Venice is flooding. Trump is drowning in a sea of lies. Mrs. Vovonovitch defends her 30 years of service

VENICE..."Venice is on its knees." Italy is set to declare a state of emergency in Venice after the Italian city was engulfed by 1.87m (6ft) high water levels, flooding its historic basilica and cutting power to homes. More than 80% of the city, a Unesco world heritage site, was under water when tides were at their highest. Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte described the flooding as "a blow to the heart of our country".

A massive infrastructure project called MOSE has been underway since 2003 to protect the city, but it has been plagued by cost overruns, corruption scandals and delays. Scientists and some government officials say this catastrophic historic flooding can be blamed on human failure and climate change."It hurts to see the city so damaged, its artistic heritage so terribly compromised, its commercial activities on its knees," Mr Conte, who visited the region late on Wednesday, wrote in a Facebook post (in Italian). The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, blamed climate change for the highest water levels in more than 50 years this week, saying the impact was "huge" and would leave "a permanent mark".

WOW!Archaeologist moved these giants! The Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock temples at Abu Simbel (Arabic: أبو سمبل‎), a village in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. They are situated on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km (140 mi) southwest of Aswan (about 300 km (190 mi) by road). The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Nubian Monuments",which run from Abu Simbel downriver to Philae (near Aswan). The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC, during the 19th dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. They serve as a lasting monument to the king and his queen Nefertari, and commemorate his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. Their huge external rock relief figures have become iconic. The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 under the supervision of a Polish archaeologist, Kazimierz Michałowski, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir. The relocation of the temples was necessary or they would have been submerged during the creation of Lake Nasser, the massive artificial water reservoir formed after the building of the Aswan High Dam on the River Nile.

A most noble and courageous woman: Ambassador Marie Vonovich. President Trump is terrified of her 'live testimony' today. His aides 'tried' (without success), advising him 'DO NOT TWEET AN ATTACK ON HER DURING HER 'LIVE' testimony. He was advised that it will 'feed into his rising 'OBSTRUCTION of Justice' charges.He attacked her anyway. Intel Committee Chairman, upon hearing of the presient's contemptible Tweet and attack on her...Stopped her testimony to say: I am now going to read to YOU Mrs. Vovonitch, what the president just said - to the nation - about you, ten minutes ago: The Chairman read Trump's comments out loud...you could hear the gasps of 'disbelief'. Trump previously tweeted: "That woman is bad news, brings bad news with her, everywhere she goes...and famously threaten: "She is going to start having some problems." American Tragedy? 36% of Americans, (Trump's 'Base')….are totally OK with his character assassinations. Totally 'OK" when he says he can 'Grab a woman by her P**** - and she won't do anything about it. I am a great celebrity. They say nothing."...or..."I can go out in the streets of Manhattan and shoot somebody in the face, and the next morning? All my supporters (36% of the nation)..'will still be there for me!" The Tragedy? What Trump says about his 'Base', the 'Women for Trump' lobbyist group.....All he does or says - totally acceptable. Trying to destroy a highly respected US woman diplomat's reputation -LIVE ON TV- same time as she is testifying against him...TOTALLY OK with the Trump Base. My question, as a writer, and as a historian: "How in the hell did America come to this? Who the are 'these people'? <

The TRUMP DAM is cracking, starting to leak badly:Trump's TV appearances remind me of the McCarthy-Army hearings of he 1950s: Republican Joseph McCarthy and his little troll, nasty side-kick and attorney, Roy Cohn, made national headlines for weeks. They accused various US Army officers, some US Democratic Congressman and many Hollywood actors as being 'COMMUNISTS'.Between the two of them, they destroyed many reputations, careers. Many movie stars never made a another movie, the movie execs were fearful of 'employing maybe 'shadow communists'. McCarthy and Roy Cohn were vicious. Cohn lived on to become an early 'advisor' to Donald Trump...Remember Trump's whining lament during the Mueller probe: "Where's my Roy Cohn?" (Cohn died years earlier).

Here is Trump years later in the late 1980s with Roy Cohn who he admired greatly: Cohn's advice to ALL of his clients: 1. DENY EVERYTHING. 2. Accuse your accuser, loudly, of the very same charge they are making against you! claim - 'It is a witch hunt! Always be on the aggressive side, attack, attack, deny, deny!"

"HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY, sir?" His name was Joseph Welch (October 22, 1890 – October 6, 1960) was an American lawyer who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, an investigation known as the Army–McCarthy hearings. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he famously asked McCarthy "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism.McCarthy's Senate tenure ended not long after. He virtually disappeared.