Wednesday
Trump slams Las Vegas shooting as 'act of pure evil'
US President Donald Trump has denounced the mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival as "an act of pure evil," saying Americans are "joining together in sadness, shock and grief."
In brief remarks from the White House on Monday, Trump praised first responders, including the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, "for their courageous efforts." The president also said he would visit Las Vegas on Wednesday.
The gun attack on the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino killed at least 58 people and injured more than 500 others. Police said the suspect, identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock from Mesquite, shot himself to death.
"Last night a gunman opened fire on a large crowd at a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada. He brutally murdered more than 50 people and was an act of pure evil," Trump said in his televised address.
"We cannot fathom their pain, we cannot imagine their loss," he said of those who lost loved ones in the incident.
The president said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security were working with local authorities on the investigation.
Trump also called for unity in the aftermath of the shooting, the largest in US history. "Our unity cannot be shattered by evil, our bonds cannot be broken by violence."
"In times such as these I know we are searching for some kind of meaning in the chaos, some kind of light in the darkness," he said.
"The answers do not come easy. But we can take solace knowing that even the darkest space can be brightened by a single light, and even the most terrible de
Trump had been briefed earlier in the morning on the shooting and offered, in a tweet, his “warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the massacre.
Shortly after the US president delivered his statement, the White House released a proclamation ordering flags be flown at half-staff on federal buildings.
Trump rejects gun control debate in wake of Las Vegas massacre
US President Donald Trump has ruled out a political debate on gun control in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 59 dead and more than 500 others injured.
Asked during his return from touring hurricane damage in Puerto Rico whether such a debate would take place in the future, Trump responded, “Perhaps that will come,” but stressed it was “not for now.”
"Look we have a tragedy. What happened in Las Vegas is in many ways a miracle. The police department has done such an incredible job. We'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by,” Trump said.
The massacre in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, has once again thrust the bitter debate over gun control back to the center of politics in Washington.
Gun control activists and some congressional Democrats say now is the time to discuss restrictions on firearms such as semi-automatic rifles as well as high-capacity magazines.
Police found a total of 42 guns in the hotel room and house of 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who rained down a barrage of bullets from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air concert Sunday night.
At least one of the rifles found in the hotel suite was outfitted with a “bump stock,” a legal attachment that allows a semi-automatic weapon to fire at the same rate as a fully automatic firearm.
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are focused on convincing Trump to break with his party and pressure Republicans to take action on gun control.
“None of this matters if we can’t get Republicans to do something,” one senior Democratic aide told The Hill.
Republicans, however, accuse their Democratic colleagues of politicizing a national tragedy with some conservatives warning that Trump would face a political disaster if he moved left on the issue.
Trump has been an outspoken ally to the gun lobby both as a candidate and president. In April, he told the National Rifle Association convention that they had a "true friend and champion in the White House."
More than 100,000 people are shot each year in the US at a total cost of $45 billion, according to a study published in the journal Health Affairs hours after the shooting in Las Vegas.
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Friday
9 Things You Must Handle With Care If You Must Live Long
There are things that are so fragile in nature & anyone who wants to handle them must do so with every carefulness and tenderness. I saw a truck loaded with cartons of Indomie Noddles. Two guys were asked to move the cartons of Indomie from the truck into a shop. You need to see the throwing and catching prowess of these two guys. One was in the truck throwing the cartons to the one at the entrance of the shop and he was throwing it into the shop. The one in the truck can throw about 3 cartons at a time and the one in the shop will catch it so well. They can do it like that because the Indomie in the cartons is not fragile. They can’t handle crates of egg like that when loading from a truck into a shop. It takes extra care and tenderness if not, it will break and that will amount to huge debt and wastage.
Friends, there are things we also must carry and handle with extra- care because these things are fragile and once broken, it is not easy to put back together and once some of this things get broken, they can lead to huge damage and destiny wastage.
Let me mention 9 of these things you must carry /handle with care as if you are carrying a crate of eggs.
1. Your Name: Your name is very important and fragile. There are names that stink in the ears of people simply because, those who bear those names spoilt the name. The way to handle your name with care is to be careful of your doings. Your actions can rubbish your name. A good name can open doors for you, your children and generations after you. When your name is mentioned anywhere, like in your office, at home, on social media like Facebook, Twitter, IG, etc. what comes to people’s mind? Carry your name with carefulness. It is a huge asset. Read one of the quotes written by Shakespeare. ‘Who steals my purse steals trash; ‘tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed’.
2: Your heart: Many hearts are broken, shattered, wounded and bitter today. Run away from people, and things that are bent on breaking your heart. Carry your heart like a crate of eggs. You need a whole heart before you can be said to be fully whole!
3. Your Wife: When you put too much pressure on your wife, you will break her. Handle your wife with care and tenderness. Let tenderness flow in your manliness. Don’t be wicked to your wife. Carry her like a Queen. She’s strong. Powerful and wise, yet, she needs to be protected, cared for and handle like a crate of eggs.
