[UK Independent] Donald Trump's attacks on broadcaster CNN are an "an outrageous assault" on freedom of speech, according to former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Michael Hayden.
"If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of my life," the former spy chief, who now works as a national security analyst for the broadcaster, said in a Twitter post.
General Hayden, who is also a former director of the National Surveillance Agency (NSA), added: "Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment."
Mr Trump has repeatedly criticised CNN and has accused it of spreading "fake news", a claim the network has denied.
On the other hand, the US leader regularly praised Fox News and has appeared on the channel a number of times.
"FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the US, CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly," the US President said in a twitter post over the weekend.
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An employee of CNN:
"who now works as a national security analyst for the broadcaster"
I'd say 'wasted 40 years' is a fair assessment...
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Now he knows what my Dad felt like when they sold another-thirty-million people to what was essentially the Russian mob and collaborators back in 1975.
(And IMHO, we need to stop referring to these guys as Klingons, since they have NO honor.)
[DAWN] MISHANDLED and underestimated by the federal government from the outset, the three-week-old protest on the outskirts of Islamabad went kaboom! yesterday into a dangerous and destabilising national crisis.
Quite simply, the PML-N has handled every aspect of the protest ‐ from its inception through the journey from Lahore to Islamabad to its disruptive tactics at the protest site ‐ disastrously.
Whether legitimately concerned about potential casualties among the protesters or wrongly focused on the electoral fallout among the PML-N’s right-wing support, the government has failed to live up to its basic responsibility to protect the life and property of the citizenry.
There is no reasonable set of circumstances in which a fledgling political party, no matter how aggrieved or agitated, could be allowed to not just hold the federal capital and the fourth most populous city of the country hostage, but also trigger protests across the country.
Yesterday’s shocking events demand an urgent rethink of state policy towards such protests.
Certainly, the first step for the state must be to restore order in the country.
The federal and provincial governments and the security and intelligence apparatuses must pool together their resources to firstly prevent the countrywide protests from escalating overnight and secondly to put a definitive, as-peaceful-as-possible end to the original protest outside Islamabad.
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has stayed in the background until now on the issue of the protests, but the office he holds is the right constitutional platform from which national action is to be coordinated, across the provinces and up and down the tiers of government.
Perhaps Mr Abbasi believes that his true job description is to demonstrate loyalty to his party boss, Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... , but the security crisis has grown to proportions that demands initiative and leadership suited to the office of the prime minister.
Whether the National Security Committee is to be urgently convened or the chief ministers are to be gathered in Islamabad to chalk out a plan to put a firm but peaceful end to the protests, Mr Abbasi needs to demonstrate leadership in a country where there appears to be a near vacuum at the top of the decision-making tree.
Of concern, however, is a perception that the civil and military arms of the state are not coordinating with each other in their responses to the protesters. A tweet by DG ISPR Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor oddly equated the government with the protesters and called on "both sides" to find a non-violent solution to the protests.
Later, the federal government issued a notification calling for military assistance in quelling the violence in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Whatever the wider disagreements and conflict between the two sides, the PML-N government and the military leadership must set those aside to deal with the protests via a unified voice and strategy.
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[DAWN] DEATH by hemlock or a shotgun to the face is the kind of choice that can make you forget the result is the same.
Yesterday felt like a bit of both.
It wasn’t shocking. Only the naïve are unaware of what lurks at what we can only pray are the fringes of society.
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How it works is people like you try to govern this un-governable, and get your heads lopped off until someone actually makes it. Then maybe your Family lived through it.
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One of those windy pointless burp articles we get from time to time from Pakistanis...who are themselves imbued with Moslem values. Ungovernable? But of COURSE. Moslems.Check. Constipated. Check.
and Sheep ( or goats ) with sexual benefits..
Don't you wish you lived in a Moslem country with Moslem Values.
Islamic or Islamist...what IS that smell?
