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United Nations says Trump needs to allow migrant caravan into the US

John Binder
Breitbart
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 03:08 UTC
migrants
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International officials with the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency say President Trump must allow a caravan of Central Americans into the United States to seek asylum.

As Breitbart News has chronicled, migrants with an at least 7,000-strong caravan have repeatedly admitted that they are traveling to the U.S. to seek jobs, re-enter the U.S. as previously deported illegal aliens, and flee crime. One previously deported illegal alien with the caravan even admitted that he was convicted of attempted murder in the U.S. None of these cases are eligible asylum claims.
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Central American migrant caravan moving faster as crowds take advantage of free rides

Greg Norman
Fox News
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Migrants Tapanatepec Mexico.

Migrants climb on the trailer of a truck as others wait in a line for a ride on the road that connects Tapanatepec with Niltepec, Mexico.
Migrants in the leading caravan trying to make its way to the United States appear to be approaching the border at a faster pace now, as the group takes advantage of rides being offered by trucks and other vehicles.

A Fox News crew traveling with the caravan observed a group of migrants in Tepanatepec climbing up the sides of a tall red truck Monday morning after it pulled into an area where the city's mayor and volunteers were distributing food.

"The trucks come up, and they queue up...this is how they are mostly moving," Fox News' Griff Jenkins said on-air. "Now, they do walk, but it is very exhausting."

One of the migrants gave a thumbs-up and a smile to a Fox News cameraperson before boarding the truck. The migrants are trying to make their way to Mexico City and then the U.S., despite repeated warnings from President Trump that they will not be allowed across the border.


Comment: The Gateway Pundit adds that there are now FOUR different caravans making their way towards the US border through Central America and Mexico.



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Extremist Israeli settlers blocking goods from reaching besieged Palestinians in Gaza


PressTV
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:34 UTC
Palestinian truck drivers park their lorries near the Kerem Shalom crossing between the southern Gaza Strip

Palestinian truck drivers park their lorries near the Kerem Shalom crossing between the southern Gaza Strip
Scores of extremist Israeli settlers have blocked a road leading to the Gaza Strip's main commercial crossing, in an attempt to prevent goods from entering the besieged Palestinian enclave.

According to the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency, dozens of Israeli settlers prevented truckloads of goods from entering Gaza through Kerem Shalom on Monday.

Israeli settlers held placards and chanted anti-Palestinian slogans. They also linked the road blockade to fires from incendiary kites and helium balloons that have been flown by Palestinians since the "Great March of Return" protests began on March 30.

The Kerem Shalom crossing between the southern Gaza Strip and the occupied territories is Gaza's main entry point for goods and trade.

The regime has routinely closed the crossing, banning the entry of humanitarian supplies and other goods into Gaza.

Comment: Israel's policies in Gaza are categorically genocidal
In addition to Israel's daily attacks and air strikes, Gazans also suffer from the contamination of water, air and soil, since the sewage system is unable to function due to power cuts necessitated by lack of fuel to the main generators of the Gaza power grid. Medical conditions due to injuries from internationally prohibited butterfly bullets and other illegal Israeli weapons as well as from water contamination cannot be treated because of the siege. In addition to the ban on building materials, Israel also prevents many other necessities from being imported: lights bulbs, candles, matches, books, refrigerators, shoes, clothing, mattresses, sheets, blankets, tea, coffee, sausages, flour, cows, pasta, cigarettes, fuel, pencils, pens, paper... etc. In Gaza, people are wondering whether the current Israeli government, the most fascist in the county's history, might even discuss a ban on Oxygen!

In fact, the conclusion Gazans have reached is that Israel is intent on destroying Gaza because world official bodies and leaders choose to say and do absolutely nothing.


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A 'global conspiracy' undermines Orthodox world - Patriarch Kirill


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:12 UTC
Patriarch Kirill.
© Sputnik / Sergey Pyatakov
Patriarch Kirill.
There is a global conspiracy against Orthodox Christianity, the head of the Russian Church believes. Moscow's ongoing quarrel with Constantinople over Ukraine is just a symptom, he said.

Patriarch Kirill alluded to a global conspiracy against Orthodox Christianity as the cause of the ongoing rift between his church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople during an annual religious conference in Moscow.
The stakes are very high, and the incentive to destroy the unity of the Church has a global dimension. It's not a fight over jurisdiction. It's a fight against the only powerful Orthodox force in the world.
The Russian Christian leader added that Orthodox Christianity served as an "island of freedom" standing against values and ideas forced upon mankind by globalism.


Comment: For an idea of what he's referring to: Post-nihilism, a template for where we are heading


Comment: To paraphrase what Patriarch Kirill himself declared a little time before the schism issue: End Times coming, so don't get all revolutionary!

See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Powers, principalities and UFOs

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'Thief!' Trump slams African-American candidate in Florida governor's race


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:49 UTC
Donald Trump, Andrew Gillum
© (L) Reuters / Alexander Drago; (R) Reuters / Joe Skipper
As mid-term elections draw nearer, US President Donald Trump has called a Democrat running for Florida governor nominee a "thief," spurring accusations of racism against the African-American candidate.

