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U.S. willing for talks with North Korea, but not just so Pyongyang can buy time: Knapper - Duration: 2:45.With recent high-profile visits to the South, North Korea expressed its willing to open
dialogue with Washington.
America's acting ambassador to Seoul responded... talks are welcome, but not if it's just to
buy time for the regime to continue developing nuclear weapons.
Kwon Jang-ho shares with us his remarks.
Marc Knapper, the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, has reiterated that
North Korea's nuclear threat is the greatest issue facing the U.S. right now.
However, speaking to the South Korean press on Wednesday, Knapper said that the U.S. remains
open to talks with the regime, but only if Pyongyang shows a willingness and sincere
attitude towards the idea of denuclearization.
"I think we have seen enough times in the past that the North has used dialogue with
us and South Korea and others to continue to buy time to pursue its nuclear and missiles
developments.
As the president...
President Trump, Moon both said, we don't want to repeat the same mistakes of the past."
The acting ambassador also addressed concerns about the surprise retirement of Joseph Yun,
Washington's top envoy in dealing with North Korean affairs and one who also championed
dialogue and peaceful resolution.
His departure has sparked speculation that it signals a change in U.S. policy towards
a more aggressive, and potentially militaristic stance towards North Korea.
The lack of an appointed ambassador in South Korea for over a year has also caused concern
over how closely Washington is looking to work with Seoul.
Knapper gave reassurances that those fears were unfounded.
"Our policy remains the same, our close coordination with South Korea continues, unabated and we
will continue to work very close with our Korean friends and allies here in Seoul, Washington
and New York going forward without any change whatsoever."
Knapper also dismissed suggestions of any further delays in the annual joint-South Korea-U.S.
military drills that were postponed for the PyeongChang Olympics, saying that it was a
necessary measure to maintain a strong deterrence posture.
The drills are set to restart on April 1st, and are expected to anger Pyongyang, possibly
even leading to the regime resuming its ballistic missile and nuclear testing, undoing the work
that had led to a easing of tensions since the start of the year.
If the U.S. and North Korea are to hold talks as they have expressed, there will likely
not be a better window of opportunity than over the next month, but whether either side
will soften its stance enough in time for talks to happen remains unclear.
Kwon Jang-ho, Arirang News.
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Joseph Yun to leave post of U.S. State Department's top North Korea diplomat - Duration: 2:09.The United States says it will continue its diplomatic efforts to denuclearize North Korea,...
despite news that its pointman on the regime is retiring.
This comes amid heightened hopes for U.S.-North Korea talks following South Korea's successful
hosting of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
Park Soyun reports.
The announcement came just as signs were emerging that Pyongyang may be willing to talk to Washington.
The U.S. special representative for North Korea policy Joseph Yun says he will step
down from his post at the end of this week.
He said the decision was entirely his own,... but the timing comes at a surprising juncture,...
as South Korea recently relayed that North Korea is open to direct discussions with the
United States.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to dissuade him, but reluctantly accepted
Yun's resignation "with regret."
Yun, like Tillerson, is an advocate of engaging in dialogue with Pyongyang --- a tricky position
to take amid the Trump's administration's policy of applying maximum pressure over engagement.
Joseph Yun's diplomatic career spans more than three decades, serving as Ambassador
to Malaysia from 2013 to 2016 under then-President Barack Obama.
Yun played a key role in tackling North Korea's nuclear issues as the U.S. special representative
for North Korea, appointed by the Obama Administration in October 2016.
He also played an instrumental role in releasing Otto Warmbier, an American student detained
in North Korea for more than a year.
Yun's authority to negotiate with North Korea appeared to be undermined by a tug-of-war
between the White House and the State Department over the direction of North Korea policy under
the Trump administration.
However, Yun told the Washington Post that his retirement was not a decision based on
policy differences with President Trump or his inner circle.
He added that he's 'very hopeful' about the prospect of talks resolving the standoff over
North Korea's nuclear program.
Nevertheless,... his departure will leave the Trump administration without an envoy
for engaging North Korea or an ambassador in Seoul, a spot that has been vacant for
a year.
Park Soyun, Arirang News.
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U.S. Nuke Arsenal Marks Historic First Under Trump, But Democrats Can't Bear To Admit It - Duration: 2:18.U.S. Nuke Arsenal Marks Historic First Under Trump, But Democrats Can't Bear To Admit
It Democrats want us to believe that Trump's
policies harm everyone.
They've said his presidency will harm black people.
