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George W. Bush: Today's GOP is 'isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent nativist'

Olafmihan Oshin
The Hill
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:43 UTC
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Former US President George W. Bush
Former President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that today's Republican Party is far from what it used to be.

Bush said to host Hoda Kotb during an appearance on NBC's Today:
"I would describe it as isolationist, protectionist and to a certain extent nativist,"Well, that's not exactly my vision, but you know what, I'm just an old guy they put out to pasture. So just a simple painter."
The former president also said that he thinks a GOP candidate with progressive positions on immigration laws, young immigrants brought to the U.S. by their parents, gun reform and funding for public schools has a shot to win the White House in 2024.
"I think that it depends upon the emphasis. I think if the emphasis [is] integrity and decency and trying to get problems solved, yeah, I think the person has a shot."

Comment: George W., compared to Joe B., comes across as a fairly intelligent and knowledgeable speaker (with no tricks up his sleeve)!


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'Not anti-China': EU defends plan to step up activity in Indo-Pacific region amid South China Sea tension


RT
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:16 UTC
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The EU has defended a newly-unveiled plan to increase its activity in the Indo-Pacific region, insisting the measures are not targeted at China, despite rising international tensions over the South China Sea.

Officials said the proposal, headed up by France, Denmark and Germany, is aimed at bolstering EU ties with Australia, India and Japan, and would raise the bloc's presence in the Indo-Pacific area amid an escalating regional spat with Beijing over control of the South China Sea.

Outlining the plan on Monday, EU officials said member states agree "that the EU should reinforce its strategic focus, presence and actions in the Indo-Pacific", emphasising the importance of "the promotion of democracy, rule of law, human rights and international law."

Despite the potential for this to be seen as a challenge to Beijing's position and activity in the region, the EU was swift to add that the plan is not "anti-China" but is about focusing on working with "like-minded partners".

The suggestion from the EU that the bloc will become involved in "responding to challenges to international security, including maritime security" could be seen as Brussels giving its backing to the US in Washington's increasingly confrontational relations with China over military movements in the South China Sea.
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Pirates

New York Post: 'Impeach and remove Maxine Waters for inciting violence'

Editors
New York Post
Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:34 UTC
Maxine Waters
In supporting the second impeachment of President Donald Trump, California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters said he was "inciting" his followers, and was "trying to create a civil war."

By her own standards, Maxine Waters should be impeached and removed.

On Sunday in Minnesota, Waters, breaking the law by violating curfew (because "she didn't agree with it"), said that if ex-police officer Derek Chauvin is not found guilty of murdering George Floyd, "We've got to get more confrontational."

There's been rioting, looting, graffiti — what did Waters mean by "more confrontational"? In Portland, they set fire to an Apple store. They're trying to take over government buildings.

Comment: See also:

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Pharmaceuticals earn $152 billion from the pandemic


teleSUR
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:00 UTC
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Johnson & Johnson had a stock market value of $436 billion,10 percent more than the $384 billion registered before the beginning of the health crisis.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, pharmaceutical companies have accumulated a profit of $152 billion, immune to the uncertainty caused by the effectiveness of some of their vaccines against COVID-19.

According to market data, the stock market value of pharmaceutical companies will not be affected by the problems presented in some places, given their efficacy.

Comment: As detailed above, Western pharmaceutical companies involved with coronavirus vaccines can't seem to lose. Politicians in the West have also been found to have been involved in dodgy PPE deals where it's highly likely they'll reap some benefits. Overall, it would appear that there are numerous incentives for the establishment to keep the appearance of a crisis going, despite the data showing otherwise:

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Boris Johnson's office goes to war with UN group that said race report 'normalizes white supremacy'

Lizzy Buchan
Mirror
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:11 UTC
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A UN group of human rights experts criticised a Government-backed review into racism in the UK
Downing Street said the response by human rights experts 'misrepresents' the findings of a widely-panned Government-backed review into racism in the UK

Downing Street has hit back at a UN group of human rights experts who claimed a controversial report into racism in the UK attempted to "normalise white supremacy".

The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said the recent report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (Cred) could "license further racism, the promotion of negative racial stereotypes, and racial discrimination".

No10 rejected the criticism and said the UN group "misrepresents" the findings of the commission.

A major row erupted last month over the report - commissioned in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests - which found there was no longer institutional racism in the UK.

