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Deal? No Deal? Trump rejects bipartisan DACA and border security agreement


RT
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:22 UTC
DACA
© Lucas Jackson / ReutersActivists request passage of 'clean' Dream Act without added enforcement or security.
After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators reached a deal to provide protections to so-called Dreamers. However, President Donald Trump has rejected it, according to multiple reports.

Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) said a group of six senators reached a deal Thursday that would provide protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in exchange for additional border security funding.

"President Trump called on Congress to solve the DACA challenge," the senators said in a joint statement. "We have been working for four months and have reached an agreement in principle that addresses border security, the diversity visa lottery, chain migration/family reunification, and the Dream Act - the areas outlined by the President. Durbin added that a group of senators is "working to build support for that deal in Congress."


Comment: Durbin and Graham are used to getting their way, so complaining has become the new art of negotiation. Perhaps Trump wants his wall first.
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Nuke

Arms group warns Trump 'setting up' US to pull out of Iran nuclear deal


RT
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:16 UTC
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© Saul Loeb/AFP
Donald Trump just "dodged a bullet" with the Iran sanctions waiver but he's now "setting up" the US to violate its commitments under the Iran nuclear deal, warns independent nonproliferation group the Arms Control Association.

In a press release, the organization, whose stated mission is "promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies," said that Trump "dodged a bullet" by waiving sanctions on Iran in accordance with US commitments under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

However, Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy, warned that Trump "is setting up the United States to violate it down the road," noting that "threatening to withhold future sanctions waivers in an attempt to force unilateral changes to the deal is dangerous, jeopardizes the future of the agreement, and creates a schism between the United States and its allies."
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The US' Kurd Project: Iranian intel declassifies data on 14 American bases in Syria

Alena Bajowa
The Saker
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:00 UTC
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© Debka
At the very end of last year on the 31st of December, the Pentagon once again acted out an intrigue around its military bases in Syria. US defence minister James Mattis warned, that any attack on US bases would be repelled and the attackers would be punished.

The media agencies 'Russia Today' and 'Sputnik' proved the existence of 10 American military bases in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.

However, Iranian intelligence agencies have provided more detailed data, which suggests that there are 14 American bases in Syria, of which 12 are located in the north of the country and 2 in the south. What is more, Turkish media outlets have reported about the existence of 13 US arms depots in Kurd territories, which are located in close proximity to American bases.


Comment: Syria, Turkey and the exploited Kurds - A Devil's Triangle that only Russia can navigate

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More evidence that Obama used Fusion GPS dossier to spy on Trump during election (VIDEO)

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:44 UTC
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Concealer-in-chief?
The smoke is clearing on the real collusion that happened during the 2016 US election.

Hillary hired Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump. Fusion GPS hired a British ex-spy to dig up dirt on Trump. The British ex-spy paid off some Russians for some juicy hotel stories.

The ex-spy and Fusion GPS then put together a "dossier" to hand over to Hilary Clinton, and the MSM.

Obama then used the "dossier" to get FISA warrants to spy on candidate Trump during a US election, in order to help Hillary win.

Hillary lost. Plan B (Russiagate) was then put into motion.

The Gateway Pundit reports Hillary Clinton's dirtiest political trick to date is the multi-million dollar Russia dossier her campaign paid for to not only smear a political opponent, but to illegally spy on the campaign as well. The 35 page salacious document compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele is central to what prompted Mueller's Russia witch hunt.

Comment: With more details coming out on Fusion dossier, and as well as the Clinton Foundation scandal, things sure aren't looking too good for Obama and friends. As much as we'd like to see them in orange jumpers, its unlikely they'll face any legal consequences. See also:

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Attention

'This is not a drill': 'Mistake' puts Hawaii on alert over ballistic missile threat


RT
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:01 UTC
US ballistic missile
© Lucy Nicholson / ReutersUS ballistic missile defense system test launch
A text warning of an imminent incoming ballistic missile, which urged residents to "seek immediate shelter" was "accidentally" issued by Hawaii Civil Defense, briefly stirring panic and confusion on social media.

The emergency alert, which popped up on mobile phones across Hawaii shortly after 8am local time, read: "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL."



