tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114931622024-03-13T18:10:02.848+08:00desiderata-ylchongchong y lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10365847893009738913noreply@blogger.comBlogger3241125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-20466469267985042072018-05-19T19:10:00.002+08:002018-05-29T07:58:46.256+08:00NEW Malaysia after 5years we called NegaraKu MALUASIA!Yes, MaluAsia translates as SHAME OF MALAYSIA, under the ruleof MO1 , Not my PM, Najib Razak for the past five years headed by UMNO controlling 14-component BARISAN NASIONAL,<br />
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Malaysians went t the POLLS on historic May 9 justb 10 days ago to dethrone an Umno chief acting like an EMPEROR thieving from 1Malaysia Development Berhad -- known world wide as 1MDB which was describe by the USA Departm,ent of Justice as the BIGGEST KLEPTOCRATIC case under investigation under its Kleptocracy Act, for alleged Corrupt and Money Laundering offences.<br />
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YL CHONG aka Desiderata had not update any Blog posts as I said UNTIL two goals have been achieved.<br />
Acse 1 had been won by defeating MO1&Cronies related to 1MDB thefts up to debts of RM42billion on last reporting about two monthhs ago.<br />
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Now we await the UNRAVELLING OF DONALD D TRUMP, my second goal, which I predict woud happen with his IMPEACHMENT so.on...YL Desi?ap Ap AP1 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-89406534741590988472017-09-11T13:31:00.000+08:002017-09-11T13:31:01.849+08:00Apologies for long absence of blog writing from DesiderataI on behalf of myself, YL Chong aka Desiderata, sincereely apologise for my recalcitrant blog writing -- the chief reason is that the TWO MAIN topics I foccus on -- waiting for the UNRAVELLING of 1MDB and MO1, AND US Prez Donald Trump, have NOT REACHED A PERFECT STORM stage,<br />
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2. I was gifted a smartfon by sum<br />
nny Len on my bdae of 52 in September 2017, so played around with a new toy FACEBOOK. So dear ER/EsteemedReaders, if thou miss me and my writHings, please surf to "chong long, facebook, 1MDBMO1" should get you there or dare?! YL, Desi knottyaSsusual<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-35289289303876731992017-07-13T09:11:00.003+08:002017-07-13T09:11:52.954+08:00from fabm.wordpress.com -- Getting Closer to Seeing the End of 1MDB Big Shots!<b><span style="font-size: large;">For A Better Malaysia Sourcing Bloomberg News:___</span></b><br />
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Prosecutors in Singapore said that Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho is the central figure in probes linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd. and that he used money traceable to the state fund for his own benefit.</div>
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Low received “huge” sums of money, the prosecutors said in court filings made public on Wednesday. About $1 billion that 1MDB was purported to invest in a joint venture with PetroSaudi International Ltd. was diverted to a bank account beneficially owned by Low, according to the filings.</div>
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“The main victim in this case is 1MDB,” prosecutor Nathaniel Khng said in a Singapore state court. “Jho Low has gone missing from the public eye.”</div>
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Singapore’s investigations into 1MDB-related activities have so far led to five convictions and with four people sentenced to jail. The city-state is the only country so far to have criminally charged bankers.</div>
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The probes are part of a worldwide effort to track how much of the $6 billion that 1MDB raised for development projects was used to pay for luxury real estate, art, lavish parties and more. The U.S. and Switzerland are among the countries also investigating the roles played by banks and individuals. Low has been characterized by U.S. investigators as the controller of a plan to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/u-s-seeks-to-recover-540-million-tied-to-tainted-1mdb-fund" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(251, 142, 30); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="1MDB Loot Included Picasso, ‘Dumb and Dumber To,’ U.S. Says (6)">drain</a> billions from the Malaysian fund.</div>
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A request for comment sent via the website of Low’s Jynwel Capital Ltd. wasn’t immediately answered, nor was an email sent to 1MDB, which has consistently denied any wrongdoing. Low has previously described his role with the fund as informal consulting that didn’t break any laws.</div>
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Low issued a statement in June in response to a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit that sought to recover $540 million in assets that it said were purchased with funds misappropriated from 1MDB. “We look forward to the court being presented with the actual facts which demonstrate that the DOJ’s case is completely without foundation,” he said at the time through a representative.</div>
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A probe by a Malaysian parliamentary committee identified irregularities in 1MDB’s joint venture agreement with PetroSaudi in 2009, when $700 million was transferred to an account at RBS Coutts Bank Ltd. held by a company that had nothing to do with the project.</div>
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At Wednesday’s court hearing, Yeo Jiawei, a former banker serving the longest jail term in Singapore’s 1MDB investigations, admitted to charges including money laundering. Yeo played a role in the transactions involving the fund and made secret profits on the side, prosecutors said.</div>
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Yeo, who also pleaded guilty to cheating his former employer, agreed to help with Singapore’s money-laundering probes, which prosecutors described as the largest in the country’s history. He was sentenced to 54 months in jail by the state court on Wednesday. The former BSI SA wealth planner was <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-22/singapore-court-metes-out-toughest-sentence-in-1mdb-related-case" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(251, 142, 30); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Singapore Gives Toughest Sentence Yet in 1MDB-Related Case (1)">handed</a> a 30-month term in December on charges of trying to tamper with witnesses in the probe.</div>
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Principal District Judge Ong Hian Sun said on Wednesday that the courts must take an “uncompromising stance” to safeguard the integrity of Singapore’s financial system.</div>
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Yeo had referred to Low as “boss” and spent at least one night at his house, according to earlier court proceedings. Yeo previously said it was a misunderstanding that he worked for Low. His admission of guilt came after the Monetary Authority of Singapore wrapped up a two-year <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-29/singapore-regulator-says-1mdb-related-penalties-heavy-enough" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(251, 142, 30); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Singapore Regulator Says 1MDB-Linked Penalties Heavy Enough (1)">probe</a> into flows related to the Malaysian investment fund.</div>
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Singapore has imposed a total of S$29.1 million ($21 million) in penalties on eight banks as part of its 1MDB probes. Credit Suisse Group AG and United Overseas Bank Ltd. were among the firms that paid <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-30/singapore-penalizes-credit-suisse-uob-after-1mdb-linked-probe" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(251, 142, 30); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Singapore Fines Credit Suisse, UOB After 1MDB-Linked Probe (3)">penalties</a>, while BSI and Falcon Private Bank Ltd. were also <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/singapore-regulator-directs-falcon-bank-to-cease-operations" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(251, 142, 30); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Singapore, Swiss Regulators Slam Falcon Over 1MDB Breaches (2)">ordered</a> to shut their local operations.</div>
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Yeo accumulated a net worth of S$23.9 million through “secret profits” in the 15 months after he left BSI in June 2014, prosecutors said in an earlier hearing. Yeo had said the money was earned legitimately.</div>
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Yeo’s lawyer Derek Kang said Wednesday that his client came from a humble background and had “no chance” of working again in the finance industry. Yeo will give up the profits he made from the offenses, Kang said.</div>
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Yeo had no knowledge that “the background transactions connected with 1MDB were in any way illicit” or that there was any illegal diversion of money from the Malaysian fund, Kang said in court. Yeo is remorseful and has agreed to be a witness for the prosecution if needed, Kang said.</div>
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The criminal case is Public Prosecutor v Yeo Jiawei, Singapore State Courts.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-24498374566128048342017-07-13T09:00:00.000+08:002017-07-13T09:12:30.576+08:00AP for not Updating Desi's Blog -- Had to go MIA like 1MDB RM... eh?!IF ONLY I HAD 10% of what 1MDB once owned but plunderred by the Pagar2 or 3X over that were appointed to jaga the paddy/lembu/sheep. Thank you Shepherd at 1MDB, Similar thanks on behalf of Felda settlers -- hey, they don't have a Blogger's Voiz OK! -- who followed their Masters' Voix, bought FGV saraes HIGH, sold LOW -- worst yet, some still holding on an desperately hoping thngs will get BADder. Yeah, that's how Desi pronounces "better" ala the Beatles in "Hey Jude"..:(<br />
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I have been trying to write a blockbustiers The Malaysian Tale ala "An American Tail" --started a year ago, still stuck at Chapter 2, or should it read MINUS 1?!<br />
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Hence, please enjoy the NEXT theme song to rep[lace The Rose s I work on my sextChapter!:~~~~~<br />
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You wanna hear Desi sin' his unique version, come to Furong seek out De Miang Corner -- best yet, bling steadyakuORakau from Down Under. who lives dangerously, knot Desi, he's a KOW.ard:( -- YL, Desi, knottyasSssssssetc,usual<br />
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Somewhere out there<br />
Beneath the pale moonlight<br />
Someone's thinking of me<br />
And loving me tonight<br />
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Somewhere out there<br />
Someone's saying a prayer<br />
That we'll find one another<br />
In that big somewhere out there<br />
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And even though I know how very far apart we are<br />
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star<br />
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby<br />
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky<br />
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Somewhere out there<br />
If love can see us through<br />
Then we'll be together<br />
Somewhere out there<br />
Out where dreams come true</div>
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Meanwhile, go to THIS LINK below to listen to another versioon featuring the song composer <b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">BARRY Mann:---</span></b><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-91072947976195551562017-07-09T18:52:00.001+08:002017-07-13T09:13:03.591+08:00Sunday's Rumination: Silences Interruptus<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>UPknighted @830 July 13, 2016+one:</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">When Simon&Garfunkel's Friend "Hello Darknurse" visits at the the midnight hours, sometimes creative juices would flow up my veins into my brain cells, nourishing the often dry landscape. The nues that JK ROWLING has become the FIRST BILLIONAIRE AUTHOR is another INCENTHIEF.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">So let the silences flow.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Stream won is </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The Silence of the intervals between thy heartbeats</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">and the long periods preceding "that first kiss" of your latest love encounter</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Stream too is when the EsteemedReaders' appettite for aMORE details are whetted. But the knotty writer keeps 'em suspended in unfulfilled anticipatience.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Silence fro the author to stimulate but not deliver, making the reader angry, sometimes to the point of bursting. Hey, silence is AU most times, just listen to the olde grandfather clock go tick-tock, tick tock. Learn the pleasure of rhthm. Also when the rain starts in a trickle, graduating quickly into a tropical monsoon, with streaks of lightning and roaring thunder that prefaced some coming of Apocalypse if thou believeth the soothsayers. Desi's not one. To me, a storm is the meilody breaking up unexpected silences.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Sorry matey, I take leave here Cos my silence is broken</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">By the rinnnngiiiing of the room belle</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Ah, my Satisfaction cometh first</span></b><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Homo sapiens are a selfish lot, don't believe only the Rolling Sones, for Desi often gets los of Satisfuction from "angrying" my ER, especially those who appreciate My sweet words and sweAty tongue. For beginners here/hear, indulge Desi's usagae of DDC since he can't rise up to the Bard's. Not Bast... OK, there's a www of difference!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>And words are all I have to dsah your heART away, plagiarising the BGies. My anthem once "When I was small..." how I wish today I could replaz the "was" wit' "IS"!</b></span><br />
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:::Please come back for More when I break the long silences in between<br />
Panting breaths<br />
and two bods tryimg to merge into Won<br />
Victory is knot at hand<br />
Not yet. Nyet, says Putding.And TrumpedOne says: Lets' united<br />
And it almost trips Ivanka as she tiptoes into the BlackHouse<br />
Holding untold secrets taht LeakyWeaks won't share, I'm an ahLEE<br />
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It has been a long while since Desi walketh into Thinksville maybe the petrol in my Think tank is close to empty, maybe the mind is too disturbed.So excuse Desi if his efforts appears nonSENsical! Hey, don't connplain, it's free, or flee!<br />
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Reality can be disturbing. Often you do learn that the BRASH and POWERFOOL get away with ILL LOGIC and STUPIDITY. Think Donald Trump.. I call him the aMO1. He has disciples in Russi, North Korea. Closer to home is what matters. and should CONCERN us all who love Malaysia.<br />
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So back home NegaraKu has its most stupidest MO1. Double superlatives are sometimes loud here, hear!A few bus of Desi often exchange greAtings ending wit':<i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"> Has that plane fallen out of the sky?</span></b></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Desi will give thee the meaning and details BUT you have to make some efforts, cme down to Furong, badder steal, bling staedyAKU&AKau along! I\m often at De Miang Conner sipping newsdogs brew, and once a while when I feel capitalist, gobble down 7 steaks of satay. "Chow"! which can mean....</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-56748245521124597872017-07-09T18:14:00.000+08:002017-07-09T18:14:02.547+08:00From Sarawak Report: MO1 In State of Panic...<img alt="Anwar Reconciliation Has "Brought Panic" To Najib Camp" class="top-image" height="450" src="http://i0.sarawakreport.org/4/3/e/a/1/43ea1f9bac3dae9137b7e046d0949c61d4ecdf10.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="750" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
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Reports were emanating from KL of panic within government circles yesterday as it became clear that cosy expectations that the opposition would remain fractured, had proved false.</div>
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“Najib was ringing everyone asking what to do”</div>
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one insider source has told Sarawak Report, following the publication of an interview by the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/06/father-of-modern-malaysia-backs-jailed-former-pm-in-attempt-to-oust-incumbent" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #018eaa; font-weight: 600;">Guardian newspaper</a>, in which the former premiere indicated he believed that the jailing of Anwar was unjust and that he would support his release and pardon.</div>
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In a shocking or galvanising statement, despending on your political viewpoint, Dr Mahathir also said that he would support his former deputy to become Prime Minister, as soon as it became possible for him to do so following such a release.</div>
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He made plain that he did not believe that this could happen unless and until the opposition won the next election, but that such an eventuality would prompt an immediate application to the Agong for a pardon, which he personally would support.</div>
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Few had imagined that years of famous emnity between the two former political allies could ever be so reconciled and at a stroke Mahathir’s statements, made to the paper in London, have re-drawn the political landscape. It makes possible far closer collaboration within the present opposition coalition that had up to this point found itself unable to agree on its structure and leadership.</div>
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Anwar’s daughter Nurul Izzar, who confirmed that she also met with Mahathir during the London visit, <a href="https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/7012/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #018eaa; font-weight: 600;">went on record saying</a> that the meeting had gone well and they had established joint commitments on future reforms. It opens the way to an agreement at the upcoming crucial meeting tomorrow, Sunday, at which it is expected agreement could finally be reached on the line up of key office holders in the coalition. Mahathir has been mooted as Chairman, which would see the giant of Malaysian politics formally returning to an active role as one of the leading figues of the Pakatan Harapan coalition.</div>
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Given that both sides have now agreed to campaign for Anwar’s release and reinstatement as the opposition leader and eventual Prime Minister, Mahathir would then be a possible contender for that interim leadership role, which could have an electrifying effect on the political mood of the country.</div>
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The meeting between the nonegenarian and the daughter of the man who was first sent to jail on sodomy charges during his own premiership was said to be extremely warm in London. Nurul Izzar is believed to be especially close to Mahathir’s wife, who also attended the private meeting and posed for pictures afterwards.</div>
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The level of panic engendered in the circle around Najib appears to have been reflected in a rare personal statement made by the Prime Minister in direct response to the Guardian article, in which the Prime Minister in turn accused Dr Mahathir of panicking in response to his calling of a Royal Inquiry into the so-called Forex crisis over twenty years ago.</div>
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This is widely viewed to be an attempt to deflect attention from Najib’s own present scandals around 1MDB, FELDA and Tabung Haji and to assert an equivalence between a scandalous foreign exchange trading debacle and the straight theft by the Prime Minister of billions of dollars, much of which ended up in his own bank accounts.</div>
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Najib accuses Mahathir of panic, but has been calling widely for advice on how to handle the developing cohesion in the opposition</div>
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In his statement Najib also accused Mahathir of “putting Anwar in jail”, when in fact there has been no evidence that the former premier was directly involved in Anwar’s original trial. By contrast, Najib has been consistently and directly implicated in the latest case against Anwar, interviewing the plaintiff in his own house just two days before the allegation of sodomy was made.</div>
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The latest development in what has been widely denounced as a heavily flawed prosecution, beset by political pressure from Najib, came when Sarawak Report pubished MACC documentation which shows that the Chief prosecutor in the case (unusually brought in to push an appeal against Anwar’s original High Court acquittal) was paid RM9.5 personally by Najib shortly before the conclusion of the case.</div>
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The lawyer, Shafee Abudullah, had earlier controversially claimed that he had conducted the case for free. The High Court has now required that Shafee and the government explain this payment by July 12th, which is Wednesday next week.</div>
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When Mahathir arrived home he was <a href="http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/07/08/salleh-mahathirs-statement-on-anwar-comical/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #018eaa; font-weight: 600;">reported as having further stated</a> that he believes the case against Anwar was fixed, a viewpoint that Najib hims appears to have clumsily confirmed in his statement by suggesting that the previous case itself was likewise fixed, even though political interference nominally does not exist in Malaysia’s supposedly independent legal system and prosecution service!</div>
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Najib’s retaliation has been accompanied by a flurry of supportive statements from key cheerleaders. Minister, Salleh Said Keruak, immediately claimed that Mahathir was implying that judges were not to be trusted, <a href="http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/07/08/salleh-mahathirs-statement-on-anwar-comical/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #018eaa; font-weight: 600;">threatening the veteran</a> politician with jail for contempt. Deputy PM Zahid Hamidi has also come out to threaten Mahathir to <a href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/387870" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #018eaa; font-weight: 600;">‘watch his mouth’</a>.</div>
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Najib’s own statement continued in what appeared to be an unusually hysterical tone, also threatening his revered predecessor that he may receive a jail sentence following the outcome of the Forex Inquiry, which he has only just called (thus pre-determining the outcome before it has even been convened). He launched a personal attack on the character of the most popular political figure in the Malay community, who successfully ran the country for over 20 years:</div>
