tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22268740763147086822024-02-26T14:00:23.998-08:00Moghuls in Americafarzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-85681494011572212862024-02-25T12:12:00.000-08:002024-02-25T12:12:44.305-08:00Afghanistan, Balzeeb, A Strange Love Affair<p> </p><p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Balzeeb<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">A strange Love Affair in Afghanistan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">This book is published by no other than the great Publisher
Phil Harris of All Things That Matter Press, available on Amazon, live link to
the left of this blog. Afghanistan now ruled by Taliban tyrants was once a land
of emerald valleys and exotic gardens. It had the scent of freedom where women
went horse riding, studied literature, played music and had freedom to work and
entertain. King Babur of Afghanistan who became the first Moghul Emperor of
India was a great patron of poets, scholars and theologians. The story of
Balzeeb with its mystery and romance unfolds in this land of mystical charms,
once a center of rich culture brimming with Afghani talents. Based on a
folklore that one hundred years old serpent is transformed into a beautiful
lady, is Balzeeb, exploring her own journey into past lives. All characters in
this book are living, breathing emblems of wisdom caught in the tragic times of
partition of Hindustan into two nations, India and Pakistan. The history of
Afghanistan in the epilogue provides gradual decline of Afghani culture by
brutal, foreign invasions in transforming jihadis into Taliban extremists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">A Litte Excerpt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“This body is a Bodhi tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mind a mirror
bright<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take care to wipe them
clean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Lest dust on them alight”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shen-hsiu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“There never was a Bodhi tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor any mirror bright<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since nothing at the
root exists<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On what should what
dust alight”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hui-neng<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt;"><b>Chapter One<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Valley of Death<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.5pt; margin-left: .5pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: -.5pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You are the prisoner of
my heart </i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.5pt; margin-left: .5pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: -.5pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The key is lost</i> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.5pt; margin-left: 7.65pt; margin-right: 7.3pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: -.5pt;">~Old German Song <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cold, blue sky with its morning gold, and
glory was flooding the Valley of Kabul. It could be seen as a sheet of ice and
haze from the dining-room window where Dr. Haroon sat enjoying his breakfast.
His devoted servant, Ali, could be seen looming over the rosewood cadenza,
alert and ready to serve his master at the least inclination of his gesture!
Haroon was wistfully aware of his devoted companion, whom he never treated as a
servant, but loved and respected as a friend. Right that moment, while attacking
his omelet, his thoughts were reaching out to another friend of his, Dr. Latif,
who was on a two-week leave visiting his parents in Karachi. Actually, he was
feeling lonesome and restless this morning, rather exultant and delirious for
some nameless reason he could neither release, nor fathom. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">Latif was Haroon's childhood friend,
their hometown Karachi, and their homeland Hindustan. Both were great friends
and both had studied medicine, graduating with honors and hoping for a bright
future. Haroon had started working at a hospital first in Karachi, then in
Lahore, while Latif had opted to work in a more congenial climate as of Kabul.
So, the two friends were separated for almost four years, until Latif had
convinced Haroon to move to Kabul. The hot city of Karachi, teeming with
industry and commerce was forgotten by these friends, and their friendship was
strengthened in this haven of a Valley, perfumed with nature's bounties in
beauty and flowers, both wild and intoxicating. And yet, Haroon could not help
feeling a subtle change in his friend, a sense of mystery and alienation. And
yet again, Latif was gone only a week, and Haroon was not only missing him, but
longing to fly to the parched, seething homeland of yonder memories. One recent
epigram of Latif was swelling in his head like a bubble, his handsome features
rather pale, and his dark eyes gleaming. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.7pt; margin-left: 36.5pt; margin-right: .05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Virtues are the victims of vices, and both the eternal foes of each
other</i>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">Haroon
gulped down his tea. The boyish, mystical face of Latif with all-pervading
sincerity and agitation in his voice was etched in Haroon’s mind like a throb
of revelation. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And yet, virtues and vices
are like the twins in one womb. Together, inseparable! One soul, with
ambivalent needs, announcing the dawn of duality in this nightmare of a world! </i>Haroon
was thinking and smiling. This epigram of Latif was unspooling its
sanctimonious colors in the ocean of life. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vice
and</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">virtue! These twins, living and
pulsating! Pure and innocent! Knowing the dawn of evil and beholding the sunset
of good! Forever in conformity and eternally at rift, none vanquished and
neither one victorious! </i>The smile was fading from his eyes, his expression
at once somber and ponderous.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: .05pt; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why I am thinking about Latif when I have a whole army of patients to
heal and discipline? Why is this morning also so cold and mysterious</i>?
Haroon was savoring his breakfast as well as his ruminations. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">True that this world is on the verge of ruin
and devastation! Or just Hindustan? The reek of blood and plunder, I can smell
it! Even the scented valleys of Kabul are gathering this odor, breathing
dissent and corruption, of war and frenzy. Hindustan! This festering wound of
diverse faiths. Is it about to split open, and flood this earth with its own
abscess of gall and blood? Hindus and Muslims, striking each other with the
bolts of hatred, malice and bigotry? Or, is it just the British, sowing the
seeds of rivalry from the very mud in their soiled hearts? Ambition and
hypocrisy, two dangerous cannons in the hands of Sovereigns alien and hated! In
name, isn't Hindustan already divided, India and Pakistan? Pakistan, the land
pure and holy yet to be born! Would not such holiness be forgotten and
desecrated, if gained at the cost of millions foundering inside the blood-bath
of tyranny and madness</i>? His dark thoughts were impatient and struggling for
liberation. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why should I care for such
chaos and confusion in this world, when life is young and brimming with the
promise of joy and hope? </i>His usual sense of optimism was returning as he
pushed his plate away. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">“I love these cool, sunny mornings,
Ali. They make me shiver with the pulse of life and challenge.” Haroon smiled. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">"These hills up here are
splendid, Sir, I must admit.” Ali hastened to pour another cup of tea for him. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">"All splendid and glorious, Ali!
This is paradise, paradise!” Haroon laughed. His thick red lips sucking the
warmth of tea deliciously. "Do you think, Ali, these hills will be
splashed with blood and bullets one of these days?” he asked capriciously. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">"The war, if you mean by that,
Sir, is imminent, I reckon.” Ali confessed sadly. "Before the British
leave, they will make sure that Hindus and Muslims cut each other's throats
with the poisoned arrows of hatred, if not with swords.” He murmured.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">"You are a poet and a mystic,
Ali! If I had the time, I would be serving you than to be served. Wonder where
you get all that wisdom and knowledge.” Haroon eased himself up, sipping his
tea thoughtfully. "We are all cutthroats, my poet friend, murderers and
sycophants all. In the name of religion, Ali, we would not only kill the
so-called infidels, but slit the throats of our own brethren. And remember, we
would do it with gloating and with a sense of exultance that we are serving God
and exalting the name of Allah. Muslims, Ali, don’t they invoke blessings on
Prophet Muhammad, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">peace be upon him</i>
whenever the name of the Prophet is mentioned and then they go out on the
streets, killing most brutally in the name of the peaceful Prophet, wishing him
peace and willing murder and brutality for all others. Isn’t it the height of
hypocrisy if not the mockery of religion! Yes, the height of stupidity and
absurdity.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.25pt; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Didn’t your good mother used to tell
you, Sir, and I remember each and every word.” Ali couldn’t help but recite
what Haroon’s mother taught him.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.25pt; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.25pt; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Islam is the</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alphabet of Love with Quran as its dictionary, seeking dialogue or
conversation with the People of the Book and with the people of all Faiths, who
wish to study its message in the light of wisdom and understanding. Its, one
hundred and fourteen verses—with the exception of one, Surah 1X Al-Bara
beginning with: The Most Merciful, The Most Gracious, The Most Compassionate
God, testify the universal love for mankind. Though its verses appear harsh at
first, poetic when one gets into the rhythm of reading,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">enveloping and enlightening at the same
time, but they are to be understood in context to the times when Arabia was
caught in the fever of greed, cruelty, debauchery, drunkenness, not to mention,
in violent conflicts with tribes within tribes. Blood feuds were common,
slavery was rampant, women were oppressed, infant girls were buried alive, and
gods were revered and mocked with the same passion as the passionate needs</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and greeds of men, striving toward riches
and power</i>.” He looked feverish, gasping for breath<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.25pt; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That
is admirable, Ali. Now I understand who is or was your teacher. My own mother,
can’t believe it.” Haroon laughed. “Can you repeat this to her verbatim when
she comes? Reading as one reads, the Divine Word of God, as one believes the
Quran to be, with one’s limited intelligence, one tends to squeeze out a
handful of interpretations, most of which become gilded with distortions, if
not becoming the victims of lies, depending upon the intent or the inclination
of the author or a scholar. If moved by zeal, such persons mold each
interpretation into fire-brands, and if others who are guided by the purity of
their own minds and hearts, the same verses lend the glow of well- preserved
pearls. And yet, they melt against the hurricanes of lies and distortions. If
one were to riffle through the pages of history, one would not fail to discover
that many truths lie buried under the mounds of lies, and that lies have been
repeated so often, by so many, and with such pious persistence that if someone,
even in this age and time dared speak truth, it would sound like a lie. And
yet, it is a difficult task, to know truth, since truth is a relative term—oh I
am stumbling upon my own inanities. And I must stumble on to the hospital,
before I have to fetch excuses for running late.” He stood brushing the crumbs
off his gray suit before trooping out of the room. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">The pine-valleys slumbering under the
gold-dust of morning haze were not lending any peace to Haroon's thoughts, as
he careened his jeep downhill into tortuous paths. The sense of exultance and
loneliness inside him was somersaulting on some lands far and alien. His young
heart was aching all of a sudden. Throbbing with an abrupt violence, as if it
would break into a million fragments to explore peace inside the heart of its
own mysteries. He had not ever felt like this before, and this sensation was making
him giddy. A sort of mystery and exhilaration, inside him, all around, above
and beyond! The wise, wrinkled face of Ali was unveiling in his mind's sight
like a continent familiar and peace-loving. He was exploring this face as he
had not ever explored it before, not in this age and time, but in ages past
where time could be eternally young, and utterly heedless. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A kind, ascetic face with the wisest, kindest of hearts which needed no
Knowledge to perceive the maladies of the souls, and that was Ali. While he— Haroon-
had to glean knowledge from medical books, only to know the anatomy of the
superficial body and flesh. Ali could heal both hearts and souls with his
innate wisdom alone</i>, Haroon was thinking, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">while his own meager learning could bandage only the bruised frames of
mankind, destined to suffer the ignominy of age and time</i>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 199%; margin-bottom: .6pt; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">Time, right that moment,
was frozen in timelessness, as Haroon kept driving under some spell of inertia
and oblivion. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why were the clouds of war
hovering over Afghanistan more dense than any other place around here? And yet
Afghanistan had been a gateway to Hindustan for countless invaders since
centuries. </i>Haroon’s thoughts were reaching out to the fierce tribes of the
Afghanis. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Afghanis, with their potpourri
of clan, race and culture have</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one
common ideal amongst them, and that is their spirit of independence which
defies even the thought of being ruled or subjugated. I must study the history
of Afghanistan. This land and its people have endured centuries of raids,
massacres. Marauders and fortune-hunters have played havoc, and yet Afghanis
have remained resilient in their spirit of independence against the hurricanes
of woe, tragedy and devastation. No one has ever been able to rule the fierce
tribes of this land inundated with wild, treacherous valleys and terrains with
the exception of King Babur, becoming the first Moghul emperor of India. I must
visit his tomb, where is it, probably in Kabul since he was the king of Kabul,
his cherished kingdom? Babur and later Moghuls in succession safeguarded Kabul
as their precious Jewel to polish and preserve until the sixth Moghul emperor
in line lost this jewel as well as the jewel of India by the grand folly of his
zeal, intolerance and savagery. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">Though Haroon’s thoughts were
wandering, he was becoming aware of the saffron fields meandering in and out of
the lush vistas like the shuddering of oasis. The pines and the cedars could be
seen tall and motionless, edged with a profusion of wild flowers swooning under
the warmth of the sun. He could smell the earth and the perfume of the valleys.
The raw, naked fecundity of earth and cosmic holiness! All were holy, mute and
awesome, inside the very fabric of his soul and psyche. Something vestal was unfolding
its petals of innocence this morning. He could feel it seething in each atom of
his silence and awareness. And yet his senses were greeting sadness, following
some shadows profane and ephemeral. The molten gold in the sun was burning
inside him, licking the flames of destiny, kindling the fire of ache and
loneliness. He was suspended in a vortex of bliss and conflagration. For some
strange reason his thoughts were flipping the pages of the books he had read as
a teenager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bassari myth of virgin birth of love and</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spirituality which he had mocked and
digested. Journeying through the Nile and</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fascinated by the wealth of knowledge in Egypt. Communing with the
Greeks. Absorbing the hum of age-old songs, while drinking the elixir of death,
salvation, resurrection. Visiting the chess gardens of Hinduism, </i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 198%; margin-right: .05pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buddhism, and Sikhism. Bowing low before the
lords of Taoism, Confucianism, and Zoroastrianism. Gathering the blooms of
Judaism, Christianity and of course Islam, and scattering them over the
flowerbeds of all races, creeds and religions</i>. So absorbed was he inside
the hush and absurdity of his own contemplations, that he didn't even notice
one sharp turn, commanding his jeep to one screaming halt. A fleet of jeeps had
materialized on this road like an army of ants. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.5pt; margin-left: .5pt; margin-right: 4.15pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: -.5pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is this? Where am
I? Have the British decided to say farewell to this </i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paradise
Lost? </i>Haroon cranked the gear to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">park</i>,
and abandoned himself to rage. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">He had taken a wrong turn, the alien
landscape before him was dripping with the cold threat of delay and danger. He
could see the shadow of death and mourning inside the very heart of this
valley. This was the valley of death, a secluded graveyard, manicured to
emerald brilliance, and spruced with daisies and cosmos. The mourners were
alighting from their jeeps, forlorn and graceful. Donned in black and white,
they were floating toward the neat cemetery in a solemn procession. Reflected
in the rearview mirror, Haroon could see a string of jeeps behind him, his
despair rising as to being stalled till the funeral ceremonies were over. He
wanted to jump out of his jeep and scream at the top of his lungs that he was a
doctor and needed to tend his patients, not waste his time in being hemmed in
by a horde of mourners. But this wild impulse of his was silenced by an
astonishing, bewildering sense of peace and tranquility. Some sort of serenity
was replacing his rage and impatience. His heart was gathering rills of sadness
again, singing and fluttering to catch the mysteries of nature unseen and
unexplored. He was feeling light and giddy, pressed by some inner turmoil to
rush out and breathe freshness, of life and death, of the living, dying cycles
of hopes and doubts. His youth itself was constricting inside the hands of some
powerful destiny, wrenching out the pain of loneliness! Like a reed, torn out
of its muddied pool, he was hurled out of the stationary abode of his
conflicting thoughts. He was drifting toward the unknown, caught into a storm
of fever and curiosity. What was goading him to follow the mourners, he neither
knew, nor wished to know? His heart was pounding, and his former sense of
exultation was his companion. The hills and the valleys were dancing in his
head, and he was floating on the clouds of magic and mystery. The shadow of
pain was with him too, looming and hovering above, not behind and yonder. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">In a flash, all fever and madness
were gone from him. Rapt and motionless, he was impaled alive on the very
blades of grass upon which his feet had come to a sudden halt. Who had
crucified him thus, only his heart could expound in a tremor of agony. A miracle
sublime, A revelation supreme! The arrow of cupid had stung his heart to the
most exquisite of agonies. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lady in
black</i> with white rose of a face, and sparkling eyes had chained him to the
longings of the insane and the accursed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 14.1pt; margin-left: 36.5pt; margin-right: .05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am dying. She has taken my breath away. Where does this breath come
from? </i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 14.85pt; margin-left: -.75pt; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where
does it go? </i>Haroon’s thoughts were descending like bolts of lightning<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. How would </i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 202%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -.25pt; margin-right: .05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -.5pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I understand the whole when I don’t
understand the parts of the whole of who I am? I think I alone am the author of
my achievements, master of my will, not even knowing that everything within me
works without my will. Independently, involuntarily and concurrently. I can’t
will my blood to stop coursing in my veins, or my stomach to take a break in
its act of digestion. I profess to know without knowing and boast of knowledge
while steeped deep in ignorance. Content in being ignorant and remaining</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proud that I can accomplish so many things.
A misconception, alone I can’t accomplish anything. How many times I have
thought about an airplane? Luxurious and carrying tons of weight, meals served,
countless amenities. How does it stay in the air? How many thousands of people
have put in their effort and time to make it fly? Do I know who worked
monotonously for hours even to fit an insignificant screw in the wing of that
plane, or the electrician who did the wiring or the engineers? I don’t even
know how many people work together to take care of my daily needs, food,
clothing, house, medicines, equipment. Am I grateful? Am I capable of thanking
everyone personally who have made my life easy and comfortable? Do I know the
mechanics of my own body, mind, soul?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">His breath was coming back, but his mind was
empty and luminous. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><b>End of Chapter One<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">Hoping that Taliban might awaken to a sudden
realization that they are defiling the very name of Islam by oppressing women,
banning them from education, work force in defiance to Prophet’s injunction: “Acquisition
of knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim male and female.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">“And the women have rights similar to those
of men in equity, I God will not allow the work of any worker from among you,
male or female, to be lost.” Quran (3:196)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">“Allah promiseth to the believers, men and
women, Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they shall abide—blessed
dwellings in the Garden of Eden. And greater from acceptance from Allah. That
is the supreme triumph.” Quran (9:72)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;"><b>Prophet Muhammad’s sayings:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">The rights of women are sacred, see that
women are maintained in the rights assigned to them. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">Only a man of noble character can honor
women and only a man of base intention will dishonor women.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">Paradise lies under the feet of mother.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">What a Muslim must never do is to raise his
hand against woman. Treat each woman with respect and kindness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 12.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3pt; margin-top: 0in;">“I cast the garment of love over thee from
Me and this in order that thou mayest be reared under Mine eye.” Quran (20:39)<o:p></o:p></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-22345476422883092242024-01-01T04:20:00.000-08:002024-01-01T04:20:56.475-08:00MAGA Clowning Happy New Year Again<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">“Our lives begin to end,
the day we become silent about things that matter.”</span></i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> Martin Luther King Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The same as before, clowning
around of Big Lie Loser until his delusions fizzle out at the end of 2024. He
can dream all he wants to, wreaking vengeance on his so-called enemies on the
empty slate of his costive brain but his lunacy will have a reality check when
his MAGA world collapses along with his ignominious defeat. Wallowing in the
murky waters of his raging insults, life threats, toddler tantrums, he is
carving his own river of ultimate defeat inside the turbulent tides of his
feverish insanity. Below are a few excerpts of his 2023 latest rants,
recriminations to impress his hooligans that fascism is the only path to gain
his bully pulpit of extremism, his gateway to autocracy. MAGA literally spells
out Make America Grieve Again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 200%;">December
5, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Nutshell
Before End of Year 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">To help readers understand the situation, The Times has compiled
a list of Trump’s most extreme comments during the campaign so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “2024 is the final battle. … If we don’t win this next
election, 2024, I truly believe our country is doomed. I think it’s
doomed.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March 25,
Waco, Texas</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Our beloved nation is teetering on the edge of
tyranny.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June 24,
Washington</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “The gravest threats to our civilization are not from abroad,
but from within.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Nov.
15, 2022, Palm Beach, Florida</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Either we surrender to the demonic forces, abolishing and
demolishing — and happily doing so — our country, or we defeat them in a
landslide on Nov. 5, 2024. Either the deep state destroys America, or we
destroy the deep state.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March
25, Waco</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “This election will decide whether America will be ruled by
Marxist, fascist and communist tyrants who want to smash our Judeo-Christian
heritage.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Sept.
15, Washington</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “I will prevent World War III. … And without me, it will
happen. And this won’t be a conventional war with army tanks going back and
forth, shooting each other. This will be nuclear war. This will be
obliteration. Perhaps obliteration of the entire world.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June 10, Columbus, Georgia</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “This is a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out
immediately. Get them out.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June
10, Columbus.</span></em> (He was referring to Jack Smith, the special
counsel investigating Trump, and others at the Justice Department.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We will root out the deep state and stop the weaponization of
federal agencies because there’s a weaponization like nobody’s ever seen. We
will use every tool at our disposal.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Jan.
28, Salem</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “On Day One of my new administration, I will direct the DOJ to
investigate every radical district attorney and attorney general in America for
their illegal, racist-in-reverse enforcement of the law.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April 27, Manchester, New Hampshire</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Comcast, with its one-side and vicious coverage by NBC NEWS,
and in particular MSNBC, often and correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat
National Committee!), should be investigated for its ‘Country Threatening
Treason.’ … I say up front, openly, and proudly, that when I WIN the Presidency
of the United States, they and others of the Lame Stream Media will be
thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of
people, things, and events. … They are a true threat to Democracy and are, in
fact, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! The Fake News Media should pay a big price for
what they have done to our once great Country!” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Sept. 24, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “As soon as I am reelected, I will appoint a real special
counsel — or maybe you’ll call it a special prosecutor, whatever you want to
call it, you can — to look at all of these bribes, kickbacks and other crimes
as well as the shameless attempt at a cover-up. Justice will be done. The Biden
crime family will be looked at. … When we get there, the Biden crime family
will pay a price.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Aug.
