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[Joel]

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[Joel]

'1984' sales soar after 'alternative facts,' Trump claims

NEW YORK (AP) —
In the wake of incorrect or unprovable statements made by President Donald Trump and some White House aides, one truth is undeniable: Sales are soaring for George Orwell's "1984."


Orwell's classic dystopian tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of "newspeak" was in the top 5 on Amazon.com as of midday Tuesday. The sales bump comes after the administration's assertions that Trump's inaugural had record attendance and Trump's unfounded allegation that millions of illegal votes were cast against him last fall.


Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway coined an instant catchphrase Sunday when she called Trump's claims about crowd size "alternative facts," bringing comparisons by some on social media to "1984."


Orwell's book has long been standard classroom reading.

[Joel]

White House press secretary Sean Spicer waged a one-sided, five-year Twitter feud against Dippin' Dots

Spicer began tweeting about Dippin' Dot ice cream in 2010 after he took issue with their slogan, 'Ice cream of the future'

The White House press secretary felt it was important to inform his followers that in fact 'Dippin dots are NOT the ice cream of the future'

Spicer also began another petty feud with electronic band Daft Punk who he claimed were 'blowing' their 2014 Grammy's performance

Dippin' Dots has responded by offering to take Spicer out for free ice cream

Years before White House press secretary Sean Spicer decided to take on the world's media, he waged a one-sided, five-year Twitter feud against Dippin' Dots.

The row began in 2010 when Spicer, who would go onto become the spokesman for the leader of the free world, took umbrage with the ice cream manufacturer's slogan 'Ice Cream of the Future.

'Dippin dots is NOT the ice cream of the future,' he tweeted in April 2010, while working for PR firm Endeavor Global Strategies.

More than a year later, and now working as communications director for the Republican National Committee, Spicer's fury over the ice cream's slogan clearly had not abated.

'I think I have said this before but Dippin Dots are notthe(sic) ice cream of the future,' he tweeted in September 2011.

Two months later, Spicer shared a Wall Street Journal story titled 'Ice Cream of the Past: Dippin' Dots Files for Bankruptcy.'









That was the last the Dots heard from Spicer for several years, until the feud reared its ugly head again in September 2015. Possibly motivated by a lack of vanilla Dippin' Dots at a Washington Nationals game, Spicer - now the RNC's chief strategist - took to Twitter again to blast the firm.

'If Dippin Dots was truly the ice cream of the future would not have run out of vanilla,' he posted, tagging the Washington Nationals baseball team.

Dippin' Dots has responded to the feud in an open letter addressed to 'Sean' which offers to treat the press secretary - and press corps - to an 'ice cream social' to try and rebuild bridges.

'We understand that ice cream is a serious matter,' wrote Scott Fischer, CEO of Dippin’ Dots. 'And running out of your favorite flavor can feel like a national emergency! We’ve seen your tweets and would like to be friends rather than foes.'

'We can even afford to treat the White House and press corps to an ice cream social. What do you say? We’ll make sure there’s plenty of all your favorite flavors.'

Spicer has not publicly responded to the invitation.

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[Joel]

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So sad to see Joel apparently still stuck in his sad, lonely anti-Trump cynicism. He doesn't seem to realize how much there is to enjoy so far, regarding Trump's presidency and overall performance . . . even leading up to the inauguration.

[Joel]

a positive development for free speech maybe because of Trump

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Trump's Order Means Border Wall, More Immigrant Detention In Texas



Five days after his swearing in as president, Donald Trump signed executive orders on immigration that seem to follow through with some of his bleakest campaign promises — from strong-arming Mexico into paying for a border wall to banning Muslim immigrants from entering the country (including refugees of Syria's brutal civil war) and building up a deportation force to remove some of the country's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.

