What In The Hello Has Condoleezza Rice Accomplished?
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday morning that President Donald Trump should not engage directly in the details of negotiation with North Korea.
“First of all, don’t try to negotiate the details with Kim Jong-un,” Rice told Fox & Friends. “Leave that for people who understand all the nuances of the situation.”
Condoleezza Rice Said her childhood experience with segregation in the South helped her understand the Palestinian experience. WTF?
Rice noted that she was the last American to negotiate with the North Korean regime, when she was dealing with Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il.
“You have to give the [Trump] administration a lot of credit,” she said, for pressuring China to rein in the Kim regime and for using the threat of military force to isolate North Korea.
However, she said, the president should leave the nuts-and-bolts of diplomacy to others, even though he would be meeting directly with Kim Jong-un at a summit in the coming weeks. And she warned that the Kim regime was still a murderous one with a track record of breaking its promises.
Rice said she supported the Trump administration’s move toward pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.
“I actually think if we pull out now, it is not going to be the disaster everybody is talking about,” she said. “I would not have signed this deal. I don’t think it was a very good deal. I think we were in a hurry to get a deal and we left a lot on the table. … If we get out of this deal, it is going to be just fine.”
Asked whether she wanted to leave the Iran deal, Rice said: “I would probably have stayed in for alliance management purposes but … if the president decides to pull out of the deal I have no argument with that.”
This Means Barack Obama And John Kerry Should Be In Prison Right?
TEL AVIV — In a dramatic press conference in Jerusalem aimed at the international community, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday unveiled a cache of secret files he says were obtained from inside a hidden Iranian site and clearly demonstrate that Tehran maintained a secret nuclear weapons program despite declarations to the contrary.
Netanyahu explained that the structure of the U.S.-led international nuclear agreement was in part based on deceptive Iranian descriptions of its previous nuclear work. He said Iran’s failure to disclose its secret program while misleading the world shows the nuclear deal is “based on lies based on Iranian deception.”
The Israeli leader presented evidence that Iran continued research for a nuclear weapons program even after signing the 2015 nuclear deal.
“Iran’s leaders repeatedly deny ever pursuing nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu began. “Tonight I’m here to tell you one thing: Iran lied.”
“After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret files,” he said. “In 2017 Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran.”
Netanyahu said the secret nuclear files prove the following:
Iran lied about never having a secret nuclear program. Second, even after the deal it continued to expand its nuclear program for future use. Third, Iran lied by not coming clean to the IAEA. Finally, the nuclear deal is based on lies based on Iranian deception.
The prime minister’s speech was based on 55,000 pages of documents and 183 CDs that Netanyahu said were smuggled out of an “atomic archive” painstakingly preserving Iran’s secretive nuclear program so that the country would have the option of restarting its nuclear weapons activities after the nuclear deal expires or in the case of Tehran prematurely bolting the agreement. Israel’s ability to acquire the archive marks a massive intelligence coup for the Jewish state.
“Iran lied. Big time,” Netanyahu said of the half-ton of material obtained by Israel.
The trove, Netanyahu added, contains “incriminating documents, incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos and more.”
He said Israel shared the material with the U.S., and that “the United States can vouch for its authenticity.”
The “atomic archive” was compiled by Iran with the express purpose of preserving its secretive nuclear weapons plan known as Project Amad, which aimed to “design, produce and test… five warheads, each with a 10 kiloton TNT yield, for integration on a missile.”
“That is like five Hiroshima bombs to be put on ballistic missiles,” asserted Netanyahu.
Netanyahu outlined Project Amad as containing five key elements described by the Times of Israel thusly: “Designing nuclear weapons, developing nuclear cores, building nuclear implosion systems, preparing nuclear tests and integrating nuclear warheads on missiles.”
Netanyahu said that in 2003, Iran shut down the version of Project Amad that existed at the time and instead divided its nuclear program into both covert and overt components. Besides archiving the material for future use, Netanyahu said Iran continued to research nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu called on President Donald Trump to “do the right thing” as the May 12 deadline to recertify the nuclear agreement approaches.
“The right thing for the United States. The right thing for Israel. And the right thing for the peace of the world,” he concluded.
Rap megastar Kanye West released a new song on Saturday sending what could be considered one of the boldest political statement’s in rap history — questioning black Americans’ near-monolithic support of the Democratic Party.
The fiery track, “Ye vs the People,” sees the Chicago crooner in a back-in-forth lyrical debate about the merits of thinking freely and the political and economic state of black Americans, as well as addressing the fallout from West’s seeming embrace of President Donald Trump, with actor-rapper T.I.