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“Mahathir’s crusade is motivated not by the national interest, but by selfish personal interest. He is obsessed by saving his family legacy and making his son Mukhriz Mahathir Prime Minister….He has no principles and will do anything – including allying with those he jailed, calling for foreign intervention in our sovereign democratic nation, sabotaging our economy, and making 100 U-turns if so required to manipulate people’s minds.” [Najib’s Statement on Friday]</div>
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Najib also accused Mahathir of having lobbied to remove the intervening prime minister Abdullah Badawi, whilst neglecting to mention that he and his wife Rosmah Mansor had been more active than anyone in the campaign to oust Badawi in-between elections, so that he himself could replace him.</div>
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“Najib more than anyone was urging the party to remove Badawi, but now he complains that any similar move to get rid of him, after all this theft, is somehow unconstitutional. What rubbish!”</div>
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one former UMNO supporter and erstwhile confidante of Najib today told Sarawak Report.</div>
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Najib, on the other hand, has made no formal response to the allegation by the US Department of Justice that his wife received a $27 million pink diamond and a long list of other gems paid for from money stolen from 1MDB, except to imply that the legal proceedings in the United States, Switzerland and Singapore are part of an unspecified ‘global plot’ against Malaysia.</div>
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Apart from yesterday’s statement Najib’s camp of supporters appear to turn to the pro-Government mainstream media to ‘manipulate people’s minds’ and create some confusion themselves. Whilst on the one hand the attacks were continuing, The Star today has on the other hand reported that Dr Mahathir has actually withdrawn his remarks about supporting Anwar altogether. It means he has been simultaneously criticised for opposite things, presumably in the hope of convicing the population that the old fox of Malaysian politics has become senile.</div>
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Disinformation campaigns are a speciality of UMNO, as Sarawak Report has documented on many occasions, and Najib will be doubtless be setting about commissioning more of the same. The challenge for the opposition is to show their unity can hold and strengthen in the face of it.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-89485976327985827292017-05-11T06:38:00.001+08:002017-05-11T06:40:42.032+08:00TIME has arrived to bring down TRUMP -- as did happen to "CROOKED" Nixon!<div class="dark-background" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; margin: -20px 0px 40px; padding: 20px 0px 0px;">
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However, Democratic Senators were quick to point out the constitutional crisis that has been created by Mr Trump removing a man in charge of investigating him. Senator Dick Durbin said on the Senate floor that the firing of Mr Comey raises questions "as to whether the Russian interference in the last presidential election... will also be investigated by the FBI."</div>
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Mr Durbin called on the White House to clarify whether the investigation will continue, adding that any "attempt to stop or undermine the FBI probe would raise grave constitutional issues".</div>
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Mr Trump's statement indicated that a search for a new director of the FBI "will begin immediately." </div>
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However, Mr Trump "concur[s] with the judgement of the Department of Justice (<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/doj" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">DOJ</a>) that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau." </div>
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In addition to the Senate and FBI investigations, the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/house-intelligence-committee" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">House Intelligence Committee</a> is also conducting one. Democratic Representative Eric Swallwell, the ranking member on the committee, said that Mr Comey's firing "should send a chill down the spine of every American, no matter who they voted for." </div>
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Mr McCain expressed his "disappointment" in Mr Trump's decision, calling Mr Comey a "man of honor and integrity" in a statement. </div>
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Several Democrats have also called the firing “Nixonian," referring to the Saturday Night Massacre – when former President Richard Nixon dismissed Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor in the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/watergate" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Watergate</a> scandal. That night, the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest to the firing of Mr Cox. </div>
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"Today's action by President Trump completely obliterates any semblance of an independent investigation into Russian efforts to influence our election, and places our nation on the verge of a constitutional crisis," said Representative John Conyers, senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.</div>
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Mr Conyers and other Democrats have echoed Mr McCain's calls for an independent commission or a special prosecutor to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 election - with Chuck Shumer, the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate calling for a "fearless" special prosecutor to take on the Trump-Russia probe, wondering whether the firing of Mr Comey meant the various Russia probes were "getting too close to home for the President".</div>
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News that Mr Comey made inaccurate statements to the Senate, while under oath, surfaced recently and could also point to another possible reason for his dismissal. </div>
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Mr Comey made headlines in July 2016 with a letter to Congress detailing the end of the FBI investigation into <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/HillaryClinton" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillary Clinton</a>'s use of a private server to send classified emails while she was serving as Secretary of State. A further letter in October of that year - mere days before the presidential election -said further emails would be investigated, while accusing her top aide,<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/huma-abedin" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"> Huma Abedin</a>, of sending classified information in a similar manner. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mr Comey said in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee last week that Ms Abedin “forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails” that contained classified information to the laptop of husband and erstwhile Congressman Anthony Weiner.</span></div>
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On Tuesday, the FBI said in a two-page <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-05-09%20FBI%20to%20CEG%20-%20Comey%20Testimony%20Supplement.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">letter</a> to the Senate Judiciary Committee that only “a small number” of the thousands of emails found on the laptop had been forwarded there while most had simply been backed up from electronic devices. Most of the email chains on the laptop containing classified information were not the result of forwarding, the FBI said. </div>
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Robert Cattanach, a partner specialising in cybersecurity at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney and a former trial lawyer at the DOJ, told <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Independent </em>that perjury is “tough to prove." </div>
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Mr Cattanach said any letter sent by the FBI to correct the record would have needed to explain “why [Mr Comey] said what he said,” because if it was just an honest mistake Mr Comey did not actual commit perjury in the legal sense. </div>
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There is no apparent language in the FBI letter indicating why Mr Comey made the error in his testimony on Ms Abedin's email. </div>
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In his memo to the Attorney General about the dismissal, Mr Rosenstein called the way Mr Comey handled the entire Clinton email investigation "wrong." </div>
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He wrote that Mr Comey undermined the agency and entire DOJ when he said he had to make a decision whether to "speak" about the Clinton email investigation or "conceal" it. </div>
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Dear ER, if you have the TIME -- you don't need the dime, nor dame -- READ ON:___ENJOY:)</h1>
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Last month, I got a phone call.</div>
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Okay maybe that’s not exactly how it happened, and maybe those weren’t his exact words. But after learning about the new company Elon Musk was starting, I’ve come to realize that that’s exactly what he’s trying to do.</div>
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When I wrote about <a href="http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-life.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #4d96c6; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tesla</a> and <a href="http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #4d96c6; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">SpaceX</a>, I learned that you can only fully wrap your head around certain companies by zooming both way, way in <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</em> way, way out. In, on the technical challenges facing the engineers, out on the existential challenges facing our species. In on a snapshot of the world right now, out on the big story of how we got to this moment and what our far future could look like.</div>
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Not only is Elon’s new venture—Neuralink—the same type of deal, but six weeks after first learning about the company, I’m convinced that it somehow manages to eclipse Tesla and SpaceX in both the boldness of its engineering undertaking and the grandeur of its mission. The other two companies aim to redefine what future humans will do—Neuralink wants to redefine what future humans will <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">be</em><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</em></div>
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The mind-bending <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bigness </em>of Neuralink’s mission, combined with the labyrinth of impossible complexity that is the human brain, made this the hardest set of concepts yet to fully wrap my head around—but it also made it the most exhilarating when, with enough time spent zoomed on both ends, it all finally <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">clicked</em>. I feel like I took a time machine to the future, and I’m here to tell you that it’s even weirder than we expect.</div>
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But before I can bring you in the time machine to show you what I found, we need to get in our zoom machine—because as I learned the hard way, Elon’s wizard hat plans cannot be properly understood until your head’s in the right place.</div>
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So wipe your brain clean of what it thinks it knows about itself and its future, put on soft clothes, and let’s jump into the vortex.</div>
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<i><b><span style="color: blue;">IF you want more like OLIVER, go to FB juin choong, ENJOY2, YL, Desi</span></b></i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-38003465690804121812017-05-08T13:05:00.001+08:002017-05-08T13:38:25.726+08:00An Important International POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT that is POSITIVE -- MACRON wins...from mGf steadyaku's: to thos Malaysian writing from abroad, I have extended a meeting in Furong mamak stall at De Miang CONner where endles rounds of tehtari' will be served. Followed by karallalaOK at the iOK nearby:) BUMmer STEADYaku dua kali --You know where to find me, Desi...____<br />
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best news on international political developments ever after the disastrous TRUMPed up US is being destroyed by aMO1 who just doesn't get IT! May I borrow your post to update Desi's as I have been away from writHing for about 3months -- nothing exciting happening on 1MDB. I am still waiting for the day when MO1's backside is fooluexposed for the FELDA folks to enjoy the naked glory of a corrupting influn ce on NegaraKu like we have NEVV<br />
ER seen b$! Cheers. my endless rounds of tehtarik still await buddy Serembanknight:)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">France has decided...Macron will be France's new President. In all that has been commented upon by analysts, journalists and anyone of note....two phrases has been imprinted in my mind....two phrases that tells us all that the world is indeed changing and two phrases that tells us of the issues that concerns us all and issues that concerns the people of France :</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And above all hope...hope for a decent future.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And these are also the concern of all Malaysians as we wait to elect our own leader...a leader who will make social justice the cornerstone of their work if elected to government and a leader who will give us hope that the future will be better then the one we now have had under umno and najib. </span></div>
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Recalling the ONE LINE from The Rose, Theme Song above, that's worthy of Desi's RUMINATION even on a Blues Mondae...that am using as my Blog title today,,,having worked at the AHC for some 13years, those blokes from Down Under pronounce it like TO DIE! Wicked sense of humour -- many of 'em vist Malaysia Cos they wanna see the land that is so much like Ozland so full of milk and honey, you wanna visit to die... Yeah, I second thy Aussies wish. Love yee to death, so ironic this language thy call Queen's, but I ve rendered it Sosialis ala Furongknight.<br />
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Furong is Mandarin for Seremban which I used to describe as the Peyton Place ofr Malaysia. You no hurt of Peyton Place, sorry for ye, go ask your TV network RE-RUN for ye I.gen who only spend time on What'sApp, pronounced Up as opposed to Down. And why is desi so digressive? The last word word is compound of aggressive and digression, you C? No see, no tehC for ye at my fave Mamak centre where tehtarik is still RM1.20 about 30senAUD and nazi lemak is 70, about USD20:)<br />
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As I was saying, my post today is about the Malady that besieges many earthlings, butt they know knot it. DDC's bc at work here/hear! You don't know what DDC is? -- Go seek out awe of helen Ipohlang who will opblige, OR sweets, may knot.<br />
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Artistes - does Desi (or sunny, visit Him at FB luke chong) qualify? -- are usually going against the main current of Life, stubbornness is an inherent trait, but they all beg to disagree, they say THEY ARE FIRM&STEADFAST, even dying of hunger in the dying daes, No ***Sundae on Monades!<br />
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***Sundae is a sort of icedcream with a split banana thrown is, cost a fortune in a 12-year-old schoolboy copying lines from his/her fave poet to "embellish" his infant writHings to earn a few BIG bucks so he/she could taste the goly of a Sundae even on a Mondae!<br />
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Two months ago I was sadly informed one of my life's greatest INFLUENCERS. Sdr V T NATHAN, had mnoved on. I improved my english in Secondary so much that I self rated my grade shooting up from 5 to 8plus. Now I am at 9, 10 is my goal; hence working heART on my long story -- a novel spanning 3cuntries - as opposed to what a GOoD short story is. I shall recall this if I can retrieve IT from my webbed archives OK!<br />
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Shall I seek your pateince here as I have to joinga lucky mate who offers me a capitalist lunch at 9.30AM, UNLESS you my esteemedReader offereth a replacement at five-star motel?<br />
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CHoW, which can mean 1. Seya ltaer OR 2. Let's makan, Cheerio...YL, Desi<br />
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To be continued when desi's spirit that is willin' and his badan which is weak wakes up reenergised to synchronise wit' the spirits, OK? Ms PAtience is also Ms VIRtuous, l<br />
knot necessarity Virginal Cos Virginia has benn taken...sorry for the digression!:) or :( Desi@13.25PM<br />
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Meanwhile, chew on soemthin olde, know yet stale. Nyet!<br />
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As Desi was driving home from BF at the Furong Pasar -- political placidity ruled the moUrn except for some diehard MCA oldtimers who rued the days Koon Swan was "wrongly charged in Singapore and jailed wrt Pan-El -- a familiar refrain came over the airwaves.<br />
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I couldN'T place the song, but hey, the title above was easily recalled -- So Nowadays<br />
one jest Googled slyrics stanza and the above -- presto, "THE ROSE" appears! In the bad olde days the refrain would've kep Desi's mind half-focused on the tasks at hand, and even after 13 battle rounds, I would NOT have found my "rose". So thank me for my sharing', make out dat 20mil, wilya!?<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Lyrics - Bette Midler - The Rose Lyrics<br />THE ROSE LYRICS</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Bette Midler</span><br />
Review The Song (5) Send "The Rose" Ringtone to your Cell<br />
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LISTen via LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6okRuOLc8<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Some say love, it is a river<br />That drowns the tender reed<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br />
Some say love, it is a razor<br />
That leaves your soul to bleed<br />
Some say love, it is a hunger<br />
An endless aching need<br />
I say love, it is a flower<br />
And you, its only seed<br />
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It's the heart, afraid of breaking<br />
That never learns to dance<br />
It's the dream, afraid of waking<br />
That never takes the chance<br />
It's the one who won't be taken<br />
Who cannot seem to give<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">And the soul, afraid of dying<br />That never learns to live</span><br />
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When the night has been too lonely<br />
And the road has been too long<br />
And you think that love is only<br />
For the lucky and the strong<br />
Just remember in the winter<br />
Far beneath the bitter snows<br />
Lies the seed that with the sun's love<br />
In the spring becomes the rose<br />
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THERE are many soulful Malaysians -- Singaporeans2? -- out there/dare reflecting on the wrongs the government/s had done them by.</div>
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There is concern in Kuala Lumpur that the United States Justice Department’s investigation into the state-owned 1Malaysia Development Bhd., which is ensnared in one of the world’s biggest financial scandals, could be stymied in the wake of the March 10 firing by President Donald Trump of the country’s 46 US attorneys.</div>
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The Trump administration announced it had ordered all Obama administration prosecutors to tender their resignations immediately, including Preet Bharara, the most aggressive of the US prosecutors, who said he had met with Trump in November, telling reporters that both Trump and Jeff Sessions, now the Attorney General, had asked him about staying on, which Bharara said he would do, according to the New York Times.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trump is not interested in Malaya. To him Najib Razak is not a small potato</strong></div>
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“We fear (Prime Minister Najib Razak) has Trumped us,” said a member of the political opposition in Kuala Lumpur. “Bharara’s firing has discouraged all the reformers in KL. They think the 1MDB investigation will die.”</div>
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That may be too pessimistic. Nonetheless, the concerns over the departure of federal attorneys handling the 1MDB case were compounded by the fact that the case also involves an investigation into the activities of the investment bank Goldman Sachs and its role in underwriting and steering US$6.5 billion in bond sales for 1MDB. Gary Cohn, the current president and chief operating officer of Goldman, has been appointed the head of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Securities and Exchange Commission head Jay Clayton and Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief adviser, have all been connected to Goldman as well.</div>
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In addition, Trump himself called Prime Minister Najib in the middle of the night in mid-November for an amicable conversation at the behest of businessman Syed Azman of Weststar Group, a sprawling Malaysia-based conglomerate with interests in cars, aviation, construction, defense and engineering. Azman’s 40 helicopters shuttle people and goods to offshore oil platforms.</div>
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Azman, according to sources in Kuala Lumpur, knows Trump relatively well and plays golf with the President, a real estate tycoon before his election. Some years ago Azman bought two of Trump’s ornate branded jets for use by his own businesses. During the presidential campaign, he re-loaned one of the jets back for use by Trump’s aides. It was repainted in the Trump livery and used during the campaign, a source in Kuala Lumpur told Asia Sentinel.</div>
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According to details of the conversation by Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor, Trump, also asked Najib when the latter planned to visit the US, to which the Prime Minister replied, “Wait until you settle in and I will come. I would like to discuss a few things with you.”</div>
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The US Justice Department last July announced a sweeping investigation into the activities of 1MDB, with US Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch alleging “an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.”</div>
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Although he is identified only as “Malaysian Public Official No. 1,” it was clear that Najib was the target of what Lynch called “the largest single action ever brought” under the US’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.</div>
