found that about three-quarters of Disneyland's workers were struggling or unable to pay for rent, food, and gas on their salaries.

"It's important for Disney, as the largest employer in Orange County, to recognize the struggles workers go through as the cost of living continues to rise in the area," Artemis Bell, bargaining committee member and custodian, told the Los Angeles Times. "With this contract, we are one step closer to a better situation for thousands of employees who put so much energy and heart into their jobs."

Under the new contract, the minimum hourly pay will be raised to $15 per hour in January for food service workers, custodians, retail workers, ride operators, and other workers who keep the park running for its 18 million visitors per year—who bring in billions of dollars in revenue annually. In June 2020, an extra $0.50 per hour is set to be added to salaries, but a measure that will appear on ballots in November aims to give Disneyland workers an even better deal.

This past spring, workers gathered enough signatures to add to the November 6 ballot a measure that would require all hospitality employers in Anaheim that accept city subsidies to raise their minimum pay to $15 per hour in January and raise wages by $1 per hour every year until 2022, when raises would be required to be tied to cost of living.

While only 10,000 Disneyland workers are members of the four unions who reached the minimum wage deal on Thursday, all 30,000 park employees would be affected by the "Living Wage" ballot measure.


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THE “NO MONEY BAIL ACT” IS ANOTHER GOOD BERNIE SANDERS IDEA. WHEN IT COMES TO VOTING FOR A POLITICIAN, I WANT SOMEONE WITH A CREATIVE, EMPATHETIC AND HUMANISTIC MIND. THAT’S THE ONLY KIND OF LEADER THAT I WANT TO FOLLOW.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/bail-has-criminalized-poverty-undermined-tenet-innocent-proven-guilty-ncna895056
Sen. Bernie Sanders Bail has criminalized poverty and undermined the tenet of 'innocent before proven guilty'
We need to reform a broken system that punishes Americans for crimes even if they're never convicted
Jul.27.2018 / 5:10 AM ET

VIDEO -- Meet the Prisoners Who Have Their Own Keys, Therapy Horses, and Leave Prison Every Day
OCT.18.201705:49
RELATED -- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/way-prevent-recidivism-provide-path-reentry-formerly-incarcerated-ncna852711?icid=related, by Thomas Lennon / Mar.03.2018 / 4:33 AM ET; The way to prevent recidivism is to provide a path to reentry for the formerly incarcerated
PHOTOGRAPH -- Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is interviewed during the South By Southwest Conference and Festival at the Austin Convention Center on March 9, 2018 in Austin, Texas.Gary Miller / FilmMagic

In a country in which we pride ourselves on the principle of “innocent until proven guilty” we should not be keeping hundreds of thousands of people locked up before they have actually been convicted of a crime.

And yet in 2016, more than 65 percent of the over 700,000 people in county or city jails on any given day in the United States were “unconvicted” — meaning that more than 400,000 people were in jail who had not been convicted of a crime, often because they lack the money to pay bail. In other words, we have criminalized poverty.

That is not acceptable. Pretrial detention should be not based on how much money a person has, what kind of mood the judge is in on a given day, or even what judge the case happens to come before.

I made a movie to draw attention to the hurdles we throw up for men and women leaving prison

When a person is arrested, they are brought before a judge to evaluate the charges against them and decide whether or not to set bail — and, if they set bail, at what amount. But bail is not supposed to be set above a person’s ability to pay; people should not be sitting in jail awaiting their trial simply because they are poor.

In 2016, the average length of stay in jail for the entire jail population was 25 days, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. It might not sound like much, but the sad truth is that people who can’t afford bail, and who thus spend 3 or 4 weeks in jail awaiting trial, are likely to lose their jobs and their income, they won’t be able to pay their rent and may find themselves homeless, and they may even lose custody of their children — all because they don’t have enough money to buy their way out of jail.

Further, a recent study showed that people who have to stay in jail before their trial are more likely to plead guilty — presumably just to move the process along. According to the ACLU, “pretrial detention is the greatest predictor of a conviction.”

The way to prevent recidivism is to provide a path to reentry for the formerly incarcerated

Overall, the U.S. spends nearly $14 billion each year locking people up who haven’t been convicted and might never be. It’s clear the system is a poor use of resources. In 2015, the city of New Orleans collected $4.5 million in bail, fines and fees, but spent $6.4 million detaining people who couldn’t afford to pay their bail, fine or fee.

