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ADAM SCHIFF TO HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
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Posted:Mar 29, 2019 4:54 pm
Last Updated:Jan 3, 2022 10:11 pm 3458 Views
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Adam Schiff, speaking before the House Intelligence Committee meeting on March 28, 2019:
"My colleagues might think it’s okay the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what’s described as the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign. You might think ’s okay. My colleagues might think it’s okay when was offered to the of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, the president’s did not inform the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse foreign help — no, instead said he would ‘love’ the help with the Russians.
You might think it was okay he took meeting. You might think it’s okay Paul Manafort, the campaign chair, someone with great experience running campaigns, also took meeting. You might think it’s okay the president’s -in-law also took meeting. You might think it’s okay they concealed it from the public. You might think it’s okay their only disappointment after meeting was the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasn’t better. You might think it’s okay. I don’t.
You might think it’s okay , when it was discovered a later they had lied about meeting and said it was about adoptions, you might think it’s okay the president is reported to have helped dictate lie. You might think it’s okay. I don’t.
You might think it’s okay the campaign chairman of a presidential campaign would offer information about campaign to a Russian oligarch in exchange for or debt forgiveness. You might think ’s okay. I don’t. You might think it’s okay campaign chairman offered polling data, campaign polling data, to someone linked to Russian intelligence. I don’t think ’s okay.
You might think it’s okay the president himself called on Russia to hack his opponent’s emails, if they were listening. You might think it’s okay , later day, the Russians in fact attempted to hack a server affiliated with campaign. I don’t think ’s okay.
You might think it’s okay the president’s -in-law sought to establish a secret back-channel of communication with Russians through a Russian diplomatic facility. I don’t think ’s okay.
You might think it’s okay an associate of the president made direct contact with the GRU through Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks, is considered a hostile intelligence agency. You might think it’s okay a senior campaign official was instructed to reach associate and find what hostile intelligence agency had to say, in terms of dirt on his opponent.
You might think it’s okay the national security adviser-designate secretly conferred with a Russian ambassador about undermining U.S. sanctions, and you might think it’s okay he lied about it to the FBI.
You might say ’s all okay. You might say ’s just what you to do to win. But I don’t think it’s okay. I think it’s immoral, I think it’s unethical, I think it’s unpatriotic and, yes, I think it’s corrupt, and evidence of collusion.
Now, I have always said whether this amounts to proof of conspiracy was another matter. Whether the special counsel could prove beyond a reasonable doubt the proof of crime was to the special counsel and I would accept his decision, and I do. He is a good an honourable man and he is a good prosecutor.
But I do not think conduct, criminal or not, is okay. And the day we do think ’s okay is the day we will back and say, is the day America lost its way.
And I’ll tell you one more thing is apropos of the hearing today. I don’t think it’s okay during a presidential campaign Mr. Trump sought the Kremlin’s help to consummate a real estate deal in Moscow would make him a fortune. According to the special counsel, hundreds of millions of dollars. I don’t think it’s okay he concealed it from the public. don't think it's okay he advocated a new and more favourable policy towards the Russians, even as he was seeking the Russian's help, the Kremlin’s help, to make .
I don't think it's okay his attorney lied to our committee. There is a different word for than collusion and it's called compromise. And 's the subject of our hearing today.
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STOP TAKING THEIR BAIT
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Posted:Mar 26, 2019 11:50 pm
Last Updated:Jan 3, 2022 10:23 pm 3169 Views
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How to conquer right-wing bullies: It’s not a debate — so stop taking their bait
Yes, they’re whistling for racism, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and antisocialism but those are just overtones. We shouldn’t be distracted by them. The whistle’s fundamental tune is simply “Join us. We’re Gods. No deed too dirty for us deities.”
The US has recently discovered its Achille’s heel and it’s in the same spot as it has been in every civilization, a weakness for tyrants, people who God, pretending they’re masters of reality instead of having to adapt to it.