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The US Justice Department investigation is a damning indictment of the entire structure surrounding 1MDB. It found that from 2009 through 2015, more than US$3.5 billion in funds belonging to 1MDB were misappropriated from an entity ostensibly created by the Malaysian government to promote economic development in Malaysia through global partnerships and foreign direct investment, and intended to be used for improving the well-being of the Malaysian people.</div>
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Despite the allegations, Najib appears to be secure in his job as premier, which he assumed in 2009. In fact, he believed to be solid enough to call a snap election prior to the deadline required for national elections in April of 2018.</div>
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Goldman Sachs came into the picture in July last year with the allegations that billions of dollars were diverted from 1MDB for personal use by Public Official No. 1, his stepson and others. It was Goldman that helped 1MDB raise US$6.5 billion in three bond sales to invest in energy projects and real estate. Goldman earned nearly US$600 million to underwrite the sale of the bonds. The lawsuits alleged investors weren’t properly informed about the use and nature of the bonds and that the offering circulars for two of the bonds issued in 2012 allegedly contained “material misrepresentations and omissions” over what the proceeds of the bonds would be used for and the nature of the relationship between 1MDB and International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), an entity owned by the Abu Dhabi government.</div>
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Goldman has denied all wrongdoing, saying it had no visibility into whether some of the funds were subsequently diverted into things like the purchase of expensive art work and the funding of the blockbuster movie Wolf of Wall Street, produced by Najib’s stepson and others.</div>
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Nonetheless, Tim Leissner, once Goldman’s star banker in Southeast Asia, stepped down from his position last March, either voluntarily or because he was suspended, as investigations widened in Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, France and other countries in addition to the US.</div>
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There is no indication that the investigations into 1MDB and Goldman have been stopped. Justice Department officials in New York and Los Angeles are said to be continuing to search for additional assets connected to 1MDB and the Najib family to sequester under the kleptocracy statute.</div>
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In addition, all presidents have had the authority to dismiss regional US attorneys, who are political appointees and serve at the pleasure of the President. However, unlike Ambassadors, for instance, the prosecutors are almost always professionals widely respected in their field.</div>
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Bharara, who rules over Manhattan, was appointed in 2009 by President Obama. He has earned a reputation as an aggressive prosecutor who has taken on a wide range of white-collar crimes and won a flock of convictions.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b> It's always about THE RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS</b></span>. Desi believes that when the robust Media like the Washington Post, CNN and other mainstream media break the ultimate news on the <span style="font-size: x-large;">REAL</span> -- <i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">not FAKE NEWS, Mr Prez!</span></b></i> -<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>-PUTIN CONNECTIONS</b></span>, hell will break loose for the loud-mouthed Prez now into seventh week of occupancy in the White House. Many, including outsider kaypoh Desi! deem the WH a House of Chaos in the first few weeks, but Mr Trump says it's a well-oiled machine, but we will see. If only he had the Malaysian MSM importeed into the USA to cover him, all things will be rosy and hunkary-dokery with Trump, but unfortunately for the many titled i.dots here won't even pass the English test! Because there is a robust and transparent and accountable 4th Estate in the US, now there is a bipartisan CHORUS for the beleaguered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to at least<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"> RECUSE HIMSELF</span></b>, some other leaders, mostly from opposition Democrats, even call on Sessions to <i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">RESIGN!</span></b></i><br />
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I watched the CNN morning news prior hour before I adjourned for my socialist BF at 6.00AM; I like what I heard one academic from U<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>niversity of Virginia LARRY SABATO, </b></span>say on the "State of America with KATE BOLDUAN" segment; Sabato said it's NOT TENABLE for Sessions to stay as AG in themidst of the several investigations of the Trumppeople-and-Russian officials in communications during the last Presidential election, especially with the Russian Ambassador to the US ; he also calls for <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>TRUMPS'S INCOME TAX RETURNS TO BE MADE PUBLIC</b></span>, for that's where the DEVIL IN THE DETAILS of the Russian connections will be nakedly exposed. Desi has no grounds to disagree with Sabato, for I had similarly predicated these retruns would expose enough for grounds to IMPEACG THE PRESIDENT who is still behaving he's hosting a new TV REALITY SHOW as CEO of The Apprentice fishpond when he is swimming with friendly/human-eating? sharks in the Wall Street SWAMP! Draining, Izzit? Go google please for the details, OK, I ain't from Pampers!<br />
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[02:00:08] ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.<br />
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ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Isha Sesay.<br />
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: I'm John Vause, live in Los Angeles. It's now just 11:00 on a Wednesday night.<br />
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SESAY: We're following breaking news out of Washington where a growing number of Democrats are calling for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign.<br />
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VAUSE: The Justice Department says Sessions met device with U.S.'s Russian ambassador last summer while an advisor to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Sessions denied any such contacts during his confirmation hearings in January. And now he says he never discussed the campaign during the meetings.<br />
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SESAY: Joining us in L.A., Republican consultant, John Thomas; and Democratic strategist, Robin Swanson.<br />
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Thank you for being with us.<br />
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All of this is essentially focused around Al Franken, the Democratic Senator's question during the confirmation hearing in January to Jeff Sessions about contact he had with anyone from the Russian government. Listen to this.<br />
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SEN. AL FRANKEN, (D), MINNESOTA: And if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?<br />
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JEFF SESSIONS, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians.<br />
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(END VIDEO CLIP)<br />
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VAUSE: John, how is it that he can remember listing meeting with 45 ambassadors but fails to recall a meeting with a man who is described by U.S. Intelligence as a top spy and a top spy recruiter for the Russian government?<br />
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JOHN THOMAS, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT: Well, Senator Sessions is -- was a top-level Senator. I'm sure he's met with hundreds of diplomats from all over the world. If it did slip his mind, and I hope that it actually didn't. But if it did, there needs to be an investigation to figure out what was said at the meeting and whether or not the meeting truly happened. I mean, this does seem bizarre. I'll give you that. I don't want to jump to conclusions has Senator Franken seems to be doing.<br />
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SESAY: Let's be clear, Jeff Sessions released a statement. He's denying any wrong doing, saying, "I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues or the campaign. I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false."<br />
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Robin, a very category rejection. Is it going to hold water?<br />
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ROBIN SWANSON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: You're seeing the drips. That's the worst way to handle crisis communications. They'd better get their act together before tomorrow morning. Right now, you've seen them about whether the conversation was over the phone, when, in fact, the conversation was in the office. I would think a high-level meeting like this would be something that Senator Sessions would remember, and he was the only member of the Armed Services Committee to meet with this particular ambassador.<br />
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SESAY: If he did meet under the guise or in his capacity as a Senator, as opposed to being a member of the Trump campaign, would that -<br />
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SESAY: -- is there still an issue here?<br />
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SWANSON: Absolutely, there's an issue. Because he was serving as a member of Trump's campaign. So -- but he was a member of the Armed Services Committee. I would think if it was an important meeting, he would remember why he had that meeting. Because he was the only member of the Armed Services Committee to do so. And I think that's a really relevant point that people are missing right now. Why was that that he chose to have that meeting? I think there's a lot of questions to be answered about the nature of that meet, and why he had that meeting, and perhaps his recollection will come back to him once he understands the gravity of it.<br />
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VAUSE: John, what was a Russian spy doing attending the RNC? Why was the spy there?<br />
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THOMAS: You're asking me the to speculate. I couldn't answer that question. VAUSE: OK. I'll give you something easier. As a Republican<br />
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consultant, somebody who revises campaigns, and is all about what to do in a situation like this, what should the Trump administration be doing right now, and what will the Trump administration be doing right now?<br />
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THOMAS: Well, if I were advising them, I would say have Sessions recuse himself of the process. Look into it to see what happened. You have to be transparent. Pull memos and communications and make it public and quickly.<br />
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VAUSE: Are you going to do that, though? Given the track record of the past 41 days?<br />
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THOMAS: Probably not. But I imagine you see Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Rubio, Senator McCain have been very vocal on the issue of Russia and the U.S. I suspect other Republicans will force the issue.<br />
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SESAY: You do see rank-and-file Republicans taking a stand here and basically --<br />
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THOMAS: Yeah. Not accusing him of wrong doing, but just trying to figure out if there's smoke there.<br />
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[02:05:12] VAUSE: Further to attorney general Sessions' statement, "The Washington Post" is also reporting that a Senator had a written question. It said several of the president-elect's nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election either before or after the election day?" Sessions replied with a no.<br />
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Again, if this turns out to be true, Robin, are we looking at a situation that he's committed perjury and we know that attorney general Sessions takes perjury seriously?<br />
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SWANSON: I think John has given good advice about being recused. That's the least of his worries. If he doesn't do that, there have been perjury issues with him and other members of the administration. Who is not telling the truth and why, and what are they trying to cover up. As you know, the cover up is always the worst.<br />
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SESAY: The White House put out a statement a little while ago, as we talk about responding to this. Let's put that up on the screen. They said, "This is the latest attack against the Trump administration by partisan Democrats. General Sessions met with the ambassador as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is entirely consistent with his testimony. It's no surprise Senator Al Franken is pushing this story immediately following the successful address to the nation."<br />
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Is that the statement you'd have asked them to put out?<br />
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THOMAS: They do make a good point. Democrats are trying to step on the bounce of the White House. Trump not just gave a good speech last night. It was a transcendent speech. Even CNN's snap poll said over 70 percent of Americans liked the tone and what Trump said. So, of course, Democrats wanted to distract from this. And their point that Senator Sessions met with a lot of different people in an official capacity is probably fair as well.<br />
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SWANSON: But Democrats didn't do this. Republicans did. They did this to themselves.<br />
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SWANSON: But that wasn't the question that Senator Franken asked, actually. Jeff Sessions went above and beyond to answer this question that wasn't asked of him. So he created this problem for himself.<br />
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VAUSE: John, last year during the campaign when former President Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch and the Republicans exploded and set their hair on fire because they were alleging wrong doing and Donald Trump was leading the charge, and that in many ways. How is this situation different?<br />
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THOMAS: Well, the Trump administration isn't under investigation by the FBI, so there's that.<br />
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VAUSE: Yes, it is. It's being investigated for ties to Russia.<br />
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THOMAS: But not for criminal wrong doing. Hillary Clinton was in deep, having -- it would be the equivalent of having Ivanka or Melania meeting with Russian ambassadors. It's different having a senior Senator doing their job and a family member of the president.<br />
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VAUSE: Robin?<br />
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SWANSON: This has only just begun. The investigation hasn't even started yet, and we've already got potentially somebody perjuring himself. I think we're going to see a lot more to this story. And this is the beginning.<br />
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SESAY: How do Democrats play this? Let's share some of the tweets we've had coming out. Nancy Pelosi, "Jeff Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign." This is what Elizabeth Warren tweeted, "We need Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who should have never been confirmed in the first place, to resign. We need it now".<br />
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Also, hearing from the likes of Elijah Cummings, a top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. Take a listen to what he had to say with don lemon.<br />
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REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS, (D), MARYLAND (voice-over): People have to ask the question where is the integrity? Where is the rule of law? Where is the obedience of law? All the excuses over and over again. And the last one I'll leave, when these kinds of issues came before our committee, in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, if Hillary Clinton, if they thought she lied, they were referring it to the Justice Department.<br />
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SESAY: Top Democrats coming out in full force, basically, ranging from, he must recuse himself or resign. Do they have a fine line to walk so it doesn't appear they're politicking?<br />
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SWANSON: I think that's part of it, but I also think the attorney general of the United States of America is a position where we expect them to conduct themselves in the most honest way possible. And we're not seeing that. And the American people have to be able to trust the attorney general to enforce the laws of our nation, and if he's not following them, how can we do that?<br />
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[02:10:02] VAUSE: The Democrats can demand resignations and recusing and say whatever they want, they don't have a lot of options to make anything happen, do they?<br />
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SWANSON: Democrats have power in Congress, and Republicans have to get elected every two years, just like the Democrats do. And I think you're seeing a lot of reaction in the town halls across the nation. And I think you're going to see more of that as these kinds of things appear.<br />
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SESAY: John?<br />
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THOMAS: This seems like crying wolf. Those tweets you read could have been written during the confirmation process. Senator Sessions is a racist. He loves the KKK. He has to go because he loves Russia.<br />
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SWANSON: You can't dismiss this.<br />
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THOMAS: No. The problem is it's the wrong messenger. They need a more serious credible messenger. When you cry wolf so often, if something serious and real does occur, it's just partisan blabber.<br />
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VAUSE: I could be wrong, but, so far, every scandal, I think except for the one, your controversy, exempt for the one involving Kellyanne Conway and the ethics violation of basically going on and trying to sell products for Ivanka Trump, but haven't most of the controversies involved Russia? Everyone seems to lead back to Russia. This just keeps growing and getting worse.<br />
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THOMAS: Yeah. That's something that the Democrats locked onto immediately because it's the only reason they lost the election because clearly because Russia, and the votes. It was a logical progression. They're looking to create smoke and to try to find fire. I get it. Eventually, they got to face the music that they lost on the issues not because of Russia.<br />
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SWANSON: This was created by Donald Trump and the bromance with Putin. The problem is Putin is a man who executes journalists and a man who bombs civilians. I think that bromance was where this began. Democrats didn't create this.<br />
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VAUSE: Stay with us. There's a lot more to get to.<br />
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We'll also talk about the growing questions from Republicans on the attorney general. And also, the calls for a special prosecutor.<br />
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You're watching CNN's breaking news coverage. We'll be back in just a moment.<br />
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SESAY: Stay with us.<br />
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[02:16:01] VAUSE: Welcome back. More on our breaking news. The U.S. Justice Department says Jeff Sessions, who was a top advisor to presidential candidate, Donald Trump, spoke twice with Russia's U.S. ambassador during the campaign. But Sessions did not mention those contacts during his confirmation hearing.<br />
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SESAY: Sessions has responded saying he never with Russian officials to discuss the campaign.<br />
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More now from CNN's justice correspondent, Evan Perez.<br />
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EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In addition to the September meeting, there was also one on the sidelines at the RNC in Cleveland. There was an event held by the heritage foundation, and apparently according to the Justice Department, there were about 50 or so ambassador there, and one of the people that was on the sidelines of it and who met with the now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was the Russian ambassador.<br />
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Now, the context of all this, and obviously, the Russian post, my friends, Gregg Miller, did a great job on the story, but the context here is that the Russian ambassador is considered by U.S. Intelligence to be essentially their top spy in Washington, and not only their top spy but top spy recruiter. This is the reason why, when Mike Flynn was in routine and seemingly routine contact with him, and then lied about it and misled the vice president about meeting with the Russian ambassador, that's one reason why the FBI was concerned, because they felt that if you meet with the guy and not recall or mislead when you are asked about it, then that raises some questions.<br />
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Again, this is a case considered to be the top spy recruiter for the Russians in Washington, and that's one reason why that is a concern.<br />
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(END VIDEOTAPE)<br />
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VAUSE: Back with us now, Republican consultant John Thomas; and Democratic strategist, Robin Swanson. SESAY: And from Moscow, CNN's senior international correspondent,<br />
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Matthew Chance.<br />
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VAUSE: Before the break, we talked about the implications in terms of perjury. This is a tweet from the former ethics lawyer to President Bush. And this is what he put out on Twitter, "Misleading the Senate in sworn testimony about one's own contacts with the Russians is a good way to go to jail."<br />
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John, that is from a Republican. And just in the past, Sessions, back in 1999, made it clear that anyone who committed perjury should be removed from office.<br />
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If we get to that point, would that same standard apply to the attorney general?<br />
