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Supreme Court rules against terminating DACA program - Justice John Roberts makes political stand

sundance
Conservative Treehouse
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:52 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesU.S. Supreme Court (Front L-R) Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., (Back L-R) Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Elena Kagan and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh pose for their official portrait at the Supreme Court building November 30, 2018 in Washington.
A supreme court ruling today has blocked the termination of a court-admitted unconstitutional executive action known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). The background of the DACA controversy, and the prior position of the court on the sister program DAPA, makes this ruling the most political ruling yet by Chief Justice John Roberts. [pdf link to ruling here]

The court decision was a 5-4 ruling. Justice Roberts sided with the four liberal justices in blocking the termination of the executive program. What makes this ruling outrageous is within the majority opinion of the court they recognize the Trump administration has the legal and constitutional authority to terminate the program; but the court, specifically John Roberts, doesn't like the way in which the administration might do it.

The crux of Justice Roberts' opinion is openly political. The majority admit there is no constitutional protection for DACA recipients, and the Trump administration has the authority to dissolve and reverse the protections under the previous executive action; however, Roberts specifically cites his concern with deportation.

Comment: Some background on Obama's DACA executive order:

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Star of David

Hypocrisy: Israeli war crimes fugitive receives German peace prize

Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifada
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:30 UTC
Tzipi Livni
© Ralph Alswang/Brookings InstitutionFormer Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni
Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni has evaded arrest or questioning in the UK, Belgium and Switzerland over her role in war crimes in Gaza.

Human rights defenders are urging Germany's Brückepreis to withdraw their 2020 award from Tzipi Livni, an Israeli politician who has bragged about her role in war crimes against Palestinians.

The citation for the Bridge Prize, as it is known in English, says that Livni is being honored for promoting "free thinking, democracy, openness and humanity" and for "her freedom-oriented peace policy."

The prize is given to individuals who have dedicated their life's work to democracy and peaceful understanding among peoples and comes with a cash award of $2,800.

Comment: 'Separation between the yolk and white': Tzipi Livni's Zionist vision for Jews and Palestinians

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Network

Canada's Shopify, BlackBerry develop COVID-19 contact tracing app with local governments

Moira Warburton, David Ljunggren
Reuters
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:46 UTC
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© REUTERS/Mark BlinchA Blackberry logo hangs behind a Canadian flag at their offices on the day of their annual general meeting for shareholders in Waterloo, Canada June 23, 2015.
Canadian technology firms Shopify Inc and Blackberry Ltd have been working with provincial and federal governments on a coronavirus contact tracing app expected to launch in July, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday.

The app is set to roll out nationally after a launch in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, currently slated for July 2.

Test-and-trace programs have emerged as an important tool to identify and contain the spread of the coronavirus, becoming more urgent as Canadian provinces gradually reopen their economies after three months of lockdown. On Thursday, Canada officially hit 100,000 cases.

Comment: The app announcement is receiving some sharp criticism on Twitter:





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Trump retweets his critic Max Blumenthal, who changes handle to slogans like 'US sanctions kill kids' for Trump audience to read


RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:34 UTC
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© (L) Twitter; (R) Reuters / KEVIN LAMARQUE
On Thursday, followers of Donald Trump's Twitter feed were able to read scathing criticisms of the US president, thanks to a careless retweet of a post by journalist Max Blumenthal, who seized the chance to weaponize his name.

The trolling session of the US troll-in-chief started with Blumenthal attacking former US National Security Advisor John Bolton and the left-wing figures lionizing him for writing a book that makes his former boss look bad.

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Che Guevara

SOTT Focus: Carlson: A Democrat-backed Mob Has Taken Power by Force. Republicans Rolled Over, so Why Bother Voting For Them?


Sott.net
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:27 UTC
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Here's a segment from Carlson's last show of the week (Friday 19th June).

He has been batting them out of the park for some time now - especially since the Establishment-approved 'color revolution' kicked off in the US at the end of May.

While Conservative Black activist Candace Owens encourages Black Americans to 'leave the Democrat plantation' and vote Republican instead, the real death-knell for the 'forces of permanent revolution' would occur if or when ALL Americans 'walk off the entire plantation'.

Lambasting the failure of Republican and 'conservative' leaders to stand up to the mob, Carlson concludes this segment by recommending to his (considerable) conservative audience that they no longer vote for the GOP. This crisis, he says, has "exposed them for who they are. And now it's time to find new leaders."

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'Arch-Neocon' Bolton becomes democrats' latest 'ally' in rush to scorn Trump - Journo


Sputnik
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:59 UTC
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© REUTERS / LEAH MILLIS
Democrats have been reacting angrily to accounts in former national security adviser John Bolton's new book as they attempt to score "cheap, short-term political points" against US President Donald Trump, Ben Norton, a journalist with The Grayzone, told Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear Thursday.

