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Monday, August 21, 2017
US and S. Korean troops start drills amid N. Korea standoff
U.S. and South Korean troops kicked
off their annual drills Monday that come after President Donald Trump
and North Korea exchanged warlike rhetoric in the wake of the North's
two intercontinental ballistic missile tests last month.
The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills
are largely computer-simulated war games held every summer and have
drawn furious responses from North Korea, which views them as an
invasion rehearsal. Pyongyang's state media on Sunday called this year's
drills a "reckless" move that could trigger the "uncontrollable phase
of a nuclear war."
Despite the threat, U.S. and South Korean militaries
launched this year's 11-day training on Monday morning as scheduled. The
exercise involves 17,500 American troops and 50,000 South Korean
soldiers, according to the U.S. military command in South Korea and
Seoul's Defense Ministry.No field training like live-fire exercises or tank maneuvering is involved in the Ulchi drills, in which alliance officers sit at computers to practice how they engage in battles and hone their decision-making capabilities. The allies have said the drills are defensive in nature.
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said Monday that North Korea must not use the drills as a pretext to launch fresh provocation, saying the training is held regularly because of repeated provocations by North Korea.
North Korea typically responds to South Korea-U.S. military exercises with weapons tests and a string of belligerent rhetoric. During last year's Ulchi drills, North Korea test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile that flew about 310 miles in the longest flight by that type of weapon. Days after the drills, the North carried out its fifth and biggest nuclear test to date.
Last month North Korea test-launched two ICBMs at highly lofted angles, and outside experts say those missiles can reach some U.S. parts like Alaska, Los Angeles or Chicago if fired at normal, flattened trajectories. Analysts say it would be only a matter of time for the North to achieve its long-stated goal of acquiring a nuclear missile that can strike anywhere in the United States.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump pledged to answer North Korean aggression with "fire and fury." North Korea, for its part, threatened to launch missiles toward the American territory of Guam before its leader Kim Jong Un backed off saying he would first watch how Washington acts before going ahead with the missile launch plans.
Manhunt for Barcelona suspect intensifies, 'everything indicates' he was driving van
Authorities in Spain on Monday said “everything
indicates” that Younes Abouyaaquoub was the van driver who plowed into a
crowd of people in Barcelona last week, killing 13 and injuring 120
others.
The 22-year-old remains at large
and is believed to be the final member of the Islamic extremist cell at
large after the attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town.
Police said in a news conference that the search for
Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaquoub, 22, has continued in Catalonia, and
has expanded to the neighboring French border, Reuters reported.Abouyaaquoub, the suspected driver of the van used in Thursday’s terrorist attack that killed 13 people and injured 120 others, is believed to be the only member of the 12-person terror cell who may have crossed the border into France.
A police official confirmed to Fox News that three vans found in relation to the Spanish attacks were rented using a credit card under Abouyaaquoub’s name.
Police have identified 12 people as part of the extremist cell which coordinated the two vehicle attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. Other members of the cell have either been arrested, shot by police or killed in Catalonia, the site of a house explosion Wednesday night.
Secy Mattis: New Afghan Strategy Incoming, Pres. Trump to Announce
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| Defense Secretary James Mattis attends a news conference, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) |
The president has been carefully considering his options for months and made a decision last week during a national security meeting at Camp David in Maryland.
Mattis says the new strategy is worth the wait.
“I am very comfortable that the strategic process was sufficiently rigorous and did not go in with a pre-set condition in terms of what questions can be asked or what decisions were being made.”
Mattis has confirmed military options presented to President Trump for the region, range from a full withdrawal to a troop increase.
President Trump is expected to make the announcement Monday.
Pres. Trump to Visit Marine Corps Air Station Yuma
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| President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as walks to board on Air Force One at Hagerstown Regional Airport in Hagerstown, Md., Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, following a national security meeting at Camp David. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) |
The White House says the president will visit Marine Corps Air Station Yuma on Tuesday afternoon ahead of his rally in Phoenix later that night.