15, Rumble</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “I will appoint a real special prosecutor to investigate the
Biden bribery and crime ring.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June
27, Concord, New Hampshire</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “From the first day in office, I will appoint a special
prosecutor to study each and every one of the many claims being brought forth
by Congress concerning all of the crooked acts, including the bribes from China
and many other countries, that go into the coffers of the Biden crime
family.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Aug. 5,
Columbia, South Carolina</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who
have weaponized our justice system like it has never been weaponized
before.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March 4,
National Harbor</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— Biden “has gone mad, a stark raving lunatic.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Aug. 10, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— Biden is “the most corrupt president in American history, and
it’s not even close.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Feb.
7, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Biden is a Stone-Cold Crook.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Aug. 27, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Instead of keeping terrorists and terrorist sympathizers out
of America, the Biden administration is inviting them in. You know why? Because
he’s got a boss. Who’s his boss? Barack Hussein Obama.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Oct. 11, West Palm Beach, Florida</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nancy Pelosi “is a Wicked Witch whose husband’s journey
from hell starts and finishes with her. She is a sick & demented psycho who
will someday live in HELL!” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Aug.
6, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Deranged Jack Smith — he’s the prosecutor, he’s a deranged
person — wants to take away my rights under the First Amendment, wants to take
away my right of speaking freely and openly.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Sept. 15, Washington</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We have a rogue judge. … We have a racist attorney general
who’s a horror show.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Oct.
2, New York City</span></em> (He was referring to Arthur Engoron, the
judge overseeing Trump’s civil fraud trial, and to Letitia James, New York
state’s attorney general.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “They say there’s a young woman, a young racist in Atlanta.
She’s a racist … And this is a person that wants to indict me. She’s got a lot
of problems.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Aug. 8,
Windham, New Hampshire</span></em> (His comments were directed at Fani
Willis, a Georgia prosecutor investigating Trump for trying to overturn the
2020 election results in the state.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “I have to stay around and fight off the Crazed Radical Left
Lunatics, Communists, Marxists, and Fascists … this COUNTRY DESTROYING
Scum.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Aug. 27, Truth
Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “They’re flooding your towns with deadly drugs, selling your
jobs to China, mutilating your children. They’re mutilating your
children.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March 25,
Waco</span></em> (He was referring to Democrats.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We are a failing nation. We are a nation in decline.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Sept. 15, Washington</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Under Biden, our nation is being destroyed by a selfish,
radical and corrupt political establishment. … We’re going Marxist. We have
skipped socialism. That train has already left.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Jan. 28, Salem</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Our rights and our liberties are being torn to shreds and
your country is being turned into a Third World hellhole ruled by censors,
perverts, criminals and thugs.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">July
15, West Palm Beach</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Our country — the way it’s going right now — is going into a
depression. We’re going into a depression, like in 1929-type Depression, and
we’re not going to let that happen.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April
27, Manchester</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We are living in a catastrophe. … What’s happening with our
country is a disgrace and it’s a laughingstock all over the world.” A<em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">pril 27, Manchester</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Our enemies are waging war on faith and freedom, on science
and religion, on history and tradition, on law and democracy, on God Almighty
himself. They are waging war.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June
24, Washington</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Savage killers, rapists and violent criminals are being
released from jail to continue their crime wave. And under Biden, the murder
rate has reached the highest in the history of our country.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Feb. 7, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “I believe it’s the most dangerous time in the history of our
country.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April 14,
Indianapolis</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “New York City is a crime den. Chicago is a crime den. You
look at these great cities — Los Angeles, San Francisco. You look at what’s
happening to our country.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March
13, Davenport, Iowa</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “You’re afraid to walk through one of these Democrat cities.
You go out for a loaf of bread, you end up getting shot.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April 14, Indianapolis</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We’re not a free nation right now. We don’t have free press.
We don’t have free anything. … We do not have free speech.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March 4, National Harbor</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Mark Milley, who led perhaps the most embarrassing moment in
American history with his grossly incompetent implementation of the withdrawal
from Afghanistan, costing many lives, leaving behind hundreds of American
citizens, and handing over BILLIONS of dollars of the finest military equipment
ever made, will be leaving the military next week. This will be a time for all
citizens of the USA to celebrate! This guy turned out to be a Woke train wreck
who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to
give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States.
This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have
been DEATH!” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Sept.
22, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be
shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Sept. 29, Anaheim, California</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San
Francisco. How’s her husband doing, by the way, anybody know? And she’s against
building a wall at our border even though she has a wall around her house,
which obviously didn’t do a very good job.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Sept. 29, Anaheim</span></em> (Trump was referring
to Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, who was attacked with a hammer in a
home invasion. The attacker told the police he was motivated in part by Trump’s
false claims of a stolen election.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We have complete chaos. Fentanyl is pouring in. Families are
being wiped out, destroyed, and there’s death everywhere, all caused by
incompetence. … Other countries are emptying out their prisons, insane asylums
and mental institutions and sending all of their problems right into their
dumping ground: the USA.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March
4, National Harbor</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We will use all necessary state, local, federal and military
resources to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American
history.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April 27,
Manchester</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “This is an invasion of our country, what’s coming across our
border. It’s no different than soldiers. And they’re bringing a lot of
different problems than soldiers would bring. They’re not bringing merely
bullets, and they’re bringing plenty of them. … They’re killing the blood, the
life stream of our country.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March
13, Davenport</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Our Southern border has been erased, and our country is being
invaded by millions and millions of unknown people. … We’re being
poisoned.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Nov. 15,
2022, Palm Beach</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “I’ll ask every state and federal agency to identify every
known or suspected gang member in America and every one of them that is here
illegally. The police know every one of them, and we’ll pick them up, and we’ll
send them back home where they came from. They’ll be out of here.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April 27, Manchester</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “For any radical left charity, non-profit or so-called aid
organizations supporting these caravans and illegal aliens, we will prosecute
them for their participation in human trafficking, child smuggling and every
other crime we can find.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Nov.
4, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We have two standards of justice in our country: one for
people like you and me, and one for the corrupt political class.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Jan. 19, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Our justice system has become lawless. They’re using it now,
in addition to everything else, to win elections.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April 4, Palm Beach</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Crooked Joe Biden and his radical left thugs have weaponized
law enforcement to arrest their leading opponent — by a lot, leading — on fake
and phony charges.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Sept.
15, Washington</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Joe Biden has weaponized law enforcement against his
political opposition, the greatest abuse of power in American history, by
far.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June 30,
Philadelphia</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “This is the continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all
time. That’s all it is. And its primary purpose is election
interference.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June
27, Concord, New Hampshire</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We have antifa and BLM, who hate our country and burn down
our cities, and they’re protected by law enforcement, while we put great
American patriots in jail and destroy their lives.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Jan. 28, Salem</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Antifa thugs who are allowed to roam the streets while we
have people that in many cases are great patriots — great, great patriots —
sing prayers every night, playing our national anthem every day. And they’re
sitting in a jail nearby, rotting away and being treated so unfairly like
nobody’s probably ever been treated in this country before, except maybe
me.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March 4,
National Harbor</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “American patriots are being arrested & held in captivity
like animals, while criminals & leftist thugs are allowed to roam the
streets, killing & burning with no retribution.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March 18, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Patriotic parents, Christians, conservatives, pro-life
activists are being hounded by the FBI and the DOJ like terrorists. They’re
being treated so badly.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March
25, Waco</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “If the Communists get away with this, it won’t stop with me.
They will not hesitate to ramp up their persecution of Christians, pro-life
activists, parents attending school board meetings and even future Republican
candidates.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June 13,
Bedminster, New Jersey</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “I believe we also won two general elections, OK? If you want
to know the truth.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Jan.
28, Salem</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT
and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud
of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules,
regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Dec. 3, 2022, Truth Social</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “There was never a second of any day that I didn’t believe
that that election was rigged. It was a rigged election. It was a rigged
election and it was a stolen, disgusting election, and this country should be
ashamed. And they go after the people that want to prove that it was rigged and
stolen. … They don’t go after the people that rigged it.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Aug. 8, Windham</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election
of 2020. … We won the first one and we won the second one even bigger, and we
got — we got screwed, that’s what happened. We had a rigged election. Our
opponents are showing every day that they hate democracy.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Nov. 18, Fort Dodge, Iowa</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “You go back to Communist China or look at a Third World
banana republic. That’s what we’ve become.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March 25, Waco</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Our elections were like those of a Third World
country.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April
4, Palm Beach</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “They’re trying to arrest their political opposition. It’s
really very much like the old Soviet Union.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">April 14, Indianapolis</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “Many of those people coming from Cuba, Venezuela, other
countries, they’ve seen this happening to their countries.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June 13, Bedminster</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “President Xi: Smart, top of his game. President Putin: Smart.
Very smart people.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">March
25, Waco</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “We did a fantastic job with Kim Jong Un. You know, I got
along with him very well. The fake news said It’s terrible that he gets along
with him. I said Really? It’s not terrible, it’s a very good thing. You know,
it’s a positive thing.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">June
30, Philadelphia</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “A man who looks like a piece of granite, right? He’s strong
like granite. He’s strong. I know him very well, President Xi of China. … He
runs 1.4 billion people with an iron hand. … I got along well with Putin.
That’s a good thing.” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Nov.
18, Fort Dodge</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">— “One of the strongest leaders, Viktor Orban from Hungary. He’s
a very strong man — very strong, powerful man — and one of the most respected
leaders in the world. He’s tough. No games, right?” <em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Nov. 18, Fort Dodge</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">In Veterans Day remarks, Trump took aim and rhetorically fired:
“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and
the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country
that lie and steal and cheat on elections. They’ll do anything, whether legally
or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">December
2, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">"We've been waging an all-out war on American
democracy," <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">"That's why it was one of the great presidencies, they
say," he speaks of himself. "Even the opponents sometimes say he did
very well, I have to say. 'Take it back,' they scream. his people say 'Take it
back.' From that day on, our opponents, a lot of opponents, but we've been
waging an all-out war on American democracy."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">November
30, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Trump’s
48-Hour Manic Rant</span><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“Judge Engoron’s Trump Hating wife, together with his very
disturbed and angry law clerk, have taken over control of the New York State
Witch Hunt Trial aimed at me, my family, and the Republican Party,” Trump wrote
on Truth Social.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">In a statement to Newsweek Engoron denied ownership of the
account and any of its content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“I do not have a Twitter account. This is not me. I have not
posted any anti-Trump messages,” she told the outlet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">November
23, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">In what was bizarrely named a “Happy Thanksgiving” post on Truth
Social, the former president unleashed once again on what he described as “the
Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia “Peekaboo”
James, the Radical Left Trump Hating Judge, a Psycho, Arthur Engoron and his
Politically Biased & Corrupt Campaign Finance Violator, Chief Clerk Alison
Greenfield”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 200%;">November
11, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In a Truth Social post,
paying tribute to Veterans Day on Saturday, Trump said: "We pledge to you
that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left
Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country."</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 200%;">November
10, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">“Fake News CNN just did a story, leaked by Deranged Prosecutor
Jack Smith and his massive team of Radical Left Lunatics, that various people
saw papers and boxes at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump posted on his social media platform
Truth Social. “Of course, they did!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">“They may have been the boxes etc. that were openly and plainly
brought from the White House, as is my right under the Presidential Records
Act,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">November
8, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“On Day One I will terminate every open borders’ policy of the
Biden Administration,” he continued as the crowd’s cheers swelled. “And we will
begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">November
1, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“This Rigged Trial, brought by the Racist New York State
A.G. Letitia James before Trump and developer Hating Judge, Arthur
Engoron, which should have never been brought in that the so-called STAR
WITNESS, Sleaze Bag Lawyer (for many people) Michael Cohen, admitted last week
on the stand that he LIED,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referencing his former
personal lawyer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“Therefore, on that fact alone, this Fake Case should be
dismissed,” he added<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“Judge Engoron is a political hack who ruled against me before
the trial even started. He is doing the dirty work for the Democrat Party,”
Trump wrote on Truth Social, claiming Engoron, “fought us, sanctioned us for no
reason, fined us big money, never gave us even, one day delay. This is his big
chance, and he was not going to let it go.” “He fines me at levels never seen
before. The A.G.’s people are thrilled, but can’t believe it is happening,” he
continued in a second post. “Engoron is crazy, totally unhinged, and dangerous
– Our Judicial System has gone to HELL.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“I’m being ‘railroaded’ at a level never seen before,” Trump
wrote Wednesday morning. “When Cohen admitted the whole case was a lie, he
didn’t care. Think of it, we had a Perry Mason moment with their Star Witness
and the judge acted like nothing had happened, and then started screaming at
us.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“He then put a RIDICULOUS GAG ORDER ON ME, which we will
appeal,” Trump added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“There was no fraud, so they are working with the corrupt A.G.
whose campaign was ‘I will get Trump,’ to develop something, anything,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We’re
gonna have a great country. It’s gonna be called the United States of America,”
he said, neglecting the obvious fact that the country is already called the
United States of America.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">October
30, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“How can they tell the leading
candidate that he, and only he, is seriously restricted from campaigning in a
free and open manner? It will not stand!”</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">About an hour after Chutkan issued her court order, for example,
the former president wrote an online message in which he slammed former
Attorney General Bill Barr as “Dumb, Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and
Lazy,” “a RINO WHO COULDN’T DO THE JOB,” a “Moron,” and “a LOSER.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">"I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump Hating
Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open
loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will
put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political
opponents," the former president wrote shortly after midnight on Truth
Social. "This order, according to many legal scholars, is unthinkable! It
illegally and unconstitutionally takes away my First Amendment Right of Free
Speech, in the middle of my campaign for President, where I am leading against
BOTH Parties in the Polls. Few can believe this is happening, but I will
appeal. How can they tell the leading candidate that he, and only he, is
seriously restricted from campaigning in a free and open manner? It will not
stand!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">"The Obama appointed Federal Judge in D.C, a TRUE TRUMP
HATER, is incapable of giving me a fair trial. Her Hatred of President DONALD
J. TRUMP is so great that she has been diagnosed with a major, and incurable,
case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!!!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">“To be free is not merely
to cast off one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the
freedom of others</span></i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">.” Nelson Mandela</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">“Our ability to reach unity
in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization</span></i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">.” Mahatma Gandhi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Beloveds, dearest Ones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Happy New Year Ya All<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">May we abandon our guns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Let God’s peace into our
hearts fall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Note: US economy is great.
Unemployment rate is down, gas prices are down, inflation rate is down, uninsured
rate is down. Murder rate is down, COVID is controlled. US global standing is
soaring. Major stock market indexes reached all-time high. Budget deficit is
better. Thanks to Biden Administration and Democrats for their hard work to
pass major bills despite MAGA dysfunctional, radicalized lawless lawmakers
juggling lies, staging fake investigations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Our prayers are for release of
Israeli hostages, Palestinian prisoners. End of Wars in Ukraine, in Gaza, two
state solution, Israel and Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Children of God Beloved<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">By bombs crippled and
bloodied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Know that from this ugly
dream you will wake up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Somewhere beautiful by loving
hands fed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Darlings All of Perfect All
Merciful Above<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-83516739002530343632023-12-02T15:23:00.000-08:002023-12-02T15:23:31.508-08:00Star of Bethlehem NOELLA VIGIL<p>Taking the liberty of sharing this Vigil information my Murshida sent me from Pakistan. Kindly granting me the permission to post it on my blog. If anyone wishes to participate in this vigil, Please register and subscribe by writing to Murshida at the email address below, so that she can send you the zoom link to participate.</p><p><span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span><a style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">inayatikhanqah@gmail.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>" <span style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">My precious students on the path of Love, Harmony and Beauty,</span></p><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">It is with great pride that I address you for each one of you is a potential birther of the New Humanity rising from the ashes of the limited Man. There opens up a Light in the darkness of human suffering. The Star of Bethlehem brings the bashara (good tidings) of the coming of Christ in the time of the Noella (the Lord's birthday). Many many years ago there was the birth of who we know as Jesus of Bethlehem. Today there is the birth of the Messianic Spirit in the heart of humanity. We bring through ourselves the second coming of Christ. We are the midwives of the baby Jesus during the Noella. But this baby Jesus is born in the manger of our own hearts. We cannot be neglectful during this time if we are the consciously evolving humanity. The birth is imminent and the Hour of His arrival is near. To be the manifesters of this messianic birth We must become the the true deliverers of higher consciousness. When a Divine Scheme is set to actualization, it is coupled with a strategic operation. The Divine Scheme for this time is the birthing of Messianic Consciousness and the modus operandi for it is the opening of truth discernment in the willing human towards a renewal of self. A truth-discerning consciousness becomes a birthing ground for Divine mercy which is the gateway to the Messianic appearance. In the days of the Noella we have a major responsibility to be ready for this imminent birth. To enter the process we must come together for the three days of the 23rd, 24th and 25th of December. We shall hold two night vigils on the 23rd and 24th preceding Christmas on the 25th when we will manifest the gift of our devotional eulogy in the form of a Holy Mass. The name Mass denotes a coming together with God and receiving His Graces. The word comes from the final blessing given by the priest in Latin "Ite Missa Est", Go, it is the sending, referring to Jesus sending out his disciples. </div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Inayatiyya South Asia will hold a night vigil on the 23rd and 24th Dec evening from 8-9:30 pm Pak time and a Sufi Holy Mass on the 25th Dec from 5-7 pm Pak time. </div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">These three days are a paid event. If you would like to join kindly send your subscription fee of PKR 3000 to the account: (3,000 Rupees in Pakistan currency is approximately equivalent to US $10.65)</div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Title of Account: Naila Hayat Noon</div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">IBAN: PK89 ASCM 0001 2016 5050 3252</div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Bank Name: Askari Bank Limited</div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Branch: Askari Corporate Tower 75/76-D-1-M</div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">With Blessings,</div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Murshida."</div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Praying for permanent peace, for release of all Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Peace to Ukraine, Darfur, to the whole World.</div><div style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Happy Holidays</div>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-66728195459306350722023-10-09T18:51:00.000-07:002023-10-09T18:51:41.869-07:00Israel, Palestine Historical Wars<p> </p><p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">World appeals to Hamas to release hostages<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">If you love God and your families, in the name of Prophet,
release innocent people you have taken hostage with brute force. Violence doesn’t
bring peace, compassion does.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Condolences to family and friends of Israel and Palestine, the
victims of this great tragedy when wars have become new normal in Century
Twenty-One, politically, individually, globally. Palestine name first referred
by ancient Greeks was an area in the Middle East between the Jordan River and
the Mediterranean Sea. It was absorbed by the Ottoman Empire Year 1517 until
the World War. At the end of the war Turks were defeated by the British forces
who began ruling the homeland of the Palestinians from 1920 to 1948, the land
called Palestine. Since Palestinians helped the British to defeat the Turks, a
League of Nations Mandate was drawn out under McMahan Agreement that British
would return their homeland to the rightful owners, Palestinians. Though
British latter denied that they ever made such a promise under any Agreement. By
British the same area of land was also promised to the Jews as the Jews claimed
under the Belfour Declaration. In Year 1920 many Jews migrated to that area and
lived in the much populated area of the Arabs, both Jews and Arabs living
together in friendly relationships. In Year 1929 the relations between the Jews
and the Arabs soured due to the focal point of discontent concerning Jerusalem
which resulted in violence. Yet, many more Jews kept migrating to Palestine
between years 1931 to 1940. Due to the rise of violence and increasing number
of Jews in Palestine outnumbering Palestinians, British put a quota on number
of Jews who could enter Palestine in any one year. During the WW11, many Jews
fought for allies against Nazi Germany and gained much military prowess. When
the war ended in Year 1945, they used their skills in acts of terrorism. In the
aftermath of Holocaust, the British gave Jews the hope that they would be given
more rights in Palestine. Of course, at the expense of the Arabs in Palestine,
the British knew beforehand. As the terror acts of the Jews increased,
destroying even the British Military Headquarters in Palestine the British
decided they would eventually leave. In Year 1947 United Nations accepted that
idea-promise of the British to partition Palestine into Israel for Jews and
Palestine for Arabs. May 14, 1948 the British withdrew from the Palestine and
the Palestinians began their own counter-terror attacks lasting from May 1948
to January 1949, not recognizing Israel as part of the Palestine. To
Palestinian Arabs the area the Jews call Israel, will always be Palestine. To
Jews it is Israel. Thus began the conflict when the British policy of Divide
and Rule ended in departure from Palestine, and it continues to this day. Much
like the partition of India and Pakistan 1947 as described in the book,
Holocaust of the East. The same Divide and Rule policy, leaving behind a thorn
of Kashmir which belongs only to Kashmiris, neither to India, nor to Pakistan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">History has been written and rewritten
many times over in several books by different authors. Facts contradicted by
facts, discrepancies passed as factual. The Arab Palestinians themselves were
deprecated by Hitler as racially inferior to Germans. However, the radical
Jewish groups employed terrorism against the British forces in Palestine,
accusing them of betraying their Zionist cause. At the end of WW11 1945 United States
took up Zionist Cause. Since then, Palestinians were oppressed. Their lands
were usurped by Israelites while they were being driven homeless, their young
and old murdered. Aftermath of which was violence on both sides. Palestinians
branded as terrorists, tyrannous as Israelis portrayed as victims of terrorism.
