TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
Later Peeps, gym time...
Enjoy your day and STAY Safe...We need peeps modeling the right thing to do, the right things to say, and the right masked smile to give...
Peace, love, dove, Kb
The difference now is it has been validated by the president and his family, appointees and advisers. Trump has exposed the deep state, and it is him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/15/trump-has-exposed-deep-state-it-is-him/
Dana Milbank in WaPo on QAnon being actualized via Trump Admin...
From the anonymity of the Dark Web, QAnon offers something for every suspicious mind. It embraces anti-Semites, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 truthers and anybody who believes the military, Democrats, the media, Hollywood, the Catholic Church, banks or industry are perpetrating murders, trafficking, enslavement or a coup.
There has always been such paranoia.
It's my sincerest hope that this conversation doesn't become so difficult that it too gets caught up in today's "cancel culture."
I wanted adults to spend 96 minutes seeing the world through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl, as she lives 24 hours a day.
And that's why I made "Cuties": to start a debate about the sexualization of children in society today so that maybe — just maybe — politicians, artists, parents and educators could work together to make a change that will benefit children for generations to come.
Some people have found certain scenes in my film uncomfortable to watch. But if one really listens to 11-year-old girls, their lives are uncomfortable.
We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society. I wanted to open people's eyes to what's truly happening in schools and on social media, forcing them to confront images of young girls made up, dressed up and dancing suggestively to imitate their favorite pop icon.
WaPo piece from the director of 'Cuties'...
The problem, of course, is that they are not women, and they don't realize what they are doing. They construct their self-esteem based on social media likes and the number of followers they have.
To see these youngsters put so much pressure on themselves so early was heartbreaking. Their insights and experiences with social media informed "Cuties."
“to benefit the president’s political interests and harm the president’s political opponent.”
As Hennessey and Schulz suggest, this would mean “intelligence authorities and positions of public trust might have been used to engineer the narrative from the outset.”
And it would be yet another example of the way in which we keep thinking we’ve penetrated through to the very worst of the corruption here, only to see another layer peeled back to reveal still more.
As Hennessey and Schulz document, many of Trump’s top officials and campaign propagandists have been relentlessly repeating the line that China, not Russia, poses the greatest threat to our election. And some of them have also claimed that China wants Joe Biden to win and Trump to lose.
The question, as Hennessey and Schulz note, is whether this pressure on the DHS whistleblower to report on interference by China and Iran rather than by Russia was deliberately done ...
Greg Sargent in WaPo, what else might be under the DHS whistleblower complaint?
But over at the Lawfare blog, Susan Hennessey and Jacob Schulz suggest that this might be more serious than it first appears: What if it constitutes an effort to cook the intelligence to literally create from scratch a largely fabricated narrative in its own right that Trump could campaign on?
In essence, he has been exposing Americans since February to the risk of infection and death for his own personal benefit. The families of nearly 200,000 dead Americans will not forget, and neither should the rest of us.
Jen Rubin in WaPo on Trump's spreader events...
That we are even discussing the liability of the president for willfully exposing people to a deadly disease is shocking. But remember, this is a small part of his decision to withhold information that could have saved tens of thousands of lives.
COSO Wonder Wednesday theme, Peter Gabriel style
In Your Eyes
(Love this vid for what it reveals to me on our humanity...We are one race, one people, we mesh)
Therefore, the Palestinian issue will most likely become more and more an internal Israeli issue — one that Israel will own alone. The 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank, faced with the prospect of Israeli control with no alternative in sight, will eventually demand equal rights and Israeli citizenship. And that will pose a direct threat to Israel’s Jewish and democratic character in a way no Arab army ever has. Bibi’s true legacy.
Why is this happening now?
First, because America is sharply reducing its military presence in the Middle East, and, as a result, new alliances are being forged to fill the vacuum.
The second trend is that ever since the Arab spring, the collapse of oil prices and the surge in Arab youth populations, moderate Sunni Arab states understand that they can no longer retain their legitimacy by outbidding one another on the Palestine question and offering government jobs and subsidies.
Thomas L Friedman in NYT on Trump brokering MidEast peace...
The fact that the normalization of Israel-Emirates and Israel-Bahrain relations was actually set in motion because of the failure, thus far, of the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy does not diminish its significance, even if it adds a dollop of irony to our story.
My rule: In the Middle East, you get big change when the big players do the right things for the wrong reasons.
And this is the right thing.
A barrage of scientific evidence shows that climate change has intensified droughts and hotter, drier weather across the Western United States, which has made brush, trees and other organic matter more combustible. According to one study, between 1984 and 2015, climate change contributed to the near-doubling of the geographical area vulnerable to wildfires in the West. To put it in a way that might register with the president: We now have twice as much floor to clean.
Like America’s failed response to the coronavirus, the wildfires and poisonous air are best seen as a product of negligence at all levels of society, from individuals to cities and states to a federal government that, in recent decades, exited the business of getting anything done. These were natural disasters exacerbated by human weaknesses: a reluctance to plan, a preference for denial over prevention, for consumption and convenience over caution, and for quick fixes over lasting change.
Farhad Manjoo in NYT on the impending climate disasters...
I have been searching for some glint of optimism during an otherwise bleak time. While choking through a walk this past weekend (I had to leave the house), I came up with this: Maybe such disasters will finally force us to recognize the steep costs of incompetent, neglectful, uncaring government.
TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017