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Official Resigns After Blaming Flint Water Crisis On ‘N*****s Who Don’t Pay Their Bills’
An official at an agency that manages foreclosed homes in Flint, Michigan, has resigned after a recording surfaced Sunday in which he blames the city?s water crisis on ?n*****s who don?t pay their bills.?
Phil Stair resigned as sales manager of the Genesee County Land Bank, the bank?s executive director, Michele Wildman, told MLive on Monday.
Note: A version of the audio file posted online by Truth Against The Machine and a transcript appear in full and uncensored form below.
Local environmental activist Chelsea Lyons recorded Stair explaining in May why he thought Flint, a city mired in debt, switched from buying Detroit?s pretreated Lake Huron water to using Flint River water, which sparked the crisis that has left the city without safe drinking water for several years.
After the 2014 switch, the city?s water plant failed to properly treat the more toxic water under orders from state officials, causing lead from old pipes to leach into city water.
But in his racist remarks, Stair traces the crisis to residents not paying their water bills:
Detroit was charging all its customers for the cost; they weren?t collecting from their residents. They weren?t shutting the water off, they were letting bills go forever, but they were charging everybody else, they covered them. Well, Flint has the same problems as Detroit, fucking niggers don?t pay their bills, believe me, I deal with them. I don?t want to call them niggers, shit, I have, shit, I just went to Myrtle Beach, 24 guys, and I was the only white guy. I got friends, I mean, there?s trash and there?s people that do this. ? They just don?t pay their bills. Well, Detroit didn?t collect on their bills, so they charged everybody else, but Flint, Flint had to pay their bill to Detroit.
The comment comes about one minute into a 20-minute audio recording published by liberal news site Truth Against the Machine. Lyons did not immediately return a request for comment about the recording. She told MLive she and another woman met Stair at a local bar and she made the recordings over two days.
Stair?s allegation that unpaid bills caused the Flint water crisis drastically differs from most accounts. Politicians, activists and others have heaped blame on officials at every level of government for ignoring the crisis in its early stages as residents repeatedly raised concerns that their tap water had a funny smell, color and taste ? and was making them sick.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) did not acknowledge the crisis until late in 2015, after experts found that there was a sharp increase in the number of children with elevated lead levels in their blood. There?s no safe exposure level for lead, a harmful neurotoxin that can affect brain development.
Stair also blamed Snyder for not stepping in earlier when Flint was negotiating its water service contract with ?brokeass Detroit.?
Experts have called the crisis an example of environmental racism, saying it would have been handled differently if Flint weren?t a majority-black city where 40 percent of residents live below the poverty line. The disaster represented ?a complete failure of government? rooted in ?systemic racism,? Snyder?s Civil Rights Commission concluded in a damning report released in February.
Flint residents have had to pay some of the highest rates for drinking water in the country. The state gave residents discounts on water bills after acknowledging the emergency, but suspended the credits earlier this year ? a decision that rankled locals who are paying for contaminated water.
Flint warned 8,000 homeowners last month that they could be hit with tax liens ? legal claims against their property ? if they?ve fallen more than six months behind on their water bills. Genesee County could then foreclose on homes with liens and transfer their ownership to the Genesee County Land Bank. Flint City Council voted to place a one-year moratorium on the tax liens a couple weeks after the city started sending out notices.
The Land Bank plays a critical role in a city struggling with blight and abandonment, overseeing a major program to demolish vacant homes. In Lyon?s recordings, Stair denigrates the Flint residents he was supposed to serve, complaining about ?fucking deadbeats? he claims are ?destroying? neighborhoods.
?The people are still the people,? Stair said. ?They fuck the houses up, and they leave and then we tear ?em down; they just go somewhere else and just fuck those houses up.?
U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, a Flint Democrat who has advocated for his constituents throughout the crisis, condemned Stair?s comments on Twitter Sunday. Kildee founded the Land Bank in 2004, when he was Genesee County?s treasurer, and Stair says that Kildee hired him.
Wildman, the bank?s executive director, apologized for her former employee?s remarks on Monday, according to Michigan Radio.
?We are outraged by the offensive statements and committed to taking all steps necessary to rebuild public trust,? she said.
