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Biden administration to allow 25,000 'asylum-seekers' into US from Mexico while cases are pending

Paul Sacca
The Blaze
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:06 UTC
border wall mexico
© Ariana Drehsler/AFP/GettyA section of border wall
In yet another move to upend former President Donald Trump's immigration policies, the Biden administration announced that the United States would let around 25,000 asylum-seekers into the country as they await their hearings. This is a stark contrast to the Trump-era immigration policy that kept asylum-seekers in Mexico as they waited for their immigration hearings.

"Building on a series of Executive Orders last week, the Biden Administration is announcing another step in our phased strategy to reform the nation's immigration system," the Department of Homeland Security announced on Thursday in a statement.

"Beginning on February 19, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will begin phase one of a program to restore safe and orderly processing at the southwest border," the department said. "DHS will begin processing people who had been forced to 'remain in Mexico' under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Approximately 25,000 individuals in MPP continue to have active cases."

Comment: Biden has bent to the progressive crazies: And the real reason?

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Green Light

Even AIPAC was alarmed by rise of Israeli racist party in 2019. Now, who cares!

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Itamar Ben-Gvir
© wikipediaItamar Ben-Gvir
What happens when Israel just keeps turning into such a rightwing Jewish-supremacist country that American Israel-lovers lose their stomach for defending it? Or they get tired of telling us all about the Good Israel that's waiting to be redeemed? I think that's happening, and here is a news story that supports that view.

Two days ago Benjamin Netanyahu, eager to lose no rightwing votes in his bid for reelection in March, signed a vote-sharing agreement with a party that includes extremist racists. Vote-sharing deals mean that two parties can get another seat in parliament by combining their "leftover" votes. Otherwise those extra votes would simply be parcelled to other parties. Netanyahu needs to keep those seats on his side.

Last week, Netanyahu actually midwifed the birth of this new racist party - Religious Zionism - out of smaller factions so that Religious Zionism would have a better chance of exceeding the threshhold. If a party falls below the threshhold in the election- 3.25 percent/four seats in parliament — it doesn't get any seats at all.

Comment: Faux outrage or not, Israel has been allowing itself to fully manifest its racist, hateful and malevolent policies - in both word and deed - for many years. This Middle Eastern country will, despite its support in the West and elsewhere, be the very maker of its own undoing as it continues to push the uppermost limits of pathological sentiment and policies. Further, Netanyahu will do or say almost anything to fulfill his ultimate goal to remain in power and be in such a position to see that Iran and Syria be brought to its knees - which these nations will not allow. As a result, Netanyahu will, in effect, very likely be presiding over the destruction of the very country he claims to be protecting.

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Fighting back: Trump's impeachment defense team slam Dem's hypocrisy with long montage of liberals doing the same thing they accused Trump of doing

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:48 UTC
Trump lawyer
The Democrats demonized President Trump for using the word 'fight'. Trump's attorneys responded today with a collage of clips from each of the Democrats in the room using the word 'fight'.

This portion of today's events on Capitol Hill was excellent. The Democrats claim that because President Trump used the word 'fight' in his speech on January 6th in Washington D.C. However, what every Democrat in that room forgot was that they too had used the word previously in political speech.

The montage went on for 13 minutes. (The video montage starts at 7:10 timeframe.)


Comment: The above presentation is a priceless explanation of what's terribly wrong in Washington. And though too little too late perhaps, it should serve as a stark reminder of what Truth really looks and sounds like - and what a whole portion of the sick political class will do absolutely anything to avoid.

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Eye 1

US tech giants partnering with India's Modi to crack down on dissent

Alan MacLeod
Mint Press News
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 12:23 UTC
india police
© Bikas Das | APA policeman pushes a pedestrian during a protest by student activists during a protest in Kolkata, India, Feb. 11, 2021.
The far-right government of Narendra Modi is attempting to silence dissent online amid enormous national farmers' protests — and it is finding willing partners in Silicon Valley social media giants.

Earlier this week, the Indian government successfully lobbied YouTube to remove a number of videos, including a popular Punjabi song that had become an anthem to the protest movement. Indians trying to access the song "Ailaan" by Kanwar Grewal, a video amassing over six million views in just four months, are met with the message: "This content is not available on this country domain due to a legal complaint from the government."

Comment: For further insight into what's going on, see:



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Attention

State lawmakers discuss impeaching Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Zach Williams
City & State
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:01 UTC
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
© Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. CuomoThe governor is facing political heat like never before.
Democrats and Republicans alike are expressing outrage following a bombshell report in the New York Post about why it took Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration so long to release data on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes. State Senate Republicans are calling for new investigations. Fourteen Democratic state senators have joined calls to roll back the sweeping emergency powers granted to the governor during the pandemic. "It's being thrown around a bit," state Sen. Jessica Ramos told City & State on Friday of making Cuomo the first governor to be impeached in more than a century.

