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In the middle of a pandemic Trump threatens to de-fund the World Health Organization
While the World Health Organization (WHO) has applauded the USA's response to the pandemic, it has been critical of Trump's odd behavior in delaying a response. So, our spoiled brat "so-called" president does what he always does - retaliate. (No. I didn't do a bad job. You did. 
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Yesterday from NPR;
)Yesterday from NPR;
In response to:
Trump Criticizes WHO And Threatens To Pull U.S. Funding
April 7, 20207:43 PM ET
Laurel Wamsley at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
November 7, 2018
In a White House press briefing on Tuesday, President Trump criticized the World Health Organization's coronavirus response and threatened to cut its funding.
President Trump assailed the World Health Organization on Tuesday, and indicated that he will consider putting a hold on funding it.
In a media briefing at the White House, Trump twice stated that the United States funds the majority of the organization's budget. According to the WHO, the United States provided 14.67% of its funding in 2018-2019.
The WHO has been the most prominent global organization leading the strategy to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
But on Tuesday, Trump criticized the WHO as slow to respond to the crisis, and repeatedly said the organization has been "China-centric." He complained that the WHO "receives vast amounts of money from the United States" and that the organization "called it wrong."
"They could have called it months earlier," he said. "They would have known and they should have known and they probably did not. So we'll be looking into that very carefully."
Trump at one point said "we're gonna put a hold on money spent to the WHO," before backtracking later in the briefing and saying "we're going to take a look at it."
Trump was asked what he meant by calling the WHO "China-centric."
"I don't know, they seem to come down on the side of China," Trump replied. "'Don't close your borders to China,' they don't report what's really going on. They didn't see it, and yet they were there, they didn't see what was going on in Wuhan. They didn't see it. How do you not see it? They didn't report it. They must have seen it, but they didn't report it."
The WHO has opposed travel bans, mainly due to the economic damage they cause.
The U.S. is the single largest contributor to the WHO. Its assessed contribution is 22% of the total members' assessed contributions. The U.S. pays considerably more than the assessed contributions in additional voluntary contributions. That 22% assessed contribution has been stable for many years, but the voluntary contributions have fluctuated depending on health crises and U.S. political priorities.
The WHO is funded not only by nations, but also nonprofit organizations, foundations, companies, universities and governmental alliances. After the U.S., the next three largest WHO funders in 2018-2019 were the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the GAVI Alliance, and the United Kingdom.
Trump Criticizes WHO And Threatens To Pull U.S. Funding
April 7, 20207:43 PM ET
Laurel Wamsley at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
November 7, 2018
In a White House press briefing on Tuesday, President Trump criticized the World Health Organization's coronavirus response and threatened to cut its funding.
President Trump assailed the World Health Organization on Tuesday, and indicated that he will consider putting a hold on funding it.
In a media briefing at the White House, Trump twice stated that the United States funds the majority of the organization's budget. According to the WHO, the United States provided 14.67% of its funding in 2018-2019.
The WHO has been the most prominent global organization leading the strategy to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
But on Tuesday, Trump criticized the WHO as slow to respond to the crisis, and repeatedly said the organization has been "China-centric." He complained that the WHO "receives vast amounts of money from the United States" and that the organization "called it wrong."
"They could have called it months earlier," he said. "They would have known and they should have known and they probably did not. So we'll be looking into that very carefully."
Trump at one point said "we're gonna put a hold on money spent to the WHO," before backtracking later in the briefing and saying "we're going to take a look at it."
Trump was asked what he meant by calling the WHO "China-centric."
"I don't know, they seem to come down on the side of China," Trump replied. "'Don't close your borders to China,' they don't report what's really going on. They didn't see it, and yet they were there, they didn't see what was going on in Wuhan. They didn't see it. How do you not see it? They didn't report it. They must have seen it, but they didn't report it."
The WHO has opposed travel bans, mainly due to the economic damage they cause.
