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Update III, Helsinki, Trump, Putin, and Tweets

Heather Hastie — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 06:09:28 +0000

Hopefully, this is the last of these just-to-keep-things-ticking-over-with-some-tweets posts. Last week, I had a Needs Assessment by an Occupational Therapist. As a result, I’m expecting a new chair within the next week or so. Otherwise things are pretty much the same on the home front. “My cat” (really the neighbour’s cat who has chosen me […]

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Russia, Crimea, Putin, and Trump (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 03:09:33 +0000

I was about to go back to work on a Proper Post. Then I remembered I wanted to change my Pinned Tweet (see below in Cat Tweets). On opening Twitter I found some pretty cool tweets and decided I’d like to share them with you. We’ve been discussing Trump’s attitude to Russia and Putin a […]

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Donald Trump, Spygate, and What Happens Next

Heather Hastie — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 06:10:35 +0000

I hope everyone reading this knows, or at least suspects, that President Trump’s talking point that the FBI put a spy in his campaign is a lie. There is no Spygate. Spygate is lie-gate (as someone else said, but I can’t remember who). Spygate is a conspiracy theory. It has no basis in fact. It […]

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Just Catching Up (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 03:05:14 +0000

The sacking of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe last night by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions was to be the subject of today’s post. However, thing’s aren’t going to plan. The post is not going to be worthy of public viewing today. Further, I’m going to be busy in the real world for the next […]

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The US Enemies List (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 03:28:24 +0000

One of my recent tweets is a just-released Gallup poll. Since 2001, Gallup has asked USians an open-ended question about their country’s enemies. That question is, “What one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States’ greatest enemy today?” For the first time since asking this question, North Korea is […]

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Homily: Bad Laws in Russia and Pakistan (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:48:30 +0000

I prepared the tweets for this post yesterday, but then the efforts of the previous few days overcame me. Translation: I spent the remaining three hours of the afternoon asleep! I haven’t looked at Twitter yet today, so some of the tweets may be out of date. However, New Zealand shuts down for three weeks […]

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Why the Iran Nuclear Agreement is a Good Deal

Heather Hastie — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:46:54 +0000

The official name of the Iran Nuclear agreement is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. It was signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran on one side and France, Great Britain, China, Germany, Russia, and the US on the other. The alliance of France, Great Britain, China, […]

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My Picks for Top Tweets: 14 September 2017

Heather Hastie — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 01:07:31 +0000

As an atheist, I don’t have much time for religion. There are, of course, many believers who are important people in my life. I even have a god-daughter – despite my atheism her parents consider me to be a person who can be a good example to her. That doesn’t stop me posting multiple tweets […]

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Russian Orthodox Church Values Are Now the Values of All Russia – and the US Right Too!

Heather Hastie — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 03:14:40 +0000

There are two threads to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disruption of Western democracies. One is to make sure that democratic government as a political system appears unstable. Thus, he makes it seem like countries are better off with some form of totalitarian government such as he represents. Putin has been pushing this idea throughout the […]

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Putin’s Russia

Heather Hastie — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 06:07:47 +0000

2016 has been Putin’s year. He has succeeded in much of what he wants. He tells himself it’s about Making Russia Great Again. In reality, it’s about Putin himself. The Russian people are suffering and because of Putin, so are millions of others. And it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Putin and […]

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