EL SÚPER MARTES ES EL 3 DE MARZO DE 2020. De SEN BERNIE SANDERS: les escribo para compartir nuestros números de recaudación de fondos de febrero y para preguntarles si puedo contar con su voto, o si ya votaron, para nuestra campaña 1 de MARZO de 2020

Estoy orgulloso de decir que soy un socialista cristiano ( Creo que las raíces del socialismo se encuentran en las enseñanzas de Jesucristo ) y me han donado ay estoy apoyando a Bernie Sanders para el presidente. Super Martes es el 3 EL 20 DE MARZO favor asegúrese de votación si es de día Primaria Democrática en su estado y tener en cuenta la votación para el mejor candidato para presidente, Sen Bernie Sanders. Ir a Rock The Vote  para comprobar cuando primario es de su estado, su estado de registro de votantes, a registrarse para votar y los requisitos de identificación para votar. Aquí está una carta de Sen Sanders sobre el estado de su campaña. Haga clic en los enlaces de la carta a prometer su apoyo, ir a su  página web  para su plataforma de campaña, donar a la campaña si es posible. Si primarias demócratas de su estado esMartes, 3 20 DE MARZO DE sólo recuerda a votar , el destino de nuestra República democrática depende de ello!

Hoy en día, estoy muy orgulloso de compartir con ustedes algunas extraordinaria noticia:  durante el mes de febrero solo, nuestra campaña ha recaudado más de $ el 46,5 millones de dólares de más de 2,2 millones de donaciones individuales - para una donación promedio de alrededor de $ 21 años.

Se trata de una campaña para la gente trabajadora de este país alimentado por los trabajadores de este país.

Mientras que otras campañas tienen sus súper PAC y sus donantes millonarios, multimillonarios o son ellos mismos, tenemos algo que ellos no tienen - y que es la gente. Montones y montones de personas.

Ahora, antes de compartir un poco más acerca de nuestro récord, la recaudación de fondos de pequeña dólar, tengo que pedirle que haga algo muy importante - algo que le ayudará enormemente nuestra campaña, mientras nos preparamos para el Super martes y los estados que siguen:

Se puede añadir su nombre para decir que puedo contar con su voto para presidente, o decir que usted ya ha votado a favor de nuestra campaña? Esta petición es muy importante.

Sé que enviamos una serie de correos electrónicos de recaudación de fondos, por lo que pensé que era importante compartir algunos detalles más sobre las personas que están impulsando nuestro movimiento de base:

• Más de 350.000 personas hicieron su primera contribución a nuestra campaña en el mes de febrero.


• Una vez más, la ocupación más común de un donante a nuestra campaña es maestros y los patrones más comunes fueron los trabajadores Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, USPS, y Target en ese orden.


• Más del 56% de nuestros donantes, en febrero estaban bajo la edad de 40 años.


• Más del 99% de las donaciones fueron de $ 100 o menos.


• Y hemos recibido más de 1,4 millones de donaciones de la gente que voto el Súper Martes.

Durante mucho tiempo, los sistemas políticos y económicos de este país han sido apilados contra los estadounidenses comunes. Los ricos se hacen más ricos, ya que utilizan su riqueza para comprar las elecciones - algo que están tratando de hacer en esta primaria.

Pero lo que estamos demostrando en esta campaña es que uno no tiene que pedir a los ricos y los poderosos de las contribuciones de campaña para ganar las elecciones.

Estamos demostrando que somos mucho más poderoso que el 1 por ciento jamás haber imaginado.

Y eso es importante, porque a fin de superar Trump, vamos a necesitar una campaña de energía y entusiasmo en noviembre.

Necesitamos un candidato con un programa que moviliza a millones de estadounidenses detrás de las ideas como de enfermedad para todos, el aumento del salario mínimo y el líder mundial en la lucha contra el cambio climático.

Esa es nuestra campaña.

Usted nos ha puesto en una posición para ganar. Ahora tenemos que salir a votar. Así que pregunto:

Se puede añadir su nombre para decir que puedo contar con su voto para presidente, o decir que usted ya ha votado a favor de nuestra campaña? Esta petición es muy importante.

