[PoliZette] Union leader says some stations continue to follow Obama 'catch and release' directives.
Some border patrol stations have been slow to carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement executive order and instead have continued former President Barack Obama’s "catch-and-release" policies, according to a union official.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told LifeZette that he raised concerns Thursday with U.S. Border Patrol Chief Ronald Vitiello. He said he is confident that issue soon will be corrected.
But Judd said as recently as Thursday, some border patrol stations were still releasing border-jumpers, often without even issuing notices to appear in immigration court hearings. Obama’s policy was to release anyone claiming to have been living continuously in the United States since before Jan. 1, 2014, if they did not have criminal records or active warrants.
"We’re still walking people out the door," Judd said. "The catch-and-release policy is still in place in some sectors."
Judd said it was a minority of sectors that have been resisting Trump’s new directives. He laid the blame at the feet of U.S. Border Patrol managers, not front-line officers.
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Fire the managers and promote the deputy. If they don't follow orders, fire them.
I don't think some of these snowflakes get how this works and Trump was a CEO. Unlike your previous government bosses, if you don't perform you are GONE.
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My nephew (BP in Az.) tells me that there was an influx of 'questionable new hires' over the last three years by the previous administration and that many are not physically capable to run down a 'colonist' (he chuckled when I called them that) in that terrain or even qualified for law enforcement (his words).
He says that they seem (mostly) to have been vetted by their belief in 'Open Border Philosophy' or not.
Guess which types were hired.
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With all the union rules designed to protect workers it's probably difficult to compile all the documentation that will be required to can their asses. But it must be done.
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Insubordination can and will get you fired if the direction comes from the top
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I recall when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers. That got their attention.
[FOX] CHICAGO ‐ A man who escaped from an Illinois prison in 2003 has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Atlanta. When you see the PCH Van and balloons, run for the back door.
An ICE spokesman says Jorge Soberanis-Rumaldo was taken into custody Friday as part of an enforcement operation targeting criminal illegal immigrants. Authorities say Soberanis-Rumaldo is a Mexican national who was in the U.S. illegally.
Soberanis-Rumaldo was sentenced to eight years in Stateville Correctional Center on a felony charge of cocaine possession in March 2003. Authorities say he escaped while on work release in June 2003.
The 58-year-old was arrested at his Atlanta home. After he finishes his sentences for drug possession and escaping prison, deport him.
Hussein Aden Ige, the spokesman of Somaliland administration has announced they will formally hand the Berbera port over to a firm based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The spokesman, speaking at a press conference said the are in the final stage of preparation to transfer the operations of the Berber seaport to the UAE’s company next month.
However, the Somali Federal government has condemned the deal to hand the port’s operations to UAE firm, and termed the deal as illegitimate and unacceptable.
Of course you do. But haven't you heard? Somaliland doesn't answer to you any more.
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Somaliland was the bit Britain colonized, which may explain why they are more sensible than the rest.
[An Nahar] Militiamen from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's Nande ethnic group have killed 25 civilians in the country's violence-torn east, almost all of them hacked to death with machetes, local officials and activists said Saturday.
"In total 25 people were killed, decapitated by machete by the Mai-Mai Mazembe in and around the village of Kyaghala," Francis Bakundakabo, the local representative of the governor of North Kivu province, told AFP.
"All of these people were Hutu civilians," he said, adding that the killings took place between 4:00 am and 8:00 am on Saturday morning.
Hope Kubuya, a local civil society activist whose group went to verify the attack, said 24 of the victims had been killed with machetes and one woman rubbed out.
"This raid by the Mai-Mai Mazembe in the Hutu village will inflame the inter-ethnic conflict in the region," he added.
The Mai-Mai are a "self-defense" militia who count members of DR Congo's Nande, Hunde and Kobo communities among their ranks, in opposition to rivals from the Nyaturu group representing ethnic Hutus.
The area around Kyaghala is majority-Hutu.