“Bruh, I never ever stopped fightin’ for the people. Actually wearin’ the hat’ll show people that we equal,” West says of posting a picture online this week of him wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat — a hat which the rapper says “stayed in my closet like ’bout a year and a half.”
“Then one day I was like, ‘Fuck it, I’ma do me, I was in the sunken place and then I found the new me,” West says to a defensive T.I. “Not worried about some image that I gotta keep up. Lot of people agree with me, but they too scared to speak up.”
“See that’s the problem with this damn nation. All blacks gotta be Democrats, man, we ain’t made it off the plantation,” West argues.
T.I.’s verses confront West’s willingness to align himself with President Trump, questioning is West’s “selfish agenda” will “stop police from murderin’ niggas.”
“This shit is stubborn, selfish, bullheaded, even for you. You wore a dusty ass hat to represent the same views as white supremacy, man, we expect better from you,” says T.I., who last year called President Trump a “poster child for white supremacy.”
“Have you considered all the damage and the people you hurt?” T.I.’s rhyme continues. “You had a bad idea, and you’re makin’ it worse. This shit’s just as bad as Catholic preachers rapin’ in church.”
“Ye vs the People” comes after Kanye West’s wild week in which he received criticism for calling President Trump his brother.
The fashion mogul is reportedly gearing up to launch an initiative to help revitalize the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chicago, Illinois, residents.
Mizoram Ziona is just like any other dad on this earth: he cooks, he cares for his children, he tends to his garden and house, he is truly a family man. The only difference between him and every other father in this world is that he has 180 PEOPLE IN HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY. That’s 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law, and 33 grandchildren. ALL STEMMING FROM ONE MAN
Mizoram lives in Baktawng Tlangnuam village in the Serchhip District in India and is said to be the head of the world’s largest family. The family all lives in the same location, and basically under the same roof, which can prove difficult, as you would imagine.
Mizoram lives in Baktawng Tlangnuam village in the Serchhip District in India and is said to be the head of the world’s largest family. The family all lives in the same location, and basically under the same roof, which can prove difficult, as you would imagine.
According the Chana followers, the origin of Chana Pawl is rooting in Chapter 20 of the book of Revelation, the 1000 years Jesus Christ spent on earth. It’s largest religious festival is “Bawkte Kut,” or “Festival of the Hut.” The festival takes place on June 12th every year to celebrate the founding of the faith.
As you could guess, polygamy is formally encouraged by Chana’s followers. Oddly enough, the religion isn’t a very widespread one, with only 2,000 followers total.
You would think with 38 wives, Ziona seeks out women to marry, but it’s actually the exact opposite. Women seek him out because they see him as an avenue to a better life. The area Ziona is from is notoriously impoverished, and the financial security that he provides is enough of a reason to jump ship with him.
WTH?
Unlike some of the more sinister religious sects in the world, members of Chana are allowed to speak about the religion to outsiders. His wife Rinkmini says that she wasn’t forced to marry Ziona, but that he began to pursue her when they were both out for a morning walk. They would often cross paths after their first meeting, and when Ziona eventually asked for her hand in marriage, she happily agreed. “He is the most handsome person in the village,” she told the daily mail in an interview.
He brings meaning to the song “We Are Family” he got all is wives with thee. lol
You might be wondering if the Indian government objects to Chana Pawl in the way that America government has rejected polygamous cults in the past, but the fact of the matter is that the family members act as model citizens. The local minister of rural development said, “They’re very good craftsmen and very enterprising. They’re also reputed to be honest.”
When God Said Be Fruitful And Multiply, I don’t think he had this in mind.
While the majority of people could do without 38 spouses, Ziona says that “Today I feel like God’s special child. He’s given me so many people to look after.” His followers are also happy with the situation, with C Lalringthanga, whose daughter is married to Ziona, says that the family, “diligently practices the values the gospel tells us — like honesty, hard work, helping the neighbors, simplicity, and equality.”
Just some of his wives.
Ziona considers himself a lucky man to have such a large family, but he admits that it can be a bit endearing at times. If you have a family of 5 or 6, you can sometimes get by by “winging it,” but when you are managing 180 people under one roof, there are a lot of day-to-day logistics one needs to take into account. This management requires strict routines, and some of the children have gone on record saying that the home sometimes feels more like a military operation than a home.
He has 1 thing correct,. He makes the kids work.
The family’s two “managers” are Ziona himself and his first wife Zathiangi. Their mornings start with getting up before everyone else and determining what work needs to be done that day. Once they’ve agreed on the nitty gritty, the other wives are then summoned and given their instructions for the day. Everyone is involved in ensuring the home runs smoothly and in a way that is beneficial to everyone.