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THOMAS: I imagine it would. There's no way getting around it. Now, put that tweet in contacts. There's riffs between the Bush and Trump clan. Probably enjoyed tweeting that, but it's a fair point.<br />
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VAUSE: Robin?<br />
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SWANSON: Jeff Sessions was out front criticizing Bill Clinton in the day and wanted to impeach him for similarly misleading, so far. I just think that hypocrisy is there.<br />
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THOMAS: Bill Clinton lied under oath.<br />
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SWANSON: He's under oath talking to the Senate as well. This is the same thing.<br />
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SESAY: Does this just overtake the White House for the next 24 hours?<br />
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SWANSON: Absolutely. I think they have not been able to control a news cycle. They really wanted to be able to do the -- just to have a ticker-tape parade for the great speech, but that's not going to happen, and I would say more than 24 hours that the Russiagate, as it's being called, is going to extend for many months if not the entirety of his presidency, because that's what he's outlined.<br />
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[02:19:55] VAUSE: Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, no fan of Russia. He was asked about the situation with Jeff Sessions in a CNN town hall. He was asked if he believes there's a need for a special prosecutor, and listen to Senator Graham.<br />
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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: If there is something there, and it goes up the chain of investigation, it is clear to me that Jeff Sessions, who is my dear friend, cannot make this decision about Trump. So there may be nothing there. But if there's nothing there that the FBI believes is criminal in nature, then for sure you need a special prosecutor. If that day ever comes, I'll be the first one to say it needs to be somebody other than Jeff. (END VIDEO CLIP)<br />
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VAUSE: John, last night, 24 hours ago, I asked you how -- the night before last -- how long can the administration resist the push for a special prosecutor. You said they can resist it for a long time. Now that the Republicans like Graham and others are inching toward that position, does it get harder?<br />
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THOMAS: Much harder. Republicans have to tread lightly. Their integrity in this process of sniffing out what happened has to be beyond reproach. Senator Graham made the right call. He's not jumping to conclusions, but we have to make sure the process is transparent and conflicts of interest are weeded out. The American people have to trust that no matter what Congress or the investigators find is the truth.<br />
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SESAY: Who leads the charge for the Democrats in the days ahead?<br />
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SWANSON: Well, I think they're all jumping on board. I think Nancy Pelosi was one of the first out of the box calling on Jeff Sessions to resign. So I think we'll see more of that. And I think this is one of the rare occasions where I can say I agree with Senator Lindsey Graham.<br />
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VAUSE: With day 42 into this administration, we've had the national security adviser resign with another scandal involving Russia. On Tuesday, in the president's address to Congress, he never mentioned Russia at all.<br />
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Senator John McCain said that was disappointing.<br />
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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R), ARIZONA: I would have liked to have a lot more about Russia. Russia is the country that tried to change the elections in the United States. I don't think they succeeded. Right now, they're affecting or trying to affect the elections in march. They've dismembered Ukraine and the list goes on. Vladimir Putin is hell bent on the destruction of the European Union. I would have appreciated hearing the president's views on these pressing initial security issues.<br />
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VAUSE: Let's go to Matthew Chance live in Moscow.<br />
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Matthew, there is another scandal involving Russia and the U.S. administration. They White House is actually using its own investigation. It is a story which, as much as this administration would like for it to go away, it keeps getting bigger.<br />
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRSEPONDENT: Yeah. The Russia issue just won't go away from the Trump administration. Already a couple of people who have had to leave his administration because of the links with Russia, and now the questions over the attorney general as well. From a Russian point of view, it's all concerns as they watch this<br />
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political drama unfold in Washington, because they're concerned about what impact this is going to have on U.S. policy when it comes to Russia. They were expecting, of course, a President Trump who was going to be sympathetic to the Russian point of view on a range of issues from Ukraine to NATO to Syria. But because the Russia issue has become toxic in American politics, that started to change, certainly the language is starting to change from Trump administration officials, particularly at the united nations security council and other areas as well. Being more critical than people in the kremlin expected. Specifically, on the latest allegations, there's been no reaction to the specifics of the alleged conversations between the Russian ambassador and the U.S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions. But there has been pushback on this idea that the Russian ambassador is the top Russian spy in the United States. Do you think this is the media bottom post the spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry or does the media have further to fall? A strong pushback there from the Russian foreign ministry on the suggestion that the Russian ambassador is a spy.<br />
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VAUSE: Thank you, Matthew. Matthew Chance, senior international correspondent with us live from Moscow.<br />
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SESAY: John, do you expect President Trump to weigh in on this personally in the hours ahead? Do you expect him to go to Twitter?<br />
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THOMAS: I should check my Twitter.<br />
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I bet you he will. It will start accusing fake news, but I think the White House will take it seriously. If they don't, it can get out of hand.<br />
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VAUSE: If he uses the fake news, that will get old.<br />
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SWANSON: Especially when people of his own party are calling him out.<br />
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THOMAS: The problem is people are jumping to conclusions before knowing the facts. That's the fake part.<br />
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VAUSE: That's true. Good point.<br />
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Stay with us.<br />
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VAUSE: There's more news to get to. Stick around.<br />
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THOMAS: Can't wait.<br />
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SESAY: You'll love it. President Trump later claims in the speech to Congress. We'll see if they add up, next, here on NEWSROOM L.A.<br />
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[02:25:13] VAUSE: And also thank Matthew Chance in Moscow. Thanks, Matthew.<br />
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VAUSE: Thanks, Matthew.<br />
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VAUSE: Just turn 11:28 here in Los Angeles. Welcome back to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm John Vause.<br />
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SESAY: I'm Isha Sesay. This is NEWSROOM L.A.<br />
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he never discussed the 2016 presidential campaign with Russian officials. But he's under fire for new reports that he met with Russia's U.S. ambassador twice last year.<br />
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VAUSE: During his confirmation hearings, Sessions told Senators he had no contact with Russian officials while he was working as a Trump campaign adviser. A number of Democrats say he was not truthful and should resign.<br />
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SESAY: The White House says they're using the Sessions story to blunt Trump's momentum after his well-received address to Congress.<br />
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VAUSE: The president has been quiet on Twitter since making that speech, tweeting out, "Thank you," but it was in all caps.<br />
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SESAY: 47 million people tuned in to watch the speech. The president outlined a lofty agenda, from health care to immigration reform. Now he's hoping to turn his words into action. The president met with Republican leaders Wednesday.<br />
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DONALD TURMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We're just here to start the process. It begins as of now and we think we're going to have tremendous success.<br />
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[02:30:00] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Back with us, Republican consultant, John Thomas; and Democratic strategist, Robin Swanson.<br />
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I want to talk about the overwhelming question today was the same one we had the night of the speech which is how is he going to get this through Congress, how is he going to get Republicans on side to actually make any of this happen?<br />
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So, John?<br />
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JOHN THOMAS, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT: I think he can get most of it done. You look at his domestic agenda, Republicans are excited about repealing Obamacare and so the faster the Trump administration pushes that through with some version of a replacement, I think that will be accepted quickly. You look at slashing regulations in the EPA, I think largely Republicans get along with that. He'll have trouble on the budget lines when it comes to military spending. He'll make the argument about by his tax plan it will reduce the deficit of taxes but the stronger the military is, we'll save it on the back end.<br />
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ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: You say Republicans will rally around the Obamacare replacement because we're seeing in town halls, the heated scenes, and a lot of consternation among constituents.<br />
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THOMAS: You're right. And it makes sense. Because the Trump administration has not done a good job of explaining what they're going to replace it with. So of course, people are concerned at this point. But I think as soon as they recognize that the replacement plan is infinitely stronger and more affordable for all Americans, I think they'll alleviate their concerns.<br />
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ROBIN SWANSON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Republicans are not singing from the same hymnals. There's some Republicans that just want to appeal. Donald Trump has said repeal and replace. And the funny think now is Obamacare is trending higher than Donald Trump in terms of favorability. They have not won the messaging war because they haven't provided details about what they'll do for the uninsured.<br />
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VAUSE: His speech approved for tone than for substance. Even so, it seems maybe the White House was taken by surprise. "The Washington Post" tweeted, "Some sources in the White House are frankly surprised at how pundits are warming to the speech. Say Trump has not changed. No big shift in policy coming."<br />
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Robin, it seems everyone has been less sort of dazed and confused because Donald Trump was calm and turned up to use his indoor voice. He followed a teleprompter.<br />
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SWANSON: He's gotten a lot of accolades for giving one decent speech. It's shocking for people that he didn't offend somebody. His inaugural speech was offensive to a lot of people. And I think people are learning that it's not just -- it's not America first. It's been Trump first, it's Trump first. So we've seen Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. So we don't know who's going to show up. This was somebody different who showed up so it's unique.<br />
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VAUSE: John, is he the master of low expectations?<br />
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THOMAS: There might be grading on a curve as it relates to reading on a Teleprompter, but Republicans rejoiced. The campaign promises that we saw him make on the trail, he reiterated them but in an adult tone. We were all pleased to see that he meant with what he said.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: The tone was widely praised, but the facts came in for criticism.<br />
<br />
Tom Foreman has a fact check for us. Listen to this.<br />
<br />
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) (APPLAUSE)<br />
<br />
TOM FOREMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The president's speech was filled with numbers, but did they add up to truth? Take joblessness.<br />
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We must honestly acknowledge the circumstances we inherited. 94 million Americans are out of the labor force.<br />
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FOREMAN: The figure is right, but the vast majority of those people don't want work, according to government data. 44 million are retired. 15 million disabled. 13 million taking care of family members. And 16 million taking college or training. Maybe because they couldn't find work. But all the adjustments bring the number way down.<br />
<br />
How about crime?<br />
<br />
TRUMP: The murder rate in 2015 experienced its largest single-year increase in nearly half a century.<br />
<br />
FOREMAN: That's only because the murder rate the year before was really low. The overall rate is still down compared to past decades.<br />
<br />
Immigration?<br />
<br />
TRUMP: According to National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs American taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.<br />
<br />
FOREMAN: Yes, that report says integrating first-generation immigrants is costly, but their kids contribute so much to the economy, the long-term impact is likely positive for taxpayers.<br />
<br />
And what about all those companies pouring money into the economy now that he is in office?<br />
<br />
TRUMP: They will invest billions and billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs.<br />
<br />
(APPLAUSE)<br />
<br />
FOREMAN: Mr. Trump has encouraged some big companies with their new investments, but many he cites already had the plans underway before he was elected.<br />
<br />
Still, President Trump isn't the first to push aside an inconvenient truth. George W. Bush ignored job losses when he told Congress in 2004 --<br />
<br />
GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This economy is strong and grower stronger.<br />
<br />
FOREMAN: And Barack Obama bragged last year about creating --<br />
<br />
BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: 14 million new jobs.<br />
<br />
FOREMAN: -- also overlooking new job losses under his watch, which diminished the gains.<br />
<br />
(END VIDEOTAPE)<br />
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[02:35:14] VAUSE: Our thanks to Tom Foreman for that report.<br />
<br />
One of the other highlights, though, from the address to Congress was when Donald Trump honored the memory of Ryan Owens, the Navy SEAL killed in Yemen. There was a standing ovation for Karin Owens. The day after this, a lot of people on the left are saying Mrs. Owens was essentially exploited. Listen to Michael Moore.<br />
<br />
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<br />
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MICHAEL MOORE, PRODUCER: And this poor woman, this widow who has lost her husband. She's in grief.<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She's in love with her husband still.<br />
<br />
(CROSSTALK)<br />
<br />
MOORE: And to put another notch on his belt, what's he thinking about? My ratings. Record applause.<br />
<br />
(CROSSTALK)<br />
<br />
MOORE: I'm going to get an Emmy for this. Most applause for a dead soldier on my watch. I mean, this is the -- this sickness of this man --<br />
<br />
(END VIDEO CLIP)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Robin, did the president exploit a grieving widow?<br />
<br />
SWANSON: That's for her to decide. That was her moment, and I think that was definitely the most poignant moment in the speech. And it was not because of Donald Trump. It was because of her feels and her emotions. I'm not going to stand in judgment of that. I think we all related to that because it was heart breaking.<br />
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SESAY: With Donald Trump in the White House, it would seem many people are getting ideas about what they can and cannot do when it comes to being commander-in-chief. Among them, possibly, a President Oprah Winfrey? Take a listen.<br />
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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<br />
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OPRAH WINFREY, FORMER TALK SHOW HOST: Never considered the question, even the possibility. I just thought oh, oh.<br />
<br />
(LAUGHTER)<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right, because it's clear you don't need government experience to be elected president of the United States. WINFREY: That's what I thought. I thought I don't have the<br />
<br />
experience. I don't know enough. Now I'm thinking, oh.<br />
<br />
(LAUGHTER0<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. OK.<br />
<br />
(END VIDEO CLIP)<br />
<br />
SESAY: What do you think, hey?<br />
<br />
THOMAS: There's no doubt we're going to see copy cats across the aisle, and if you're "O", you are thinking about it?<br />
<br />
(LAUGHTER)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Repeat your tweet. You get a government handout.<br />
<br />
THOMAS: Yeah, you get a government handout, exactly.<br />
<br />
Here's the thing. She's likable, I'll give her that. But I would pay money to see that stack-up between Oprah and Trump.<br />
<br />
(LAUGHTER)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Oh, my god.<br />
<br />
SWANSON: We're a celebrity obsessed country. You don't have to pay for name I.D. if you're Oprah Winfrey. I mean, We have Arnold Schwarzenegger in California, Jesse Ventura, and Donald Trump got where he is. We have examples of where it works.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Winfrey/Clooney, 2020. We'll see what happens.<br />
<br />
(LAUGHTER)<br />
<br />
John Thomas, you're being a good sport tonight.<br />
<br />
SESAY: He really has.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Thank you.<br />
<br />
(CROSSTALK)<br />
<br />
(LAUGHTER)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: This was a tough night to be a Republican.<br />
<br />
Robin Swanson, thank you so much.<br />
<br />
SESAY: Thank you.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: When we come back, Wall Street could not be happier about President Trump's speech to Congress. When we come back, we'll look at the record-setting numbers.<br />
<br />
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)<br />
<br />
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<br />
<br />
[02:41:08] TRUMP: Another Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, initiated the last truly great national infrastructure program, the building of the interstate highway system. The time has come for a new program of national rebuilding.<br />
<br />
(APPLAUSE)<br />
<br />
(END VIDEO CLIP)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: All that talk after infrastructure expenditure and stimulus, the markets loved it. President Trump, his address to Congress, that sent Wall Street into a record breaking tizzy.<br />
<br />
SESAY: It sure did.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: A tizzy. A tizzy.<br />
<br />
SESAY: The Dow soared more than 300 point, hitting the 21,000 mark for the first time.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Happy days.<br />
<br />
SESAY: The NASDAQ and S&P 500 had big gains as well.<br />
<br />
Richard Quest gives us his take on the market's reaction.<br />
<br />
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)<br />
<br />
RICHARD QUEST, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT & CNN HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: Isha and John, the market opened straight into record territory and never looked back. A gain at over 303 points. It went right through 21,000 over to 21,115. At 1.5 percent rise in a day at a time when everybody had been expecting the market was going to take a breather having had so many gains and records in a row. The reason is simple. Donald Trump's speech to Congress. That address gave people the hope that the expectations will come to fruition. A trillion dollars in infrastructure spending. A tax reform which eventually will arrive and greater deregulation which the president can do without Congressional approval. Put it together from what I've been hearing in the market, most traders seem to believe the rally has legs and still has got further to go. Of course, if the expectations don't arrive, well, then it's a different matter. For the time being, I would describe this market as quietly confident in the direction of travel.<br />
<br />
Richard Quest, CNN, New York.<br />
<br />
(END VIDEOTAPE)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Well, for more on this red-hot market, we're joined by Ryan Patel, a global business executive.<br />
<br />
Ryan, thank you for coming in. SESAY: Yeah.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Everyone is optimistic, the tone is upbeat. Donald Trump did a good speech. No one is hearing the other sides of the Trump policies. Nobody is hearing about the potential trade war with China or Mexico, the billions of dollars it could cost the economy is they deport undocumented immigrants from this country, the national debt that could explode. They aren't they hearing that?<br />
<br />
RYAN PATEL, GLOBAL BUSINESS EXECUTIVE: What you said, he had a great speech. I would want to hear what he's doing from a policy perspective. Nothing is passed yet. There are expectations, the 21,000 with the Dow. I think what's going to happen is we're going to have a little bit of a realization of is he going to come through on the policy making? Is it going to be delayed? If there's delayed at my part, that will cause a ripple effect. And I think that's where the conversation isn't talked about in the international marks. It hasn't focused on what we're doing domestically.<br />
<br />