What the Trump White House announced on Wednesday is expected to have an enormous impact on Texas, which over the past decade has already seen a buildup of federal agents, state police, fencing and walls and other barriers along its 1,250 mile border with Mexico. In addition to expediting the buildup of a border wall (which Texas members of Congress don't even really want), the Trump administration hinted at how it might try to force Mexico to chip in on its construction; one executive order Trump signed Wednesday directs agency heads to "identify and quantify" the amount of foreign aid Mexico has received over the past five years, which the Trump administration could threaten to withhold if Mexico won't play ball.

What's also notable, but not surprising, about Trump's executive action on immigration is that it expands the massive detention complex that has thrived in South Texas — and enriched private prison corporations that secured lucrative federal contracts to jail everyone from immigrants convicted of crimes to asylum-seeking women and children. Here's what White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Wednesday, according to the Texas Tribune: "We’re going to create more detention space for illegal immigrants along the southern border to make it easier and cheaper to detain them and return them to their country of origin. We’re going to end the last administration’s dangerous catch-and-release policy, which has led to the deaths of many Americans.”

Cristina Parker with Grassroots Leadership, a Texas-based nonprofit that's pushed against the buildup of private-prison run immigrant detention centers in Texas (and even went to court when state health officials tried to give one such facility a child care license last year), said this of Wednesday's executive action: "This will almost certainly mean more immigrant detention in Texas, and if the past is any indicator, we'll be putting even more people in the hands of for-profit prison companies."

Trump's orders also call for resuscitating old federal programs that many, including in law enforcement, criticized for effectively turning local police into a wing of federal immigration enforcement. Much like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this week, Trump vowed to crack down on and threatened to strip funding from any so-called "sanctuary cities" that refuse to participate in his new deportation force (his orders also call for 5,000 more border patrol officers and a tripling of immigration agents).

As Joanne Lin, who works immigration issues at the ACLU, put it to the New York Times, “They’re setting out to unleash this deportation force on steroids, and local police will be able to run wild, so we’re tremendously concerned about the impact that could have on immigrants and families across the country."

[Joel]

[Joel]

White House Floats 20 Percent Import Tax To Pay For Its Mexican Wall — Then Walks It Back

Donald Trump’s top spokesman suggested Thursday that the president would be open to massive tax increases on imports, specifically though not exclusively with Mexico, as part of a broader reform package to pay for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

No sooner had White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested the 20 percent hike on imports, then he took it back, amid wide-ranging criticism from fellow Republicans and befuddlement from reporters and observers who noted how odd it was to make policy on the fly.

The exchange left the indelible impression that the Trump administration is struggling to meet its long-standing promise to make Mexico pay for the wall the president wants to construct. It also underscored the gap that continues to exist between the White House and congressional Republicans on tax policy.

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus tried to downplay Spicer’s remarks further, telling NBC News’ Peter Alexander that the import tax was one among a “buffet of options.”

If enacted, such a tariff would likely raise prices for American consumers, as well as violate the North American Free Trade Agreement, inviting retaliatory tariffs from Mexico on American goods. The announcement ― made just hours after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto canceled a trade meeting with Trump in response to Trump’s insistence that Mexico would pay for the border wall ― will likely escalate the already-tense relationship between the Trump administration and the Mexican government.

“This is something that we’ve been in close contact with both houses [of Congress] in moving forward and creating a plan,” Spicer told reporters. “It clearly provides the funding and does so in a way that the American taxpayer is wholly respected.”

The top U.S. imports from Mexico in 2015 were vehicles ($74 billion) and electrical machinery ($63 billion). The country is also the second-largest source of agricultural goods imported to the United States.

Assuming the tax would apply to all Mexican exports, Americans could end up paying higher prices on everything from American-made cars, which often rely on Mexican parts, to fresh vegetables and fruits.

“The U.S. automobile supply chain is heavily integrated with Mexico and Canada. If you start monkeying around with tariffs along that supply chain, you’re pushing costs up,” said Josh Bivens, research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank often skeptical of free-trade agreements.

In his comments to reporters, Spicer implied that such a tax is common among countries with free trade relations.

“We are probably the only major country that doesn’t treat imports this way,” he said.