The homestead is in a very rural area of India, so they like to get an early start on the day. Most days the family will be out of bed and starting their day by 5:50am. Every morning the family does a group prayer to start their day, and they work until the sun goes down, which is when they have a large communal meal.
As you could imagine, feeding 180 people is no small task. On any given night, Ziona’s household can consume 100 pounds of rice, 44 pounds of pulses, and up to 77 pounds of meat. Imagine ordering 77 pounds of beef at the butcher!
All this cooking takes a lot of effort, and the clean up is just as difficult. Luckily there is a small army to help cook and clean every night.
This is a big house.
The family really does live under one room, which is something that is still hard to believe. The family has built their own home into the mountainside by their village. Standing at 4 stories tall with over 100 rooms inside, the house is definitely a feat. Although when you look at it, the house would probably not pass most building codes if it was build anywhere else.
Interesting enough, the wives don’t get their own rooms, but instead share communal rooms. Outsiders think this is to encourage bonding among the wives.
They get their daddy time with THE MAN.
The wives’ communal bedrooms are essentially barracks, long rooms outfitted with rows of beds. As you might expect as head of the household, Ziona has his own bedroom, with a single double bed.
And you might be wondering, if there are 38 wives, only one double bed, and one man, how does Ziona “do the do.” Well the family has actually produced a schedule for the wives, with each wife getting a scheduled week for bedroom time with Ziona. The wives insist that by this arrangement, none of the wives get jealous of each other.
Wives are Arranged in Age Order
Each wife is numbered upon arrival into the family, but apart from the first wife who helps in chore allocation, everyone is consider an equal. Lalruatkimi, who is wife 18, says ““Every wife, save for the post-menopause lot, gets to spend a week in Pu Ziona’s room. During this period, she takes care of all his needs.”
“All of his needs.”
We will leave that one up to your imagination.
While everything so far seems pretty egalitarian, there is one aspect to living in the household that suggests that might not entirely be true.
In the wives’ sleeping quarters, their beds are arranged by the wife’s age,with the youngest positioned closest to Ziona’s room, and the oldest the furthest. While the wives have assured outsiders that this is just merely a form of organization, it seems like there is some underlying pecking order.
While all of the wives bear children, the duty of caring for the child is usually given to the oldest women in the family. And after collectively caring for 110 newborns, they might know a thing or two about caring for children.
Surprisingly, this isn’t an odd practice in rural India. Often times the younger parents will delegate the majority of the child-raising duties to their grandparents so they can go work and provide for the family.
Who’s Your Daddy Damit?
If you think amateur midwifery sounds like a bad idea, the family would beg to differ. As a matter of fact, they think that they might have more experience than the doctors in the area. One of Ziana’s sons, Parliana, spoke to The Times of India to say “We don’t need any nurses or doctors at childbirth. Our womenfolk have enough experience and no woman in this house has suffered from any sort of complications during or after delivery.”
The Family is Self-Sufficient
One of the main reasons Chana Pawl is respected by those around them is their hardwork and dedication. The family prides themselves on self-sufficiency, and while household chores are large part of the day-to-day, the family also runs multiple farms and it’s own school. All of the food consumed by the family is grown by them, and the children are educated by the family. Ziona values education, and while religious studies are a part of the curriculum, it only accounts for about 20% of their teachings. Ziona ultimately wants his children to be successful in the world, and he knows how important smarts are.
He Is A Modern Day Solomon
Ziona, now in his 70s and as healthy as he can be, is wanting to add some more wives to his family in the coming years. He is quite interested in adding someone more “exotic” to the family, and might venture to the US to find her.
This Is Really Insane.
The world’s largest family isn’t all that strange once you really get to know then, but they aren’t exactly “normal” either. They’ve been featured in Ripley’s publications TWICE. Once in a “strangest stories” list in 2011 and again in 2013 for “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Book Number 9.”
Well we wish the family the best of luck, but it seems like they have everything handled.
Just imagine if you were going through a home robbery or you had an emergency accident
Crenshanda Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls while working at a 911 Emergency center. She only got 10 days in jail and 18 months on probation.
Williams was hanging up on individuals that needed emergency help for over a year. Her lawyer claimed that she was going through a rough time which led to her poor performance: “But punishing her doesn’t do anything to fix the problems that still exist at the emergency center.”
I know her lawyers have to give her the best defense because that’s his job but this woman has to be put away for a long time, it’s only right. Think of the many people that she could have help, was disconnected on purpose.