Yet, the black unemployment rate is at the lowest it's been in decades.
Then they try to say that his tax reform will harm hard-working Americans because greedy
companies will keep all the money they gain from the tax cuts for themselves.
Instead, we've heard story after story of companies giving bonuses, and pouring money
back into their employees and the U.S. economy.
This week we uncover another real-life example of how Trump is actually bolstering progress
in another area democrats would lead us to believe he is damaging.
From the Washington Examiner:
Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday swore in the first woman in history as head of the
nation's nuclear weapons arsenal.
Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty was sworn in as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration,
which under President Trump's fiscal 2019 budget proposal would comprise nearly half
of the Energy Department's funding.
You won't hear much about this story from the mainstream media.
It doesn't fit with their narrative that Trump is a misogynist who keeps women down.
Yet in Trump's administration there are women in leadership positions that men have
held the majority of the time even under democratic presidents.
So it's not surprising that such a great moment for women happened under him.
But, you won't catch liberals admitting that.
Perry summed up how all Americans should feel about the first woman ever being sworn in
to head the NNSA under President Trump.
"I am especially proud of the fact that she is the first woman in history to lead
the NNSA and look forward to working together to address the administration's goal of
modernizing our nuclear security enterprise," Perry said.
We should all be proud.
And we should also take note that it didn't happen under a democrat's watch.
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What Crossing Over Means To Us! - Duration: 0:22.What Crossing Over Means To Us
Interconnectedness and how it shapes us
To try something new
To step out of my comfort zone
To believe in whats different
To explore new horizons
Stepping out of the boundaries
Being Yourself
A new era moving away from ignorance
Infinite prospects and infinite possibilities
Breaking barriers
Facing your inner self
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US vows to place 'MAXIMUM PRESSURE' on North Korea following top diplomat resignation - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 3:18.US vows to place 'MAXIMUM PRESSURE' on North Korea following top diplomat resignation
THE US vowed to continue to place "maximum pressure" on Kim Jong-un to stop building
nuclear weapons following the sudden resignation of the US special representative for North
Korean policy, it has emerged.
Joseph Yun, who worked in US foreign relations for 30 years, will stand down from his role
on Friday.
The shock move came just days after North Korea announced it was prepared to hold diplomatic
talks with the US.
However, US State Department spokeswoman, Heather Nauert, doubled-down on the Trump
administration's hard line for dealing with the unruly regime and pledged to continue
to demand the denuclearisation of Pyongyang.
She said: "We are sorry to see him retire but our diplomatic efforts regarding North
Korea will continue based on our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the DPRK until it agrees
to begin credible talks toward a denuclearised Korean peninsula."
She added that Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, was "reluctant" to accept Mr Yun's resignation.
Kim Jong-un's regime has de-escalated its rhetoric of nuclear war since the turn of
the year as the rogue nation looked to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics in the
neighbouring South.
Officials from the hermit state have since indicated that they would be open to talks
with the US, providing the potential for a boost in relations.
However, despite the seemingly positive moves from the Kim regime, the US announced its
decision to hold military exercises on the Korean peninsula and to place a fresh set
of sanctions on the hermit kingdom.
A statement from the White House released earlier this week said: "We will see if
Pyongyang's message today, that it is willing to hold talks, represents the first steps
along the path to denuclearisation.
"In the meantime, the United States and the world must continue to make clear that North
Korea's nuclear and missile programs are a dead end."
The new sanctions have sparked outrage in Pyongyang.
A North Korean propaganda newspaper said on Monday: "If the US resumes the joint military
exercises, we will resolutely counter them."
Mr Yun was responsible for setting up a back door channel, known as the "New York channel"
for communication between the US and the hermit regime.
The US diplomat described setting up a channel that allowed the White House to have a form
of limited communication with Kim Jong-un's dictatorship as his biggest triumph.
He said: "One of my accomplishments has been to open the New York channel soon after
the Trump administration got in.
"That allowed for direct talks and direct communication.
"Really, there is no problem with communicating.
"It's problems of engagement that have been difficult."
It is currently unknown who will replace the foreign policy veteran in the role.
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Just in: US adds Nigeria's Abu Musab Al-Barnawi to global terrorism list - Duration: 2:12.The Treasury Department of the United State of America says it has added two individuals and seven organizations in Nigeria and other Africa nations and Asia connected to Islamic State to its sanctions list for global terrorism.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in a statement on its website said it had added leader of Boko Haram, Abu Musab Al-Barnawi of Nigeria and Mahad Moalim of Somalia, and seven groups from Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Somalia, Nigeria and Tunisia to its sanctions list, Reuters reports.