The upcoming memoir, due out next week, is titled "The Room Where It Happened" and is described by its publisher Simon & Schuster as "the book Donald Trump doesn't want you to read." One particular passage occupying news headlines this week alleges that Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping during a June 2019 summit dinner that his chances of reelection could be improved if Beijing increased its agricultural purchases from American farmers.

"Unfortunately, this is a continuation of a trend," Norton told host Brian Becker.

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War Whore

Cynicism and warmongering

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:50 UTC
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© AP Photo / Andrew Matthews
The BBC plumbed the depths of hypocrisy in dressing up the final episode of the Salisbury Poisonings as a homage to Dawn Sturgess while systematically lying about the facts of her death, yet again to cover up the implausibility of the official narrative.

As I noted yesterday, the BBC drama appeared to show Charlie Rowley fishing the perfume bottle out of the charity bin at least two months ahead of when this really occurred, to make it more plausible that it had been dropped in there after the alleged attack on the Skripals. The question of how it had managed to sit in a charity bin for three months, when that bin was emptied regularly, was thus dodged.

The next alteration of a timeline by the BBC is just as crucial. The BBC had the discovery of the perfume bottle containing novichok happening before Sturgess's death, whereas in fact the perfume bottle was not "discovered" until 11 July 2018, three days after Dawn's death. The extraordinary thing about this is that the police had been searching Rowley's flat intensively for "novichok" for over a week before coming across a perfume bottle sitting on the kitchen counter. As they were specifically looking for a phial of liquid, you would have thought that might have caught the eye somewhat sooner.

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Attention

Beware the hijacking of US protests into a 'Color Revolution'

Max Parry
OffGuardian
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:06 UTC
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The May 25th killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota shocked the world and set off mass protests against racism and police brutality in dozens of cities from the mid-western United States to the European Union, all in the midst of a global pandemic.

In the Twin Cities, what began as spontaneous, peaceful demonstrations against the local police quickly transformed into vandalism, arson and looting after the use of rubber bullets and chemical irritants by law enforcement against the protesters, while the initial incitement for the riots was likely the work of apparent agent provocateurs among the marchers.

Within days, the unrest had spread to cities across the country including the nation's capital, with US President Donald Trump threatening to invoke the slavery-era Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military and National Guard on American soil, federal powers not used since the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King case.

The debate over the catalyst for the uprising into its period of lawlessness has drawn a range of theories. The suspicious placement of pallets of bricks in the proximity of numerous protest sites have spurred rumors of sabotage by everything from white supremacist groups to "Antifa" to law enforcement itself.

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Propaganda

No memes, no chill? Twitter flags Trump's fake 'CNN clip' intended as satire as 'manipulated media'


RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:20 UTC
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© Twitter / President Donald Trump / screenshotTwitter's latest "manipulated media" tag on a tweet from the president.
Twitter has again slapped a "manipulated media" tag on a tweet from US President Donald Trump - a meme video mocking CNN - prompting cheers from the #Resistance, which apparently missed what many saw as an "obvious joke."

Shared to Twitter by the president on Thursday evening, the post played off an old viral video showing two toddlers, one black and one white, as they run to embrace one another. Parodying the adorable clip, Trump's tweet features a mock CNN chyron captioned "Terrified toddler runs from racist baby."

Twitter, however, apparently decided that netizens would have a hard time telling actual CNN news coverage from the satirical clip, warning users that the video may have been "manipulated." Indeed.

Comment: It's blatant hypocrisy for anyone with eyes to see it. Either the TDS mob is disingenuously pretending the video is meant to be serious, and not a parody, or they literally have no sense of humor. It's unlikely the video received the same treatment when it was posted by anyone other than Trump.

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Bad Guys

Rumors of wars: China, India, North Korea, South Korea, Israel and Turkey all move toward war

Michael Snyder
The Most Important News
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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As if we didn't have enough already going on in 2020, now we are facing the possibility that several regional wars may erupt. China and India had both been pouring troops into a disputed border region, and now there has been an incident where they were actually killing each other. On the Korean peninsula, North Korea just blew up "a joint liaison office" that it had used for talks with the South Korean government. And in the Middle East, Turkey is warning of grave consequences if Israel goes ahead with a plan to annex portions of Judea and Samaria. If a major regional war erupts at even one of these flashpoints, it will be another devastating blow for a global economy that is already imploding, and there is a very strong probability that the U.S. and other major western powers could be drawn into the conflict.
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