President Trump spoke to NBC News and told Kristin Welker that a large amount of the Iranian leadership has been killed since the war on Iran began this morning. He also described . . .

Ayatollah Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, was killed during a joint Israel-U.S. attack on Iran Saturday, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. informed American officials. Khamenei served as Iran’s chief theocrat and highest authority for 35 years. His death is a major blow to the regime and leaves the country with a leadership vacuum at the highest level. Airstrikes have also targeted much of Iran’s political and military leadership, leaving major uncertainty as to who will be his successor and when a change of leadership will be made effective. The death of Khamenei is a major coup for Israel, which has repeatedly threatened to kill the ayatollah and topple the Iranian government. It also achieves a major objective of President Donald Trump, who has called for a change of regime in the country, exhorting Iranians in his speech Saturday to “take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will probably be your only chance for generations.” The post Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Dead, Israel Says appeared first on The American Conservative.

Bob Dylan is a huge fan of The Rolling Stones and has said that they were the greatest and the last true Rock and Roll group. Over the decades, he had the chance to perform with them and become good friends with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Although he hasn’t discussed their discography very often, he once revealed which song he considers one of the prettiest the Stones ever recorded. The Stones song Bob Dylan said was one of the prettiest they did "That was 'Ruby Tuesday' by The Rolling Stones, one of the prettiest songs they ever recorded, is from 'Between the Buttons' (1967). You might be interested that 'Ruby Tuesday' was supposed to only be a B-side, for those of you who don't know what a B-side is, that was the other side of a 45, that wasn't a hit, the A-side, in this case was supposed to be 'Let's Spend the Night Together' but a lot of disc jockeys thought it was too sexual, so they wouldn't play it." "But they played the flip side and that's how 'Ruby Tuesday' became such a hit. What I like about that record is Brian Jones playing the recorder. The recorder is a woodwind of the family known as Fipple flutes. A fipple is a wooden plug at the end of a flute. The flute in its heyday was associated with birds, shepherds, miraculous events, funerals, marriages and amorous scenes. I think it's one of the most beautiful sounds known to man," Bob Dylan said during his Theme Time Radio Hour in 2006. Bob had the chance to meet the late Brian Jones and was a big fan of him as a musician. "I remember hanging out with Brian Jones in 1964. Brian could play the blues. He was an excellent guitar player — he seemed afraid to sing for some reason — but he could play note for note what Robert Johnson or Son House played," he said in an interview with Rolling Stone in 1978. Bob Dylan thinks The Rolling Stones are the greatest band of all time Bob has always been a big fan of The Rolling Stones and has even considered them to be the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time, but also the last one. However, he thinks they are much better if Bill Wyman is playing bass. “(They) are truly the greatest Rock and Roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, Metal, Rap, Punk, New Wave, Pop-Rock, you name it." "You can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one’s ever done it better. (...) “I’m not saying they don’t keep going, but they need Bill. Without him they’re a funk band. They’ll be the real Rolling Stones when they get Bill back,” he told Bill Flanagan in 2009. In 2020, Bob was asked by The New York Times which songs by the British band he wished he had written. He mentioned the tracks "Angie", “Ventilator Blues” and “Wild Horses”. He is a really good friend of the group and already performed with them multiple times live. Back in the mid-90s when the Stones covered "Like a Rolling Stone", Dylan joined them on stage a couple of times. In 1998 he was their opening act in South America and performed the song with them in Argentina and Brazil. The most recent time Dylan was their opening act was during the 2016 Desert Trip Festival. Dylan once gave the middle finger to the Rolling Stones In the 1990s The Black Crowes was The Rolling Stones opening act and the band's vocalist Chris Robinson told Howard Stern that he saw Dylan pissed with the Stones and gave the middle finger to the group. “That was in Montpellier, South of France. It was Black Crowes, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. It was the best week. I will always remember because I’ve met Bob that day and he is ultimately my biggest hero. So we were backstage, I mean, behind Keith’s amps. The Stones, ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ was their single in Europe for that tour, when they were on that Voodoo Lounge cycle.” “And they’re gonna have Bob sit in and I’m like ‘Oh my god’. So Mick Jagger is wearing like a long blue satin shirt with a belt, pirate style over it and I just remember things. I don’t know my social security number but I know that. So they’re like ‘Ladies and gentleman, Montpellier”, you know. There’s 60.000, 70.000 people out there. (And they say) ‘Bob Dylan!’. Bob comes walking right beside me and Rich and he is wearing the exact same outfit. I was like ‘That’s fucking amazing’. He walks out on stage and you know, The Rolling Stones are The Rolling Stones, the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time.” He continued: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvp6gseKJS8&pp=ygUMcnVieSB0dWVzZGF5 “They’re playing a Bob Dylan song and Bob is there. The Stones don’t jam, they don’t deviate. So it’s like (Chris imitates Mick Jagger singing ‘Like a Rolling Stone’). Then they go around the chorus and then they come up to Bob’s turn. So the band brings the (imitates the song’s rhythm) and Bob goes to the mic and doesn’t sing it. And you see them looking around and they’re like ‘Okay’, it’s kind like you’ve missed the turn at a roundabout and you got to go all the way around.” “So they go all the way around again and ‘One, two, three’. He just leans into the mic, turns away and I’m like ‘Oh my god, what the fuck’. It goes on for another half a verse. And then Mick’s gonna come over and save the day and then Bob finally goes to and start singing something. They don’t finish and they’re walking off stage and we were standing there, (Bob) walks off before the end of the song and they are like ‘Bob Dylan!’ He turns around and he looks at them (shows his middle finger) saying ‘Fuck you!’ He gave them the finger and I’m like ‘The best fucking concert I’ve ever seen in my life, it’s incredible’. I can see Keith, he goes ‘Don’t be like that, Bob!'” Chris Robinson said (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). The post The Stones song Bob Dylan said was one of the prettiest they did appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The U.S. and Israel launched the most ambitious attack on Iran in decades, and Israel said Khamenei had been killed in the operation. A senior Israeli official told Reuters the Supreme Leader's body had been found. Iranian state media cited a source close to Khamenei's office as saying: "I can tell you with confidence that the leader of the revolution is steadfast and firm in commanding the field." Asked on NBC news about reports of Khamenei's death, Trump said: "We feel that that is a correct story."

