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Monday 30 September 2019

THE CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION 
OF JOE BIDEN

                                                                                
        If investigating a presidential candidate         
            is  always  wrong and is  assumed              
                to  be   politically  motivated,                 
                   then the investigation of                      
                       candidate    Trump                           
                           must   clearly                               
                              be wrong.                                  
                                   too                                        
                                     !                                          
                                                                                


Both are presidential candidates.
Both are or were political office bearers.
If investigating Candidate Trump is permissible,
Then investigating Candidate Biden is also permissible.
But, if investigating Candidate Biden is permissible, 
Then President Trump would have done no wrong. 
And if President Trump has done no wrong,
Then President Trump should not be investigated.
Vice-President Biden should still be investigated
Because he still has a case to answer.

Thursday 26 September 2019

THAT UKRAINE PHONE CALL
Trump Exonerated!
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/snippets-from-trumps-conversation-with-ukrainian-president-urging-biden-inquiry

Trump asked for 2 favours:

One is for Ukraine to help provide information to his AG and his personal lawyer, Mr Giuliani, about an alleged incriminating DNC server which the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike failed to seize after their investigations in 2016 and its possible connection to the origins of the Mueller-disproven Russian collusion scam.

The new Ukrainian President, Mr Zelensky, replied that he would investigate, not only as a favour to Mr Trump, but for himself as he expressed the desire to start a new Government that conducts itself openly and candidly and in cooperation with the US.

Trump’s second favour (“the other thing”) is for Ukraine to investigate the truth of the former Vice-President, Mr Biden’s open bragging about himself stopping the prosecution of his son’s alleged corruption, and then to provide information to his AG.

The Ukrainian President replied that indeed he has personal knowledge about Biden’s case. Not only is he going to provide information to Trump’s AG, in turn, he requested Trump to provide any additional information Trump may have to him. He said that investigating this case will help in his own mission to restore honesty in his country by ensuring that justice is administered.

So, this is what the phone call was about. Unlike the Clinton Foundation’s “pay for play” and Mr Biden’s quid pro quo (Quid pro quo is a Latin phrase used in English to mean an exchange of goods or services, in which one transfer is contingent upon the other; "a favour for a favour".), there is absolutely no such nonsense here. It was about two presidents trying to restore political honesty and integrity in their own countries through open cooperation. No money, goods, services or anything of value changed hands.

It is nothing like what the New York Times’ intentional mischaracterisation of Trump of having “repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader” to investigate his Democratic political rival Joe Biden for political gain. Read the transcript yourself.

Wednesday 11 September 2019

STARING AT ...


Staring at the ceiling,
Devoid of pain or feeling.
Wondering as I tilt my eyes -
Will heaven ever sympathise?

Staring at the wall,
Its blank whiteness says it all.
Not a shadow or a sound, 
Just old familiar ground.

Staring at the floor,
Ants crawling I habitually ignore.
Their blood, sweat and tears,
Recklessly trampled over the years.

Staring at of the window,
Waiting for the next blow.
Yet, any illness or disappointment
Won’t deny this golden moment.