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The world isn't thát #democratical as usually is presented in the high income countries.
The wealth of #nations in our current world means that some countries take advantage of others in ways that are not just #immoral, but also #illegal, according to the #counsel of the #United #Nations.
https://mastodon.world/@paninid/114682928787916491
#Counsel
#DJT free to abolish declared #NationalMonuments he sees fit if created by previous Presidential orders according to his legal #Counsel of current #DOJ minions...
“We are seeing very quick turnaround with certain cases,” Ms. Méndez said, adding that the lack of #access to #counsel raised serious concerns about #DueProcess violations.
She said that federal #immigration agencies had refused to release to lawyers the alien identification numbers of the people who had been detained, making it difficult for the lawyers to locate their clients in the federal database that is used to track #immigrant detainees.
A quotation from Judith Martin
Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2014-05-11)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/76874/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #advice #attention #counsel #listening
#counsel : mutual advising
- French: conseil
- Italian: consiglio
- Portuguese: conselho
- Spanish: consejo
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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form
#Comer: We’re going to bring the physician in… we’re going to have #RonnyJackson there to #counsel us
Advice can get you into more trouble than a gun can.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1933-08-20), “Weekly Article: Don’t Get Excited,” No. 556
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76269/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #willrogers #advice #counsel #helping #meddling #patronization #trouble #unsolicitedadvice
A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack,
But no one can rate a burden’s weight
Until it has been on his back.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1896), “Preaching vs. Practice,” st. 4, Custer and Other Poems
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #advice #burden #counsel #empathy #perspective #suggestion
#counsel : mutual advising
- French: conseil
- Italian: consiglio
- Portuguese: conselho
- Spanish: consejo
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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form
A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654):
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Consult not too much, ’twill confound thee.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/74155/
#quote #quotes #quotation #advice #confusion #consult #counsel #muddle
A quotation from Addison, Joseph:
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. We look upon the man who gives it us as offering an affront to our understanding, and treating us like children or idiots. We consider the instruction as an implicit censure, and the zeal which any one shows for our good on such an occasion as a piece of…
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/addison-joseph/6588/
#quote #quotes #quotation #advice #counsel #criticism #insult #presumption
No poem today. Instead, a quotation:
"Pourvu que ça dure!"
- Madame Mère, Letizia Bonaparte.
#Scene: a well-dressed man working at a desk in an office with floor-to-ceiling glass and a view of the city.
[phone rings twice before he picks up the receiver]
Man: Ken White, general #counsel.
[pause]
Man: Hello? Is anyone there?
[Someone responds. The voice is obviously electronically disguised, but sounds male. He speaks ominously.]
Caller: We have her.
Man: What? Who has who?
Caller: ... We have your wife.
Man: Is this a joke? Who is this?
Caller: This is the guy who has your wife. She didn't make it to work this morning.
Man: What? Why?
[Man picks up his cell phone and starts texting his wife. He sends "Everything ok?"]
Caller: She's fine, and you can help keep her that way.
Man: What are you talking about?
[Phone dings with a reply text. It just says "I told you we have her."]
Caller: Ransom, Mr. White. I know exactly what you're worth, and you're going to follow my instructions and send it all to me.
[White looks scared and horrified]
Man: You #kidnapped my wife? For #ransom?
Caller: Yes, Mr. White.
[pause]
Man: You don't know what you've done - I'm glad I'm not in your shoes. Good luck!
[White hangs up]
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Thus starts an escape-and-revenge #action #movie with a 40-ish suburban woman as victim-turned-predator, who takes down every one of the #perps herself, messily and with great enjoyment. Think "Atomic Blonde"-grade kick-assery without the spy pretensions.
[With apologies to @Popehat ...]
7 months after #ruling, future of #Wyoming #Transphobic #Lawsuit against #sorority is uncertain.
A #hearing on Tuesday in #DistrictCourt sought a #status on the pending #case, but #plaintiffs' #counsel had few #details.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Wyoming #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
A quotation from Horace:
«
Strength without wisdom falls by its own weight;
The strength that wisdom tempers, the gods increase;
The gods abhor that strength whose heart knows nothing
But what impiety is, and it is punished.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/horace/73800/
#quote #quotes #quotation #consideration #counsel #divinefavor #evil #force #judgment #power #strength #temperance #wisdom
A quotation from La Rochefoucauld, Francois:
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With nothing are we so generous as advice.
[On ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-francois/5909/
First #Black #gay #WhiteHouse #presssecretary made Biden’s #senior #presidential #advisor
“#KarineJeanPierre has been a #trusted #advisor to the #president and all of us here at the White House since day one,” #JeffZients, the #president’s #chiefofstaff, told #ABCNews. “Her #counsel will be critical to get as much done as possible for the #American #people in the coming months.”
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/09/karine-jean-pierre-promoted-to-senior-advisor/
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Kedric Payne, senior director of #ethics at the nonpartisan Campaign #Legal Center & fmr deputy chief #counsel in the Office of Congressional Ethics, adding that the goal was probably to pressure #Deloitte into firing the worker. “You can’t imagine that if one employee out of thousands made a statement that offended an official, that then the #government #contracts would be in jeopardy.”
Per MSNBC | Glenn Kirschner
Opinion | #Trump’s latest #admission on #FoxNews is great news for Jack #Smith
Just days after special #counsel Jack Smith obtained a superseding #indictment against former President Donald Trump for attempting to #overturn the 2020 #election the former #president claimed in a Fox News #Interview that he had “every right” to do so. The question now is: can that public #statement be used against him at #trial The answer is yes.
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A #Venezuelan govt controlled bank in #Miami was embattled in a #shareholder court case with #political implications that challenged directors of the #banking empire connected to the #Maduro regime. A #jury found on June 27 that two directors breached their fiduciary duty of care to the bank and hit them with a fine, but a fraction of the $27 million sought by #litigants. “The jury only awarded damages amounting to less than 3% of what the plaintiffs were seeking—$800,000, instead of the $27 million requested at trial. That’s essentially a slap on the wrist from the jury,” said defense #counsel Evan Stroman, a partner at #DiazReus.
“Any day where you help prevent an illegal authoritarian regime in #Venezuela from penetrating the United States banking system and hold those accountable for assisting that regime is a good day,” Derek E. León, the #plaintiffs' attorney, said.
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