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Daily Archives: November 12, 2017
This woman has become completely dependent on gay erotica and needs your help
This woman has become completely dependent on gay erotica and needs your help
Blue movies are making her blue.
Trump Trades Infantile Insults with ‘Short and Fat’ Kim Jong Un in Twitter Tirade
Trump Trades Infantile Insults with ‘Short and Fat’ Kim Jong Un in Twitter Tirade
After a fairly quiet week on Twitter, Donald Trump last night released the noxious gas that had been building up during his Asia trip.
Tweeted Trump about the North Korean dictator: ‘Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me “old,” when I would NEVER call him “short and fat?” Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!’
Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me “old,” when I would NEVER call him “short and fat?” Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2017
He also defended his cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin, tweeting: “Met with President Putin of Russia who was at #APEC meetings. Good discussions on Syria. Hope for his help to solve, along with China the dangerous North Korea crisis. Progress being made….When will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. There (sic) always playing politics – bad for our country. I want to solve North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, terrorism, and Russia can greatly help!”
Met with President Putin of Russia who was at #APEC meetings. Good discussions on Syria. Hope for his help to solve, along with China the dangerous North Korea crisis. Progress being made.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2017
When will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. There always playing politics – bad for our country. I want to solve North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, terrorism, and Russia can greatly help!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2017
And it wouldn’t be a Twitter tirade without a swing at Hillary: “Does the Fake News Media remember when Crooked Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, was begging Russia to be our friend with the misspelled reset button? Obama tried also, but he had zero chemistry with Putin.”
Does the Fake News Media remember when Crooked Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, was begging Russia to be our friend with the misspelled reset button? Obama tried also, but he had zero chemistry with Putin.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2017
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Trump Trades Infantile Insults with ‘Short and Fat’ Kim Jong Un in Twitter Tirade
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe On ‘Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown’ Amid Breast Cancer Fears
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe On ‘Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown’ Amid Breast Cancer Fears
The British woman who has been jailed in Iran has seen a medical specialist after finding lumps on her breasts and is “on the verge of a nervous breakdown”, her husband has said.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held in one of Iran’s most brutal prisons on charges of spying and spreading propaganda, despite only being in the country on holiday with her daughter visiting her parents.
She has been held for around 19 months, but her situation was made worst earlier this month after Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that she had been “training journalists” – an erroneous comment that could added five years to her jail term.
Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, released a statement on Sunday underlining her ill-health:
The statement read: “Nazanin has been complaining of sharp stabbing pains in her breasts for some months. Her breasts have been painful since month five of her detention.
“She previously had been given an inconclusive mammography by the in-prison gynacologist.”
Nazanin has insisted on seeing an outside specialist for a second opinion, the statement says.
“The specialist consultant on Saturday said he felt them likely to be benign, expect for the fact that she had been complaining of sharp pains for over a year,” her husband said.
Nazanin’s MP, Tulip Siddiq, on Sunday told Sky News that that Nazanin had spoken to her husband over Johnson’s remarks and was “sobbing down the phone” and “couldn’t believe [he] could make comments that would endanger her life”.
The mother-of-one has “expressed anger” at Johnson over the “shambles” her case has become but her family said they do not believe the Foreign Secretary should quit.
Ratcliffe said he spoke to Mr Johnson for about 20 minutes on Sunday morning, during which the Cabinet minister said he was “deeply sorry for Nazanin’s suffering”.
Johnson’s comments to a committee of MPs appeared to make the situation worse after Iran’s state TV broadcast a report claiming the Foreign Secretary’s comments amounted to an “unintended admission” of her guilt.
The Channel 2 report said Johnson’s suggestion that Nazanin was “training journalists” when arrested in Iran last year had “dealt a blow” to the efforts of campaigners and UK authorities to support her position that she was in fact on holiday.
Johnson has admitted that his comments “could have been clearer”, and told MPs on Tuesday that the UK Government “has no doubt that she was on holiday” in Iran.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s employers, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Canadian news agency Thomson Reuters’s charitable arm, issued a statement in response to the Iranian TV reports, reiterating that she had never taken part in the training of journalists.
