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Charged To The Max

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Seen here with possible alleged conspirators, including a notorious pedophile, Ghislaine Maxwell is charged with child sex trafficking.

Maxwell may get absolutely crushed at her trial, and it appears to be too late for her to flip. There will be no more redacted testimony and people will be identified. When prosecutors add serious charges like this, in the run-up to trial that's typically a sign that they're done waiting.   

Not Giving Up My OBE

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Brits and Americans are divided by attitudes toward the House of Windsor. Why are there different reactions to Harry and Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview? What is the attraction to learn about The Royals who're among the most dysfunctional families on earth?

Living For Democracy?

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Last night, I was channel surfing and stopped to watch #MSNBC’s @Lawrence on cable TV. O’Donnell, whom I had met years earlier when Lawrence was a guest on The McLaughlin Group program I was co-producing. On last night's show  Lawrence was interviewing Aaron Sorkin and Sasha Baron Cohen about their award-winning film. 

Attacking GOP Court Packing

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Packing #SCOTUS has become a Washington power struggle that will continue for years. It was the most partisan confirmation vote for a Supreme Court justice in modern American history and the first time since 1869 that justice was confirmed without a single vote from the opposing party.

The US Constitution allows Congress to determine how many justices should make up the SCOTUS. That number has ranged from 6 to 10, before settling at 9. If they win control, Democrats can now expand the number to remedy GOP court-packing.

Kissing and Hugging

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I miss Kissing and Hugging, what about you? Anyway, you chose to say - Will we return to Hugging and Kissing, Besos y Abrazos, 擁抱和親吻 any time soon, or ever again?

Return To Classes?

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POTUS has been crying wolf during his entire presidency. Now that the wolf is here, will everyone believe Donald Trump? 


Since the COVID19 Pandemic, educational institutions designed to provide teaching spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students were shuttered in the middle of the school year. Are lockdowns and other despotic measures causing untold suffering for parents and school kids?

Pursuit of Happiness

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“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” Victor Emil Frankl (1905 – 1997)

Reading Time

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On this World Book Day, Folks are bracing for months of disruptions from the new virus as its unrelenting spread brings ballooning infections and economic fallout.

During these trying times of self-imposed limited quarantine, one of the best activities for intelligent individuals has to be reading and writing. #LoveReading #LoveWriing

A Friend In Need

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As a longtime friend of Asia and Yirong’s faithful partner, it worries me to see the negative Press and publicity developing in American and worldwide.

'A friend in need is a friend indeed'? The proverb was known by the 3rd century BC. Quintus Ennius wrote: 'Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur'. This translates from the Latin as 'a sure friend is known when in difficulty'.