"These designations are part of a larger comprehensive plan to defeat ISIS that, in coordination with the 75-member global coalition to defeat ISIS, has made significant progress toward that goal," the statement said, using a common abbreviation for Islamic State.
This effort "is destroying ISIS in its safe havens, denying its ability to recruit foreign terrorist fighters, stifling its financial resources, negating the false propaganda it disseminates over the internet and social media, and helping to stabilize liberated areas in Iraq and Syria so the displaced can return to their homes and begin to rebuild their lives" , the statement added.
Meanwhile, we had reported that a total of 1,127 persons, including women and children held under the captivity of Boko Haram insurgents from different parts of the Lake Chad region have been rescued by troops of the Nigerian military.
we gathered that Onyema Nwachukwu, the spokesman of the counterinsurgency efforts in the northeast Nigeria, otherwise known as Operation Lafiya Dole, dosclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday, February 27.
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Joseph Yun to leave post as U.S. State Department's top North Korea diplomat - Duration: 0:51.The United States says it will continue its diplomatic efforts to denuclearize North Korea,...
despite news that its pointman on the regime is retiring.
The U.S. special representative for North Korea policy Joseph Yun says he will step
down at the end of this week.
He said the decision is entirely his own,... but the timing comes at a surprising juncture,...
as South Korea recently relayed that North Korea is open to direct discussions with the
U.S.
His departure will leave the Trump administration without an envoy for engaging North Korea
or an ambassador in Seoul, a spot that has been vacant for over a year.
Yun is retiring after more than three decades of service.
He said he's hopeful about the prospect of talks resolving the standoff over the regime's
nuclear program.
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CNN 10 - February 28, 2018 | The impact that the U.S. opioid crisis is having on the workforce - Duration: 10:01.The U.S. government is creating a task force specifically focused on tackling the nation`s
opioid crisis. That and how
the crisis is affecting America`s workforce is our first subject today on CNN 10.
Our nation is facing the deadliest drug epidemic in our history.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the government is committed to reducing the amount
of prescription opioids that are in the U.S.,
reducing the number of addictions and reducing the number of overdose deaths that drugs can
cause. The Trump administration says in 2016, an
estimated 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, the highest number ever recorded,
and that preliminary information suggests that 2017 was even
worse. It says overdoses of opioids, which include prescription painkillers, heroin and
synthetic drugs, made up the vast majority of drug
deaths.
Critics have said that through this January, the Trump administration hadn`t committed
enough funding to make a noticeable difference in the
opioid epidemic.
The White House says its $6 billion increase for the fight against opioids which President
Donald Trump signed earlier this month was the most the
government had ever committed to the cause.
Taft Farms has been in the family for decades. Dan Tawczynski and his son Paul
have seen every kind of economy, but this, this is new.
We have had ads running in the paper, ads running online. And I have a stack of applications
of people
that I wouldn`t dream of hiring.
A shortage of workers.
Qualified people are few and far between. It`s not that people can`t run a cash register.
It`s not that people can`t make a
sandwich. When you look at their job history and it`s one after another, after another,
and you realize this isn`t an employable person.
It seems as though all the employable workers are employed.
The job market is booming. But the percentage of Americans working or looking for work is
near a 40-year low.
Economist Alan Krueger noticed a link between the missing workers and opioid use.
If you look at the counties where more medication is being prescribed, we`ve seen a bigger drop
in the
labor force participation rate for both men and for women. An increase in the prescription
rate can account for between 20 percent and 25 percent of
the decline.
Contractor John O`Brien knows the signs.
I have a little list in my head of things I watch for. Person X is really, really good
on certain days, and on other
days it looks like he`s just completely lost. A guy who has a backpack and he`s very protective
of it and he brings it absolutely everywhere we go and
it`s always that big backpack. That`s a really good red flag.
Have you ever hired somebody and then realize quickly, oh, no, I have a substance abuse
issue here that`s not safe.
Unfortunately, all too many times. I`ve had to let people go in literally in every aspect
of the business, from out in the field to
in the back, in the kitchen, in the store. We`ve also dealt with a lot of people that
are going through the recovery process and there are stages and
there are relapses.
And unfortunately, if there`s even the slightest relapse, you can`t take it. We have to let
some people go that you really root for and you want to
make it and you can see the potential, but you also as a business owner, you can`t hold
that person`s hand through the process.