Comment: Johnson checks nearly all the boxes of globalist woke/green/reset policies but this one! Maybe he should pay more attention to how the Biden administration is implementing critical race theory so that he too may claim the now vaunted mantle of wokeness and make the UN technocrats happy... And let's not forget so-called Biden's commitment to gender equality:

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Bad Guys

Czech PM backtracks saying Russia did NOT attack country, alleged blowing up of munition depot was 'not act of state terrorism'


RT
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:12 UTC
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Russia "did not attack" the Czech Republic and the 2014 explosions at the Vrbětice arms depot were "not state terrorism," Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis told reporters, but insisted the 'GRU' was still involved in the blast.

"It was not an act of state terrorism, which means that Russia did not attack the Czech Republic," Babis said on Monday. "Once again - it was not an act of state terrorism, it was an attack on goods belonging to a Bulgarian arms dealer."

He maintained, however, that the presence of 'GRU' agents in Czechia is "absolutely unacceptable" and that they "messed up" the alleged attack.

Comment: See also: Are the Brits behind Czechia's surprise decision to expel Russian diplomats?

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Federal government caught buying 'fresh' flesh of aborted babies who could have survived as preemies

Edie Heipel
The Federalist
Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:21 UTC
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Americans should be outraged their government participates in the wide-scale human trafficking operation that created a market for harvesting the organs of murdered infants.

This article contains disturbing information about human dismemberment.

Last week, legal accountability group Judicial Watch dropped a bombshell: a nearly 600-page report proving the U.S. government has been buying and trafficking "fresh" aborted baby body parts. These body parts, purchased by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to "humanize" mice and test biologic drugs in scientific experiments, came from babies up to 24-weeks-old gestation, just weeks from being born.

While Americans may be used to hearing pro-lifers beat the warning drum on abortion groups harvesting baby bodies and selling them for research, (who hasn't heard of the lawsuit against David Daleiden, who exposed Planned Parenthood haggling over baby lungs and livers at dinner parties?) this time, the U.S. government was the one trafficking baby parts.

Comment: See also:

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Globalists will need another crisis in America as their Reset agenda fails

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
masked Benjamin Franklin
It might sound like "US exceptionalism" to point this out (...and how very dare I), but even if the globalist Reset is successful in every other nation on Earth, the globalists are still failures if they can't secure and subjugate the American people. As I've noted many times in the past, most of the world has been sufficiently disarmed, and even though we are seeing resistance in multiple European nations against forced vaccination legislation and medical tyranny, it is unlikely that they will have the ability to actually repel a full on march into totalitarianism. Most of Asia, India and Australia are already well under control. Africa is almost an afterthought, considering Africa is where many suspect vaccines are tested.

America represents the only significant obstacle to the agenda.

Conservative Americans in particular have been a thorn in the side of the globalists for generations, and it really comes down to a simple matter of mutual exclusion: You cannot have an openly globalist society and conservative ideals at the same time in the same place. It is impossible.

Conservatives believe in limited government, true free markets, individual liberty, the value of life, freedom of speech, private property rights, the right to self defense, the right to self determination, freedom of religion, and the non-aggression principle (we won't harm you unless you try to harm us). None of these ideals can exist in a globalist world because globalism is at its core the pursuit of a fully centralized tyranny.
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Arrow Up

White House says Biden will increase refugee cap this year, after Dem fury over original target UPDATES

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
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The White House on Friday said that President Biden is expected to increase the refugee cap for this fiscal year, just hours after he signed an order that kept it at Trump-era levels and sparked fury from congressional Democrats.

"The President's directive today has been the subject of some confusion," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in an afternoon statement.

Former President Donald Trump lowered the refugee cap for FY 2021 to 15,000 -- something the Biden had pledged both during the campaign and his first days in office to raise.

Biden had promised to increase the cap to 125,000 for the next fiscal year, which begins in October. He also said he would work with Congress to make a "down payment" on that number. In the meantime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken proposed to Congress lifting the cap to 62,000 for this fiscal year.

However, the administration announced Friday that Biden was signing an emergency presidential determination to keep the number at 15,000 while changing the regional allocation of who is brought in -- allowing more slots from Africa, the Middle East and Central America, while ending restrictions on Somalia, Yemen and Syria.

It brought immediate and widespread criticism from left-wing Democrats and immigrant activist groups.



Comment: This is a blistering discussion of Biden's border crisis with Texas Governor Abbott and Fox News.


Comment: An idea, when proven over-and-over across the board to be unworkable and detrimental to all parties involved, is not an advantageous course of action. The 'ideological cling-ons' of the Democratic party show just how unintelligent they are and how stubborn their mindset.