Yuma is located along the U.S.- Mexico border and security along the perimeter has been a priority for President Trump including the construction of a border wall to curb illegal immigration from Mexico.
The last sitting U.S president to visit Yuma was George W. Bush back in 2006, a visit that concentrated on the construction of a border fence.
Sunday, August 20, 2017
The NFL doesn't have the guts to bench unpatriotic players (Bringing down America)
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| Colin Kaepernick Scum Man |
A National Football League player
refused to stand for the national anthem Saturday during a preseason
game -- and in doing so he disrespected the military and the nation.
Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch was
spotted by an Associated Press photographer sitting atop an orange
cooler before the start of the preseason game against the Arizona
Cardinals.Mr. Lynch is apparently a disciple of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick – a notorious anti-American rabble-rouser.
I suspect this will not be the last episode of anti-American activity at NFL games."I'd rather see him take a knee than stand up, put his hands up and get murdered," Lynch told comedian Conan O'Brien in 2016.
It was Kaepernick who sparked a national protest against the alleged police violence by taking a knee during the Star-Spangled Banner. Soon, a number of college, high school and professional athletes joined his cause.
“If you’re really not racist then you won’t see what he done, what he’s doing, as a threat to America, but just addressing a problem that we have,” Lynch told Associated Press.
Raiders coach Jack Del Rio told SFGate.com that Lynch's disrespectful behavior is not an issue for the football team.
“He said, ‘This is something I have done for 11 years. It’s not a form of anything other than me being myself,’” Del Rio said. “I told him I very strongly believe in standing for the national anthem. But I respect him as a man and he can do his thing."
Well, that doesn't speak very well of Coach Del Rio's character either. The coach respects a man who disrespects the country?
I suspect this will not be the last episode of anti-American activity at NFL games. So I recommend head coaches take immediate action to deter such behavior.
If you ride the bench during the Star-Spangled Banner, you should ride the bench for the rest of season.
It would be a gutsy move -- but unlikely -- considering the lack of courage and patriotism in the National Football League.
Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary. His latest book is “The Deplorables’ Guide to Making America Great Again.” Follow him on Twitter @ToddStarnes and find him on Facebook.
US Army mum on whether bases will keep Confederate names (Bringing down America)
Debate is heating up throughout the country over
what to do with Confederate statues and memorials. But it appears, at
least for now, that 10 major U.S. Army bases will keep the names of
Confederate soldiers.
The Army refused to answer
questions last week on whether those bases – including Fort Bragg in
North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, and Fort Benning in Georgia – will
keep their names, the Charlotte Observer reported.
All 10 U.S. military bases named for Confederate soldiers are located in the South.Prior to this month’s violence in Charlottesville, Va., the most recent time the names of Army bases were strongly debated was in 2015, after the slaying of nine black church members in Charleston, S.C.
At that time, Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told Time there was “no discussion” regarding changing the names.
Base names are based on “individuals, not causes or ideologies,” public affairs chief Army Brig. Gen. Malcolm Frost said in 2015, adding that each base “is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history.”
The other seven Army bases named for Confederate soldiers are Fort Rucker in Alabama; Fort Gordon in Georgia; Camp Beauregard and Fort Polk in Louisiana; and Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia.
Boston Free Speech Rally Ends Early as Counter Protesters Fill the Streets (Bringing down America)
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| Police tussle with counterprotesters near a “Free Speech” rally Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, in Boston. An estimated 15,000 counterprotesters marched through the city to historic Boston Common. |
A number of rally participants left the Boston Common ahead of the planned speeches Saturday and video shows police officers pushing back demonstrators.
Police ramped up security measures ahead of the rally in an effort to avoid a repeat of last week’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Officials say extra security cameras and barriers were installed in the area and hundreds of officers were deployed.
The city had also banned people from carrying weapons and backpacks.
