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Sunday, May 29, 2022

The Racist Conspiracy Theory Conservatives Are Helping Spread

 https://youtu.be/Xh4m9cfkYo0

Texas Shooting Exposes Rot At Core Of U.S. Society

 https://youtu.be/eML0tF7P2K4

Bill Gates Comes Out AGAINST Vaccine Passports

 https://youtu.be/vHfPxfvOkjk

Leaked data offers significant new insights into China's Uyghur detention camps - BBC News

 https://youtu.be/vOgFiwWt0dk

Disappeared! Video Proving U.S. Involvement In Ukraine Coup

 https://youtu.be/o8Z73NHmvVw

After Which Failed Pregnancy Should I Have Been Imprisoned? Rep. Lucy McBath on Reproductive Rights

 https://youtu.be/etGG6aaxtFI

Texas Cops’ Jaw-Dropping Responses to Reporters’ Questions

 https://youtu.be/9IgEfGNF-7I

Colorado Republican Candidate Pushes To End One-Person, One-Vote

 https://youtu.be/vdS1aFWQqY8

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Hacked files reveal Chinese “shoot-to-kill” policy in Uighur detention camps - BBC News

 https://youtu.be/HTp54QwxV8U

Director’s message: David MacDonald: When Will There Be Disclosure?

Mass email that I received from MUFON:


 
After all the years of traveling to speaking engagements both in the US and Europe, there was one question that never failed to be asked: “When will we have disclosure?” For all those years I gave the same answer: It’s already started. There were a multitude of small tidbits leaking out over the years. Most were accidental; some were not. And for all that time I also added that “I don’t expect to see it in my lifetime.”


Well, folks, I’m changing my mind.
Even though I am an old dog, I just might see it, as will the rest of you. From the “Tic Tac” videos to actual press releases, we are seeing more than ever, albeit in small doses.


Now, let’s look at some of these items and start connecting the dots.


Just a few months ago a very high-ranking Israeli intelligence officer and well-known professor publicly stated on video that President Trump was on the verge of total disclosure when the aliens themselves waved him
off. Supposedly they stated to “please don’t drop this bomb on your people. It would be better to release it in small doses.”


Now let’s go back to President Obama. On live TV, he was asked, “So Mr. President, when are you going to tell us about the aliens?” The look on his face said it all. His brisk reply was “we will tell you about the aliens when the aliens tell us we can. There are very strict rules.”


Want some more? President Clinton at a press conference was asked, “Sir, when will you give us disclosure?” To which the president replied, “I cannot give you disclosure because it is in the hands of a part of the government that I am not a part of.”


President Reagan frequently remarked of “Other Life” out there.


President Carter openly admitted that he had seen a UFO and reported it.


Did you know that President Nixon had a MUFON director come to his office and give him a monthly status report on UFOs?



I can go on and on with this, and everything that I have stated can be looked up, Googled and confirmed, which is why I think that Disclosure is closer than we believe, and I just might see it in my lifetime.

Thursday, May 26, 2022

YouTube Exec Claims YouTube Doesn’t Censor!

 https://youtu.be/Qc5RVgfjqww

Renters In America Are Running Out Of Options

 https://youtu.be/KgTxzCe490Q

Zelensky: Only Diplomacy Can End Ukraine War

https://youtu.be/ePaK783edIc

*The money is in accounts that the banks control.
The banks may have influence or control of the Nazi's in Ukraine and some western powers.
Zelensky is in more than a rock and a hard place; the banks are reaping people (with help from Russia) for the sake of profits.
That is the true scandal.

Kim Iversen: World Health Organization Treaty Makes Global POWER GRAB

 https://youtu.be/DWfOydmFUJs

*Police power without voter representation? HELL NO!
That is WORSE than taxation without representation.