The weakness is in each of us. Who wouldn’t want to be master of reality? Life is uncertain. There’s way too much world, especially now. It’s a relief to think you’ve finally found your infallible focus, a crusade in which you’re the solution.
Most of us know to exercise our appetite for self-deification in fantasy, for example, identifying with superheroes in fiction. But some don’t. They pretend in real life and soon end up with a following among those who can’t, won’t or think they needn’t distinguish fiction from reality.
We make a grave mistake in thinking the self-deifying have a mission. They’re convinced by the sound of their own stridency they care about making things better. The evidence is they don’t. Their crusades are just an excuse for playing god.
It’s the same mistake we make over and over. It’s a mistake to think Stalin or Mao were Communists, Hitler was a nationalist, Robespierre was a liberal or Trump is a conservative. Tyrants are just self-deifying. Though some for the mission they stay for the self-deification. They’re gloataholics, addicted to self-aggrandizement.
Self-deification is a drug. Its delivery system is righteous indignation; righteousness makes them feel like authorities on what warrants indignation, indignation enables them to forget their fallibility. Self-deification is like granting oneself a wild card and a trump card.
Wild-card: Because the solution, I can do anything I want. It’s all for “the cause”.
Trump card: What I do will always be smarter and better than anything. If I win a genius saint. If I lose, a genius saint martyr.
Playing god is so simple any idiot can do it: Never apologize, always out-scold anyone who questions you. The shy will shy away, the conscientious will get confused, the gullible will join you.
Self-deification is the cheap easy alternative to conscientiousness. Just pretend you’re at war, fighting for the ultimate good. If you’re fighting for the ultimate good, you’re free to do whatever’s necessary. Freer still, the self-deifying pretend they’re fighting for the ultimate good and do whatever they want.
MAGA is actually GAWA: Get Away With Anything. ’s Trump’s draw. His supporters don’t realize it but they’re just in it for the self-deification. They don’t just support Trump; they want to be him.
They think they care about making America great again. They’re really just addicted to righteous indignation. It’s obvious from the way they abandon supposed missions as soon as they’re unable to milk them for the gloataholic buzz.
They promise no promised land. You hear no vision for future American greatness. Getting there is the gloataholic’s fun, the idiot’s delight of wild card trumping.
Once hooked on self-deification, there’s no alternative to sticking with it. The crimes mount; the enemies gather. They can’t show weakness or their whole house of wild card/trump cards tumbles. The US is now being held hostage to leaders who know if they ever let down their posturing they’d spend the rest of their lives in jail. They’re just hoping to run out the clock.
We make a mistake taking their bait as though they care about their causes. We’ve got to stop projecting our concern about the future on them. For them, it’s a shortsighted addiction to declaring themselves victors. ’s what has us led by the nose into the weeds. To give their concerns the benefit of the doubt is as dangerous as taking a psychopath at his word.
We should focus instead on their whistles’ fundamental note. Expose their self-deification. Their only response would be more self-deification, proving our point.
The lesson to take from our country’s flirtation with tyranny is simple. We must guard against self-deification dressed in any mission – left, right, spiritual, religious, atheistic, philosophical, whatever. way we could get on with our adaptive lives and continue to god in fantasy without causing social cancers – righteously indignant wild card, trump card cults of whatever flavor pretending they deserve to rule reality instead of having to adapt to it.