4. Your husband: Your husband needs your total submission as a wife. Always remember that you are his helpmate.
5. Your Purpose: Your purpose is your destiny. If you don’t handle it with utmost care, it can slip off your hands and gaze and get broken. So many things can come like pressure on this crate of eggs of purpose. Discouragement, lack of fund, delayed Breakthrough, etc. These are things that may want to come like pressure on your purpose to break it. Don’t allow it! Carry it with care.
6. Your health: You have only this body as a vehicle that will carry you through your journey of destiny in this life. Handle your health with carefulness. No matter how big your vision is, once you are dead, nobody can really run the vision like you! Fight for your health. Avoid things that can destroy your health. Wealth is useless when your health becomes useless.
7. Your Marriage. So many people handle their marriage like a carton of Indomie Noddle. Let me remind you sir/ma. Your marriage is fragile. Handle it like a crate of eggs. It must not break! A broken marriage is not easily put back together, because, when a marriage breaks, many things get broken with it. Husband and wife, please, carry your marriage like an egg. It must not break!
8. Your words: Your worth is attached to your words. Be careful with words. Once spoken, you can’t gather it up again. Many people are careless with their words. They speak violently. They make empty promises and break it. Some say things they later wish they never said. Guard your words. Be careful with it.
9. Your eternity: Those who are running up and down to fulfill destiny here on Earth without thinking of their eternity are not wise! Friends, the matter of eternity is not something you should handle with levity. Think about where you will spend eternity. You will die one day. I will also die one day. All that we are and have in this world are vanity upon vanity. Take the matter of your end very serious. Stop living carelessly as if you have an extra life. Think about eternity. Don’t live for the pleasure of this present moment alone. If you miss heaven, you will cry!
Posted to Nairaland by Ojo Oluwasegun
Friends, there are things we also must carry and handle with extra- care because these things are fragile and once broken, it is not easy to put back together and once some of this things get broken, they can lead to huge damage and destiny wastage.
Let me mention 9 of these things you must carry /handle with care as if you are carrying a crate of eggs.
1. Your Name: Your name is very important and fragile. There are names that stink in the ears of people simply because, those who bear those names spoilt the name. The way to handle your name with care is to be careful of your doings. Your actions can rubbish your name. A good name can open doors for you, your children and generations after you. When your name is mentioned anywhere, like in your office, at home, on social media like Facebook, Twitter, IG, etc. what comes to people’s mind? Carry your name with carefulness. It is a huge asset. Read one of the quotes written by Shakespeare. ‘Who steals my purse steals trash; ‘tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed’.
2: Your heart: Many hearts are broken, shattered, wounded and bitter today. Run away from people, and things that are bent on breaking your heart. Carry your heart like a crate of eggs. You need a whole heart before you can be said to be fully whole!
3. Your Wife: When you put too much pressure on your wife, you will break her. Handle your wife with care and tenderness. Let tenderness flow in your manliness. Don’t be wicked to your wife. Carry her like a Queen. She’s strong. Powerful and wise, yet, she needs to be protected, cared for and handle like a crate of eggs.
4. Your husband: Your husband needs your total submission as a wife. Always remember that you are his helpmate.
5. Your Purpose: Your purpose is your destiny. If you don’t handle it with utmost care, it can slip off your hands and gaze and get broken. So many things can come like pressure on this crate of eggs of purpose. Discouragement, lack of fund, delayed Breakthrough, etc. These are things that may want to come like pressure on your purpose to break it. Don’t allow it! Carry it with care.
6. Your health: You have only this body as a vehicle that will carry you through your journey of destiny in this life. Handle your health with carefulness. No matter how big your vision is, once you are dead, nobody can really run the vision like you! Fight for your health. Avoid things that can destroy your health. Wealth is useless when your health becomes useless.
7. Your Marriage. So many people handle their marriage like a carton of Indomie Noddle. Let me remind you sir/ma. Your marriage is fragile. Handle it like a crate of eggs. It must not break! A broken marriage is not easily put back together, because, when a marriage breaks, many things get broken with it. Husband and wife, please, carry your marriage like an egg. It must not break!
8. Your words: Your worth is attached to your words. Be careful with words. Once spoken, you can’t gather it up again. Many people are careless with their words. They speak violently. They make empty promises and break it. Some say things they later wish they never said. Guard your words. Be careful with it.
9. Your eternity: Those who are running up and down to fulfill destiny here on Earth without thinking of their eternity are not wise! Friends, the matter of eternity is not something you should handle with levity. Think about where you will spend eternity. You will die one day. I will also die one day. All that we are and have in this world are vanity upon vanity. Take the matter of your end very serious. Stop living carelessly as if you have an extra life. Think about eternity. Don’t live for the pleasure of this present moment alone. If you miss heaven, you will cry!