The U.S. is the single largest contributor to the WHO. Its assessed contribution is 22% of the total members' assessed contributions. The U.S. pays considerably more than the assessed contributions in additional voluntary contributions. That 22% assessed contribution has been stable for many years, but the voluntary contributions have fluctuated depending on health crises and U.S. political priorities.
The WHO is funded not only by nations, but also nonprofit organizations, foundations, companies, universities and governmental alliances. After the U.S., the next three largest WHO funders in 2018-2019 were the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the GAVI Alliance, and the United Kingdom.
Cute recent story about Buddy.
Just in case you didn't see this story in yesterday's news, I figure that I would inform you.
An 85 year old rancher in Texas felt sick and was transported to the emergency room at the hospital by ambulance.
But, no one knew, that before the ambulance pulled away from the ranch, that the owner's beagle dog, Buddy, hopped on the side of the ambulance and rode outside for about 20 miles, before a driver flagged the ambulance down to let them know.
They had little choice but to bring the 25 pound dog in the ambulance for the rest of the ride to the hospital and Buddy even accompanied the owner into the hospital.
Buddy had been adopted only 4 months earlier from a shelter.
Any of us who have had pets, know that animals think and each shows individual personalities somewhat different than other members of the same species. It's been my experience, that this is not only true with pets, but wild animals too. Animals not only think, but they dream while they sleep.
Some people would like to believe that humans are way above the rest of the animal species. But, in reality each species has it's own capability and senses to sense and respond to the world around them. Some are very similar to ours. Some are beyond ours.
We all share the planet and mutual respect for each other and the planet itself is warranted.
Here's a link to Buddy's story;
An 85 year old rancher in Texas felt sick and was transported to the emergency room at the hospital by ambulance.
But, no one knew, that before the ambulance pulled away from the ranch, that the owner's beagle dog, Buddy, hopped on the side of the ambulance and rode outside for about 20 miles, before a driver flagged the ambulance down to let them know.
They had little choice but to bring the 25 pound dog in the ambulance for the rest of the ride to the hospital and Buddy even accompanied the owner into the hospital.
Buddy had been adopted only 4 months earlier from a shelter.
Any of us who have had pets, know that animals think and each shows individual personalities somewhat different than other members of the same species. It's been my experience, that this is not only true with pets, but wild animals too. Animals not only think, but they dream while they sleep.
Some people would like to believe that humans are way above the rest of the animal species. But, in reality each species has it's own capability and senses to sense and respond to the world around them. Some are very similar to ours. Some are beyond ours.
We all share the planet and mutual respect for each other and the planet itself is warranted.
Here's a link to Buddy's story;
In Halloween related news
In Salem MA (where else ?) a witch has sued a warlock. 
The two were previously business partners.
But, since the witch left the warlock to open her own occult store,
allegedly, the warlock has been harassing the witch.
So, the witch recently won a restraining order.
But, what ever happened to putting spells on someone.
Just for you, I have conjured up this original story below;
And here's the link for the classic
witch scene from Monty Python's movie
'The Holy Grail'
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The two were previously business partners.
But, since the witch left the warlock to open her own occult store,
allegedly, the warlock has been harassing the witch.
So, the witch recently won a restraining order.
But, what ever happened to putting spells on someone.
Just for you, I have conjured up this original story below;
And here's the link for the classic
witch scene from Monty Python's movie
'The Holy Grail'
---- IMAGE REMOVED because photobucket.com no longer allows embedded images ----
online now!
BEST WISHES FOR '18, WORLD-HAPPY 12th NIGHT, Y'ALL
Yule is come and Yule is gone,
And we have feasted well!
So Jack must to his flail again
And Jenny to her wheel.
FBI searches Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Resort...
The top story is/was the FBI Raiding Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Resort.
News at 11.
I can hardly wait to hear why the FBI would want to visit Mar-a-Lago.
EDIT:
Although the headlines read raid, the FBI conducted a SEARCH with warrant.
