| Right now people are adjusting to all type of changes at a rapid pace one of which is working from home. Michael Hyatt does a great piece on this which I wanted to share with all of you. – JM “Due to the complexities of today’s crisis, we’re making an effort to send you daily encouragement and tips to thrive in this season. Today’s tip: Create a Go-to-Work Ritual Working at home offers a lot of advantages, including casual dress and zero commuting time. But there’s a tradeoff. Getting dressed for work and driving to the office play an important role in getting you psychologically ready to work. Without them, it can be difficult to get your mind to focus. In the same way, driving home provides time to unwind. Both transitions are important: from home to work and from work to home. The solution is to add a transitional step to your morning routine. That might be as simple as putting on shoes instead of slippers, or taking a walk around the block. It can be anything that signals, “It’s time to shift into work mode.” You can create a similar transition from work to home, maybe the same one in reverse. Try it, and see if it doesn’t boost your focus! ” – Michael Hyatt @ www.MichaelHyatt.com |
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Veteran Health Revolution is NOW!
Seeking to help #VeteransFirst we created the #Formula4Protocol (#F4P) to help our Vets experience tremendous health all the time!
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Promise Kept to Veterans
Trump Signs Order to #END27 VetSuicides a Day : A Personal Response
During the 2016 Presidential race I decided to set aside most of my other professional endeavors and hit the road to lead the Vets for Trump campaign movement. Working on the front lines at rallies and behind the scenes in organizing and creating activism, I did everything in my own personal power to help Donald Trump get elected.
Why?
Last Tuesday is why. On March 5, now President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order called the “National Initiative to Empower Veterans and End Veterans Suicide.” This is addressing the single most devastating issue in America today; the abandonment of those who have served in our armed forces and allowing them to slip into such an abyss of loneliness that they feel the only rational choice is to take their own life.
The President said in signing the order “To every veteran, I want you to know that you have an entire nation of more than 300 million people behind you. You will never be forgotten. We are with you all the way.”
In 2016 we were able to mobilize Veterans to come out and support Donald Trump because we sensed that he was the first candidate from either party to mean it when he said he cared about Veterans and the failed system of Healthcare being managed through the Veteran’s Administration.
Our support made a difference. Veterans made the difference in electing Donald Trump over Hilary Clinton, a woman who stood at the flag draped caskets of fallen heroes after Benghazi and lied to a nation about the circumstances of their death.
Every politician who runs for office says that they “support our troops” and that they “want to make sure that every veteran gets the care they need.” Every politician promises it and every politician, even those who have served in the armed forces, ignores it once they get into office.
President Trump is the first President to step forward and try to make a real change.
This Executive Order comes in behind a previous Order issued in January of 2018. Taken together, these two Orders provide an opportunity and a directive for real progress to be made in providing holistic care for our service men and women.
I am one of the founding members of the Non-Profit collaboration #END27. That number is the minimum number of suicides our research indicates happen every day among those who serve, or have served, in our armed forces. These are people who risked their lives deliberately in order to help protect the life of every American, regardless of their race, religion, economic status, political beliefs, or anything else of which you can imagine.
Then they end up losing their own life at their own hand.
As a Service Connected Disabled Veteran, I have been inside the system myself and I have been inside it with my brothers and sisters who have served. I have watched the bureaucracy operate within a culture of inefficiency. Previous administrations have paid lip service to reforming this culture but when the time comes for real action and reform, the status quo has “trumped” the willingness to change. Now, hopefully, there is a new “Trump card.”
The Veteran’s Administration gets all the attention because they are the Federal Agency responsible. It is always easy to focus people’s view on a single, large object. The truth is that at the State level everywhere across the country the needs of Veterans are also being ignored. When our organization talks about the need for holistic care, we are talking in part about the full range of treatments and support groups and activities that need to be in place for service men and women. We are also talking, however, about how every unit of government at every level needs to be stepping up in support.
This action by President Trump needs to be a call to every member of the military, past and present, to get engaged and show support for him in the next election. He is the only President to this point to take a stand to help us. There is absolutely no reason, none, to assume that anyone who might replace him would continue with his efforts.