Pres. Trump Tweets ‘Many Decisions Made’ After Camp David Nat’l Security Meeting
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| President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Hagerstown Regional Airport in Hagerstown, Md., Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, following a national security meeting at Camp David. |
The president indicated on twitter Saturday that a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan could soon be revealed.
Defense Secretary James Mattis has confirmed military options presented to President Trump for the region, range from a full withdrawal to a troop increase.
Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Advisor H.R. Mcmaster also attended the meeting in Maryland.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Baltimore Mayor Had Statues Removed (Bringing down America) Baltimore’s Confederate Statues Under Tarps, Police Guard On City Lot
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| Catherine E. Pugh, Democratic Politician :-) |
BALTIMORE
— It was “in the best interest of my city,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said
Wednesday, as she explained why she ordered Confederate monuments
removed under the cover of darkness, days after violence broke out
during a rally against the removal of a similar monument in neighboring
Virginia.
“I
said with the climate of this nation,” Ms. Pugh said later, “that I
think it’s very important that we move quickly and quietly.”
With
no immediate public notice, no fund-raising, and no plan for a
permanent location for the monuments once they had been excised — all
things city officials once believed they would need — the mayor watched
in the wee hours on Wednesday as contractors with cranes protected by a
contingent of police officers lifted the monuments from their pedestals
and rolled them away on flatbed trucks.
After
the violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., many city leaders and even
some governors around the country have urged the removal of Confederate
monuments in their jurisdictions — a typically bureaucratic process
that, in cities like New Orleans and Charlottesville, have been met with
legal delays that helped feed tensions surrounding their removal.
But,
in an interview here, Ms. Pugh suggested the tense political climate
had turned her city’s statues into a security threat and she said that
her emergency powers allowed her to have them removed immediately.
“The
mayor has the right to protect her city,” she said. “For me, the
statues represented pain, and not only did I want to protect my city
from any more of that pain, I also wanted to protect my city from any of
the violence that was occurring around the nation. We don’t need that
in Baltimore.”
In
recent days, cities and resident from Gainesville, Fla. to Lexington,
Ky., called for their Confederate monuments to come down on the heels of
the weekend’s violent clashes between white supremacists and
counterprotesters over a Robert E. Lee statue that is set for removal in Charlottesville.
David
Goldfield, a professor of history who studies Confederate symbols at
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said the removal of the
monuments in Baltimore was likely to be part of a “rolling cascade” of
cities and states ridding themselves of, or at least relocating, similar
statues.
”You’re
going to see another wave of these removals.” Mr. Goldfield said. “The
fact that it’s done fairly expeditiously is not surprising because if
you do it quickly the opposition can’t build up, and the confrontations
that we’ve had, not only in Charlottesville but elsewhere, will not
materialize.”
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| Is this where all America History ends up at, the junkyard? |
Conservative student transfers out of BU because of death threats
Nicholas Fuentes, an 18-year-old student who
attended the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., this past
weekend, said that he's received death threats for months over his
conservative viewpoints -- enough for him to decide it's time to leave
Boston University.
Fuentes said he made the decision
to abandon his Political Science degree a month ago after being
constantly threatened over his conservative views. He said no longer
felt safe on campus, and will not return for the fall semester.
Still, despite the intensity of the backlash he's
received, he has absolutely “no regrets” about taking part in the
controversial white-nationalist movement.“I went to represent this new strain of conservatives, of people in the right wing who are opposed to mass immigration and multiculturalism,” Fuentes told Fox News on Thursday. “For a long time, this existed on the fringes. I thought it was a political victory – we exposed the removal of Confederate statues, and this disenfranchised group of white males.”
A Boston University spokesman confirmed to Fox News that the student had indeed left the school earlier this week and that "the safety and security of our students is our highest priority."
While the ideology of the movement, he contended, used to be associated only with older men in America “like Pat Buchanan and Samuel Francis,” he believes a significant wave in the younger generation have been captivated by the ideology.