As the saying goes, tyrants breed terrorists and terrorists become tyrants. In
this recent tragedy of Hamas attacking Israel, they sure are terrorists created
by ongoing tyranny of Israel regimes since decades. Tragedy of tragedies is
that innocent people suffer on both sides, while ugly wars are declared in the
name of peace. Peace can’t be attained by wars but by realization from both
warring factions that they need to come to an agreement, acknowledging futility
of bloodbath. People of the Book are children of one God, they must share God’s
holy land in peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“If we all believed in eye for an eye, the
whole world would go blind.” Gandhi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Ignorance is not a bliss anymore and
blindness is a disease our modern world has not been able to find a cure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Wishing peace, harmony, healing for the
whole world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">A quote from Marcus Aurelius: ‘To look for
the impossible is folly and it is impossible that bad men should not do bad
deeds. It is a shame to let ignorance and complacency be stronger than wisdom’</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-32178470524722045272023-08-25T09:24:00.000-07:002023-08-25T09:24:05.530-07:00MAGA Madness 2023-2024 Election Carnival Continues<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Big Lie Loser Lawless
Clowning<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Articles from journalists
and tantrums on Truth Social<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Twice impeached, quadrupled
indicted Trump speaks.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Speaking of “challenging”
election results as Trump says is falsehood again and again. Fact is, it was unsuccessful
overturning of election results, trying to steal votes from President Biden who
fairly won the election.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">“We did nothing wrong, I
did nothing wrong. I have every right to challenge the election results.” Trump
told reporters<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Fox News mantra “a sad day”?
It’s not a sad day that Trump got arrested for his crimes, but a sad day for
his cavalcade of lies that he keeps repeating.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Radicalized lawless Brian
Kemp enacts new laws on his bully pulpit of absolute abuse of Power to fire
Fani Willis, his Putin-style playbook to punish all who honor truth, justice,
democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">August 24, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hayley Miller<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“In a
Truth Social Post moments ago, Trump said he was getting ready to travel
to Atlanta to "get ARRESTED by a Radical Left, Lowlife District
Attorney." He has repeatedly used racism and sexism to attack Willis.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">The
photograph of the former president – wearing a dark suit and a furrowed brow
and staring intensely into the camera – was publicly released shortly after he
was booked at an Atlanta jail on charges that he attempted to overturn the
results of the 2020 election in Georgia.</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 23, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Donald Trump</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">
</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 200%;">is hosting a $100,000-per-person fundraiser for Rudy Giuliani,
his cash-strapped former lawyer and alleged co-conspirator in the attempted
overthrow of 2020 election results, a New York Times reporter shared Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 200%;">The former president appears
to be following through on a reported promise to help Giuliani after the
former mayor of New York City went to Mar-a-Lago with his own lawyer to plead
with Trump to pay Giuliani’s mounting legal bills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 200%;">The New York Times’
Shane Goldmacher shared an invitation for the Sept. 7 event at Trump National
Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, which touted a roundtable with “President”
Trump and Giuliani and then a dinner with “America’s Mayor.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">August 19, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt; line-height: 200%;">Former President Donald Trump keeps telling the lie that he won Georgia
in the 2020 election. This weekend, he delivered a new false claim in support
of that old false claim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump’s deception about what happened in Georgia has not relented even as
he prepares to turn himself in this week to face charges in Fulton County
over his efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden. On Saturday, he
posted on social media that despite having won Georgia in 2016, doing a
“fantastic job” as president and earning millions more votes in 2020 than he
did in 2016 and more votes than a sitting president had ever received before,
he had “shockingly, ‘LOST’ Georgia” – putting lost in quotation marks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump then continued, “All this despite winning nearby Alabama and South
Carolina in Record Setting Landslides.” He concluded the post: “Does anybody
really believe I lost Georgia? I DON’T!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 16, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 29.5pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Biased.’
‘Corrupt.’ ‘Deranged.’ Trump’s Taunts Test Limits of Release.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 200%;">But Trump immediately
tested that warning by posting a string of messages on his social media
website, Truth Social, that largely amplified others criticizing the judge,
Tanya Chutkan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 200%;">In one post, written by
an ally of Trump’s, lawyer Mike Davis, a large photo of Chutkan accompanied
text that falsely claimed she had “openly admitted she’s running election
interference against Trump.” In two other posts, Trump wrote, “She obviously
wants me behind bars. VERY BIASED & UNFAIR.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Following
Donald Trump's Monday night indictment, his fourth in five months, the
former president claimed that he would present an "Irrefutable REPORT on
the Presidential Election Fraud" he persistently and baselessly claims
took place in Georgia. "A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable
REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost
complete & will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M.
on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey,"
Trump wrote in a Tuesday Truth Social post. "Based on the
results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me
& others - There will be a complete EXONERATION! They never went after
those that Rigged the Election. They only went after those that fought to find
the RIGGERS!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 15, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Former President Donald
Trump and 18 other people were charged Monday for their efforts to overturn the
2020 election in the state of Georgia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 200%;">According to the 98-page
indictment, Trump is named in 13 of the felony charges, including racketeering
(under Georgia RICO laws), conspiracy to commit forgery, filing of false
documents and soliciting a violation of oath by a public officer. Among the
others facing charges in Georgia are members of Trump’s legal team, including
Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis. The indictment includes
41 charges in total.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: 200%;">In April, Trump became
the first former president to ever be indicted on criminal charges when
prosecutors in New York alleged he committed campaign finance violations to
cover up a relationship with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in the run-up to
the 2016 election. Since then, he has been charged three more times: In Florida
for his handling of classified material and attempts to obstruct an
investigation into those documents and in both Washington, D.C., (by federal
prosecutors) and now Atlanta (by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis)
for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Fulton County District
Attorney Fani Willis leveled new felony charges against Donald Trump and many
of the people who worked for him in a sprawling, 41-count criminal indictment
unsealed Monday night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Also charged with crimes
in the indictment are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Lawyer Rudy Giuliani<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Lawyer John Eastman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Lawyer Jenna Ellis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Lawyer Sidney Powell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Lawyer Ray Stallings Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Lawyer Robert Cheeley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Lawyer Kenneth Cheseboro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Former acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights
Division Jeffrey Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Republican strategist Michael Roman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Chairman of the Georgia GOP David Shafer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Georgia Republican state Sen. Shawn Still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Police chaplain Stephen Lee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Blacks for Trump organizer Harrison Floyd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Publicist Trevian Kutti<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Former Coffee County GOP chair Cathleen Latham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Fulton County GOP poll watcher Scott Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">•Coffee County elections supervisor Misty Hampton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 6, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "ProximaNova",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Donald
Trump seems to have hell on his mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "ProximaNova",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">The former
president invoked the perpetual flames of the underworld in two separate rants
on Sunday against Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the U.S. women’s soccer
team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "ProximaNova",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Early in the day,
he launched his attack on the former House speaker, who on Friday said Trump
looked like a “scared puppy” during his arraignment last week on federal
charges of election obstruction and conspiracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "ProximaNova",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“I wasn’t
‘scared,’” Trump insisted in a post on his Truth Social platform.
“Nevertheless, how mean a thing to say! She is a Wicked Witch whose husband’s
journey from hell starts and finishes with her. She is a sick & demented
psycho who will someday live in HELL!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "ProximaNova",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump wasn’t done
raising hell just yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "ProximaNova",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">When the U.S.
women’s team was eliminated from the World Cup, later on Sunday, the
former president ― like many others on the right ― was weirdly thrilled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "ProximaNova",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">He called the
loss “fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under
“Crooked Joe Biden” and accused the players of being “openly hostile” to the
country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "ProximaNova",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“WOKE EQUALS
FAILURE,” he wrote, then took a shot at star player Megan Rapinoe. “Nice
shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 4, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“If you go after me, I am coming after you.” Trump on his Truth
Social.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 3, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h2 style="background: white;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Trump posts on Truth Social:
'I am being arrested for you'<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="stylesauthorspctbg" style="background: white;"><span class="byline-name"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "var(--cb--authors--font-family)",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hayley Miller </span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "var(--cb--authors--font-family)",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump seems to be having a
normal morning (as far as Trump mornings go), firing off several all-caps posts
on his Truth Social site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">"I need one more
indictment to ensure my election!" he wrote a couple of hours ago, adding
in a later post: "I am now going to Washington, D.C., to be arrested for
having challenged a corrupt, rigged & stolen election. It is a great honor,
because I am being arrested for you."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">August 1, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In a heated Truth Socia
post, Trump claimed that the Mar-a-Lago tapes were "voluntarily"
handed over to the Justice Department "thugs," and that he didn't
even attempt to go to court to stop the Department of Justice from getting the
tapes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">"I NEVER TOLD ANYBODY TO DELETE THEM. PROSECUTORIAL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FICTION & MISCONDUCT!
ELECTION INTERFERENCE," he claimed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">WASHINGTON (AP) —Donald
Trump was indicted on felony charges Tuesday for working to overturn the
results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his
supporters at the U.S. Capitol, with the Justice Department acting to hold him
accountable for an unprecedented effort to block the peaceful transfer of
presidential power and threaten American democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The four-count
indictment, the third criminal case against Trump, provided deeper insight into
a dark moment that has already been the subject of exhaustive federal
investigations and captivating public hearings. It chronicles a months-long
campaign of lies about the election results and says that, even when those
falsehoods resulted in a chaotic insurrection at the Capitol, Trump sought to
exploit the violence by pointing to it as a reason to further delay the
counting of votes that sealed his defeat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Even in a year of
rapid-succession legal reckonings for Trump, Tuesday’s criminal case, with
charges including conspiring to defraud the United States government that he
once led, was stunning in its allegations that a former president assaulted the
“bedrock function” of democracy. It’s the first time the defeated president,
who is the early front-runner for next year's Republican presidential
nomination, is facing legal consequences for his frantic but ultimately failed
effort to cling to power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“The attack on our
Nation’s Capitol, on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of
American democracy,” said Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, whose
office has spent months investigating Trump. “It was fueled by lies, lies by
the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S.
government: the nation’s process of collecting counting and certifying the
results of the presidential election.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The Trump campaign
called the charges “fake” and asked why it took two-and-a-half years to bring
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">July 28, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“They ought to throw Deranged Jack Smith and
his Thug Prosecutors in jail.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Trump on Truth Social<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">July 23, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Donald
Trump</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt;"> lashed out at
Justice Department, Special Counsel Jack smith, US Attorney General
Merrick Garland and his own successor President Joe Biden in his latest tirade
on Truth Social on Sunday night, where he once again claimed to be the victim
of a “coordinated HOAX” orchestrated by his enemies to rob him of a return to
the White House.</span><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Mr. Trump was informed by Mr. Smith last week
that he is the target of a grand jury investigation into his role in the deadly
Capitol riot of 6 January 2021 and in his efforts to overturn the 2020
presidential election in his favor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">He could be charged as soon as this week,
having already been indicted twice this year over hush money payments allegedly
made during his 2016 election campaign and over his alleged mishandling of
classified documents in the aftermath of his presidency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Writing on his social network late on Sunday
night, Mr. Trump raged about his legal troubles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“Every time you see these Radical Lunatics and
their partners in the Fake News Media talking about the ‘Trials and
Tribulations’ of President Donald J. Trump, please remember that it is all a
coordinated HOAX, just like Russia, Russia, Russia, the ‘No Collusion’ Mueller
Witch Hunt, the Fake Dossier, FISA Fraud, and all of the rest, in order to
STEAL ANOTHER ELECTION through PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT at levels never seen
before in the U.S. Deranged Jack Smith has already spent over $25,000,000!!!”
he fumed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">In a second post, he continued: “Just think of
it! Between Mueller, Deranged Jack Smith, and Congressional Committees, over
100Million Dollars has been spent investigating me since I came down the
escalator in Trump Tower.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“Biden is a criminal, and almost no money, by
comparison, has been spent investigating him. Get smart, Republicans, they are
trying to steal the Election from you!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Having worked up a steam, Mr. Trump launched
into a third post.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“Merrick Garland, Deranged Jack Smith, and
coordinating Democrat ‘Prosecutors’ in New York and Atlanta, have become the
Campaign Managers for the most corrupt and incompetent President in United
States history, Joe Biden!” he wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“Who would have thought this could happen in
our once great Country?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">July 18,2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Special counsel Jack
Smith has informed former President Donald Trump by letter that he is a
target in his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election sources
familiar with the matter tell ABC News.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump also confirmed the
development in a post on his Truth Social platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">"THIS WITCH HUNT IS
ALL ABOUT ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND A COMPLETE AND TOTAL POLITICAL
WEAPONIZATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT," Trump wrote on Truth Social in response
to the letter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">June 27, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump’s Social Media
Disinformation Center Post<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #6e7780; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">COULD
SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO THE DERANGED, TRUMP HATING JACK SMITH, HIS FAMILY,
AND HIS FRIENDS, THAT AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, I COME UNDER THE
PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT, AS AFFIRMED BY THE CLINTON SOCKS CASE, NOT BY THIS
PSYCHOS' FANTASY OF THE NEVER USED BEFORE ESPIONAGE ACT OF 1917.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 13, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Trump before arraignment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“One of the saddest days in the history of our country. We are a
nation in decline.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 12, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Trump Tantrum on Twitter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I will appoint a real
special ‘Prosecutor’ to go after the most corrupt president in the history of
the USA, Joe Biden. The entire Biden crime family & all others involved
with the destruction of our elections, borders & country itself.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump whining again on
social media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I hope the entire
country is watching what the radical left are doing to America.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 10, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="speakable" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Former President Donald Trump on
Saturday tore into the federal indictment accusing him of mishandling
classified documents, accusing Democrats of a "political hit job" against
him as he alleged a double standard in the administration of justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="speakable" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 21.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">"They
took one charge, and they made it 36 different times. And we have a thug who is
in charge. This is a political hit job, Republicans are treated far differently
at the Justice Department than Democrats," he said in the speech at the
Georgia Republican state convention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">June 8, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">When news broke Thursday that
special counsel Jack Smith decided to indict former President Donald Trump over
his classified documents scandal, one of the most intriguing questions was:
Would Smith indict only Trump or would he charge a conspiracy that
includes the people around Trump who assisted, facilitated or were directly
complicit in Trump’s alleged crimes? In other words, would Smith try to take
down the entire "Mar-a-Lago mafia" next?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Trump’s Response on Truth
Social<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">The corrupt Biden
Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been indicted, seemingly
over the Boxes Hoax<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">June 5, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">“HOW
CAN DOJ POSSIBLY CHARGE ME, WHO DID NOTHING WRONG, WHEN NO OTHER PRESIDENT’S
WERE CHARGED, WHEN JOE BIDEN WON’T BE CHARGED FOR ANYTHING,” Trump railed.
“ONLY TRUMP – THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Don’t
let America become another Afghanistan<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Or
Putin’s autocracy of stark terrorism<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The breeding ground for brute Taliban<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Or raw
arena for MAGA extremism<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Remember
racism, abortion, democracy is on the ballot 2023-2024 election cycle<o:p></o:p></span></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-69813891377126978342023-04-12T15:12:00.000-07:002023-04-12T15:12:15.230-07:00Clownish Carnival Election 2023-2024 Begins<p><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Donald Trump indicted; 1<sup>st</sup>
ex-president charged with crime<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thursday, March 30, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #6e7780; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this article:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NEW YORK (AP)—Donald Trump has been
indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said
Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge
and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trump himself raised anticipation that he
would be indicted soon, issuing a statement earlier this month in which he
predicted an imminent arrest and called for protests. He did not repeat that
call in a fresh statement Thursday, but the New York Police Department told its
36,000 officers to be fully mobilized and ready to respond to any potential
protests or unrest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Late in the 2016 presidential campaign, Cohen
paid Daniels $130,000 to keep her silent about what she says was a sexual
encounter with Trump a decade earlier after they met at a celebrity golf
tournament.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cohen was then reimbursed by Trump’s company,
the Trump Organization, which also rewarded the lawyer with bonuses and extra
payments logged internally as legal expenses. Over several months, Cohen said,
the company paid him $420,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier in 2016, Cohen also arranged for the
publisher of the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer to pay Playboy model
Karen McDougal $150,000 to squelch her story of a Trump affair in a
journalistically dubious practice known as “catch-and-kill.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The payments to the women were intended to buy
secrecy, but they backfired almost immediately as details of the arrangements
leaked to the news media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Federal prosecutors in New York ultimately
charged Cohen in 2018 with violating federal campaign finance laws, arguing
that the payments amounted to impermissible help to Trump’s presidential
campaign. Cohen pleaded guilty to those charges and unrelated tax evasion
counts and served time in federal prison.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Key House Republican
leaders lined up to defend former President Donald Trump on Thursday following
the news that Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury—a sign of the
powerful grasp Trump still has on his party on Capitol Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy tweeted that “The American people will not tolerate this
injustice,” as he criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “The
House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of
power to account,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">The question is, did
the American people not already tolerate the brutal torture and murder of
Capitol Hill Police Officers? Such injustice done to defenders of lawmakers by
Big Lie Loser to incite insurrection? To carry out this violence, MAGA rioters regretting
in jails, paying the price for the crimes of the insurrection-in-chief.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">The number two House
Republican – Majority Leader Steve Scalise – called it “outrageous.” In a
tweet, Scalise called the indictment “one of the clearest examples of
extremist Democrats weaponizing government to attack their political
opponents.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Is it fair to say that “Outrageous”
was when domestic terrorists smashed the windows of the Capitol Hill, defiling
the People’s House with incendiary slogans, confederate flags, chanting threats
to lawmakers, breaking furniture, stealing paraphernalia from offices.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Rep. Elise Stefanik,
the House GOP conference chair, released a statement saying the indictment was
“a political witch hunt” and a “dark day for America.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Stefanik sentry of GOPQ
should know “political witch hunt” of traitor-in-chief is what has made America
violent. Planting seeds of hate, racism, bigotry. “Dark day for America” was
Jan 6 tragedy incited by the insurrection-in-chief, trying to steal victory
from legally elected president, Joe Biden.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">The response from key
congressional Republicans came as the indictment against Trump was filed under
seal and will be announced in the coming days. The charges are not publicly
known at this time, one source told CNN.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">The news of the
indictment broke just hours after lawmakers on Capitol Hill departed for a
two-week Easter recess. The halls of the Capitol were quiet. On social media,
Republicans were much louder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">It was only a matter of
minutes after news of the indictment broke before some of his fiercest
defenders on Capitol Hill rushed to his defense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">“Outrageous,” House
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan tweeted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Jaded Jordan should
know outrageous was when MAGA extremists attacked Capitol Hill, tortured and
killed Capitol Police officers. Radicalized hooligans making mockery of
democracy, constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">“BREAKING: Trump has
been indicted! This is another political witch hunt targeting the people’s
President,” Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">What QAnon Boebert
means, he is the president of the domestic terrorists, KKK, Proud Boys, Oath
Keepers, keepers of QAnon ideology of hate just like her and other lawless lawmakers
in their slim majority House of Dunces where they stage their clownish circus
of absurdities.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: black; display: none; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 1.0pt; mso-hide: all;">Enter your email to sign up for CNN's
"What Matters" Newsletter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">close dialog</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: black; display: none; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 1.0pt; mso-hide: all;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">“President Donald Trump
always fought for us. He puts the American people above corrupt interests. For
that reason alone, the powerful will never stop coming for him,” Rep. Matt
Gaetz of Florida tweeted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Grizzly Gaetz forgets
that Trump murdered thousands of Americans by touting COVID “harmless, will go
away.” Strange how fake news, witch hunt, anti-vax, anti-mask traitor-in-chief
is still defended by his fools from their clownish House of Dunces? Big Lie
Loser who hurled his MAGA rioters in jails. That’s what “good” he has done to
Americans, forging corrupt, conservative courts which have killed voter rights,
women rights.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">“President Donald J.