And, as with so many other aspects of our society, for-profit companies are make huge profits off of poor defendants. The for-profit bail industry makes well over a billion dollars each year — and the U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that even allows for-profit bond companies.

It is, quite simply, a travesty that, in the year 2018, we continue to have debtors’ prisons in the United States. We can, and must, find a better way — and there are communities from which we can learn that have already implemented alternative systems.

“NO MONEY BAIL ACT”

Pretrial detention should be not based on how much money a person has, what kind of mood the judge is in on a given day, or even what judge the case happens to come before.

More than two decades ago, Washington, D.C. created a system where very few defendants are required to post cash bail to be released — in fact, about 90 percent of defendants are released on promises and conditions other than cash, and 90 percent of those released do not reoffend before trial. No one is locked up because of inability to pay. New Jersey implemented bail reform in 2017 and after a year, the pretrial jail population had dropped 20 percent. Philadelphia is moving to abolish cash bail for certain crimes. All across the country, progressive prosecutors are taking a look at the cash bail system and seeing how it can be reformed.

Ending the current cash bail system is not only the humane and just thing to do, it also makes more fiscal sense. According to the Pretrial Justice Institute, it costs about $75 per day to hold someone in jail, but only $7 per day to supervise that person in the community. When Yamhill County, Oregon, instituted a new program to call defendants with automatic reminders about their upcoming court dates, they originally budgeted $22,500 for the first year. The program wound up averaging a cost of just $550-$600 per month, and over a three-month span, only 2.7 percent of defendants failed to appear in court.
“No Money Bail Act”

I introduced legislation this week called the “No Money Bail Act” to abolish the use of cash bail in federal courts and to help state and local governments implement alternatives to this broken and destructive system. My bill is similar to legislation that Congressman Ted Lieu introduced in the House. If passed, either would encourage states to abolish cash bail by providing new grant funding to help them implement a fairer and smarter alternative.

On the other hand, if a state chooses not to abolish money bail, the legislation would revoke certain federal criminal justice funds the state currently receives. Lastly, the bill requires a federal study after three years to be sure the alternate systems are not perpetuating the racial and ethnic discrimination we see now with the cash bail process.

Four words are engraved on the front of the Supreme Court: “Equal Justice Under Law.” Needless to say, we are very far from that ideal today. I hope this legislation will bring us a step closer.

Bernie Sanders is the junior Senator from Vermont.


ACCORDING TO THIS POLL, BIDEN IS LEADING SANDERS BY TWO PERCENTAGE POINTS. GIVE IT TIME. SANDERS WAS AND ALMOST CERTAINLY STILL IS A FORMIDABLE OPPONENT. HORSE RACES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CLOSE.

http://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/399194-biden-sanders-top-poll-of-possible-democratic-presidential
Biden, Sanders top poll of possible Democratic presidential hopefuls
7/27/2018

Videos – What America’s Thinking

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are the most popular potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, according to a new American Barometer poll.

The poll, which is a joint project of Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company, showed Biden with a 50 percent favorable rating, while Sanders trailed with a 48 percent favorable rating.

Only 31 percent of those polled said they viewed the former vice president unfavorably. A third of respondents said they viewed Sanders unfavorably.

The survey comes as speculation swirls around a slew of potential Democratic contenders, including Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Kamala Harris (Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Cory Booker (N.J.), who could challenge President Trump in 2020.

Warren held the highest favorable rating among Democratic senators listed in the survey, with 33 percent of those polled saying they held a favorable view of the senator.

The poll showed Gillibrand holding a 20 percent favorable rating, while 21 percent of respondents said they have a favorable view of Harris, and 23 percent said the same for Booker.

Name recognition remains an obstacle for many Democratic contenders.

Thirty-four percent of respondents said they had never heard of Gillibrand, while 36 percent said the same for Harris. Thirty-two percent of respondents had not heard of Booker.

Only 4 percent of those polled said they had never heard of Biden or Sanders.

Democratic pollster Margie Omero urged caution when speculating about current 2020 polling. Omero said that much could change before the presidential election.

