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Taking The Time To Think

by Tom McLaughlin

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Corsi finalizing criminal complaint 

against dirty cop-Mueller

by JACQUELINE THOMSEN

{thehill.com} ~ Attorneys for conspiracy theorist and conservative author Jerome Corsi are preparing to file a criminal complaint... against special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller. Larry Klayman, the founder of the conservative watchdogs Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch who joined Corsi’s legal team this week, told The Hill on Thursday that the document will claim that the special counsel and his team were asking Corsi to lie and commit other criminal violations like witness tampering. He also said that the complaint could be filed as soon as Thursday or Friday, and would be lodged with Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility and the department's inspector general. When asked what lie the special counsel had asked Corsi to make, Klayman declined to provide further details,  but pointed to Corsi’s statements claiming that he did not willfully mislead federal investigators during his questioning...  https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/419008-corsi-finalizing-criminal-complaint-against-mueller

VIDEO:  https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/419008-corsi-finalizing-criminal-complaint-against-mueller?jwsource=twi

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Panama Papers Probe Leads To Police Raid On

Deutsche Bank On Money Laundering Charges

by MIKE "MISH" SHEDLOCK

{freedomoutpost.com} ~ A money-laundering probe stemming from the "Panama Papers" has led police to Deutsche Bank... DW reports  German Police Raid Deutsche Bank Over Suspected Money Laundering. Federal police on Thursday raided the Frankfurt offices of Deutsche Bank. The Frankfurt prosecutor's office said the raids stemmed from an investigation into suspected money laundering at the German bank. About 170 law enforcement agents took part in the operation. The investigation revolves around multiple Deutsche Bank employees, including two believed to still be working at the financial institution.  According to prosecutors, Deutsche Bank is suspected of helping some 900 customers setup offshore shell companies in tax havens to "transfer money from criminal activities." They said some €311 million ($354 million) is believed to have been laundered, citing information gleaned from the so-called  "Panama Papers."...

https://freedomoutpost.com/panama-papers-probe-leads-to-police-raid-deutsche-bank-on-money-laundering-charges/

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Unions Fight New York Single-Payer Health Care Plan

by Aryssa Damron  

{freebeacon.com} ~ Public-sector unions in New York are pushing back against legislation that would establish a single-payer health care plan for the state... The New York Health Act has received pushback from labor leaders who gathered in New York City on Monday to express their concerns, particularly that their 380,000 members would have fewer insurance options, Politico  reports. New York City labor leaders gathered in the Lower Manhattan offices of District Council 37 Monday to relay their concerns about the bill to its sponsors, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, several sources familiar with the meeting told POLITICO. The conflict puts unions at odds with an issue popular in the liberal wing of the Democratic party. The New York Health Act would "provide universal insurance coverage with no copays, deductibles or premiums for all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status," Politico previously reported. The measure would require a 156 percent increase in tax revenue for the state, an increase of $139 billion by 2022. The proposed legislation has passed in the Assembly for the past four years but has stalled in the GOP-controlled Senate...

https://freebeacon.com/politics/unions-fight-new-york-single-payer-health-care-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=90c6b95ec0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-90c6b95ec0-45611665

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CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill After 

Jewish Groups Denounce UN Speech

by Alex Griswold  

{freebeacon.com} ~ CNN parted ways with contributor Marc Lamont Hill Thursday, after he delivered a controversial speech before the United Nations that was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish organizations... "Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN," a spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon. In the Wednesday speech, Hill said that while he prefers nonviolence, standing with the Palestinian people meant supporting the use of violence as well. "Slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom," he argued at the U.N.'s International Day of Solidarity event. "If we are to operate in true solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility."...

https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-fires-marc-lamont-hill-after-jewish-groups-denounce-u-n-speech/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=90c6b95ec0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-90c6b95ec0-45611665

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3 dead, 8 injured after pickup truck hits spike strip and

flips during high-speed chase with Border Patrol

by Bradford Betz  

{foxnews.com} ~ A high-speed chase near the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego County ended with three dead and eight injured... after a Chevrolet pickup attempted to flee an enforcement stop, hit a spike strip and rolled into an embankment on Interstate 8, authorities said in a statement. The pickup was carrying 11 people -- 9 of whom were lying unrestrained in the bed -- while weaving through traffic and traveling at speeds of more than 100 mph, witnesses said. A male driver and a female passenger were believed to be seated in the cab of the truck, CHP spokesman Officer Travis Garrow said. Border Patrol agents had attempted to conduct an enforcement stop around 4:30 p.m. but the driver reportedly failed to yield to the Border Patrol’s marked vehicle and fled, authorities said. Agents deployed a spike strip as the vehicle traveled westbound and the driver lost control, became airborne and rolled down an embankment into a two-lane interstate east of Crestwood Road, authorities said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. A California Highway Patrol  spokesman told Fox News the agency will release a press release Friday with further information. Border Patrol did not immediately return Fox News’ request for comment...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/driver-leads-border-patrol-on-high-speed-chase-3-dead-8-injured-report

VIDEO:  https://video.foxnews.com/v/5973533355001/

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Taking The Time To Think

by Tom McLaughlin

 

{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Do we understand our world better now or in times past? When someone at a family gathering suggested that we’re less ignorant today than we were a hundred fifty years ago, I disagreed. He contended that we can know of events on the other side of the world in almost real time, that we can see video of things as they happen twelve thousand miles away. That much I had to concede, but I proposed that we are overloaded with information today and most of us don’t take time to process it.