“We have basically been told our whole lives that white people are racist and evil and should be erased,” Fuentes explained. “We have basically been told that it is a crime to be born a white male.”
Mourners surround an impromptu memorial after the
death of a young woman after a "Unite the Right" attendee rammed his
car into counter-protesters.
(REUTERS/Justin Ide)
“The picture the media keeps using is of one person with a Nazi flag, there were more one thousand there who didn’t have Nazi flags,” Fuentes said. “The vast majority of people there were regular, decent people. I didn’t meet a single violent person. Our side is just preservationist.”
CHARLOTTESVILLE WHITE NATIONALIST RALLY BLAMED FOR 3 DEATHS, DOZENS OF INJURIES
Fuentes noted that the Charlottesville rally had been in the works for about three months, and that people joined the fray not only from all over the U.S., but from Canada and various countries in Europe. But after posting on social media about going to the event – which turned tragic after a driver rammed a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a woman – Fuentes’ own firestorm began.
“I suddenly got dozens of messages on Twitter and Facebook telling me to go and kill myself and that if they see me they will beat the sh-- out of me. Stuff of that nature,” he said. “At least 10 to 20 of them were death threats.”
Fuentes said Boston University had given him opportunities to express his political views -- and his support of Donald Trump -- leading up to the November presidential election last year.
CHARLOTTESVILLE AND A 'NEW GENERATION OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS'
“I made a short video presentation about my support for Trump before the election and that caused a major uproar. People wanted to organize a debate between myself and a big Hillary supporter,” Fuentes recalled. “We went to the Dean and they gave us an auditorium, a police officer for security detail, they really made it happen.”
He is now taking a semester off and then intends to start at Auburn University in Alabama in the spring.
“It was one of my first picks after high school,” Fuentes continued, adding that the “friendly territory” of the Deep South will enable him to express his opinions freely without jeopardizing his safety.
TRUMP 'ENTIRELY CORRECT' TO BLAME BOTH SIDES FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE VIOLENCE, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
In addition to studies, he hosts his own YouTube talk show modeled after Trump’s key campaign catchphrase “Make America Great Again,” and highlighted that he mostly has liberal-leaning friends – but the few who are conservative have experienced widespread backlash from their university peers across the country.
“Even worse than the threats I have received,” Fuentes surmised.
And even though he stands staunchly by his beliefs and makes no apology about making his mark in Charlottesville, he doesn’t plan on attending any such rallies in the near future.
“Everyone is a little shaken up,” Fuentes added. “The political climate has become so intense and so violent and toxic.”
Steve Bannon exits White House, says the presidency Trump campaigned for is 'over'
Steve Bannon is on his way out at the White House –
but the fiery, anti-establishment conservative who helped Donald Trump
win the presidency says he's getting ready to wage his populist campaign
from the outside.
“If there’s any confusion out
there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war
for Trump against his opponents -- on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in
corporate America,” Bannon told Bloomberg on Friday.
Still, the outgoing White House chief strategist told The Weekly Standard the
country would see a new kind of presidency without him there. “We still
have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump
presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And
there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days,
but that presidency is over.”Bannon returned to work late Friday at Breitbart News, the populist news site he once ran that rails against the political establishment in both parties.
He spent just over a year formally working for the president. On Friday, his job with Trump came to an end.
STEVE BANNON OUT AT THE WHITE HOUSE
“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve's last day,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said. “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.”
Breitbart announced Friday that Bannon returned as executive chairman. He chaired its evening editorial meeting Friday, the site said.
“The populist-nationalist movement got a lot stronger today,” said Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow. “Breitbart gained an executive chairman with his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda.”
Ben Shapiro, a former writer at Breitbart News, predicted Bannon will go back to the site and "declare himself the conscience of the nationalist populist movement that he helped build.”
"He's going to use that power to smash the president when he thinks the president is wrong," Shapiro told Fox News anchor Sandra Smith.
A source close to Bannon told Fox News there is “no way” the outgoing adviser will go to war against Trump himself. He will “100 percent have POTUS’ back,” the person said.