Biden explains his 'caving' on refugee cap:
President Biden is finally calling the chaos at the southern border what it is — a crisis. The startling rhetorical turnabout came Saturday in an off-the-cuff conversation with reporters in Wilmington, Del., as Biden tried to defend his Friday flip-flop on refugee admissions. Biden said, as he headed home after playing the first golf game of his presidency:
"We're going to increase the number [of refugees allowed into the country]. The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people. We couldn't do two things at once. But now we are going to increase the number."
In his somewhat garbled comment, Biden seemed to be saying that the strain of handling the influx of migrant children has overtaxed the nation's immigration authorities — making it impossible for them to handle an increase in authorized refugees as well. But in his justification, Biden may have given his press office a new headache, by using the very word — "crisis" — his administration, including Psaki and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, has staunchly been avoiding for months.
Update 19/4/2021: Hold on a minute...there's some confusion and, surprise-surprise, what he meant by 'crisis' was:
Arguing that President Joe Biden's words aren't the official position of his administration, the White House said his use of "crisis" was referring to something completely different and not the surge of migrants at the border.

During a game of golf and photo-op on Saturday, Biden told reporters he hadn't raised the refugee admission cap because of "working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people and we couldn't do two things at once," in what seemed like a straightforward description of the situation at the US-Mexico border.

Except on Monday, unnamed White House officials speaking to CNN were trying to walk back the president's words. "No, there is no change in position. Children coming to our border seeking refuge from violence, economic hardships and other dire circumstances is not a crisis."

Biden "was referring to the crisis in Central America - the dire circumstances so many are fleeing from. He was not referring to the Federal Government's response," CNN's anonymous source maintained. This was then echoed by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday afternoon:
"The president does not feel that children coming to our border seeking refuge from violence, economic hardships, and other dire circumstances is a crisis. He does feel that the crisis in Central America - the dire circumstances that many are fleeing from - that that is a situation we need to spend our time or effort on and we need to address it if we're going to prevent more of an influx of migrants from coming in years to come."

This obsession with terminology - and the efforts to explain away Biden's own words - did not go unnoticed on the other side of the aisle. Congressman Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) tweeted that not only has Biden not visited the border, "his own administration is now walking back his own words."


Steve Guest, staffer for Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), called it "insane spin" and pointed out that, "According to the Biden White House, what Joe Biden says does not represent the official position of the Biden administration."
Update 19/4/2021: More sudden changes afoot?:
Joe Biden's administration has closed a migrant shelter located at a warehouse in Houston housing hundreds of unaccompanied underage girls, after media reported conditions there were "unbearable."

The Houston area shelter operated by the National Association of Christian Churches (NACC) saw a flurry of activity over the weekend as buses arrived and departed to transfer some 500 young girls living there elsewhere. Nearly 130 of the girls were expected to be handed over to the care of a sponsor, while others were set to be transferred to different facilities or reunited with relatives.

Reports by US media suggested conditions at the 'Emergency Intake Site' were less than humane. Hundreds of girls, aged between 13 and 17 on average, spent most of their days on makeshift cots surrounded by boxes in an overcrowded warehouse-turned-shelter.

Cesar Espinoza, the head of migrant civil rights organization FIEL, who visited the facility, said the girls "were not allowed to get up, unless it was to shower, or to use the restroom. Even their meals were delivered to their cots." Espinoza also said that he saw "desperation" in the girls' eyes that was "unbearable and incredible." Another source said girls were eventually told to use plastic bags for toilets since there were not even people to accompany them to a restroom.

A White House spokesperson told the network the facility was closed because it "did not meet the Biden administration's very high standard for child welfare."
Perhaps it's time to ask who wants to return to their own country?

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Magic Wand

Democracy with a human face: ICE, CBP ordered to stop using 'alien,' 'assimilation'

Rafael Bernal
The Hill
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:13 UTC
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The heads of the two largest immigration enforcement agencies are expected on Monday to order its officials to stop using terms generally regarded as offensive by immigrants, like "illegal alien" and "assimilation."

The orders to replace terminology will come in two nearly identical memos to be released by the acting heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tae Johnson, and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Troy Miller.

The memos were first reported by The Washington Post.

In the memos, Johnson and Miller list a series of terms to avoid and their preferred official substitutions.

"Illegal alien" is to be replaced by "undocumented noncitizen" or "undocumented individual," and instead of "assimilation," officers are expected to use "integration" or "civic integration," for example.

The change comes as Biden officials battle what many immigration advocates see as a cultural problem in immigration enforcement agencies, where Trump-era rhetoric was widespread and coincided with reports of immigrant abuse.

It follows a similar change in February, when United States Citizenship and Immigration Services acting head Tracy Renaud issued a similar memo to that agency's employees.

Comment: Expect more and more of these euphemisms in the coming years. And expect the realities they mask to get more and more disturbing as the one-party Democratic establishment entrenches its power.

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