Trump has just been indicted by an extremist NY District Attorney. No President
of the United States has ever been criminally indicted. Trump Derangement
Syndrome has infiltrated our judicial system and if they can come for him, they
can come for anyone,” Rep. Andy Biggs tweeted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Radicalize Biggs
doesn’t realize that he himself is afflicted with lunacy syndrome of falsehood,
flaunting his extremism by accusing NY District Attorney, as extremist. Yes,
judicial system has come after everyone and “anyone” victimized by the
insurrection-in-chief, his friends and rascals, all serving jail time except
him, the privileged traitor.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">A handful of senators
were quick to jump in as well to criticize the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Manhattan District
Attorney.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">“This indictment
doesn’t pass the smell test,” Sen. Thom Tillis said in a statement. “The
Department of Justice already looked into the facts and decided there was no
case to be made against President Trump. This is the same District Attorney who
is notorious for letting violent criminals off the hook in Manhattan, but has
been laser focused on pursuing a politicized prosecution of a former
President.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Thom Tillis in his
shadow world of falsehood takes cover against his trite phrase “politicized
prosecution” which all GOPQ lawless lawmakers use to spill their garbage of
conspiracy theories<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">One moderate Republican
held back from immediately assailing Bragg or the indictment, a marked
departure from many of his colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">“I trust the system,”
Rep. Don Bacon told CNN. “We have a judge. We have jurors. There is appeals. So,
I think in the end, justice will be done. If he’s guilty it will show up. But
if not, I think that will be shown too.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Kudos to Don Bacon, one
brave, honest patriot in a million!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">Even before an
indictment, three Republican chairmen including Jordan, Oversight Committee
Chairman James Comer and House Administration Committee Bryan Steil sent a
letter requesting testimony from Bragg and information related to his
investigation. Bragg’s office pushed back, but the Republican chairmen have
doubled down. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt;">In a statement Thursday
evening Trump called Alvin Bragg “a disgrace”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/author/david-knowles"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">David Knowles</span></b></a></span><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Senior
Editor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Friday,
March 31, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Outrageous or long overdue, constitutional malpractice or the
epitome of "karma": One thing that seemed to unite Americans this
week was that nearly everyone had an opinion on the indictment of former
president Donald Trump by a Manhattan grand jury. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here's a rundown of some of the most noteworthy responses so
far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.6pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 18.5pt;">Former President Donald Trump</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The man at the center of the storm has had no shortage of words
about being charged with felonies. While he has used the grand jury indictment
to raise money and fired off several angry messages on his social media
platform, Truth Social, one posted Friday employed a dubious legal strategy of
attacking the judge who will preside over the case against him in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">"The Judge 'assigned' to my Witch Hunt Case, a 'Case' that
has NEVER BEEN CHARGED BEFORE, HATES ME. His name is Juan Manuel Marchan, was
hand picked by Bragg & the Prosecutors, & is the same person who
'railroaded' my 75 year old former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, to take a 'plea'
deal (Plead GUILTY, even if you are not, 90 DAYS, fight us in Court, 10 years
(life!) in jail," Trump wrote. "He strong armed Allen, which a judge
is not allowed to do, & treated my companies, which didn't 'plead,'
VICIOUSLY. APPEALING!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Pity-me, toddler Trump whining, while all his criminal cronies
languish behind bars, the top criminal he himself free to rant and spread
falsehood.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greene declared Friday that she was heading to
New York on Tuesday to exercise her constitutional right to protest the
indictment that she considers "unconstitutional.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Nazi QAnon Greene protesting in New York for
traitor-in-chief is MAGA Classic, promoting violence and lawlessness, reminiscent
of Jan 6.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“I think the unprecedented indictment of a former president of
the United States on a campaign finance charge is an outrage," Pence said
Wednesday night on CNN. But pressed by anchor Wolf Blitzer on whether Trump
should continue running for president if he’s convicted on those charges, Pence
deflected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">“It’s a long way to that decision, I promise to answer that
question if that approaches,” he replied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">Pence too forgets “outrage” was when domestic terrorists chanted
outside the Capitol Hill “hang Mike Pence.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.5pt;">"Hopefully, the former president will peacefully respect
the system, which grants him that right." Nancy Pelosi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ron Dicker<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Monday, April 3, 2023</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl theatrically scoffed
at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s unhinged claim that Democrats are the
“party of pedophiles” during Sunday’s episode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">But some critics of the Georgia Republican said the veteran
journalist should have done more to refute the far-right lawmaker’s outlandish
statements. Critics were already upset with the mainstream news show, arguing
it was promoting Greene’s extremism by granting her air time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Among “over-the-top” statements, Stahl pointed out that Greene
called the Democrats “the party of pedophiles” last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I would definitely say so,” Greene said. “They support grooming
children.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“They are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?” Stahl
interjected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Even Joe Biden, the president himself, supports children being
sexualized and having transgender surgeries,” Greene said in echoing false GOP
claims equating trans-rights advocacy with child abuse. “Sexualizing children
is what pedophiles do to children.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">An exasperated Stahl whispered “wow,” rolled her eyes and made a
popping sound.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Stahl moved on to what she said was her real point: Are
name-calling and personal attacks necessary to “fight for what you believe in?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Replied Greene: “I would ask the same question to the other
side. All they’ve done is call me names and insult me nonstop since I’ve been
here.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Intelligent Lesley Stahl interviewing ignorant QAnon queen of
“pedophiles” is not only shameful for 60 Minutes but disgraceful for US before
the whole world, who will surely imbibe the reek of Greene’s falsehood with
glee. Radicalized “witch” Greene forgets that 2017 Republican pedophile Roy
Moore ran for senate seat, no Democrat has ever been accused of such crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="caas-attr-meta-separator"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">·</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Senior
Columnist<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Trump speech in Florida on April 4, after he returned home
from being arraigned in New York, reveals everything wrong with Trump’s 2024
presidential candidacy and his woeful political future. What’s very notable is
what Trump didn’t say. While defending himself and making the case for his 2024
candidacy, Trump didn’t propose any new actions or policies to improve the
country, whether it’s tackling inflation, countering China or winning in
Ukraine. Trump always claims things would be better if he were in charge, and
makes overwrought claims about the peace and prosperity he delivered as
president. But he doesn’t have a vision for the future that involves anybody
other than himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">As for what Trump did say, it was cringeworthy, classless, and
telling. Trump, of course, declared his innocence, which he has a right to do.
Then he attacked everybody who has leveled charges against him, or might in the
future. Here’s a sampling:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">On Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who filed the New
York criminal charges: “He should be prosecuted, or at a minimum, he should
resign.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">On the judge overseeing the New York case: “He’s a Trump-hating
judge with a Trump-hating wife and family.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">On federal prosecutor Jack Smith, who’s looking into possible
obstruction of justice with regard to Trump’s handling of classified documents
after he left the White House: “a radical left lunatic.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">On Fulton County, Ga. District attorney Fani Willis, who may
prosecute Trump for voter fraud: a “local racist district attorney.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">On New York State attorney general Letitia James, who’s pursuing
a civil fraud case against Trump and his business: “another racist in reverse.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">April 8, 2023 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Trump has told aides to hire Laura Loomer, a far-right and
anti-Muslim activist with a history of expressing bigoted views, for a campaign
role, according to four people familiar with the plans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">April 12, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">By Rebecca Shabad and Daniel Barnes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WASHINGTON — Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in federal court on
Wednesday against his former lawyer Michael Cohen — who has emerged as a key
witness in the criminal case against the former president — seeking more than
$500 million in damages for alleged "breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust
enrichment, conversion, and breaches of contract."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cohen was the key witness to testify last month before a
Manhattan grand jury, which then approved a 34-count indictment against Trump.
The former president has denied any wrongdoing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The complaint accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client
relationship with Trump by publicly disclosing information about the former
president and “spreading falsehoods about [Trump], likely to be embarrassing or
detrimental, and partook in other misconduct in violation of New York Rules of
Professional Conduct.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The former president has “suffered vast reputational harm as a
direct result of Defendant’s breaches,” Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito wrote in
the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Trump’s attorney said that Cohen did those things with
“malicious intent and to wholly self-serving ends.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cohen committed the breaches by “disparaging” Trump “through
myriad public statements, including the publication of two books, a podcast
series, and innumerable mainstream media appearances,” the complaint said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Defendant has engaged in such wrongful conduct over a period of
time and, despite being demanded in writing to cease and desist such
unacceptable actions, has instead in recent months increased the frequency and
hostility of the illicit acts toward Plaintiff,” Trump’s lawyer wrote. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Trump wants "compensatory, incidental, and punitive
damages" in an amount that would be determined at a trial and would
"substantially exceed" $500 million, the complaint said. He also
wants any profits or compensation Cohen receives from his books, podcast or
other products.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Trump has railed against Cohen, the former president's previous
longtime attorney, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to a host of charges tied to tax
evasion, as well as lying to Congress in its investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 election and his role in funneling payments to silence
two women who alleged that they had affairs with Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cohen completed his resulting prison sentence in November 2021.
Trump has denied the affairs and any wrongdoing connected to the hush money
payments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="endmark" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Last week, the former president was
charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his
alleged role in those hush money payments toward the end of his 2016
presidential campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 9.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">King of litigations lawless Trump files lawsuit against Michael
Cohen who went to jail for the crimes, cheater-in-chief committed from hush
money payments to business frauds to tax evasions, besides multiple other
felonies, misdemeanors. Clowning carnival of Donald Trump continues in upcoming
2024 elections.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-75609146351179962542023-03-26T11:18:00.000-07:002023-03-26T11:18:18.670-07:00Love Inside Life and Works of Hazrat Inayat Khan<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Life and works of
Hazrat Inayat Khan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So fortunate to
find Phil Harris as my publisher— the publisher of All Things That Matter Press,
endowed with intellect, perception, inspiration, once again to lend voice to
the Sufic Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan. For countless hours of his time,
expertise, dedication to give life to this book, I stay eternally grateful. This
book contains the aphorisms of Hazrat Inayat Khan during his years of travels
and Sufi teachings. His message of love, peace and harmony has been shared even
after his death by his disciples in the form of Quotations retrieved from his
book, Bowl of Saki. These quotations have been rewritten and circulated for
about a century and now through the medium of cyberspace to all who are
interested. His sayings have inspired many intellectuals through generations
and they still pulsate with positive energy to benefit the young and old in
century twenty-one. His unique expression of human virtues is timeless and
priceless to those who aspire to walk on the spiritual path of enlightenment.
He led the life of a contemplative who also was a great singer and a musician.
His songs and music were a rare feast to the souls hungry for peace after the
terrible war now known as WW1. He traveled far and wide in Europe, Russia and
America and gained many disciples whose progeny are continuing to share his
message of Sufi Wisdom. His grandson Pir Zia still carries the legacy of his
grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan, teaching Sufi practices at his Abode in
Richmond, Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“The message of
love, harmony and beauty is like a divine stream of spiritual evolution flowing
onward throughout our daily lives. And this awakening to purity and wisdom is
the true essence of all that is understood by the term Sufi.” Hazrat Inayat
Khan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 160%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #707173; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A couple of excerpts
from Hazrat Inayat Khan’s writings:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 160%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #707173; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was transported by destiny from the world of lyric and poetry to
the world of industry and commerce, on September 13, 1910. I bade farewell to
my motherland, the soil of India, the land of the sun, for America the land of
my future, wanderings: Perhaps I shall return some day, and yet I did not know
how long it would be before I should return. The ocean that I had to cross
seemed to me a gulf between the life that was passed and the life which was to
begin. I spent my moments on the ship looking at the rising and falling of the
waves and realizing in this rise and fall the picture of life reflected, the
life of individuals, of nations, of races, and of the world. </span><span style="color: #707173; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 160%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I tried to think where I was going, why I
was going, what I was going to do, what was in store for me. How shall I set to
work? Will the people be favorable or unfavorable to the Message which I am
taking from one end of the world to the other? It seemed my mind moved
curiously on these questions, but my heart refused to ponder upon them even for
a moment, answering apart one constant voice I always heard coming from within,
urging me constantly onward to my task, saying: Thou art sent on Our service,
and it is We Who will make thy way clear. This alone was my consolation.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan</span><span style="color: #707173; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Among some of my
man-collaborators I saw a spirit of slight contempt toward the woman-workers,
as man has always thought that woman is superfluous or too tender, too much
devotional and unintelligent; and they have always sought for a man's
collaboration in the work. Nevertheless, however much qualified men proved to
be in the work, the valuable service that women have rendered to the Cause has
been incomparably greater. The way how some of them have worked unceasingly
with sincere devotion and firm faith, has been a marvel to me. If it was not
for some women as my collaborators in the Cause, the Sufi Movement would never
have been formed. How easily man forgets the place of woman in all walks of
life. It is his self that covers his eyes from recognizing the importance of
woman's collaboration in every work.” Hazrat Inayat Khan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The emblem of the Sufi is a heart between two wings,
meaning that when the heart is cultivated man can soar up into heights of
heaven.” Hazrat Inayat Khan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-43551670848931438072023-01-01T05:28:00.006-08:002023-01-06T11:22:46.022-08:00Clownish Digital Happy New Year<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Clown is back with his circus of stupidity, juggling lies,
no other than Big Lie Loser, announcing his candidacy for President of the
United States, White House bid for Year 2024. Two more years of chaos, insults,
fakery, thuggery visit again, replete with hoaxes, witch hunts, fake news,
conspiracy theories, favoring domestic terrorists. Although
insurrection-in-chief is not needed to do that, his QAnon Cult of radicalized
lawless lawmakers have already won slim majority in the House, their sole duty
to investigate Hunter Biden, to free Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, traitors who
attacked Capitol Hill, tortured and killed the police officers, looted and
ransacked the sacred precincts of People’s House, tried to kill Nancy Pelosi,
chanted: hang Mike Pence. Even after a domestic terrorist cracked open the skull
of Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer, shameless GOPQ lawless
lawmakers made light of it, some hurled insults, others peddled conspiracy theories.
Instead of sympathizing with Nancy Pelosi they rubbed salt on her wounded heart
with heartless indifference. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MAGA swamp
is back in the House with two QAnon queens, Greene and Boebert, and Hellish
Hawley, Jaded Jordan, Gosar goof, grizzly Gaetz, rowdy Ron, terrible Ted to do
nothing but cause rifts, conflicts, confusion. Radicalized obstructionists are
back with zero support for average American. Fools never learn, even after
their multiple humiliating defeats, they are angry, hateful, vindictive as ever
before. Despite their hundred percent opposition to Biden agendas, Democrats
succeeded in containing COVID, issued COVID Relief Checks to millions of
Americans, saved healthcare, capped some gun laws, passed Infrastructure Bill to
benefit all States. Economy stayed stable, Job growth rose highest since
decades. Bigots, hypocrites, rascals as GOPQ lawmakers killed voter rights,
women rights, their MAGA darlings committed most horrible of crimes, but they
shifted the blame on Democrats. In spite of their voter suppression,
gerrymandering, tortured political maps in swing states, barring black voters,
they lost ignominiously, now poised to do nothing but hurt Americans again and
again. But this clownish circus of stupidity, laced with lunacy is not going to
deter Democrats to achieve monumental victories in helping all Americans, in
saving democracy, in honoring Constitution, in keeping pride, power, prestige
of America alive and thriving. Voters have become wise, savvy, compassionate,
eager to protect American values of love, liberty, tolerance. With Senate
majority now Democrats can tackle corruption of conservative courts by
appointing patriotic, honest, intelligent judges who value American justice,
liberty, equality, law and order. Hideous face of MAGA Cult no matter how wrinkled
with hate can’t withstand the disgust of loving Americans, especially Gen Z who
value democracy, decency, climate change, voter rights, women rights, justice,
honesty, integrity. They are the saviors of American Dream, defeating bigotry,
hypocrisy of unpatriotic hooligans poised to steal American peace, progress.
Cry-babies and cowards all who don’t have the courage to concede when defeated,
thwarting the will of American voters, pouring venom of distrust in fair
elections.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mike Pence “troubled by” Jack Smith appointed as special
counsel to investigate traitor-in-chief—who by the way is above the law,
forgets how domestic terrorists smashed windows of the Capitol Hill, killed,
tortured police officers, broke furniture, stole Nancy Pelosi’s laptop whom
they wanted to murder, chanting “where is Nancy”? Does Mike Pence remember how
the hooligans erected noose outside the Capitol Hill while screaming “hang Mike
Pence” and he still defends the Big Lie Loser. “Raid” at Mara Lago to retrieve
Sensitive, classified documents, Pence calls as “never in US history?” Can
Pence site any example in US history where a defeated, twice impeached
president unlawfully stole classified documents to display in his Mara Lago
Club of absurdities?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If liars, idiots, traitors, bigots, hypocrites the likes of Big
Lie Loser are even allowed to run for highest office in US, America will become
the nation of thugs, terrorists who have already killed voter rights, women
rights, now poised to kill Medicare, Social Security. QAnon-Taliban corrupting
Congress, MAGA swamp of bullies doing their duty of rifts, conflicts, conspiracy
theories. Lawless lawmakers strutting around to investigate Hunter Biden, for
what? Hunter Biden didn’t stage Capitol Hill insurrection, or tortured or
killed police officers, or defiled Capitol Hill by smashing windows, breaking furniture,
stealing Pelosi’s laptop, erecting noose to hang Mike Pence, threatening to
kill Pelosi while chanting, “where is Nancy, hang Mike Pence”?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>November 13, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Four students stabbed to death off campus at the university
of Idaho, Kalie Gonclaves,21; Ethan Chapin,20; Xana Kernodle,20 and Madison Mogen,21.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>November 19, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Traitor-in-chief’s twitter account reinstated by Elon Musk,
this is the new face of America, folks, get used to its wrinkled lines of fate,
telling its own tale of witches and witch hunts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brutal attack on LGTBQ in Colorado Bar, killed nine, injured
eighteen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>November 20, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Allen Weisselberg testifies in court that Donald Trump, Don
Junior and Eric Trump were directly involved in massive fraud scheme. Trump was
not only aware of untaxed benefits but was the guy who authorized them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>November 21, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kevin McCarthy is hoping to be elected as Speaker of the
House. In servitude to QAnon Greene, he promises to remove Ilhan Omar, Adam
Schiff and Eric Swalwell from House Intelligence Committee from their
assignments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Nov 22, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One shooter in Chesapeake Virginia Wall Mart kills six and
injures several other people with his gun. Trump dines with racist rapper Kanye
West and Holocaust denier, white supremacist, Christian Nationalist Nick Fuentes,
an outspoken racist and antisemite, at Mara-a-Lago. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>November 23, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Republican Sarah Palin is defeated by Democrat Mary Pelota
in Alaska.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>November 29, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kari Lake has filed election records suit after losing
governor’s race. Big Lie Loser demands that Kari Lake be made Arizona governor
after her defeat.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 3, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Big Lie Loser posts a public statement that the “rules,
regulations and articles” of the US Constitution should be terminated and the
2020 Presidential Election results should be thrown out to declare him the
“Rightful Winner.” Note, folks, two years after his humiliating defeat and
Trump toddler still whining, repeating lies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 6, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jury finds Trump Org. guilty of all seventeen counts of tax
fraud scheme in New York Trial.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">January 6 Panel plans to issue criminal referrals to Department
of Justice.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biggs renews challenge against McCarthy for House Speaker.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">McConnell, McCarthy snubbed by Capitol Police at Gold Medal
Ceremony. Officers and their families refusing to shake hands with the two
highest ranking GOP lawmakers. Such a shame, if MAGA thugs still not desist
from lying, cheating, bullying Americans, pumped with the Gavel of slim
majority to investigate Jan 6 Panel who brought truth to Americans, and who are
still trying to save democracy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Democratic Raffael Warnock Wins Georgia Runoff Race against
Republican Herschel Walker!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 7, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More classified documents found in Trump Florida Storage Unit
along with “Swords and Wrestling Belts”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 8, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brittney Griner, US basketball star released by Russia in prisoner
swap with Russian notorious arm dealer, Viktor Bout.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 10, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speaking at the New York Republican Club’s gala Marjorie Taylor
Greene commented in reference to January 6, 2021 insurrection: “I will tell you
something, if Steve Bannon and I organized that, we would have won. Not to
mention, it would have been armed.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 12, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Note of Hope<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">David Donnelly, brave, intelligent, patriotic, compassionate
Founder of pro-democracy strategist goes public, how he saved democracy by
secretly funding $32 million to keep democracy alive.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 15, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trump Clown is literally, physically, digitally back. He
claims America needs a superhero and makes major announcement that he is
selling digital cards. On Truth Social above the picture of himself standing in
a ring of wrestling muscles rippling under a red leotard, shooting lasers from
his eyes, wearing Champion belt emblazoned with the number 45, light blue
boots, and American flag as a cape, commands: Get your cards now, only $99
each, and would make a great Christmas gift. Don’t wait, they will be gone, I
believe, very quickly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 19, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trump referred to DOJ for criminal prosecution by January 6
Committee. Charges are, obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to
defraud the United States, conspiring to make false statements, and
insurrection. Alongside criminal referrals to DOJ the Jan 6 Committee members
also voted to send four of their colleagues to the House Ethics Committee for
sanctions. Kevin McCarthy; Scott Perry; Jim Jordan and Andy Biggs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 20, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">House Ways And Means Committee approves release of Trump’s
tax returns.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 21, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">President Zelenski of Ukraine—Man of the Year to appear on
Time Magazine Cover 2023, visits America amidst warm welcome, great applause,
standing ovations from members of Congress on both sides as he delivers his
historic speech in English.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 30, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns are released. He
paid $0 in taxes in 2020. Also, he paid a lower federal income tax rate than
most Americans despite making more than $20 million some years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The man who stabbed four Moscow, Idaho students to death is
arrested. He is 28 years old by the name of Bryan Christopher Kohberger,
arrested in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 31, 2022<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TV pioneering journalist, broadcaster Barbara Walters, who
carved a way for women to succeed in male dominated medium, died at age 93.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Wishes for a happy, healthy, harmonious New Year 2023<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wishing Happy New Year to whole world<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sunshine of peace lit by torch of wisdom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Soaring high like smooth sailing bird<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Witnessing joy in God’s vast Kingdom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Pir Zia Inayat Khan Prayer—Grandson of Pir O Murshid
Hazrat Inayat Khan<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">O Faithful, O Protector<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By your hand of Protection<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May minds and bodies be saved from harm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May hardened hearts be softened<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May hostilities cease<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May the spirit of kinship flower<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May enmity be abandoned<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May peace and freedom prevail in every land<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Pir O Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan Quote And Quatrains<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Democracy void of culture and refinement can very well be
called anarchy. One who is slave to conventionality is captive. One who is
master of conventionality possesses that Kingdom which Christ promised: “Blessed
are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let Thy wish become my desire<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let Thy will become my deed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let Thy word become my speech, Beloved<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let Thy love become my creed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let my plant bring forth Thy flowers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let my fruits produce
Thy seed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let my heart become Thy flute, Beloved<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And my body, Thy flute of reed<o:p></o:p></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-387285601993158362022-09-22T18:23:00.000-07:002022-09-22T18:23:28.931-07:00Iran's Immoral Police Killed Masha Amina<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bigotry is a
big, evil wound on the brow of Islam carved by the zealots since centuries of
lies and distortions of Quranic verses to oppress and tyrannize women. Manmade
laws invented by extremists who have imprisoned women in hijabs, burqas, abayas
and have been torturing them in the name of Islam and now turning shamelessly
violent against girls in Century 21 is vile, tragic, horrifying. Hijab has
nothing to do with Islam, if Muslim men and women just open their eyes to study
Quran and try to understand true precepts of Islam by sloughing off the veils
of hypocrisy, ignorance, intolerance. Lies have been told by so many, so often,
with such persistence that even now if someone tried to tell truth, it would
sound like a lie. It is disgraceful that Muslim leaders all over the world,
time and time again, have failed to condemn violence against women. Yet again,
women themselves deceived by hateful clerics staunchly believe that hijab is
Islamic. Maybe this brutal murder of young Masha Amina will jolt them to
awareness how insufferably oppressed they have been since centuries, mistaking
pagan customs as Islamic injunctions. It’s time they stand up against mindless control
of so-called Muslim men and join their Iranian sisters in burning hijabs, to
redeem the dignity of womanhood in Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Prophet
Muhammad made women integral to his plan for Muslim education and learning when
he proclaimed: Acquisition of knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim, male
and female.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fact is,
Prophet Muhammad was a modern-day activist in that age and time, liberating
women from the shackles of injustice and inequality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Prophet
Muhammad’s Sayings:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What a
Muslim must never do is to raise his hand against women. Treat each woman with
respect and kindness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The greatest
crimes are: to tell lies, to assault women, to murder your own species, to
commit suicide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God enjoins
you to treat women well, for they are your aunts, wives, mothers and daughters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The rights
of women are sacred, see that women are maintained in the rights assigned to
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The most
perfect man of religion who excels in character is the one who gives best
treatment to his womenfolk. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Only a man
of noble character can honor women and only a man of base intention will
dishonor women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Paradise
lies under the feet of mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You are all
the children of Adam and Adam was created from dust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God hath
treasuries beneath the Throne, the keys whereof are the tongues of poets, he
who knows his own self knows God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Omar used to
say to the Prophet, let your wives be veiled, but Allah’s Messenger did not do
so. Al Bukhari [1:148-O.B]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ibn Umar reported: He heard the Messenger of
Allah forbidding women in a state of ihram wearing gloves and veil and garments
dyed with wars and saying that they might wear besides this what they liked of
garments colored with safflower or made of silk or wool, or ornaments or
trousers or shirt. Al-Bukhari (AD 11:29) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">During the
lifetime of Prophet, men and women used to perform ablution together. Al
Bukhari [1:45-O.B]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hijab and veiling, is not Islamic, though many
believe it to be so, including Muslim men and Muslim women who question not the
veracity of such customs imposed by the so-called men of learning since
centuries. Such customs have become solid beliefs, repeated so often by so many
with such passion and persistency that lies have assumed the aura of truth. Yet
it is possible to shatter this false aura of truth by chiseling away layers
upon layers of lies where the purity of expression still breathes love and
radiance within the pages of the Quran and the Hadith. There is not a single
verse in the Quran with any injunction of veil or hijab. Below are verses from
the Quran prone to misinterpretation by the arbiters of Islam, though a couple
of those cited here neglected by Muslims are for men to be modest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and
be modest. This is purer for them. Lo! Allah is aware of what they do. (Quran
24:30)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And men who guard their modesty and women who
guard their modesty, and men who remember Allah and women who remember—Allah
hath prepared for them forgiveness and a vast reward. (Quran 33:35)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And tell the believing women to lower their
gaze and be modest, and to display their adornments only that which is
apparent, and to draw their scarves over their bosoms. (Quran 24:31)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This verse above was revealed in response to
pagan women going around Kaaba, wearing low-neck dresses with their bosoms
revealed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O ye who
believe! Enter not the dwellings of the Prophet for a meal without waiting for
the proper time, unless permission is granted you. But if you are invited,
enter, and when your meal is ended, then disperse. Lingering not for
conversation. Lo, that would cause annoyance to the Prophet and he would be shy
of asking you to go, but Allah is not shy of the truth. And when ye ask of the
wives of the Prophet anything, ask it from them from behind a curtain. (Quran
33:53)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This verse above was revealed after the
Prophet’s marriage with Zainab. The wedding guests lingered over the feast and
didn’t leave until it was very late in the night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wearing of a veil was pre-Islamic custom
observed by the women of the Sasanian society. The segregation of the sexes was
also pre-Islamic, practiced in the regions of the Middle East and the
Mediterranean. No evidence of veiling is in the Quran or Sunnah. During the
lifetime of the Prophet, Muslim women participated in the public life and
didn’t wear hijab. The pagan women, as well as women from the Judeo-Christian
background, wore veil and hijab as a mark of wealth, status and distinction. To
instill the virtue of equality amongst Muslims the Prophet Muhammad forbade the
Muslim women to wear veils. The pearls of Hadith below attest to this fact.