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike Saturday as part of a massive joint military operation between the U.S. and Israel, Israel's ambassador to Washington told U.S. officials. An Israeli official confirmed to Axios that Khamenei is dead, according to Israeli intelligence. Why it matters: The 86-year-old Khamenei led Iran for 35 years, making him one of the world's longest-serving authoritarian rulers. His death is a massive blow to the regime and could accelerate its collapse, which U.S. and Israeli officials have stated as a goal of their operation.

Iran's militant and unyielding supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the Islamic Republic for more than three decades and oversaw an era of harsh internal repression and confrontation with the United States and Israel, has died following the Israeli strike in Tehran, as his compound was reduced to rubble, a senior Israeli official told Fox News Digital. "Khamenei was the contemporary Middle East's longest-serving autocrat. He did not get to be that way by being a gambler. Khamenei was an ideologue, but one who ruthlessly pursued the preservation and protection of his ideology, often taking two steps forward and one step back," Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of FDD's Iran program, told Fox News Digital.

So often, we equate intelligence with standardized testing, or say, degrees or rank in a graduating class. The person who has a 4.0 GPA and high SAT score probably is pretty book-smart. And sure, various amounts of degrees do imply that most likely they’ve had a lot of education. But there is another measure of intelligence that is often overlooked: the ability to be wrong. A doctor named Emma Jones, MD (self-described hospice doctor and “burnout coach”) has recently gone viral on social media for a video wherein she talks about intelligence. The clip is entitled “Here’s how you know someone is highly intelligent.” In just a couple of minutes, she lays out ways you can easily spot someone who is ultra-bright. View this post on Instagram Quoting Oscar Wilde, she says, “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” She then explains that he meant, “highly intelligent people know how to change their minds.” Here’s where the phrases of (most likely) highly intelligent people come in. She says to listen for sentences like: “I used to think…” “That’s a good point.” “Let me reconsider.” “I’ve changed my mind.” She adds, “Most people double down to protect their ego. But intelligent people update their beliefs. They get more curious instead of more defensive. And they ask things like ‘what am I missing?’ instead of trying to win an argument. They don’t tie their identity to being ‘right.’ And they treat being wrong like data, not humiliation.” She also quotes Albert Einstein, who once said, “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” She notes that the “real flex” is being able to have your mind changed “without shame.” View this post on Instagram The comments, and there are thousands in just a short amount of time, support the notion. One (somewhat sarcastically) writes, “So in other words, you’re saying that intelligence correlates with a combination of critical thinking skills and the humility to know that oneself doesn’t know everything?” Another jokes, “I used to say that my ‘need to be right’ is so strong that if someone shows me a better path, or shows me that my thinking is off, I will quickly recalibrate and change my mind so I can be ‘right’ again.” Jones responds to this: “That is quite a strong and intelligent reframe.” Another Instagrammer backs it up with a book they love, writing, “One of the best books I have ever read is called But What If We’re Wrong by Chuck Klosterman. I base most of my life on the assumption that some part of the system is built on inherently incorrect information. It makes it easier to be flexible and make connections to other information that may have otherwise been missed.” But, of course, admitting there’s usually room for debate and the ability to change one’s mind is just one of many signs someone is intelligent. Writer and reviewer Jordan Cooper shared his subtle signs someone might be intelligent in an article for VegOut. Among eight examples, his first is “talking to yourself out loud,” which I mentioned in a recent Upworthy article. He adds, “A 2012 study in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology showed