World Pandemic Treaty?

 https://youtu.be/fldWRTz6c30

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Bill Maher Pushes Back Against Trans Extremism

https://youtu.be/2MdKg5syd6k

*Pollution, especially from plastics, could be causing issues with gender identification at a brain chemical level (not just from culture.)
https://nutritionreview.org/2019/05/environmental-estrogens-the-invisible-threat-that-surrounds-us/

https://youtu.be/O1B44VmZFiI

***Someone or something is polluting this world to hell. Petroleum/fossil fuel companies? AND it needs to stop.

[REPLY] Stiglitz Says Raising Interest Rates Won't Fix Inflation Problem

 https://youtu.be/RHhWGI_d7b0

**[original post] 


not as high of an interest rate increases, sell more of the fed balance sheet. Interest rates create the incentive for the cash/money on the next dollar (the derivative) of profits.

[reply] great reset with what? Money in exchange for human rights? Selling balance sheet in lieu of tax increases to pay for the interest rate increase will become a national quagmire politically. Of contrast: the revenue (without other policy changes) would settle the fiscal policy; discrete policy making is here again. A monetary and governance reset would be the plan for the sake of taking human rights away from Americans (as intended by foreign goals.) Increasing taxes to reset the fiscal-interest rate balance would be the best longer term solution. How attainable politically is a good guess. 


Saturday, May 21, 2022

This is UNDENIABLE!.. | CLEAR Footage Of TR3B Discovered?

 https://youtu.be/8wRdQvK6KQg 

*Wow; is rotating clockwise slowly from perspective of camera. maybe dipped downward on right side? 

A Pattern of Sexual Misconduct by Louisville Police

 https://youtu.be/HERShPhJwPg


*how many pregnancies came from this? I only ask due to the politics around abortion today.

Thursday, May 19, 2022

Global WHO Treaty Is Real And Will Control You

 https://youtu.be/ditOYd4F5IA

Former Pentagon intel official on UFO hearings

 https://youtu.be/rU4QrZ366WE

*UFO = UnFunded Opportunities 

UAP = unidentified areal phenomenon ; could be time machines (from the future saying hello to grandparents);  Could also be private governance (non-American government; but possibly funded with taxpayer money via grants or funding to private industry organization(s.))

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

NEW: Biden Admin PAUSES Disinformation Board, WAPO’s Taylor Lorenz Blames RIGHT-WING Rhetoric

 https://youtu.be/J1QxHznQosI

* This does not make since. Why would a newspaper want to praise a government censorship organization? Is this an attempt by media organizations wanting to create a government sponsored natural monopoly to fire or curtail editorial boards? Questions about for the sake of how many newspapers and media are such an oligopoly these days. [George Orwell spins in grave.] 

The bitter fight over abortion clinic protests- BBC Newsnight

 https://youtu.be/Hrf6BMeW4r4

*British newscast about abortion 

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Only A Few Families Know The Secret To Making This Perfect Mirror | Still Standing

 https://youtu.be/Ra4W_aztfHA

Can a Diet Reprogram Your DNA?

 https://youtu.be/F5pgv-1gyTI

How Do Airports Keep Birds From Striking Planes? A Wildlife Expert Explains | WSJ

 https://youtu.be/BxVWs5hBDeA

O, SHIT Coinbase!

 https://youtu.be/1zcoaKP2ieg

https://youtu.be/XH4tl95PdJ4

https://youtu.be/6lojIGhtxtk

https://youtu.be/zCnT2zTLTs0

https://youtu.be/vMccS9UL9OI

https://youtu.be/lmw-P46giVw

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/walton-family-investment-firm-bet-on-munis-small-caps-amid-drop 