In mid-nineteenth-century America, people learned what was happening in the world from newspapers, books, and by word of mouth. As now, information was as reliable as the people writing or speaking. What was different back then was that people had time to think about an event, to look at it from many angles before other stories replaced it in the collective mind. They could get opinion and analysis from newspapers and books but were also more likely to discuss things face-to-face with people they knew and trusted.

Moving to Lovell, Maine from suburban Massachusetts forty-one years ago, it took me a while before I could understand what was so different about the people I was getting to know here. It was older locals who interested me most because they grew up without electricity, running water, indoor plumbing, central heat, refrigerators, and so forth. Life was slower, allowing time for deeper reflection. Their children and grandchildren, however, didn’t know a time without electric lights, hot water heaters, radios, televisions, and automobiles. It took them three hours to drive to Boston, but it took their grandparents three days — if they had a car that would make it.

 

Older locals enjoyed conversation much more and took the time to engage in it. They were well-informed about issues of the day and their take on things usually insightful. Most were Republicans of the old Yankee sort, but not all. I occupied the other end of the political spectrum back then but they were accepting of that and patient with me. Always civil, they listened to my opinions and asked penetrating questions. We lived in Lovell Village at the time, across the street from Fusco’s Store, now called Rosies. I’d walk over for a gallon of milk and it wasn’t unusual for my wife to call over for me because I’d linger too long discussing things at the lunch counter.

The lunch counter hasn't changed

Though I wasn’t conscious of it at the time, I now realize those older locals I found so interesting were anachronisms whose formative years were spent in what was essentially a 19th-century milieu. Roads weren’t plowed until the late 1920s; they were rolled to accommodate sleighs. Electricity didn’t come to parts of town until the mid-1930s. They spoke with the characteristic Maine accent made famous by Marshall Dodge and Tim Sample and still quite common in the 1970s, but has nearly disappeared from my part of western Maine now. I remember whenTim Sample came to Molly Ockett Middle School ten years ago and did his thing, but it fell flat. Students were unfamiliar with that old regional Maine dialect because they had learned homogenized American English through radio and television.

 

Their grandparents and great-grandparents — the old-timers with whom I liked talking — are gone now. Their dialect may last another generation in scattered pockets of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont but will eventually die out. I seldom hear it anymore walking by the lunch counter at Rosie’s on my way to get a gallon of milk out of the cooler. Forty years ago Dana Bean worked there when it was called Fusco’s Store. He would tell me about the “loafers’ quarters” at the other store just down the street (burned down now) and also known by various names as it changed hands over the years. One of those names was “True, Walker, and Heald” according to an old calendar hanging in the outhouse of my former home in Lovell Village. The “loafers’ quarters” was a gathering place for men who discussed everything — a lot of it gossip, Dana said, but news from around the country and the world was also hashed out.

The other store with "loafers' quarters"

People wrote more letters and those, too, are becoming rare. When is the last time you got a hand-written letter in the mail? Writing requires more thought than talking because written words last longer than the momentary vibrations of air molecules of which spoken words are comprised. People wrote sentences with subjects, predicates, direct objects, and punctuation, then formed those into paragraphs in a process we now call snail-mail. Email has largely replaced that and is, in turn, being supplanted by texts employing a cryptic shorthand.

Lovell Village Schoolhouse around 1900

With smartphones, we can learn about almost anything, but that’s not how people tend to use them. As cryptic, fragmented tweets and texts dominate communication, our thoughts become just as splintered and shallow. And so, it seems, does our understanding of the world.

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2018/11/taking-time-to-think.html

[Rudy Tirre]

Bonnie

I do also know that we much makes changes to our school education system. I also know some leaders of this country also know that but are not acting upon what needs to be done.

[Bonnie Somer]

THINK...........................God it would be nice if people did

we live in a time where OUR KIDS ARE BRAINWASHED TO HATE THIS COUNTRY AND ARE TAUGHT NOTHING ABT HER TIME WE DID THE TEACHING

IN A TIME WHERE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TAKE IN THE WORLD WHO SAID SO?  

WE MUST THINK AND HARD ABT THE LIBERAL TAKEOVER OF MUCH OF SOCIETY AND INGRAINING IT INTO OUR KIDS.  THEY CANNOT OR DO NOT THINK.  COMPUTERS AND THEIR PHONES DO THAT.   

THEY NEED TO LEARN LIKE WE DID HOW TO THINK AND REASON AND SPEAK TO PEOPLE.     WE ARE PEOPLE NOT MACHINES AND TIME WE START BEING the person we can be 

WE DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE IN ANYONE

OUR SCHOOLS NEED TO CHANGE AND WE NEED TO WIN THE IDEOLOGICAL WAR ON AMERICA