Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
#RobertFrost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
#RobertFrost
"We are going to exit the fossil fuel era. It is inevitable." - Elon Musk
Why attend a State of the Union address by a president who has done more to divide America than any president in recent history? He'll take credit for accomplishments he had nothing to do with, blame others for his mistakes, deny inconvenient facts, and make up convenient ones.
Report: U.S. warned Jared Kushner about Wendi Deng Murdoch
In 2017, U.S.
counterintelligence officials warned Jared Kushner that Chinese-American
businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch could be using her close relationship
to Kushner and Ivanka Trump to push the Chinese agenda, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Why it matters: The
warning was part of an ongoing effort to alert Kushner of the risks of
dealing with people with foreign connections. Murdoch, who kept her
married name after divorcing Newscorp CEO Rupert Murdoch in 2013, has
been on counterintelligence radars for years. U.S. officials assessed
that she was lobbying for a $100 million Chinese garden at the National
Arboretum in D.C., which was ultimately deemed a security risk because
its 70-foot tower could be used for surveillance.
Flake to invoke Stalin in speech on Trump's anti-media attacks
Sen. Jeff Flake is planning to confront President Trump's anti-media comments in a speech to the Senate this week, comparing Trump and the president's labeling of the media as the "enemy of the American people" to comments made by Josef Stalin.
"Mr.
President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our
own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe
his enemies."
As a journalist with extensive experience, Ali has had the opportunity
to witness all forms of news.
One type in particular poses a threat that
has been exacerbated in our digital media society - fake news.
Ali
discusses the problems of fake news, how we are all affected by it, and
how individuals can ensure the news they’re reading is rooted in fact,
not fiction.
Ali Velshi is an anchor & correspondent with MSNBC. Most recently,
he hosted “Ali Velshi On Target” on Al Jazeera America, covering the
Presidential campaign, ISI, the refugee crisis, the Iran deal,
Russia/NATO tensions, and Greece’s debt crisis, among other global
affairs and economic issues.
Before that, Velshi was CNN’s Chief
Business Correspondent, and authored two finance books.
Velshi has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and he holds a B.A and
an honorary Doctorate from Canada’s Queen’s University.
Velshi is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Boards of
the X-Prize Foundation, Seeds of Peace, and the Chicago History Museum.
He volunteers weekly with New York’s homeless outreach program.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but
independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
Frederick Jesus Christ "Fred" Trump (1905—1999) was an American real estate developer. He was the father of "the" Donald Trump.... Proving the "Christ" part of his name to be true, in the New York State census of 1925, Trump listed his profession as "carpenter".
Fred Trump built his fortune by profiteering off the US government housing contracts during the post-WWII
building boom. Trump was investigated by a 1954 US Senate committee and
never charged with a crime, but his tactics are reminiscent of his
son's real estate tactics (self-dealing, inflating prices, and shifting
risk to other parties while keeping capital). Before his death in 1999, Fred Trump suffered from Alzheimer's Disease for six years. We know that the disease has a genetic component,
but we hope it is not the case with his son.
(We already had an Alzheimer president.)
Fred became sick with pneumonia in June 1999 and was admitted to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, where he died a few weeks later.
In the 1950s, Woody Guthrie lived as a tenant in one of Fred's buildings (named Beach Haven) and wrote a heretofore unpublished song about Fred:
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project
…
Beach Haven ain’t my home!
I just can’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain!
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!
