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Trump vows to corral Central American migrants into 'nice tent cities' pending asylum hearings to deter additional caravans


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 07:58 UTC
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© Reuters / Jose Luis GonzalezTrump told Fox News he plans to build tent cities to hold the thousands of Central American asylum-seekers currently trekking through Mexico on their way to the US border.
Countering charges of fearmongering stemming from his description of Central American migrant caravans as "invasion," President Trump shared his plans to house the newcomers in "very nice" tent cities until their cases are heard.

Trump told Fox News he plans to build tent cities to hold the thousands of Central American asylum-seekers currently trekking through Mexico on their way to the US border. While the tents will be "very nice" - everything Trump builds is, in his mind - he hopes that holding the migrants in these tent cities until their asylum hearings will deter additional caravans from making the crossing.

Current practice, derided by Trump and others as "catch and release," allows asylum-seekers to stay in the US until their hearings, which can be years after they cross the border given the huge backlog of immigration cases.

Many new arrivals, understandably, never turn up for the hearing, having successfully blended into American society and not wishing to risk being turned back to their country of origin. Restricting them to tent cities - no matter how "nice" - ensures they will be present at their hearing, where - according to Fox News host Laura Ingraham - 80 percent will be sent home.

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Attention

Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of non-citizens will prompt constitutional challenge


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:57 UTC
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© Reuters / HandoutIllegal immigrant minors detained at a facility in Texas
President Trump is planning on signing an executive order ending the automatic right to citizenship for children of noncitizens and illegal immigrants born in the US. Trump's statement has prompted a Constitutional uproar.

"We're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits," Trump told Axios in an interview taped on Monday. "It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And it has to end."

While Trump was ambiguous on the subject, it is likely that the children of legal immigrants who have attained US citizenship will be unaffected by the planned policy order.

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Russian Flag

No, Putin is not 'rehabilitating' Stalin: "There cannot be any justifications for Stalin-era crimes"

Gordon M. Hahn
gordonhahn.com
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:23 UTC
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On Russia's "Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Repression" it is instructive to return to the Western media's deceitful claim that a rehabilitation of Stalin has occurred during the soft authoritarian, albeit, rule of Vladimir Putin. Every year, on 30 October 2017, Russia remembers the victims of Stalin's repressions in a national day of commemoration. This day has been commemorated every year, including every since Putin first rose to power in 2000, since the year the remembrance day was established in 1991. But the Putin-era assault on Stalin and his repressions has been far deeper than this. Putin's Russia has seen a pluralist state policy regarding Stalin and his legacy, and within that pluralistic universe it has itself facilitated and issued articulations highly critical of Stalin and his repressive policies.

As Western scholars were blithering about Putin's love for, and rehabilitation of Stalin in the 2000s, Putin-era state television produced a series of films commemorating Russian figures destroyed during the Stalin era. Some of the state or state-tied television channels' productions on the Soviet regime's atrocities, include Yesenin (a film about the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances and pressure from the communist regime), Moskovskaya saga (the story of a Moscow family's destruction under Stalinism), Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel Doctor Zhivago, the great Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, and Mikhail Bulgakov's anti-Stalinist satire Master and Margarita, among many others. At the same time, the Russian Orthodox Church has been carrying out a permanent campaign against Stalin since the Soviet collapse-under both Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Putin (see, for example).
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Arrow Up

US pretends to support independence of Syria and Iraq - just can't admit defeat

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:14 UTC
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© https://twitter.com/syria_map/status/1056624475985317889
During the International Institute for Strategic Studies 14th dialogue in the Bahraini Capital Manama, Bret McGurk, the US envoy for the global coalition to defeat the Islamic State group (ISIS), took leave of his designated function by expressing unusual solicitude for Syria when he said it is "necessary for the Iran-Backed militias to leave Syria to ensure a stable and independent country". The US presidential special envoy also said he is looking forward to promoting "mutual US-Iraq interests and for the Iraqis to strengthen their own interests and sovereignty".

McGurk, who was directly involved in the formation of the Iraqi leadership (Speaker, President and Prime Minister) in the last few months, didn't manage to return his favourite candidate Haidar Abadi to power and failed to prevent Faleh al-Fayyad from coming to power. According to private sources in Baghdad, al-Fayyad will be nominated as Interior Minister, a position that requires coordination with US forces in Iraq. McGurk clashed with Fayyad on several occasions when he unsuccessfully sought to limit the activity of Iran and Hezbollah in supporting the formation of the new Iraqi leadership in Baghdad.
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Bad Guys

Erdogan says Turkey planning large-scale op against US-backed Kurds east of Euphrates in Syria


Sputnik
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:11 UTC
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© P Photo / Mursel Coban, Depo Photos
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to clear the area east of the Euphrates River in Syria from Kurdish militia.

"We are ready to smash the terrorist structure east of the Euphrates. We have completed preparations for this issue. In the near future, we will drive the terrorist organization into a corner through a large-scale and efficient operation. One night we will suddenly come," Erdogan told Turkey's parliament.

Ankara considers Syria's Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the principal component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which enjoys the support of the US and controls the territory of Syria east of the Euphrates River, a terrorist organization associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is banned in Turkey.