Posted to Nairaland by Ojo Oluwasegun
Trump is a danger to the world: Der Spiegel
US President Donald Trump is a danger to the world who must
be removed from the White House before things get even worse, German
news magazine Der Spiegel has argued.
“Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it,” Klaus Brinkbäumer wrote in an editorial published by the magazine on Friday.
“He doesn't read. He doesn't bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities. His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees,” it added.
Last month, a group of American psychiatrists warned that Trump has a "dangerous mental illness" and is unfit to lead the country.
Over thirty mental health experts noted that Trump was “paranoid and delusional” and that they were responsible for warning Americans about the “dangers” Trump poses.
“We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness,” they said.
Trump has been on defense for reportedly sharing classified information with Russian officials and allegedly trying to quash an FBI investigation into possible collusion between his presidential campaign and Moscow.
According to a report, Republicans on Capitol Hill are growing frustrated with Trump’s conduct in office, realizing that his deepening scandals could cost them re-election.
Many Republicans have in recent days joined Democrats in calling for a special prosecutor to take over the investigation, while others want a select congressional committee to be appointed. Some are even beginning to speculate about impeachment.
Trump faces accusations that he obstructed justice with his dismissal of FBI Director James Comey, who reportedly authored a memo that said the president asked him to drop an inquiry about former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s alleged ties to Russia.
The Der Spiegel editorial called Trump a “miserable” person. “He fired the FBI director simply because he could. James Comey had gotten under his skin with his investigation into Trump's confidants. Comey had also refused to swear loyalty and fealty to Trump and to abandon the investigation. He had to go.”
“Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it,” Klaus Brinkbäumer wrote in an editorial published by the magazine on Friday.
“He doesn't read. He doesn't bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities. His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees,” it added.
Last month, a group of American psychiatrists warned that Trump has a "dangerous mental illness" and is unfit to lead the country.
Over thirty mental health experts noted that Trump was “paranoid and delusional” and that they were responsible for warning Americans about the “dangers” Trump poses.
“We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness,” they said.
Trump has been on defense for reportedly sharing classified information with Russian officials and allegedly trying to quash an FBI investigation into possible collusion between his presidential campaign and Moscow.
According to a report, Republicans on Capitol Hill are growing frustrated with Trump’s conduct in office, realizing that his deepening scandals could cost them re-election.
Many Republicans have in recent days joined Democrats in calling for a special prosecutor to take over the investigation, while others want a select congressional committee to be appointed. Some are even beginning to speculate about impeachment.
Trump faces accusations that he obstructed justice with his dismissal of FBI Director James Comey, who reportedly authored a memo that said the president asked him to drop an inquiry about former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s alleged ties to Russia.
The Der Spiegel editorial called Trump a “miserable” person. “He fired the FBI director simply because he could. James Comey had gotten under his skin with his investigation into Trump's confidants. Comey had also refused to swear loyalty and fealty to Trump and to abandon the investigation. He had to go.”
Polls close in Iran presidential election
The polls closed at 24:00 local time (1930 GMT) on Friday after voting hours were extended several times. More than 56 million people were eligible to vote in the election. Preliminary results are expected to trickle in throughout the next hours.
The main competition was between Rouhani and Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, who is the current custodian of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (PBUH) in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad.
This year’s presidential race also featured two low-key contenders - former deputy judiciary chief and member of Iran’s Expediency Council Mostafa Aqa-Mirsalim, and former vice president, Mostafa Hashemi-Taba.
Two more candidates, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri, dropped out of the race on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
Qalibaf withdrew candidacy in favor of Raeisi and Jahangiri pulled out in favor of Rouhani.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who cast his vote immediately after the polls opened, said, "Everyone should vote in this important election."
The 5th Islamic City and Village Council Elections were also held across Tehran on Friday.
The competition in Tehran was between reformist candidates campaigning under the slogan of “Hope”, who had aligned themselves with Rouhani, and Principlists who make up the majority in the Islamic City Council of Tehran.
Mohsen Hashemi, the son of the late Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was the main figure of the Hope list.
The principlist list was led by Mehdi Chamran, the current chairman of the Council.
Any group that wins most seats in the 21-member council can decide who will be Tehran’s next mayor.
Dozens injured by Israeli forces in Palestine protests
Thousands rally in occupied West Bank and Gaza in support of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Dozens of Palestinians have been injured during protests in various parts of the West Bank, occupied since 1967 by the Israeli army, and near the security barrier that seals off the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli forces used tear gas, rubber bullets and live fire against thousands of protesters on Friday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said.
About 1,500 people protested in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, while demonstrations also took place in other towns and villages.
The Palestinians were demonstrating in support of hundreds of prisoners in Israeli jails who have been on hunger strike since April 17, demanding better conditions.
In Gaza, which has been under a rigorous Israeli blockade for more than 10 years, hundreds of people waving Palestinian flags approached the concrete and metal barrier that separates it from Israel and threw stones and burned tyres.
The health authorities in Gaza said eight people were wounded by bullets and about 30 suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
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