monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

Associated Press 7 hours ago

ISLAMABAD – Authorities in the Pakistani capital has imposed a temporary law pre-empting the activities of groups banned on a U.N. watch list for terrorist activity.

Mushtaq Ahmed, a top Islamabad administrator, in an order released Monday says the law has been imposed for two months in the capital after reports some organizations and their affiliates on the U.N. list have been collecting funds, holding religious, political and social functions and displaying promotional banners.

It comes after recent rallies by the banned organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa. JuD is believed to be a front for Lashker-e-Taiba which was blamed for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.

Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashker-e-Taiba, has a $10 million bounty on his head by the U.S.

Couple who had sex in Domino's spared jail time

The couple was reportedly waiting for stuffed crust pizza when they let their “exuberant spirits get the better of them,” and had oral sex and sexual intercourse for 18 minutes against a counter inside the popular pizza chain.

Daniella Hirst, 29, pleaded guilty last month to outraging public decency. Smith was found guilty of the same offense in September.

The couple was “very close to going to prison,” magistrates in Scarborough said, according to the BBC.

“Roger is a stone-cold loser,” Trump told me.

“He always tries taking credit for things he never did.”

Leaked meeting notes show how panicked Iranian regime considered stopping deadly protests: 'God help us'

EXCLUSIVE – A leaked report provided to Fox News shows how Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with political leaders and heads of the country's security forces to discuss how to tamp down on the deadly nationwide protests.

The meeting notes, said the unrest has hurt every sector of the country's economy and “threatens the regime’s security. The first step, therefore, is to find a way out of this situation.”

The report added, “Religious leaders and the leadership must come to the scene as soon as possible and prevent the situation (from) deteriorating further.” It continued, “God help us, this is a very complex situation and is different from previous occasions.”

According to NCRI sources and reports from within Iran, at least 40 cities across Iran witnessed protests Monday, including in the capital city of Tehran. These reports state that slogans heard included “Death to the dictator,” and “the leader lives like God while the people live like beggars.”

The instinctive, forceful and less-nuanced approach of Trump contrasts with the more circumspect strategy pursued by Obama after Green Revolution protests broke out in response to a disputed election win by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Obama's response reflected his tendency to plot how splashy presidential gestures would play out several moves in advance — and how they would be received elsewhere in the world, outside Washington's political echo chamber.

Dennis Ross, who was a National Security Council official under Obama and veteran Middle East peace negotiator, told CNN on Monday that, in retrospect, the initial caution shown by the last White House was a "mistake"..."I think we should have made it clear that, in fact, the world was watching," Ross said, adding that Trump was striking the "right tone."

Everyone loves to hate the media for its supposed liberal bias but Donald Trump, never one to lose at things, has taken it to new heights.

Trump has called the media “highly slanted”, “fake news”, and “the enemy of the American people”. Like so much of what he says, his claims need fact-checking, all the more so because the myth has been around much longer than Trump. Years before he was politically center stage, Sarah Palin dubbed it the “lamestream” liberal media, while to Newt Gingrich it was simply the “elite media”. Trump just did what he does best: supercharge the myth.

To the extent the claim has truth, it is limited to the political persuasions of editorial staffers, many of whom exercise relatively little editorial control. The more salient questions around bias, then, have little to do with staffer headcounts, and more with the allegiances and affiliations of owners. They also, in this increasingly polarized news environment, have to do with the sources where Americans get their news.

The answers there point, overwhelmingly, to conservative control.

[... ... ...]

The media hasn’t grown more liberal. In fact, it wasn’t even all that liberal to begin with – that’s just another of Trump’s lies. What has changed is the public perception around it, and how effectively Trump has exploited negative opinion and animosity toward an unpopular monolith to obfuscate truth and aid his own rise.

Media spin, liberal or otherwise, is and was never the problem. It’s how we were all spun for fools, by him.

Farina was a contemporary of Morrison who died tragically a few years previous to the release of the tune on the L.A. Woman album. Farina was aware of the Furry Lewis tune but there's no indication that Morrison was. The reference was probably second-hand. Notice Morrison's lyric here:

Morrison wrote:

Well, I've been down so Goddamn long
That it looks like up to me

If he were really inspired by the Furry Lewis tune why didn't he use the original lyric? His tune doesn't resemble the Lewis tune at all.

Lewis wrote:

I been down so long
It seem like up to me

Why you tryin' a stir up ****, man?

The running dogs can read the handwriting on the wall, eh? Trump is backing this ****.

Not long ago he was praising the great iranian people while condemning the Mullahs who run the country. He aint stupid.

HOW TRUMP SAW THE IRAN PROTESTS COMING

Months before the protests that are shaking the Islamic Republic of Iran began, President Trump stood before the entire world at the United Nations and boldly declared that the terror regime would fall.

“The good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most,” he correctly predicted. “The longest-suffering victims of Iran’s leaders are, in fact, its own people,” he pointed out.

“Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice. Will they continue down the path of poverty, bloodshed, and terror? Or will the Iranian people return to the nation’s proud roots as a center of civilization, culture, and wealth where their people can be happy and prosperous once again?” he challenged.

When the protests began, CNN and other media outlets were caught reprinting regime propaganda. After Obama’s deal, the media had cut loose its opposition sources. Instead it cultivated regime sources who told the media exactly what it wanted to hear: The deal was working. The regime was becoming more moderate. The economy was booming. Yemen was starving because of the Saudi attacks. Hezbollah could become moderate if we only reached out to it. The Iranian people were happy. Trump’s pressure would only unite Iranians against America.

Obama and his cronies had turned our media into Iran’s media. And when the protests began, the media quoted Iranian government sources while ignoring the protesters fighting and dying in the streets. Those shameful early days were the legacy of the echo chamber that Obama’s cronies had used to sell the deal.

When President Trump made it clear that he didn’t care about salvaging the Iran Deal, the Supreme Leader lost the radioactive card that he had been playing so successfully against Obama. Trump took away Iran’s biggest hostage. The author of the Art of the Deal threw it away.

Trump signaled that the sanctions were coming back and that the free ride was over. And that it was up to the Iranian people to decide if they wanted to live this way. And if they made the right decision, America would stand with them. It was only a matter of time until the protests reached critical mass.

While the media is still grappling with events in Iran, President Trump continues to lead the way. "The people are finally getting wise as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism. Looks like they will not take it any longer,” President Trump tweeted.

“You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all our strength.” You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be.”

Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice. Will they continue down the path of poverty, bloodshed, and terror? Or will the Iranian people return to the nation’s proud roots as a center of civilization, culture, and wealth where their people can be happy and prosperous once again?

At first, the primary object of the protests was the impoverishment of the Iranian people. But that quickly got linked to a demand for an end to theocracy, which is, after all, the real root cause of their problems.

Aint nobody likes them muthafukkaz.