I have to look at it from this standpoint. Is this a person I would put on a $50,000
piece of equipment and turn loose in a
field where they could wreak havoc.
This is a new part of the economic story, the opioid epidemic, a personal tragedy now
holding back the labor market.
We have an epidemic that is killing over 30,000 people a year. That`s going to have macro
economic consequences. And we`re pretty close
to full employment now. If the U.S. is going to see faster growth, it`s going to come about
because we find workers somewhere.
The best source, I think are the workers who are at the labor force trying to figure out
ways to make it possible for them to regain their footing and
return to the labor force.
That`s what Dr. Jenny Michaels does for a living. She is the medical director at the
Brien Center for Addiction Treatment.
We have a lot of ignorance about this disease. A person with addiction has a brain that`s
different than a person who does not have this disease. But we struggle with that, and
we judge people and we also love to punish them. We love to
put them in jail rather than rehabilitating them.
For so many years, it`s almost very American to define yourself by what you do.
Right now, they`re being defined by their addiction. An addiction is one of the most
stigmatizing diseases in the world.
Amy Borden was once one of those missing workers.
Being addicted is like a full time job with overtime.
Yes, it`s every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That`s the only thought in your
mind. And it`s a job
that you can`t get fired from. I would work a month and then quit, or be fired because
I didn`t show up.
That checkered work history, a red flag for small business owners. At 47, Borden has been
in recovery for nearly 11 years.
She says the gaps in her resume made employers hesitant to hire her.
BORDEN: I filled out numerous applications that I didn`t even get a call. So, a lot of
times, there wasn`t even the opportunity to say this is what
happened. This is why there`s the gaps.
ROMANS: Amy is now by all accounts a success story. Treated at the Brien Center, she now
works here, helping other people through recovery.
When you think of the hurdles to getting to where you are and then to hear from employers
who say, you know, I just -- I`m not ready to
hire somebody in recovery.
I think the judgment and the stigma has to go away. It has to. You have to listen to
the person and just be understanding that it`s a
disease. Without financial stability, most people will relapse because of the stress
of, how do I support my family? So we have to be given the
opportunity.
MICHAELS: It`s not a death sentence. If someone has diabetes that`s not treated, they`re not
going to do well. But if we treat that disease, the
sky is the limit, you know? It`s true for addiction also.
ROMANS (voice-over): Treating the epidemic, imperative for families, communities, and
business.
So you can really see how not being able to get workers can hold back how much you can
grow and how much business you can do.
Absolutely. I can hire two guys, three guys today. And it makes expanding my business
very difficult not having the resources to get
everybody who`s calling. With the business owners, they`re just sick and tired of seeing
the same old, same old. Hearing the same excuses, having
the same problems that in the end really does come down to hurting the wallet.
Ten-second trivia.
Which of these organizations was established in 1945?
The League of Nations, the United Nations, the Red Cross, or the Council of Europe?
It was the United Nations that was established in 1945, though U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt is credited with first using the term in
1942.
According to the World Health Organization, which is part of the United Nations, more
than 2 billion people around the world don`t have
clean drinking water in their homes. That`s about 28 percent of the entire world`s population.
And one threat that can hide in water is lead. It`s a toxic metal the U.S. government says
no amount of it is safe, but there are some people working
on ways to help others avoid it.
My name is Gitanjali Rao. I am 12 years old. I`m in seventh grade and I go to STEM School
Highlands Ridge.
So I developed a device to detect lead in water fashioned in current techniques out
there today. It uses nanotube-based sensor in order to give
you instantaneous results on your smart phone of safe, slightly contaminated or critical
of the lead status in your water.
I was originally introduced to the Flint water crisis through a STEM lab. And it was just
appalling to see the number of people who were affected by
lead in water.
I partnered with Denver Water and I am working on performing my tests and doing research
there. So, at this point, I am working on redesigning the
device structure, refining my sensors, adding various tables and charts for more accurate
values.
I want to see this in the market so that every -- it`s in everyone`s hands in the next year.
It`s common for guests to fly in for a news interview. But well, what I love about this
is how the anchor reacts. Michelle Media just
settles in and rolls with it. The bird, a scarlet ibis, wasn`t exactly an intruder.
It was there for an upcoming segment on the San Diego Zoo. It
just couldn`t wait for it live shot.
Medina said it was a good thing she had a lot of hair spray and that as a working mom,
it felt nice to get a little scalp massage.