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U.S. Takes Step Towards Embrace Of Gulf Plan To Destabilize Iran
The Trump administration this week appeared to take a potential step closer to backing efforts plotted by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to destabilize Iran; possibly topple its Islamic government; and force Qatar to fall into line with Gulf policies that target Iran, political Islam, and militants; with the appointment of a seasoned covert operations officer as head of the Central Intelligence Agency?s Iran operations.
The appointment of Michael D?Andrea, a hard-charging, chain-smoking operative, alternatively nicknamed the Dark Prince or Ayatollah Mike, whose track record includes overseeing the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, suggested that the CIA was likely to take a more operational approach in confronting Iran in line with President Donald J. Trump?s Saudi and UAE-backed hard line towards the Islamic republic, which involves a possible push for regime change.
Mr. D?Andrea took up his new post at a moment that the US focus appeared to be shifting to Iran as the Islamic State suffered significant defeats with the near fall of Mosul in Iraq and the imminent fall of Raqqa, the group?s self-declared capital in Syria.
Saudi support of militant groups in Pakistani Balochistan that operate across the border in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan is abetted by a US policy that allows militancy to fester by failing to recognize links between multiple conflicts in South and Central Asia.
Balochistan serves as a safe haven for the Afghan Taliban and as a transit station in the smuggling of drugs from Afghanistan to Iran and beyond. It is also the focal point of at least two regional proxy wars: the escalating rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the perennial dispute between Pakistan and India. Pakistan accuses Indian intelligence of supporting Baloch separatists in retaliation for Islamabad?s backing of militants in Kashmir.
Mohammad Baksh Sajdi, the assistant commissioner of the Baloch district of Kharran, in a demonstration of the influence of Saudi-inspired, anti-Shiite, anti-Iranian Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism, recently banned barbers from ?cutting beards in a fashionable way which is against the principles of Islam according to all religious scholars.? A similar edict was issued in Balochistan?s Omara district. A magistrate in Kharran re-imposed the ban after it was cancelled by the government because it was illegal.
Mr. D?Andrea, who converted to Islam to marry his Muslim wife rather than out of religious conviction, brings an impressive covert operations record to challenging Iran. Mr. D?Andrea was reportedly involved in the use of torture in interrogations of suspected militants under President George W. Bush.
He also played a key role in the targeting in 2008 of Imad Mugniyah, the international operations chief for Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah who maintained close ties to Iran. Mr. Mugniyah was assassinated in Damascus in an operation carried out together with Israel?s intelligence agency, Mossad. Mr. D?Andrea was also involved in the ramping up of US drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen that target Islamist militants.
The New York Times noted that Mr. D?Andrea?s appointment came as some US officials, including Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the National Security Council?s senior director for intelligence, were pushing for a US policy of regime change in Iran.
Mike Pompeo, an advocate in the past of military action against Iranian nuclear facilities, wrote last summer before his appointment by Mr. Trump as CIA director that ?Congress must act to change Iranian behaviour, and, ultimately, the Iranian regime.?
Other senior Trump administration officials, including Defense Secretary General (retired) James Mattis and National Security Advisor Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, are believed to be hardliners when it comes to Iran.
Mr. D?Andrea?s appointment stroked with an emerging Saudi strategy to escalate the kingdom?s proxy war with Iran by fomenting unrest among the Islamic republic?s ethnic minorities as well as to confront together with the United States Iranian-backed groups in Syria and Yemen. The Trump administration has already stepped up support for Saudi Arabia?s two-year old, ill-fated intervention in Yemen.
Iran is unlikely to stand by idly if Saudi Arabia and the US were to initiate covert operations against it. ?There?s just one small problem: Iran is unlikely to back down,? said US Naval Postgraduate School Iran expert Afshon Ostovar. Mr. Ostovar noted that Iran?s ability to operate through proxy groups like Hezbollah, Lebanon?s Shiite militia, Palestine?s Islamic Jihad, and militias in Iraq was ?its most strategic asset.?
As a result, the US-Saudi-UAE strategy risks Iran retaliating by attempting to stir trouble among Shiites in Bahrain, home to a low-level insurgency since the island?s Sunni Muslim minority regime brutally squashed a popular uprising in 2011 with the support of Saudi troops, and in Saudi Arabia?s oil-rich, predominantly Shiite Eastern province.
To be sure, Shiites in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are Bahrainis and Saudis first and Shiites second. But decades of discriminatory policies in both regions have left their toll, and offer Iran potential opportunity to stir the pot.
