By Jon Queally | Common Dreams | February 3, 2018 A teacher in Colorado this week was suspended after it was alleged that she assaulted a young child who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance—a troubling example of educators who refuse to acknowledge that students have the right to refuse participation in the […]
Ever since Thomas Kuhn popularized it with his 1962 book, ”The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” the notion of a
We reported yesterday on a shocking development that has taken place in the FISA abuse investigation. Fox News’ legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reported that a “congressional source” has informed him that Rod Rosenstein threatened Devin Nunes and the House Intelligence Committee with subpoenas of their email and text messages because he was “tired of dealing with the Intel Committee,” an obvious attempt to halt or hinder the Intel Committee’s investigation.
This is a very serious charge. If confirmed or corroborated, Rosenstein should be charged with multiple crimes from tampering with an investigation to threatening government officials to obstruction of justice.
In a meeting with Chairman Devin Nunes, FBI Director Christopher Wray and others, the source says that Rosenstein threatened to subpoena the texts and emails of Congress because he was”tired of dealing with the Intelligence Committee.” If true, Rosenstein must resign or be fired
Nunes was exercising his constitutional oversight authority by investigating alleged wrongdoing in the FBI and DOJ. Rosenstein, according to the source, threatened to use his power to retaliate against Nunes and others in an effort to intimidate them and stop their legal efforts
Abuse of power continues still at the Department of Justice. As I reported last night on Hannity, a highly reliable congressional source tells me that 3 weeks ago, on January 10, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein used the power of his office to threaten Members of Congress.
Jarrett’s charge that Rosenstein threatened Nunes and the Intel Committee has now been confirmed by a second source….
A 2nd source has now confirmed to me that, in a meeting on January 10, Deputy A-G Rosenstein used the power of his office to threaten to subpoena the calls & texts of the Intel Committee to get it to stop it’s investigation of DOJ and FBI. Likely an Abuse of Power & Obstruction.
It is a crime for a government official to use his office to threaten anyone, including a member of Congress, for exercising a constitutionally protected right. See 18 USC 242 and other similar abuse of power statutes.
Again, if true, Rosenstein’s action was an illegal abuse of power and he should no longer serve as Deputy Attorney General. He allegedly used threats to try to stop the Intelligence Committee from exposing wrongful behavior in an attempt to cover it up.
A Miami-bound Amtrak train appeared to be on the wrong track when it collided with a freight train in South Carolina early Sunday morning, killing two people and injuring 116, officials said.
The two people who died were the train conductor and engineer, said Margaret Fisher, the Lexington County, South Carolina, coroner.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said at a news conference that a CSX freight train appeared to be on a loading track when the Amtrak train with 147 people aboard slammed into it at 2:35 a.m. in Cayce, South Carolina, just east of Columbia.
“It appears that the Amtrak was on the wrong track,” McMaster said at the news conference midday Sunday. “They weren’t supposed to be meeting right there by the bridge, clearly. And it may be a time factor, but that’s what it appears to me. But I defer to those who are experts in that and do have the correct information, but it appears that Amtrak was on the wrong track.”
Amtrak officials said in a statement that they are “deeply saddened” by the deaths of its employees and that the agency is cooperating fully with the National Transportation Safety Board in its investigation of the crash.
Asked about the governor’s statement that Amtrak appeared to be on the wrong track, the passenger railroad said in its statement, “CSX owns and controls the Columbia Subdivision where the accident occurred. CSX maintains all of the tracks and signal systems. CSX controls the dispatching of all trains, including directing the signal systems which control the access to sidings and yards.”
The two Amtrak employees killed are 54-year-old Michael Kempf of, the train engineer, and 36-year-old Michael Cella, the train conductor. Kempf was from Savannah, George, and Cella from Orange Park, Florida, the county coroner said.
Both men were in the first car, the engine car, when the collision occurred, the coroner said. She said she spoke on the phone to the wives of both men. “They were very distraught, very shocked, as anyone would be in this situation,” the coroner, Fisher, said.
Fisher added that given the size of the trains involved and how many people were aboard the Amtrak, “You would have expected more fatalities.”
The more than 100 people injured suffered everything from minor cuts to broken bones, McMaster said.
A passenger told ABC News that he and his wife were in a sleeper car near the back of the train when the crash occurred.
“There was a lot of violent shaking and everything just came to a stop, and I hit my head on the wall,” said Derek Pettaway, 33, of the Philadelphia area, who was traveling with his wife, Erin, 32, to Orlando for vacation. “When it was happening, it was quick. You just knew it was not the regular type of movement.”
“The cafe car, which was located just in front of our car, was completely folded in half,” he said.
Amtrak staff quickly got people off the train, Pettaway said. He said he was taken to a hospital and treated for a bump on his head and whiplash and that his wife was not injured. After he was released from the hospital, he reunited with his wife at a makeshift shelter at a school near where the train crash occurred.
As Amtrak’s initial statement on the collision said, “Amtrak Train 91, operating between New York and Miami, came in contact with a CSX freight train at around 2:35 am in Cayce, South Carolina.”
The statement continued, “The lead engine derailed, as well as some passenger cars. There were 8 crew members and approximately 139 passengers, with injuries reported. Local authorities are on the scene responding. More information will be provided as available.”
February 2, 2018
Markus van Alphen
Psychologist and Author
If you truly understand resistance, you seldom need to deal with it: You manage its cause before it even manifests itself!
The leader understands the source of resistance and deals with it adequately. Some typical sources are:
Understanding may be enough, yet sometimes you will actively need to deal with a team member’s resistance.
Some tips have already been given above. When dealing with resistance the first thing to remember is what to do and what not to do:
What to do then? The first point is to change your attitude towards resistance. Seeing it as something difficult, unwanted and annoying limits your options: It doesn’t take the team member’s situation into proper account; what is needed is a thorough understanding what the proposed solution really means to your team members. It would be naïve to think that they should necessarily be happy to do things that will be difficult for them. You should rather expect resistance. In fact, you might as well welcome it: It is a sign of engagement. Your attitude, therefore, is to welcome resistance, see the team member’s objections as valid and take these objections very seriously.
Have you ever heard the expression- “it’s written all over your face?” Well, there may in fact be some truth to that. Face Reading has been around for ages and has been used to make predictions about one’s past, present and future. Just like palm reading, face reading takes into account subtle lines, contours and the […]
via A Beginners Guide to Face Reading by Forever Conscious — Care, Bliss and the Universe
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