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How you can resist with this information, when a president, as Nixon did, and as Trump appears to have done, tries to kill an active FBI investigation into criminal wrongdoing, this act itself is a serious, federal crime.  This type of interference is an obstruction of justice, an impeachable offence for Trump, or any president. And, it is the responsibility of Congress to respond in the name of justice and in the name of democracy. Here’s what you can do to pressure your MoCs to do more. Obstruction of justice is defined in the omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. § 1503, which provides that "whoever . . . . corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs or impedes, or endeavours to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be (guilty of an offence)."  Persons are charged under this statute based on allegations that a defendant intended to interfere with an official proceeding, by doing things such...

Ordinary citizens often turn away from any meaningful involvement in the political process due to the evident perception that politicians in general are constantly on a path of playing various games, which in many cases are clandestine.  This is usually in pursuit of gaining political advantage rather than working earnestly towards solving pressing issues of the day for the benefit of their fellow citizens and electorate.   The corrosive consequence of these games in politics is that everything that a politician says, or does, is treated with suspicion because of negative assumptions about why it is being said or done.  The quest of minimizing these game-playing and aspiring to do politics in a more grown-up manner would be good for politicians, as well as benefiting voter participation and the country.  Yet party lines and self-interest always seem to take precedence to doing the right thing because of short term thinking which is actually counter...

The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading.  But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944.  The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944.  There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a 'strong German empire'.  In other words, the Fourth Reich. The three-page, closely typed report, marked 'Secret', copied to British officials and sent by air pouch to Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State, detailed how the industrialists were to work with the Nazi Party to rebuild Germany's economy by sending money through Switzerland.  They would set up a network of secret front companies abroad.  They would wait until conditions were right.  And th...

In Norway, all hospitals are funded by the public as part of the national budget.  However, while medical treatment is free of charge for any person younger than the age of sixteen, residents who have reached adulthood must pay a deductible each year before becoming eligible for an exemption card. Coverage is universal. The nationally managed and financed health system is built on the principle that all legal residents have equal access regardless of socioeconomic status, country of origin, and area of residence. European Union residents have, through common agreements within the EU, the same access to health services as legal residents. For undocumented immigrants, the access is limited to emergency acute care. Private health insurance is growing, but covers only about 5 percent of health care services, mainly elective services. There is a misconception that healthcare is free in Norway. Not quite.  The only people who get absolutely free healthcare are those unde...

The arrogant failed Russian lackey and idiot as described by Russian intelligence, the presumptive American Führer Chump, even when wrong still demands blind loyalty from all his crony enablers.  Chump’s Nazi leanings had been an open secret among those who still support and voted him into office. Historians, since the end of the Second World War, have always wondered how the most advanced people in Europe, the Germans, in the early parts of the last century could possibly have produced such a monstrous leader as their Führer Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945.  Nonetheless, with the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America, it has now become quite clear how citizens of any country in a fit of absent-mindedness bordering on lunacy, might use their votes to appoint a crack-pot, jackass as their leader.  History should ideally never repeat itself, but humans not learning from history, often extremely lacking basic intelligence, can be comple...