Removing Cuomo from office appears to be a remote possibility at this point, but the governor is facing political heat like never before. What ultimately happens to the governor could hinge on the extent to which Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins end up taking the most dramatic action pushed by Democratic legislators as outrage grows over the governor's handling of nursing home deaths.

Comment: More from Spectrum News NY1:
State Democrats Consider Revoking Cuomo's Emergency Powers
Zack Fink | 1:30 PM ET Feb. 12, 2021

In a pushback against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democratic state lawmakers are strongly considering revoking broad emergency powers they granted him last year to manage the pandemic. The move comes in the wake of the governor's top aide privately admitting this week that the Cuomo administration intentionally withheld statistics about COVID-19 deaths of nursing home residents.

In an online conversation with state lawmakers, Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa said the administration "froze" any release of the statistics out of fear that they could spur an investigation by Donald Trump's Justice Department. DeRosa's remarks were first reported in the New York Post.

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On Friday morning, members of the Democratic majority in the State Assembly held a closed virtual conference to discuss revoking the governor's powers. Sources tell NY1 that there was no conclusion, but the majority of members argued in favor of modifying or rolling back Cuomo's powers, while others seemed more inclined to simply let them expire as they are scheduled to do at the end of April.

A minority countered that having more than 50 local health departments making different decisions wasn't ideal, either.

Lawmakers from New York City expressed frustration over the governor and Mayor Bill de Blasio frequently being at odds during the pandemic and putting out competing and conflicting information, saying that some of the conflict could be avoided if Cuomo's emergency powers were revoked.

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Evil Rays

Head of Strategic Command: US must prepare for "very real possibility" of nuclear war with China

Alan Macleod
Mint Press News
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Vice Adm. Charles A. Richard
© Nati Harnik | APVice Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of US Strategic Command, speaks during a change of command ceremony at Offutt AFB in Nebraska, Nov. 18, 2019.
Writing in the U.S. Naval Institute Journal, Admiral Charles A. Richard warned that the military must "consider the possibility of great power competition, crisis, or direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer" and update and modernize its approach to its two principal adversaries.

"There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons," he wrote, demanding that the United States "prepare for the conflict we prefer, instead of one we are likely to face."

Richard accused the Chinese of "mak[ing] technological leaps in capabilities in every domain" and Russia of "aggressively modernizing its nuclear forces." He concluded that "the probability of nuclear use is low, but not impossible, particularly in a crisis and as our nuclear-armed adversaries continue to build capability and exert themselves globally," and that the U.S. risks suffering "embarrassment" or worse if they do not act.

The admiral's words closely echo a recent report from the Atlantic Council — a body that is filled with top American generals and closely linked to NATO. The council advised President Biden to draw a number of "red lines" around China, past which the U.S. would respond militarily. These included virtually any Chinese military actions in the South China Sea, cyberattacks on its neighbors, or even a North Korean strike on its adversaries. Any backing down from the brink, the council insisted, would mean national "humiliation" for the United States.

Comment: Actually the "crazies" (as former president George Bush, Sr. ironically called them), have been repeating this same dangerous rhetoric for some time now. Though it remains to be seen if the psychopathic warhawks will actually follow through with full-fledged aggression, it is insane statements like Admiral Richard's that seem to be the consensus among all-too-many of them.

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Mr. Potato

Incredibly idiotic Nikki Haley: We need to acknowledge Donald Trump 'let us down'

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Haley and Trump
© AP/Evan Fucci
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said Republicans needed to acknowledge former President Donald Trump failed the party by contesting the 2020 presidential election that ended in a riot on Capitol Hill.

Because of the chaotic ending to his presidency, Haley said Trump would not be politically relevant in the future.

"I don't think he's going to be in the picture. I don't think he can. He's fallen so far," she said. "We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him."


Comment: Trump practically put Haley's incompetent self into a major political position which she has parlayed into all kinds of other opportunities, and so she has now decided where her bread can be buttered easy peasy. She can now throw Trump right under the proverbial bus.


The former diplomat spoke about Trump in an interview with Politico's Tim Alberta for a magazine cover story on her political future.

In the exchange, Haley specifically criticized Trump's attempt to blame his loss on Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the 2020 election in Congress.

Comment: Haley is nothing less than a political animal - and exemplifies all that is cowardly and horrible about the US political system.

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Rocket

The big problem with US Space Force

Ulson Gunnar
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
US spcae force flag
The US Space Force (USSF) is the newest branch of the US Armed Forces. Its personnel are referred to officially as "Guardians" versus "soldiers," "sailors," "airmen," and "Marines" of other branches.

Regarding the USSF's stated mission, its official website claims:
The USSF is a military service that organizes, trains, and equips space forces in order to protect US and allied interests in space and to provide space capabilities to the joint force. USSF responsibilities include developing Guardians, acquiring military space systems, maturing the military doctrine for space power, and organizing space forces to present to our Combatant Commands.
Organized into various "Deltas," the USSF is tasked with developing space doctrine, monitoring the space domain, overseeing space electronic warfare, manning missile warning systems, overseeing cyberspace operations, controlling intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and conducting orbital warfare

Comment: The author is quite probably correct: the new US Space Force (if it is indeed new) is likely to be another tool in the goal for global hegemony - and little if nothing else.