Another source close to Bannon, reached Friday, suggested Breitbart is gearing up for a fight now that its leader is no longer restrained by his job in the White House.
“Winter is here,” the person told Fox News.
Kurt Bardella, a former Breitbart staffer who now criticizes the outlet and President Trump, speculated Bannon would “continue to use his weapon of choice, Breitbart, to attack his adversaries inside the West Wing.”
Targets, Bardella said, could be Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, chief economic adviser Gary Cohn as well as congressional Republicans like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
Bannon has also sparred with national security adviser H.R. McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell.
“In many ways, I think Steve will feel liberated,” Bardella said.
He added, “Now, he will be able to operate openly and freely to inflict as much damage as he possibly can on the 'globalists' that remain in the Trump administration.”
Bannon submitted his resignation in writing on Aug. 7, Fox News learned.
Bannon told The Weekly Standard he spoke with the president and Chief of Staff John Kelly last week about resigning on Aug. 14, his one year mark working for Trump. But the events in Charlottesville last weekend delayed his departure.
“I’d always planned on spending one year.... I want to get back to Breitbart,” he said.
Bannon said he feels “jacked up” as he returns to the conservative news site.
“Now I’m free,” he said. “I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There’s no doubt.”
He added, “I built a f---ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about to go back, knowing what I know, and we’re about to rev that machine up. And rev it up we will do.”
Earlier this week, Trump briefly addressed the speculation about Bannon's future during a wide-ranging Q&A with reporters at Trump Tower.
“I like Mr. Bannon, he’s a friend of mine,” Trump said, though downplaying his impact in the 2016 campaign. “I like him. He’s a good man.”
The president added, “We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon.”
PBS Poll Says Majority of Americans Favor Leaving Confederate Monuments in Place
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| Next the Abraham Lincoln Memorial,when and where will it stop? |
In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville that began in response to a rally protesting the removal of a Confederate monument, a surprising new poll shows that only 27 percent of Americans support the removal of such monuments.
The PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll found that a large majority of Americans, at 62 percent, think that the statues should stay. This information comes in spite of calls to remove even more monuments are being made after the violent clash that left one 32-year-old counter-protestor dead. Al Sharpton said in a PBS interview that he thinks the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., should also be abandoned in light of Thomas Jefferson’s history as a slave owner. Also, included in recent lists is the iconic Mount Rushmore which Vice News’s Wilbert L. Cooper says the U.S. President’s represented there are “problematic” by today’s standards.
Horace Cooper of the group Project 21, which is an initiative of the National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans, says that the majority represented in this poll includes a large number of African-American men and women who do not want the removal of Confederate monuments. According to Cooper, the monuments serve as a reminder of our history and also as a warning to future generations of the injustices that should never once again plague our nation.
President Trump has remained staunch in the face of criticism on his view regarding the movement to do away with Confederate Monuments saying, “This week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder if George Washington is next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You have to ask yourself, where does it stop really?”
Former IT Aide For Debbie Wasserman Schultz Indicted On 4 Charges
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| Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democrat) My question is when is Debbie going to be brought up on charges :-) |
37-year-old Imran Awan and his wife are formally accused of charges including bank fraud, making false statements, and other allegations.
Awan was arrested at Virginia airport as he was trying to flee to Pakistan, and soon after his wife and daughters made a similar trip.
Wasserman Schultz has been criticized for keeping Awan on the payroll despite other lawmakers firing him back in July.
Wasserman blamed the “right-wing” media for drawing extra attention to her IT employee in what she believes was an effort to cover up possible Russia meddling tied to President Trump.
Government officials say possible security breaches from the former DNC head’s staff are very serious, and being closely looked into.
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| Imran Awan |
Friday, August 18, 2017
Trump slams two GOP senators who criticized him on Charlottesville
President Trump fired back Thursday
at Senate Republicans who have criticized his response to the
Charlottesville violence, accusing Lindsey Graham of a “disgusting lie”
for saying he drew a “moral equivalency” between white supremacists and
counter-protesters -- while also tagging Jeff Flake as "toxic."
“Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham
falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK,
neo-Nazis & white supremacists … and people like Ms. Heyer. Such a
disgusting lie. He just can't forget his election trouncing.The people
of South Carolina will remember!” Trump tweeted.
The president’s reference to the election invoked
Graham’s short-lived bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination
which Trump ultimately won.While numerous elected Republicans have criticized Trump for his response to the Charlottesville violence over the weekend, Graham, R-S.C., issued a particularly harsh condemnation on Wednesday.
He said: “Through his statements yesterday, President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral equivalency between the white supremacist neo-Nazis and KKK members who attended the Charlottesville rally and people like Ms. Heyer. I, along with many others, do not endorse this moral equivalency.”
Graham responded on Thursday, telling Trump in a statement that “because of the manner in which you have handled the Charlottesville tragedy you are now receiving praise from some of the most racist and hate-filled individuals and groups in our country ... please fix this."
Heather Heyer was the counter-protester killed in a car attack Saturday on the sidelines of the white nationalist rally in Virginia.
The president initially took heat for blaming “many sides” for the violence. He then specifically condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis, only to return to defending his original statement on Tuesday.
In those remarks, Trump said both sides share blame and even suggested some “fine people” attended that rally.
The statements invited a new round of criticism from Republican lawmakers, and accelerated an exodus of business executives from two advisory councils – which Trump, in turn, disbanded as they were coming apart.
The president on Thursday also rapped Arizona Sen. Flake, a Republican who has stepped up his criticism of Trump in recent weeks and also sounded off about Charlottesville on Twitter.
“We can’t claim to be the party of Lincoln if we equivocate in condemning white supremacy,” Flake tweeted Wednesday.
Trump on Thursday touted Flake’s main primary challenger, former state Sen. Kelli Ward. “Great to see that Dr. Kelli Ward is running against Flake Jeff Flake, who is WEAK on borders, crime and a non-factor in Senate. He's toxic!” he wrote.
Trump hit back at another favorite target as well, the media: “The public is learning (even more so) how dishonest the Fake News is. They totally misrepresent what I say about hate, bigotry etc. Shame!” he tweeted.
Jason Kessler, Charlottesville rally organizer, says he's in hiding
Jason Kessler, who organized the “Unite the Right”
rally in Charlottesville, Va., told Fox News late Thursday he's in
hiding after getting a string of death threats.
Last Saturday, a car rammed into a
crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, killing one woman and
injuring some 19 other people. The next day, protesters chased Kessler
from a press conference he was trying to hold.
The nationalist blogger maintains his group is not a
collection of white supremacists, but rather a “civil rights group.” He
said he graduated from the University of Virginia, voted for Barack
Obama in 2008 and once attended an Occupy Wall Street rally in
Charlottesville.His grievances are rooted in what he calls the identity politics of today. “Some are the discriminatory policies of affirmative action, college admissions, history books being rewritten, blaming American whites for slavery,” when it was a worldwide institution.
“Every culture had slavery,” he said.
He also blamed the “existential crisis of immigration, mass immigration from third world countries.”
Kessler said he “never met” James Alex Fields Jr., the suspected driver in the deadly crash. As for the death of the woman, Heather Heyer, Kessler said: “no comment.”
In preparation for last Saturday’s rally, he met repeatedly with Charlottesville police and was assigned a police liaison. He says she went over the city’s safety plan with him, let him see it, but would not let him photograph it. He said that the captain “let slip” that in preparation for the rally, the city and police “did not use government servers because they did not want to get FOIA’d” — referring to the Freedom of Information Act.
He said he has received no calls, no visits from police or federal investigators since the event. “I’ve done nothing wrong,” Kessler said.
Kessler said the organization’s funding came from “donations to our PayPal account, before it was shut down.” Now, “we fund ourselves, because most of us have or used to have jobs, before this.”