The last major attack to strike the volatile region came in December when at least 35 non-combatants were killed in festivities between fighters from the two groups.
DR Congo's Nande, Hunde and Kobo people largely regard Hutus as foreigners, while the migration north of Hutu farmers -- forced to abandon their southern territory due to rising land prices and under pressure from powerful landowners -- has added to the strain.
Tensions between the Nande and Hutu communities have been growing worse for more than a year, with a series of village attacks by militia groups on both sides in the center of North Kivu. The province, like much of eastern DRC, has been riven by conflict for more than two decades.
Since December, the DRC's political crisis has also worsened, with President Joseph Kabila refusing to step down despite his mandate coming to an end.
The international community has urged government and opposition parties in the country to restart deadlocked talks to set up a transition regime ahead of elections due later this year.
Though the vast central African nation is rich in mineral wealth and water, it has long been one of the continent's poorest nations and rising unrest has only deepened the economic malaise.
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Marquess of Queensberry totally absent? Nearly everything happening there (since the recording of history) contains ethnic origins. Ethnicity is the common denominator for sorting anything and everything out. Promotion of the values of modern civilization through colonization have simply not caught on, and likely never will.
Academic achievement and matriculation numbers are in decline as well. If you sense a corollary, you may not be wrong.
[An Nahar] Six months after her humiliating departure from Brazil's presidency following an impeachment trial, Dilma Rousseff is contemplating her political future.
During an exclusive interview with AFP, she appeared more relaxed than she was during August's emotional impeachment spectacle.
That event was not the end of her political battle, she said. On her Twitter account, she still calls herself "Brazilian President-elect."
"I will not run for president again," the 69-year-old leftist leader said in the capital Brasilia.
"But I will never give up politics. I do not rule out the possibility of running for the office of senator or deputy."
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[An Nahar] Venezuela and the United States locked horns again over political prisoners held by Caracas, including a tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! opposition leader whose supporters erupted into the streets of the capital Saturday to demand his release.
Hundreds of opposition supporters marched in Venezuela's capital city, blocking one of the main highways in Caracas to protest Leopoldo Lopez's imprisonment. Lopez, in a letter he wrote in his cell read out to supporters, urged an electoral "rebellion" to press for general elections in the country mired in economic and political crisis.
Referring to gubernatorial elections set for last December that were delayed and not yet rescheduled, Lopez called instead for a referendum on whether the presidential election set for 2018 should be held in 2017 instead.
Supporters called for Venezuelans to press for change.
"His only crime was to demonstrate non-violently. And now, more than 80 percent of Venezuelans want (President Nicolas) Maduro to leave power," said David Smolansky, mayor of metro Caracas' El Hatillo district.
Smolansky said the elected socialist Maduro's government amounted to a dictatorship that makes "Venezuelans go hungry while it protects criminals," he stressed, adding:
"We urge the international community: no more dictatorship. We want to live in a free country where decency can overcome violence."
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This matters some: while not WoT related, completing the pipeline will bring Caucasus natural gas to Europe by a route that avoids Russia. The amount of NG is substantial, enough to help break the Russian grip on Europe.
Azerbaijan aims to finalize the Southern Gas Corridor by 2020, Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev has said. The Southern Gas Corridor includes the South Caucasus Pipeline, Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) and Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP).
Speaking at “On the Road to Price Stability? The return of OPEC and the Geopolitics of Oil” roundtable as part of the Munich Security Conference, Aliyev said Azerbaijan played an important role in the energy security of the region. He said the country would also play an important role in Europe’s energy security with natural gas megaprojects.
Highlighting that Azerbaijan boasted seven energy lines – of which three carried oil and four natural gas – Aliyev said the lines connected Azerbaijan with the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea, contributing to the energy security of transit countries.
The Southern Gas Corridor includes three major pipeline projects: the expansion of the South Caucasus Pipeline through Azerbaijan and Georgia, the construction of the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) across Turkey and the construction of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) through Greece, Albania and into Italy.
