[Breitbart] President Donald Trump reacted to the massive rioting at UC-Berkeley in response to a scheduled campus speech by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
"If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view ‐ NO FEDERAL FUNDS?" Trump wrote on Twitter early Thursday morning.
News of the rioting made cable news last night as students smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper sprayed innocent individuals, and set fires in the street. Others spray painted the words "Kill Trump" on storefronts.
The speech was canceled by UC-Berkeley police as security failed. Yiannopoulos was evacuated from the area.
"The left is profoundly antithetical to free speech these days, does not want to hear alternative points of view, and will do anything to shut it down," Yiannopoulos told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview on Wednesday night. "My point is being proven over and over and over again."
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Fans of Ironic Historical Trends will note that the UC Berkeley campus was the home of the Free Speech Movement back in the 60s. From le Wik:
In protests unprecedented in scope, students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom.
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News of the rioting made cable news last night as students smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper sprayed innocent individuals, and set fires in the street. Others spray painted the words "Kill Trump" on storefronts.
Spread the word: Milo is being hidden in the administration building!
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Problem with this idea is that the anarchists probably weren't students. Yes the campus cops should have done something but withholding federal funds because the cops are idiots doesn't sound right.
[PJ] Thousands of anarchists and students are swarming the University of California, Berkeley campus to protest a planned speech by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulous. There is currently a large fire blazing in front of the student union, which is surrounded by a ring of protesters, many of whom are clad in black. The protesters reportedly include a mix of students, professors, and the usual anarchist rabble rousers. Some are protecting themselves with cardboard shields as police try to disperse the crowd. There are reports of broken glass at the student union in addition to the fire.
Berkeley announced via Twitter that the speech has been canceled:
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Ja! Vee kant let this Faschist speeken! Vee gettoo decide who speeks der Partie line!
Is that "projection" when the pot calls the kettle a "pot"?
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Yowled Oski, "Ow! Wow, Elagabalus,
Keep pounding away and you'll hobble us."
The populace, darkly:
"You once were so sparkly,
Our sinister toppled necropolis!"
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What would happen to a research university if Government sponsored research was suddenly terminated and moved to a more human rights friendly campus???
I wonder if the regents of this lefty playground posing as a university thought about that?
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During the inauguration over 200 anarchists were charged with a felony.
At Berkeley, after stores, banks, campus buildings were damaged and people assaulted, the police refused to arrest anyone.
Margo is the chief of campus police. I suggest as many people as possible, file a request with the state to have her law enforcement certification revoked.
Rendering her to never put on a public service uniform again.
That should also apply to the city of Berkeley chief.
[Wash Times] About 76 Dakota Access protesters were arrested Wednesday after they set up a new camp on private land and then tried to stop law enforcement from reaching the encampment.
The arrests at the impromptu Last Child Camp came as law enforcement and the Standing Rock Sioux coordinated to clear garbage from protest sites located in the floodplain before the spring snow melt.
"Law enforcement showed great restraint, enduring verbal abuse and taunts and protesters resisting arrest but did not make use of any less-than-lethal munitions," said the Morton County Sheriff’s Department in a Wednesday statement.
Officers met first on the Backwater Bridge with representatives of the hastily constructed camp and asked them to dismantle their tents and teepees, but after multiple warnings, "they did not show signs of starting to leave," the department said.
"Our law enforcement officers conducted themselves in a safe and responsible manner," said Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier. "Regardless of this incident, it is our desire to continue the dialogue with tribal and camp leaders so that the camps continue to be cleaned and protesters leave prior to the flooding season."
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Follow the money. Who paid for these protesters?
Anything paid to them is taxable, and while they may not have gotten enough to take the income tax their employers are still on the hook for a lot of paper work, unemployment, SS/FICA etc.
[FOX] An aspiring actor from Texas killed himself in Los Angeles on Monday just days after he was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, police said. He broadcast the suicide live on Facebook.
Frederick Jay Bowdy, 33, told followers watching the broadcast that he was going to commit suicide, Sgt. Tiffany Lujbetic told the Los Angeles Times. An out-of-state family member watching called the LAPD at about 5:30 a.m.
Police said Bowdy was doing the livestream from a car near Cumpston Street and Fulcher Avenue. Officers tried to reach the actor but he had killed himself before contact could be made, Lujbetic said.
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Ree-dick-u-louse! Trump propaganda! This is Fake Fox Fake News!
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This, as a Spaniard it always amuses me how can people vote without an official ID and how try to enforce that is considered racist.
Sorry guys if it sounds rude, but it makes your Election look as the election from some African cheap dictatorship.
In here (Spain) you have to bring a national Country-provided ID, national driver's license or passport. All of them have a picture on them to easily figure out if you're that person or not.
You wanna vote? Proof that you are a citizen with right to vote.
Any other way sounds like bullshit to me.