"I remember lots of green room* snickering over Bernie Sanders in September before the [2016 Democratic] primary," Omero told Hill.TV's Jamal Simmons on "What America's Thinking" Friday. “A lot can change. That doesn’t mean that Joe Biden doesn’t have an advantage."

“I think there are going to be a lot of Democrats who are going to feel torn because there are so many exciting candidates from which to choose," she continued.

The survey was conducted July 21–22 among 1,001 registered voters.

— Julia Manchester


GREEN ROOM*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_room
Green room
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In show business, the green room is the space in a theatre or similar venue that functions as a waiting room and lounge for performers before and after a performance, and during the show when they are not engaged on stage. Green rooms typically have seating for the performers, such as upholstered chairs and sofas.

The origin of the term is often ascribed to such rooms historically being painted green.[1][2] Modern green rooms do not necessarily adhere to a green color scheme, though the name remains.

POSSIBLE SOURCES OF THE TERM

The green room at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
The specific origin of the term is lost to history, which has led to many theories and claims. One story is that London's Blackfriars Theatre (1599) included a room behind the scenes, which happened to be painted green; here the actors waited to go on stage. It was called "the green room". Some English theatres contained several green rooms, each ranked according to the status and the salary of the actor: one could be fined for using a green room above one's station.[3][4]

Richard Southern, in his studies of Medieval theatre in the round, states that in this period the acting area was called The Green. This central space, often grass-covered, was used by the actors, while the surrounding space and circular banks were occupied by the spectators. From this source then The Green has been a traditional actors' term for the stage. Even in proscenium arch theatres there was a tradition that a green stage cloth should be used for a tragedy. The green room could thus be considered the transition room on the way to the green/stage. Technical staff at some West End theatres (such as the London Coliseum) still refer to the stage as the green.

Another theory is that the room was originally painted green to "relieve the eyes from the glare of the stage."[5][6] On the other hand, early stage lighting was by candlelight, so the "glare" might be apocryphal, a modern reference to electric stage lighting.[7] It is sometimes said that the term green room was a response to limelight,[8] though the name is merely a coincidence – "limelight" refers to calcium oxide, not to the fruit or colour. Furthermore, limelight was invented in 1820 and the term "green room" was used many years prior to that.[original research?]

It is possible that "green room" might be a corruption of scene room, the room where scenery was stored which doubled as the actors' waiting and warm-up room.[3]

Many actors experience nervous anxiety before a performance and one of the symptoms of nervousness is nausea. As a person who feels nauseous is often said to look "green", suggesting that the "Green Room" is the place where the nervous actors wait.[8]

According to one theory, long before modern makeup was invented the actors had to apply makeup before a show and allow it to set up or cure before performing. Until the makeup was cured, it was green and people were advised to sit quietly in the green room until such time as the makeup was stable enough for performing. Uncured makeup is gone, but the green room lives on.[9]

In Shakespearean theatre actors would prepare for their performances in a room filled with plants and shrubs. It was believed that the moisture in the topiary was beneficial to the actors' voices. Thus the green room may refer to the green plants in this stage preparation area.[citation needed]

The term green room can alternatively be traced back to the East End of London, England. In Cockney rhyming slang, greengage is stage, therefore greengage room is stage room and like most rhyming slang it gets shortened, hence green' room. This information came from comedian and dancer Max Wall. It should be noted, however, that Rhyming Slang can be traced only as early as the 1840s, whereas the phrase "green room" predates this by several centuries, making such an etymology unlikely.

Green is also thought to be a calming and soothing colour.

"Tiring houses"

In Shakespeare's day, the actors waited in a tiring house, probably because actors were attired (put on or changed costumes) in this space. Here it is mentioned by Peter Quince as he plans for his acting troupe to rehearse in the woods:

QUINCE: Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house; and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.

— Midsummer Night's Dream (approx 1595) - Act 3 Scene 1
Samuel Pepys mentions these locations at the Drury Lane Theatre Royal in 1667:

...she took us up into the Tireing-rooms and to the women's Shift, where Nell was dressing herself and...then below into the Scene-room, and...here I read the Qu's (cues) to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of Flora's Figarys...

— Samuel Pepys, [10]


COHEN TO COOPERATE WITH MUELLER. ONE VIDEO, ONE ARTICLE. TRUTH MARCHES ON.

