This is a group funded by George Soros.. Their goal is to use the Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals'" approach to disrupt and create as much havoc as possible so that eventually people turn away from democratic governments.
FINALLY, the government has listed them as a "terrorist" organization.
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10-15 years ago an article projected a tide of migration going from the impoverished countries of the world to the wealthy countries of the world, ie. generally from South to North. In short - from Africa and The Middle East to Europe - from Mexico and Central America to the U.S. and Canada.
While the English were generally "SOB's" regarding their far flung possessions, when they left they bequeathed certain values and structure and those countries have remained relatively successful - think Canada, Australia, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. Conversely, where the Spanish colonized - not so much!
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What goes around often comes around: https://www.realclearpolitics.
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I continue to believe N Korea's leader will play us like a violin. Yes, getting the remains of our military back is positive and a confidence builder but but unless Trump is ready to literally go to war I do not believe we win the end game he seeks, ie. denuclearization and total destruction of N Korea's missile delivery capability among other demands.
Why would China favor ending N Korea's threat to our nation and allow them to come increasingly under our orbit?
As for the immigration battle, now that Trump has signed an executive order, the ball is in the Democrat's court and "Up Chuck" must handle the hot potato. Trump told his own party what they must do and they would be fools not to come together and craft legislation that is constructive, which Trump would sign.
Republicans are known to shoot themselves in the foot because they are ideologically split but they have a marvelous chance to apply salve to this open/festering wound and leave Democrats exposed for all to see they only want to keep kicking the ball down the field for supposed/opportunistic political gain.
Finally, if trade and tariff disagreements are allowed to escalate to the point where, pride and egos of so called national leaders get bruised such could cause them to dig their heels in to the detriment of all.
Trump is right to call attention to the trade imbalance and, in the case of China, the blatant theft of Proprietary Intelligence but neither can national leaders allow themselves to be seen as caving to America. Trump must not allow his ego to cause him to over-reach.
Trump may not have the degree of leverage he believes he had when he was a brash real estate mogul. The world's stage is very large and full of pot holes.
Time will tell.
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Going in for some eye surgery and do not know how I will feel afterwards so may not be posting memos for a few days.
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Dick
What goes around often comes around: https://www.realclearpolitics.
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I continue to believe N Korea's leader will play us like a violin. Yes, getting the remains of our military back is positive and a confidence builder but but unless Trump is ready to literally go to war I do not believe we win the end game he seeks, ie. denuclearization and total destruction of N Korea's missile delivery capability among other demands.
Why would China favor ending N Korea's threat to our nation and allow them to come increasingly under our orbit?
As for the immigration battle, now that Trump has signed an executive order, the ball is in the Democrat's court and "Up Chuck" must handle the hot potato. Trump told his own party what they must do and they would be fools not to come together and craft legislation that is constructive, which Trump would sign.
Republicans are known to shoot themselves in the foot because they are ideologically split but they have a marvelous chance to apply salve to this open/festering wound and leave Democrats exposed for all to see they only want to keep kicking the ball down the field for supposed/opportunistic political gain.
Finally, if trade and tariff disagreements are allowed to escalate to the point where, pride and egos of so called national leaders get bruised such could cause them to dig their heels in to the detriment of all.
Trump is right to call attention to the trade imbalance and, in the case of China, the blatant theft of Proprietary Intelligence but neither can national leaders allow themselves to be seen as caving to America. Trump must not allow his ego to cause him to over-reach.
Trump may not have the degree of leverage he believes he had when he was a brash real estate mogul. The world's stage is very large and full of pot holes.
Time will tell.
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Going in for some eye surgery and do not know how I will feel afterwards so may not be posting memos for a few days.
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Dick
Media Dishonesty on Immigration Contributes to Gridlock
The hysteria over border-enforcement problems benefits Democrats — and gives them no incentive to fix the problem.
The illegal-immigration issue has always been one fraught with politicking. We always hear the same refrain from both sides: that people are suffering and living in the shadows; that we must find a solution for them as well as a way to solidify our border security. And yet nothing ever gets done.
The impression of some in the press seems to be that nothing gets done because of a lack of public pressure. If only they could somehow jar American sensibilities into solving this problem once and for all!
Certainly, that’s the motivation that lies behind the sudden media enthusiasm for covering the phenomenon of Immigration and Customs Enforcement separating children from their illegal-immigrant parents at the border. For the last week, the attention has been nearly wall-to-wall — and the moral preening has hit an all-time apex. MSNBC is now analyzing Biblical verses while asking, “What Would Jesus Do?” (Does this mean Trump has finally won the War on Christmas?) Chuck Todd of NBC News is accusing Republicans of holding kids “hostage.” Media members are breaking land-speed records to rush down to the border in order to shout their outrage over the holding pens in which the authorities are holding small children.
Presumably, all of this is designed to effectuate change.
Instead, it achieves precisely the opposite.
That’s because the media coverage of the illegal-immigration issue has always been shot through with emotionally manipulative falsehoods. In this case, that manipulation has been particularly extreme.
We’ve heard that the Trump administration has heartlessly sought to rip toddlers from the arms of their weeping mothers in order to punish illegal-immigrant parents who are merely seeking asylum. But the truth is more complex: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that even accompanied immigrant minors must be released from custody within 20 days. That means that if their parents do not arrive at a point of entry to claim asylum, and instead violate the law by crossing the border illegally, they will be arrested — and their children must then be separated from them by the working of the law. The only possible solution, without a change to the law itself, would involve releasing illegal-immigrant parents along with their children into the general population.
We’ve also heard about the terrible living conditions in the holding centers for these children. Likely, some of that is true — although the stories from various sources conflict. But those facilities were overburdened for years before Trump took office; in fact, the media covered these same facilities and pointed out the problems therein during the Obama administration. In other words, this isn’t a Trumpian attempt to dump kids in hellholes. It’s a longtime problem that has yet to be solved.
In reality, all of this could be solved with simple legislation. The House of Representatives is actually set to take up the issue of family separation in both versions of the immigration bill being presented in the House. But Democrats probably won’t sign on to either bill — and it’s unlikely they’d even sign onto an independent piece of legislation designed to allow children to stay with their illegal-immigrant parents until their cases can be adjudicated. That’s because thanks to biased media coverage — and, in some cases, outright falsehoods — Democrats are winning the public-relations war. The longer the Democrats prevent a solution from arising, the more they gain in the public-opinion polls. So they have little incentive to come to the table around an immigration solution — their better political option remains to wait Trump out and let the press inflict damage on him. There’s a reason every Republican attempt at immigration reform has stalled out over the past two decades — and there’s a reason Democrats have celebrated every time they have. There’s also a reason that Democrats with unified control of the presidency and Congress attempted no serious immigration reform. Better to let the problem fester for political gain than to attempt to solve it.
If the media truly wished to contribute to a solution, all they’d have to do is cover the issue honestly. Yes, Trump is enforcing the laws against crossing the border illegally more harshly than the Obama administration did. But he didn’t create the separation policy. Yes, Trump has spoken with great passion in favor of stronger border controls. But he’s also offered a bigger amnesty for so-called DREAMers than even Barack Obama did.
Instead of using truth as a guide, however, the press continue to suggest that base animus animates conservative feelings on immigration. This leads to a political prisoner’s dilemma in which everyone’s best option is stasis: Republicans are best off doing nothing, since they’ll earn nothing but scorn for any action they take from the press anyway, as well as the undying enmity of many in their base; Democrats are best off doing nothing, since they can count on the press to clock Republicans for any immigration failures. The only ones who lose out are the American people.
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