While people might say they care about us, their interest can be hard to hold. Witness the reporter from CNN who right after the President’s announcement of the new Executive Order, stepped in to ask a question about Michael Cohen. Attention being paid to Veteran issues rarely survives the next news cycle.
The most universally recognized symbol of human suffering may well be depiction of the Pieta, that moment when Mother Mary is shown to be holding the lifeless body of her son, Jesus. Every day, there are approximately 27 non-depicted events of still more human suffering. They are those of men and women, alone and without hope, doing to themselves what an enemy combatant failed to do.
Nobody is carving a sculpture for them. Nobody is putting oil to canvass for them. There is work to do. Let’s get started. Let’s support our President and his initiative #PREVENTS and let’s come together to #END27 today!
| Date: | September 3, 2018 |
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| Appearance: | Exposing #DeepState #SpyGate | Ann Interviews me on #YourVoiceAmerica |
| Outlet: | Ann Vandersteel |
| Location: | Florida |
| Format: | Television |
FROM #END22 TO #END27
A VETERANS WELLNESS ALLIANCE REPORT 4.14.18
“A LOOK AT THE VETERANS CHOICE PROGRAM FAILURES”
“WHY WE NOW NEED TO CHANGE FROM #END22 TO #END27”
BY @BluEyeViking & @JoshuaMacias
President Trump has stood by us with the passage of the Veterans Accountability Act, additional VA funding, mandating internal VA reforms, and his recent Jan 9th 2018 EO “CARING FOR VETERANS IN TRANSITION” which mandated the VA to fix and restructure the Veteran Choice Program (VCP). President Trump knows this has not been implemented as the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act (Choice) 2014 called for and intended as we were told it would be.
Yet past and current VA Leadership failed to act and execute. The recent VA OIG report exposed that then Under Secretary for Health Administration Dr Shulkin was negligent in implementing, per: “VA OIG AUDIT OF VETERANS CHOICE PROGRAM (VCP) PAYMENTS” (Click HERE for reference).
The Veterans Wellness Alliance is exposing this egregious lack of VA leadership that we believe was intentional given there is unbelievably an on-going debate over not spending VA dollars on providing private care access. Once again, this is another failure by our Government to mitigate Veteran Wellness Issues / Suicides as promised. Taking the numbers of Veteran Suicides from 2014 till now in 2018 this compounded the problem from = #END22 now to #END27.
The VA Directorate of Health Administration and its Business Office of Purchased Care (CBOPC) share an apparent willingness to derail the Veteran Choice Program by not forcing Tri-West and HealthNet to do what they were contracted to do: To pay VA VCP Providers who were contracted to treat referred Veterans seeking immediate care because the VA demonstrated it was incapable of providing Veteran healthcare and treatment in a timely manner.
This recent VA IG Report Foot Stomped that former Sec Shulkin was totally aware of VA Leadership authorization of fiduciary subcontracts to Tri-West and HealthNet to pay VA VCP Providers. VA Leadership knew that they were totally worthless as these contracts had no real VA oversight power to hold these subcontractors accountable to actually pay on time VA VCP Providers, hence causing Veteran Access To Quality Healthcare outside of the VA to be nothing more than a sham. VA Leadership knew that limited healthcare access resulted due to causing VA Providers to stop offering their services for non-payment, the VA not being able to expand and secure more doctors and clinics due to this slow no-pay actions on the part of Tri-West and HealthNet.
The VA OIC Report documents this all, yet there has still been no VA Action taken to immediately reverse these VA Leadership and VA Contractual failures as President’s Jan 9th VA EO called to be addressed as outlined in the “ACTION PLAN” by June 9th 2018.
Register your disdain and call for change as instructed below so President Trump gets our united message loud and clear! The GOP Congress must listen if they want our VETERAN VOTE in the upcoming Midterm Elections in November.
https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/01/03/obama-veterans-choice-contractors-39-million/
NEXT REPORT : WHY #HEALTHNETGATE IS THE LATEST VA SCANDAL OF THE DECADE!