#7
In all fairness, the Dawn reporters and authors are pretty brave. They take their lives in their hands just by writing this stuff. And, if I'm not mistaken, there are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan - and they don't seem all that eager to emigrate. So, yeah, Pakistan is a uniquely horrible place, even by Islamic standards (whatever that word means at this point).
[DAWN] THE case of Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... continues to baffle and challenge in more ways than one.
The US has just asked Pakistain to rearrest the Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... chief whose detention at home came to an end on Friday after a court refused to extend the period of his confinement. The US has asked the Pak government to charge him for "his crimes", though the harshest response to his release has, unsurprisingly, come from India.
Hafiz Saeed, in his turn, is seemingly mindful of the value of putting greater pressure on the PML-N government which, to put it mildly, is faced with a quandary of its own.
Soon after his release, the Dawa chief touched upon his favourite, and a most sensitive, topic when he told a Friday congregation in Lahore that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... was forced to step down because he had betrayed the Kashmiri cause. The latter is the original ‐ and by no means unpopular ‐ slogan of Hafiz Saeed and his now banned Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... It shows just how knotty the issue, which transcends national and ideological boundaries, is. Deft handling is required by the authorities here, that must also investigate the serious allegations which led to his being designated a "terrorist individual" by the UN.
Violence can never be condoned and those resorting to it must be held accountable. But away from the calls for justice, the problem requires engagement with various parties from the US to India to outfits and institutions within this country. Not that anyone in Pakistain has ever been fully equipped to deal with all these elements at once but the government was perhaps better placed to address the question sometime ago.
A government which has recently lost its prime minister and is being run by his replacement who has one eye on the next election and the other on the court proceedings against his leader can hardly be expected to cope well with the calls for and warnings against a trial of Hafiz Saeed.
Which brings us to the salient point about the futility of repeating the exercise over and over again: Hafiz Saeed is put under house arrest and set free after a while. He is seen by the outside world, which demands his arrest, as having been ’captured’. Is this impression all that is supposed to be achieved? Someone must think so.
Otherwise, the reruns of the arrest-and-release sequence make little sense.
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[Townhall] Fewer Millennials and youth in Generation Z are moving out of their parents’ homes than in recent previous generations. For the first time in the modern era, more 18- to 34-year olds live with their parents than in any other type of arrangement. That percentage reached its lowest point 45 years ago. In 1960, 62 percent of the nation’s 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one-in-five were living with their parents.
How did this happen? The younger generations are used to their parents providing them with iPhones and cars. They’re less likely to have gotten jobs in high school and paid for those things themselves, or to have saved for college. This is because Baby Boomers ‐ the hippy generation ‐ raised the Millennials. The Boomers revolted against their traditional parents and indulged their children. It’s been described as the "Me Generation" raising the "Me Me Me Generation." Instead of taking on the tough parenting role of teaching their kids economics and the value of saving, they took the easy route and spoiled them.
Millennials spend an inordinate amount of time taking selfies and posting on Instagram and Snapchat. A study from the National Institutes of Health found that narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as it is for people 65 and older. This is a result of the Boomers’ flawed attempt at instilling self-esteem in their kids. Raising children where everyone receives a prize creates unrealistic self-perceptions.
The younger generations are getting married later and less, because the hippy generation promoted a hook-up attitude instead of traditional dating. The app Tinder has made hook-ups all too easy. The median age of marriage is 30 years old. It was 23 years old in the 1970s. Women are more likely to have a child out of wedlock, which often results in single parents who live with their parents to help with expenses and child care, or who go on welfare. Almost half of the births to women in the Millennial generation were out of wedlock. In contrast, when Generation X was the Millennials’ age, only 35 percent of births were out of wedlock. The left helped achieve this by despising the notion of a nuclear family, saying anything goes.
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Almost half of the births to women in the Millennial generation were out of wedlock.
There is no allowance in this age generalization for single parent effects of 'cultural behavior'. Single black mothers abandoned by their respective sperm donors may not be millennials.