Ahora estos números, sin duda, poner una diana en la espalda. Y se puede suponer que la clase multimillonaria y una serie de súper PAC verán ellos y sólo redoblar sus esfuerzos para derrotarnos.

Pueden levantar millones de dinero de dólares a la vez. Elevamos nuestra $ 5, $ 10, y $ 27 a la vez.

Ahora que puede parecer una falta de coincidencia - y lo es. Debido a que millones de personas se reúnen y el chip en lo que pueden, cuando pueden, que no sólo vamos a ganar esta nominación, pero vamos a vencer a Trump y transformar este país.

Gracias.

Vamos a hacerlo de nuevo en marzo. La victoria de Let el Súper Martes. Y avancemos juntos y ganar esta nominación.

En solidaridad,

Bernie Sanders

AÑADA SU NOMBRE

 

Pagado por Bernie 2020

PO BOX 391, Burlington, VT 05402

THE OPTIMIST: This man broke a hip while mowing his lawn. The EMTs who responded finished his yardwork., A 42-year-old Zamboni driver filled in as an emergency NHL goalie. He got the win., A 9-year-old bullied to the brink led an Australian rugby team to a roaring crowd, She was unconscious in her sinking car after a seizure. That’s when two strangers in ‘go mode’ saved her., Why my black son needed a dog, Watching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ with 18,000 teenagers was one of the most profound theater experiences of my career, Meet the friar who combined flour and faith to win the ‘Great American Baking Show’, Don’t be afraid to let children read graphic novels. They’re real books., Antarctica is becoming easier to visit. Here’s how to get to the bottom of the world., Meet the 62-year-old Marine veteran who planked for over 8 hours to break a Guinness world record 1MAR20

I changed the order of the stories in this weeks Optimist column in the Washington Post because any of the other stories should have been in the headline and first in the column rather than the story lauding self-absorbtion and a meaningless world record. Start with these two.....

This man broke a hip while mowing his lawn. The EMTs who responded finished his yardwork.

Left: Aiden Martin visits his grandfather Harold Storelee in the hospital after Storelee fell while mowing his lawn. (Marlo Storelee); Right: West Thurston Regional Fire Authority EMTs responded to the scene and then went back to finish Storelee’s yardwork. (Cheryl Jones)

By 

Allison Klein 

Feb. 26, 2020 at 7:22 a.m. EST

Harold Storelee, 88, is a man who likes to keep his house and yard tidy. When he was cutting his grass one morning last week, he fell. He was unable to get up for about four hours and was out of view of passersby.

Three middle school boys walking by his home in Rochester, Wash., on Friday heard his cries and flagged down a car to call 911.

An ambulance rushed to the scene, and three emergency responders from the West Thurston Regional Fire Authority took Storelee to a hospital. He had broken a hip.

The trio of firefighter EMTs spent the rest of the day racing to car accidents and other calamities. At about 5 p.m., as things calmed down, firefighter EMT Alexander Trautman looked at his two co-workers and asked whether they would be up for going back to Storelee’s house to finish his lawn.

“There was no hesitation from anybody,” said Trautman, who has worked for the West Thurston department, near Olympia, for about 10 years. “We talked to our lieutenant and captain, and they were 100 percent behind it.”

So he and fellow firefighter EMTs Miranda Panuska and Garrett Bromley headed back to the partially mowed lawn and spent about an hour mowing, sweeping and tidying up, Trautman said.

“We knew he’d be down for a while,” Trautman said. “We figured the least we could do was go back and help out.”

West Thurston firefighter EMT Alexander Trautman mows Storelee’s lawn while firefighter EMT Miranda Panuska sweeps up. (Cheryl Jones)

Storelee’s grandson Aiden Martin said his grandfather has lived alone since his grandmother passed away five years ago. He said the lawn is his grandfather’s “pride and joy of the house.”

Martin posted a photo of his grandfather on Twitter, as well as a photo of the firefighter EMTs, which was taken by neighbor Cheryl Jones. Martin wrote: “My granddad fell this morning while mowing the lawn and broke his hip. The EMT’s that took him to the hospital came back and finished his job for him.”

