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US Border Patrol has 'no plans' to remove razor wire installed by Texas - Fox


RT
Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:24 UTC
NatlGuard
© Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images/AFPTexas National Guard soldiers in Shelby Park near border with Mexico • January 26, 2024
Federal agents are not planning to dismantle the razor wire installed by Texas on a portion of the US-Mexico perimeter, Fox News has reported, citing a senior Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official.

The news comes as the deadline set by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Texas to "remove any and all obstructions" to access into Shelby Park in Eagle Pass expires on Friday.
"Bottom line: Border Patrol has no plans to remove infrastructure (c-wire) placed by Texas along the border. Our posture remains the same. If we need to access an area for emergency response, we will do so. When that happens, we will coordinate with Texas DPS [Department of Public Safety] & TMD [Texas Military Department]."
The tensions between the White House and Texas over immigration intensified on Monday when the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government can take down the concertina wire erected by Texas Governor Gregg Abbott to stop illegal border crossings.

Abbott is accusing President Joe Biden of refusing to enforce immigration law and has described the surge of migrants attempting to cross the border as an "invasion."
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Boeing's corporate nosedive: How greed ruined a great American company

Henry Johnston
RT
Sun, 28 Jan 2024 21:08 UTC
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© Central Press/Getty ImagesThe first Boeing 707 long-range narrow-body four-engine commercial jet airliner arrives at London Heathrow Airport on April 29, 1960
What was once essentially a collective of engineers known for innovation and craftsmanship now operates in the interests of Wall Street

On a sunny day in August 1955 Boeing test pilot Alvin 'Tex' Johnston was to take the Dash-80, the prototype of the Boeing 707, out for a test flight at an annual hydroplane race over Lake Washington near Seattle. The large crowd gathered for the event included many of the top names in the aviation industry.

Rather than perform a simple flyover, the swaggering Tex, who got his start flying crazy loops on daredevil flights on a tri-motor plane across the dusty plains of Kansas, aimed to impress the gathered luminaries. Instead, he put the plane into a stunning barnstormer-like double barrel roll that left the crowd below astonished and his boss, Boeing CEO Bill Allen, mortified that the newly crafted jet was out of control and about to crash.

It was a fitting gesture for a plane whose very genesis was the result of a huge gamble. As the 1950s dawned, Boeing was at a crossroads. Having thus far thrived as a manufacturer of military aircraft whose modest forays into commercial aviation had met little success, the company needed direction as its defense contracts had mostly dried up with World War II over and the Korean War winding down.
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'Take Our Border Back Convoy' rally across three states demanding government secure border is on the move

Madeleine Hubbard
Just the News
Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:19 UTC
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© X/jimfergasonukA massive convoy of truckers were seen making its way to migrant hotspots in a bid to shame the White House into tackling the worsening crisis, January 28, 2024
Groups of Americans are traveling Monday to the U.S.-Mexico border crossings in three states where they will demand the federal government secure the southern border as part of what they call the "Take Our Border Back Convoy."

The convoy, which advertises itself as a "peaceful assembly & prayer," will start on Jan. 29, with plans to be at their final destinations near the border crossings of Eagle Pass, Texas, Yuma, Ariz., and San Ysidro, Calif., for a rally on Saturday, Feb. 3.

The convoy organizers said they "strongly condemn any violence" and that the event "is meant to bring our country together in love, kindness and in peace."

The event organizers also said they are calling "all active & retired law enforcement and military, Veterans, Mama Bears, elected officials, business owners, ranchers, truckers, bikers, media and LAW ABIDING, freedom-loving Americans" to participate as they call on the government to "take action" to secure the border.

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Best of the Web: Three US soldiers killed in drone attack near Syria-Jordan border

Micaela Burrow
The Daily Caller
Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:55 UTC
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© Raad Adayleh / APU.S. and Jordanian forces respond to scenarios in a joint drill on Thursday, April 26, 2018, in a training area near the town of Zarqa.
Three U.S. troops were killed in a drone attack in Jordan near the border of Syria, where Iran-backed militias have conducted more than 150 attacks on bases hosting U.S. troops in recent months, the military said Sunday.