“Nazanin has never been a journalist, hence could never have trained journalists,” the foundation’s chief executive, Monique Villa, said.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-health_uk_5a088ed7e4b01d21c83f391f
California Is First State to Approve LGBT-Inclusive History Books for K-8 Schools
California Is First State to Approve LGBT-Inclusive History Books for K-8 Schools
The state board of education also rejected two books that excluded LGBT history.
Michael Cunningham thinks The New York Times’ Sam Smith profile stereotypes “gay men as hysterics”
Michael Cunningham thinks The New York Times’ Sam Smith profile stereotypes “gay men as hysterics”
Cunnningham thinks it’s “unfortunate” that Smith “finds himself shamed by his interviewer as well.”
It’s Time To Reign In The ‘Man With Long Arm’ But We Also Need To Empower Women
It’s Time To Reign In The ‘Man With Long Arm’ But We Also Need To Empower Women
It’s a sad fact of life that not everyone behaves well all of the time. We knew this long before Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey were accused of sexual harassment and assault. And we knew about sexual harassment in the workplace long before recent Westminster revelations.
The key thing for me is power. This is what links the current investigations being undertaken in Westminster, Holyrood and Cardiff on the one hand with the Hollywood scandal on the other. It’s about power in the workplace. Sexual harassment is wrong anywhere and has no place in our society, but the difference in the workplace is that your livelihood, perhaps even your future, is at stake.
We need to remember that men are more than twice as likely as women to be in a senior management role; we need to remember that three quarters of pregnant women suffer discriminatory treatment in the workplace, and one in 9 lose their jobs as a result of that pregnancy; and we need to remember that the gender pay gap starts the day you graduate.
This means that, too often, the power dynamic at work disadvantages women. So those suggestive texts, that inappropriate language, that questing hand, will come not from some stranger, nor from your mate but from your boss.
Where women encounter sexual persecution in their place of work, we have to take it seriously or we may as well give up on gender equality and apologise to our daughters and admit it was all just a bit too difficult. Because there is a vicious cycle at work where the less we challenge barriers to women’s careers, the more we will find them in vulnerable positions in the work place and the more we find them in junior positions, the more they will be held back by sexual harassment.
And also, to be honest, because it’s the right thing to do. We need to address sexual harassment in the workplace because no woman should have to feel demeaned and humiliated by some bloke who hasn’t learned that women aren’t just sex objects but might be in the office to earn, to learn and to make a contribution as an equal.
It’s a particular problem in politics, where women are still under-represented and employment and engagement systems do not appear fit for purpose. We need transparent, independent and robust HR processes and we need a culture where MPs are role models not sources of embarrassment. Parliament can and must do better. It should lead. It can start by taking a look at how people are employed by MPs.
The Commission has an important role here. We will seek to use all our powers, including legal enforcement where appropriate, and we are writing to businesses to tell them the steps they should be taking to protect and empower their female employees.
And because culture is set from an early age we will be making recommendations to government on how to best educate children of both genders to understand what respect and equality mean in everyday life, so that they grow up in a world where this stuff is history.
Now go back and read those paragraphs again, because nothing in what follows should take away from that.
People should learn to behave themselves. But sadly, we should remember that they don’t always. And given that, we have to ask the difficult question, which is about differentiation.
As an extremely fortunate CEO of a national body I am not in a position of being held to ransom by some middle-aged man’s testosterone-fuelled ego these days. It wasn’t always thus. I remember, as a junior government lawyer, attending a reception with one of the Minister’s guests draped all over me, like a cloak. What stung was a subsequent remark from a senior colleague, who asked “Who was that old geezer with his arm all over you?” I felt accused; I felt guilty; I felt embarrassed. Nevertheless, the arm wound around me (from a bloke old enough to be my dad and certainly old enough to know better) constituted foolishness rather than harassment and I am quite clear I know the difference, especially because I know women who have suffered far more serious intrusions on their person. Respect for them demands a differentiated response.
It strikes me that we need a cultural change. We need Man with Long Arms to know that his behaviour is unacceptable.
We need to end the gender pay gap and have a culture which empowers young women so that instead of feeling guilty and embarrassed, women have the confidence that they can put people’s arms and hands back where they belong, in no uncertain terms, without the need for formal or public intervention but in the knowledge that they will not face retribution and their complaint will be taken seriously.