So, next time someone says broadcasting for the birds -- maybe the animal was thinking
ibis I could get more airtime. Maybe it was hoping to plant
the seed for a career on birdcasting. Oftentimes on the air, you just got to wing it, though
you know that viewers could tweet about it later.
I`m Carl Azuz and we`ll be beck tomorrow on CNN 10.
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Can the U.S. force Microsoft to give up overseas emails? - Duration: 6:37.JUDY WOODRUFF: Today's Supreme Court case involving Microsoft and overseas data puts
a familiar tech issue before the justices: the balancing act between the interests of
law enforcement on one side and privacy interests on the other.
Immigration has also been a key issue this week for the justices.
And, as always, Marcia Coyle of "The National Law Journal" is here to explain.
Hello, Marcia.
MARCIA COYLE, "The National Law Journal": Hi, Judy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, let's start with the argument that the justice heard today, this dispute
between Microsoft and the federal government.
We know it started a few years ago.
The federal government had a search warrant for Microsoft.
What was that all about?
MARCIA COYLE: OK.
This warrant wasn't your -- what we often talk about, a Fourth Amendment search warrant.
This warrant was for e-mails that the federal prosecutors believed were important to a drug
trafficking investigation.
The e-mails were on a Microsoft server in Dublin, Ireland.
But the warrant came through the Stored Communications Act of 1986.
And Microsoft said that act doesn't apply outside of the United States and objected
to the warrant.
The lower federal appellate court agreed with Microsoft.
The Justice Department brought the appeal to the Supreme Court.
So the arguments today we're going to focus on whether the act applies outside of the
United States, what really does this act mean.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And remind us, why did the federal government want these e-mails so badly?
MARCIA COYLE: Again, because they believed they were integral to the government's investigation
of drug trafficking.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Right.
So, how -- what kind of conversation or discussion did you see?
MARCIA COYLE: Well, right away, there were several justices who were concerned about
how to apply this 1986 law to modern technology.
Justice Ginsburg, for example, said, back in 1986, no one ever heard of clouds.
And she wondered, wouldn't it be better to leave things as they are?
We have to give an all-or-nothing decision, but Congress can take account of all the nuance,
the new technology.
Justice Breyer also said, is there any way we can read the language in the act to adapt
it to modern times?
But lawyers on each side said that the duty of the justices was to interpret the act.
So, what do they do?
Well, the government's attorney said the focus of this law is disclosure and, once Microsoft
retrieves these e-mails, disclosure occurs in the United States.
So the act is not being applied abroad.
The Microsoft lawyer said, no, the focus of the act is securing the security of these
electronic communications, and going into Ireland to get them is invading a sovereign
interest that has its own laws about storing communications.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Could you tell anything about the kinds of questions, the differences in
the kinds of questions the justices were asking?
MARCIA COYLE: Their concerns were different.
I would say Justice Alito, for example, seemed sympathetic to the bind the government was
in.
He said the government could have probable cause that a U.S. citizen committed a crime
in the United States, but couldn't get e-mails to prove it because they were stored abroad.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, this is one that a lot of people are watching for just so many reasons,
because tech has become an issue increasingly before.
MARCIA COYLE: And lots of friend of the court briefs were filed by tech companies, civil
rights groups, privacy group, nations.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, separately, the justices weighing in on immigration.
They handed down a decision today, following something that they made a decision on yesterday,
which I'm going to ask you about in a moment.
But, today, Marcia, they opted -- they ruled on a case that has to do with undocumented
immigrants in this country and how long and under what circumstances they can be detained.
MARCIA COYLE: That's right.
There were really three groups of detainees that were at issue in this case, asylum seekers,
detainees who had committed crimes, but had finished their, completed their sentences,
and then another group that felt they had a legitimate claim to being in the United
States, but their claims haven't been heard.
Well, the lower federal appellate court had looked at federal immigration law and ruled
that these detainees did have a right under the law to bail or bond hearings, and said
every six months they should be reviewed to see if they posed a danger to the community
or to themselves or, you know, could commit a crime.
It didn't guarantee that they would be released, but they at least had the right to a hearing.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, one of the things that was interesting today, Justice Breyer went
to some length to read an entire dissent, which is, what, 30-some pages.
MARCIA COYLE: It was a summary of it.
JUDY WOODRUFF: A summary of his...
MARCIA COYLE: A long summary.
JUDY WOODRUFF: A long summary of his dissent.