Saudi Arabia?s Okaz newspaper reported this week that authorities had foiled an attack on US forces based in Qatar. The newspaper said the foiled attempt was planned by an Al Qaeda unit headed by a Qatari national.
Okaz?s report came in the wake of a suicide bombing in Qatif in the Eastern Province and a Saudi and UAE-sponsored media campaign against Qatar because of its ties to Iran and alleged support for militants. Saudi Shiite activists accused a US-trained Saudi interior ministry unit of having instigated the Qatif bombing in an effort to bolster the kingdom?s claim that it is a victim of Iran-inspired political violence.
Qatar announced amid the Saudi-UAE campaign that six of its soldiers had been wounded in Yemen ?while conducting their duties within the Qatari contingent defending the southern borders of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?.
In a move reminiscent of past Qatari efforts to placate UAE and Saudi criticism, Qatar was reported to have expelled several officials of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, who were involved in the group?s activities on the Israeli occupied West Bank.
In the latest episode of the Gulf cyberwar, leaked mails from the email account of the UAE ambassador in Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba, whose authenticity was confirmed by Huffpost and The Intercept, showed the UAE looking at ways to influence Iran?s domestic situation.
The UAE was also pressing the Trump administration in cooperation with the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies to move its US air force base, the largest in the Middle East, out of Qatar.
The emails also revealed efforts to persuade US companies not to pursue opportunities in Iran. Various media reports suggested that Saudi Arabia and the UAE were gunning for the removal of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani as emir of Qatar.
A proposed agenda for a meeting this week between senior UAE officials and Foundation executives included discussion of possible US and UAE ?policies to positively impact Iranian internal situation?. Among the list of policies were ?political, economic, military, intelligence, and cyber tools,? and efforts ?contain and defeat Iranian aggression.? The agenda also included countering Qatari support for Islamist and militant groups; its ?destabilizing role in Egypt, Syria, Libya, the Gulf;? and ?Al Jazeera as an instrument of regional instability.?
The Foundation, which has played a leading role in arguing against the 2015 agreement that ended the Iranian nuclear crisis and lifted crippling international sanctions against the Islamic republic, enjoys funding from wealthy US conservatives, including gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson, who supported Mr. Trump?s election campaign and is a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.
The Saudis backed by the US are likely to be fishing in murky ponds in Iran. Baloch groups are largely delineated along either nationalist or Sunni Muslim ultra-conservative lines with Pakistani intelligence backing religious groups against the nationalists.
However, communities like the Iranian Arabs in Khuzestan, Iran?s oil-rich province that Arabs call Ahwaz after the region?s main city, are deeply divided and factitious and often a cesspool of personal, political and ideological rivalries. Various of the Ahwazi and Baloch groups maintain links with one another. Yet, sorting out who is who is often an almost impossible task.
In an assertion of ethnic identity, thousands of Iranian Arabs attended in March 2017 an Asian soccer competition match between Esteghlal Ahvaz FC, the local team in the Khuzestan capital of Ahwaz, and Qatar?s Lekhwiya SC dressed in traditional Arab garb.
Ahwaz Monitor, an Iranian Arab website, said the fans were protesting government efforts to suppress their identity. It said the fans cheered their team in Arabic rather than Farsi and chanted ?Arabic is my identity and honour? and ?Al Ahwaz for Ahwazis and all Gulf state residents are dearest to us.? Fans also reportedly recited poetry celebrating their region?s Arab heritage.
The website created last summer by Iranian Arab activists is emblematic of the factitiousness of exile Iranian ethnic minority groups. Yasser Abadi, an Ahwazi activist, who founded the website, rejected allegations that it was Saudi-backed or had links to militant Saudi-backed groups like Jundullah in Balochistan or the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Al-Ahwaz (Harakat Al-Nizal L?Tahrir al-Ahwaz) that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Khuzestan.
Al Nizal is believed to have close ties to Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatives in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as well as the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. The group?s spokesmen appear on Wesal TV, a Saudi-based, virulently anti-Shiite satellite broadcaster.
Mr. Abadi insisted that he had funded the site himself, paying GBP 350 for three years of Internet hosting. The site ?doesn?t need Saudi or Arab League support or encouragement,? Mr. Abadi said.