I'm amending the title of my blog to correctly reflect this.
News at 11.
I can hardly wait to hear why the FBI would want to visit Mar-a-Lago.
EDIT:
Although the headlines read raid, the FBI conducted a SEARCH with warrant.
I'm amending the title of my blog to correctly reflect this.
DEZINFORMATSIA: What it means, Where it came from, and "Useful Idiots"
Lately, as Leftists have taken control over the US, her intelligence agencies, a vast swath of the Media, the Social Media Giants, Academia and other public institutions, * we are now hearing the word "Disinformation" cast about. Coming from the Left, for them to accuse others of disinformation, is very much like someone who is insane calling someone who is sane, "crazy."
The central tenets of the Left are to LIE; admit nothing, deny everything, demand proof; counter-accuse; and (as Mic has pointed out), insult. Truth is the enemy to the Left and for them, to breath is to Lie.
For those who were involved in the Cold War, they will remember the must-have books for understanding what the Soviets, and for that matter, the Chinese Communists were all about. (for some reason, the Chi-Coms never captured the attention of the Intelligence Agencies and policy makers like the Soviets. Of course, the ground has shifted dramatically since the 1980's and a big part of that is the Clintons giving them national security information and weapons technology, along with over three decades of tolerating a vastly disproportionate trade balance with China. China has become the Number One existential threat to the world).
One must-have book was..
Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy
Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson
Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism
Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson.
Online PDF
Soviet and Russian Dezinformatsia: Reading Selection -- PDF
Read these, and you will understand what true DEZINFORMATSIA is, where it came from and who deployed it. The disturbing thing is that the domestic Left has turned it against regular Americans. In short, we are living under an enemy regime.
USEFUL IDIOTS
Where would Communists be without their Useful Idiots, the impenetrably stupid with a capacity for betraying their countries? Former KGB Agent, Lev Bezmanov, describes them as having "contaminated" minds, incapable of processing truth.
Most of the people who graduated in the sixties (drop-outs or half-baked intellectuals) are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, [and the] educational system. You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated; they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind, even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words, these people... the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.
Perhaps Ann Coulter described them best:
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant."
The central tenets of the Left are to LIE; admit nothing, deny everything, demand proof; counter-accuse; and (as Mic has pointed out), insult. Truth is the enemy to the Left and for them, to breath is to Lie.
For those who were involved in the Cold War, they will remember the must-have books for understanding what the Soviets, and for that matter, the Chinese Communists were all about. (for some reason, the Chi-Coms never captured the attention of the Intelligence Agencies and policy makers like the Soviets. Of course, the ground has shifted dramatically since the 1980's and a big part of that is the Clintons giving them national security information and weapons technology, along with over three decades of tolerating a vastly disproportionate trade balance with China. China has become the Number One existential threat to the world).
One must-have book was..
Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy
Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson
Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism
Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson.
Online PDF
Soviet and Russian Dezinformatsia: Reading Selection -- PDF
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/44974/reading-list-soviet-and-russian-disinformation-final.pdf
Read these, and you will understand what true DEZINFORMATSIA is, where it came from and who deployed it. The disturbing thing is that the domestic Left has turned it against regular Americans. In short, we are living under an enemy regime.
USEFUL IDIOTS
Where would Communists be without their Useful Idiots, the impenetrably stupid with a capacity for betraying their countries? Former KGB Agent, Lev Bezmanov, describes them as having "contaminated" minds, incapable of processing truth.
Most of the people who graduated in the sixties (drop-outs or half-baked intellectuals) are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, [and the] educational system. You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated; they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind, even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words, these people... the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.
Perhaps Ann Coulter described them best:
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant."
online now!
If We Treated Other Medical Ailments Like Mental Illness
No one would ever say these things to someone with diabetes or a broken arm but people seem to think its fine to say to someone with mental illness.
The unfortunate TRUTH about the "so-called" president
He is corrupt and a real danger to EVERY American.
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