(Abu Dawud 11:29)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The veil was worn in Arabia as a mark of rank:
and it was therefore disallowed, as pilgrimage required obliteration of all
differences of rank. Forbidding a veil in a pilgrimage is a further conclusive
proof that Holy Quran did not enjoin the wearing of veil, as in that case the
prohibition here stated would be a contradiction of the Holy Quran. Gloves are
not allowed because like the veil they are a mark of rank. Ornaments are
allowed because they are not a mark of rank, and are worn by even ordinary
people and laboring classes The Messenger of Allah forbade women pilgrims from
wearing gloves, veils, and clothes dyed with saffron or wars (a sweet-smelling
plant that was used to dye clothes yellow). Besides these, they may wear
anything else, any color, silk clothes, ornaments, trousers or shirt or shoes
(Abu Dawud, Al Baihaqi and Al-Hakim).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bukhari reported that Aisha put on a garment
that was dyed with <i>usfur</i> while she was in a state of ihram and she said,
“A woman must neither wear a veil to cover her face, nor clothes dyed with
saffron or other fragrant dying material.” Aisha is of the opinion that there
is no harm for women pilgrims in wearing ornaments, black or rose-colored
clothes and shoes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bukhari and Ahmad reported, “A pilgrim woman
must neither cover her face, nor wear gloves.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A later
verse just for the protection of the ladies of the Prophet’s household is
subject to misinterpretation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O Prophet, tell thy wives to draw their cloaks
round them when they go abroad. That will be better so that they may be
recognized and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful. (Quran 33:59)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even after this revelation, the women-companions
of the Prophet did not wear hijab as they knew that the Quranic directive was
addressed only to the Prophet’s wives. The Muslim women’s participation in the
life of the community during this time was dignified and social encounters took
place at the initiative of the men and women, when the occasion arose. Mohammad
Hashim Kamali<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Women shall
have the same rights over men as men have over them. (Quran 2:228)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And whoso
doeth good works, whether male or female and he or she is a believer, such will
enter Paradise and they will not be wronged the dint in a date-stone. (Quran
4:124)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We entreat
God to deliver the light of equity and the sun of justice from the thick clouds
of waywardness, and cause them to shine forth upon men.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baha’ ‘ulla’h<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The outward
Kaaba Ibrahim built. The inward Kaaba was as Lord Almighty willed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abdullah al-Ansari<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Harm shall
never be inflicted nor reciprocated in Islam.” Hadith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mockery of Islam begins with bigots, spreads with extremists, multiplies with terrorists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May we all strive toward intellect, knowledge, understanding.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May there be peace in the world, especially in Ukraine against brutal war of aggression by Putin. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amin, Amin, Amin</span></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-43366005757043317872022-09-05T19:01:00.003-07:002022-09-05T19:01:37.169-07:00Radicalization Part Two America MAGA Torches and Pitchforks<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Demure Diary is my refuge to dwell on thoughts which witness
radicalization of America with hopeless, helpless pain of realization that this
great nation with majority of patriotic, intelligent, loving Americans is
falling prey to handful of MAGA hooligans fed by grand lies from Big Lie Loser.
Q generation of lawless, MAGA mavericks with idolatrous faith in their
insurrection-in-chief, disillusioned by his lies and conspiracy theories are
threatening peace and prosperity of America. To add fire to the flames of
unrest, Fox frenzy of distortions of facts is choking the spirit of democracy,
condoning the killing of voter rights and women rights.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RNC chair Ronna McDaniel says. “Joe Biden is
divider-in-chief and epitomizes the current state of the Democratic party. One
of divisiveness and disgust towards half the country.” Fact is, epitome of
Democratic Party is that they have restored America’s pride, power, prestige
before the whole world from past presidency of bruised and broken America. COVID
is contained, economy is great, jobs are plenty, Democrats are passing Big
Bills to make America clean, safe, whole and healthy, body and soul. The “disgust”
that Americans felt over thousands of COVID deaths under dark clouds of hoaxes,
fake news, is left behind. “Divider-in-Chief” of four chaotic years who stoked
violence, praised domestic terrorists, pardoned felons and traitors is of the
same mindset now, holding hostage his MAGA cult with threats of more violence to all Americans,
calling FBI “vicious monsters”. Finally, ‘half the country’ doesn’t represent
angry, dysfunctional Americans but tiny bit of innocent Americans exploited by
liars and extremists<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, torches and pitchforks. Tim Michaels, a candidate in
Wisconsin endorsed by traitor-in-chief blatantly kindles the flames of
violence. “I believe people should just, just be ready to get out on the
streets with pitchforks and torches with how low the liberal media has become.
People need to decide am I going to put up with this? Am I going to tolerate
this, taking somebody that gives money to churches or cancer research and use
that as a hit piece in the media. I am appalled, it’s disgusting.” Yes, gentle,
peace-loving Americans, here’s one example of your would-be lawless,
radicalized governors, groveling in mires of savagery ‘how low’ with torches
and pitchforks against their fellow Americans. He is right, “am I going to put
up with this?” that is with butchering voter rights and women rights. “Am I
going to tolerate this?” worth noting, bigotry and hypocrisy of past president
with his photo-op holding Bible in front of a church while peaceful protesters
were being beaten, tear-gassed, hauled away in unmarked vehicles by his
paramilitary buffoons. “Appalled?” for sure, decent, patriotic, law-abiding Americans
are appalled after witnessing the robbery of classified documents from White
House, then the robber demanding those back, whining, “they are mine.” “Disgusting”
this word doesn’t justify the bigotry, corruption, lawlessness of lawmakers who
still defend the traitor, still threatening violence. Michael McCaul is one
more example of GOPQ Rep, arguing that Trump had taken classified document to
Mar-a-Lago while he was president? That different set of rules apply to Trump
for declassifying documents? Perhaps, a wealthy, privileged child of white
supremacy with fascist ideology can’t be held accountable, is that true in
American justice of double standards? Radicalized judge Aileen Cannon appointed
by Trump grants Trump special master to review classified documents which he
stole from White House to be stored at Mara-a-Lago, is that justice America?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Addressing fascism, extremism, terrorism is the only way to
save America from becoming another Russia or Afghanistan where citizens are
bullied and subjugated, books are banned, women rights are usurped. Guns and
violence are paraded as law and order.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">It’s essential to learn and realize that life begins with a
journey which ends in death. After us, future generations would also take the
same journey, so the task before us should be to make this world a harmonious
place and leave it in a better condition than ever before for our children and
grandchildren. Hate, avarice, animosity, all will end with our last breath, for
evil is doomed to die even when living, what survives is good works, benefiting
all now and later, that’s the law of nature we human beings are slow to learn,
or refuse to learn at all as history stays witness.</span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 6.75pt 0in 6.75pt; width: 436.5pt;" valign="top" width="582">
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">In order to have a
better world we must learn to think of the globe as a whole. Our world
leaders need to be more selfless and sacrificing. Only by having a universal
and spiritual vision can we bring positive change into the political field.
Someone interested in making positive changes will never resort to violence
to effect political reform. The approach has to be nonviolent. Anything
achieved through violence will not last long; it will leave an enemy sitting
somewhere plotting against you</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">. If instead, you make a friend, you need not be afraid of the
other person; and he or she need not be afraid of you. Permanent peace can
never be achieved by violent means.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">In war there is no
winner. Who creates war? The bombs don’t drop by themselves. It is the people
behind them, the human minds that create war. All the wars are in the human
mind. A little peace can change the mind, and it doesn’t take that much
time. By devoting, few minutes a day to meditation—to peace prayers—you
can send out nice vibrations that will go around the globe and influence
political leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Remember,
there is no power higher than love. Hatred breeds hatred; violence breeds
violence. If we sincerely want world peace, we have to depend on our soul
force, not on anything else. When our efforts fail, when we have nothing
else, then we think of a Higher Power and turn to that force. And that is
what soul force is; that is what prayer is all about. Mahatma Gandhi was a
great example of this principle. He demonstrated that, by being a peaceful
activist and trusting in soul power, one could liberate an entire country.
That is how India gained her independence. Mahatma Gandhi, U Thant, Martin
Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others were great humanitarians in public
life. We need more people like these to lead and inspire.” Sri Swami
Satchidananda <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">“If you
desire the self, get out of the self<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leave the shallow stream behind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And flow into the river deep and wide<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t be an ox pulling the wheel of the plow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 2.25pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turn with the stars that wheel above
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-16636738091916987252022-08-24T17:23:00.000-07:002022-08-24T17:23:28.795-07:00Radicalization of America<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Radicalization of America began with the inception of idiocy
of a presidency, four chaotic years of confusion, buffoonery, clowning around
with conspiracy theories. Putin’s interference in 2016 US elections made
America a reeking cauldron of intrigue. Polished by the power of white
privilege, fascism, autocracy. Felons, traitors, criminals were given high ranking
jobs in the White House, who were not qualified to perform their duties, quite a few ending
up in being fired but then replaced with equally unqualified, unpatriotic thugs
and conservatives. Power and prestige of America was weakened by tarnishing the
reputation of FBI, CIA by newly elected president, presenting Putin as truthful
and trustworthy. Press was maligned as fake news, the idea of witch hunts was
tossed around to conceal facts, climate change was treated as a hoax. Courts
were packed with corrupt, conservative judges who could stay loyal to the White
House. Violence against blacks was a new normal, racial injustice rendered as
birthright of white supremacists. White House was on sabbatical, it was obvious,
dereliction of duty their agenda, and hiatus from passing any bills which could
benefit Americans. A whirlwind of confusion of Much ado about Nothing for
almost four years and then came global pandemic to embellish the disastrous
years of trade wars, COVID wars with China, and warring rhetoric of hate and
insults against fellow Americans. Another hoax which became a vast tragedy was
treating COVID as a hoax, anti-mask hooligans infecting law abiding Americans who
wanted to protect themselves and others by wearing masks. Thousands of
Americans died of virus infections whose lives could have been saved if hoax
element was missing from the surge of pandemic. When vaccines were available,
anti-vaxxers began their crusade against vaccines, defying guidelines of CDC,
deeming vaccines dangerous, promoting quack medicines, including animal drugs
and most foolishly even suggesting to ingest bleach. Apex of absurdity reached
higher when Liar-in-Chief lost 2020 elections against President Joe Biden,
unleashing a tsunami of falsehood that election was stolen. Ballots were
counted again, recounted several times in Red States, Ninja nerds finally
declaring there was no election fraud, millions of taxpayers’ money was wasted
on wild whims of Liar-in-Chief. Even US courts declared there was no election
fraud whatsoever, but lies of Big Lie Loser were swollen to the size of a giant
helium balloon lowering confetti of misinformation “Stop the Steal.” This
slogan was picked up by the QAnon cult of KKK, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, white
supremacists, armed with anger and sedition to steal election from the rightfully
elected President Joe Biden. Day of Judgment arrived nigh on Jan 6 when
Traitor-in-Chief incited his domestic terrorists on the steps of Ellipses to go
and storm the Capitol Hill. As instructed by the Insurrection-in-Chief the
lawless, radicalized hooligans attacked Capitol Hill, scaling walls, smashing
windows, defiling the sanctuary of American Pride, waving Nazi and Confederate
flags. One police officer was tortured and killed, hundreds injured, some lost
their eyesight, two of the police officers committed suicide after the
pandemonium ended. If that was the end of violent insurrection in the history
of America, it was also the beginning of radicalization of America. Bigoted,
unpatriotic, lawless lawmakers devoted to Insurrection-in-Chief had begun their
own crusade of lies and conspiracy theories. Aftermath of which resulted in
brutal laws enacted by GOPQ by suppressing voter rights, women rights. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ravages of which now Americans suffer as overturning of Roe
v Wade by corrupt, conservative, radicalized courts. Felons, traitors, criminals,
sex traffickers are being elected to high posts in white privileged cult of
thugs and extremists. Anger, insults, gun violence is new normal. Another new
normal is stupidity of lawless lawmakers still defending Traitor-in-Chief for illegally
stealing classified documents from White House and dumping them into the basement
of his beloved Mar-a-Lago resort, refusing to return those to archives where
they can stay secure lawfully. Finally, FBI retrieved those from Mar-a-Lago
with search warrants from the court orders, much to the ire and chagrin of lawless
thugs of Big Lie Loser, QAnon Greene amongst them demanding, “Defund the FBI” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It took four years for Trump to destroy America what it had
taken generations to build. Trump had ravaged America with lies, chaos, insults
and conspiracy theories. White House was caught in the vortex of vainglory.
Republicans were enabling Trump to grovel in the mire of voter fraud and incite
his domestic, gun-wielding extremists to raging, damaging, traumatizing
rallies. The time which should have been spent in the service of Americans and
containment of COVID was being wasted in strife and contention and baseless ReTrumplican
lawsuits, claiming that election was rigged. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To end this with a note of hope, Biden Administration is
mending the broken America despite radicalized cult of GOPQ. Reduction
Inflation Act is passed despite zero support from Republicans. Students are
relieved from much of their burden of student loans. American Dream is
unfolding on the road to peace, progress, prosperity. Lies can’t survive for
long. Patriotic, intelligent, loving Americans will not let radicalization
survive and flourish.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Final Note—Quotations from Benjamin Franklin:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“If you would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle
words and useful deeds. Mankind are very old creatures. One half censure what
they practice, the other half practice what they censure, the rest always say
and do what they aught. Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is
commanded because it is beneficial. Where there is hunger, law is not regarded
and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May America be protected by countless blessings of unity,
health, harmony. Wishing peace to the world, especially in Ukraine against the brutal
war of aggression by Putin. Peace is Possible, we need to believe and practice on
personal and global level of understanding.<o:p></o:p></p>farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-52101369896725539352022-03-01T11:43:00.000-08:002022-03-01T11:43:26.338-08:00Taj Mahal ResurrectedAll Things That Matter Press with its spirit of spirituality, mind of intellect, heart of generosity and soul of serendipity are to host Taj Mahal in print and in cyberspace globally./Taj Mahal depicts the historical, biographical account of Shah Jahan’s life as the fifth Moghul emperor of India. / He is the architect of Taj Mahal, creating this monument of love in the likeness of Throne of God. Or—as believed by many, the replica of the Garden of Irem, the mythical garden of Muslim Paradise. / Shah Jahan’s love for his empress, Mumtaz Mahal, unfolds in this book at the inception of his coronation. / Three years after this joyful occasion, Mumtaz Mahal as his beloved Taj dies after giving birth to her fourteenth child, Princess Gauhara./ One week after this tragedy, Shah Jahan emerges from his chamber of grief and seclusion as a statue of ice, his hair all turned gray and his eyes lit by the fires of loss and agony./Against the burden of torments supreme within his heart and soul, the emperor begins chiseling his grief in the shape of flower wounds on the pure marble of Taj Mahal with the hope of being near his beloved unforgotten and unforgettable. /For the next twenty years of his reign are devoted to breathing life to the loss of his love in this wonder of sublime beauty dear to his heart as his beloved Taj. / The emperor is also the patron of the Sufis and the saints since his most beloved of sons and daughters, Prince Dara Shikoh and Princess Jahanara indulge in literary and spiritual pursuits of love, unity and harmony. / Shah Jahan’s other children with frivolous tastes are almost obscured against the zeal and ambition of Prince Aurangzeb who consumes all with the steel of his hatred and wickedness. / The last seven years of the emperor’s life are more tragic than the tragedy of his loss irretrievable—his beloved Taj. / Aurangzeb dethrones Shah Jahan, murders all his brothers, including the saints and Sufis most endeared by Prince Dara Shikoh—the Crown Prince. / Shah Jahan is imprisoned inside his own palace of Red Fort at Agra, all his jewels including the famous Peacock Throne—also designed by Shah Jahan, usurped by Prince Aurangzeb. / From the Shah Burj balcony of his palace, the emperor breathes his last, while gazing at Taj Mahal, Princess Jahanara his loving and faithful companion. /
Excerpt One/
Shah Jahan's heart was gathering tears of blood, which could flower into fresh wounds in the likeness of jewel-flowers on his beloved Taj. / No need for fresh wounds, they were already there, bleeding now, willing their sorrow never to die, and longing for the purity of love from his lost beloved. / White peace was torn out of his soul, and given to the world with the edict of love, unity, sanctity. / He was kneeling at the altar of his beloved white and silent. / Not even knowing that his hands were clutching the shroud strewn with pearls, his lips lowering a banner of truce inside the bouquet of kisses./
"Death itself not deadly be/
As to soulless life compare/
Sightless my eyes shudder to see/
If marble tombs to blind seem fair."/
Excerpt Two/
Aurangzeb, protected by his royal guards and attended by his grandees, looked pale and distraught./ He wanted to make sure that the evil tongue of Sarmad was silenced forever, his words dead along with his body not ever to haunt him, before he could return to the comforts of his palace./
The sky had turned pewter, as Sarmad was hauled to the white platform, the guards behind him standing ramrod like the mighty pillars of stone and granite. /All laments of grief and despair from the lips of the well-wishers were silenced, replaced with awe and bewilderment. / Aurangzeb had chosen his own guillotine of vengeance under the shade of domes, the large amethyst in his turban with the glint of a jeweled sword, brandishing its own pride and hatred. /
If no one had seen Judgment Day before, this was it! / The river of silence so insufferably profound that even a whisper in the wind could be heard on the other side of the continents far and wide./ An abrupt clap of thunder was gathering clouds, all young and tearful. / Thunder and lightning were making the guards shudder inwardly, floating toward the platform in daze and silence. /The naked sword was still poised before Abhu Chand, and his eyes were shooting bolts of lightning. / Sarmad’s lips and heart, both were bruised and bleeding. / But before he could lay them at the feet of his beloved God, his thoughts were uttering one last cry of joy and pain.