SESAY: Let's look at the numbers from Asia. Ryan, I want to get your take on it as you see two green, two red. Kind of as you see the Nikkei there, Hong Kong is down, and the Shanghai Composite. How do you read those numbers in relation to Donald Trump and that speech?<br />
<br />
PATEL: I read it as what he said. He was talking about Harley Davidson as an example about importing. How he was going to make it trade to be more fair to importing things in the U.S. But there was no meat behind what he said. So what is that signaling to the other countries? Is it going to cost more money? There's a ripple effect of if you're going to increase our tariff here, what are they doing in that country? There's a little bit of uncertainty. The markets didn't go up, but the domestic did.<br />
<br />
[02:45:10] VAUSE: Last year, Canada, Donald Trump had a different take on the stock market. Listen to this.<br />
<br />
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<br />
<br />
TRUMP: Look, we have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me, we're in a bubble right now. And the only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.<br />
<br />
(END VIDEO CLIP)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: OK. So this looks a lot like a bubble. What will it take for it to burst? And then, however will it fall?<br />
<br />
PATEL: You know, right now, you want to stick to fundamentals analyzing these companies. Expectations are above the fundamentals per se. At tend of the day, I think what's going to happen is for President Trump to delay a week or delay a month, this can't keep going on. He's going to have to share a plan and get an action. And those companies that are not the top for the Dow 21K, one-third of them were apple. You have Boeing and Goldman Sachs that led to pretty much a third of the points. So those companies are in-between getting affected if the banks don't get deregulated and all of a sudden that's a ripple effect to other banks.<br />
<br />
SESAY: Others are saying should I get in the market?<br />
<br />
PATEL: You know --<br />
<br />
(CROSSTALK)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Free advice.<br />
<br />
SESAY: Right.<br />
<br />
(LAUGHTER)<br />
<br />
Come on.<br />
<br />
PATEL: You know, I would say tread lightly. Warren Buffett says quite a bit. Be greedy when others are not, and he's still invest, but he's investing in certain sectors. I think there's open to buys in certain sectors that are hot and some that are probably oversaturated.<br />
<br />
SESAY: You heard it from Ryan Patel. Any problems, go find him.<br />
<br />
(LAUGHTER)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Ryan, thank you for coming in.<br />
<br />
SESAY: Thank you.<br />
<br />
PATEL: Thanks for having me.<br />
<br />
SESAY: Time for a quick break. Uber makes another public relations stumble. Why the CEO admits he needs to grow up. That's next.<br />
<br />
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)<br />
<br />
(WEATHER REPORT)<br />
<br />
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)<br />
<br />
[02:51:00] VAUSE: Something that's not new, ride-sharing giant, Uber, is facing a P.R. disaster. The CEO, Travis Kalanick, already a controversial figure, was caught on dashcam video arguing with one of his drivers.<br />
<br />
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<br />
<br />
TRAVIS KALANICK, CEO, UBER: I lost $97,000 because of you. I bankrupt because of you.<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED UBER DRIVER: Look --<br />
<br />
(CROSSTALK)<br />
<br />
KALANICK: Yes. You keep changing every day. You keep changing every day. UNIDENTIFIED UBER DRIVER: Hold on a second. What have I changed<br />
<br />
about Black?<br />
<br />
KALANICK: You changed the whole business.<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED UBER DRIVER: What? What?<br />
<br />
KALANICK: You dropped the prices.<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED UBER DRIVER: On Black?<br />
<br />
KALANICK: Yes. You did. (EXPLETIVE DELETED) $20. (EXPLETIVE DELETED) We started with $20. How much is the mile now in 275?<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED UBER DRIVER: You know what?<br />
<br />
KALANICK: What?<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED UBER DRIVER: Some people don't like to take responsibility for -- they blame everything in life on somebody else.<br />
<br />
(CROSSTALK)<br />
<br />
KALANICK: You e-mail for card.<br />
<br />
UNIDENTIFIED UBER DRIVER: Good luck.<br />
<br />
KALANICK: Good luck to you, too.<br />
<br />
(END VIDEO CLIP)<br />
<br />
SESAY: Kalanick apologized in an e-mail to his employees. He wrote this, "To say that I am ashamed is an extreme understatement. I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up."<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Joining us now, our tech expert, Lori Schwartz.<br />
<br />
LORI SCHWARTZ, CNN TECH EXPERT: Lori, thank you for coming in.<br />
<br />
Great to be here.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Uber is already on thin ice through a number of controversies recently. How do you see this e-mail from the CEO in terms of damage control?<br />
<br />
SCHWARTZ: I think right now we have to be transparent. The thing is that he keeps being transparent. He's continuously issuing apologies. He has to. After a while, everyone is going to be wondering, is he really capable of being a leader. And we were discussing before that Silicon Valley CEO founders are not always the best people to stay at the company at a certain point. And will some leadership guidance really be enough to take Uber to the next level?<br />
<br />
SESAY: It seems the company for a while considered the fact they faced so many controversies have been able to withstand them. Until now. I think we have to a point where cheap fares aren't enough for the consumer. It's about more than cheap fairs and services.<br />
<br />
SCHWARTZ: Yeah. You have to be a good leader. You to treat your people well. The recent blog posts by Susan Fowler with the sexual allegations, the fact that he hired another executive who also coming from google had actual allegations, and then just watching him treat someone badly. I mean, a leader has to be above board. And he's disrupting an entire category, and that's very exciting, but at a certain point you want him to be a grownup.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: You mentioned the blog posting by Susan Fowler, a software engineer at Uber. She did run an extensive blog that went viral. Part of it read how she had this encounter with another male employee at the company. She wrote, "He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble because he was looking for women to have sex with. It was clear he was trying to get me to have sex with him. It was also clearly out of line that I took screen shots of his chat messages and reported him to H.R." She goes on and writes that "H.R. did nothing about it. Other women had made similar complaints about the same person."<br />
<br />
We've seen the problems on the customer side of Uber. This is on the employee recruiting side. When something like this happens, how difficult is it to recruit good employees? That's the key to success.<br />
<br />
SCHWARTZ: Right. It's very difficult. Why would you want to go somewhere you're not going to be treated well, especially if you're a woman right now? You have to get in a good people officer. Someone who is really going to make sure that people are being managed correctly. Because right now there's so many global job opportunities through great talent. In order to be competitive in today's environment, especially in tech, you have to provide a great working environment. Not only the food and all the fun laundry services that google has, but you have to treat people well. They have to feel safe and feel like they can grow and they're being heard.<br />
<br />
[02:50:00] SESAY: We talked about the consumer side. We've talked about the employee side. Let's talk about the investor side. How will investors be feeling at a time like this?<br />
<br />
SCHWARTZ: They're worth about $70 billion right now. He's positioning for IPO. I think he's nervous. I would be nervous. I think investors are nervous. When you have an unstable leader, that's cause for concern. I think he's going to be under a lot of pressure to get support and other leadership. Maybe some board members to guide him.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Quickly, this is just the latest scandal, the allegation of not paying taxes in Britain, allegedly stealing self-drive technology.<br />
<br />
SCHWARTZ: The lead, Uber --<br />
<br />
(CROSSTALK)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Delete Uber because they were operating. There was a bunch of scandals a few years ago. How much bad news can a company like this continue to absorb? SCHWARTZ: They've changed people's lives for better. So -- and people are kind of in love with the service. So I don't know that you're going to see Uber go away, but there may need --<br />
<br />
(CROSSTALK)<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Lift is benefitting, right?<br />
<br />
SCHWARTZ: Lift is benefitting, and I have a lot of people, colleagues that won't go to Uber because they know lift gives more money to the driver.<br />
<br />
SESAY: Thank you.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: Lori, thank you for being here.<br />
<br />
SCHWARTZ: Always fun to be here, guys.<br />
<br />
SESAY: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.<br />
<br />
VAUSE: I'm John Vause.<br />
<br />
Rosemary Church and Cyril Vanier pick up our coverage right after this.<br />
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WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans split Thursday on whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from any investigation of the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia after revelations that he met twice with the Russian ambassador to the United States while serving as a Trump adviser.</div>
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Sessions had told the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings that he had not met with any Russian officials.</div>
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sessions does not need to recuse himself unless he is the subject of the investigation. "If he’s not, I don't see any reason or purpose to doing this," the Wisconsin Republican said Thursday.</div>
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But several other leading Republicans said Sessions should not be overseeing the Justice Department probe of Russian meddling in the U.S. election.</div>
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Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said Thursday, “Jeff Sessions is a former colleague and a friend, but I think it would be best for him and for the country to recuse himself from the DOJ Russia probe.”</div>
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"Attorney General Sessions should recuse himself to ensure public confidence in the Justice Department's investigation," she said. "He should also clarify his statements to the (Senate) Judiciary Committee with respect to his communications with the Russian Ambassador."</div>
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Similarly, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., called on Sessions to "explain his interactions with the Russian ambassador and then recuse himself from the DOJ's Russia probe."</div>
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Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, tweeted Thursday that "AG Sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself."</div>
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Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chaired the Oversight Committee before Chaffetz, said Thursday: “The news breaking overnight reaffirms what I called for in an interview last Friday, that we need an independent review by a credible third party and that Attorney General Sessions should recuse himself from any investigation into Russia. We need a clear-eyed view of what the Russians actually did so that all Americans can have faith in our institutions."</div>
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Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., who was re-elected in November in a district that Hillary Clinton won by 1 percentage point, also said Sessions should not lead the probe.</div>
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"Attorney General Sessions must recuse himself from any investigation into potential contacts between Trump presidential campaign allies and Moscow,” Lance said on Facebook on Thursday. “And Attorney General Sessions must, at the very least, clarify his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee immediately.”</div>
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California said in an appearance on MSNBC that the attorney general should recuse himself in order to maintain "the trust of the American people." But later Thursday morning he appeared on <em>Fox & Friends</em> to walk back his comments.</div>
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"I'm not calling on him to recuse himself," McCarthy said. He explained that he was merely repeating Sessions' position that the attorney general should recuse himself if and when that becomes appropriate.</div>
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Sessions, who was a U.S. senator from Alabama and Trump campaign adviser when he met with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, on Thursday <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-i-will-recuse-myself-if-necessary-n728046" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">told NBC News</a> "I have not met with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign." He also repeated his prior statements that he will recuse himself from an investigation if it becomes necessary at some point.</div>
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Sessions was asked directly during his confirmation hearings whether he had had any contact with Russian officials while serving as an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, and he said that he had not.</div>
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called Sessions "one of the most honest people I ever met" but added that he needs to explain his contacts with the Russians.</div>
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"The question for him is why did you meet with the Russians, why didn’t you disclose it, and move on," Graham said. "If the day ever comes where somebody has to decide whether to move forward with a legal case in the Trump-Russia connection, if there is any, I don’t think it can be Attorney General Sessions … because he was involved in the campaign."</div>
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Some Democrats were calling on Sessions to resign from office, while others were asking only that he recuse himself from any investigation involving Russia and Trump.</div>
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"After lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the Attorney General must resign," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., referring to Sessions' testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing. "There must be an independent, bipartisan, outside commission to investigate the Trump political, personal and financial connections to the Russians."</div>
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., agreed. "Attorney General Sessions had weeks to correct the record that he made before the Judiciary Committee," Schumer said at a press conference Thursday. "But he let the record stand. There cannot be even the scintilla of doubt of the impartiality and fairness of the attorney general, the top law enforcement official of the land ... The Department of Justice should be above approach. For the good of the country, Attorney General Sessions should resign."</div>
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said, "The fact that he spoke with Russians and then, under oath, denied it is unacceptable. If the attorney general refuses to recuse himself, he should resign."</div>
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Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he needed to review Sessions' testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee before he could say whether he thinks Sessions should resign. He did say, however, that he now believes an independent prosecutor must be appointed to investigate any ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.</div>
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Schiff also said that he was disappointed that FBI Director James Comey, in a closed-session briefing with the Intelligence Committee on Thursday, would not give members a "full counter-terrorism briefing" on the scope of the agency's Russia probe, including who the targets of that investigation are. He said he hopes the FBI will give a more detailed briefing to committee members soon. If not, the panel may have to consider issuing subpoenas to compel testimony from agency officials, he said.</div>
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House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told reporters that he, like Schiff, wants to review Sessions' testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.</div>
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"I have no idea (whether Sessions should recuse himself) because I have no idea what he did or didn't do," Nunes said. "I think he needs to talk to the senators if there's some disagreement there."</div>
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Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said there is "nothing unusual about a member of the Senate meeting with a foreign diplomat."</div>
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"On the other hand, I do believe Attorney General Sessions should clarify comments made during his confirmation hearing," Corker said. "He has said he will recuse himself whenever appropriate.”</div>
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Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, expressed support for both Sessions and the committee's investigation. He said he takes Session "at his word" that he never spoke to Russian officials about the presidential election.</div>
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Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., said, “The attorney general has said he would recuse himself when needed and I trust him to make what he feels is the appropriate decision.”</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-21363501961220305982017-02-19T17:13:00.005+08:002017-02-19T17:13:49.849+08:00D UNRAVELLING of the Arrogant aMO1's Administraion of USA! PART 2<b>aMO1</b> is defined by Desi as aMERICAN OFFICIAL numer one, like his MalSian counterpart MO1:( Please don't ask Desio to define MO1, or I may turn hostile and throw ye out of my BOGGER's turf. Or yell, get the here out of Hell!<br />
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Fareed Zakaria is the scondmost ranked progamme after ANDERSON COOPER 360degrees; this latest column featured by New Sunday Times today reflects quite a lot similar to what's ON DESI'S MIND, mine, not yours, not Trumpish. YL, Desi's a few thousand miles away from Washington DC. the aMO1 may ask me for my locus standi!:(<br />
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<span style="background-color: #e6e7e8; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> BY</span><span style="background-color: #e6e7e8; color: blue; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> FAREED ZAKARIA</b></span><span style="background-color: #e6e7e8; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> - 18 FEBRUARY 2017 @ 10:11 AM Facebook 5 Twitter Share 5 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e6e7e8; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">LET’s say you are a Trump voter, the kind we often hear about — an honest, hardworking American who would put up with Donald Trump’s unusual behaviour because you wanted a president who would stop playing Washington’s political games, bring a businessman’s obsession with action and results, and focus on the economy. How is that working out for you? The first few weeks of the Trump administration have been an illustration of the writer Alfred Montapert’s line: “Do not confuse motion with progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” We are witnessing a rocking-horse presidency in which everyone is jerking back and forth furiously, and yet there is no forward movement. Since winning the election, Trump has dominated the news nearly every day. He has picked fights with the media, making a series of bizarre, mostly false claims — about the magnitude of his victory, the size of his inauguration crowd, the weather that day, the numbers of illegally cast ballots, among many others. He has had photo ops with everyone, from Kanye West and Jack Ma to Shinzo Abe and Justin Trudeau. Now he is embroiled in a controversy about ties to Russia. But, in the midst of it all, what has he actually done? Hardly anything. On Thursday, Trump said at a news conference: “There has never been a presidency that’s done so much in such a short period of time.” Matthew Yglesias of Vox observes that at this point in his presidency, President Obama had signed into law an almost-trillion-dollar stimulus bill to revive the economy, extended health insurance to 4 million children and made it easier to challenge unfair labour practices. In their respective first 100 days in office, Bill Clinton had passed 24 bills; John Kennedy, 26; Harry Truman, 55; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 76. (Despite having a Republican House and Senate, Trump does not seem likely to crack 10). Yglesias notes that the Trump White House has not even begun serious discussions with Congress on major legislation. The Washington Post notes that of 696 key positions that require Senate confirmation, the president has yet to nominate 661 of them. Trump has issued a series of executive orders with great fanfare (though fewer than Obama at this point). But, they are mostly hot air — lofty proclamations that direct some agency to “review” a law, “report” back to him, “consider” some action or reaffirm some long-standing practice. His one order that did something, the temporary travel ban, was so poorly conceived and phrased that it got stuck in the court system and will have to be redone or abandoned. For a recent piece in Politico Magazine, Zachary Karabell carefully analysed all the executive orders and presidential proclamations and concluded: “So far, Trump has behaved exactly like he has throughout his previous career: He has generated intense attention and sold himself as a man of action while doing little other than promote an image of himself as someone who gets things done.” Historian Douglas Brinkley observed that Trump is a creature of reality television, for which the two cardinal rules are: Always keep the camera focused on you, and always stay interesting. The president has certainly fulfilled that mandate. But, what about the one he promised his voters? What about the plans to reindustrialise the Midwest, bring back jobs, revive the coal and steel industries? What, for that matter, of his explicit commitments that “on Day One” he would begin “removing criminal illegal immigrants” and would “label China a currency manipulator”, “push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress”, and “get rid of gun-free zones in schools, and ... military bases”. All were promised. Almost nothing has been done. There are two aspects to the Trump presidency. There is the freak show — the tweets, the wild claims, the fake facts, the fights with anyone who refuses to bow down to him (the media, judges), the ceaseless self-promotion. But, then there is Trump the savvy businessman, who named intelligent heavyweights like Gary Cohn, Rex Tillerson and James Mattis to key positions, and who has at times articulated a serious reform agenda. For many people, the bargain of the Trump presidency was that they would put up with the freak show in order to get tax reform, infrastructure projects and deregulation. That may still happen, but for now at least, reality television is in overdrive and not much is happening in the realm of serious policy. That voter out in Ohio or Michigan might well wonder how picking fights with the media will bring jobs back to his region or how assaulting the judiciary will help create retraining programmes for laid-off workers. But, maybe Trump, who freely admits to getting all his information from television, has a television view of the presidency. The point is to be seen to be doing things. The Romans said the way to keep people happy was to give them “bread and circus”. So, far all we have received is the circus. Fareed Zakaria is an American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e6e7e8; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Read More : </span><a href="http://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/02/213374/rocking-horse-presidency-and-circus-hill?d=1" style="background: rgb(230, 231, 232); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/02/213374/rocking-horse-presidency-and-circus-hill?d=1</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-70020150590236486002017-02-17T08:08:00.001+08:002017-02-17T08:08:14.219+08:00D UNRAVELLING of the Arrogant aMO1's Administraion of USA! PART 0+1CONSIDER today's post as a XONTINUATION of the post dated<br />