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NPC

The American establishment has lost its mind in its obsession with trying to discredit Trumpism

Michael Rectenwald
RT
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:10 UTC
impeach trump sign protest
© Getty Images / Stephanie KeithPeople participate in a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump on Veterans Day on November 11, 2019 in New York City.
An appallingly biased new article on Trumpism in Foreign Affairs shows that if the American establishment was an individual, it would be diagnosed as clinically insane, likely suffering from delusions of persecution and paranoia.

Yet this same establishment calls half the population of the US conspiratorial, delusional, and terroristic, even as it parades a lunatic's version of events during a second unfounded, evidence-free impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump, and as it continues lamentations over the supposed malignancy of his presidency, weeks after it has ended.

At this point, it would be a misdiagnosis to call this illness Trump Derangement Syndrome. The idée fixe persists unabated, even in the absence of its favorite bogey, and extends well beyond any reasonable obsession with Trump himself. This syndrome, whatever it is, appears to be resistant to treatment. The ministrations of political outsiders have only left the patient with a firmer ideational conviction. Electoral engineering and repeated political exorcisms have apparently been to no avail.

This illness has affected every element of the broad political left, the political and corporate establishment, and the mainstream media. Unsurprisingly, the nation's foreign policy "experts" remain in its thrall. Like Jonathan Kirshner, political science and international professor at Boston College, they display its symptomology without remission.
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Take 2

The Trump impeachment trial is a bad drama

Cal Thomas
The Washington Times
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Raskin
© AP/Alex BrandonRep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md) the lead Democratic House impeachment manager in the Rotunda
If the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump were a play it would close after one performance. The plot is known, the outcome is certain and the drama is contrived. If it were a film, it might be called Fifty Angry Senate Democrats (apologies to 12 Angry Men), or the 2003 film with a title that seems to fit this current dud, Runaway Jury.

What's the point? The point is to allow Democratic senators to make speeches that seem high-minded, but in reality are low political posturing.

Constitutional attorney John Whitehead is correct when he writes:
"Impeaching Trump will accomplish very little, and it will not in any way improve the plight of the average American. It will only reinforce the spectacle and farce that have come to be synonymous with politics today."
Mr. Trump's lawyers used the phrase "unconstitutional political theater" in their filing requests that the Senate dismiss the one charge that the former president incited rioters who invaded the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6. Democrats fired back that Mr. Trump committed "the most grievous constitutional crime" ever committed by a U.S. president.

Somewhere Richard Nixon is smiling.

Comment: Strategy is everything in this government 'game of thrones':
A group of GOP senators met with former President Trump's legal team on Thursday to discuss strategy as they prepare to present their opening arguments in the impeachment trial. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) were spotted entering the meeting, which took place in a room near the Senate chamber that Trump's team is using as a workspace. Cruz said:
"We were discussing their legal strategy and sharing our thoughts in terms of where the argument was and where to go. I think their job is to make clear how the house managers have not carried their burden of proof. They have not demonstrated that the president's conduct satisfies the legal standard of high crimes and misdemeanors."
Cruz also defended the meeting on Twitter, arguing that senators aren't jurors and that "Schumer repeatedly confers w/ House managers, as always & fully appropriate."
The meeting comes after Trump's team was panned by GOP senators Tuesday as the defense argued that the trial was unconstitutional because Trump is no longer president. David Schoen, a member of Trump's legal team, defended the decision:
"That's the practice here with impeachment. There's nothing about this thing that has any semblance of due process whatsoever. The senators were 'friendly guys,' and just talking about procedure, making sure we're familiar with the procedure. It was a very nice thing to make us feel welcome here."
Schoen also said the senators did not give any indication of what questions they would ask during a question-and-answer session that could start as soon as Friday, once opening arguments wrap up. He has said he thought the trial could wrap Saturday, days ahead of what was initially expected. He had spoken with Trump and described him as "very upbeat."
The dangling 14th Amendment...which way will it swing?
Several Senate Democrats have not ruled out trying to prevent former President Donald Trump from holding future office by using a constitutional amendment originally created to keep Confederates from serving in the post-Civil War government.

With an unlikely 67 votes needed to convict Trump in the ongoing Senate impeachment trial, some Democrats have discussed invoking the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to keep Trump from office.

Such legislation would require a simple-majority vote. If Democrats and Republicans vote along party lines in the current 50-50 Senate makeup, Vice President Kamala Harris could cast a tie-breaking vote.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday did not rule out the possibility, per Fox News: "We're first going to finish the impeachment trial and then Democrats will get together and discuss where we go next."

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said:
"What Sen. Kaine is talking about is a censure resolution that would also specifically include the elements of the 14th Amendment that lead to disqualification from future office. That's intriguing to me and something I'm willing to look at. The bottom line here is we have to deliver accountability for the events of Jan. 6."


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