"I recognize Thee my Friend/
Thou hast come/
In the form of a naked sword/
To embrace me."/
Sarmad lowered his head on the block most humbly and fearlessly. / His whole body was quivering with joy and anticipation of the unknown. /Since the blow didn't descend, another couplet escaped his ecstatic lips./
"Love's path was blocked by this naked body a bit/
But now the sword has cut my head from it."/
This was Sarmad's command to awaken Abhu Chand out of his own swoon and ecstasy./
Abhu Chand was quick to heed the command of his Lover, striking one violent blow, swift and unerring./ Sarmad's head was bounced off the block, falling at the feet of Abhu Chand./
The Moghul Empire crumbled after the tyranny of Aurangzeb when he became the sixth Moghul Emperor of India, The Moghul Saint of Insanity./This is one more history lesson to add to Putin’s fascism with grand ambition of subjugation./ Slaughtering Ukrainians as Aurangzeb slaughtered Hindus and Sikhs and his end was more tragic than the shattering of the entire Moghul Empire./
Wishing peace between Ukraine and Russia./ Wishing peace in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan./ World has plenty of food and may famines in Yemen and Afghanistan be quelled./ May Taliban relinquish their guns of bigotry, brutality, hypocrisy, grant women their Islamic rights of education, freedom, and all brave, loving Afghanis the freedom to enjoy their talents of sports, drama, music, literature./ With profound prayers for health, harmony, wisdom for entire world./
“Tell whoso hath sorrow/Grief shall never last/Even as joy has no morrow/So woe shall go past”/ Arabian Nights
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-91677407632657903742021-12-23T11:47:00.000-08:002021-12-23T11:47:08.130-08:00Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from my Sufi Teacher Amat-un-Nur"The last of the Roman calendar months is December. /The name December may be divided into Dec for decreasing and Ember as the burning ember./ December thus means the decreasing heat of the last burning ember of the year./ Like a dying flame, the year is coming to its close./ The embers of the solar dispensation of one year are cooling off./ The new year will begin with January which is named after the Roman god Janus who is guardian of gates and doorways./ He is two headed for one face of his looks ruefully to the past and the other eagerly to the future./ He is the herald of endings and beginnings. /
What is the relevance of all this for us?/ We know that the two faces emerge from one body and in our case the two are the aspects of our will and desire linked to the past and future./ We regret what has past and know that it cannot be changed and neither will it return, and we are hopeful that what is to come may be the bringer of fulfillment to us./ It is not a surprise that December also hosts Christmas./ This is the birth of Christ consciousness in us, bringing the meaningful discernment of lessons learnt for future prudence. /The past must teach us something of value which then shapes our will into serving the future more sincerely and with truth- orientation./ To say Happy New Year is to re-affirm the happiness that would result from our shedding the ignorance of the past, for acquiring the benevolence that a higher born consciousness would bring./ The New Year will be happy depending on the effectiveness of our learning from past errors./Only then can we enter a fresh chance of living better and happier./
So this is my message to you dear ones..../
Be the servants of a new will to breakthrough into your best Self. /Happy is the one who is born from the measure of his suffering into joy. /Be the measure of this joy by dispelling the sorrows that the lesser ego piled upon you in the year gone by. /
May Allah grant you all abundance of joy, mirth, good health, vigour, vitality, youthfulness of body, heart and soul and ripe maturity of mind and spirit./ Live to the fullest, laught to the fullest and be fearless in the trust that God is with you wheresoever you may be."/ Taking the liberty of adding a little poem I wrote/
May this Christmas be a golden shower/On newly found hopes in the heart of New Year/May global health be our gift of frageant flower/To gather light of understanding without dark fear/
Wishing whole world a happy, healthy, harmonious New Year
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-20008589182155166102021-08-02T17:17:00.000-07:002021-08-02T17:17:05.987-07:00Taliban Legacy of TerrorJihadis from Arabian Peninsula and Mujahedeen—the warlords of Afghanistan who resisted the invasion of Soviet Union in Year 1979, regrouped as Taliban in Year 1989 after the Soviets were defeated, to fight the pro-Soviet Government. The invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet Union sent ripples of shock in West and in Saudi Arabia. Both America and Saudi Arabia were anxious to supply arms to this poor nation to fight the Russians. The Muslims envisioned this fight as strengthening Islam and the West saw it as a battle to bring down communism. Money poured into Afghanistan from America in arms and armaments to strengthen the Mujahedeen, while Saudi Arabia opened its coffers of wealth along with their Jihadis to fight the infidel.
Amongst those Jihadis, the most active was the citizen of Saudi Arabia by the name of Osama Bin Laden. For several years during the war between Russians and Mujahedeen, Osama was an armchair warrior, traveling to Peshawar to bring money and supplies. There was a huge weapons souk outside Peshawar, the guns hanging in there, hundreds of them. Anyone could buy any weapon they liked, the most popular amongst Jihadis, the Kalashnikov. The war still raging between the Soviets and the Afghanis, Osama in Year 1986 started building a military base to camp and to house several dozen of Arab fighters, near the Afghan village of Jaji about ten miles from Pakistani border. The following summer Soviet jets bombarded Osama’s camp with missiles that landed inside the camp, but didn’t explode.
That day Mujahedeen canon brought down four Soviet planes, Osama gloated, cheering over the deaths of Russian pilots. The story was picked up by Saudi press, praising Jihadis, who were lauded as holy warriors. The Saudis had given lavishly as well as America to support this war, but for Saudis some of the payment was in blood. The bodies of the Arab dead were dispatched in cold storage, embalmed in sweet smelling scents to console the grieving parents that their sons had died as martyrs.
After a decade of warfare, Russians acknowledged defeat in Year 1989 and left Afghanistan into the hands of the pro-Soviet leader Najibullah. Osama Bin Laden was ecstatic, returning to Jeddah as a war hero. He was received into the homes of the wealthy Saudis to be kissed and embraced, presiding over grand feasts with grand stories to share and exaggerate. King Fahad praised him and applauded his efforts to defeat the Russians. Back in Afghanistan civil war had broken out, Americans satisfied with Russian defeat had withdrawn their support, not concerned with the internal warfare in Afghanistan. After a decade of armed struggle, fighting had become a way of life for Afghani Mujahedeen and ethnic factions as well as well as regional lords engaged in internecine warfare and against the puppet government of Najibullah.
The young students calling themselves Talibs, meaning pupils in Pashtu language styled themselves as Taliban—a group of pupils and fashioned their own laws to govern and subjugate. Most of them were orphans or belonging to poor families, the victims of Soviet aggression and taught in madrassas funded by Saudi Arabia. They were schooled to fight the infidel and brainwashed into believing the distorted version of Islam which had nothing to do with Islam. Trained to have long beards and turbaned at all times, they went from village to village, carrying a copy of Quran in one hand and Kalashnikov in the other, demanding that the chieftains put down their weapons for the sake of Quran. If anyone resisted the armed bandits styled as Taliban, those were considered as rebels and shot dead on the spot by Taliban ruthlessly.
Back in Saudi Arabia, Osama was expanding his own operation of Jihadists in Yemen and Jeddah. When news of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait reached Saudi Arabia in Year 1990, Osama was concerned for the safety of the House of Al Saud. He suggested that King Fahd should move out of his palace in Jeddah, because it was too close to the sea and could be easily attacked. Further he offered his own army of Jihadis to liberate Kuwait from the clutches of Saddam. King Fahad declined Osama’s offer, instead seeking the aid of godless Americans, as Osama put it, feeling outraged and offended. Instantly he became a sworn enemy of Al Saud, starting an armed organization called Al Qaeeda in Yemen without the permission of the government. Soon he was making incendiary speeches and barbed wires appeared along the top of the high wall surrounding his Macarona street house in Jeddah. He was ordered by the government to take down the barbed wires and to stop making speeches against the house of Al Saud. He didn’t comply, so his passport was confiscated. In Year 1991, he was able to retrieve his passport and left for Afghanistan, and then to Sudan as a base for his Al Qaeeda operations.
Meanwhile Taliban kept fighting the government, but they didn’t succeed until Year 1992 when they toppled the government of Najibullah. It was not until Year 1996 that Taliban kidnapped Najibullah the president of Afghanistan and his brother. They beat both Najibullah and his brother and castrated them publically, dragged their bodies behind a jeep, then hanged them by wire nooses from lampposts. After these brutal acts, the Taliban began issuing their man-made edicts of prohibitions outside the pale of Islam. No music, no pool tables, no kite flying. No nail polish, no toothpaste, no television. No beard shaving or adopting the hairstyles of the British or Americans. The women were to wear burqa, covered from head to toe and banned from working. The girl schools and colleges were closed.
Back in Sudan, Osama’s business ventures as well as his Al Qaeeda camp was flourishing. He had set up a nine room office in Sudanese capital, from which he ran a trucking company, a leather tanning factory and a furniture making venture. He also owned a bakery and a sweets-producing company. His rhetoric against the House of Al Saud was getting offensive to King Fahad, so the King ordered in Year 1994 that Osama be stripped of Saudi citizenship. His Saudi assets and bank accounts were frozen. Despite all precautions against violence, Saudi Arabia became the victim of terrorist attack in Year 1995 when a bomb tore apart the National Guard training center, killing five Americans and two Indian officials. Though not privy to these bombings, Osama was under suspicion of aiding the terrorists. A year later his attempt to assassinate Egyptian president Mubarak resulted in his expulsion from Sudan. No choice was left to Osama, but to choose Afghanistan as his permanent exile in Year 1996 with the intention of launching attacks against Saudi Arabia and America, the later in his estimation for abandoning Afghanis to their own throes of conflict and warfare.
Leaving Sudan and arriving in Jalalabad, Osama sought the protection of Mullah Omar, the one-eyed leader of Taliban. Mullah Omar welcomed him, taking an oath that he would protect him and would never give him up to anyone against any threat, reward or pressure. Being an ex-citizenship of Saudi Arabia, Osama was not shocked to witness the execution of a convicted murderer murdered by the member of his victim’s family in a football stadium, packed with men and children. He was impressed by the orthodoxy of the Taliban, feeling close at home, when he encountered a Taliban beating a taxi driver who was playing music in his cab. A year earlier, Mullah Omar told Osama, he had received Saudi envoy and had told him that Taliban would fight until there would be no blood left to be shed in Afghanistan and Islam would become the way of life for Afghanis. The Saudi envoy was pleased, that’s why new trucks and machine guns were flooding the streets of Kabul for the propagation of Islam.
Mullah Omar was ready to lead the faithful to the gates of heaven. When Taliban took control of Kabul in Year 1996, Mullah Omar summoned in Kandahar more than thousand religious leaders from his newly conquered domains to proclaim himself Amir-al-Muminin—Commander of the Faithful. To invest himself with more power, he ordered the Prophet’s Cloak to be brought out from the most sacred shrine in Kandahar, to the top floor of a mosque in the center of the city. Staging a grand show for the possession of the Prophet’s cloak, he stuck his hands into the sleeves of the holy garment and proceeded to parade around the roof, wrapping and unwrapping the Cloak for half an hour as the mullahs in the courtyard threw their turbans in the air, pledging their homage to the Commander of the Faithful. By the end of the year Taliban had extended their rule to the twenty-two of the country’s thirty-one provinces. Taliban announced that their godly government would be known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Only three countries recognized this entity, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and United Arab Emirates.
By Year 1998 Osama had trained around eight thousand non-Afghanis in his Jihadi camps as potential fighters to wreak vengeance against all who had done wrong to Muslims around the world. He organized an International Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Christians. An official manifesto was written and signed by militant leaders from Egypt, Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh and Taliban were given the first privilege to declare war on America to civilians. His threat, indirectly, was against Al Saud, who even after the end of Gulf War were permitting US Air Force bases in the Land of the Two Holy Places.
Taliban were organizing their own jihad against Shias in Afghanistan. In the middle of Year 1998, Taliban using their new trucks and machine guns supplied by Saudi Arabia were able to capture the northern town of Mazar-e-Sharif. On a spree of blood-thirsty rampage, they slaughtered about six to eight thousands of Shia men, women and children. Not satisfied with mass murder, they ploughed their way into people’s homes, raping, murdering and slitting the throats of all they could find, regardless of their age, gender or ethnicity. Pressed by the fever of madness, they packed hundreds of victims into shipping containers without water to be baked alive in the desert sun.
Movie theatres were closed and music was banned. Taliban stopped all women from working in schools or hospitals, and if they deviated from their edict of complete covering from head to toe, they were publicly beaten. Local festivities of New Year celebrations were banned, as well as festivities of two Eids, and Ashura—Shia’s Islamic month of mourning. Portraits and photography too were banned. At the end of the same year Al Qaeeda’s suicide bombers had launched assaults against America’s embassies in Kenya, Nairobi, Tanzania and Dar es Salaam. Their coordinated attacks within eight minutes of each other resulted in deaths of two hundred and twenty-four people and forty-five hundred were injured.
In retaliation America’s Operation Infinite Reach launched Tomahawk missiles against a suspected chemical weapons factory in Sudan which turned out to be a pharmaceutical plant. Seventy-five cruise missiles were also fired from US warships in the Indian Ocean in the direction of the recently built terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. The missiles didn’t reach their intended target and the next day Osama exulted.
By the grace of God, I am alive.
Osama was rewarded by Taliban with a code name Taqwa, meaning reverence for God. In Year 1999 UN imposed an air embargo and froze Taliban assets in an attempt to force them to hand over Osama for trial. A year later UN also imposed an arms embargo against the Taliban. In March of Year 2001, Taliban blew up two thousand-year old statues of two Buddhas in the cliffs above Bamiyan.
Taliban began enforcing more of their man-made laws on the populace of Afghanistan. Religious minorities were ordered to wear tags beginning May in Year 2001, identifying them as non-Muslims. Hindu women were required to veil themselves in the manner of Afghani women. More edicts were enforced in July 2001, banning the game of playing cards. The use of TV, movies, satellite, computers disks, chessboards and musical instruments were prohibited, labeled as unIslamic. In August of the same year eight Christian foreign aid workers were arrested by Taliban on the charges of preaching, two of them were Americans. A month later Northern Alliance Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud was wounded in a suicide attack, dying of wounds a few days later.
The most vicious of attacks landed on American soil on September 11 Year 2001 by Osama, Taliban, Al Qaeeda? The World Trade Center’s twin towers were hit by hijacked planes, killing thousands of Americans in New York. Also Pentagon in Washington was attacked.
US and British forces attacked Taliban’s air defense installations and air based command centers in Afghanistan in October of Year 2001 and in November the same year Taliban forces abandoned the capital Kabul and Northern Alliance forces took control of the city. In December of the same year an Afghan tribal leader in exile by the name of Hamid Karzai was chosen to head the interim government in Afghanistan by the delegates in Bonn, Germany. In January Year 2002 Taliban capitulated and two years later Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga—decision making assembly adopted a new constitution, granting equality to men and women and proclaiming Afghanistan as an Islamic Republic.
In November 2004 Hamid Karzai was elected president of Afghanistan. Taliban began regrouping to fight back and a year later started a string of suicide bombings. Despite unrest in Afghanistan and terrorist attacks by Taliban, Hamid Karzai was reelected in Year 2009 the president of Afghanistan. Two years later on May 1, 2011 US President Barack Obama announced that Osama was killed by US Navy seals in a covert operation in Abbottabad.
Taliban in stark contrast to Islam’s message of peace and reconciliation promoted conflict and warfare, committing the most inexpiable of atrocities and they continue to do so ruthlessly and shamelessly. No man, but only a madman would preach hatred, violence and destruction in the name of religion, turning a blind eye to the evil of bloodshed and suffering. By training orphans and poor students in becoming murderers and hatemonger, Taliban are not worthy of the name Islam, and in utter ignorance of the true precepts of Islam they have no claim in being called Muslims. Only the godless, heartless and conscienceless men could devise such brutal means to oppress women in a manner so savagely barbaric that while raping, beating and torturing women, they would justify their actions as Islamic. Taliban are not Muslims, but bigots, zealots and blasphemers as is obvious from their vile acts during their course of occupation in Afghanistan and even in this new millennium they desist not from their vices of suicide bombing and aggression.
Taliban’s network of human trafficking, in addition to raping the women, abducted them from all walks of life and sold them into sex slavery in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Their harsh edicts forbade women from getting educated. Girl schools and colleges were closed. Women were not allowed to leave home without a male chaperon. They were required to wear a burqa—covering from head to toe and if any part of their body was revealed, they were publicly beaten. One young woman by the name of Sohaila was convicted of walking with a man who was not her relative and charged with adultery. Her body was lacerated by hundred lashes as she was flogged publicly in Ghazi Stadium. More than six hundred Somali women were abducted, the desirable ones selected for the leaders of Taliban and the rest carted away in trucks to Peshawar where they were kept in private homes as slaves or sold into brothels. Women were not allowed to work except in medical profession since no male doctor was allowed to examine a woman.
Malala Yousufzai a teenage girl in the district of Swat in Pakistan was shot in the head by Taliban October 2012 for her courage to speak against Taliban and to promote education for girls worldwide.
In the town of Bamiyan alone hundreds of men, women and children were executed. Most of the houses were razed to the ground and some used as bases for forced labor. The religious police of Taliban scouted everywhere to tyrannize women if they dared go out of their homes to work secretly in schools or operate their beauty parlors, and if caught they were flogged mercilessly. To raise funds for their hateful enterprises, the religious police began charging tolls from the trucking companies, including the heroin merchants who were transporting their share of opium to foreign markets. The war on Afghanistan and on Iraq had compelled Taliban to leave their safe haven and infiltrate the entire world.
Nothing is sacred to Taliban, but their ideology to create disorder on earth in violent contrast to the teachings of Quran and Prophet Muhammad. The blood of the so-called infidels—who don’t conform to their own man-made laws, is holy to Taliban, which they can’t stop spilling to appease the hate-fire at the altar of their soul burning with the fever of zeal and ignorance.
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-24313384495852134042021-08-01T12:55:00.004-07:002021-08-01T12:55:55.184-07:00Tokyo Olympics, Vaccinations, Mask Mandates “It is a shame to let ignorance and complacency be stronger than wisdom.” Marcus Aurelius/
Major health risk is not the fear or rejection of vaccine, but the barrage of misinformation. /Tokyo Olympics, vaccinations, mask mandates are keeping social media abuzz with analysis and anticipation./ Though insurrection-in-chief tries to steal into mainstream media with his usual insulting comments./ “Wokeism makes you lose./ You become warped, you become demented./ The US soccer team is a good example of what’s going on.”/
Wokeism is not the reason US women soccer team loss in Olympics, Big Loser. /This is the dynamics of sports, one team wins and the other loses, that’s natural./ What’s the reason behind your Big Lie loss, Mr. Loser, of becoming “warped, demented?” /Blame-game is on, anyone, or anything.