by Jeremy E.Sherman from Alternet
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ELECTRIC CABS WITH WIRELESS CHARGING
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Posted:Mar 25, 2019 3:27 pm
Last Updated:Jan 3, 2022 10:33 pm 2237 Views
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I have a lot of fcebook connections with my home-town in Norway, a well as family and friends in other parts of the country. I have my keyboard set so I can switch between English and Norwegian with one click..........I also watch the Norwegian news networks........I have seen quite a bit of controversy over Clean Energy Generation.......There is a lot of falling water.....my home-town runs on electricity generated from a swift river that empties into the fjord ......including an Aluminum plant, which takes a large amount of both water and power. Most people areOK with that, because their power is cheap and the fish are safe.The windmills, however, are more controversial. They are also experimenting with rafts that have turbines that generate electricity. We are experimenting with that as well, here, where there is a lot of tidal turbulence. Our tides go up and down about 15 feet and the many islands cause the water to be forced through narrow channels
, the the tidal action increases as you go North and up near Alaska. it fluctuates 25 feet............but having large turbine rafts all over the coast has it's own drawbacks
The following is from Energy Canada...."🚘⚡️Norway is charging ahead with electric cars. Oslo will become the first city in the world to install wireless charging systems for electric taxis. By 2023, all taxis in the city will be zero-emission and by 2025, all new cars sold in Norway will be zero-emission.
Norway has the world’s highest rate of electric car ownership. Last year, almost one in three new cars sold was electric. Not only do electric cars cut emissions, they also significantly cut fuel and maintenance costs.".
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SNOW
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Posted:Feb 13, 2019 3:37 pm
Last Updated:Jan 3, 2022 10:38 pm 2961 Views
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There were interesting animal tracks in the snow this morning.......Birds, deer, raccoon, cat.....and a lot of sparkles flitting about.......
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COUGAR ATTACK
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Posted:Jan 21, 2019 11:51 pm
Last Updated:Jan 3, 2022 10:46 pm 2967 Views
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Around 7 pm tonight, I heard the ambulance go by, then a few minutes later I got a phone call to tell me that a friend had been attacked by a cougar.....he parked in his driveway, opened the car door, put one leg out and a cougar jumped out of the bushes and attacked him......he beat it over the head with his cane and got the door closed again and phoned the mounties........My first reaction was horror of course, but then I laughed till the tears rolled.......You would have to know the guy......just the picture in my head of him bopping a cougar over the head with his cane......He got away with a few scratches.....lucky guy.
I had been walking in the woods just a couple of hours earlier, a 1/4 mile from the attack.....Yeatch!!!!.....Wildlife Services will be on the island hunting it first thing tomorrow........There is something wrong with a cougar who attacks a Human......Last time a cougar came even close, was 30 years ago.A man heard his making strange crying sounds outside. He grabbed a flashlight and opened the door to see a cougar with his dog's head in it's mouth......the cougar immediately let go and took off.
The Wildlife guys were very familiar with it.....they had been tracking him for years. Some people had put out illegal bear traps in their orchards to catch raccoons. The young cougar got caught in one and damaged his leg so he couldn't hunt. Another, older cougar hunted with him for 6 months. Cougars are loners and never hunt together, so this was a very rare partnership. When the injured cougar's foot healed, he was on his own again, but his foot didn't heal properly.
The Wildlife guys could tell by his tracks....the foot was deformed. So, apparently he lost the ability to feed himself and so it was extreme hunger that forced him to hunt easy prey.......it was his undoing however and he was culled.
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DEMENTIA VILLAGE
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Posted:Jan 21, 2019 10:58 pm
Last Updated:Mar 13, 2020 12:54 pm 3197 Views
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This is being built about 30 miles from here in a beautiful river valley......what a great idea.......
"The construction of a new care home and creation of campus of care will allow the local health-care system to provide care that is flexible and responsive for those living with dementia and complex health issues,”
The dementia village is being modelled after successful facilities in the Netherlands. It represents a shift in care that supports a “person-centric” model.
"Creating a community that is a hub of a activity that focuses putting the needs of the person at the forefront won’t only benefit the senior, but also their family,"
Plans include providing facilities that both seniors and their families can enjoy, including a grocery store, music room, and pub in the village.
The announcement supports a large-scale provincial plan, which aims to better support B.C’s ageing population, and reduce added stress on emergency services and hospitals.
“This is the right conversation to be having,” Stewart says. “When it comes to dementia, age is the biggest risk factor, so we really need to be prepared to provide good quality, inclusive care.”
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