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I pity the American people -- for almost four weeks now thay have been waking up to UNCERTAINTY and BEWILDERMENT -- they better pray hard/heART this state of affairs precipitated by "an unhealthy mind gone wilde" STOP SO.ON! Of that guy I monikered as aMO1 will make AMERICA ONCE GREAT a part of the GREAT MADHOUSE of the DisUnited States of America. And the northern neighbour CANADA will see a sea of migrants entering from South of the Border.</div>
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This morning I scrolled from CNN to BBC to AlJazeera to CGTN, then dwelt at BBC, made myself comfy wit' potato chips and hot Milo from 5.02am for a solid hour -- yes, I've been waking up earlysince January 20 if I did not catch the late BREAKING NEWS up till past midnight on the Dumpty Trumpety Hump...I deem it undignified to mention the aMO1's name because he holds everyone outside his family wit' DISDAIN, especially members of the 4th Estate, and since I have been a 4thEstater for some four -- seilol!--decades, I deem this bast..d's insults a;lso hurled at Desi, though his main target is CNN.</div>
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The 5.00am (Msian time OK!) programme is from BBC "OUTSIDE SOURCE" helmed by ROS ATKINS -- the focus was on an hour-an-half long Press Conference called at short notice byaMO1, beginning wit' a LONG MONOLGOUE chasting who slse CNN among othe media and their FAKE NEWS. To me, this guy has been from day1 of his more than a year-long presidentrial campaign SHOOTING TRHE MESSENGER. He'd praise you like mad if your brought aMO1 GOoD news or badder still, praise him sky high so his smiles lingered on for more than a w'ile/mile. The one-hour segment also featured SOME INTERESTING FACT CHECKS as well thoroughly done by that journalist of TORONTO STAR, Daniel Dale in my precedent post of the same "subject". Please show Desi some courtesy by knot asking me who this "subject" is. I learnt a thing or2 about beartibng aout that White House bush!:) or :(</div>
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I recommend you go to Google log in search words "BBC Outside Source Trump PC", if thou findeth it educational, buy Desi lunch today OK! Otherwise, go be a couch potato and watch CNN -- surely they will re-run key highlights from this PC. </div>
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At the same programme OS also mentioned about Facebook carrying its Founder MARK ZUKERBURG's MANIFESTO -- on many viewers mind is this Q -- is mark preparing for that Presidenial race in2020? Cos aMO1 already has lined up the EARLIEST American Campaign start to that second term contest with a Campaign 2020 organised RALLY soon. But Desi thinks he won't even last the next three years plus -- I predict he will face IMPEACHMENT once his TAXC RETURNS are publicised, or the RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS implicated in Michael Fkllynn's early retirement as Natiional Security Advise in less than ONE MONTH!</div>
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May I seek my ER(for Esteemeed Readers for late commers here/hear...)'s permit to adjourn for socialist breakfast for my mind works badder on a full tummy. Satu nasi lemak, dua karipapa dan TEHTARIK's here I come.</div>
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NOT SO QUICK - meanwhile, do some homework by GOOGLING: "CNN TONIGHIT Don Lemon McCain dysfunctional WH, he blames it on LEAKS, New Yorker"; " also "tony thomas Chaos at WH no one in charge mike gerson" I believe its was on Anerson Coper's 360degrees 9am programme...</div>
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if you have to ask Desi what WH is, please get the here out of hell! LOL! I'm jest pulling thy lovely legs, if you are fe-mail. If thou art male macho, I minta maaf OK, I'd buy ye endlez rounds of TT! -- YL, Desi</div>
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To be continued, IF I SURVIVE my BF; InsyaAhLah!....</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-57737192831134714612017-02-16T17:31:00.001+08:002017-02-16T17:31:09.002+08:00REPRISE of an OLDE POST: "And the soul, that's afraid of dying..."Sp my ER can ENJOY the current THEME SONG along wit' the LYRICS:)----<br />
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As Desi was driving home from BF at the Furong Pasar -- political placidity ruled the moUrn except for some diehard MCA oldtimers who rued the days Koon Swan was "wrongly charged in Singapore and jailed wrt Pan-El -- a familiar refrain came over the airwaves.<br /><br />I couldN'T place the song, but hey, the title above was easily recalled -- So Nowadays<br />one jest Googled slyrics stanza and the above -- presto, "THE ROSE" appears! In the bad olde days the refrain would've kep Desi's mind half-focused on the tasks at hand, and even after 13 battle rounds, I would NOT have found my "rose". So thank me for my sharing', make out dat 20mil, wilya!?<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Lyrics - Bette Midler - The Rose Lyrics<br />THE ROSE LYRICS</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Bette Midler</span><br />Review The Song (5) Send "The Rose" Ringtone to your Cell<br /><br />LISTen via LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6okRuOLc8<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Some say love, it is a river<br />That drowns the tender reed<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br />Some say love, it is a razor<br />That leaves your soul to bleed<br />Some say love, it is a hunger<br />An endless aching need<br />I say love, it is a flower<br />And you, its only seed<br /><br />It's the heart, afraid of breaking<br />That never learns to dance<br />It's the dream, afraid of waking<br />That never takes the chance<br />It's the one who won't be taken<br />Who cannot seem to give<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And the soul, afraid of dying<br />That never learns to live</span><br /><br />When the night has been too lonely<br />And the road has been too long<br />And you think that love is only<br />For the lucky and the strong<br />Just remember in the winter<br />Far beneath the bitter snows<br />Lies the seed that with the sun's love<br />In the spring becomes the rose<br /><br />**********************************<br /><br />THERE are many soulful Malaysians -- Singaporeans2? -- out there/dare reflecting on the wrongs the government/s had done them by.</div>
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This guy is so FULL OF HIMSELF, HE THINKS HE'S RIGHT IN EVERY PRONOUNCEMENT HE MAKES, everybody else be damned.<br />
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About THREE WEEKS into office, he has to "fire" his<b> NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER</b> GEN. <b>MICHAEL FLYNN</b> -- of course, the White House would have us believe the Retired General "RESIGNED". Just a day earlier WH counsellor KELLYANNE CONWAY told a news organisation Gen Flynn still enjoyed the American aMO1's "FULL CONFIDENCE". Just an hour later, the WH Press Secretary SPICER more or less corrected her, saying that Flynn's status "is being evaluated".AND THE SAME NIGHT, there was the first explosion at the White House heard across the w.w.w. most clearly in RUSSIA, most closely by its chef Vladimir (check sperring pls!) PUTIN.<br />
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IF Conway has got any honour and dignity left as a PR person, she should just hand in her resignation -- <i><span style="color: blue;">DON'T WAIT TO BE FIRED, Miss "ALTERNATIVE FACTS" GAL</span></i>!<i><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b> I will continue my current thoughts after a short digression, can?</b></span></i><br />
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What a blardy disgrace for an American President-Elect taking office in 10days' time. He is the most ARROGANT b'tard leader I have seen in my short lifetime of 40years' media experience -- in print, online, diplomatic, now mainly 5th Estate as BUMmer-- and I wish the American media especially CNN, carry on your JOB IN A PROFESSIONAL MANNER and thou would be fine, God bless, <i>YL, Desi</i></h1>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">I CopynPastry from googling THE TORONTO STAR, DAIEL DALE, interviewed by CNN this morning in the DON LEMON show. with the news channel a MUST SEE before I go for BF after watching ANDERSON COOPER 360degreees at 9am; OR just before I nap for the hpt. tropical afternoon:___:)</span></b><br />
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The Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent Daniel Dale has been named in Politico’s list of <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/2016-election-media-stars-230813" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0065a4; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">breakout media stars of 2016</a>.</div>
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“It’s cool to even have your existence acknowledged by Americans when you’re a Canadian correspondent in Washington,” Dale said. “There are so many good reporters. It’s good to know I was noticed even a little bit.”</div>
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Dale, who Politico, a politics website, dubbed “the Trump lie-tracker,” has become known for his <a href="https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/792811835325947904" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0065a4; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">daily fact checks of Donald Trump’s comments</a>.</div>
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Dale said he decided to start fact-checking Trump on a mid-September day when the Republican presidential candidate was “hyper-outrageous and hyper-dishonest.”</div>
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Dale noticed that many of the inaccurate things Trump was saying weren’t making their way into news coverage, and rather “being treated as a sideshow.”</div>
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Dale started to track these statements.</div>
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“I think it’s important, because I think his dishonesty is a central fact about his campaign. It’s not secondary,” Dale said. “It is critically important that people understand that this is not normal and people understand that much of what he’s saying isn’t true.”</div>
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Before his coverage of the 2016 election, Dale covered Toronto’s city hall from 2010 to early 2015.</div>
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During that time he wrote about another political leader known for making questionable comments, former Toronto mayor Rob Ford.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">The Latest Insight:</span> 25-year-old Malaysian millionaire buys a $4m penthouse in the world’s most expensive city.</div>
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Jack Zhang is going viral all over social media with over 40,000 Instagram likes on his latest photo after an exclusive news interview revealing his story. He’s been sharing his 5-star dinners with various top models, cruising Kuala Lumpur in his Maserati and partying in the best VIP lounges.</div>
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This 25-year-old born and raised in Johor Bahru does not come from a wealthy family background but, <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">made his millions on his own</a> – which has left reporters shocked. He is part of the new generation of self-made millionaires emerging in Malaysia and is gaining many followers on social media due to his mind-blowing story.</div>
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Back in September 2011, while studying abroad in New York at Berkeley College, Jack saw an episode from CNBC’s popular finance show, “Squawk Box” broadcasting a new financial method that was earning everyday people in the United States millions of dollars and it was spreading through the nation. Since he was in the U.S. studying, he thought this was the <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">perfect opportunity to earn some extra income</a> for himself because he didn’t have financial help from his family. He didn’t realize that later on that it would be this method that will actually result in him making millions.</div>
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Jack didn’t make millions in a month’s time, <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">but after 6 months of using this financial system, he reached his first R 14 million</a>. Returning to Johor Bahru, he became recognized as one of the youngest and most successful people in Malaysia. However, he is not the only one that has made his fortune with this method. Actually, recent investment reports for 2016 indicate that 68% of the “new millionaires” in Malaysia use <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">this financial system</a> to create their wealth. This new wave of millionaires is so strong that it has also boosted the real estate markets in the United Kingdom and the Middle East.</div>
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“I’ve always wanted the ‘super rich’ lifestyle and to have my own business. I was determined to make it to the other side and I planned to give my family money to live the good life also. However, in the beginning, no one supported me and they only thought I was wasting my time. <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Now, they ask me to show them how I did it</a> (he chuckles)”, says Jack in an exclusive interview with 24BusinessNews.</div>
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“I don’t want to sound like a show-off, but in the past 3 months I’ve taken a very famous supermodel on a date, I bought a Maserati last month, and purchased my first $4 million property in the world’s most expensive city – Qatar. I’m not hesitant to show it off to the world either”, admits Jack. His incredible story is not only storming social media but has become the <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">recent role-model story for many young Malaysians</a>.</div>
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“I began by choosing a reliable <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Binary Options platform</a> that offered 1-on-1 training since I was completely new. While researching a few online forums, I found a helpful small tip: If you <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">register on the platform</a>, and put the smallest amount of about $250, when the support team calls you to verify your details, you let them know that you already placed the amount and that you want to opt-in for their beginner’s 1-on-1 personal training course. This course is done by a professional binary options trader, and is worth MUCH more than the $250 you put in. He guides you step-by-step on how to trade, how to analyze the market, the tools you can use, etc.… It’s also free of charge, but only if you ask the support team for the free personal 1-on-1 trainer”, explains Jack.</div>
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“Honestly, after my 1-on-1 session, <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">I felt trading binary options was so easy.</a> All you need to do is follow the trend of a certain currency, like the US dollar, for example. Then just place your trade when the trend starts and make sure you stop the trade when you profit - and repeat again. Now that I was confident, I scraped another $400 from my credit card because my profit results would be more eventually. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">ALSO, important tip:</span> Starting out, not many traders realize this but, that initial investment you put in will always be yours. You can always withdraw it at any time, even if you trade with that money”, assures Jack.</div>
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“Placing trades was very simple. I just pressed the “Up” or “Down” arrows if I thought the USD would go up or down - and every time I was right. I almost doubled my investment… by the day’s end of successful trades, my balance had reached almost $1,200 in only a few hours. That’s when the potential of binary options trading really hit me…”</div>
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“During the first week, I started my day watching the Bloomberg Channel, and reading financial news and forums – I felt it was what I needed to do. My goal was to take my $1,000 and make it $5,000 by the week’s end”, he states.</div>
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“So, I called up my personal trainer, Frank, and asked him how I can do that. I showed my profits from the previous day thinking he would be amazed, but Frank explained: ‘That’s normal results for the first day of Binary Options trading’. <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Not only did I make almost $1,000 on my first day, apparently this was only the beginning.</a> Frank provided me a tool which gave me signals when a trend starts. This was just what I needed! I just waited for the tool to produce a signal, and execute my trades according to the tool’s recommendations. That’s when I began increasing my volumes”, stated Jack.</div>
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“I made 4 out of 5 successful trades using this tool and I made $4523.27 that day!” he says excitedly. “Always make sure your <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">binary options broker</a> provides you with a signals tool. This kind of tool is expensive to buy, but after you make your initial investment, it’s yours for free”.</div>
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“I kept re-investing more and I used the trading tool in order to make more successful trades, which really increased my profits”, states Jack. “My strategy was to invest 10% of my balance every time. I lost a few trades occasionally but, I always had more money to execute another trade”.</div>
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“In just a few hours of ‘work’ (basically looking at the chart and pressing “Call” or “Put”), <a href="http://www.24businessreport.com/news/en/my/heax/index.html?trkid=33744F65664451754279735F3344&utm_source=00e783a00990e769b7a1d6367bb674c1eb&utm_content=25+year+old+Malaysian+is+one+of+Dubai%27s+richest+&utm_source=CNN+International+-+Videos#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">I was making around $2000/day</a>. Frankly speaking, it was easy since I would follow the signal tool’s instructions. It would indicate the direction to trade and alerted me of any new trends coming. In order to manage my risks, I would not trade more than 10% of my winnings each time, that’s my secret”.</div>
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“My earnings might sound amazing and impossible but, it’s very important that everyone understands that they are achievable. I didn’t make millions in 1 or 2 months, and you shouldn’t expect that either because it’s unrealistic. Of course, everyone’s results differ, but people earning a few thousand dollars every month is doable “, Jack concludes his interview.</div>
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What a blardy disgrace for an American President-Elect taking office in 10days' time. He is the most ARROGANT b'tard leader I have seen in my short lifetime of 40years' media experience -- in print, online, diplomatic, now mainly 5th Estate as BUMmer-- and I wish the American media especially CNN, carry on your JOB IN A PROFESSIONAL MANNER and thou would be fine, God bless, <i>YL, Desi</i></h1>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>PS: My prediction is within two years of taking taking office, there would be enough evidence of IMPEACHABLE offence/s against this fellow, and the world and USA would be better for it he is "fired" early!</b></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">PPS: I am trying to pick up a panel discussion featuring a fantastic member ROBERT REISCH? -- Patience eh! Desi</span></b></i></div>
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Trump battles CNN reporter in heated exchange at press conference: ‘You are fake news’</h1>
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<span class="author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="fn" href="http://www.businessinsider.my/author/maxwell-tani/" rel="author" style="background: transparent; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 5px; text-decoration: none;">MAXWELL TANI</a> </span><span class="author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="politics" href="http://www.businessinsider.my/politics/" style="background: transparent; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 5px; text-decoration: none;">POLITICS</a> </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.my/cnn-fake-news-donald-trump-cnn-jim-acosta-question-press-conference-2017-1/#comment-" style="background: transparent; border-right: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 5px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-comment author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00709a; display: inline-block; font-family: "glyphicons halflings"; line-height: 1; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 1em;"></span></a> </span><time class="published" datetime="2017-01-12T01:55:43+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 5px;">JAN. 12, 2017, 1:55 AM</time></div>
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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday shut down a CNN reporter who attempted to ask a question at Trump’s first press conference in months.</div>
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Speaking in Manhattan, the president-elect first blasted BuzzFeed for publishing an unverified memo alleging Trump was both compromised by, and collaborated with Russia intelligence agents passing information to his campaign, a claim which Trump denied at the end of Wednesday’s news conference.</div>
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Trump also blasted CNN, which reported earlier on Tuesday that top US intelligence officials presented Trump information that Russian agents possessed compromising information on him, though CNN said it did not feel comfortable publishing BuzzFeed’s memo. </div>