Sarah Sanders is another sample of stupidity aligned to the clownish circle of GOPQ./ Coming out of the shadows of her past lies and lying again. /She emerges from her stinking vault of silliness, saying. /“If President Biden, Vice President Harris and others on the Left truly care about increasing the vaccination rate and saving lives, they should admit they were wrong to cast doubt on Operation Warp Speed and give Trump and his team the credit they are due for the development of safe and effective vaccine in record time.”/
Yes, silly Sarah, denier-in-chief surely should get credit for COVID hoax, for his quackeries in ingesting bleach, for killing thousands of American for promoting anti-mask, anti-vaccine rallies. /For unleashing reek of misinformation. /“Just like a flue, will disappear, we will have raring church services on Easter.”/
Since Delta variant is threatening US health, Nancy Pelosi is suggesting mask mandates on Capitol Hill to prevent lawmakers from getting infections./ Mean McCarthy in response chirps. “Make no mistake./ The threat of bringing masks back is not a decision based on science, but a decision conjured up by liberal government officials who want to continue in a perpetual pandemic state.”/
Staunch denier of science, McCarthy is not only ignorant, but deliberately carving health risks for his unvaccinated Trumplicans./ He should realize that unlike radicalized GOPQ who want to live under the umbrella of perpetual Big Lie and let Americans die, liberals want to save American lives by trusting science and taking precautions./
McCarthy Moron continues. /“It will be hard not to hit Pelosi with speaker’s gavel if Republicans take control of Chamber 2022./ I want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel./ It will be hard not to hit her with it.”/
Dream on Mendacious McCarthy, GOPQ would be hit with tsunami of defeat so “hard” that they won’t have strength to wake up from that trauma for decades./ Craven, avaricious, radicalized GOPQ know only how to hit and fight, not ever think of helping the suffered and suffering Americans./ It’s in their DNA to win by deceit, voter suppression laws are their tickets to steal election from Democrats./
As to Delta variant, another major health risk is rude and rowdy Rand Paul accusing Fauci of lying about COVID. “Do you know it’s a crime to lie to Congress?”/ Fauci responded calmly. /“If anyone is lying here, Senator, it is you./ You don’t know what you are talking about.” /Lying is the legacy of the Trumplicans, radicalized Rand should know, still carrying Big Lie on his shoulders./
Lying Lauren Boebert tweets after Biden urges all Americans to get vaccinated./ “Don’t come knocking on my door with Fauci ouchi./ You leave us the hell alone.”/ Hell is already allotted to the unvaccinated ones victimized by misinformation by GOPQ and QAnon queens./Delta variant would be the only one invading your privacy if you leave the door open with anti-vaxxer welcome flag./ It would make you squirm in agony if you don’t take precautions. /You, Ouchi queen of ignorance, are hurling your base to the door of death with your lunacy and falsehood./ Boebert also deriding Biden’s effort to vaccinate as “Needle Nazis”./ QAnon queen Greene equating vaccine mandates to “Holocaust” just short of labelling Biden, Hitler./
Tragedy of our times is that intellect is missing in our modern day struggles for sanity, serenity, serendipity./ Instead what we get is showers of stupidity, obscenity, ignorance. /The acid-rain of levity and nonsense from the radio-mouths of GOPQ, trying to block government efforts of vaccination by saying, /“It’s none of your damn business.”/It will be everyone’s “damn” business if you get infected to infect others. /Suffering tortures of the damned in the hospital, for sure, if there are any beds left there for unvaccinated victims of COVID./
The curse of stupidity is high in the ranks of GOPQ as Wendy Rogers tweets. /“I like Indians and I like Redskins. I like Aunt Jemima and I like Uncle Ben./ I like Robert Lee and I like Stonewall Jackson./ I don’t like traitors who hate America. /Stand up for our culture.” /She only likes traitors like Lee and Jackson. /Does that mean she hates insurrection-in-chief the Big Lie traitor of nascent America?/
Mind can never get the answers it seeks./ To stop its gymnastics of madness, I wave my broom of silence with as much energy as witch’s spell, and then let it go whirling like a dervish./ Reaching out to the heavens and grounded to earth, no desire to ask for anything, but to luxuriate in absolute stillness./
“But that shadow has been serving you/
What hurts you, blesses you/
Darkness is your candle/
Your boundaries are your quest/
You must have shadow and light source both/
Listen and lay your head under the tree of awe” / Rumi/
“To look for the impossible is folly and it is impossible that bad man should not do bad deeds.”/ Marcus Aurelius/
Wishing whole world wisdom, health, harmony
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-5434778308760082392021-01-06T14:50:00.000-08:002021-01-06T14:50:46.612-08:00QAnon King TrumpQAnon King Trump today has handed over his last gift of victory to Putin./By proclaiming Americans his 'enemy', which he has done during his four years of idiocy of presidency many times over arleady, but now highlighting his insanity 'election is stolen' maintaining his lie while trying to steal election from Biden./Inviting the world to look at America how he has shaped it, to vie with the extremists of the world in violence, bomb threats, suicide bombing./Trump tantrum tirade against fair elections/Is scrouge of GOPP, enabling him to trash Democracy/Defying courts, defending Donald's lies and pretensions/Afflicted with the virus of servility and hypocrisy./Updates of the last few days below jotted down hatily:/Mark Meadows boasts ‘we are now at well over hundred house members and a dozen senators, ready to stand up for election integrity and object to certification./ It’s time to fight back.’/ One hundred and dirty dozen craven, unpatriotic hypocrites to stand for the integrity of their own falsehood and conspiracy theories./ They have been fighting to overturn fair elections for two months now, rejecting verdict of courts and voice of Americans, their time for fighting must end on Jan 6th now./ Trump now bullying Pence not to validate electoral votes./ Trump traitor’s gun wielding terrorists are gathering in D.C. while he is granting Medal of Freedom to Devin Nunes his night errand boy to dupe Americans into believing falsehood, calling impeachment Russia Hoax./ No wonder, Trump now doesn’t even talk about recent Russia hack or suicide bombing in Nashville. /The same Medal of Freedom he is bestowing on Jim Jordan the sex abuse criminal, condoning abuse of athletes by a doctor at Ohio State./ On the day of Biden’s formal confirmation of college electoral votes as him being the 46th President of the United States, Trump holds a rally on stage Ellipse in Washington D.C./Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley objecting to electoral votes in essence might as well be saying, Black votes don’t matter./ Rattling their rattlers of lies they openly and blatantly support KKK, QAnon, Proud Boys./ During swearing-in-ceremony, Pennsylvania GOP State Senators refuse to seat Democratic Senator Jim Brewster whose narrow win in November is being challenged by his GOP opponent, thus displaying their bullying in affinity with mobsterTrump./ Trump on twitter talking to his terrorists, ‘I will be speaking at the Save America Rally tomorrow on the Ellipse in D.C. come early, big crowds!’/ Tweeting again. ‘Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. /Our country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore./ We hear you and love you from the Oval Office./ Make America Great Again.’ While Trump tangent of stupidity continues, democratic senators Ossoff and Warnock have won election in Georgia./Trump Taliban terrorists with bomb threats/Besiege Capiton Hill, projecting America the nation most violent/'Don't tread on me'flags of Trump's beloved extremists/Peddling anarchy, on insurgence bent/An hour long tantrum Trump tirade of a phone call, bullying Brad Raffensperger to find him thousands of votes so that he can win Georgia, ended up in media, causing a yuge embarrassment to GO Putin Party, but they still defend Trump traitor./ Trump’s method to madness for begging votes is to seduce his Proud Boys, making sure they actually believe that he won the elections./ Also expert in creating chaos and violence, the mendicant-distraction-king-Trump is grieving his loss by raising bootless cries ‘we won.’/Liar, Lawless Trump rpepeating his insnity/'Election stolen' Making America Grieve Again/'We love you' Trump applauds, more like an insufferable profanity/'We won' Trump child's terroble refrain/
A note of hope as we begin New Year with Biden Harris Team: Happy New Year/
America is still the land of love and opportunity/A beacon of Biden Harris harmony/Promise of hope and serendipity/New beginning, an era of epiphany/A time to heal and espouse healing/New Year of renewal, burial of COVID/Rise of intellect, birth of rejoicing/God bless America and whole world./
wishing health, harmony, healing to whole world
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-6952424926246803612020-07-26T19:33:00.001-07:002020-07-26T19:33:43.431-07:00Trump Pandemic ParamilitaryTrump schooled in stupidity, ignorance, banality, brutality wants to open schools while pandemic rages on and peaceful protests are hijacked by Trump’s Neo Nazi gun militia dubbed as federal agents./ DeVos Demolition Derby too joins Trump in opening schools, not only flushing education down the drain, but hurling kids into the pit of pain and suffering, along with teachers, parents, entire school staff./ ‘Kids are stoppers of virus.’ Says diabolical demon of disinformation, DeVos, even emulating tangent Trump in his terrible lies, distorting facts./‘Trump got bored with virus, so he is gone AWOL’ says Republican lawmaker Carney. /He is right of course since Czarist Trump keeps telling lies even in the face of resurgence of COVID deaths in most Republican States./ 'They will do fine.’ Says Tea Party Trump, his gatekeeper governors following his guidelines and ignoring Fauci facts. /Condoning COVID deaths, Trump is focused on undermining the migrants, threatening to defund the schools if they don’t open, these are a couple of Trump’s appetizing appetizers working as tablets of indigestion for his own total, absolute and ignominious defeat./Though he is begging Putin for crumbs of help to win election 2020 as he did in 2016. Trump’s seven calls to Putin since March tell volumes. Trump is NOT the leader of ‘Law and Order’ as he avers, but totem-pole of lies and lawsuits and bigotry, brutality and lawlessness./He is above the Law./
America is looking more like Russia and Saudi Arabia where nameless, mindless government thugs blatantly beat people, arrest them in unmarked vehicles and disappear with their victims. /That’s what’s happening in Oregon, Portland, Trump boogaloos dubbed as federal agents torturing protesters with tear gas, pepper spray, projectiles, arresting them and carting them away in private vans to prisons, even beating a US Navy veteran, Chris David who just wanted to talk to them, asking them why they are violating their sacred oath to protect Americans./ Trump has gone AWOL and America needs foreign Human Rights Group intervention to save Americans from the tyranny of tangled Trump. /Incumbent, impeached, insufferable Trump along with his Republican governors should be held accountable for killing Americans./
Donald Dystopian rule must end soon before he decimates the American population, bulldozes science entirely, torpedoes technology, mutilates the rights of average American and replaces Democracy with the iron-clad fangs of autocracy. /‘We are United in our effort to defeat the invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distant. / There is nobody more patriotic than me, your favorite president.’ Says the unpatriotic president pretending to be patriotic by wearing a mask just once while visiting the hospital, now that the Americans are dying in numbers great by the very ‘genius’ of his stupidity and ignorance concerning COVID. /Who are Trump’s ‘many people’ anyway, he often talks about and is there anyone who can remind him that no one calls COVID ‘China Virus.’ America is suffering global embarrassment mentally, physically, intellectually via Trump Administration. /Trump is not only letting US troops to be killed by Taliban in Afghanistan, but ordering his boogaloo gun militia to beat and kidnap Americans, abduct them in unmarked vans and disappear, leaving behind the clouds of smoke from tear gas, pepper spray./
Trump’s Taliban-style federal agents are terrifying Americans, teargassing, pepper spraying, shooting projectiles, abducting and incarcerating while dictator Trump threatens to loosen more Taliban-like terrorists on US streets and in other States. /President of the Confederates, Trump, and Barr boogaloo have made America epicenter of crime, violence, dispatching their paramilitary soldiers, so-called federal agents to hurt Americans. /Trump’s personal ISIS-clad-ideology of a paramilitary, in fact, posing as federal agents are impinging on the rights of Americans, teargassing mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler and even mothers, fathers, veterans, nurses, doctors, lawmakers who are there to protect American kids from Trump hooligans./ Mothers as a wall of defense and fathers equipped with leaf blowers to ward off the toxic fumes from tear gas and pepper spray./
If virus of lies which afflicts Trump and his Trumpian associates could be cured, COVID would be controlled in America./ COVID is here to stay in US as long as Trump is in White House, as soon as he leaves, COVID will take its leave. /Why is so much crime and violence during Trump’s idiocy of a presidency? Answer is simple, his anger, treason, betrayal and hypocrisy and blatant Abuse of Power by sending Neo Nazi gun militia into streets of America to harass and traumatize the Americans make him the lord of anarchy and violence. /His avarice is boundless too, ordering the ambassador to UK to have his golf club open, ‘Get the British open for me.’/ Now he is focusing on voter suppression, already ordering the slowing down of postal service and repeatedly accusing the Democrats falsely and vehemently, ‘election will be rigged’./
Economy is dear to Trump’s heart, simple again, just avoid the topic of procuring face masks, ventilators or helping America’s poor and vulnerable. /Facts fade before Trump’s ignorance of everything ‘fantastic, doing great, light at the end of tunnel?’ /Trump stands at the mouth of the tunnel of insanity, where there is no light but darkness./ Without healthy Americans, there will be no healthy economy./
White House is a walking, talking House of Corruption and Kaleigh is its newest silly sentry serving feast of lies, cooked by Trump and renegade Republicans, even Fox & Friends cut her off from her press briefings which are a potpourri of lies, shifting blame on protesters while federal fiends feast on the fire of their own savagery./ Trump again and again shifts blame of COVID on Obama, how and why, no one knows. /Trump forgets that Obama is not the president anymore and he doesn’t have the authority to mastermind and abate the ravages of this deadly virus. /Trump is living in his past hoaxes and present ones, ignorant and incompetent and powerless against his own ocean of lies, unwilling to heed CDC guidelines. /‘Just sniffles./ It will disappear. /When young people get it, they are cured in a day. / Even the states where there is resurgence, they will be fine./ I will be right eventually.’/
World has known many idiots before/
But not as stupid as Trump/
Invested with armor of lie-galore/
Transforming America into pandemic-riddled slum/
PS: Ted Yoho is another of GOPP idiots, trashcan of vulgarity, unlidding his offal of obscenities against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, still inhaling the reek of his half apology with impertinence and impenitence. / He is forced to resign from Board of Christian Organization, but he needs to resign as representative of GOP, Period.
/GOPP above meaning metaphorically: Garrulous Outcast Party of Putin
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-53166887311882131962020-04-11T15:15:00.000-07:002020-04-11T15:15:08.439-07:00Happy Easter from Joseph Campbell‘The chick from the egg is the symbol of the spirit of Easter./The image of the cosmic egg is known in many mythologies./It appears in the Greek Orphic, Egyptian, Finnish, Buddhist, Japanese./In the beginning this world was merely awakening, we read in the sacred work of the Hindus./It was existent./It developed./It turned into an egg./It lay for the period of a year./It was split asunder./One of the two parts became silver, one gold./That which was silver is the earth./That which is of gold is the sky./What was the outer membrane is the mountains./What was the inner membrane is cloud and mist./What were the veins are the rivers./What was the fluid within is the ocean./Now what was born therefrom is yonder sun./The shell of the cosmic egg is the world frame of space, while the fertile power within typifies the inexhaustible life of dynamism of nature./The eggshell is cast off the chick, as the skin is sloughed off by the serpent, as the shadow of the moon is shed by the moon reborn./
Snake and moon both die to the old/
Shedding their shadows to be reborn/
Birds in flight and Christ on the Cross, both symbolize the spirit released from the bondage of earth./The moon, like Christ, dies and is resurrected./The moon is three nights dark: Jesus was three nights in the grave with a stone covering the cave entrance—the dark disk over the moon./The dating of Easter according to both lunar and solar calendars suggests that life, like the light reborn in the moon and eternal in the Sun, finally is one./The whole mystery is right there in Christian Symbology./
The moon, furthermore, and the spectacle of night sky, the stars and the Milky Way, have constituted, certainly, from the beginning, a source of wonder and profound impression./But there is actually a physical influence of the moon upon the earth and its creatures, its tides and our own interior tides, which has long been consciously recognized as well as subliminally experienced./The coincidence of the menstrual cycle with that of the moon is a physical actuality structuring human life and a curiosity that has been observed with wonder./It is in fact likely that fundamental notion of a life-structuring relationship between the heavenly world and that of man was derived from the realization, both in experience and in thought, of the force of the lunar cycle./The mystery also, of death and resurrection of moon, as well as of its influence on dogs, wolves and foxes, jackals and coyotes, which try to sing to it: this immortal silver dish of wonder, cruising among the beautiful stars and racing through the clouds, turning waking life itself into a sort of dream, had been a force of presence even more powerful in the shaping of mythology than the sun, by which its light and its world of stars, night sounds, erotic modes, and the magic of dream, are daily quenched./
Dew is an ambrosia/
Fallen from the moon/
This lunar Symbology is ancient: the moon god in Mesopotamia was named Sin; the mountain that Moses ascended was Mount Sinai./It may have been the moon goddess mountain./When Moses came down from that Mountain, he was so luminous from his reception of God’s energy that he wore a veil in front of his face, and emanating from his forehead were horns of light: the horns of lunar mystery./
Live from your center./
The key to understanding the problem that’s solved with the symbolic idea of the Trinity is the tantric saying:/ To worship God, one must become a God./That is to say you must hit that level of consciousness within yourself that is equivalent to the deity to whom you are addressing your attention./
In the Trinity, the Father is the deity your attention is addressed to; you are the Son, the Knower of the Father, and the Holy Spirit represents the relationship between the two./
It seems to me you cannot have the notion of a god without having implicit the notion of a Trinity, a god the knower of the god, and the relationship between the two, a progressive knowing that brings you closer and closer to the divine. /
The divine lives within you.’/ Joseph Campbell/
‘O Sufi, did you know/That brotherhood and sisterhood/Is the ship in which we are sailing/On the great waters of/Love, harmony and beauty/Guided by the compass/Of the spirit of Guidance/And driven by the energy/Of spiritual liberty/Heading toward the goal/Of the annihilation of ego/Where one may begin/At last to realize/That the sailor is verily/The Divine Presence sailing/In the past, present, future/On the waves of our illusion’/ Pir Vilayat Khan/
Stay home, wash your hands/Inhale the scent of solitude/Look deep into your heart which understands/If we nurture seeds of fortitude/Practice caution, not to be depressed by reprimands/From mind grown dull, empty of gratitude/Why fear this virus of corona/When we can kill it with insulin of love/Welcome this free time to improve your persona/Faith can move mountains, Guidance comes from Above/
And The People Stayed Home/
By Kitty O’Meara/
‘And the people stayed home/
And read books, and listened, and rested/
And exercised, and made art, and played games/
And learned new ways of being, and were still/
And listened more deeply/
Some meditated, some prayed, some danced/
Some met their shadows/
And the people began to think differently/
And the people healed/
And, in the absence of people living in ignorant/
Dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways/
The earth began to heal/
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again/
They grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images/
And created new ways to live and heal the earth fully/
As they had been healed’/ Kitty O’ Meara/
With great respect and love/
This poem was shared by Yvonne & Yvette/
Wishing whole world Hope, Health, Harmony, renewal of love, empathy, compassion, generosity./
Happy, Healthy, Harmonious Easter
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-24276397118046275052020-03-27T12:37:00.000-07:002020-03-27T12:37:47.950-07:00Easter Bunny Bust CoronaDonald J. Trump is playing the part of Dracula, let’s infect everyone with coronavirus, wipe out majority of the Americans and let me stay as King Trump to rule over the empty streets of Divided States. /Trump’s hateful rhetoric of ‘hoaxes, fake news, witch hunts’ still haunt Americans which have made America unsafe, unhealthy, weak and vulnerable. /Americans face the farce of Trump’s lies every day and hope this idiocy of a presidency ends soon./ Might as well shut down the White House, quarantine Trump and Trumpian lunatics in there and let US governors run the government who are doing their duty to save American lives./
Trump wishing to pack churches with worshippers on Easter Sunday, go raring and open all businesses. ‘It is a beautiful day’ says Trump./ Mr. Rogers said the same thing for years, but he proved it true by his gentle disposition of saying and acting beautifully, but Trump makes it ugly by his bigotry and hypocrisy, promoting falsehood. /Would he dare attend Easter Service in a church with large congregation, shaking hands with kids and pastor?/ If he has the courage to do it, his base might follow his lead, defying the threat and challenge of coronavirus./
Economy is dear to Trump’s heart, avoid the topic of procuring face masks, ventilators or helping America’s poor and vulnerable. /Facts faded before Trump’s ignorance of everything ‘fantastic, doing great, light at end of tunnel?/’ Trump stands at the mouth of the tunnel of hypocrisy, where there is no light but darkness. Without healthy Americans, there will be no healthy economy./
Easter Bunny President is going to wipe out entire community of Evangelicals if he encourages people to fill up the churches. /Such tragic course similar to the one in Malaysia where Muslims gathered for prayers, defying danger, embracing faith and three hundred and more were infected with coronavirus./‘We have got to go back to work’ Trump is right he has to get back to work after three plus years of sabbatical./ Incompetent, corrupt, Trumpian, dysfunctional White House has brought Americans to the brink of death with ‘hoaxes’ and Trump still continues on this disastrous route./
HuffPost March 25, 2020/
Dear Mr. President,/
I am an emergency medicine resident physician in one of the biggest hospital systems in New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. /In the past several weeks, I have taken care of countless patients with COVID-19 ― some who didn’t seem so sick and some blue in the face and gasping for air 70 times a minute./ I have put my face inches from theirs and inserted breathing tubes into their trachea, putting myself and everyone else in the room at exponentially higher risk of contracting this disease./
As I’ve sat in a room full of coughing patients for 60 hours a week, I have worried about my own safety now and in the coming months as this pandemic gets worse and our completely inadequate supply of personal protective equipment rapidly disappears. /There is a major shortage of face masks, along with other supplies, across the country and without them, it can be next to impossible to keep health care workers safe and working to support the increasing number of patients who are arriving at our hospital and clinic doors./
I have sent some not-so-sick patients home and I have seen some patients die right in front of my eyes./ I have spoken on the phone to the sobbing mother of a young man admitted to the intensive care unit, and told her, “No, you are not allowed to enter the hospital to see your critically ill son because we are not letting family members into the hospital during this pandemic./” To say that I have experienced countless heartbreaking moments over the past several weeks would be an understatement./
In the next couple of days or weeks, we will run out of hospital beds and ventilators./ The number of critically ill COVID-19 patients who come to my hospital seems to double every day. If things continue this way, I will soon be forced to make decisions about who deserves a shot at life and who I will allow to die, and that is an unthinkable thing to have to consider, much less do./
Tell me ― when there is only one ventilator available, should it go to the young nurse or the elderly woman with multiple comorbidities who has an advanced directive that says “do not intubate/do not resuscitate”? /How about the single mother of three?/ Or the deeply respected emergency medicine attending doctor I worked with last week?/How about the middle-aged man with some medical comorbidities and corny jokes who reminds me of my father ― or is my father?/ Or maybe the person in prison for rape? /How about the person of color in jail for marijuana possession?/How about a beloved and wealthy celebrity? /How about the homeless person with alcohol use disorder who spits on my fellow medical professionals and me when we try to help?/ How about the homeless person who lives on my street corner and smiles at me every day and says “God bless you”?/ It’s not so easy choose, is it?/
If things continue this way, I will soon be forced to make decisions about who deserves a shot at life and who I will allow to die and that is an unthinkable thing to have to consider, much less do./
This past week, between 12-hour shifts working in the emergency department and the newly created COVID respiratory unit, I have done everything I can think of to stop that nightmare scenario from arriving. /I have posted on social media begging my friends and family to stay home. /I have signed countless petitions and contacted my local government pleading for more personal protective equipment and ventilators. /If I learn of other things I can do, I will do those, too./
My governor, Andrew Cuomo, has tirelessly worked to obtain more personal protective equipment and ventilators./He has begged you to nationalize the effort to acquire medical supplies and you have denied him. /He’s begged for citizens to stay home and, while some are listening, many are not and if they don’t, it will be disastrous./But there’s only so much the governor ― or any of us ― can do alone. /At this point, there may be only so much we can do together. But we must try. /
On Tuesday you told Fox News you would “ love to have the country opened up and raring to go by Easter./” You said you chose Easter because, “you will have packed churches all over our country, I think it would be a beautiful time and it is just about the timeline that I think is right./” The thought of this makes me nauseous. /If we do that, exponentially more people will get this disease, our hospital system will not have the capacity to handle it, and health care professionals like me will have to let countless people die while continuing to put our own lives ― and possibly the lives of the people we love ― at risk./
When we run out of ventilators ― and we will if we lift the social distancing restrictions that are in place and this pandemic continues to spread as it already has ― I will not be ready to make these decisions about who deserves to live and who deserves to die./When those moments come, I do not know how I will be able to sleep at night. /Will you? Now is not the time to let our guards down.