“Eighty percent of the works on the South Caucasus Pipeline, 35 percent on the TAP, and 90 percent on the Shah Deniz field are complete. Our aim is to supply this natural gas to markets next year and complete the project by 2020 in the event that no artificial hold-ups take place in some of the partner countries,” said Aliyev.
The TANAP project aims to bring natural gas, produced from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II gas field and other areas of the Caspian Sea, primarily to Turkey, but also to Europe via the TAP.
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President Tump's next National Security Adviser will have to hit the ground running. Along with the litany of issues already on the plate, the new NSA may also inherit a nuclear incident involving Russia.
And we're not referring to Vladimir Putin's on-going efforts to expand his nation's nuclear arsenal, including the recent cruise missile deployment that violated the INF treaty. According to various media outlets, Moscow deployed the SSC-8 missile system last December, during the waning days of the Obama Administration. While President Obama and his advisers were aware of the deployment, they did not respond, pushing that responsibility off on Mr. Trump and his fledgling national security team.
While the SSC-8 has the range to threaten European capitals and NATO bases from launch positions in Russia, it may not represent the most immediate nuclear issue. Over the past month, there have been indications that Moscow may conducted some sort of small-scale nuclear test, probably in the Arctic Region, or suffered a reactor mishap in the same area. A French nuclear safety institute recently released a summary of radioactive material detected across the continent.
The United States deployed aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to patrol the increasingly contentious South China Sea, despite Beijing’s warnings not to challenge its sovereignty in the resource-rich sea.
The Navy described Saturday's launch as the beginning of “routine operations” in the South China Sea. China claims most of the sea as its own, despite overlapping territorial and jurisdictional claims from the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei.
Last week at a news conference, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, denounced advance news of the deployment. He added that China urged the U.S. to “refrain from challenging China’s sovereignty and security” in the sea.
About 30% of global maritime trade passes through the South China Sea each year, worth $5.3 trillion, according to the U.S. Defense Department in a 2015 report. The waters are also key fishing resources and are rich in oil and natural gas reserves.
The United States has taken no position on the territorial claims but has conducted periodic freedom of navigation operations near the Chinese holdings, which have triggered heated warnings from Beijing. In July, a senior Chinese admiral said such operations could end “in disaster.”
Ahead of its deployment to the South China Sea, the USS Carl Vinson and other ships and aircraft from the strike group conducted training off Hawaii and Guam.
"The training completed over the past few weeks has really brought the team together and improved our effectiveness and readiness as a strike group," Rear Adm. James Kilby, commander of the strike group, said in a statement. "We are looking forward to demonstrating those capabilities while building upon existing strong relationships with our allies, partners and friends in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region."
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Oil prices ended steady on Friday but lower on the week, with U.S. crude notching its first weekly decline in five weeks, as the market weighed rising U.S. drilling and record stockpiles against efforts by major producers to cut output to reduce a global glut, Reuters reported.
U.S. energy companies added oil rigs for a fifth straight week, Baker Hughes said, extending a nine-month recovery with producers encouraged by buoyant crude prices, which have held mostly over $50 a barrel since late November.
As soon as prices go up, frackers open up...
Globally, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers, including Russia, agreed to cut output almost 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) during the first half of 2017.
Estimates suggest compliance by OPEC is around 90 percent, and Reuters reported on Thursday that OPEC could extend the pact or apply deeper cuts from July if global crude inventories fail to drop enough.
"It's encouraging that it may not be a six-month deal but one of the issues is if you look at OPEC and other members basically reducing their supply and U.S. shale producers profiting from it, that's going to produce some turmoil," said Mark Watkins, regional investment manager at U.S. Bank Private Client Group.
Bwha-ha-ha...
"At some point, it's going to be difficult for that agreement to stay in place when member countries can drill more and make more money."
Brent futures settled 16 cents, or 0.3 percent, firmer at $55.81 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude settled up 4 cents at $53.40 a barrel.
