October 2, 2018

McConnell supported Russia in investigation not us, new book by Greg Miller, "The Apprentice"

This book will be published on October 16, and Greg Miller is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for Washington Post..The conversation described took place in 2016 before the election. Complete info on this at link below quotes

Here is an quote from the link below...please read.......(this article is from Slate.)
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When Sen. Mitch McConnell was told by then–CIA Director John Brennan before the 2016 election that Vladimir Putin and Russia were attempting to interfere with the goal of assisting Donald Trump, McConnell’s response took him aback, according to Greg Miller, a Washington Post reporter who has just released a book about Putin, Trump, and the election. The majority leader said he wouldn’t sign on to any condemnation of Russia’s actions and that if the administration went public with the intelligence, McConnell would in turn call out Brennan as a partisan intervening on behalf of Hillary Clinton, Miller colorfully revealed in a CNN interview Tuesday.

(another quote from the article, further down)

Jeh Johnson, the secretary of homeland security for the last four years of the Obama administration, describes meetings between top intelligence officials and congressional leadership as well as the heads and ranking members of the intelligence and foreign affairs committees in which they told the lawmakers what the intelligence community knew about Russia’s efforts to influence the election. McConnell “expressed skepticism,” Frontline reported, “and warned that he would not join an effort to publicly challenge Putin.”



https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/greg-miller-book-the-apprentice-mitch-mcconnell-john-brennan-russian-election-interference.html

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personal comment: McConnell was told before the election that Russia was trying to interfere in the election..(Which is exactly what happened, to what extent..we do not know for sure.) Perhaps numbers were changed to favor Trump.??? How it was done we do not know. But I am guessing that the CIA knows, but due to questions of secrecy within the CIA, exactly how this was done cannot be made public.. But to think that McConnell response was that he would attack Brennan and the CIA as.... Hillary supporters .and also, that he would not join in an effort to publically challenge Putin.... is incredible... Why not criticize Putin for trying to interfere in our election??? but McConnell said he would blame Hillary instead....unbelievable !!!!!!!

This book could be very damaging to McConnell....and to see his demise would raise my spirit a whole lot.

October 2, 2018

The real reason Trump downplayed the disaster of Hurricane Maria..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll

....Look carefully at the above chart. Look at numbers 4 and 5 on the list of disasters.. Trump probably was told that Hurricane Maria was an epic disaster that killed thousands.
(no I do NOT know this. It is"SPECULATION ONLY" ) about what Trump was told(after all, that is what we do here, speculate and discuss)

...Why? The people who live in Puerto Rico must have informed him of the incredible nature of death and destruction. So, he downplayed it. He didn't want to look bad. It was on his watch.. Why give the true number of deaths? Just come up with some number that looks bad, but not too bad. Why would he be told this?..Well.. Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America..a territory, just like Hawaii and Alaska were before they became states.
.... So, as leader of the country that Puerto Rico is part of, Trump would be told..The people living there are citizens of the U.S.A..English and Spanish are spoken there..Is that correct? Puerto Rico is part of the U.S.A...Many of us have friends and relatives living there. Lots of connections there just like in Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, or New York......again, Puerto Rico is part of the U.S.A.

....So, it took months to come up with a number that might be correct..Something like 1400, but no proof. That is the number of deaths we all believed during the spring and early summer..(again, I am not an expert on this)

So last August, after a study was concluded by a very high quality study group from George Washington University, the number of deaths almost reached 3000. ....2982...to be exact.... Yet, there is little understanding of what that means...

so here it is: ....That is the same number that were killed on the 9/11 attack on New York City. Hurricane Maria was that great a disaster.

Yes, it was not covered as much. And yes, we didn't see most of the death and destruction, only some coverage in Puerto Rico...But that disaster was downplayed by the President of the United States. 64 deaths is not 2947 deaths...(also, the media has lots of connections in NYC, not so many in Puerto Rico)

Why? (and this is speculation also) and I hate to say this but, I don't think Trump cares about Puerto Rico. Who knows? But he did not act like he cared. Did he? The media did not give it as much coverage as 9/11 for lots of reasons to be discussed at another time..

(I discovered the similarities in death, by looking at that chart above at the link) I didn't see the connection until today and that is the truth. But I am not the only one. The media has never reported, as far as I can tell, the similarities in the number of deaths from the two disaster.. Why did I look at that? I was researching deaths from Maria and the Indonesia disaster, and stumbled on that chart.. then I saw the connection.

October 1, 2018

Indonesian Tsunami Death toll hits 1,200, Survivors desperate for aid

Source: NPR

October 1, 2018--Emergency crews are still trying to find victims of an earthquake and tsunami that struck Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, killing at least 1,200 people, according to local media citing government officials.

The death toll could rise even higher, officials warn, as workers clear debris, rubble and vehicles that were swept away by a massive wave of seawater on Friday.

The tsunami was triggered by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck along the coastal district of Donggala on Friday. Most of the dead were found in nearby Palu, a city of nearly 300,000 where an onlooker took a video of the seawater raging ashore just after 5 p.m., local time.

Relief and rescue efforts have been hampered by communication and transportation problems in the stricken region. The damage caused landslides and forced Palu's international airport to close for at least one full day.


Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/01/653268266/indonesian-tsunami-death-toll-hits-1-200-survivors-desperate-for-aid