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Have not verified - caveat emptor: https://youtu.be/epyIYc_7hbM
And:
Bernie Hires Illegal Alien for Presidential Campaign
Sen. Bernie Sanders has hired a self-described undocumented immigrant to serve as his nascent presidential campaign's deputy press secretary. (Breitbart)
Belén Sisa, who previously worked on the Latino outreach side of Sanders’s 2016 campaign, announced her addition to the Vermont senator’s 2020 team in a Facebook post Wednesday.
“This is really emotional for me. I can’t help but think of 18-year-old Belén, who felt hopeless and powerless to the anti-immigrant attacks and policies that were holding her back from her dreams,” she wrote.
“I can’t help but think of the generations of sacrifice my family has had to do for me to get here. Never in our wildest dreams did we think I’d be making moves like these,” Sisa added in her announcement, which is dated Tuesday.
According to the Arizona-based activist, Sisa’s parents brought her illegally to the U.S. from Argentina at six years old and as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Her legal protection from deportation will expire next year.
Sisa briefly rose to national prominence in 2017 when a photo of her filing taxes went viral in an attempt to lift pernicious stereotypes among some about illegal immigrants.
When it comes to legislation and political descriptions words are thrown around fairly loosely. There is nothing progressive about the current form liberalism has taken. If anything it is radical.
When Arabs, Muslims, Communists etc. establish organizations selling how benign their pursuits are beware. (See 1 below.)
Meanwhile:
Our politically correct nation has morphed into a phobia driven society.
Finally Go To:
#WalkAway Campaign | Politics
https://www.walkawaycampaign.com/#!
#WalkAway ™ Campaign The #WalkAway Campaign is the movement bringing Americans together to #WalkAway from intolerance and societal discord; to leave identity politics behind; and to walk towards unity, civility, respect, and the American ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all.
What the progressive liberal and wimpy crowd do not understand nor like about about Trump, and Bibi, for that matter, is they are fighters and will not go quietly. Rinos are not fighters either.
Yes there comes a time , as Trump proved, when even a fighter folds his card but not when you and/or your nation's life is at stake and/or challenged.
Lynn's great uncle, Avram, trained Bibi for government and was one of Begin's closest confidants. (See 1 and a below.)
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1) Sanders Kicks Off Presidential Campaign at Bklyn College; Touts Socialist Agenda
Bernie Sanders, the far left wing senator from Vermont who represented socialist and progressive interests in the 2016 presidential race, on Saturday stepped back into the spotlight with a rally that officially licked off his 2020 bid for the presidency.
Edited by: JV Staff
Sanders’s 2020 campaign had hauled in massive amounts of cash less than a week after he announced his presidential bid and his fundraising shows no sign of slowing down.
The rally at Brooklyn College, which he attended, was meant to showcase a more personal aspect of the candidate not emphasized during his 2016 run. His working-class background — he grew up living in a small, rent-controlled apartment on East 26th Street and Kings Highway in Brooklyn served to contrast with that of sitting President Donald Trump, who grew up in an affluent area of nearby Queens.
“I know what it’s like to be in a family that lives paycheck to paycheck,” he said, describing his immigrant father’s struggle to establish himself in the United States. While Sanders made little of his Jewish ancestry in the 2016 race, on Saturday he said his father’s family was “wiped out” in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Sanders also called Trump “the most dangerous president in modern American history,” and promised to fight for “economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice.”
He also said, “The underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies. It will not be racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and religious bigotry. That is going to end.”
Sanders also called Trump “the most dangerous president in modern American history,” and promised to fight for “economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice.”
He also said, “The underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies. It will not be racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and religious bigotry. That is going to end.”
Seeking to broaden his appeal to minorities, Sanders will appear in Selma, Ala., on Sunday to participate in events commemorating the Selma civil rights march, which took place in 1965.
While Sanders is one of the best-known candidates of the already crowded race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, he is noted for his grass-roots following, which made him a surprisingly strong challenger to Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Left wing activist and journalist Shaun King introduced Sanders to the assembled crowd at the college quad and said that the senator had a record of fighting racism. Saying that Sanders had vocally opposed apartheid in South Africa, he added that he also has repeatedly spoken out against “apartheid in Palestine, even though it is not popular.” For his part, Sanders has taken anti-Israel stances and was the only candidate in the 2016 presidential race not to have address the annual AIPAC policy conference.
In January of this year, Sanders said it was “absurd” for Republicans to introduce as the Senate’s first bill of this Congress legislation that would protect states that penalize Israel boycotters.