Williams spent a year and a half taking 911 calls at the Houston Emergency Center until she was caught in August 2016 and fired by the city. A supervisor who oversaw Williams was also placed on one year of internal probation, officials said at the time.
Williams’ misdeeds came to light after HEC officials performing routine monthly audits of 911 calls noticed a high volume of Williams’ calls lasted less than 20 seconds, known as “short calls.” In a news release detailing the sentencing, prosecutors said a review showed Williams hung up on “thousands” of short calls.
The calls included one where a caller tried to report a violent robbery and another where a caller was about two drivers racing in an area on Interstate 45 where people had been killed speeding just weeks earlier.
Williams told investigators she often hung up because she didn’t want to talk to anyone at those times.
“The citizens of Harris County rely on 911 operators to dispatch help in their time of need,” said Lauren Reeder, a Harris County prosecutor.
There’s no excuse for an action like this by a public servant. Imagine if you were going through a home robbery or you had an emergency accident that could be fatal, and you dialed 911 for help and the assistant hung up on you?
That is what this woman did for over a year and a half so I don’t see any reason why she shouldn’t be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Do you think this woman’s life problems should matter if she is tried and convicted? Do you feel her lawyer is going to try to get her off with mental illness? SOUND OFF in the comment section below and at this story to your social media page.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave inconsistent testimony to a House panel about his contacts with CNN’s Jake Tapper regarding the infamous Steele dossier, according to a report released by congressional Republicans on Friday.
The report, published by the GOP side of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, shows that Clapper acknowledged speaking with Tapper about the dossier while he was still serving as director of national intelligence.
“I didn’t have any contact with media until after I left the government on the 20th of January, so I don’t quite understand, at least what I’ve read, that somehow I leaked about the dossier,” Clapper told Lemon in the interview.
“So you didn’t leak anything about the dossier to any media?” Lemon asked.
CNN, where Clapper is now a national security analyst, played a crucial role in the dossier saga.
On Jan. 10, 2017, the network published a story written by Tapper and three other CNN journalists revealing that on Jan. 6, then-President-elect Donald Trump was briefed on the salacious allegations laid out in the dossier, which was written by former British spy Christopher Steele and funded by Democrats.
CNN used that briefing as a hook to publish its story about the existence of the dossier, which included allegations that Trump was being blackmailed. BuzzFeed News used CNN’s report as a news hook of its own, publishing the dossier in full later on Jan. 10, 2017.
CNN’s report cited “multiple U.S. officials” as sources. The sources remain unidentified.
It has since been revealed that then-FBI Director James Comey conducted Trump’s private briefing on the dossier’s unverified allegations. Memos that Comey wrote following his meetings with Trump showed that CNN was looking for a “news hook” to release information about the dossier.
Comey wrote in a memo following that briefing that he explained to Trump that “media like CNN had [the dossier] and were looking for a news hook.”
“I also explained that one of the reasons we told him was that the media, CNN in particular, was telling us they were about to run with it,” Comey wrote in a Jan. 28, 2017 memo following a dinner meeting with Trump.
In their report, House Intel Republicans assert that when Clapper was initially asked about leaks during his July 17, 2017 committee interview, he “flatly denied” discussing the Steele dossier “or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election with journalists.”
But Clapper “subsequently acknowledged discussing” the dossier with Tapper. He also admitted he might have spoken with other journalists.
Committee Republicans note that Clapper’s interaction with Tapper took place in early January 2017, “around the time [Intelligence Community] leaders briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump, on ‘the Christopher Steele information.’”
In a report of their own released on Friday, Democrats claimed that Republicans had an “intent to smear Clapper” with their allegations about his media contacts.
“Despite this dark insinuation, the report neither cites evidence, nor even alleges, that Clapper disclosed information – classified or unclassified – illegally or improperly,” Democrats write, noting that Clapper was authorized to engage with the media.
Democrats pointed to an exchange that Clapper had with Florida Rep. Tom Rooney, a Republican.
“Did you discuss the dossier or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election with journalists?” Rooney asked.
“No,” said Clapper.
“Did you confirm or corroborate the contents of the dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper?” Rooney asked.
“Well, by the time of that, they already knew about it. By the time it was — it was after — I don’t know exactly the sequence there, but it was pretty close to when we briefed it and when it was out ail over the place. The media had it by the way,” said Clapper.
Clapper said later that he discussed the dossier with Tapper after the document was made public. He said he did not remember specifics of his conversation with the CNN anchor.
“Did you discuss the dossier with any other journalists besides Mr. Tapper?” Clapper was asked.
“I could have. I don’t remember specifically talking about the dossier,” he replied.