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“As far as BuzzFeed, which is a failing pile of garbage, writing it, they’re going to suffer the consequences, they already are,” Trump said, before going off on a tangent defending his lawyer, Michael Cohen. “As far as CNN going after their way to build it up — and by the way, we just found out, Michael Cohen, who is a very talented lawyer, a good lawyer at my firm. It was just reported that it wasn’t this Michael Cohen that we’re talking about.”</div>
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Moments later, when CNN reporter Jim Acosta attempted to ask a question, Trump refused.</div>
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“Not you. Not you. Your organization is terrible. Your organization is terrible. Quiet, quiet. She’s asking a question, don’t be rude,” Trump said.</div>
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“Since you’re attacking our news organization can you give us a question?” Acosta asked repeatedly</div>
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“I’m not going to give you a question. You’re fake news,” Trump replied, only later taking a question from another CNN reporter.</div>
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Shortly after the news conference, CNN anchor Jake Tapper read a statement from the network on Wednesday defending the network’s story, and distancing its own reporting from BuzzFeed’s decision to publish the 35-page memo.</div>
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“CNN’s decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than BuzzFeed’s decision to publish unsubstantiated memos. The Trump team knows this. They are using BuzzFeed’s decision to deflect from CNN’s reporting, which has been matched by other major news organizations,” the statement said. </div>
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“CNN made it clear that we are not publishing any details of the 35 page document because we have not corroborated the report’s allegations. Given that members of the Trump transition team have so vocally criticized our reporting, we encourage them to identify, specifically, what they believe to be inaccurate.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px;">YL: Here's another take from </span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">globalnews.ca:~~~~</span></i><span style="font-size: 19px;">~~~</span></div>
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During <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/3174184/donald-trump-live-coverage-president-elect-press-conference/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(35, 119, 188) !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Wednesday’s press conference</a>, Trump attacked media outlets following an unsubstantiated <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/3172886/russian-hackers-claim-to-have-compromising-information-on-donald-trump-report/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(35, 119, 188) !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">report that Russian operatives have compromising personal and financial information on him</a>.</div>
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On Tuesday, CNN was first to report claims that Russian operatives had information on Trump including personal and financial information, something the president-elect denounced as “fake news” later that evening.</div>
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Trump told reporters the release of the unsubstantiated intelligence was a “disgrace that information would be let out. It’s all fake news.”</div>
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Trump then refused to take a question from CNN’s senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta.</div>
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“Mr. President-elect, since you’re attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance to ask a question,” the journalist repeatedly asks.</div>
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Trump told the journalist “don’t be rude,” while attempting to take another question from a journalist from another news organization.</div>
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“Your organization is terrible,” Trump told Acosta.</div>
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Acosta pushed back at Trump in an attempt to get his question in.</div>
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“I’m not going to give you a question,” Trump said. “You are fake news.”</div>
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The president-elect also attacked Buzzfeed, which published the entire document but admitted it is both unverified and contains errors.</div>
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Trump called the news organization a “failing pile of garbage” and that he thinks Buzzfeed is “going to suffer the consequences” of publishing the report.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I never tire reading this story many times over coz it touches the soul. <span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" aria-hidden="1" class="img" height="16" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v6/ffc/1/16/1f44d.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; width: 0px;">👍</span></span><span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" aria-hidden="1" class="img" height="16" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v6/f7f/1/16/1f60a.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; width: 0px;">😊</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money left. They were moving to a smaller house because they could not afford to stay in the present house after paying the doctor's bills. Only a very costly surgery could save him now and there was no one to loan them the money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother with whispered desperation, 'Only a miracle can save him now', the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her piggy bank from its hiding place in the closet. She poured all the change out on the floor and counted it carefully.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Clutching the precious piggy bank tightly, she slipped out the back door and made her way six blocks to the local drugstore. She took a quarter from her bank and placed it on the glass counter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"And what do you want?" asked the pharmacist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"It's for my little brother," the girl answered back. "He's really very sick and I want to buy a miracle."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"I beg your pardon?" said the pharmacist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"We don't sell miracles here, child. I'm sorry," the pharmacist said, smiling sadly at the little girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In the shop was a well-dressed customer. He stooped down and asked the little girl, "What kind of a miracle does you brother need?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"I don't know," she replied with her eyes welling up. "He's really sick and mommy says he needs an operation. But my daddy can't pay for it, so I have brought my savings".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"How much do you have?" asked the man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"One dollar and eleven cents; but I can try and get some more", she answered barely audibly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"Well, what a coincidence," smiled the man, "A dollar and eleven cents - the exact price of a miracle for little brothers."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">He took her money in one hand and held her hand with the other. He said, "Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of miracle you need."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a neurosurgeon. The operation was completed without charge and it wasn't long before Andrew was home again and doing well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"That surgery," her mom whispered, "was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The little girl smiled. She knew exactly how much the miracle cost ... one dollar and eleven cents ... plus the faith of a little child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Perseverance can make miracles happen! Miracle can come in various forms - as a doctor, as a lawyer, as a teacher, as a police ,as a friend, as a stranger and many others..</span></div>
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I had been listening endlerss times to "RIDE" and enjoying the VISUALS of LANA DEL REY, and you know what, when my sunny boy gifted me a PICTORIAL gifted him by a FRIEND named BEE, I combined the two gifts to begin writing a SHORT STORY.<br /><br />Have a peep below: come back on New Year's Eve and maybe Desi would have completed that story JEST for THEE!<br /><br />________________________________________________<br />Short Story's Curtaions Opening......<br /><br /><div id="yiv7129206811yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480920019339_13901" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: "Courier New", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
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Today I interrupted my hideaway in Haitus because I wanted to sharing something UPLIFTING&INSPIRING to close the year 2016 which is KNOT SUCH A GOoD Wan for Malaysians, especially Desi the writHer-BUMmer!</div>
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<br />Twelve years ago Danielle Tindle came back from the brink of death to survive Hodgkin's Lymphoma. By extraordinary coincidence, it was her own father's groundbreaking stem-cell research which ultimately saved his daughter's life.</div>
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Since Danielle was given a second chance at life, this inspirational young woman has made it her mission to advocate for improved services and care for other adolescent and young adult cancer patients. She's become a world leader in the field.</div>
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<dd style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 16px 8px 32px; padding: 0px;">Cancer patient pays $5,000 every two weeks for treatment costing others just $6.20</dd>
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CAROLINE JONES, PRESENTER: Hello. I'm Caroline Jones. Twelve years ago Danielle Tindle beat all odds to survive life-threatening cancer. And in a twist of fate that was almost unbelievable, her aggressive treatment produced a transforming personal side-effect.It all seemed like a happy outcome, but now Danielle Tindle is facing an even bigger challenge.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: Ten years ago I saw her recover from being an absolute skeleton, back to being a normal person again. It's not out of the question that we can do it again this time.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I just never was scared of relapsing. I think I was too busy or too enjoying everything to worry about if my cancer came back. It's not the case now.</div>
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JASMINE GAILER: Danielle is someone who has fought really hard to make a difference to people like me. And to see that she's having to go through it again and, um, fight cancer again, is really devastating.</div>
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RICHARD VINES, RARE CANCERS AUSTRALIA: She's someone who's contributed enormously to society and to the community. And at this one point in time, where she really needs us to give back, we've abandoned her. And that's got to be unacceptable in anybody's terms.</div>
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER: It's like putting a gun to your head and saying, "Your money or your life."</div>
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(Excerpt from Australian Story, April 2005)<br />
PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: Danielle was a daughter who wanted to experience everything in the world; the daughter who was willing to try everything.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: Life was pretty much like any normal student. I worked hard, I studied hard. I partied hard. It got to a point where I was feeling fairly... unwell: just dizzy, tired, lethargic. And finally one day I felt a lump on my neck and, um... was diagnosed by a specialist with Hodgkin's lymphoma. After six months of chemotherapy, I had a little break. And then I had one month of radiation. At this stage, everyone was very positive.</div>
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER: And it went perfectly, according to plan. And she, you know, got rid of the tumour, which was great. She went on a holiday to New Zealand: you know, sent cards back, full of high spirits; and was back a very short time when she started feeling the lumps again. So it was very short-lived.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: When relapses such as this occurs, the standard form of treatment then is a rather more severe form of chemotherapy. And the outcome, I'm afraid, was very bad. There was no response of the tumour whatsoever to this chemotherapy.</div>
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DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: So we came to the conclusion that her best option would be a really high-dose chemotherapy, followed by a stem-cell rescue.</div>
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ANTHONY STEELE, NURSE: I was the nurse involved in taking the stem cells from Danielle and I'm sitting there, explaining to Danielle exactly what was involved with stem-cell transplants. Danielle's father was sitting to the side, not taking particular notice of what I had to say. So as I'm taking a lot of time and energy into describing it, I finally asked Danielle's father, "Have you got any questions for me? Is there anything you want to know?" And he just looked up from his papers and said, "Well, Anthony, I was actually on the team which helped first discover the stem cells in the blood. I don't think I have any questions, but thank you very much."</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: That's when I discovered that my father had actually discovered CD34s, which are stem cells, back in 1984 or something, when I was four years old.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: And what emerged was that: hey, look, here you've got a cell that you can use to give to people whose blood systems and immune systems have been wiped out. And that will rescue them.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I understood what his discoveries meant and how huge they were for the scientific world. I mean, stem-cell transplants save people's lives. I felt very proud of him. In my eyes, my father was a lot more interesting than I initially thought. (Laughs)</div>
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DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: Bob did a lot of research in his quest to find a cure. And then he would come and we would meet often and discuss what we could do within the short time which we had.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: On the one hand: yeah, he played that scientific role. And on the other hand he was just a father, you know. I mean, I say, "Just a father:" he was my father and he was seeing his daughter very, very sick. And I think that was so hard for him. Before the stem-cells transplant, you have to go through a seven-day concoction of very, very aggressive chemicals that basically knock out your entire lymphatic system.</div>
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DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: We were aware that we were pretty close to a toxicity which may kill the tumour, but may also kill Danielle.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: This is when the pain really kicked in. At one stage - I mean, this sounds really gruesome - but I was bleeding out of every orifice, continuously. The toxicity was just too much for my system and my liver just failed. Your bilirubin is supposed to be under 20. Mine got up to 570.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: I remember the worst night: when her bilirubin hit 570 and it was worsening. It had been worsening all week.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I could see in his eyes that... things were getting very, very difficult for him to deal with.</div>
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DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: I think part of what was driving Bob was that, you know: "Here I am, eminent scientist, working in the field of cancer. And here is my daughter and I'm not able to help her."</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: And I can actually remember my Dad asking one of the doctors... he asked, when I died, how would I die? And they started explaining how each of my organs would shut down and fail. And I was - I was in the room, you know. I was lying there on the bed, hearing all this: how I was going to die, the process in which I was going to die. I mean, that's so... I mean, that's so confronting. How do you deal with that? What do you do with that?</div>
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DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: She was as close to death as you can get, really. And if she hadn't cro- she may well have crossed the line and come back.</div>
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER: Then, slowly, slowly, the bilirubin started coming down. You know, under 300: that was brilliant. And then, you know, through the 200s, through the 100s. And it gradually came back to normal, over the month. And it was just an absolute miracle.</div>
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DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: And I've seen some remarkable recoveries, but she has to be one of the more remarkable.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: The stem-cell transplant had completely gotten rid of my tumour, 100 per cent. And that was better than anyone had expected.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle and Robert in consultation with Dr Gill)<br />
DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: Pleasingly, your bilirubin is 14: plum normal.<br />
ROBERT TINDLE: Yes!<br />
DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: For the first time. Isn't that good!<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Yeah.<br />
DR DEVINDER GILL, ONCOLOGIST: I think everything is coming together nicely.<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Thank God. (Laughs)<br />
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: Every loving father gives of his all for his kids. He'll give everything he's got. And that's what I've done: I've given everything I've got.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I've always said to everyone: if it comes back, I'm never having chemo again. But you know what: if it comes back in two or three years' time, I probably will, because it's worth it for the times when you're not sick. You've got to fight. (Laughs) You've got to fight to live.</div>
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(End of excerpt from Australian Story, April 2005)</div>
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(Footage of Rally for Research, Brisbane, 2011, shot by Channel Ten and Channel Seven. Danielle addresses crowd)<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: One hundred per cent cancer-free.<br />
(Crowd cheers and applauds)<br />
(At rally) Medical research saved my life.<br />
(Crowd cheers and applauds)<br />
(Footage ends)</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I've already faced my own mortality, so I had no fear of death. Well, I've faced cancer: I can talk to strangers. I can focus on something that was meaningful for me: which was helping others. When I went through treatments in 2002-2003, there was absolutely nothing for teenagers and young people: young adults. Um, I was treated in an adult hospital so, you know, I was sitting in waiting rooms with old people having cancer, which is really... it's really hard to see as a young person. You feel like a freak.</div>
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(Excerpt from documentary 'Hair', Griffith Film School)<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: You realise how much of it is part of your identity as a woman. There's a lot of stigma associated with not having any hair.<br />
(Footage ends)</div>
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(Footage of Teenage Cancer Trust conference, London, 2012; YouTube)<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: The beauty of this kind of conference is the collaboration between different disciplines, different perspectives - and different countries, of course.<br />
(Footage ends)</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: So I was giving big talks around Australia and around the world: talking about my own perspective. But then that increasingly moved into more of a professional role. And my role involved researching and developing models of care for this age group.</div>
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JASMINE GAILER: Danielle and I met when she was co-ordinating a conference in Brisbane. And I was asked to go and speak, just from the patient perspective.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: So I saw a lot of me in her. I saw a kind of fire in her eyes, a bit of a passion for making a difference. She was fresh out of treatment, to be honest. So she had a lot of very raw and very personal experiences to contribute.</div>
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JASMINE GAILER: I was 22 and I was pretty much doing everything a 22-year-old should be doing. So I'd just graduated from uni , and decided to do a round-the-world trip. The symptoms started in my knee in Mexico. And so I had this very sore knee, but I continued to do everything that I would have normally done, because I just figured I had sprained it. So it was really lucky, I guess, that I flew home before getting the diagnosis. I was on my own in the surgeon's office when he said, "You have a mass." It's an osteosarcoma: so it's a bone tumour.</div>
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(Jasmine shows the scar on her right knee and thigh)</div>
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JASMINE GAILER: I had an operation to basically take out the tumour here. And... had to take a bit of my femur and the top of my tibia. And they replaced it with a titanium hinge. I was really affected by my scar and by my appearance. But I started drawing on my scar a timeline of my experience and I realised it's actually very empowering to reveal your scar to the world.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: And then she started Scar Stories, which is an organisation that: initially it was to have photography exhibitions displaying young people and their scars, their cancer scars. And she invited me to be part of that. And I have permanent alopecia as a result of my treatment.</div>
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JASMINE GAILER: The patients and survivors that were involved: they were very nervous. But then afterwards: just that weight off their shoulders. One girl talked about feeling like the cloud that was overhead is not overhead anymore, because it's just - it's out there. It's a relief.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: You know, I hate the term "cancer sufferer." It's such a disempowering, victimising word: as if we've got no agency in this process, as if we've got no strength. And what Scar Stories does is: really turns that on its head and says, "Actually, I've been through the cancer process. I'm scarred, I've been mutilated, I've been through hell and back. But I'm strong and I can be beautiful."</div>