VIDEO ONLY -- https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-denies-knowledge-of-2016-trump-tower-meeting-with-russian-lawyer/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5997875/Michael-Cohen-claims-Donald-Trump-approved-2016-Trump-Tower-meeting.html
REVEALED: Michael Cohen is 'prepared to tell Mueller that Trump KNEW about and APPROVED 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians offering dirt on Hillary'
By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 22:23 EDT, 26 July 2018 | UPDATED: 02:44 EDT, 27 July 2018

Michael Cohen is reportedly prepared to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that then-candidate Donald Trump knew and approved the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Russians and his campaign staffers.

Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, alleged that Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr, was the one who informed him that the meeting would take place.

During the meeting, the Russians were expected to dish out dirt on Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Don Jr, his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign chairman at the time, were all at the meeting.

There were four Russians in the room, including Natalia Veselnitskaya who reportedly has Kremlin ties.

According to CNN, sources claim that Cohen is willing to make that assertion to Mueller, but he doesn't have evidence, such as audio recordings, to corroborate his claim.

'He's certainly a source that is not credible,' Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told Chris Cuomo on CNN's Cuomo Prime Time.

'Michael Cohen can't be believed unless it's corroborated five times,' Giuliani said

'I talked to the president about this at length before as well as other witnesses and it's not true. Why would you expect it would be true from someone like Cohen? A lawyer who would tape their own client is a lawyer without any character,' he added.

Cohen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The president has previously denied knowing in advance that the meeting was going to take place, and he has denied that there was any collusion between his campaign and Russia.

Moscow has also denied meddling in the election.

PHOTOGRAPH -- During the meeting, the Russians were expected to dish out dirt on Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. There were four Russians in the room, including Natalia Veselnitskaya who reportedly has Kremlin ties +6
During the meeting, the Russians were expected to dish out dirt on Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. There were four Russians in the room, including Natalia Veselnitskaya who reportedly has Kremlin ties

VIDEO – [COHEN / TRUMP RECORDING RELEASE]

Don Jr told investigators from the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 that he did not tell his father about the meeting beforehand, according to documents released by the committee.

Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for the Trump Organization and Don Jr, told Reuters: 'Donald Trump Jr has been professional and responsible throughout the Mueller and Congressional investigations.

'We are very confident of the accuracy and reliability of the information that has been provided by Mr Trump, Jr, and on his behalf.'

For months, the president's legal team, the White House press secretary and others in Trump's orbit said he did not dictate or help draft a June 2017 statement trying to explain the Trump Tower meeting between his eldest son and a Russian lawyer.

Turns out, that wasn't true.

In a January letter to Mueller, Trump's lawyers said the president 'dictated a short but accurate response' to the first report that his son, Don Jr, and others had met with the Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election.

The New York Times revealed the existence of the letter last month. The Trump Tower meeting - and the White House's initial response to the first reports of the meeting - has been a key moment in Mueller's investigation into whether anyone on the campaign colluded with Russia and whether Trump obstructed justice.

In the initial written statement from Don Jr on June 8, 2017, he said the Trump Tower gathering was a 'short introductory meeting' focused on a disbanded program that had allowed American adoptions of Russian children.

Moscow ended the adoptions in response to Magnitsky Act sanctions created in response to alleged human rights violations in Russia.

While the Magnitsky Act was discussed, it was later revealed that the meeting was held on the promise of damaging information about Clinton.

Don Jr did not mention the promise of dirt on Clinton until a statement the next day.


THERE ARE SO MANY SICK PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE PENALTY FOR THIS WILL BE, BUT I HOPE IT’S AT LEAST 20 YEARS IN A FEDERAL PENITENTIARY, OR IN AN INSANE ASYLUM, WHICHEVER IS MORE APPROPRIATE.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brandon-mcglover-charged-with-intentionally-starting-nine-southern-california-fires-2018-07-27/
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Man charged with intentionally starting nine Southern California fires

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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. -- A 32-year-old man has been charged with intentionally starting nine Southern California fires, including one that has chased thousands of residents from mountain communities. The Riverside County District Attorney's Office said Brandon McGlover of Temecula will be arraigned Friday on 15 felony counts that carry a potential sentence of life in prison.

All nine fires were set Wednesday in the Idyllwild, Anza and Sage areas about 100 miles east of Los Angeles. McGlover was arrested the same day in Hemet after arson investigators linked him to the blazes, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's office.