When you have millions of illegals who know they can go vote without repercussion, who know they are at increased risk of deportation under one candidate over another, and who know their access to government provided services are liable to be limited under one candidate, of course some number will vote.
They broke the law to cross the border. They will not scruple at voting illegally.
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What a coïncidence. In 49 States Hillary did worse than Obama. Only in one did she better than Obam and it is that state, where you don't need an ID who put her ahead in the popular vote. A mere coïncidence.
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You wanna vote? Proof that you are a citizen with right to vote.
The poor here are too stupid to be able to do that. But they seem to be smart enough to game the system into getting multiple food stamp cards and perpetual unemployment and other welfare. And have iPhones and the latest Nike Air Whatevers.
A Zimbabwean pastor accused last year of trying to overthrow the government after helping launch protests against President Robert Mugabe has been arrested after flying home from the US. Evan Mawarire was detained at Harare airport, according to his lawyer. He was charged with subverting a constitutionally elected government and would probably spend the night in custody, Harrison Nkomo said.
A police spokeswoman, Charity Charamba, said Mawarire had been apprehended on an outstanding arrest warrant. “He skipped the country but, as you know, going to America was never going to wash away his crimes. We were waiting for him to return,” she said.
Last year Mawarire encouraged Zimbabweans on social media to hold protests against Mugabe, who turns 93 this month and is the world’s oldest current head of state.
It was not immediately clear why Mawarire had been returning home. Some in Zimbabwe had criticised him for leaving the country amid the protests. At the time he said he feared for his family’s safety.
Before he left Zimbabwe, Mawarire was detained and initially charged with inciting public violence before prosecutors changed the charges. A magistrate freed him after ruling that it was unconstitutional for prosecutors to bring the fresh charges to court.
Mugabe had said Mawarire and others should leave Zimbabwe if they were unhappy with the country’s situation. The economy has crashed and unemployment and frustration are widespread.
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[Wash Times] MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The money sent home to Mexico by migrants living abroad rose to almost $27 billion in 2016, the highest on record.
Remittances rose 8.8 percent, from $24.78 billion in 2015 to $26.97 billion in 2016.
Mexico’s central bank said Wednesday almost all the money was sent to Mexico by electronic transfers. About $600 million continues to arrive in cash or by money orders.
Remittances have become Mexico’s most important source of foreign income after manufacturing exports of almost $34 billion per year.
Remittances have far surpassed the $15.6 billion Mexico earns from oil exports and the $17.5 billion in tourism income Mexico received in 2015.
No missile shot. The equivalent of a brushback pitch
The Russian anti-submarine corvette of Black Sea Fleet fired shots at Ukrainian An-26 military transport aircraft over Odeske gas field, located on the continental shelf of the Black Sea.
That was reported by dumskaya.net.
Russian soldiers opened fire from small arms from Russian anti-submarine corvette at Ukrainian aircraft. Ukrainian An-26 twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft was damaged hull, the crew was not injured.
Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak in turn wrote on his Facebook page that the plane had been damaged by shooting but “the An-26 continued carrying out its flight.” “An An-26 transport aircraft belonging to the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was attacked from the drilling rigs previously seized by the Russian Federation, with the use of small arms during a training flight near the
“An An-26 transport aircraft belonging to the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was attacked from the drilling rigs previously seized by the Russian Federation, with the use of small arms during a training flight near the Odeske gas field in the exclusive (maritime) economic zone of Ukraine today, February 1, 2017,” he wrote.
In addition, he said, the crew detected and registered the operation of a Russian radar station in active mode, which is usually used for missile guidance of air defense systems.
“After the aircraft returned to the airfield, its visual inspection revealed a three-centimeter bullet hole caused by firing from small arms,” he added.
The Odeske natural gas field located on the continental shelf of the Black Sea on Ukrainian territory, but Russia has occupied this region. The total proven reserves of the Odessa gas field are around 746 billion cubic feet (21.1×109 m3), and production is slated to be around 35 million cubic feet per day (990×103 m3/d) in 2015.
China continues to make strides in its aircraft carrier program, with a number of milestones achieved in 2016 and looks set to make more in 2017. The country’s sole carrier, the refurbished Soviet-era Kuznetsov-class ship, now renamed the Liaoning, was declared “combat ready” in November by Senior Capt. Li Dongyou, the political commissar onboard the ship as it departed for a training cruise that included a stopover at the purpose-built pier at the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) base near Sanya on Hainan island on the edge of the South China Sea.
The ship sailed with a battle group comprising of several PLAN destroyers, frigates and corvettes, while the Liaoning itself carried more than a dozen Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark carrier-borne fighters and several Harbin Z-9 and Changhe Z-18 helicopters onboard, including at least two Z-18J airborne early warning (AEW) helicopters.
Meanwhile, the same shipyard at Dalian that refurbished the Liaoning is building China’s second carrier. Known for now as the 001A — the Liaoning was designated the Type 001 — the new carrier is broadly similar to the Liaoning and retains the ski jump for launching aircraft, but contains a revised flight deck arrangement and other differences.
