Whenever I hear animals, I think that the meat industry will be small scale, where there will be small animals raising cattle for meat. Eventually, much of the food will be localized with in-vitro meat.
Trump's $400 million debt keeps bugging me. Not because it means he has been a serious horrific unbelievable national security risk since taking office, but because so few people are writing about it. His finances have bugged me for this reason since 2016. Starting with the Christopher Steele dossier that showed his relationship to the Kremlin that appalled so many insiders.
If you are even at the lowest level of clearance with the State Department, you cannot get clearance if you have shaky financial issues because you can be blackmailed. Your finances may be the most important part of the clearance process, along with your love life and any other close associates.
He had to disclose his finances back in 2016 in order to get security clearance so where was the IRS then? Didn't they have this information? There is so much wrong with the election process that someone with those issues can become president.
Finally I read a story about it (see below), but this is October 2020 and the story is an appeal to the public not to re-elect him.I realize Pelosi expressed it as a problem but damn it is the most serious of all of his offenses.
Trump is in debt. We can't ignore the national security risks that come with it.
There is a very interesting article in the New York Times that explains some of T financial ties to his properties after his elections. It tells of how easy it is for him to be influenced by others and their money, both foreign and domestic. His conflicts of interest are beyond belief. He is a danger to us all.
the NY Times has an ongoing reporting on what we know so far. There investigative reporting is excellent.. I have read all of these articles, they will probably make you a tad angry at all of the corruption we already know about. One has to wonder how he has gotten away with it so far, my conclusion is evil is also very powerful, and deception is its main tool.
I know its a lot.. whish there were not so much to wright about. I fear were we would be with out the free press.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/10/us/trump-properties-swamp.html?searchResultPosition=4
published 1010-20
The Swamp That Trump Built
A businessman-president transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family’s hotels and resorts — and earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration.
Tax records expose more than $21 million in highly unusual payments from the Las Vegas hotel Donald Trump owns with Phil Ruffin, routed through other Trump companies and paid out in cash.
THE PRESIDENT’S TAXES
CHARTING AN EMPIRE: A TIMELINE OF TRUMP’S FINANCES
Tax records provide a detailed history of President Trump’s business career, revealing huge losses, looming financial threats and a large, contested refund from the I.R.S.
I expect there's going to be a lot of election-related news this week: more surprises, revelations, whiplashes. In anticipation of all of that, I'm using website-blocking apps on both my laptop and my phone to temporarily disable any news site that I have a history of checking compulsively. I need to stay on task, so I'll just let myself check in on this forum in order to stay in the loop.
@deborah-carey I know how one gets away, the same way many do. I took a government job last September and all the people at the top only care about themselves and only want to take shortcuts. No one cares to put in the good work or has the courage to tackle complex issues by bringing people together. We get what we deserve. When the pendulum swings too far to one end and is swinging to the other, it will be ugly.
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@deborah-carey I know how one gets away, the same way many do. I took a government job last September and all the people at the top only care about themselves and only want to take shortcuts.
I just want to emphasize what you said about this being "people at the TOP". I know many people in public service at the state and local level (including yours truly and family)-- In general the "worker bees" care greatly about what they are doing and are not in it primarily for the money. (Because there isn't usually a lot of money in it!!)
But they do want respect, reasonable compensation, and the support of the upper echelons which they often do not get.
I expect there's going to be a lot of election-related news this week: more surprises, revelations, whiplashes. In anticipation of all of that, I'm using website-blocking apps on both my laptop and my phone to temporarily disable any news site that I have a history of checking compulsively. I need to stay on task, so I'll just let myself check in on this forum in order to stay in the loop.
Please share your work with the class Coyote :-). While I'm an exceptional multi-tasker, I'm kicking off a statewide course next Wednesday and have to finish that on top of a couple virtual guest appearances in colleague's classrooms and I'd be so much better off with those blockers you're describing :-)