One blaze became the Cranston Fire that has grown to 18 square miles in the Idyllwild area of the San Jacinto Mountains and was only about three percent contained by Friday morning.

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Five homes have been destroyed, more than 4,900 structures are threatened and an estimated 6,000 people have been evacuated in Idyllwild and several neighboring communities. CBS affiliate KFMB-TV reported that the Riverside Sheriff's station was conducting evacuations of Idyllwild, the Apple Canyon area, the Lake Hemet area, Mountain Center Community, the Hurkey Creek area and Camp Scherman Girl Scout Camp, among other areas.

William Blodgett of Idyllwild said he couldn't get home because of the fire and had to wait along with others at a gas station in nearby Mountain Center -- until the fire hopped a highway and began to move in his direction.

"We were all peeling out of there as fast as we could," he told KNBC-TV. "It was apocalyptic."

McGlover is being held in lieu of $1 million bail. He's scheduled to appear in court Friday afternoon at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta on one count of aggravated arson, five counts of arson of an inhabited structure and nine counts of arson of forest or wildland.


THIS IS CHEERING, BECAUSE THE RHINOS ARE BEING HELPED TO SURVIVE, AND FUNNY. A RHINOCEROS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN IS VERY ENTERTAINING. THE RHINO PROBABLY ISN’T IN TERROR, THE ARTICLE SAYS, BECAUSE THEY ARE HEAVILY SEDATED. HE'S PROBABLY HANGING UP THERE SAYING TO HIMSELF, "WOW,!! OH, WOW!!" THE TRICK, THEN, IS TO PUT THEM DOWN ON THE GROUND VERY GENTLY. THERE WAS A SIMILAR SITUATION ON A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY SOME 15 YEARS AGO OF FROZEN-SOLID MAMMOTHS BEING MOVED FROM PERMAFROST IN SIBERIA TO A SUPER COLD STORAGE AREA. IF THEY THAW IN A RAPID AND UNCONTROLLED WAY, THE MEAT WILL ROT. IT WAS BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS A GOOD CHANCE TO HARVEST THEIR SPERM AND EGGS TO TRANSPLANT INTO AN ELEPHANT COW FOR A NEW BABY MAMMOTH. I'M PERSONALLY NOT SURE THAT'S SUCH A GOOD IDEA. THERE MAY BE "UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES." I HAVEN’T LOOKED ON THE NET TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THE EXPERIMENT SUCCEEDED. CAN YOU IMAGINE IT TRYING TO SUCKLE? THERE ARE MORE THAN A HANDFUL (I DON’T KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY) OF SUCH ICE-TRAPPED MAMMOTHS UP THERE. THAT’S EVEN MORE EXCITING THAN FINDING PREHISTORIC ARTIFACTS.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-saving-rhino-with-helicopters/
Saving rhino with helicopters
An effort to conserve a species has rhinos flying high... and upside down
Jul 22, 2018
CORRESPONDENT -- Lara Logan


How do you save a prehistoric looking animal that's ornery, exotic and weighs around a ton?

Especially when it lives in places that are hard to get to. That the rhinoceros is in trouble is not a new story. For years, they've been crowded out of their habitats, and hunted for their distinctive horns. In the last ten years, the poaching has gotten so bad in South Africa where most of them live, that the rhino there are under almost daily attack.

As we first told you last December, a team of veterinarians, pilots and game capture specialists are trying a different way to help the most endangered type of South African rhino, the black rhino. Their solution seems to defy the laws of gravity, and when we heard about it, we had to see it for ourselves.

Take one 1,400 pound black rhino who's been darted and sedated ...

Jacques Flamand: A young female. Probably about 6 or 7 years old.

Two veterinarians ...

Dave Cooper: With black rhino lots of things can go wrong.

Three game-capture specialists ...

Jacques Flamand: So now we're putting these straps on the feet.

Four leg straps ...

A 52-year-old Huey helicopter and its pilot ...

Add a potentially lethal 130-foot chain ...

Dave Cooper: Keep an eye on that chain. I'm always worried about it swinging into someone's face.

And you get this ...

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Lara Logan: Wow. Look at that.

Jacques Flamand: Amazing isn't it? Yeah, I never tire of seeing it.