“It’s absurd that the first bill during the shutdown is legislation which punishes Americans who exercise their constitutional right to engage in political activity,” Sanders, I-Vt. said on Twitter, linking to an article in The Intercept about the bill. (VOA)
Left wing activist and journalist Shaun King introduced Sanders to the assembled crowd at the college quad and said that the senator had a record of fighting racism. Saying that Sanders had vocally opposed apartheid in South Africa, he added that he also has repeatedly spoken out against “apartheid in Palestine, even though it is not popular.” For his part, Sanders has taken anti-Israel stances and was the only candidate in the 2016 presidential race not to have address the annual AIPAC policy conference.
In January of this year, Sanders said it was “absurd” for Republicans to introduce as the Senate’s first bill of this Congress legislation that would protect states that penalize Israel boycotters.
“It’s absurd that the first bill during the shutdown is legislation which punishes Americans who exercise their constitutional right to engage in political activity,” Sanders, I-Vt. said on Twitter, linking to an article in The Intercept about the bill. (VOA)
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2)
Bibi Netanyahu will never go quietly
By Zev Chafet
Benjamin Netanyahu "has done a great job as prime minister. He's smart, strong and tough." This is what Donald Trump told an Israeli reporter in Hanoi after it was announced that Netanyahu will be indicted (pending a personal hearing) on counts of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is also a fan. After meeting Bibi in Moscow, just a day before the Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit released his legal bombshell, Putin praised the fine bilateral relationship that has flourished. "We must acknowledge the Israeli leadership's efforts, he said. "Prime Minister Netanyahu is working on this personally."
As endorsements go, these are first-class. Nothing is more important to Israel than getting along with the two superpowers that dominate its neighborhood. That's why Bibi opened his post-indictment defense, an aggressive televised speech, by reminding the public that such intimate friendships didn't just happen; they have been carefully cultivated by his farsighted statesmanship.
This is true. It also misses the point. Netanyahu is not accused of incompetence. He faces accusations of flagrant corruption and gross dishonesty. It is doubtful that, given these charges, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are perfect character witnesses.
And yet it would be naïve to expect Netanyahu to react differently. Bibi has an election coming up on April 9; until then, he will admit nothing, concede nothing and apologize for nothing.
Chances are that Bibi will pull off an electoral victory despite the charges. His party base is unquestioningly loyal. His voters share their leader's low opinion of government prosecutors and their supporters in the media and certain official circles. This is also true of his right-wing coalition partners, all but one of whom have pledged solidarity (and more than one of whom has had serious legal trouble of their own).
Netanyahu's center-left opposition is led by an inexperienced ex-general, Benny Gantz, whose immediate reaction to the charges was to declare that he won't serve in any government that has Netanyahu in it. This may be laudable civics but it is terrible politics. Statistically, it will be almost impossible for the center-left to form a government without Bibi.
If Gantz is serious about his vow, there are two likely outcomes. Netanyahu can weather the legal storm and re-establish his coalition after a narrow electoral win. Or there could be an electoral stalemate that leads to post-election chaos. When that happened in the U.S., in 2000, the Supreme Court decided the outcome. But Netanyahu has already made it clear that he believes the courts are fixed against him, and any attempt to give Israel's highest court the final say would be met with resistance.
Were that to happen, Netanyahu would appeal to "the people" (aka his most extreme supporters) in the public squares. He has already laid out the case that he is the victim of an elitist conspiracy: Gantz is a stalking horse for appeasers who want to make irresponsible concessions to the Palestinians and the Iranians, it goes. A Gantz government would rely on the passive support of the anti-Zionist Arab parties, Netanyahu says. Now is the time for patriots to rally for the good of their country!
If the indictment is a sign, as Noah Feldman wrote on Friday, that Israeli democracy is working, Netanyahu's response is a warning that it can also be subverted. It is an invitation to wild demonstrations, which clearly bring the prospect of violence. Gantz and the other leaders of the left-center bloc would be pressured by their voters to respond in kind, to get into a street fight that they can never win.
Should Gantz continue to rule out a coalition, the only alternative in the case of an electoral draw would be to rely on the justice system. But time is on Bibi's side. It could take years to exhaust the various appeals processes he will use to keep the issue tied up in the courts. In the meantime, he could remain prime minister.
Netanyahu is still innocent until proven otherwise. While not expected, he could win the hearing that precedes the indictment and the case would be dropped. He could win in court. Or he could lose in every venue and still stay on with a majority vote of the Knesset.
Theoretically, Bibi could also resign. In 1977, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, caught with an illegal foreign bank account, stepped down in the midst of an election. Ehud Olmert, Bibi's immediate predecessor, quit in the face of corruption allegations (for which he was subsequently convicted and imprisoned). But Bibi's role models are not Rabin or Olmert; they are Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
2a) Netanyahu: Russia shares goal of removing all foreign troops from Syria
By HERB KEINON
Russia and Israel share the goal of removing all foreign troops from Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the weekly cabinet meeting.