West Thurston firefighter EMT Garrett Bromley mows Storelee’s lawn. (Cheryl Jones)

Trautman said he remembered Storelee from a call about a year ago when Storelee had fallen off a ladder.

“We were familiar with him,” Trautman said. “He’s a really, really nice guy, the kind of guy who would never ask for help in any way, shape or form.”

Trautman said he and his co-workers are encouraged to help people beyond rendering medical aid.

“We’ve done similar things before. We look at it like a family community. I’ve seen people with broken porches and replaced a couple of boards,” he said. “If we see someone in need, we can go help and buy them groceries, and the department will refund us our money.”

Martin said that, while in the hospital, his grandfather was somewhat confused because of the medication he was given, but that he was happy to learn his lawn had been mowed.

He added that his grandfather needed hip surgery after the fall and is doing physical therapy to help him start walking again.

Robert W. Scott, operations chief for the West Thurston Regional Fire Authority, said his department’s 33 staff and 20 volunteers “are empowered to feel part of the community.”

“They were compelled to go back and take care of the job he was doing,” Scott said about the firefighter lawn mowers. “They wanted to do the right thing.”

He added that two of the three seventh-graders who found Storelee after hearing him moaning in pain initially didn’t tell their parents about their good deed because they were afraid they would get in trouble. As it turns out, they were not where they were supposed to be.

Two of the boys — Colby Dunkin and Hayden Lewis — were to go straight to the Boys & Girls Club after school, but instead they decided to walk a third friend — Adam Dillon — home first, something they didn’t have their parents’ permission to do.

“Me and Colby were supposed to be going to the Boys & Girls Club, but we thought we would be a little sneaky and walk Adam home first,” said Hayden, 12.

As the boys walked by Storelee’s home, they heard him yelling “Help me,” so they walked inside his fence to check on him, Hayden said. At first Hayden hesitated to walk into Storelee’s yard.

“I decided I’m not going to run away,” Hayden said. “I’m going to help this old guy who is asking for help.”

Once Hayden saw Storelee on the ground, he realized he needed to get an ambulance, so he and Adam flagged down a car and asked the driver to call 911, he said.

Bridget Lewis, Hayden’s mother, said she didn’t find out about what her son had done until Monday, three days after it happened.

“Hayden is not in trouble because he helped save a man’s life,” Lewis said. “But we did have a talk about following rules.”

A 9-year-old bullied to the brink led an Australian rugby team to a roaring crowd

By 

Alex Horton and 

Hannah Knowles 

Feb. 22, 2020 at 4:45 p.m. EST

When Quaden Bayles walked onto a rugby field before a rowdy crowd Saturday night, he may as well have been 10 feet tall.

With one hand holding a ball and the other in the grip of star Joel Thompson, 9-year-old Quaden capped a whirlwind week after his heartbreaking story of bullying to the point of attempted suicide rocketed around the world.

Quaden is an Aboriginal Australian with achondroplasia dwarfism — a rare bone-growth disorder. Constant ridicule from other children drove him to the brink, his mother explained in a now-viral Facebook video.

“Give me a knife,” Quaden wails in the video. “I want to kill myself. I just want to die right now.”

“This is the effect of bullying,” says his mother, Yarraka Bayles, as her sobbing child buries his face in his seat.

Quaden leads out the All Stars | NRL on Nine

His story caught the eye of California-based comedian Brad Williams, who grew up with the same condition. The GoFundMe campaign he started Wednesday to send Quaden to Disneyland exploded to nearly half a million dollars by Saturday afternoon and prompted much of the worldwide attention Quaden’s story has received.

The National Rugby League’s Indigenous All Stars team also took notice. “The boys are here, we got your back, we’re here to support you,” a member of the team said in a video ahead of the exhibition against the Maori All Stars on the Gold Coast.

A wrenching video showed a bullied 9-year-old’s pain. Thousands rallied to send him to Disneyland.

Quaden’s turnaround was a relief to his mother. At a news conference Friday, she said he has gone “from the worst day of his life to the best day of his life,” according to the BBC.