Mr. Abadi described Saudi policy towards Khuzestan as ?volatile? and geared towards ?militarizing the region.? Mr. Abadi said most Ahwazis rejected violence because of the death and destruction they see elsewhere in the Middle East. He said his group relied on ?Arab influence,? which he defined as indirect ?media support, Arab votes in UN sub-committees against Iranian practices…publications, and legal support.?
Iran watchers noted that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has allowed some voice of dissent to be heard. ?The more that this happens, the less the Saudi-backed separatists win. What the separatists want is the polarisation of views and to incite the regime to attack the (Iranian Arab) community, thereby securing a popular backlash. In recent weeks, they have conducted more murders, mostly of security personnel but also of non-security officials. They want mass arrests and public executions in order to establish themselves as the vanguard of the Ahwazi resistance,? one expert said.
Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg?s Institute for Fan Culture, and the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title, Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and three forthcoming books, Shifting Sands, Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa as well as Creating Frankenstein: The Saudi Export of Ultra-conservatism and China and the Middle East: Venturing into the Maelstrom.
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Vice President Mike Pence appeared on ?Fox & Friends? Friday to tout President Donald Trump?s decision to leave the Paris Agreement combatting climate change, and painted the issue as one of partisan politics.
?For some reason or another, this issue of climate change has emerged as a paramount issue for the left in this country and around the world,? Pence said. ?It?s long been a goal of the liberal left in this country to advance a climate change agenda.?
Pence?s remarks entirely ignore the consensus among climate scientists that humans have significantly contributed to global warming. And in framing the issue as one of right versus left, he also brushes aside the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, including food shortages, floods, fires and irreparable damage to wildlife.
He?s also disregarding that some of his fellow Republicans have also urged action on what he describes as the ?climate change agenda.?
Pence?s comments, of course, echo a familiar refrain from the right. Many conservatives have attempted to paint climate change as a partisan issue promoted only by the left, or simply punt on the issue by pleading ignorance. But the reality is that it?s not just Democrats who are concerned about global warming.
Recent polls also show that many Republican voters ? including those who sided with Trump in the 2016 election ? believe man-made climate change is real and is something to be concerned about. A HuffPost You/Gov poll earlier this year found that 61 percent of Americans supported staying in the Paris Agreement, including 31 percent of Trump voters surveyed. A Morning Consult/Politico poll conducted in April found that most Americans are concerned about climate change, including 50 percent of Republicans. And a March Gallup poll found that 68 percent of Americans believe humans are causing global warming.
There have also been efforts on the right to make climate change action a priority for the GOP. Nineteen House Republicans signed on to the Republican Climate Resolution calling for congressional action on global warming, and many of those same members have joined a bipartisan caucus focused on climate issues. Bob Inglis, a former GOP congressman from South Carolina, formed RepublicEn, a conservative climate advocacy group. And as Reuters reported, college Republicans at campuses across the U.S. are increasingly in favor of actively combatting global warming, suggesting a generational shift looming for the party.
And, contrary to Pence?s comments, there are plenty of moderate and right-leaning politicians who have publicly warned of the dangers of rising global temperatures.
Here are just some prominent figures on the right who have acknowledged that climate change is a real and pressing threat to humanity, and are advocating for action:
2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
Trump?s secretary of state has previously expressed support for the Paris Agreement, and reportedly lobbied Trump to stay in the deal.
After Trump?s announcement, he said he hopes the U.S. will reduce greenhouse gas emissions despite leaving the accord.
?I don?t think we?re going to change our ongoing efforts to reduce those emissions in the future either, so hopefully, people can keep it in perspective,? he said.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry
Perry, the former Republican governor of Texas and GOP presidential candidate, also supported staying in the agreement. He advocated for ?renegotiating? the U.S.?s commitment rather than fully withdrawing.
Perry, however, expressed support for Trump?s decision following the announcement.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)
?One man cannot destroy our progress, one man can?t stop our clean energy revolution, one man can?t go back in time. Only I can do that,? Schwarzenegger said in a video on ATTN following Trump?s announcement, referencing his role in the ?Terminator? films. ?Like all the great movements in human history, our clean future starts with a grassroots movement in our communities, our cities and our state.?
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.)
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.)