Coinbase CFO: Customer assets are 'absolutely safe'

 https://youtu.be/1zcoaKP2ieg

How Amazon, American Airlines And Subaru Burn Waste To Make Energy

 https://youtu.be/pqX1D5AQFfo

Why Zellige Tiles Are So Expensive | So Expensive

 https://youtu.be/R4D1hvNo_sY

EU foreign policy chief: Oil embargo 'not so easy,' but agreement will be reached

 https://youtu.be/EHEet9pLuX8

Thursday, May 12, 2022

The Tricky Ethics of Manipulating Your Dreams

 https://youtu.be/voBZoUhRxyA

How Plates Made From Sugarcane Could Help India's Plastic Problem | World Wide Waste

 https://youtu.be/HcqCWiGyDvw

NEW! UFOs, Werewolves & Ghosts | Shocking truth of Pentagon AAWSAP program | The Basement Office

 https://youtu.be/6XD4gQS_-qY 

The Super Rich's Secret Doomsday Bunkers | WHILE THE REST OF US DIE

 https://youtu.be/uQin210ZBAQ

These Italian White Sand Beaches Have a Dirty Secret

 https://youtu.be/fkZZOYeKr7o

Tampered Voting Machines 'More Widespread' Than Indicated Says Benson | Symone

 https://youtu.be/PLftjQh48nU

Can Mark Cuban’s Low-Cost Drug Company Disrupt the Pharma Industry? | WSJ

 https://youtu.be/qw2nx-I-jAA

Disinformation Governance Board Chief LIED On CNN About Surveillance

 https://youtu.be/rEO_eFRMbTo

*American Citizens do not filter the information; some foreigner does but is sanctioned by US government in some way. This might be in accordance in a foreign treaty of which supersedes the US constitutional law. If such actions were not done, then American Debt (us government bonds) would not be purchased from those nations. This is bill of rights blackmail against the US citizen. Many nations trade this way.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Wall St. Journal Urges U.S. To Force Nuclear War

 https://youtu.be/iCC_KtRZO98

Rand Paul Trashes “Disinformation” Chief To His Face

 https://youtu.be/hC4m-oxSVSw

* speech censorship is an INSULT to those trying to speak. Those who wish to censor INSULT YOU. Censorship is INSULTING TO MY INTELEGENCE!

Sunday, May 8, 2022

Why it's harder to earn more than your parents | The Economist

 https://youtu.be/T1FdIvLg6i4

Gene editing: should you be worried? | The Economist

 https://youtu.be/F7DpdOHRDR4

CNN Hosts Fight Over Roe v Wade & Masturbation [Satire]

 https://youtu.be/P6vmfrS6gRY

Is The U.S. Running Out Of People?

 https://youtu.be/Hc00FCtwHZc

SCOTUS Scandal Alert! Kavanaugh needs a diaper (he is the leaker?)...?

 I, tonyotag, am working on an article and need to tell you what I know:: 

Oops I drank at a bar and where is my briefcase? Kavanaugh loses documents at bar. 

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/kavanaugh-asks-if-anyone-has-seen-briefcase-he-accidentally-left-at-bar-last-week

I am building a timeline and trying to clarify some holes (when did Politico get the Abortion ruling.)  

Timeline:

Kavanaugh loses briefcase at bar per New Yorker article on 4/29/2022. 

[When did politico receive opinion?]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473

[published by Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward]

[published 5/3/2022] 

SCOTUS receives notice with public that politico has SCOTUS draft opinion on abortion. See twitter feed: 

https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1521292458197499904?cxt=HHwWgIC-pcfb25wqAAAA

--------

contact us message sent to POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/feedback

on 1:48 PM 5/8/2022

subject listed as "story tips" 

I am an independent (non-government) investigator looking into the timeline of when POLITICO received a document. My purpose is to expand on when what happened researching the timeline of SCOTUS Justice Kavanaugh. A New Yorker article recently published about Kavanaugh lost his briefcase at a bar places the time line on (Friday) 4/29/2022. After the weekend, there is an article published by POLITICO reporters Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward stating there is a SCTOUS leak: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473

My question is, when did POLITICO or its reporters receive the draft opinion? If during the weekend after 4/29 and before 5/2/2022 then I wonder if it was in that Kavanaugh briefcase. 

referenced: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/kavanaugh-asks-if-anyone-has-seen-briefcase-he-accidentally-left-at-bar-last-week

Please forward this inquiry to editorial staff and/or POLITICO reporters mentioned in the article above. I am curious about where that briefcase is or where it went. 