“We are losing way too many people because of bullying, because of discrimination, because of racism,” she said. “There’s so many factors of bullying.

“On top of that, being an Aboriginal boy with a disability, people don’t understand that’s a double-edged sword,” she said. “There’s racism, and then there’s discrimination because of the disability.”

Quaden Bayles runs onto the field before the NRL match between the Indigenous All Stars and the Maori All Stars at Cbus Super Stadium on Saturday, on the Gold Coast, Australia. (Jason McCawley/Getty Images)

Quaden’s story resonated far and wide. Australian actor Hugh Jackman told him in a video, “Quaden, you are stronger than you know, and no matter what, you got a friend in me.”

The Maori All Stars won the game 30-16, but the focus remained on Quaden at the beginning.

The crowd was so loud that he wore a headset as he strode onto the field to the sounds of a didgeridoo. Quaden handed the referee the ball, stood tall with the team captains, and flashed a thumbs-up for the world.

THE OPTIMIST

Stories that inspire.

This man broke a hip while mowing his lawn. The EMTs who responded finished his yardwork. The three firefighter EMTs went back to the partially mowed lawn and spent about an hour mowing, sweeping and tidying up. By Allison Klein ●  Read more »

A 42-year-old Zamboni driver filled in as an emergency NHL goalie. He got the win. Dave Ayres said he had “the time of my life” in the Hurricanes’ win in Toronto. By Cindy Boren ●  Read more »

A 9-year-old bullied to the brink led an Australian rugby team to a roaring crowd Quaden Bayles, an Aboriginal Australian with a rare bone growth disorder, captured the world’s attention in a viral video detailing the bullying he has received. By Alex Horton and Hannah Knowles ●  Read more »

She was unconscious in her sinking car after a seizure. That’s when two strangers in ‘go mode’ saved her. In a dramatic rescue captured on video, bystanders managed to save a woman from drowning in a canal as she sat unconscious at the wheel of her quickly sinking car. By Meagan Flynn ●  Read more »

Why my black son needed a dog Our family dog became a safe place for our son, who is also autistic. Perspective ●  By Kelly Glass ●  Read more »

Watching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ with 18,000 teenagers was one of the most profound theater experiences of my career At Madison Square Garden, a free performance for middle and high school students revealed an incontestable truth: they were listening. Perspective ●  By Peter Marks ●  Read more »

Meet the friar who combined flour and faith to win the ‘Great American Baking Show’ The priest-in-training continues to adjust to life in the national spotlight. By Becky Krystal ●  Read more »

Don’t be afraid to let children read graphic novels. They’re real books. A librarian makes the case: Kids’ connection to comics helps create lifelong readers. Perspective ●  By Karen MacPherson ●  Read more »

Antarctica is becoming easier to visit. Here’s how to get to the bottom of the world. New ships are amping up the luxury and amenities; you can even drive by the continent. By Andrea Sachs ●  Read more »

Meet the 62-year-old Marine veteran who planked for over 8 hours to break a Guinness world record

The record-breaking feat caps nearly a decade of planking for the former Marine and Drug Enforcement Administration officer, who trained for hours each day to raise awareness about mental health issues.

By Teo Armus ●  Read more »

SEN BERNIE SANDERS: I am writing to share our February fundraising numbers, and to ask if I can count on your vote, or if you have already voted, for our campaign 1MAR20

I am proud to say I am a Christian Socialist ( I believe the roots of Socialism are found in the teachings of Jesus Christ ) and I have donated to and am supporting Bernie Sanders for President. Super Tuesday is on 3 MARCH 20, please be sure to vote if it is Democratic Primary day in your state and consider voting for the best candidate for president, Sen Bernie Sanders. Go to Rock The Vote to check when your state's primary is, your voter registration status, to register to vote and the I.D. requirements to vote. Here is a letter from Sen Sanders on the status of his campaign. Click the links in the letter to pledge your support, go to his  website for his campaign platform, donate to the campaign if you can. If your state's Democratic Primary  is TUESDAY, 3 MARCH 20 JUST REMEMBER TO VOTE, the fate of our democratic Republic depends on it!