Netanyahu, discussing his meeting in Moscow last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Iran was the focus of the talks, and that he and Putin agreed on the need to remove all foreign forces that came into Syria after the start of the civil war there in 2011.
Diplomatic sources said last week that this would exclude Russia, which had some forces in Syria even before beginning of the civil war.
Netanyahu, discussing his meeting in Moscow last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Iran was the focus of the talks, and that he and Putin agreed on the need to remove all foreign forces that came into Syria after the start of the civil war there in 2011.
Diplomatic sources said last week that this would exclude Russia, which had some forces in Syria even before beginning of the civil war.
Netanyahu: Russia shares goal of removing all foreign troops from Syria, February 3, 2019 (GPO)
“I made it unequivocally clear that Israel will not allow Iranian military entrenchment in Syria, and I made unequivocally clear that we will continue to militarily act against it,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu said that he and Putin agreed to establish a joint team – along with other actors – to promote this goal.
Putin addressed this idea at a press conference on Thursday.
“The idea is to create a working body that would manage the final normalization [in Syria] after the last hotbeds of terrorism are subdued, involving all the stakeholders – primarily Syria, the leadership of the Syrian Arab Republic, maybe the opposition, other countries in the region, all parties involved in this conflict,” he said. “Among other things, it would certainly cover the withdrawal of all armed forces from Syrian territory and the full restoration of Syrian statehood with its territorial integrity intact. We have long talked about this, and it is fully consistent with the Russian position.”
Netanyahu also noted that Putin immediately accepted his invitation to attend the inauguration of a memorial in Jerusalem commemorating the victims of the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Diplomatic sources say that the respect and acknowledgement Israel gives Russia for its role in the victory over the Nazis has had a significant impact on Putin and helped strengthen bilateral relations.
These memorials come as elsewhere around the world – especially in the countries that made up the former Soviet Union such as Poland, Hungary and the Baltic countries -- have removed monuments to the Red Army's victories during World War II.
Putin, in his press conference, said that he is “certainly grateful” for Israel’s initiative to create a memorial to the victims of the siege of Leningrad.
Netanyahu also addressed Britain's decision last week to declare all components of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, and called upon the rest of Europe to follow Britain's lead.
“This is an important decision because Hezbollah is a terrorist organization in its own right, and it is also the main terrorist arm of Iran,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu also related to the most recent antisemitic incident in France: the toppling in Strasbourg on Saturday of a memorial for synagogue destroyed by the Nazis. Calling the attack “shocking,” Netanyahu called upon leaders of “the enlightened countries” to join in the systematic and continuous denunciation of antisemitism, saying the “first way to fight antisemitism is to denounce and condemn it.”
This attack came just two weeks after 100 Jewish graves were desecrated in Strasbourg
Netanyahu welcomed the fact that additional countries, including France, are adopting a definition of antisemitism that includes anti-Zionism as one of its manifestations.
“Anti-Zionism is the latest and most recent expression of antisemitism,” he said.
Netanyahu also noted that Putin immediately accepted his invitation to attend the inauguration of a memorial in Jerusalem commemorating the victims of the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Diplomatic sources say that the respect and acknowledgement Israel gives Russia for its role in the victory over the Nazis has had a significant impact on Putin and helped strengthen bilateral relations.
These memorials come as elsewhere around the world – especially in the countries that made up the former Soviet Union such as Poland, Hungary and the Baltic countries -- have removed monuments to the Red Army's victories during World War II.
Putin, in his press conference, said that he is “certainly grateful” for Israel’s initiative to create a memorial to the victims of the siege of Leningrad.
Netanyahu also addressed Britain's decision last week to declare all components of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, and called upon the rest of Europe to follow Britain's lead.
“This is an important decision because Hezbollah is a terrorist organization in its own right, and it is also the main terrorist arm of Iran,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu also related to the most recent antisemitic incident in France: the toppling in Strasbourg on Saturday of a memorial for synagogue destroyed by the Nazis. Calling the attack “shocking,” Netanyahu called upon leaders of “the enlightened countries” to join in the systematic and continuous denunciation of antisemitism, saying the “first way to fight antisemitism is to denounce and condemn it.”
This attack came just two weeks after 100 Jewish graves were desecrated in Strasbourg
Netanyahu welcomed the fact that additional countries, including France, are adopting a definition of antisemitism that includes anti-Zionism as one of its manifestations.
“Anti-Zionism is the latest and most recent expression of antisemitism,” he said.
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