Email is best for contact: [my personal email I am not sharing on this blog or at least on this post.] 

CDC probing 109 liver illnesses in kids, including 5 deaths

 https://www.ksl.com/article/50400469/cdc-probing-109-liver-illnesses-in-kids-including-5-deaths

Is The U.S. Running Out Of People?

 https://youtu.be/Hc00FCtwHZc

Saturday, May 7, 2022

THE ORION CONSPIRACY [REPOST; circa 2008]

 part1: https://youtu.be/hJfc63rCnWE

part2: https://youtu.be/VTe2tUW2LS8

The World's Coolest Dictator | VICE on SHOWTIME

 https://youtu.be/-xmRaaVkvd8

Inside Henry Ford's Failed Amazon City | Rise And Fall

 https://youtu.be/b7nnmZWC8_E

U.S. Pushing Regime Change War In Ethiopia #NoMore

 https://youtu.be/qEGoIO4K9cY

* #nomore cover up of the archaeology by war and corrupt national interests.
#nomore cover up of technology that can obsolete much of what we human commoners know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
#nomore two class system with investment products per "who is wealthy" ("qualified investor") regulations; the internet tech is available even if by license for operation. sec.gov

China’s INSANE Abortion Laws

 https://youtu.be/ZzM-w9qoFxs

Pope Francis Blames NATO for Ukraine War!

 https://youtu.be/-faLoCQU8w4

Friday, May 6, 2022

The Dark Side of Microfinance

 https://youtu.be/N87PRcYuqkM

China and Cryptocurrencies

 https://youtu.be/wPgNHyJd2co


*civil asset forfeiture will always be more of an issue with (a central bank) digital currency than with cash. Sure there can be a digital currency just do not forget that the executive branch and its many agencies can take it or turn off the ability to trade if they think a crime is or about to happen.
Civil Asset Forfeiture reform and accountability today.

A new kind of cell division

 https://youtu.be/fi3pGplAxy0

*it might not be as new. Red blood cells (of humans) have no nucleus or genetic material (or minimum thereof.) 

Thursday, May 5, 2022

I'm more bullish now than I was last week, says Trivariate's Adam Parker

 https://youtu.be/Cr0bV4dGGrs

Ana Kasparian Melts Down & Agrees Jimmy Dore Was Right!!

 https://youtu.be/rjk_k5wOQ7Y

Congressman's farewell article. Thanks for your service to North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District


#Worth a read, I live in his district and voting for him several times. Thanks for your service Mr. Price. 

----------------

I recently sat down with Blake Hounshell of The New York Times and Jim Saksa of Roll Call to reflect on my time representing North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District, and I wanted to share those conversations with you.


A Departing House Democrat Traces 30 Years of G.O.P. History by Blake Hounshell


As a young congressional aide, David Price witnessed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from the Senate gallery. He remembers the dramatic moment when Senator Clair Engle of California, dying of a brain tumor and left unable to speak, was wheeled in to cast a decisive vote.


Price watched the South drift away from Democrats in the years afterward, and he has stuck around long enough to see his party win slices of it back as the region’s demographics have shifted.


He spent much of that time as a professor of political science at Duke University, and then as an improbable member of the very institution he studied — even writing a book on “The Congressional Experience.”


Now 81 and in the twilight of his career, Price is retiring from Congress after more than 30 years representing his North Carolina district, which includes the Research Triangle. He is one of the longest-serving lawmakers in Washington and an especially keen observer of how the place has changed.


And he does not like what he sees.