This feat of engineering, aerodynamics and conservation has been choreographed by Jacques Flamand, a veterinarian who's moving these rhino to save them.

Lara Logan: Why did you start flying the rhinos -- transporting them by helicopter instead of by road or other means?

Jacques Flamand: Some of these rhino are in very inaccessible parts of the reserve. And this method of airlifting them provided us with an opportunity. I immediately thought that this is the solution to our problem, getting 'em out of rugged mountainous or thick forested areas where vehicles cannot go in.

With more than a hundred square miles of mountains and ravines, the Ithala Game Reserve fits that description. When we joined Flamand and his team, they were searching the impossible terrain for three rhino they'd selected for relocation. Part of his plan to protect them from poachers and increase their numbers.

Lara Logan: Why did you choose the black rhino to focus on?

Jacques Flamand: Well, I didn't choose it. It chose itself because it's in trouble.

Lara Logan: So how many black rhino were there in the country when you began?

Jacques Flamand: There were about two and a half thousand black rhino in South Africa when we started the project.

That was 15 years ago. The black rhino was a critically endangered species. To get the numbers up, Flamand started the Black Rhino Range Expansion Project with the help of the World Wildlife Fund . The idea was to take a small number of rhino from government parks and settle them in new places, mostly on private land, where they would breed and create new populations.

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Lara Logan: So you got the word out to people.

Jacques Flamand: We got the word out that we were looking for land for black rhino. And well, it's worked -- amazingly. So those 20 black rhino or however many get put all together onto a new block of land and are left to breed. And we wanted to put 20 because that's a genetically viable number.

Flamand's team captured the rhino by darting them, then driving trucks in to pick them up.

But when they ran out of road, they turned to the skies.

Lara Logan: I mean, it's spectacular and unbelievable and also slightly distressing at the same time. It's sort of everything?

Dave Cooper: You really have to put your mind at rest that, that animal physiologically is not being harmed in any way.

Dave Cooper has been the chief veterinarian for KwaZulu Natal Parks for 22 years. He says the rhino are usually in the air for less than ten minutes and fully sedated the entire time.

Dave Cooper: It looks as if the animal's really uncomfortable. But we've done our homework. We didn't just do this and see if it was gonna work. We hung rhino upside down with cranes and sat and monitored their vitals on top of this sophisticated kind of equipment.

Lara Logan: Didn't you volunteer to hang yourself upside down from the helicopter?

Dave Cooper: I did. But the pilots wouldn't let me.

Tosh Ross: We've had some of the vets want to be hung upside down and try -- they have told me that anything that can walk on its feet can hang by its feet.

Pilot Tosh Ross and Dave Cooper have been working together from the beginning. Ross told us the Huey helicopter he's flying for this can haul two tons, more than enough to lift a black rhino.

Lara Logan: You've done how many now?

Tosh Ross: This will be 198.

Lara Logan: So almost 200 and you've lost none.

Tosh Ross: Yeah if we do three today that'll be 200 yeah.

Lara Logan: What's the most difficult part?

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Tosh Ross: Putting it down. Putting it down gently yeah.

Lara Logan: So you don't hurt the animal?

Tosh Ross: Yeah if it was so easy, everyone would be doing it.

We saw just how difficult it can be as Tosh Ross struggled to land the first rhino. He got it down safe and unhurt -- on the second try.

Vet Dave Cooper was already up in another, smaller helicopter looking for the next rhino.

He prepped darts for his tranquilizer gun with a dose strong enough to knock the animal out for 30 minutes.

The first dart didn't fully pierce the inch-thick skin. Three minutes later, his second shot stuck.

They tracked the rhino til it dropped. We were right behind them in the Huey with Jacques Flamand and the game capture team.

Lara Logan: I see the rhino down. How many minutes do you have now to get that rhino?

Tosh Ross: We've got a bit of time.

As soon as we landed, it was a race to get to the sedated animal. Dave Cooper's priority -- removing the tranquilizer dart and treating the wound with an antibiotic.

Dave Cooper: I darted him once here.

Lara Logan: Yeah?

Dave Cooper: The dart just went in and out and I immediately had to put another one in.

Lara Logan: So that's the first thing you do is cover the eyes?

Jacques Flamand: Yeah, that's right because that stops them.

Lara Logan: So is this a male or female?