A one-way attack drone crashed into the Jordanian base Saturday night, killing the three U.S. service members and injuring 25 more, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement. One of the Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq carried out the attack, but the facts of the incident were still being assessed, the White House also said.

"Today, America's heart is heavy," President Joe Biden said in the statement.

Comment: Was it Tower 22 in Jordan, or was it the illegal At-Tanf outpost over the border in Syria?

Either way, it's another warning to the US that, with respect to its military footprint all over the Middle East, it must "sh*t or get off the pot."

The warhawks in Washington are of course calling for the US to "hit Iran hard."

But that would trigger Armageddon.

Is that what they want?

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Cultural replacement: Why the immigration crisis is being deliberately engineered

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00 UTC
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There is absolutely no doubt - Elements of our own government are deliberately encouraging the acceleration of illegal immigration across the southern border and they are actively sabotaging any attempts to stop the madness. There are two questions we need to ask: Why are they doing this? And, what can be done to stop them?'

In a move that I think debunks any claims that the Biden Administration wants a secure border, the federal government recently challenged Texas efforts to install border fencing and barbed wire to prevent the massive influx of foreigners raiding the US. This is after several incidents in which convicted criminals and terrorists have been identified among migrant groups. The measures were working, so obviously, Biden felt the need to intervene.

A majority of the Supreme Court has also taken Biden's side, forcing Texas Governor Greg Abbott to declare the situation an invasion that threatens the security of his state and America at large. The conflict is leading to a showdown between federal agencies and Texas. I would argue that it is a showdown that NEEDS to happen, the sooner the better.
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Hezbollah hits several military bases of Israeli regime


Islamic Republic News Agency
Sat, 27 Jan 2024 12:00 UTC
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© ReutersFILE: Hezbollah said it hit a key Israeli observation post early on Jan 6 with 62 rockets.
The Lebanese Resistance Movement, Hezbollah, has targeted several military bases of the Zionist regime in the north of the occupied Palestinian territories with rockets.

Beirut-based Al Mayadeen news network reported on Saturday that Hezbollah targeted a military base near the Zionist settlement of Shlomi, setting off sirens there.

Hezbollah also conducted rocket attacks on several more Israeli military bases including Jal Al-Alam.

The resistance movement has been engaged in operations against Israeli positions at Lebanon's border since October 8, a day after the regime unleashed its war on Gaza following Al Aqsa Storm Operation by the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, earlier that day.

Comment: This comes amidst comments from the IDF chief that war in Lebanon becoming much more likely. Some analysts state that the war is basically already in play, it's just a matter of when it will escalate.

Footage showing Israeli destruction in Lebanon:


Commentary from Hezbollah on the prospects of war:




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Germany: This speech left the left establishment fuming! Dr. Bernd Baumann — AfD parliamentary group

Kevin MacDonald
The Occidental Observer
Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:00 UTC
Dr. Bernd Baumann
From an email list:

Globalist democracy works like this: Anyone who has the popular majority behind them will be deposed by the globalist minority. Anyone who is loved by the people will be accused and imprisoned.

Here is the AfD's answer to it by Dr. Bernd Baumann, in the Bundestag (parliament), Berlin, Jan. 18, 2024. Dr. Baumann responds to the system's agitation against the AfD with the aim of banning the party.

Source-Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPZubpr92xE


Comment: The populations of the West, and the precious few politicians with conscience, have had more than enough of the green policies that are destroying civilization as we speak. The issues raised have become so critical, and so essential to the immediate day-to-day living and well being of most people that the responses to the Globalist juggernaut will very likely continue to intensify - until things come to a head.

See also:

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French fury: Farmers sowing seeds of revolution against elites in Paris

Rachel Marsden
RT
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:02 UTC
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© Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFPFarmers set branches and tires on fire as they demonstrate in Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois near Agen, France, January 25, 2024.
Brussels' diktat on climate change and support for Ukraine is seen as more important than the people who actually feed the country

The French government is scrambling to get a whole lot of tractors off the nation's major highways. Good luck with that when 89% of French citizens back the protesting farmers, according to a new Odoxa poll.

France is joining a movement that now encompasses nearly 20% of the EU, with farmers in five of the bloc's 27 countries convoying and blockading major roads. Farmers in Poland, Romania, Germany, and the Netherlands have now been joined by their counterparts from the country virtually synonymous with revolution. And one particular incident here in France has just shifted the nascent movement into overdrive.