#VWAlliance FROM #END22 TO #END27 IN 4 YEARS #HEALTHNETGATE
About Joshua Macias
Following his honorable discharge from the Navy, Joshua had the same experience as every transitional Veteran – he was a hardworking veteran with a strong résumé but no job.
Now, as an expert in business systems and Veteran housing, with over four generations of family involved in real estate, Joshua is an experienced and creative housing crisis problem-solver.
In addition to 16 years of grassroots, faith-based, and nonprofit service, Joshua founded Vets For Trump in 2016 to insure the Veteran Voice was heard. In fighting the homeless housing crisis Joshua’s contributions started by volunteering as a Project Manager with the 2011 Virginia Beach Extreme Home Makeover project.
Continuing as Co-Founder of Veterans Homefront whose team was honored as a key instrument in the 100 day governor challenge in 2014. This success allowed Virginia recognition to be the only one to reach functional zero in Veteran Homelessness. Most recently Joshua was honored to be designated as Chairman of the Veterans For Trump Coalition growing with his team the largest Veteran Coalition seen since JFK around a President.
Joshua spends his days speaking to business owners, congressmen and women, cabinet members and their policy makers alike. Working with the Vets For Trump team he maintains communication with 500,000 grassroots Veterans asking for change in their backyard through numerous Social Media outlets and websites. Alongside 2nd District Congressman Scott Taylor Joshua looks to create jobs supporting the DOD as well as our Veteran Communities. As a Bio-Technology innovator Joshua continues on his track for PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology working on projects in B.C.I (Brain Computer Interface).
As a father of three young boys, Joshua believes in modeling philanthropy and has devoted his time to creating housing solutions across the country. He hopes to set an example, for both his sons and others in the community, by establishing a legacy of Veteran housing assistance, Veteran Activism, Technology and Social Integration.
#ClearFlynnNow – The Power of Meme Testing
In this article, I’m going to provide a set of 5 memes all on the topic of our hashtag campaign. I hope you’ll follow me at Twitter, @ThyConsigliori as well as Joshua Macias @JoshuaMacias, like or retweet your favorite, and invite all your fellow General Flynn supporters to join in as well. The results coming in are amazing, and the test has only been running a few hours at the time of this writing (February 17, 3:30 PM EST). Twitter offers incredible tracking power in something called Tweet Activity, so we can know the results of the test with absolute precision. Following the memes, I’ll discuss the testing process a bit more, look forward to coming stages of our campaign, and paint a crystal clear vision of campaign victory: General Flynn’s 100% exoneration, the complete restoration of his public honor, entirely repaired reputation, and the full return of his strong voice.
Here are the 5 Memes for your consideration:
Meme 1
Meme 2
Meme 3
Meme 4
Meme 5
If you already have a favorite, please head over to my Twitter profile, where you’ll find the test pinned to the top. Then, like or retweet your favorite and you’ve joined the campaign by that simple act.
Also, however, don’t be afraid to offer any ideas, or come up with your own contenders if you enjoy making memes yourself. Once we have the results of this test in and close it down, we’ll go into analysis mode and generate more memes with which to run a second test. We’ll continue testing as long as the process is fun and interesting, or until we find a true, runaway winner. One of the most positive parts of this process is that, while we’re engaging in the testing phase, we’re also living up to the mission itself and getting the word out, farther and farther.
If you’ve read the previous articles on our hashtag campaign, you know our goal is to win General Flynn’s full and complete exoneration. We won’t stop until his reputation has been fully restored from the horrible and criminal attacks perpetrated against him. The testing phase empowers great growth in our reach.
Once we find our ultimate winner, we will then convert from the Testing Phase to what I call the Concentration of Force Phase. At that point, our goal will be to come as close to flooding the internet with that one meme as our movement is capable. Traditional media views social media, rightly, as a competitor and they do not like to report on social media movements for obvious reasons. But, if our campaign attains true critical mass, our voice will grow so loud that even they will find themselves reporting on us.