Over his time in office, Price has grown alarmed at how Congress has become nastier and more partisan — a trend he traces to former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republican of Georgia, whose “more aggressive and more militant approach” to politics, as Price put it, fundamentally transformed the institution.


“I’m appalled at the direction the Republican Party has taken,” Price said in an interview in his House office. “And I don’t, for a moment, think that the polarization is symmetrical. It’s asymmetrical.”


Many of today’s hardball political tactics were pioneered in North Carolina, a state characterized by bitter battles over the very rules of democracy.


In 2016, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina turned heads when he declared that the state “could no longer be classified as a democracy.” The State Supreme Court has often stepped in as an arbiter between the two parties — most recently when it threw out maps that were heavily gerrymandered by the G.O.P.-led Legislature.


Price first ran for office after trying and failing, as a political strategist, to oust Jesse Helms, the deeply conservative, pro-segregation North Carolina senator. Price took some satisfaction in the fact that the Senate recently confirmed the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.


In today’s politics, Price sees ominous echoes of the 1994 campaign, when the mood of the country shifted sharply against President Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party.


“My town meetings became very turbulent,” he said, recalling how his campaign had to request police protection.


Price became a temporary victim of Gingrich’s Republican Revolution in 1994, losing his seat in that year’s red wave. He made a comeback two years later, and would serve in the House for the next 26 years.


Behind the scenes


Cerebral and reserved, Price prefers to work carefully and quietly on a few priorities at a time. He does not clamor for MSNBC hits or post viral videos of his speeches from the House floor.


“I’ve never been a tweeter,” he said, somewhat ruefully.


Instead, Price has exerted a significant, behind-the-scenes influence over causes like promoting democracy abroad and pushing changes to federal campaign finance laws. You know that tagline at the end of political ads — the one where candidates say they approved this message? That was his idea.


“He’s got his fingerprints all over a lot of things,” said Thomas Mills, a North Carolina political strategist and blogger.


Price hasn’t lost the youthful idealism that brought him to that Senate gallery in 1964. “You’re not going to find me taking cheap shots at government,” he said.


But he agonizes about how dysfunctional Congress has become, to the point where compromise is growing impossible. “Some degree of bipartisan cooperation is essential if we’re going to run our government,” he said dryly.


He warned that some Republicans want to roll back the civil rights agenda that brought him into politics in the 1960s — to the point where, he said, the U.S. is in “real danger” of entering a new Jim Crow era.


In 2013, the Supreme Court effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act, freeing states with a history of racial discrimination from requirements that they clear any material changes to their voting laws with the Justice Department.


The ruling immediately set off a wave of laws in Republican-led states that restricted voting rights. In 2016, a federal judge said that G.O.P. lawmakers in North Carolina had written the state’s voter I.D. law with “almost surgical precision” to discriminate against Black voters.


“The evidence just couldn’t be clearer that months after preclearance was gone, it was ‘Katie, bar the door,’” Price said.


If you can’t join them …


The only reliable way to defeat such efforts is for Democrats to win elections, Price argues.


Last year’s infighting over the Build Back Better Act, a mammoth piece of legislation that was rejected by two Democratic senators, didn’t help.


“We can never make a binary choice between turning out our base and appealing to swing voters,” he said. “We will not succeed if we don’t figure out how to do both.”


Part of the Democratic Party’s problem, he said, is the discomfort many on the left feel about promoting the party’s successes when there’s always more work to do.


“I often think about how Trump did this,” Price said. “He just bragged about his achievements, however illusory.”


“I’m not suggesting we do that,” he hastened to add. “But I do envy the ability to do it.”


As he leaves Congress, Price worries about what might happen if Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, takes over as speaker, given “the kind of forces he’s going to be beholden to” on his right flank.


“I want to see a healthy, right-of-center Republican Party,” Price insisted. “So much of it just seems nihilistic these days.”


But for now, he said, “We just have to beat them.”