In a Monday morning tweet, Trump hailed Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis as being a "great congressman" who was educated at Harvard and Yale. Then he called his African-American Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum a "thief" and the mayor of "poorly run" Tallahassee, "said to be one of the most corrupt cities" in the US.
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The US Midterm election and its impact on relations with Russia

Peter Korzun
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:59 UTC
flags
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The US official statements are often extremely tough and sometimes even bellicose but, like it or not, Russia is an international actor a dialog is inevitable with. National Security Adviser (NSA) John Bolton, a known anti-Russia hawk, visited Moscow on Oct.22-23. He never sounds friendly but the intensity of his contacts with Russian officials is impressive enough. It was the third time in four months he held talks with high-placed Russian officials, including a five-hour conversation with the Russian counterpart and talks with defense and foreign ministers. Before the recent visit, he came to Moscow in June and met Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to visit Washington in early 2019. The invitation has not been yet formally accepted and the scheduling is still to be ironed out. Before that the Russian and US leaders will meet in Paris at the WWI Victory centenary commemorations on November 11. This meeting will be special. A very important event - the US midterm election on Nov.6 - may change the background. If Republicans win or retain the majority in both houses, President Trump will go to Paris relieved of a heavy load with his position much strengthened. No more talks about an impeachment caused by "Russiagate".

Comment: US-Russian relations are at their lowest in decades and we may suspect the depth and breadth of the mechanics that have been set in motion to disengage this administration. If Republicans have a winning hand, the author's assumptions of the way forward might be realistic. If not, there is no way to predict the level of harm that will be done.

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China's Silk Road and Israel

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
silkroad
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Beijing continues unceasingly to develop its "Silk Road" project. China's vice-President, Wang Qishan, has undertaken a tour of the Near East which took him to Israël for four days. According to the agreements which have already been signed, within two years China will control the major part of Israël's agro-food industry, its high technology and its international exchanges. A free trade agreement should follow, and the geopolitics of the whole region will be turned upside down.

The visit of Chinese vice-president Wang Qishan to Israël, Palestine, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates is aimed at developing the "New Silk Road".

In the autumn of 2013, China made public its project for the creation of maritime and especially terrestrial communication routes across the world. It unblocked colossal sums of money and began to realise its plan at a rapid rate. The main axes will cross either Asia or Russia towards Western Europe. But it is also planning routes across Africa and Latin America.

Comment: The 'soft' strategy of dominance? China is expanding that capability.

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How the media both encourages and sustains political warfare

Kyle Jensen, Jack Selzer
The Conversation
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 03:12 UTC
News headlines
© Unknown
Weapons of mass deception!
Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been waging war against the American press by dismissing unfavorable reports as "fake news" and calling the media "the enemy of the American people."

As a countermeasure, The Washington Post has publicly fact-checked every claim that Trump has labeled as fake.


Comment: ...the bulk of which 'fact-checked facts' were themselves fake.


In August, The Boston Globe coordinated editorials from newspapers across the nation to push back against Trump's attacks on the press. The Associated Press characterized this effort as the declaration of a "war of words" against Trump.

News organizations might frame themselves as the besieged party in this "war." But what if they're as much to blame as the president in this back-and-forth? And what if readers are to blame as well?

In an unpublished manuscript titled The War of Words, the late rhetorical theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke cast the media as agents of political warfare. In 2012, we found this manuscript in Burke's papers and, after working closely with Burke's family and the University of California Press, it will be published in October 2018.

In The War of Words, Burke urges readers to recognize the role they also play in sustaining polarization. He points to how seemingly innocuous features in a news story can actually compromise values readers might hold, whether it's debating the issues further, finding points of consensus, and, ideally, avoiding war.

Comment: Excellent dichotomy. Unfortunately for the mesmerized public, as media controls the message, there is more 'purposeful fiction' being written than fact.

There is - as the article suggests - one useful 'way out': seek out more sources. This is what Americans have been doing, which is why the US MSM has been rabidly attacking those alternative sources.

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As warnings from US Navy rise, Xi tells his military to prep for war in South China Sea


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:30 UTC
Chinaboat
© REUTERS/Manaure Quintero
Members of the Chinese People Liberation Army Navy.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told military officials responsible for the disputed South China Sea to be better "prepared for war" as tensions with the US are rising. Beijing may be bracing for a worst-case scenario with the US.

Xi made the blunt remarks last week as he was meeting the Southern Theatre Command, the military officials responsible for one of China's five strategic war zones. The calls were made on Thursday as part of his four-day visit to Guangdong province, but the Chinese state media reported them only on Friday.
"It's necessary to strengthen the mission... and concentrate preparations for fighting a war. We need to take all complex situations into consideration and make emergency plans accordingly. We have to step up combat readiness exercises, joint exercises and confrontational exercises to enhance servicemen's capabilities and preparation for war."
One of the key responsibilities of the Southern Theater Command is protecting China's interests in the South China Sea, where Beijing claims sovereignty over a number of islands. The sea is of strategic importance to Chinese trade. The US rejects the territorial claims and has been sending so-called Freedom of Navigation missions through the waters and airspace, which Beijing considers its own, as a gesture of defiance.


Comment: Rising military tensions never bode well. Without a treaty, what becomes the failsafe?

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5,200 troops, helicopters, drones engaged as Pentagon braces for 'migrant invasion'


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:53 UTC
US Custom and Border Protection agents
© Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez
US Custom and Border Protection agents take part in a drill on Mexico - US border.
The White House is not joking around in its efforts to "deter" thousands of Central American migrants from entering the United States, announcing the deployment of 5,200 troops and dozens of "air assets" to the US-Mexico border.

Two caravans of migrants, currently making their way through Mexico towards the US, will be outmatched once they reach the border, where additional 5,200 troops deployed under Operation Faithful Patriot will be awaiting their arrival at some 26 crossing points in Texas, Arizona and California.

The regular troops, which are being deployed "with weapons," will provide logistical and reconnaissance support to some 2,092 National Guard personnel already deployed since April along the Southwestern frontier.


Comment: Will the Tex-Mex border become another potential Gaza? Or will cool heads, all round, prevail?

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