Jacques Flamand: No, this is a male.

He's young and has many years of breeding ahead of him -- exactly what they need. They ID'd him from notches in his ears; most rhino in the KwaZulu Natal Parks are marked this way.

Lara Logan: Is that him breathing? Wow.

Dave Cooper: That's him breathing, lovely big deep breaths, I'm happy with that.

The game capture team cleared a path to above.

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Jacques Flamand: The helicopter now is going to come and we are going to hitch up those four straps to the central hook.

Tosh Ross maneuvered in the chain and swept the rhino away. It took them less than 16 minutes.

For Dave Cooper, it's a small victory every time.

Dave Cooper: I had tears in my eyes ...

Lara Logan: Because?

Dave Cooper: They mean a lot to me.

Lara Logan: As a vet, I mean, you're the one that gets called out when the poachers have been there and they've hacked up the horn and the animal's bleeding. Is that very difficult for you?

Dave Cooper: Yes. There's been so much negativity around rhino at the moment with all the poaching. And to be involved in something like this is what lifts you and keeps you positive about things.

This is what Cooper and Flamand are seeing more and more. When the program started in 2003, three or four black rhino were being killed a year.

Jacques Flamand: Now we're into the hundreds for this province alone this year.

Lara Logan: So, why is that?

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Jacques Flamand: Well, because, there is that stupid demand for rhino horn, which has absolutely no medicinal value, sadly.

Rhino horn is made of keratin, the same substance as human fingernails. Yet in countries like China and Vietnam, people believe it can cure hangovers and increase virility.

Private game parks are drowning in security costs. Most remove the horns to deter poachers. But it's worth so much, more per ounce than gold or cocaine, that every place there's rhino is a target.

Jacques Flamand: And some people have even got rid of their rhinos because they've become a liability on their own properties.

Lara Logan: And a financial burden.

Jacques Flamand: A very huge financial burden. But we still, fortunately, have some very committed passionate people who want to get more black rhino.

That commitment is shared by the game capture team. Vusi Ntshangase told us the poachers threaten their lives and their livelihood.

Vusi Ntshangase: We feed our children with this job. If rhinos-- will never here--

Lara Logan: Then you would have no job?

Vusi Ntshangase: Yes.

Lara Logan: So these animals mean alot to you?

Vusi Ntshangase: It's important to us. To our lives. So important.

Moving the rhino this way is expensive.

With Tosh Ross volunteering his services, it still costs about $100,000 to lift twenty rhino.

Jeff Cook: "You have to come in over the trucks"

Jacques Flamand joined his team at the landing zone, where they were preparing for their final delivery.

Tosh Ross eased his cargo down...

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THE NEXT PART -- THE DEHORNING -- WAS HARD TO WATCH.

Lara Logan: I know you do it to save the rhino but it still seems, like, horrible.

Jacques Flamand: It's painless. There's no nerve endings or blood supply to the horn directly.

Lara Logan: Don't they need their horns?

Jacques Flamand: They do to defend themselves. But it's a toss-up. You know, it's predators versus poachers. Who do we protect them from most? Poachers at the moment, I'd say.

After some prodding, the groggy female was loaded into a crate. She still had a road trip ahead of her to a holding area. Flamand will keep her there until he's captured enough rhino to relocate as a group.


Lara Logan: What is that like for you?

Jacques Flamand: It's great, it's great. I mean one always feels sad removing them from their existing homes but it's for a good cause. It is to start a new breeding population.

Eight weeks later, they were released. For security, we can't tell you exactly where but it's a well-guarded reserve in another part of the country.

Jacques Flamand said there are now about 200 more black rhino in South Africa than when he started his program.

Not as many as he wanted, but at a time of relentless poaching, there's no simple road to success.

Here's one sign of success we can report on since our story first aired.

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This baby, you can see it through the bush, standing next to its mother. It was born into that newly transplanted group of black rhino.

Produced by Henry Schuster and Rachael Morehouse. Associate producers, Sarah Carter and Alex J. Diamond.

You can learn more about this by visiting the World Wildlife Fund's website or calling 1-800-960-0993.

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Lara Logan
Lara Logan's bold, award-winning reporting from war zones has earned her a prominent spot among the world's best foreign correspondents. Logan began contributing to 60 Minutes in 2005.

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