In truth, Mexico has a 16 percent value-added tax on all goods, domestic and foreign. The Mexican government reimburses companies in its country for the tax if they export the product, but Mexican companies pay the full tax if they sell the goods domestically. In that way, Mexico still complies with NAFTA by ensuring U.S. goods an “even playing field” in the Mexican market, according to Bivens.

By contrast, Bivens argued, levying a 20 percent tax on Mexican exports into the U.S. market would violate NAFTA by limiting Mexican access to the American market. Mexico would, in turn, be legally entitled to retaliate with a tariff of its own on American goods.

“If you’re trying to make Mexico pay for the wall, this is not how you do it. This is U.S. consumers paying for it,” Bivens concluded.

[Joel]

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[larsenb]

This misreads Melania. She is terrified that there could be an incoming bullet headed for her husband's head.

Did you notice Trump walking into the Capital steps podium. He looked extremely wary and determined, as if he almost expect an assassination attempt.

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a positive development for free speech maybe because of Trump

What it really shows is that Germany doesn't already have a 1st amendment; illustrating their ingrained need to control and regiment.

[larsenb]

Joel, you need to celebrate Trump triumphs such as getting top leadership of the State Department to mass resign . . . with more to follow, hopefully.

This is a major development and an extreme breath of fresh air.

[larsenb]

'what's wrong with Trump's nose'

You'd get more attention if you showed one or two of the main CNN commentators with Pinochio noses, That's where the real lying is taking place, and by similar organizations.

[Joel]

Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban

The federal court for the Eastern District of New York issued an emergency stay halting President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to the US from seven majority-Muslim countries tonight, following widespread protests at airports around the country.

The court ruled on a habeas corpus petition filed by the ACLU on behalf of Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, who were denied entry to the US upon landing at JFK airport in New York City and detained indefinitely by Customs and Border Patrol. Darweesh spent a decade working for the United States military in Iraq as an interpreter and engineer and had been granted an entry visa after background checks; Alshawi had been granted a visa in order to join his wife and son who are already permanent residents of the US after their similar service with the US military.

The court specifically ruled on Darweesh and Alshawi’s petition; other similarly-situated people being detained and those in transit are covered by the ruling, which is only temporary. But the point of a stay is to preserve the status quo while a permanent ruling is made — something the judge specifically reminded the lawyers for the goverment in the courtroom. And as the tweet from the National Immigration Law Center’s Jackie Vimo indicates above, the judge feels there is a likelihood of success on the merits for the case moving forward.

Trump’s executive order halts all immigration from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Syria. The ban was issued late on Friday, leading to widespread confusion about how it would be implemented and enforced, chaos as those decisions were made quickly and without a great deal of transparency, and controversy as the essential legality of a ban that effectively targets Muslims was called into question.

Protests have erupted at airports around the country in response to the ban, and the tech industry has signaled significant opposition to it in tones ranging from measured to morally outraged.

It’s clear that the White House will argue to have the executive order reinstated as soon as possible while it fights to show the ban is constitutional.

[Joel]

In this video, we go over the latest breaking news surrounding Donald Trump's executive order on a travel ban from predominantly Muslim countries. We give you context about this major decision and its proceeds him with actions from Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

General Wesley Clark Asked About 7 Country War Plan

In this video Luke Rudkowski ask's General Wesley Clark about a speech he made where he revealed pentagon plans for War with seven countries in five years. Clark's reaction speaks volumes as he does not say much and walks off when asked about Obama's handling of Syria, one of the countries mentioned in the pentagon plan.

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General Wesley Clark Asked About 7 Country War Plan

In this video Luke Rudkowski ask's General Wesley Clark about a speech he made where he revealed pentagon plans for War with seven countries in five years. Clark's reaction speaks volumes as he does not say much and walks off when asked about Obama's handling of Syria, one of the countries mentioned in the pentagon plan.

Go Luke!! But Clark gave this news out in an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. I doubt he gave a speech about the same thing. However, from his comments here, he seems to be on board with the globalist agenda.

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Trump Green Lights Chaffetz & Gowdy to Investigate Hillary Clinton