But here -- I'm quoting from part of what he read.
He said: "No one can claim, nor since the time of slavery has anyone to my knowledge
successfully claimed that persons held within the United States are totally without constitutional
protection."
MARCIA COYLE: Yes.
He was upset that the majority, which ruled against the detainees in this case, seemed
to say that, because you come into this country illegally, you are really not in this country,
and so you're -- there are no rights that apply.
And his quote, as he just read, says that that's just the opposite, that we -- since
before slavery, you know, if you're in the United States, the Constitution applies.
He read a summary of his dissent.
That's an indication of how strongly he feels.
I should say, Judy, that this case will go back to the lower federal appellate court,
because these detainees have also raised constitutional claims.
The issue before the court was federal immigration laws, statutory interpretation.
So that lower federal appellate court now can decide whether, one, it can rule on their
claims, and then actually rule on the claims.
This case may come back to the Supreme Court.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And, as we pointed out, this on the heels of yesterday's decision not to
hear the case at this point on the DACA.
MARCIA COYLE: That's right.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The young undocumented...
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MARCIA COYLE: All the court did yesterday was say it wouldn't leapfrog a lower federal
appellate court which already had the government's appeal before it.
It will wait to see what that court does.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Marcia Coyle of "The National Law Journal," thank you.
MARCIA COYLE: My pleasure, Judy.
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How Media Affects Us [Eng Subs] - Maulana Nusrat Abbas Bukhari - Duration: 4:28.The problems that we focus on
is majorly affected by the Media
our minds start thinking in that way
like when you are trying to buy a product
you aren't buying it for no reason
your decision is influenced by something
you might think that this is my necessity
in fact, it is not a necessity, it was made a necessity for you
whenever you are watching a tv advertisement
or on roads, it hits your subconscious mind
that makes you think that a particular product is a necessity
thus you end up buying something
in a similar way
there are other aspects of the media
which affects our lives
another aspect are the tv shows
The TV shows which are generally made in Pakistan or India
they are destroying (your soul)
don't shy away from this problem
you might be wondering why do I speak about such issues like whatsapp and all
My 6th Imam has said, "Aalim is a person
who discusses people's problems according to their times"
we should know about all these issues. Who else will tell you about these issues
look at the dramas, the personalities, the characters of these people
they keep no difference in mehram and non-mehram
there is no difference shown in halal or haram, still everyone is watching
in Pakistan if you go in someone's house, there are such dramas that one might think
is shameful to even watch alone. Still the whole family sits and watches it together
they have stopped being sensitive to what is halal and what is haram.
wrong and haram relations
and making such personalities. And some characters are
there which do not exist in our lives
but we try to find them in our lives, specially the youth
I am addressing this for the youth, our boys or girls.
they craft such characters, such trends of lives,
unreal lives, that we start looking for these things in our lives.
We then want our spouse to meet up that list of unreal expectations
Respected people, all these things are an illusion
these things are imaginary
One of our friends who was a writer, I asked him why don't you write good tv shows
He replied that whenever I write good dramas they get rejected
add some sensationalism, divorce, and polygamy to sell it
this is what people want to watch
Some characters are presented in such a way that whenever
the camera is set on them, a typical music starts playing (to sensationalise)
When it comes to our real lives
thinking that for example, an aunt comes to our place and something bad happens (as coincidence)
the affect of dramas was so much that we think that the bad has happened because she came.
and there are such stories about mother in laws
this is because day and night these matters are fed to you (through media)
people have started being so superstitious
that if someone slips on a wet tile, they start suspecting black magic
are people so free to do that to you?
there is so much hate. Respected people, I live in the same society
not an outsider
so many people are sitting and spreading hate
backbiting
bad habits.
If you go out anywhere which says that parking is not allowed
otherwise there will be a fine.
And in your country specifically, there is so much tension of parking, that everytime
people want to switch parking spaces.
Thus you will bear problems to follow the rules
and if you go to a doctor and if he says that one is sick, will need an injection
or a surgery has to take place
one quietly listens and obeys, without saying a word
all rules are respected there.
But when Quran puts down rules like do not speak lies
do not backbite
do not lie about somebody
do not joke about somebody
we tend to disobey
just because you will not be fined for this now and
god is not recording you physically. And if he was recording you, you would be worried
about godly fines
That place does not need a camera flashing at you (to record your deeds)
but once god sends his azaab, then everything will stay still.
Respected people, give in to the orders of the Quran
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