This is important because the Washington DC bubble ONLY pays attention to what breaks through into traditional media. It is also important that our movement find its voice in the halls of power directly, so that our House Representatives and Senators in Congress hear about our will, and grow to fear our presence at the polls in coming elections. In spite of the fact that those steps obviously in front of us, it is absolutely important for us to build an invincible and unassailable vision of unconditional victory. We will not stop until General Flynn has been cleared, fully, 100% and has had his full voice, honor and reputation restored. We can and will achieve this.
Returning to our current testing project, after you’ve selected your own favorite meme, please reach out to your friends and encourage them to join us. Share this article, and recruit them to join in the testing. And encourage them to reach forward to their friends as well. The technical term for this is Network Effect. If you remember the first fax machines, or the first cell phones, you know that they were very expensive and hardly useful. They succeeded, however, as more and more Nodes – which is just a single unit, a single fax machine or a single phone – were added to the network. There is a Tipping Point that occurs when the network itself begins to grow more and more rapidly, unit costs start to drop, and then values begin soaring explosively. The exact same phenomenon occurs whenever a viral movement occurs in social media.
It is that tipping point that we seek, and the process of testing our memes is one of the most critical steps on the path. We have every reason to expect that our finalist, the winning meme will attain true viral force.
By Pasquale (Pat) Scopelliti – @ThyConsigliori | Foreward By Joshua Macias @JoshuaMacias
Testing The Data, How We Moved From #PardonFlynnNow to #ClearFlynnNow
Testing The Data, How We Moved From #PardonFlynnNow to #ClearFlynnNow
By Pat Scopelliti – @ThyConsigliori – and Kate Scopelliti | Foreward by @JoshuaMacias
To get your hashtag right, you must target the broadest number of people while hitting them with the greatest emotional impact. The thing is, if even the slightest nuance is off intellectually, the message will not cut straight to the heart. For instance, in our current campaign which some of you have been following, the word “pardon” could ONLY entail an admission of guilt. Many of General Flynn’s friends and supporters will not accept that admission. And they do not care about his own admission of guilt one iota, as they are 100% certain he was coerced, using fraudulent, felonious evidence was used in pure and completely illegal entrapment. These patriots will accept nothing less than a full vacating of the charge against him, and no substitution will be tolerated.
What we had to do was re-sight. Any form of aiming is, in one way or another, always a type of triangulation. Picture a rifle. You must line up your eye, the properly aligned sight at the end of the barrel, and the target in front of you. This is a triangle, which is the source of the word “triangulation”.
A powerful hashtag is also a perfect glass. It holds all the thoughts the user has on the topic, without logical contradiction or compromise. In our case, the term “clear” is perfect. Calmly, coolly, yet with firmness and unflagging resolution, we may state our request in these simple terms:
#ClearFlynnNow.
A word of recognition must be given to three people. The first is Saul Montes-Bradley @Debradekai. He has done an amazing amount of work on General Flynn’s story, and he flat out contradicted me at every turn over the term “Pardon” and made his case with irresistible force. Second, Barbara Ledeen @BarbaraLedeen not only agreed with Saul, she also identified the new hashtag as spot on. The third is Davd C – @ingeniustech. It was he who explained the logic of how “Pardon” was wrong and gave the recommendation for “Clear” in its place. My respect and gratitude to you all.
Why the Hashtag Campaign, #PardonFlynnNow, is So Important and Timely
#PardonFlynnNow #WeStandWithFlynn are synonymous with the Hashtag campaigns of #VeteransForTrump during the #MAGA campaign. I am always empowered by our communications Director Pasquale Scopelliti assessments. He is one of the best analysts I have ever worked with!
Why the Hashtag Campaign, #PardonFlynnNow, is So Important and Timely
By Pat Scopelliti – @ThyConsigliori – and Kate Scopelliti
In the wake of the newly released House Intelligence memo, there is much analysis being proffered and much yet to be learned. It is, however, the perspective of this analysis that insufficient attention is being focused on a most important implication. The one man in all of America who has suffered most unjustly and most cruelly is Lt. General Mike Flynn. He is the true victim of injustice here, in more costly ways, and for less cause than anyone else.