Comment: There are by now a significant number of articles reporting on farmer issues: To the final statement in the opinion piece:
"Only a deep and fundamental rethinking of their relationship with their citizens, whose interests they're supposed to serve exclusively, would have any hope of resolving this deepening crisis."
One can ask several questions, and many of those living in the countries that experience protests probably do. Here are a few possibilities:
  • If the citizens have elected their politicians, why do the politicians not represent them?
  • If it is true that people in government do not serve the interests of their people, whose interest do they serve?
  • If the answer to the last question is say the EU or Brussels, whose interest do the administrations in the EU and Brussels serve?
  • Is it possible for the government to exclusively serve the interests of its citizens if the government is subject to agreements with other countries?
  • If the citizens are divided will a government always be able to find compromises?
  • Will a government even have an interest in keeping the citizens divided to be able to introduce a particular legislation?
  • What is more important, that the leaders of a country afflicted by protests rethink their relationship with their citizens, or that that the citizens rethink their role as citizens?
  • If the protests have erupted over policies relating to the farmers, are there other areas where the quality of the policies enforced are on the same level, but have so far not sparked many protests?
  • If governments tend to meet occasional but serious opposition from people like truckers and farmers what can they do to do away with such resistance? Or is that a part of what they are trying to do?
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Senators reach deal to shut down border when migrant crossings surge

David Sivak
Washington Examiner
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:05 UTC
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© AP/Matt York/KJNChris Murphy • Krysten Sinema • James Lankford
A bipartisan group of senators has cut a deal that would effectively shut down the border if crossings exceed certain levels as Border Patrol struggles to handle a record influx of illegal immigrants.

The proposal, part of a border bill expected to be released in the coming days, would grant the Biden administration a new expulsion authority if average migrant encounters exceed 4,000 a day across a one-week window, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

If crossings exceed 5,000 daily per week or 8,500 in a single day, the authority would be triggered automatically, with the Department of Homeland Security forced to turn away immigrants with limited exceptions.

The deal, negotiated by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), James Lankford (R-OK), and Chris Murphy (D-CT), has been crafted as part of a broader spending bill that would provide new security assistance for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

Comment: Biden shifts border crisis blame:
President Joe Biden shifted the blame Friday for the ongoing border crisis, criticizing lawmakers who have not come to an agreement on a deal, a press release stated.

The ongoing battle of the Lone Star states' border escalated this week, driving the Biden administration to demand that Texas officials release border areas back to the federal government. However, following Texas' authorities continuously refusing to follow Biden's demands, the president released a statement saying it was "long past time to fix" the border crisis.

Biden said in the press release that he "instructed" a team to negotiate "with a bipartisan group of Senators," emphasizing that the group has worked "around the clock" to attempt to reach an agreed upon solution.

While GOP lawmakers have sounded off on the ongoing issues at the border, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson blocked additional foreign aid spending late last year, demanding that the GOP's border demands be met. While Senate lawmakers have continued to state that negotiations are coming to an end, some GOP members have already sounded off on concerns over the potential bill.

A handful of GOP Senators told the Daily Caller that the potential framework for the bill would be drastically changing immigration law, with some concerned over legal loopholes for illegal immigrants. The border has reached record numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the border, with December 2023 hitting 302,034 encounters alone, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.


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Martin Shkreli ban from pharmaceutical industry upheld by US court


The Guardian
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:37 UTC
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© Amr Alfiky/ReutersMartin Shkreli outside court in Manhattan in 2017
Martin Shkreli, the "pharma bro" entrepreneur who astronomically increased the price of a life-saving drug by more than 4,000% and became a symbol of corporate Wall Street greed, cannot return to the pharmaceutical industry, a court has ruled.

A federal appeals court in New York upheld his lifetime ban from the business.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd US circuit court of appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge acted properly in imposing the ban and ordering Shkreli to repay $64.6m because of his antitrust violations.

The case had been brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by New York, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Shkreli, 40, became notorious and gained the sobriquet "pharma bro" when, as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals in 2015, he raised the price of the newly acquired antiparasitic drug Daraprim overnight to $750 per tablet from $17.50.
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