Today, I am very proud to share with you some extraordinary news: during the month of February alone, our campaign raised more than $46.5 million from more than 2.2 million individual donations — for an average donation of about $21.

This is a campaign FOR the working people of this country powered BY the working people of this country.

While other campaigns have their super PACs and their billionaire donors, or are billionaires themselves, we have something they do not have — and that is people. Lots and lots of people.

Now before I share a bit more about our record-breaking, small-dollar fundraising, I need to ask you to do something very important — something that will help our campaign tremendously as we prepare for Super Tuesday and the states that follow:

Can you add your name to say I can count on your vote for president, or to say that you have already voted for our campaign? This request is very important.

I know we sent a number of fundraising emails, so I thought it important to share a few more details about the PEOPLE who are powering our grassroots movement:

• More than 350,000 people made their first contribution to our campaign in the month of February.


• Once again, the most common occupation of a donor to our campaign is teachers and the most common employers were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, USPS, and Target workers in that order.


• More than 56% of our donors in February were under the age of 40.


• More than 99% of our donations were for $100 or less.


• And we received more than 1.4 million donations from people who vote on Super Tuesday.

For too long, the political and economic systems of this country have been stacked against ordinary Americans. The rich get richer because they use their wealth to buy elections — something they are trying to do in this primary.

But what we are proving on this campaign is that one does not need to beg the wealthy and the powerful for campaign contributions to win elections.

We are proving that we are far more powerful than the 1 percent have ever imagined.

And that is important, because in order to beat Trump, we’re going to need a campaign of energy and enthusiasm in November.

We need a nominee with an agenda that mobilizes millions of Americans behind ideas like Medicare for All, raising the minimum wage, and leading the world in combating climate change.

That is our campaign.

You have put us in a position to win. Now we need to get out the vote. So I am asking:

Can you add your name to say I can count on your vote for president, or to say that you have already voted for our campaign? This request is very important.

Now these numbers will no doubt put a target on our back. And you can assume that the billionaire class and a number of super PACs will see them and only redouble their efforts to defeat us.

They can raise money millions of dollars at a time. We raise ours $5, $10, and $27 at a time.

Now that might seem like a mismatch — and it is. Because when millions of people come together and chip in what they can, when they can, we are not only going to win this nomination, but we are going to beat Trump and transform this country.

Thank you.

Let’s do it again in March. Let’s win on Super Tuesday. And let us go forward together and win this nomination.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

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PO BOX 391, Burlington, VT 05402

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL......

THEY CHOSE POORLY.......

THEY should have used a condom or at the least should have eaten donald after he was born!

SHIT FOR BRAINS

Scots ministers told to seek ‘unexplained wealth order’ for Donald Trump resorts 27FEB20

YOU'VE BEEN TRUMPED

drumpf / trump has a well deserved sordid and tawdry reputation not only in the U.S. but around the world. From The Scotsman this article on the government of Scotland considering a UWO / Unexplained Wealth Order that would require the drumpf / trump organization to prove the money used to purchase two resorts in Scotland was obtained legally, failure to respond can result in the property being seized by the Scottish government. The best thing about this is the drumpf / trump tribe is not popular in Scotland and the British government can not do anything to stop the government of Scotland from doing this. 

Scots ministers told to seek ‘unexplained wealth order’ for Donald Trump resort

The Scottish Government has been urged to apply for an unexplained wealth order to investigate Donald Trump’s deals to acquire his Scottish properties.

By Martyn McLaughlin

Thursday, 27th February 2020, 2:59 pm

Updated1 hour ago

Patrick Harvie MSP, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, said there were reasonable grounds for suspecting that the US president, or people he is connected with, “have been involved in serious crime.”

He has called on ministers to apply to the Court of Session to seek answers as to how Mr Trump’s bankrolled his multimillion acquisitions of land and property in his mother’s homeland.

Responding at First Minister’s Questions, Nicola Sturgeon stressed she was “no defender” of Mr Trump, but said any allegations of criminality were a matter for Police Scotland and the Crown Office.