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER: She's always had boundless energy, from the time she was a little one. And she's always devoted her whole self to any activity. And what she takes on: she does it with gusto.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: So I began my PhD. And it involved interviewing young people from Australia, England and the United States to find out how young people create a sense of meaning and purpose, following a cancer diagnosis.</div>
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MARCUS (actor's voice): You finish up treatment and you're just expected to get on with life again. I didn't find any rehabilitation-type process.</div>
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NOELLE (actor's voice): I didn't know how to start planning goals like getting a house or getting involved in a romantic relationship.</div>
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RICHIE (actor's voice): If I'm in a relationship, I would tell them I had cancer. But I'd never, ever tell them that I'm infertile.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: These people opened up their hearts to her. And she could identify with a lot of the issues.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: Being involved in helping other young people was, in fact, a source of therapy for me.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: And it's rather ironical that, halfway through her PhD, the new cancer emerged.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: September-October 2014, just before my final seminar, I felt scratchy things on my neck. And I went in for an MRI scan and there was a tumour in my neck, right next to my larynx. So I knew I had cancer again.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle about to enter MRI machine)<br />
NURSE: Just remember to breathe normally and try to relax. If you have any problems, just call out to us.<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: OK. Thank you.<br />
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: It wasn't a relapse of her Hodgkin's lymphoma: it was a new tumour altogether. That she's got it is almost entirely the result of the draconian treatment she had 10 or 12 years ago for Hodgkin's lymphoma.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: So I was told that I would have to have a pharyngolaryngectomy, which is removal of the larynx and - which is your voice box or your vocal cords - right down to the pharynx, which connects your, connects to your oesophagus, so you can swallow. That's a nightmare diagnosis. That's like what horror movies are made of.</div>
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(Footage of conference, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Adelaide, February 2015. Danielle chats with people prior to seminar)<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: You can't see it. My neck still looks beautiful. (Laughs)<br />
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DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: For Danielle it was a scary, horrifying thought, because her voice was so important in terms of her public speaking role, interacting with other people. Having surgery just seemed like such a radical - making life not worth living, basically - that she felt that she would lose her whole quality of life if she had the surgery.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: We really did have an agonising couple of weeks of deciding... whether to go ahead with this or not. The stance we took in the family was that, ultimately, it was Danielle's decision.</div>
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER: Either she goes that way and has the operation; or she chooses to die. And that was the choice. My reactions to all this: well, I thought, "She can't go and just cut her neck out." In fact, that's what she was thinking, but I wouldn't have influenced her.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: And so we, we went for a second opinion: to Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Dad and I went together as the team that we are, to conquer this disease. You know, ever since I was a little girl he would always say, "Come on: tough Tindles, tough Tindles." And it's... (sighs) it's hard 'cause you do look to your Dad to make things better.</div>
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(Home video footage of Robert at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, February 2015)<br />
ROBERT TINDLE: We've done a deal of homework and it's a question of going through the options.<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: I'm ready to take this beast on, because that's the kind of person I am. OK. Bye bye!<br />
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I was given the option of chemotherapy: a very aggressive form of chemotherapy.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle in hospital, Brisbane, March 2015. Caption: 'Chemo Day 3')<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Whilst I knew this was a pretty heavy-duty drug combo, I didn't expect to be knocked off my feet by day two.<br />
NURSE: It is very nauseating and people do struggle with it sometimes.<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: I'm just - yeah, so sick.<br />
NURSE: Yeah. It sucks<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Ow. I can't do this.<br />
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DANIELLE TINDLE: Chemo is hell. It is. But if there's a chance of reducing the tumour and shrinking the, the disease, then I'll do it - 'cause I've done that before. I can do that. It gives you hope. You know, if it's six months of hell, I can do six months of hell. I can do a year of hell. Just don't put a full stop, you know, the full stop, which is: rip out your larynx. There's no way, no turning back.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle after receiving results of chemotherapy outside Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, April 2015)<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: So it's pretty much the worst news you could imagine. There's been no response from the chemotherapy. And in fact, there's been growth.<br />
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: She was told, "Well, it is non-resectable. We can't even do the pharyngolaryngectomy now. I'm afraid there's nothing else we can offer you. We recommend you to palliative care."</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I just want to get on with everything that I love. And the fact that I have finished my PhD and... I just love life so much. (Cries) And it just takes all that away from me.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle at graduation ceremony, Queensland University of Technology, July 2015)<br />
ANNOUNCER: Chancellor, I present for the Doctorate of Philosophy, Danielle Antonia Tindle.<br />
(Assembly applauds as Danielle receives doctorate)<br />
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: It really has been an extraordinary achievement. And she's worked during times when she really hasn't felt very well. And it's required a great deal of perseverance on her part to get to this point.</div>
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER: Elation, but it's: yes, actual tears. I don't think anybody noticed, but I was very emotional. But she's done it and, um... wonderful.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE, PHD: I'm very happy to be here. I didn't know if I would be able to get here today. So being able to smile and really take it all in: it's kind of bitter-sweet, though, because... you know, there's a lot of talk about futures. For me it's not about that: it can't be about that.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle visiting her father. She opens the door to his study)<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Oh, hello.</div>
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ROBERT TINDLE: Hello! What are you doing here?<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: I'm seeing puppies. Have they had their haircuts?<br />
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: We've tried all conventional approaches. We've exhausted those. I've decided to push forward, in fact: push the frontiers a bit more.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: The thing about my Dad is that he does project into the future. And so he has contingencies for everything. He has plan A, B, C, D, E, F. He will explore, he will research, he'll scour the world for a solution to this. I trust him to do that.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: What we've got here is a comparison of two drugs which are being used in melanoma, quite successfully. Whether it works in neuroendocrine carcinoma is yet to be found out. And Danielle will be the guinea pig in this, I guess. I spend a good part of my time thinking about Danielle's treatment: what do we do "if". And we really are very much running out of things to do now. In fact, we've run out of them several times - and at the last, at the eleventh hour, you know, we've managed to dream up something else.</div>
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(Danielle and Robert have an appointment with Dr Margie McGrath)<br />
ROBERT TINDLE: How nice to see you again.<br />
DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: Hi, Robert. Nice to see you too. Sorry to keep you waiting...<br />
PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: So, PD1 blockade could, would be applicable to Danielle in spite of her RB and P53 mutations. Would you agree?<br />
DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: Yes.<br />
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DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: We had to look at novel treatments that weren't funded. Obviously Danielle's father, being a professor in translational research, was, you know, more knowledgeable than me in this area. Then we started looking at immunotherapies. They're something very exciting within oncology over the past 12-18 months. But it does, you know, take quite a while for things to be able to get listed on the PBS - and these drugs are extremely expensive.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle at Brisbane hospital, February 2016)<br />
MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST: Hi, Danielle. I just have paperwork here to sign. And the amount to pay today is $4,752.65.<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Yep.<br />
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: If you're a melanoma patient and your chemotherapy happens to be one of these antibodies, you'd be paying about $6.50 a shot. And in the adjacent cubicle there'd be someone like Danielle, who is paying $5,000 a shot.</div>
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RICHARD VINES, RARE CANCERS AUSTRALIA: If it was melanoma, then all of our taxes would be paying for Danielle's drugs. But because it's not melanoma; because it's rare and not listed on the PBS: then we have to find another mechanism to pay for it.<br />
And it may well be that that includes Danielle's life savings or house. And it causes huge financial distress - and that's just... yeah, it's wrong.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I'm waking up in the night, worrying about this kind of stuff, my mind racing. And I've sent umpteen emails to cancer organisations and philanthropic foundations. And you know, there's nothing that they can do to ease my financial burden, other than small amounts of philanthropic support that I have had, which I'm very grateful for, of course.</div>
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RICHARD VINES, RARE CANCERS AUSTRALIA: I don't think it's fair. Nobody thinks it's fair. If a patient is on a drug for $100,000 a year, it's because it's working. And that's not a big price to pay to keep somebody alive.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle in appointment with Margie McGrath, Brisbane, April 2016)<br />
DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: Hi. How did everything go with your radiation?<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Um, it wasn't too bad, actually. Swallowing is good, breathing's good. I'm not coughing as much.<br />
DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: Alright.<br />
(Danielle and Margie hug)<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Thank you so much. It's lovely to see you.<br />
DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: You really do look good.<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Thank you...<br />
DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: It's great to see you looking happier.<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: You look good too.<br />
DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: Thank you. (Laughs)<br />
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I believe in medical science. You know, live another six months: something else will come along. Right now - sitting here right now - I'm not scared. And I actually feel pretty OK and I believe that these immunotherapy drugs are gonna do their - the trick.</div>
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DR MARGIE MCGRATH, ONCOLOGIST: Danielle's sort of said to me, you know, "I don't want you to give up on me." And that is hard, because there does come a point where there aren't... there isn't any more opt.. you know, treatment options left.</div>
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(Elizabeth visits Danielle, bringing her poodles, who excitedly jump on and lick Danielle)<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Hello.<br />
ELIZABETH TINDLE: Sorry, I've invaded...<br />
DANIELLE TINDLE: Hello, Mum. Hello.<br />
ELIZABETH TINDLE (laughs): Did you notice I'm here, too?<br />
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER I'm a person of now. And Danielle's here and still a very strong force. And a lot of wonderful times we have together.</div>
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(Footage of Danielle and Elizabeth watching TV. Music: 'Skye Boat Song' [theme from TV series 'Outlander'], performed by Bear McCreary featuring Raya Yarbrough)</div>
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER: I've never thought of doom and gloom with regard to Danielle. She'll always be here.</div>
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INTERVIEWER (off-screen): Well, she's done it before?</div>
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ELIZABETH TINDLE, MOTHER: She has. She's done it before. And knowing the will and the strength of that young woman, it's going to take a lot to stop her going on.</div>
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PROF. ROBERT TINDLE, FATHER: It's not going to be easy, but I know how to accept it if she dies. It'd be a celebration. It'd be a celebration of Danielle. And she hasn't given up, you know. And most people would have given up long, long ago.</div>
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DANIELLE TINDLE: I can't not hope. I just feel like I'm too vital a being. Mum once wrote a letter to me and she wrote, "Danielle Tindle is a very vivacious creature" - and she underlined the word "vivacious". And I... that's how I feel. I look in the mirror and I go, you know: "I'm just, I'm unstoppable."</div>
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The Federal Department of Health says the company that produces the immunotherapy drugs "has not applied" for the drugs to be listed on the PBS for neuroendocrine tumours, and that the medicine "has not been registered by the TGA" for this cancer.</div>
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Dr Margie McGrath says she's "prescribing the medicine to Danielle based on genomic profiling," which shows that Danielle's tumour is "very similar" to small-cell carcinoma in which immunotherapy drugs have shown some promising results.</div>
chong y lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10365847893009738913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-35525717945142621402016-12-24T08:00:00.000+08:002016-12-24T08:16:18.044+08:00RIDE INTO A BRAND Nu'e Year with Desi alongside :::Lana Del Rey...:)POST RE-DATEd to wish thee<b><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"> "A MERRY CHRISTMAS and an AP ap AP NU'E YEAR 2017!"</span></u></b><br />
Orignal title: <i><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">"RIDE" into Haiti Getaway wit' LANA DEL REY...</span></b></i>dated 12.12.2016.<br />
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Desi is takin' indefinite AWAY WIT'OUT OFFICIAL LE VE and will be back as soon as THE PERFECT STORM BREAKS. Meanwhile, please take GOoDcare of thyself, and thy GOoDfriends WHOever they are, WHEREever they are, and if you have NO1, jest THINK OF SOCRATES and/desi, COME BANTER wit' THEE/me. YL, Desi<br />
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I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer.<br />
At night I fell asleep with visions of myself, dancing and laughing and crying with them.<br />
Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour, and my memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times.<br />
I was a singer - not a very popular one,<br />
I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.<br />
But I didn't really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.<br />
When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I'd been living, they asked me why - but there's no use in talking to people who have home.<br />
They have no idea what it's like to seek safety in other people - for home to be wherever you lay your head.<br />
I was always an unusual girl.<br />
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...<br />
And if I said I didn't plan for it to turn out this way I'd be lying...<br />
Because I was born to be the other woman.<br />
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.<br />
Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn't even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.<br />
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I've been out on that open road<br />
You can be my full time daddy,<br />
White and gold<br />
Singing blues has been getting old<br />
You can be my full time baby,<br />
Hot or cold<br />
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Don't break me down<br />
I've been travelin' too long<br />
I've been trying too hard<br />
With one pretty song<br />
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I hear the birds on the summer breeze,<br />
I drive fast, I am alone in midnight<br />
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble,<br />
But I, I've got a war in my mind<br />
So, I just ride, just ride,<br />
I just ride, just ride<br />
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Dying young and I'm playing hard<br />
That's the way my father made his life an art<br />
Drink all day and we talk 'til dark<br />
That's the way the road dogs do it – ride 'til dark.<br />
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Don't leave me now<br />
Don't say good bye<br />
Don't turn around<br />
Leave me high and dry<br />
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I hear the birds on the summer breeze,<br />
I drive fast, I am alone in midnight<br />
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble,<br />
But I, I've got a war in my mind<br />
I just ride, just ride,<br />
I just ride, just ride<br />
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I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy<br />
I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes<br />
It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby<br />
So I just ride, I just ride<br />
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I hear the birds on the summer breeze,<br />
I drive fast, I am alone in midnight<br />
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble,<br />
But I, I've got a war in my mind<br />
I just ride, just ride,<br />
I just ride, I just ride<br />
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Music video spoken ending:]</i><br />
Every night I used to pray that I'd find my people, and finally I did on the open road.<br />
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.<br />
Live fast. Die young. Be wild. And have fun.<br />
I believe in the country America used to be.<br />
I believe in the person I want to become.<br />
I believe in the freedom of the open road.<br />
And my motto is the same as ever:<br />
"I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride."<br />
Who are you?<br />
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?<br />
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?<br />
I have. I am fucking crazy.<br />
But I am free.</div>
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chong y lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10365847893009738913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11493162.post-39809669177830561202016-12-24T07:44:00.000+08:002016-12-31T21:46:40.754+08:00Making my life a piece/peace of ART....I had been listening endlerss times to "RIDE" and enjoying the VISUALS of LANA DEL REY, and you know what, when my sunny boy gifted me a PICTORIAL gifted him by a FRIEND named BEE, I combined the two gifts to begin writing a SHORT STORY.<br />
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Have a peep below: come back on New Year's Eve and maybe Desi would have completed that story JEST for THEE!<br />
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Short Story's Curtaions Opening......<br />
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by<i><b> Desi from EnchantedGardenz</b></i></div>
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It is always about a girl. Yes, since Eve tasted the forbidden fruit urged on by her only partner Adam's bidding in that garden onceuponatime far far away.</div>
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This one is about a special gal from a land called ApaNama; so we shall call her Gal.AP.ManE rhyming with PennyLane. "Mane" because she featured long flowing tresses one sees in a young stud roaring to bolt the stable to wander to the hills. That's answering nature's call by a hot blooded young horse, yes. For short. this narrator shall refer to her as GAME.</div>
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Last night It was a dazzling moony night in Penang -- also nicked The PearlOfTheOrient - where crowds by the hundreds had gathered at the Gurney Drive Explanade to watch the Suppermoon...</div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>(To be continued</i></span></b>...:)<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>IF THE TELLER SURVIVES THE WINE, .... and SONG and THE RIDE! Adios, behave thyself, If thou drinketh, don't drive, be safe, JEST RIDE!::::_________________________________________</b></span></div>
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Meanw'ile, these lines keep me Company this festive season -- my mind may be in Furong, but my spirits are elsewhere<i><span style="color: blue;">: Just Ride, Just RIDE</span></i> and WRIThE...<i>YL, Desi</i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; text-align: center;">"I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride."</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; text-align: center;">Who are you?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; text-align: center;">Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; text-align: center;">Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; text-align: center;">I have. I am fucking crazy.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; text-align: center;">But I am free.</span></b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background-color: #ccccdd; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; text-align: center;"><br /></span></b></span></i>chong y lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10365847893009738913noreply@blogger.com0