The simple sketch of the relevant facts thus far is easy to follow. The Democrats paid for false research. They ensured it was fed into both the intelligence community and the FBI and DOJ. FISA court warrants were fraudulently procured on this basis. At the same time, General Flynn was specifically targeted, set up, trapped and lost his position in the White House as a near immediate result. During these attacks, he was also made the subject of a false investigation – the fix was completely in – which was utterly poisoned by its purposeful targeting of an innocent patriot for political, vindictive and corrupt reasons. Then, once the Special Investigation unit was set up, they immediately pushed forward to the point of a falsely based prosecution.
At this point, these facts – in light of what we now know from the memo – demonstrate beyond the shadow of a doubt that General Flynn’s prosecution was not actually that; it was pure persecution, illegal, and entirely baseless. Thus, there can be no doubt remaining that his prosecution has no proper standing in justice. It is, in fact, the most egregious injustice of this tragic travesty, with one exception – the damage done to Rule of Law in our nation.
There is a campaign that we the people must engage. All patriots who detest injustice, who wish to provide relief for the warrior who has suffered this vile corruption, must now find their voice. Fortunately, social media provides a proven vehicle to express our outrage and recruit forces to concentrate on a single, simple, powerful good. We must let the world know that we want this injustice against General Flynn to stop…NOW.
The one person who has the power to end this is President Trump. He has the power of pardon and may use it at any time of his choosing. It is our mission to loudly and persistently request that he do so, now. If we join together as a social movement, we absolutely can create the voice required to be clearly heard by our Commander-in-Chief. Further, should he decide to pardon General Flynn, we can assure him of our total support for that most appropriate action.
We should be confident that now IS the time. Why? There can be no further gain from forcing General Flynn to endure continued prosecution/persecution. The gain for the President, and for the nation is most simply and effectively summed up by the term: Rule of Law. If the President pardons General Flynn now, the pure justice of the act will resound: When the American justice system is co-opted, corrective action through Rule of Law will be certain. The President’s pardon will reach forward with an assurance and healing power necessary for us all.
So, what must we do? We must speak on Twitter and Facebook, and all other social media. We must build up the standing, the ranking if you will, of this particular hashtag: #PardonFlynnNow. Sufficient participation – into the millions of uses – will garner traditional media attention, as well as communicate this strong message to President Trump.
Patriots will rejoice once this horrible injustice has been fully and formally addressed.
And, finally, even if the pardon is not granted at this time, imagine how it will affect General Flynn to experience our nation fully behind him and willing to demand justice for him.
#PardonFlynnNow
DearFlag Campaign Letter
Dear flag I’ve known you most of my life, I recall the first time we met when my mother brought you home after my grandfather’s funeral. You knew him well as he raised you and defended you in World War II in the Pacific theater of War. At the same time my cousin Sir ADM Ramsey in the Mediterranean was setting his sights on victory at Dunkirk and DDay in order to free Europe from fascism. Little did I know that just a few years later my brother would be carrying you overseas in Korea. I always looked at you with pride knowing how many of my family fought alongside you. My father quickly showed me what the Stars and Stripes meant to our family. My father served in the Korean War and protected numerous Shipmates, he later shared how many of those same flags were given to his friends wives.
All my life I have seen the only time that a man in uniform takes a knee in your presence is when you were given to a family member or a friend for the loss of a soldier or sailor. I knew at eleven years old I wanted to serve for your honor, and glory because of God. At eighteen I gave a Solemn Oath to defend all you represent. I then followed you across the world and saw how with honor and integrity you represented freedom to other nations. Our enemies feared you and our allies cheered upon your arrival. Whenever I saw you I knew I was back at home or that I was safe once more. On the arms of soldiers Quickly I saw you run into battle to save the lives of others without fear. Men and women carried you through the worst conditions and yet you prevailed.
Today you are under attack but I know it’s no different then everyday you have been under attack. Since you were born all you represent that is good in this world has been under attack. I have seen how you run into battle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Knowing full well you might have to sacrifice all. So while others may look down on you or disrespect you I will always embrace you and lift you up high in order to stand with you!