Book squaring in March WTI ahead of its expiration on Tuesday weighed on prices, traders said. The U.S. market will be closed on Monday for the Presidents Day holiday.
WTI ended the week down 1 percent and Brent fell 2 percent for the week. Oil prices were within an average band of about $1.30 per barrel so far this year, one of the most range-bound periods since the price slump began in mid-2014.
U.S. gasoline futures ended nearly 1 percent lower, with the gasoline crack spread , a key indicator of refining margins, slumping more than 11 percent early in the day to one-year lows.
Rising U.S. output helped boost crude and gasoline inventories to record highs last week, amid faltering demand growth for the motor fuel.
The oil market was also pressured by a second week of gains in the dollar index, which rose on Friday, making greenback-denominated oil more expensive for holders of other currencies.
Hedge funds and other money managers raised their net long U.S. crude futures and options positions in the week to February 14 to a new record high, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed on Friday. The increase in long positions leaves the market vulnerable to a downward correction, analysts have said.
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Keep in mind, those inventive Americans are working day and night in making the cost of bringing a barrel to market even cheaper. And no fear of the prior administration regulating them out of business.
French hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon would raise spending by 273 billion euros ($290 billion), his team said in a presentation online on Sunday, Reuters reported. That sum includes a 100 billion-euro recovery plan to stimulate the French economy.
The new spending would essentially be financed through higher taxes, debt, lower tax evasion and higher economic growth, according to Melenchon's political movement, dubbed "Indomitable France" and backed by the country's Communist party.
Not sure how the higher taxes and debt will stimulate higher economic growth. And in France, as in most of Europe, evading the tax collector is a sport rivaled only by metric football...
The proposed measures, which include a 15 percent increase in France's minimum wage, new funds to fight poverty and create new jobs, underscore the gap Melenchon would have to bridge with Socialist rival Benoit Hamon in order to find a common platform for the April and May presidential election.
Raise the minimum wage -- of course that'll create new jobs. Says so in the progressive playbook...
The two hard-left candidates said on Friday they were discussing cooperation in their bid for the presidency, jolting investors already nervous over the possibility of a win for far-right, anti-globalization candidate Marine Le Pen.
Melenchon's plan would cut France's unemployment rate to 6 percent by 2022 from about 10 percent today, with an economic growth forecast of about 2 percent as soon as 2018, his team said.
My forecast is that his plan will lead to an unemployment rate of 12 percent and growth of -0.5 percent. Let's see who's right in 2022...
The total weight of taxes would increase by four points to the equivalent of about 49 percent of France's gross domestic product, while the country's yearly budget deficit would fall to 2.5 percent by 2022, they said.
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Not sure how the higher taxes and debt will stimulate higher economic growth.
That's because you don't understand the power of faith.
[Independent] Sales of Ivanka Trump’s perfume have soared, reaching the top two spots in Amazon’s Best Sellers for Women’s Eau de Parfum.
The US president's daughter recently had a her products dropped by the department store chain Nordstrom, who said they were ceasing to sell the items because of poor sales.
The move prompted an angry response from her father, who tweeted that the firm had treated her "so unfairly".
The President's senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, was the censured by the White House for encouraging people to "go buy Ivanka’s stuff" during a television interview from the White House.
Under federal law, it is illegal to use public office for private gain, as well as "for the endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise" and for the "private gain of friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity".
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! overnight for producing and selling to fellow Paleostinians counterfeit entry permits to Israel, the Israel Police said Sunday.
The man, a 31-year-old resident of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, is said by police to have made NIS 2,000 ($540) a month from selling the doctored permits.
An investigation into the source of the counterfeit documents began two months ago, after a number of Paleostinians were arrested while trying to use fake permits to enter Israel through army checkpoints in the Jerusalem area, Army Radio reported.
The suspect is also said to have briefed his customers on how to avoid arousing the suspicion of security forces while passing through checkpoints.
The man is expected to be indicted later Sunday, according to Army Radio.