###


He may be a political scientist, but Rep. David Price doesn’t have a ‘magic key’ by Jim Saksa


David E. Price wrote the book on Congress. “The Congressional Experience,” by the political science professor turned longtime lawmaker from North Carolina, is now in its fourth edition.


He doesn’t just update his book, he references it. “I can show you a diagram in the book if you want,” the Democrat said during our interview back in March. But as the retiring 81-year-old leafed through the pages he wrote, he was interrupted by a phone call: It was Speaker Nancy Pelosi.


“I have to take it,” Price said, apologetically.


Heard on the Hill was not offended, though slightly disappointed, when Price wouldn’t reveal what the conversation was about. Instead, he returned to expounding on Congress, his historical perspective on contemporary politics, and the future of liberal democracy here and abroad.


This interview has been edited and condensed.


Q: When you were first elected to Congress, the Berlin Wall was still standing. As you leave, do you feel more or less hopeful for the future of liberalism and democracy?


A: It does kind of bookend my service, since you ask it that way. I came here just as communism was crumbling, and one of my first and most satisfying involvements was with Martin Frost’s bipartisan commission that reached out to parliaments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Baltics. It was not clear that democracy was going to work in these places. Some are now backsliding, but these countries that emerged from Soviet rule became members of the family of parliamentary democracies. It’s never a done deal totally, but it’s well established that that’s what they aspire to be, and that most certainly includes Ukraine.


OK, but am I optimistic looking forward? I have to say I’m apprehensive. I mean, I know what the trends look like, the Freedom House trends that everyone cites. Countries that we have worked with in the House Democracy Partnership, the next generation of emerging democracies, a lot of them are in trouble. Tunisia is in trouble. Sri Lanka is in trouble. Burma is certainly in trouble. Kyrgyzstan has backslid. In other countries, democracy seems to be on a positive trajectory, like Armenia and Moldova. Overall, there’s ample reason for concern about whether democracy is or can be the wave of the future.


Ironically, what Putin has just now done may actually, in the end, improve the chances. The West is reacting. What’s going on in Poland and Hungary right now as they see this? I bet it makes a lot of people think.


Q: What about domestically? How have politics changed since your first election?


A: People think things have never been more contentious, but I cut my teeth on North Carolina politics. Jesse Helms set the pattern early on for a very negative attack mode. I was by no means the worst victim in my campaigns, but I got a flavor of it. I lost a tough election in ’94, in the Gingrich revolution, but I made a comeback and managed to stay ever since.


For most people, though, campaigns today are worse. The situation is not only more polarized, but less constrained by norms of how you conduct yourself in a democracy and less constrained in terms of the money spent. And the polarization is asymmetrical in the sense that the Republican Party has particularly gone off the rails in terms of ideological extremism.


Democrats have the Squad, we have a few members on the far end of the spectrum, but it’s just nothing like the Freedom Caucus. The content of the ideology matters too, alternating between libertarian and Trumpian.


The setting I really enjoyed as a new member was the freewheeling committee activity, introducing a bill, the classic “bill becomes a law.” You work up to hearings, you have a markup, get compromises worked out and then the committee product goes to the floor. Well, you know how that has gone. That is not the way it’s done anymore. And I’m not saying there’s not a good reason for a more centralized operation. When Nancy Pelosi became speaker, nobody predicted that we’d go back to the good old days when the committee chairs ruled the roost, and I didn’t want us to do that. There needed to be a more disciplined party operation. But there is a loss there too. Hopefully post-COVID we can strike a balance whereby we keep strong leadership but we also have robust committee operations.


Q: You’re a political scientist, and you’ve spent 17 terms here. If you had carte blanche, how would you fix Congress?


A: One thing I say in my book is that congressional reform is considerably oversold. OK, maybe there are things that we can do. We shouldn’t be voting on the debt ceiling, for example, since that’s a huge diversion, and we need to respect and pay and train our staff better. Professionalization on the staff side has deteriorated and was dealt a damaging blow in the Gingrich years. But I don’t have a magic key.