that talking out loud can actually improve focus and object recognition. Why? Because verbalizing engages additional sensory channels. When you speak your thoughts aloud, you’re not just thinking—you’re hearing yourself think, which reinforces memory and decision-making. Einstein did it. So do a ton of high-performers who swear by this trick for brainstorming, debugging their code, or preparing for presentations.” Richard Pryor admits he was wrong. Giphy Other examples, some of which have also been pointed out on Upworthy over the years, are: “zoning out,” “being sensitive to noise, light or texture,” “having messy handwriting,” “swearing a lot,” and to the earlier point, “doubting your intelligence constantly.” (In other words, staying open to being wrong.) So, while having good grades and a plethora of degrees is excellent, always being open to learning and changing course adds a layer to any good mind.   This article originally appeared last year. It has been updated.The post 4 everyday phrases that may indicate someone is highly intelligent appeared first on Upworthy.

A familiar misstep people make when trying to be likable is trying to impress others. They want to show they are funny, intelligent, and a great storyteller. They think being the life of the party is the road to likability. However, study after study shows that it’s a lot easier to be likable. All you have to do is show interest in others. To put it simply: If you like people, you will become more likable. There’s a slight wrinkle in the notion that liking more people makes you more likable. Many people you like aren’t sure that you like them. The psychological phenomenon known as signal amplification bias says it best. We tend to overestimate how clearly we broadcast our feelings and intentions towards others. So, the person we like and who likes us may not know the feeling is mutual. “We think our signals are obvious,” Vanessa Van Edwards told Steve Bartlett on the Diary of a CEO podcast. “If we like someone or if we’re having a good time, we think, ‘Oh, they for sure know it.’ They don’t.” Van Edwards is a communications expert and the author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People. To help people clearly communicate their feelings, Van Edwards suggests three “magic phrases” to show you care. Check out the video below. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Diary Of A CEO. (@thediaryofaceopodcast) Phrase 1: ‘I was just thinking of you’ “You think of a lot of people in your life all the time,” she said. “If you are thinking of someone and you can text them: ‘I was just thinking of you, how are you?’ I was just thinking of you, how’d that project go?’ was just thinking of you. It has been a while since we talked.’ You see a movie, you see a documentary, you see a matcha latte, you see a mug, you see a ceramic candle, and you’re like, ‘Ah, this made me think of you,’” Van Edwards said. “My text messages, my conversations, are full of actual moments where I was triggered to think of that person, actually,” she said, noting the importance of being genuine. “If you don’t think of someone, they’re not a person you need to have in your life.” Phrase 2: ‘You’re always so …’ “So if you’re with someone and you’re impressed by them or they’re interesting or they’re funny, say, ‘You always make me laugh. You’re always so interesting,’ or ‘You’re always so great in interviews.’ Giving them a label that is a positive label is the best gift you can give someone, because it’s fighting that signal amplification bias,” she continued. Phrase 3: ‘Last time we talked, you mentioned …’ “We are so honored when we get brain space—that you remembered and you’re going to bring it up,” she said. “And you specifically bring up something that they lit up with, something they were like, ‘Ah, it was great, it was exciting, it was wonderful.’” If studies show the more you like other people, the more likable you become, Van Edwards has the next logical step in becoming more likable. She makes it clear that, due to signal amplification bias, many people you like may not even know it. When we employ her three ways to be more likeable, though, we can let people know we like them without making them feel uncomfortable, thus establishing bond to build on. This article originally appeared last year. It has been updated. The post Social skills expert shares 3 ‘magic phrases’ that make you more likable appeared first on Upworthy.