Approximately 50,000-60,000 Paleostinians are believed to enter Israel illegally each day in order to work, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot told Knesset politicians in August, a practice that has drawn widespread scrutiny following a shooting attack at the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv last June, which was carried out by Paleostinian cousins Muhammad and Khalid Muhamra of the southern West Bank town of Yatta after they sneaked into the country.
The U.S. Defense Department and the federal government could piggyback on the recent blockbuster popularity of Pokemon Go, the location-based augmented reality game that catapulted some couch potatoes from their sofas to the great outdoors, to transform cyber training. The mobile app, an overnight international sensation, combines the virtual world of Pokemon with the real world in which people live.
The gaming craze offers insights on how to excite people to partake in—and really learn from—cybersecurity training.
One area that deserves scrutiny is computer-based training (CBT). The U.S. Air Force already is reviewing how much CBT airmen need for pre-deployment training and to stay up to date on human resources policies. “Can there be other methods used to deliver [training] that are more efficient and effective—and over what period of time?” Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody asked in the Air Force Times in 2015. “Does it all have to be done at the same time, or can we space some of this out and have it build on each other?”
Perhaps the most well-known CBT effort is the Defense Department’s mandatory Cyber Awareness Challenge, an annual training course for service members and civilian employees that covers everything from identifying office hazards to protecting classified data and safeguarding networks against cyberthreats. There is also the joint service Level A Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training, a multihour CBT course meant to teach personnel traveling outside of the United States survival techniques should they become isolated, captured or detained. These endeavors could prove more valuable—and less excruciating—if developers mirrored the way players tackle the Pokemon Go game. They could incorporate interactive teaching methods and use the outdoors for training scenarios. After all, how much can someone really apply survival techniques if he or she is learning wilderness survival skills while sitting in front of a computer desk indoors?
And then there is the Air Force’s Self-Aid and Buddy Care (SABC) training, a mishmash of lessons that combines CBT about deployments, injuries and general safety with hands-on demonstrations, such as how to apply tourniquets. Again, these are lessons imparted when students sit in the comfort of an office. There was a time when using film, TV and computers for training were new and strange, too.
[An Nahar] Malaysian police said Sunday they believe five North Koreans were involved in the murder of the half-brother of leader Kim Jong-Un, with four having fled the country on the day of the killing.
Seoul said the announcement proved Pyongyang was behind the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, who died after being squirted in the face with an unidentified liquid at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday.
The case has also sparked a diplomatic row between Pyongyang and Kuala Lumpur, after Malaysia rejected demands quickly to hand the body over to the North.
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*Only applies if you are an enemy of this nation. If not, sleep well. The finest warriors this nation has turned out in the last thirty years are on duty.
Mike
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MSM screeches - "This guy is squeaky clean! There's something WRONG with that!!!"
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[Wash Times] Former clinic managers for Planned Parenthood say the organization is less interested in providing quality health care for women than in performing as many abortions as possible.
In a video released by Live Action last week, former clinic manager Ramona Treviño compares the relationship between Planned Parenthood and women to that between a rancher and cattle.
"For me, it was a struggle, because I felt like Planned Parenthood treated women like cattle," Ms. Treviño says in the three-minute video.
That sentiment is echoed by former clinic manager Sue Thayer, who recalls receiving instructions from Planned Parenthood to get patients in and out as quickly as possible.
"They kept pushing harder and harder and harder to see more and more clients," Ms. Thayer says in the video. "I remember when it went to four an hour, everybody was like, ’How are we supposed to see four an hour?’ And then it was five an hour. And it got so, when your clinician was there, it was this insane, crazy, chaotic time." And the unborn, how are they treated ?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Oil prices ended steady on Friday but lower on the week, with U.S. crude notching its first weekly decline in five weeks, as the market weighed rising U.S. drilling and record stockpiles against efforts by major producers to cut output to reduce a global glut, Reuters reported.
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[Wash Times] Former clinic managers for Planned Parenthood say the organization is less interested in providing quality health care for women than in performing as many abortions as possible.