?The Paris Agreement isn?t perfect. But by abandoning it, America is relinquishing that seat at the table. It calls into question our commitment to protecting and preserving the environment. And it forfeits our ability to drive countries like China and India to reduce their carbon footprint and compete on a level playing field. Ultimately, this disappointing decision diminishes America?s leadership role on the world stage.?
Former GOP congressman and founder of RepublicEn Bob Inglis
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)
?United States innovation and business leadership have been key drivers to lowering our carbon emissions over the last 20 years, and we should continue to have an influential seat at the table as the rest of the world addresses these issues. Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is misguided, and harms the ongoing effort to fight climate change while also isolating us from our allies.?
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Murkowski addressed Trump?s decision on Thursday, KTOO reported:
?My hope is that with the president?s decision to go this route it does not mean that we fall back as a nation on our efforts to address and mitigate on the impact that we see from a warming climate,? she said. ?Because we see it here in this state and it is real and I think we?ve got an obligation to help address it.?
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
Alexander is one of few Senate Republicans who has acknowledged the existence of man-made climate change.
According to the Times Free Press, Alexander said in a statement Friday that while he doesn?t think withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is catastrophic for climate progress, he believes the ?most important thing the United States can do to solve our energy and climate challenge is to double funding for basic energy research.?
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R)
?The President?s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is disappointing and concerning, particularly given the widespread and non-partisan support from business and political leaders for remaining in the Agreement.?
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
Although Graham expressed support for the decision to leave the Paris accord, he has previously acknowledged the gravity of climate change.
?I have come to conclude that greenhouse gases and carbon pollution is not a good thing,? Graham said in 2010. ?Whatever political push back I get, I?m willing to accept because I know what I?m trying to do makes sense to me. ? I am convinced that reason, logic and good business sense, and good environmental policy, will trump the status quo.?
ExxonMobil chief Darren Woods
Woods, who has donated to GOP campaigns, wrote a personal letter to Trump last month urging him to stay in the agreement. As the Financial Times reports:
Mr Woods argues that staying in the accord will mean the US keeps ?a seat at the negotiating table to ensure a level playing field? for all energy sources, and can argue for ?the most cost-effective greenhouse gas reduction options? and support for innovation
Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris
Liveris, whose company gave $1 million to Trump?s inauguration, was the ?driving force behind a letter from 30 major company executives backing the deal,? Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon
The frequent GOP donor also urged Trump to uphold the U.S.?s commitment to the international pact.
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Mom’s Raw Photos Shows What Life With 6 Kids Looks Like
When Korbi Ashton goes out in public with her six children, she tends to get a lot of interesting comments from strangers.
?So much so that my twin sister, Jakobi, gave me a shirt for Christmas that reads, ?Yes, they are all mine,?? she told HuffPost.
The Washington state photographer is mom to 11-year-old Beck, 9-year-old Paisley, 5-year-old Penelope, 3-year-old Remington, 2-year-old Violet and 3-month-old Jorgen. To show others what life with six kids really looks like, Ashton put together a series of photos offering a glimpse into her daily experiences.
?I love to photograph our everyday lives and record the day-to-day things that we do,? she explained. ?I look back at all the photos of them I have taken over the years like the most emotional time capsule. You always hear ?it goes by so fast.? And it is so very true!?
The mom said she?s taken so many cute photos of her children that she actually ran out of wall space to hang them and purchased a large TV to use as a digital picture frame.
All six of her kids have very different personalities, Ashton told HuffPost. ?Just when I think that I have it all figured out the next one throws me for a loop and I start all over again. I am learning right along with them this thing called parenting and life.?
As her children grow up, the photographer and her husband want to teach them to be happy and successful, however they define that. ?I also want to instill in them a desire to live right down the road from me when they grow up,? she joked.
Ultimately, Ashton wants people who see her photo series to know that having six kids is ?a fun roller coaster ride.?
?I swear I was more overwhelmed with my first than I am with my sixth,? she said. ?I don?t know if I have relaxed or I?ve just learned to embrace the chaos.?
Additionally, she hopes the images make people recall their own special day-to-day moments: ?The sometime mundane small and simple things may get brushed aside, but are really so very important in the fabric of our lives.?
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On Thursday, Jimmy Kimmel demonstrated their collective astonishment at entering the sixth month of the year via a montage of them saying pretty much the same phrase.
?June is something that happens almost every year,? Kimmel said. ?But for some reason this year it caught a lot people by surprise.?
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