And we need to avoid the hysteria of trial by media, with all the risk that it entails of a lack of transparency and fair process. We need to remember that everyone is innocent until proved guilty. We need to have a proportionate and sustainable approach to wrongdoing, and learn the lessons America learned at the hands of Senator McCarthy – but save ourselves the price.
Just as it’s true that people often behave poorly, humans are also capable of creative and intelligent thought processes which go to make a better world. What makes us special is our sense of judgement. We are facing potential backlashes here, both ways, and either would be a huge mistake. We desperately need a sense of judgement and respect and a cool hand on the tiller in the days to come. Please let’s stay in the middle of the current and not wreck the boat on either shore.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rebecca-hilsenrath/sexual-abuse-harassment_b_18521768.html
Officials Urge L.A. Gay Men to Get Hep A Vaccinations Amid Outbreak
Officials Urge L.A. Gay Men to Get Hep A Vaccinations Amid Outbreak
It’s a state of emergency for hepatitis A — and bi and gay men are at risk.
www.advocate.com/health/2017/11/12/officials-urge-la-gay-men-get-hep-vaccinations-amid-outbreak
Time to let Brooklyn-based drag queen Thee Suburbia put a spell on you
Time to let Brooklyn-based drag queen Thee Suburbia put a spell on you
Every day is Halloween.
Russia Investigation Focuses In On What Donald Trump And Top Aides Knew
Russia Investigation Focuses In On What Donald Trump And Top Aides Knew
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has questioned Sam Clovis, co-chairman of Donald Trump’s election campaign, to determine if the President or top aides knew of the extent of the campaign team’s contacts with Russia, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Friday.
The focus of the questions put to Clovis by Mueller’s team has not been previously reported.
“The ultimate question Mueller is after is whether candidate Trump and then President-electTrump knew of the discussions going on with Russia, and who approved or even directed them,” said one source. “That is still just a question.”
Clovis testified in late October before the grand jury in Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He is also cooperating with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating the same issues.
Contacted late on Friday, the White House declined to comment, reports Reuters.
One of the sources described Clovis as “another domino” after former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over his own contacts with Russians during the 2016 election campaign.
“The investigators now know what Papadopoulos was doing on the Russian front, which he initially tried to conceal, and who he told that to,” said the other source. “Now [they] want to know whether Clovis and others reported these activities and others related to Russia, and if so, to whom,” this source said.
Attorneys for Clovis did not respond to requests for comment. Lawyers for Papadopoulos had no immediate comment.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment.
According to court documents related to Papadopoulos’ guilty plea, he reported to Clovis in an email on a March 24, 2016, meeting he had in London with a professor later identified as Joseph Mifsud.
Mifsud in turn introduced him to a Russian woman and the Russian ambassador in London, and they discussed setting up meetings to talk about US-Russia ties in a Trump presidency.
The documents showed Clovis responded to the proposed meetings by saying he would “work it through the campaign.” While he told Papadopoulos not to make a commitment then to set up those meetings, he congratulated him for “great work.”
In August 2016, after Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, Clovis encouraged Papadopoulos to “make the trip” when Papadopoulos proposed going to an off-the-record meeting with unnamed Russian officials, the court documents show.
Victoria Toensing, one of Clovis’s lawyers, said last week her client “always vigorously opposed any Russian trip for Donald Trump and/or the campaign”.
After Papadopoulos’ guilty plea, the White House and former Trump campaign officials dismissed Papadopoulos and Clovis as minor figures in the campaign.
The campaign’s National Security Advisory Committee, which Clovis formed, has become a focus of the investigations by both Mueller and the Senate, sources said.
“Sam built the first group of eight,” J.D. Gordon, the director of the campaign foreign policy group, told Reuters, adding that he and then-Senator Jeff Sessions, now the US Attorney General, had “nearly doubled” it in size.
However, two other sources familiar with the investigations said investigators have been told the committee Clovis formed did very little, and that other advisers appeared to carry more weight with Trump.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/russia-investigation_uk_5a085623e4b0e37d2f37f195