Posted on 02/13/2017 7:59:35 PM PST by Steven W.
It was Friday or Saturday, I was reading Garry Kasparov’s twitter and they were saying, “Pence must be furious” and that Flynn would have to be fired. So, this was not a total surprise.
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/
No, I don’t agree with a lot the former chess champion says but sometimes, you get some good info like above.
Howard’s bio says he did a stint in the White House on the security council. Do you know was it Obama or Bush?
Or forced to resign.
Shep Smith would certainly find a better home at CNN.
“...a stint in the White House on the security council. Do you know was it Obama or Bush?”
I was wondering about that too.
Not everyone turns out as planned and good for President Trump to act rather than circle the wagons. Refreshing.
Did it occur to you that maybe the translators are the moles?
LOL!
From your Wikipedia link to this HuffPost article Harward wrote:
I grew up in Iran as the son of a Naval officer. As a graduate of the United States Navy Academy and a career naval officer, I served as a SEAL in the Naval Special Warfare community where I was stationed and served around the world. More recently, I commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan over six years following September 11, 2001. I have spent my life fighting for what I believe in.
What makes us a great country — and a military superpower — is the integration of women into the force. And it starts with education.
Not only does an education equip girls with knowledge, but it gives them a solid foundation from which to launch their lives. I remember clearly the day my daughter stood in our kitchen, opened up a small white envelope, and learned that she had won a scholarship. The fact that someone thought she was worthy of that money, wanted to invest in her mind and her growth, changed the way she saw herself — it strengthened her sense of self-worth.
When a girl’s community invests in her, she is more likely to use her education to bring her community along with her. It’s a proven investment: educated women marry later, raise healthier and smaller families, and are two times more likely to send their children to school. A girl who stays in secondary school for just one additional year can earn up to 25 percent more income as an adult, giving her the power to lift her family, her community and her country.
While serving in Afghanistan, I had the privilege of helping communities open schools in provinces across the country. Our goal was to ensure that education for girls wasn’t something that just happened in some provinces, but in fact across all of the districts in the country. The elders’ decision to invest in their girls’ education signaled to their communities that girls can be their future leaders. But I also witnessed women who were discarded into the Afghan prison system along with their children when they became too much of a burden on their families.
What a tremendous loss it is for this potential not to be realized everywhere throughout the world. Sixty-six million girls worldwide do not go to school. This global gender education gap is nothing short of an atrocity that warrants the same kind of rigorous, multifaceted and multilateral approach we apply to other international security issues like political instability, economic insecurity and terrorism.
Awareness is the first step. Today, on International Day of the Girl, the Nike Foundation is delivering a groundbreaking declaration to the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon. Created in partnership with 25 organizations and signed by leaders such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Queen Rania of Jordan and Care CEO Helen Gayle, the declaration demands that girls’ education be at the heart of the new millennium development goals. Room to Read, A New Day Cambodia, Camfed and many other organizations continue to work in some of the most challenging regions to promote and protect gender equity. Released earlier this year, Girl Rising spotlights the stories and strength of nine girls who are fighting for an education. The powerful film has evolved into a full-blown global campaign that galvanizes people to take action in support of girls’ education.
At the helm of the girls’ education fleet stands Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai. After surviving Taliban gunfire, Malala delivered a fierce speech at the United Nations, where she called on the power of pencils in the battle for equal education. I can think of no one who better deserves the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize. As Nobel Peace Prize Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland told Malala last month, “Your courage is sending a strong message to women to stand up for their rights, which constitutes a precondition for peace.”
But women need more than a strong message. We all do. What we need is to come together and rally around specific and measurable goals. We need to set realistic timelines. It is our collective responsibility to mobilize governments, religious figures, economic institutions, civil society organizations and leaders from all walks of life to fight for girls’ education regardless of location, nationality, race, religion or any dividing factor. Then we must identify entities that don’t support girls’ education and apply diplomatic tools like economic and political pressure.
If we think it’s acceptable to give only half our population opportunity, then we will reach only half of our potential. In this day and age, this shouldn’t be a fight at all — for anyone.
Article link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-s-harward/half-of-our-potential_b_4086312.html
Free trade is bad now?
But Flynn lied and it really is no more complicated than that.
Exactly. I looked up the position Flynn holds/held as National Security Advisor. That particular physical office is next to that of the President. If there was even a hint of disloyalty on Flynn’s part there is NO way he should stay.
[International Day of the Girl, the Nike Foundation is delivering a groundbreaking declaration to the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon. Created in partnership with 25 organizations and signed by leaders such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Queen Rania of Jordan and Care CEO Helen Gayle..]
PRAY PRESIDENT TRUMP will consider ALL of his options.
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“Despite repeated assurances that he hadn’t meddled in US foreign policy during the presidential transition period, Flynn reportedly assured the Russian ambassador to the US that sanctions placed on the country by President Obama would be eased once President Trump took office.
Compounding the situation, Vice President Mike Pence [misled by Flynn] repeated Flynn’s claim in media interviews.”
http://nypost.com/2017/02/13/flynns-days-could-be-numbered-after-he-lied-about-russia-report/
I agree. I read that all that happened was that the Ambassador brought up the sanctions, and Flynn referred him to what Trump had already said. He did not make some sort of quid pro quo negotiation.
He was just doing his job for the Transition. This really ticks me off. The Dem goes off violating the Logan Act all the time and none of them EVER have paid for it that I recall.
I am especially remembering John Kerry telling Vietnam to hang on a little longer when they were ready to give up. Treason. I think it’s best to be skeptical of any Republican who has been part of the Washington DC scene.
My vote is that it’s Preibus.
Might be the first sensible suggestion.
Trump is surrounded by sharks and traitors at many levels. Flynn was for sure on Trump’s side, so hate to see this happen.
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