I mean, the troubles of the Congress right now are not just troubles of rules and procedures. The troubles in the Congress are political, and so the answer is simply to win an election. I’m not saying Democrats are all virtuous or anything like that. But some of the most satisfying, coherent operations I’ve seen here have been in the years where there was unified party control, and it was Democratic control. Especially given the turn the Republican Party’s taken and the threat of Donald Trump coming back, I feel very strongly we need to win these next elections.


It’s a kind of political distemper. I asked a Republican colleague the other day why they didn’t just take care of some obvious problems they had with another member, and his answer was, “Oh, the base loves it.” Give me a break. You have to guide, you have to offer some leadership. And I think it’s really, truly alarming the extent to which Republican members have not done that. I thought it would happen after the insurrection, but it didn’t.


Q: What’s your advice for the next generation of lawmakers?


A: Gosh, you make me sound like a sage. I do think the legislative branch of government is the first branch of government, so if it doesn’t work, democracy doesn’t work — and I’m talking about our country, but also parliaments all over the democratic world.


Free and fair elections are important, but what happens between elections is even more important. It can’t just be our own performance platform for a social media audience or whatever. If you’re elected to this institution, you are representing your people in a very direct way, and you need to feel some responsibility for making the institution work.


I think it’s damaging that some of our members these days think the only way to show how much they care about something is to threaten to bring the house down. OK, I believe in fighting for what you believe in and strategizing to get the most you can, but then you need to be part of the solution at the end.


Q: One of the joys about retiring is you get to tell the people what you really think. Do you want to do that?


A: My experience is once you’re retiring, everybody loves you. The decibels go down somewhat when you’re on the way out. I’ve had such nice things said by people from both parties. My heart is warmed by that, and I return the affection.


Last book you read? I have a family friend named Walter Bennett who was a lawyer for his whole career, and then he wrote this interesting novel called “The Last First Kiss.” And “Burning Down the House” by Julian Zelizer is really good.


In politics, can the ends justify the means? Yes, but not always. I used to teach ethics. There was a time in a caucus meeting when I had to make an argument about this, and I didn’t use these words, but I said in Ethics 101, you learn the difference between deontological and consequentialist ethical decisions, and there are times in politics when you make both.


Least popular opinion? That members of Congress should be less self-indulgent and take more account of the way the institution is working.


What are you proud of? Setting up the House Democracy Partnership, the parliament commission I initiated. And one appropriations victory in particular, to conclude a nine-year process of funding the world-class Environmental Protection Agency lab in North Carolina.


What’s next for you? I’m going to go back to North Carolina. I’m certainly not going to take another formal position, but I expect to do a good bit of teaching.


###


It was a pleasure to sit down with both Blake and Jim, and I look forward to the months of service to the Fourth District ahead.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Hepatitis Warning Alert (CDC is concerned) One death, targeting age 10 or less.

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10782913/South-Dakota-twelfth-state-probe-hepatitis-case.html

* Title of article: South Dakota probes hepatitis case in child under 10 years old, becoming the 12th US state to report the disease: Cases rise to at least 32 with one death in Wisconsin

Republicans Threaten To Break Up Google & Facebook

 https://youtu.be/4IUBEVilAx4

How The Troubled Salton Sea Could Become The World’s Largest Lithium Supplier

 https://youtu.be/zfZqpdt3Zy0

*yes, ok mine it!  😁

Monday, May 2, 2022

MSNBC Host: “Higher Gas Prices Save Ukrainian Lives!”

 https://youtu.be/mrfdT5KkOoI

*pro "oil funds Putin/Russia" are there to add reasons to push for non-fossil fuel or alternative carbon based energy to investors: nuclear, watershed, solar, wind, bio-fuels, etc...

Keep in mind there are innovations that are better than all the energy mentioned above hidden already in the military industrial complex. Please consider the western led censorship as proof: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act