You have the power to be remembered as someone who did the right thing./ I beg you to help me and other health care workers save countless lives ― possibly including our own ― so that we as a nation don’t have to suffer the unthinkable devastation looming on the horizon. /I beg you to take this pandemic more seriously and I am begging you to do it now./
Sincerely,/
Rachel Sobolev, MD/
Rachel Sobolev is a second year emergency medicine resident in New York City./ She feels passionately about being right at the intersection of health care and current events, and providing high quality health care to all types of people regardless of their background./
Americans need to demand that disaster-in-chief Trump step down, who is intent on wiping out half the population of America with pincers of his stupidity and ignorance./ Foxian, Trumpian, Republican zealots are still enabling him to slaughter millions of Americans with his missiles of zeal and insanity. This is genocide in its primitive form of barbarity./
God Save America, wishing health to whole world/
World has known many idiots before/But not as stupid as Trump/Invested with armor of lie-galore/Transforming America into pandemic-riddled slum/
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-77707558650940739012020-03-17T18:17:00.000-07:002020-03-17T18:17:34.881-07:00Coronavirus ConundrumMay Spirit of St. Patrick expel all the snakes of lies, hypocrisy and ignorance from Trumpian White House of corruption./ Freaky Nunes who says ‘go to bars and restaurants’ and accuses Press ‘Media freaks don’t have a clue what’s going out in the real world’ is in the same league with puppet-Pence with his ‘handshake advice’/
Eight days ago Trump tweeted ‘The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party is doing everything within its semi-considerable power to the Coronavirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. /Surgeon General: The risk is low to average American.’/ At his rally he touted that coronavirus is a hoax. /Now ‘stable genius’ Trump says ‘I have seen that where people liked my Monday tone, but I didn’t feel different./ I have always known this is real, this is a pandemic. /I felt it was pandemic, I have always viewed it very serious.’/
In view of wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan:/
It is the power of truth that makes one stronger. /Apart from those who know truth, even those who do not know truth, if they think rightly will have some power, the power of sincerity./ Very few realize what power sincerity carries./ A false man, however physically strong he is or however great is his will power, is kept down by his falsehood; it never allows him to rise. /It eats into him because it is rust. /Those who have done great things in life, in whatever walk of life it be, have done them by the power of truth, the power of sincerity, of earnestness, of conviction; when that is lacking, power is lacking./
A regular life, pure diet, good sleep, a balance between activity and repose, and right breathing, all these help one to health./ But the best remedy for healing oneself of all illnesses and infirmities of mind is belief. /Many think that they believe, but there are very few who really believe./ The belief of many is as I heard someone say, 'I believe, may God strengthen my belief.' /It is an affirmation, which has no meaning. /If a person says, 'I believe', that does not mean that he believes, for belief in its perfection becomes faith./ And what does Christ say about faith? /He says, 'Faith removes mountains.'/ No doubt the priest speaks of faith in the Church, the clergyman of faith in the Book; but that is not the real meaning of faith./Faith is the culmination of belief, and when faith is attained to a certain degree it will grow as a plant. /When belief is complete it turns into faith./ Cure is brought about by faith in all cases, whether it be a sudden cure or whatever may be the nature and character of the case./ Faith speeds the condition; so great as the faith is, so quick the time of healing. /Without faith even medicine cannot help. /No treatment can give good results where faith is lacking. /Faith is the first remedy; everything else comes afterwards. /All our failures, sorrows, disappointments, difficulties in life are caused by our lack of belief. /Illness means lack of belief./ Beyond and above all other evidences illness is the sign of the lack of belief; if one believed, there would certainly be no place for illness./ But illness takes the place of belief. /One cannot disbelieve in what one believes./ Illness becomes one's belief. /That is where the difficulty comes in. /When a person says, 'I am fighting against my illness', that means, 'My imagination is fighting against my belief'. /He affirms, 'I am fighting against my illness', which means he establishes illness in himself./He fights against something, which he affirms to be existing./ In his belief he gives the first place to the illness; the second place in his belief he gives to the imagination of curing it./ Thus the power with which he wishes to remove his illness is much smaller than the power which is already established in him by illness./ He fights against something, which he affirms to be existing./
There are people who think that they will never fall into such an error as believing in something for which there is no evidence, and they think this is very clever./ And when we search in the world of evidence, we shall find one deluding cover under another./ And so one can go on, probing the depths of life, from one illusion to another, never arriving at the realization of truth./How can you rely upon evidences, which are subject to change? /Therefore if there is anything to rely upon it is belief./ It is not evidence, which gives one belief; and if evidence gives belief, that belief will not last, for evidences are not lasting./ It is that belief, which stands above evidence, which in the end will culminate in faith. /It is people like Bayazid, whom many would consider 'in the clouds', who prove in their lives what belief means. /Bayazid was going on pilgrimage to Mecca./ A dervish was sitting by the way on his journey./ Wanting to pay homage to a spiritual man, he went to that dervish and sat down to receive his blessing. /The dervish asked him, 'Where are you going?' /He said, 'I am going to Mecca.'/ 'On business'/ He was astonished. 'No, on a pilgrimage.'/ 'On a pilgrimage?/ What do they do on the pilgrimage?' /Bayazid replied, 'They walk around the holy stone of Kaba.'/ The dervish said, 'You do not need to go so far for that pilgrimage./ If you will make circles round me and go back your pilgrimage is done.' /Bayazid said, 'Yes, I believe this.' /He circled around the man and went back home; and when people asked, 'Did you make a pilgrimage to the Kaba?'/ he said, 'Yes, I made a pilgrimage to a living Kaba.'/
The purpose of life is to attain to mastery./ This is the motive of the spirit, and it is through this motive at the back of it that the whole universe is created. /The different stages from mineral to vegetable and from vegetable to the animal kingdom, and from animal to man, are the awakening of the spirit towards mastery. /By using the mineral and the vegetable kingdoms and controlling the animal kingdom for his service, man shows in the first place that in him is awakened that spirit by which the whole universe was created./
His power of knowing, of understanding, of utilizing to the best advantage, is the sign of mastery. /But at the same time there is one enemy that man has, and that enemy is limitation; and the spirit of limitation is always a hindrance to realizing the spirit of mastery and practicing it. /Those who at some time or other in their lives have realized this principal object, for which man is born, have then tried to develop that spirit of mastery in order to defend themselves./
The process of going from limitation to perfection is called mysticism./ Mysticism means developing from limitation to perfection. /All pain and failure belong to limitation. /All pleasure and success belong to perfection. /In one's own surroundings, one will find that those who are unhappy and dissatisfied with life and who make others unhappy, are those who are more limited./ Those who can help themselves and help others, who are happy and bring pleasure into the lives of others, are nearer to perfection./
‘Tell whoso hath sorrow/
Grief shall never last/
Even as joy hath no morrow’
So woe shall go past/’
Arabian Nights/
Happy St. Patrick’s Day/Wishing whole world health, harmony and hope of joyful living.
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-21120809172927015002019-11-14T17:30:00.000-08:002019-11-14T17:30:08.367-08:00Gun violence Santa Clarita CaliforniaGun violence in America prevails while ‘High Drama’ in White House keeps pace with Trumpian lies./Jingling with coins of ‘hoaxes, witch hunts, fake news’ minted in the factory of fake news author Trump, mostly using his sharp tongue than sharpie to change the course of hurricanes./ Trump ‘too busy to watch hoax, witch hunt’ of his real-life impeachment, but not ‘too busy’ to unleash tweet storm or highlight slaughter of Kurds by inviting Erdogan to White House./ Leningrad Lindsey is always close by Trump’s side to wash away Syrian tragedy encrusted with the blood of thousands of Kurds and to defend his darling Trump./Blind to endemic disease of gun violence in America and doing nothing in terms of passing gun laws, Tom Reed for one is focused only on impeachment. / ‘I am looking for smoking gun of evidence of an impeachable, high crime, treasonous type of charge that would warrant impeachment and removal of a duly elected president’./Says sightless Tom Reed just like other blind, immature, unpatriotic Republicans who fail to notice Trump’s crimes./ Making mockery of American Justice, Democracy, Constitution./ As to ‘duly elected president’ he can’t acknowledge that Trump was fraudulently elected by Russian interference in 2016 US Elections./ Republicans pretend not to know but know fully well that they maligned Hillary and that Russia interfered in US Elections, and yet they are on a mission to disprove all facts by carping about Wikileaks emails ‘Trump loves Wikileaks’ and by instigating Barr to investigate the investigators./Barr has already succeeded in discrediting Mueller’s report, which he did so by presenting his distorted version of a ludicrous Summary he thought was so brilliant in exonerating Trump of Collusion./ Witless Nunes too, night errand boy of Trump, not concerned about gun laws, stuck deep in his ‘low-rent, Ukrainian sequel to Russia’ explodes in reference to impeachment./ Also blind to the fact that Russia in fact did interfere in 2016 US Elections which Barr is trying to disprove , minting lies since forced to investigate the investigators./ Another drama queen in this ‘High Drama’ besides Con-Way is Elise Stepfanik naming president’s call with Zelensky ‘parody’./ She herself is the emblem of parody in protecting the parasitic president who has robbed Americans of their health, wealth, peace, prestige./ Not last but least, another drama queen is Nikki Haley, saying Trump ‘truthful’/ It’s like smearing the very essence of ‘truth’ with the mud of lies so putrid that its reek is not only nauseating, but life-threatening to entire nation if not to the whole world./ Too numerous to name as blind renegades, star-crossed Jim Jordan stands on top of all Republican hypocrites./ He can’t even see under his nose the caterpillar of lies./ Emboldened by Barr’s distorted Summary of Mueller’s report, he deems all crimes of Trump as ‘hoaxes, witch hunts, fake news.’/ Fox & Friends too are corrupting America with the reek of their lies and distortions./ ‘Impeachment probe, all of this is garbage’ says Newt Gingrich on Fox News, spilling ‘garbage’ of lies, calling the fair proceedings of impeachment ‘garbage’, which is as real as betrayal, mendacity, chicanery of Trumpian Administration./Can Republicans also dub Justice in America as ‘High Drama’ Trumpian ‘good guys’, Flynn, Manafort, Cohen, Roger stone, Giuliani, just to name a handful, some in jail and the rest still to be tried for high crimes?/ It seems like Republicans think Obama is still the president and Biden the vice president, since they keep bringing their names up in their lame excuses to defend their liar king./ To end this gun-violence politico with a short note, ‘Zelensky got paid after Trump got busted for withholding aid’./
A little poesy too:/
‘This dewdrop world/A dewdrop world it is and still/Although it is’ Issa/
Let’s talk Latin:/
America is abuzz with quid pro quo/
Trumpians trying to defend Trump with armor of lies/
Raging conspiracy theories from all four poles blow/
To cover up truth of Trump’s betrayals in Lucifer guise/
Letting America suffer the indignity of chaos as it grows/
Making friends with Putin, turning all friends to foes /
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-46684548124416488012019-11-04T14:32:00.000-08:002019-11-04T14:32:01.240-08:00WhistleblowerRogue Republicans much like Don Bongino on Fox are sightless and conscienceless, accusing Democrats as liars./’Adam Schiff’ says droopy Don ‘has become a joke and a laughing stock, documented liar.’ Of course, he must be thinking about egomaniacal Liar Trump while accusing Schiff./ ‘No whistle to blow, there is no deal’ continues deceitful Don, not aware of Trump tantrum tweet ‘Nothing wrong if there was a Quid Pro Quo’ /Here we go again, Trump insulter on his tweeting binge ‘House Republicans must have nothing to do with shifty rendition of those interviews./Adam Schiff is a liar, leaker and freak who should be impeached’?/Talking of ‘freak’ expletive-mouth ‘pathetic’ president of Divided States calling Beto ‘poor, pathetic, Ba***rd, quitting race like a dog’/America stands in utter disgrace when its foul-mouthed leader corrupts the American air with stinking insults worthy of street hoodlums./ ‘Pathetic’ populist president speaks the language of his Base to win their applause and support, barking ‘like a dog’ insults is like adopting the characteristics of an animal./ Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the President of Divided States, barking ‘poor, pathetic, ba***rd, like a dog’ epithets at Beto who is not even in the race anymore./Republican rascals have become such whimpering fools by the very virtue of their hypocrisy and cowardice that they are dragging their country into the marshland of chaos, violence, lawlessness./Lindsey Graham is leader of those cowards who says he wouldn’t find evidence of Quid Pro Quo ‘disturbing’/ True, since his duty is to serve disastrous Trump, not America, such servitude is not only conscienceless, but shameless./ AG Barr is one of those shameless ones too, doing his dirty duty of defending Trump’s lies, yet he has no time to dig truth or save his Country from utter ignominy./ Another shameless one is braying, betraying Bannon pushing ‘weaponized tweets’, still barking conspiracy theories to defend expletive-laced Trump tainted all over with his own tincture of ‘perfecto’ lies./ Many more Republican rogues following tyrant Trump down the dark, narrow path paved with ‘perfecto’ lies./ They stay blind to truth and sightless to the mutilation of American values, and to the blatant ripping of US Constitution by Trump./ All president’s ‘good guys’ who were bullied into telling lies for him ended up in jail and craven Republicans who are still defending the Liar King should look forward to the same fate./ To top it all Paula White Evangelist, much like Trump, married three times and living in a mansion to advise Trump’s faith?/ Trump’s only faith is in his ‘fantastic’ belief in insults and obscenities./ And her faith is in her God of wealth and health who doesn’t care for poor and elderly, ailing, and dying miserably without medical help./Her God is angry, uncaring God if ‘you don’t support her Ministry/ Talk of bigotry and the mockery of the very sanctity of Christian love, charity and compassion?/
‘Morning haze/As in a painting of a dream/Men go their ways’ Busson/
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farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-81893224126118890712019-11-03T07:32:00.000-08:002019-11-03T07:32:23.278-08:00ImpeachmentNincompoop Nunes accusing Democrats as a cult and quoting child son of child Trump ‘Republicans, if it’s a cult, it’s like because what good my father is doing’/ Of course, white supremacists making America hateful, unjust and violent./ All renegade Republicans claiming ‘Trump is doing a good job’, not ever pointing out what good?/ With the exception of economy and jobs which were good and steady during Obama Administration, so Trump inherited good legacy./ Even Robert Little croaks ‘Democrats will not let Republicans do their job./ Trump has done a lot of good things for United States, but Democrats only agenda is to get rid of Trump’/ For sure, Democrats keep piling up bills for benefit of Americans and handing those over to Republicans for approval, but they end up in Republican Senate morgue where Democrats have no access to resurrect those to life Again and Again./ There is no United States, but Divided States created by Republicans ‘do nothing’, their only agenda is to defend Trump’s lies, crimes and insults and to let their country sink deeper into deficit without ever mentioning the damage derelict Trump is doing to America and American values./ Now Paula White with liaison of pious fools as Evangelists is hired by White House/ Allowing Trump puppet of Putin to make mockery of Christianity./ Making Christian Loving God a hateful tyrant, begging support for her ministry, ‘otherwise God would kill their dreams’ says the Evangelical Queen. /Trump is making sport of even all-time favorite sports of all Americans, denigrating Players and America./ Shameful rally at Mississippi,(Why does Trump need rallies when all his unpaid bills at rallies are piling high much like the mountainous deficit he was supposed to reduce) where Trump seems to be hallucinating ‘light, where, how?’ insulting CNN and seducing his supporters into believing more lies. /There is no bill to protect Medicare, Trump of course knows that after killing Obamacare, and there is no plan for supporting pre-existing medical conditions. /When will America get out of this deluge of lies and when will Republican goondas stop defending King Liar, and when will Trump’s base awaken to realization that they are being betrayed over and over again by his trade wars, health scare, betrayal of his country? /They might realize soon since Trump Tsunami is on a mission to destroy America and Americans and they will be trampled under his ego-maniacal need for greed and self-preservation./ If Americans have not heard the groans of the immigrants and the caged kids torn apart from their families, then they might brace themselves against the bootless cries of the American farmers hurting tragically, and old and ailing dying in America miserably without medical care./
‘They blossom and then/We gaze, and then the blooms/Scatter and then—‘ Onitsura/
To be continued… /
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farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-19500134956600225372019-11-02T08:47:00.000-07:002019-11-02T08:47:29.990-07:00Purple Heart
White House is throbbing like a purple wound, its heart pierced by countless lies from tantrum Trump and renegade Republicans./ Lily-livered Republicans don’t have the courage to face the truth or to expose Trump’s lies, concerned only about votes./ Not caring how America is wading through the slime of Trumpian insults, betrayals and brutalities, on the brink of collapsing against Russian interference once again./ Putin has already made America chaotic, unjust, hateful, immoral and violent, partitioned into chunks of Divided States./ Republicans are so afraid of totem Trump that they dare not cast a vote for his impeachment, lest they lose their jobs, regardless of the tragic state how their country is suffering the blight of American values./ This farcical show of Trump defense must go on as long as Trumpians have even a sliver of hope that they might win./ They are sadly mistaken in this hope, for the purple wound of lies and betrayals is ripe with abscess, soon to break open to spill the reek of crimes, deceit, deception, all ugly and nauseating./ Not a single Republican has the courage to save America’s prestige by doing their job for which they were elected./ To safeguard Democracy, Constitution and to realize that making America safe should be their number one priority, which Trump has neglected, and by holding him accountable for that they could have voted in favor of impeachment for the benefit America’s safety and security./ Angry Republicans are capable only of showing volcanic anger, exploding with ire over impeachment proceedings./ They need to calm down, confront truth face-to-face, try to efface the history of all their lies and stop defending the autocrat Trump who is making America weep and grieve Again and Again./
'On a journey ill/And our fields all withered dreams/Go wandering still' Basho/
To be continued...
farzanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18154028648015717026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226874076314708682.post-45829003416444600992019-11-01T12:03:00.000-07:002019-11-01T12:03:39.084-07:00Quid Pro QuoWhy should anyone be talking about Quid Pro Quo since Trump released his own memo, professing his call to Ukrainian president 'perfect' meaning, begging for dirt on Biden, going as far as asking China to do the same./ He did that same thing with Hillary emails too befriending Putin as lifelong Friend, and it turned out to be beautiful, meaning he won 2016 election by Russia's overt and covert interference, surprise!!!/
Gangster-style Republicans with 0 credibility voted 0 for impeachment, Again no surprise!!!/
Is America so weak that it can't fight its own corruption inside America and must seek help of foreign leaders to fight pseudo-corruption, while real corruption in White House continues to swell with the helium of lies on land, in air, into cyberspace./Renegade Republicans grown deaf, dumb and blind to truth, are also afflicted with fear of big bully Trump who would trample over their lives with the power of a bulldozer./ Tragedy of tragedies is greed, hypocrisy, ignorance of Trumpian goondas in White House, making America weak and vulnerable./ All wrong that Trump does is 'perfect', all his 'good guys' in jail and others on the road to incarceration./ Giuliani, Pompeo, even Pence, just to name a few?/ In Trump's little dictionary of words 'perfect' means terribly tragic./ 'Beautiful' means ugliness of lies, his tool of self-preservation./ Honest, truthful, patriotic Americans who love their country, are trying their best not to be ruled by Putin and by all the Republican sycophants poised to destroy the very foundations of American Democracy and Constitution./
'Before the phantom of false morning died/Methought a voice within the tavern cried/When all the temple is prepared within/Why nods the drowsy worshipper outside' Omar Khayyam/
To be continued... /
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