He said that police had given the white nationalists a specific entry way to the park. But that as they arrived at the park at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, the road to that entrance was blocked by police. The caravan of shuttle busses that the nationalists had rented had to detour to the opposite side of the park, where most of the Antifa demonstrators were positioned.
That was the point at which tensions rose meteorically, he said. They had to pass through Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other opponents at close range.
The body armor, clubs and helmets his people wore during the rally were strictly defensive, “for our own safety,” he said.
U.S. Takes Firm Stance During NAFTA Negotiations, New Zealand Possibly Signing Free Trade Deal
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| New Zealand’s Trade Minister Todd McClay speaks with media during the 3rd Intersessional Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Ministerial Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam May 22, 2017. REUTERS/Kham |
American delegates laid down hard lines during the first day of formal negotiations, saying they would not settle for ‘cosmetic changes’ to the trade agreement.
In the past, President Trump has called the decades old trade agreement the worst deal in history.
Meanwhile, the New Zealand trade minister says there is a good chance of signing a free-trade deal with other nations despite the U.S. pulling out.
Todd McClay said the 11 remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership are committed to quickly completing the deal with only minor changes.
He announced the New Zealand government approved a mandate to push ahead with negotiations Thursday.
However, TTP partners say the deal could still face many hurdles as the New Zealand elections will be held next month.
Christopher Columbus Statue in N.Y. May Not Receive Landmark Status
A Christopher Columbus statue in New York may or may not receive landmark status.
The White Plains Historic Preservation Committee will be holding a public forum on the issue.
This comes after the idea of whether the explorer is worth celebrating sparked controversy in July.
Many Italian Americans supported the statue, which was built by the “Sons of Italy” more than 100 years ago.
However, one local argued Columbus was a slave owner who killed Native Americans.
Local law says a statue can receive landmark status if it has special value or is part of the cultural, political, or social history of the city, state, or nation.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Herman Cain: Trump's critics can't make 'racism' claim stick
Critics and the liberal media can’t make a claim of
racism stick against President Trump, former Republican presidential
candidate Herman Cain said Wednesday on “Hannity.”
Speaking amid the controversy surrounding Trump's comments about
the racially-charged violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the
weekend, Cain said attempts from the president's opponents to change the
narrative have failed.
“They couldn’t make ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ stick.
They couldn’t make ‘refugees, refugees, refugees,’ stick. So, now the
desperate attempt is ‘racism, racism, racism,’” Cain said.“But here’s what they don’t understand: the American people are not stupid. Those people that are supporting Donald Trump because of the results he is getting and he is trying to get are not going to persuade Trump supporters to move over to the dark side. They have not just crossed the line, they’ve gone over the cliff. And the only people that are going over the cliff with them are those people that are just as deceived and deranged as they are. That’s what this is all about,” Cain said. “It’s their desperate attempt to try and get people to follow them off the cliff.”
TRUMP 'ENTIRELY CORRECT'' TO BLAME BOTH SIDES FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE VIOLENCE, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
Those attempts, Cain said, derive from what he's called “TDS” – Trump Derangement Syndrome.
“They are never going to get over it,” he said. “They are still stuck in ‘Hillary should have won.’ She should not have won because she was not the best candidate. They’re stuck in Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Cain added: “It’s sad, it’s unfortunate and it doesn’t help this country. But that’s what they are trying to do, is to destroy and divide this nation with all of this racist rhetoric that they are continuing to put out there.”
Despite the rhetoric surrounding recent events, Cain said, the American people “are not stupid.”
“They see past this,” he stated. “The only ones that are following this racist rhetoric and this racist indication of what they think defines America are the people who are already predisposed to their position. Here’s what they don’t understand: Violence does not define America. Violence does not define who we are. They don’t understand that. The liberal media believes that if they say it often enough, over and over and over, that more people are going to fall into their camp but that simply is not happening.”
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