James Comey‏Verified account @Comey Nov 4

Final, and striking, paragraph from @nytdavidbrooks column this week: 

 

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” Reinhold Niebuhr

Tim FargoVerified account @tim_fargo

Neurologists claim that every time you resist acting on your anger, you're actually rewiring your brain to be calmer and more loving. 

 #quoteoftheday

 

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” - Winston Churchill

 

London Gardens‏ @WstLondonGarden Nov 16

......please do not season the pigeons. 

 

Cinnamon may help you lose weight, according to a new study -- but don't hold out for the Cinnabon diet just yet

Cinnamon: Can It Really Help You Lose Weight?

A study suggests that cinnamaldehyde, a chemical compound that gives cinnamon its flavor,…

forbes.com

 

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. 

    

Adam Schiff, Congressman: The guilty plea by Michael Flynn for lying to federal agents about his contacts with the Russians

The guilty plea by Michael Flynn for lying to federal agents about his contacts with the Russians is another shocking development. That he admits senior transition officials were knowing of these contacts, and therefore his subsequent lies, may be even more consequential:

     
 
1. Adam Schiff‏Verified account @RepAdamSchiff
Given the limited scope of the charges Flynn pled to, Mueller must have concluded that his cooperation and potential testimony against others was of greater value.
 
1. Adam Schiff‏Verified account @RepAdamSchiff Dec 2
Adam Schiff Retweeted Donald J. Trump
If that is true, Mr. President, why did you wait so long to fire Flynn? Why did you fail to act until his lies were publicly exposed? And why did you pressure Director Comey to “let this go?”


Adam Schiff added,
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump
I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide! 


Adam SchiffVerified account
@RepAdamSchiff
Representing California's 28th Congressional District and Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Burbank, CA
schiff.house.gov

Mata Hari: World War I's Most Famous Spy

 

 

The Controversial Life and Legacy of World War I's Most Famous Spy 

Summary

Margeretha Geertruida Zelle, better known to history by the exotic, glamorous name of Mata Hari, was a woman who profited greatly from the power of illusion during much of her brief life.
 
Mata Hari moved from a financially rewarding but miserable marriage to circus performances to exotic dancing and celebrity to the role of ostensible international spy in an arc that ended tragically in front of a French firing squad.

Rashly entangling herself in the foreign affairs of France and Germany during the bitter years of World War I, the exotic dancer found herself completely out of her depth.

Used briefly as a pawn by both sides, Mata Hari met her fate when the Germans deliberately incriminated her and the French cynically sacrificed her as a scapegoat for their military failures.



Source: https://www.audible.ca/pd/Biographies-Memoirs/Mata-Hari-Audiobook/B071L4NMK  

The 32 Best Quotes by Bob Dylan: "Money doesn't talk, it swears."

 

Link: https://youtu.be/DPacGETrG_U 

Rebuke of Trump for retweeting anti-Muslim videos by the Mayor of London

 

London's Mayor Sadiq Khan: "President Trump has used Twitter to promote a vile, extremist group that exists solely to sow division and hatred in our country. It's increasingly clear that any official visit from President Trump to Britain would not be welcomed."

NBC News‏Verified account @NBCNews 

Replying to @NBCNews

British PM Theresa May issues rare rebuke of Trump for retweeting anti-Muslim videos

 http://nbcnews.to/2i4cpCF

 

 

President Trump sparks international outrage for re-tweeting anti-Muslim videos http://nbcnews.to/2jyBtlw 

White Supremacists endorse Trump

 

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” 

Arnold H. Glasow(1905-1998)

White Supremacist: a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.

The History of White Supremacy in America 

By Carl Skutsch

August 19, 2017

The Charlottesville marchers have roots that go deep in the nation's history and its present 

 

The Ku Klux Klan members in Washington, D.C., in 1925. Bettmann/Getty 

Trump's Long History of Racism

 The angry men marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, seemed alien to many Americans. 

They shouted "Blood and Soil," imitating the Nazi slogan "Blut and Boden" – meaning that the blood must be racially pure, and the land must belong to the racially pure. 

For these new American Nazis, the enemies are the black and brown people supposedly destroying their pure white United States. The marchers chanted, "Jews will not replace us," echoing Hitler's paranoid fear of Jews as the ultimate enemy. 

Trump's response to Charlottesville was late and insufficient because this is who he is.

Although they may seem a bizarre throwback to brown-shirted, goose-stepping storm troopers of 1930s Germany, these men have roots that go deep in American history and America's present.

They are also some of Trump's biggest fans. David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, said the marchers were there to "fulfill the promises of Donald Trump" to "take our country back."

Read more @ Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-history-of-white-supremacy-in-america-w498334

Commerce secretary’s offshore ties to putin ‘cronies’ | News Today

  

Commerce secretary’s offshore ties to putin ‘cronies’ | News Today

After becoming commerce secretary, Wilbur L. Ross Jr. retained
investments in a shipping firm he once controlled that has significant
business ties to a Russian oligarch subject to American sanctions ...

Link: https://youtu.be/0WWk2HmTxZc