The Turkish forces have killed, captured or forced to surrender 1,451 Kurdish militants in the course of counterterrorism operations held over the past year, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Tuesday.
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Bad Guys

Syrian FM: US is allowing ISIS to force their way to Iraqi border


Sputnik
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:18 UTC
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem
© Sputnik / Valery Melnikov
The US international coalition in Syria has made it possible for the Daesh* terrorist group to launch a counteroffensive on the SDF-controlled areas and once again approach the territory near the border with Iraq, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Monday.

"If we talk about the east of Syria, since the creation of the so-called US international coalition, thousands of Syrians, including women, children, men and the elderly, have become its victims. All because of the fact that the United States is fighting anything in Syria, except for Daesh... Today, the US assistance to the Daesh group has enabled the latter to reach the Syrian-Iraqi border once again," Muallem said at a meeting with the joint delegation of the International Federation of Democratic Youth and the International Peace Council.

Comment: Also see: 700 Hostages Taken by ISIS Under US Military Watch? America's Spiteful Efforts to Prevent Syria's Recovery

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Biohazard

Weaponized Insects: Pentagon aims to create a modern Biblical 'plague of locusts'

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:55 UTC
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There is strong evidence that the Pentagon, through its research and development agency, DARPA, is developing genetically modified insects that would be capable of destroying agriculture crops of a potential enemy. The claim has been denied by DARPA, but leading biologists have sounded the alarm on what is taking place using new "gene-editing" CRISPR technology to in effect weaponize insects. It's like a 21st Century update of the Biblical plague of locusts, only potentially far worse.

The Pentagon Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, is funding a program with the bizarre name "Insect Allies." Dr. Blake Bextine of DARPA describes the program as "leveraging a natural and efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants: insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit." DARPA claims the program is to provide "scalable, readily deployable, and generalizable countermeasures against potential natural and engineered threats to the food supply with the goals of preserving the US crop system." Check the language: scalable, readily deployable...

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Eye 2

'Making Norway less safe': 50,000 troops engage in largest NATO drills in decades


RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:00 UTC
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© Reuters / US Air ForceFILE PHOTO. US Marines conduct cold weather training in Iceland on October 19, 2018.
Massive NATO drills called Trident Juncture 2018 are underway in Norway, involving thousands of troops and vehicles. While the exercise is supposed to make allies feel safe, some believe it only turns the country into a target.

Trident Juncture 2018 is the largest exercise hosted by Norway since the 1980s and the largest NATO has held in decades. Some 50,000 troops from 31 countries, about 10,000 combat vehicles, 65 ships and some 250 aircraft are taking part in the drills that kicked off last week and will go on till November 7, with the troops honing their skills on the land, in the air and at the sea.

The exercise is supposedly intended to send "a clear message" to both the alliance's member states and potential "adversaries" that NATO is "ready to defend all allies against any threat," its secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said last week.

Comment: With NATO, countries are merely battle grounds and sources to drain for funding for the continuation of an outdated and dangerous enterprise:

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Propaganda

Ukraine prolongs imprisonment of news agency chief without trial, denied help, health deteriorating


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:18 UTC
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© Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko
Top OSCE official called upon Ukrainian authorities to properly investigate the case of head of RIA Novosti Ukraine news agency, Kirill Vyshinsky. The journalist has been detained for six months on "high treason" accusations.

The case of Vyshinsky must be properly investigated, Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said on Monday, expressing hope that the journalist's extended detention was about to end.

"I hope that Kirill Vyshinsky's pre-trial detention will not be further extended and will therefore end on 4 November 2018," Désir said. "I call on the Ukrainian authorities to expedite the investigation on the serious charges brought against Vyshinsky, and to conduct such an investigation in full compliance with the principles of rule of law, necessity and proportionality."

Comment: Whichever way you look at it, following the US-backed coup, life in the failed state of Ukraine just gets worse: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: 'Revolution' in Ukraine: A history of manufactured chaos

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Broom

Saudi Royals reviewing options for replacement of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:44 UTC
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The major French daily Le Figaro on Thursday published a bombshell story which reports the Saudi royal family is actively considering a replacement to crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) as next in line to succeed his father King Salman as the kingdom finds itself under the greatest international pressure and scrutiny it's faced in its modern history over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - widely believed to have been killed on orders of MbS himself.

The Li Figaro report's unnamed diplomatic source says the Allegiance Council, which is historically the body responsible for approving the order of succession to the throne, is currently meeting in secret (translation from the French):
For several days, the Allegiance Council for the ruling Saudi family is meeting in the utmost discretion, says a diplomatic source to Le Figaro in Paris. The information has been confirmed by a Saudi Arabian contacted in Riyadh. Composed of a delegate representing each of the clans - at least seven - of the royal family, this body, responsible for inheritance problems, examines the situation created by the disappearance, still unresolved, more than a fortnight ago, of the journalist dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The report in France's oldest top three national newspapers further suggests the ruling family is seeking to replace the 33-year old MbS with his much less ambitious and more predictable brother, Prince Khalid bin Salman.

Comment: When every country in the world finally comes to realize that the person leading your nation is a cold-blooded murderer and it could affect cash-flow, it comes time to make a few key changes in personnel.

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