Donald Trump acquired the Turnberry resort in 2014 for 35m. Picture: John Devlin

An UWO is a relatively new - and rarely used - power which has been designed to target suspected corrupt foreign officials who have potentially laundered stolen money through the UK.

The mechanism, introduced in 2018, is an attempt to force the owners of assets to disclose their wealth. If a suspected corrupt foreign official, or their family, cannot show a legitimate source for their riches, then authorities can apply to a court to seize the property.

Mr Trump and the Trump Organisation have always stressed that they did not require any outside financing for their Scottish resorts.

George Sorial, the Trump Organisation’s former chief compliance counsel, told The Scotsman in 2008 that it had £1bn “sitting in the bank and ready to go” for its inaugural Scottish course, located in Aberdeenshire.

Scotland on Sunday later revealed how the same year, Mr Trump asked the Bank of Scotland for a 15 year mortgage worth £23m, and a £15m construction loan, as part of his efforts to establish a "landmark" hotel at St Andrews in Fife, the home of golf. The bank refused, and Mr Trump's plans were never realised.

Mr Harvie, an avowed critic of Mr Trump and his administration, said that an UWO was “designed precisely for these kinds of situations.”

He told MSPs: “Trump’s known sources of income do not explain where the money came from in these huge cash transactions. There are reasonable grounds for suspecting that his lawfully obtained income was insufficient.

“Trump is a politically exposed person in terms of the law, and there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that he, or people he is connected with, have been involved in serious crime. Some of them have pleaded guilty.”

He added: “We need to be given confidence that the government will show leadership and use the powers available to it.

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Donald Trump's failed attempts to buy landmark St Andrews hotel

It is not the first time there have been calls for an UWO in connection to Mr Trump’s Scottish interests.

Avaaz, the non-profit global activism organisation, has urged Scottish ministers to apply for such an order

Having taken what it described as “expert advice” on financial crime from advocate Bryan Heaney, Avaaz sent a briefing to Ms Sturgeon’s office last April.

The issue of the Avaaz briefing was raised by Mr Harvie today, and Ms Sturgeon said she would be happy to revisit the correspondence and inform Mr Harvie about what, if any, action had been taken. She emphasised the “sensitivity” involved in any potential legal action involving the government, and said issues about alleged criminality were a matter for police and prosecutors.

In its 2019 briefing, Avaaz set out what it described as “enough reasonable suspicion as to the nature of Mr Trump’s cash payments for the Turnberry golf resort to justify Scottish ministers’ application for a UWO to investigate the matter.”

It went on: “It is Mr Trump’s own actions that prompt legitimate questions about his income which, if left unanswered, would call into doubt the Scottish Government’s determination to confront the spectre of money laundering.”

Mr Trump acquired the historic Turnberry resort - a four-time host of golf’s Open championship - from Dubai-based Leisurecorp in April 2014 for £35m.

It has yet to turn a profit under his ownership, and the most recent accounts filed with Companies House show it is reliant on loans of £114.9m to its parent undertaking, the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust, a New York-based state grantor trust.

There have been questions surrounding the finances underpinning Mr Trump’s acquisition of land and property in Scotland for years.

In November 2017, Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, told the US Congress he found Mr Trump’s golf courses in Scotland and Ireland to be “concerning.”

Addressing the permanent select committee on intelligence at the House of Representatives, Mr Simpson said the accounts filed with UK authorities did not show any Russian involvement, but they did reveal “enormous amounts of capital flowing into these projects from unknown sources.”

He added: “If you’re familiar with Donald Trump’s finances and the litigation over whether he’s really a billionaire, you know, there’s good reason to believe he doesn't have enough money to do this and that he would have had to have outside financial support for these things.”

The Criminal Finances Act sets out a series of requirements which must be met before an UWO can be granted.

They include satisfying the court that a respondent’s” lawfully obtained income would have been insufficient for the purposes of enabling the respondent to obtain the property,” that the respondent is a “politically exposed person,” or that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that they, or a person connected with them, have been involved in serious crime.

The Trump Organisation has been contacted for comment.