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Economic hopelessness and despair are probably not personality traits inherited from birth. Decades of Great Society 'entitlement class' education and employment preferences may have had a bit to do with it as well, possibly a great deal.
Of course these government social manipulations have produced amazing results.
[American Spectator] Now for a few words about the "sex scandals" rocking the nation:
As usual, Mr. Trump put his finger on the exact issue about Judge Roy Moore a few days ago. A woman reporter shouted out to him something like, "Is it better to have an accused child molester in the Senate than a Democrat?"
Mr. Trump hit it out of the park. "He denies it all. He totally denies it," said the President. He thereby got to the crux of the matter. Judge Moore is accused of various misdeeds. There’s no proof of any of it. It might be true and it might not be true. But if the voters of Alabama elect Judge Moore to the Senate, is Mitch McConnell seriously planning to destroy the will of the voters of Alabama and the Constitution because of the allegations of a group of teenagers? Would we really fail to seat a Senator because of gossip ‐ totally unproved ‐ about events forty years ago? Surely the question answers itself. Don’t get me wrong, we should not have a child molester in the Senate. But we don’t know if Mr. Moore ever was a child molester. We have the presumption of innocence in this country. To throw it all away because of the recollections of a long ago teenager seems almost unbelievable.
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The Democrats always tell the truth...especially if it is innuendo and unprovable.
They did it to Hernman Caine and it worked...unproved and innuendo. Still is.
And we all know the average Democrat is a person of Integrity. Hillary wasn't a Crook. And Bill Clinton didn't get a sucka suck and his nose isn't like WC Fields on one of his better days. And Nancy Pelosi says Captain Underpants is OK in her book.
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Ben Stein is a NeverTrump jerkoff who wants it both ways now. Yes, the presumption of innocence is a bedrock of US jurisprudence. If it's only going to be saved if morons like Stein are whining now about this particular example of dem hypocrisy, we are all already guilty regardless and bound for the gulag.
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Bret Weinstein is the former Evergreen State College biology professor who became the focus of a social justice witch hunt on campus earlier this year. Weinstein and his wife later sued for several million dollars but agreed to a settlement for $500,000 in exchange for leaving the school. All that to say, Weinstein is the voice of experience when it comes to the mob of social justice warriors on campus.
In this brief interview recorded late last month, Weinstein argues several interesting points. First, he believes the social justice warriors are winning their battle to control campuses. "I don’t think that we can say that the entire educational apparatus is a failure," Weinstein said. He continued, "But we can say that the part of the apparatus that is a failure is taking over more and more territory.
"The number of classes in a university that are immune to this extremely broken way of thinking is ever smaller. And I think we can even see from here the day in which it will be no classes that are immune because every class is going to be subject to some set of rules that is built around this very naive notion of privilege and white supremacy and all of that. So that day is coming."
This all goes back to one of the reasons Weinstein became a pariah among the far left on his former campus. He objected to a new "equity" platform introduced at the college which would have made social equity a factor in all future hiring decisions. He argued at the time that professors teaching in STEM fields should be hired based on academic qualifications without regard to social justice concerns. And as we all know, he was eventually branded a racist and students demanded he resign. And that's boys & girls why the evil capitalists prefer to hire foreign educated foreigners
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[UK Independent] Donald Trump's attacks on broadcaster CNN are an "an outrageous assault" on freedom of speech, according to former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Michael Hayden. 
[DAWN] MISHANDLED and underestimated by the federal government from the outset, the three-week-old protest on the outskirts of Islamabad 
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
[Townhall] Fewer Millennials and youth in Generation Z are moving out of their parents’ homes than in recent previous generations. For the first time in the modern era, more 18- to 34-year olds live with their parents than in any other type of arrangement. That percentage reached its lowest point 45 years ago. In 1960, 62 percent of the nation’s 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one-in-five were living with their parents.