In a statement posted on Twitter, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said the alert was a false alarm.
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Russia deploys more S-400 air defense missile systems in Crimea


RT
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:16 UTC
S-400 air defense missile systems
© RuptlyS-400 air defense missile systems
A second unit equipped with the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft system has assumed combat duty in Russia's Crimean peninsula. As of now, the region is fully covered with the most advanced surface-to-air missile system.

The 12th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, deployed on the Black Sea shoreline south of the city of Sevastopol, became fully operational on Saturday.

"As of today, the whole air defense of Crimea is equipped with the most modern S-400 surface-to-air missile system unmatched in the world," the Air Force and Air Defense Fourth Army commander Lieutenant General Viktor Sevostyanov said during the regiment deployment ceremony.

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Iranian Foreign Ministry rejects Trump's 'fixes' to nuclear deal, slams new sanctions


RT
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:03 UTC
Iranian flags
© Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters
New sanctions imposed by Washington targeting Iranian businesses and officials are in violation of international law, and any "fixes" to the nuclear deal will be rejected, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

In a statement published by the state-run IRNA news agency, the ministry said that Tehran would not accept any changes to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), "neither at present nor in the future," emphasizing that it will "not take any measures beyond the commitments it has made" under the agreement. The targeting of one of the officials, judiciary chief Sadegh Amoli Larijani, "crossed the red line of international diplomacy and is against the basic principles of international law and a violation of bilateral and international commitments of the US" and would provoke a "fitting reaction"from Iran, the foreign ministry said in its statement.

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he would for the last time waive economic sanctions that were lifted under the nuclear deal, while warning Washington's European allies that the US would pull out of the accord if they did not fix its "terrible flaws." Specifically, Trump called for the removal of the so-called "sunset clauses," which allow Iran to gradually resume nuclear activities in the next decade. Trump's ultimatum was also paired with fresh sanctions against Iran for alleged human rights abuses and ballistic missile development. Under the new sanctions regime, the Treasury Department will target 14 officials, businessmen and companies from Iran, China and Malaysia, freezing any assets they have in the US.

Comment: See also: Trump extends sanctions relief to Iran but adds 14 businesses and entities to sanctions list

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'Little Rocket Man' wins this round

Patrick Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan Blog
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:44 UTC
Kim Jong Un
Kim Jong Un
After a year in which he tested a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM, threatened to destroy the United States, and called President Trump "a dotard," Kim Jong Un, at the gracious invitation of the president of South Korea, will be sending a skating team to the "Peace Olympics."

An impressive year for Little Rocket Man.

Thus the most serious nuclear crisis since Nikita Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba appears to have abated. Welcome news, even if the confrontation with Pyongyang has probably only been postponed.

Still, we have been given an opportunity to reassess the 65-year-old Cold War treaty that obligates us to go to war if the North attacks Seoul, and drove us to the brink of war today.

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2 + 2 = 4

Dems used Trump's "shithole" comment to derail amnesty talks - because Trump axed their bad proposals

Neil Munro
Breitbart
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:16 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
President Donald Trump shot down an amnesty plan offered by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and several GOP Senators, prompting amnesty-advocates to wreck the amnesty talks by leaking Trump's Oval Office "sh*thole" description of undeveloped countries.

The report said:
President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.

The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.
The amnesty-plus plan was developed by Durbin and several pro-amnesty GOP Senators, including Sen. Cory Gardner from Colorado. The plan would provide an unpopular amnesty to more than one million illegals, preserve future chain-migration and also provide an amnesty to the illegal-immigrant parents who brought their children - dubbed 'dreamers' by Democrats - to the United States.

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Twitter's 'shadow banning': Social media fascism on display

Rich Mitchell
Conservative Daily News
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:05 UTC
twitter fascism
© Branco/Conservative Daily News
Twitter and its big brother, Facebook, proclaim they are "platforms", not content providers, but as they continue to curate, mold and, in some cases, hide certain traffic, they look more like heavy-handed censors every day - and it's dangerous.

Twitter and Facebook have taken every precaution to avoid the label "media company" or "content provider." Instead, they both assert that they are "platforms," but why the distinction?

Both companies project a vision that they should be viewed as open and free spaces for people to express their views and that only the most dangerous voices should be culled. This perspective colors the social media giants as little more than global-scale forums for which the owner has no responsibility or say on its content. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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