The superstructure of this carrier has been attached to the main hull, and it is expected that this ship will be launched later in 2017. Recent satellite photos of the PLAN air base near Huludao in China’s Liaoning province have shown that one of two simulated carrier decks painted on the runway for pilots to practice carrier landings has been modified sometime between June and October 2016, most likely to reflect the arrangement of the 001A’s flight deck.
The air base is where the PLAN’s J-15s are based when not deployed at sea. China has already built more than 20 production J-15s, with the 21st production aircraft operating off the Liaoning during its recent deployment. Two production batches of J-15s have been completed so far, with the first aircraft of the third production batch having recently been completed.
The use of the short takeoff but arrested recovery (STOBAR) method of launching and recovering fast jets on both Chinese carriers will, however, curtail combat utility by limiting the range and payload of its aircraft and precluding the operation of larger aircraft such as AEW or carrier onboard delivery (COD) aircraft.
The limitations of STOBAR have prompted China to continuing to pursue the development of catapults for launching its carrier-based aircraft. Satellite photos of the air base at Huludao show that China has constructed two parallel catapults, and analysts tell Defense News that it appears one of the catapults is an Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System while the other is a conventional steam catapult, based on satellite photos of the inside of the catapults during construction.
Construction of the catapults was completed sometime between June and October 2016, with a satellite photo published by DigitalGlobe in mid-October showing a J-15 preparing to line up on one of the catapults. A photo of a PLAN J-15 with what appears to be a catapult launch bar on its nose wheel — used to couple the aircraft to the catapult of the carrier during the launch sequence — had surfaced the month before, adding further weight to the evidence that PLAN intends to switch to catapult-assisted takeoff but arrested recovery (CATOBAR) aircraft operations onboard its future carriers.
The construction of both types of catapults at Huludao suggests that China is exploring both technologies and has yet to decide on which type of catapult it will install on its future carriers. Chinese state media reported in 2014 that the country had reverse-engineered a land-based replica of the steam catapult and landing system from the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, which had been sold for scrap to a Chinese company in 1985.
Rear Adm. Song Xue, then-deputy chief of staff of the PLAN, had already confirmed as far back as 2013 that China would build more carriers that would be larger and with more aircraft-carrying capacity than the Liaoning. The first of these carriers, tentatively designated the Type 002, is expected to be able to conduct CATOBAR operations.
Andreas Rupprecht, author of three books on the Chinese aircraft industry and military aviation, told Defense News that in addition to the launch of China’s second carrier later this year, 2017 will likely see “more lengthy and intense exercises by the Liaoning and J-15s, as well as the likelihood that we will see a second J-15 regiment established with aircraft from the third production batch”.
In late January, a mock-up of an AEW aircraft was photographed at the full-scale aircraft carrier training deck and island mock-up at the Wuhan Naval Research Institute facilities near Huangjia Lake, Wuhan. The photo showed the mock-up of a twin turboprop, four vertical-tailed aircraft with a large dorsal radar rotodome, similar to the Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye used by the US Navy.
The Wuhan facility is used by the PLAN to carry out static tests of new platforms and systems; it usually serves as a good indication of future PLAN shipbuilding and platform plans. A prototype of a similarly configured AEW aircraft, based on an actual Xian Y-7 turboprop and designated JZY-01, has existed since 2011, although this is not believed to have ever flown and it is unknown if the recently seen mock-up is related.
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The productivity of American workers rose in the October-December period but at a slower pace than the previous quarter. Growth in labor costs increased. Productivity climbed at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter, weaker than 3.5 percent productivity growth in the July-September period, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Labor costs rose at a 1.7 percent rate, up from a tiny 0.2 percent gain in the third quarter.
For the year, productivity rose a tiny 0.2 percent. It was the worst showing in five years. Productivity has slowed significantly in recent years for reasons that are unclear.
Unexpectedly! No one could possibly understand how it is that in the past eight years productivity has come to a near-halt! It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the previous administration, of course...
It represents a worrisome trend given that growth in productivity is a key factor needed to boost living standards.
The fourth quarter slowdown had been expected given that overall economic growth, as measured by the gross domestic product, slowed in the fourth quarter. GDP grew at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the final three months of the year, compared to a 3.5 percent gain in the third quarter.
Productivity gains have been anemic for the past decade. Since 2007, annual productivity increases have averaged just 1.1 percent. That is less than half the 2.6 percent average annual gain turned in from 2000 through 2007 when the country was benefiting from the increased efficiency from greater integration of computers and the internet into the workplace.
With productivity slowing, wage gains in many industries have stalled. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has pointed to the slowdown in productivity growth as a key challenge facing the country.
Analysts are hopeful that companies will put more emphasis on increasing productivity as the labor market hits full employment and the pool of available qualified workers diminishes.
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Unexpectedly!
Also unexpectedly is that the initial estimate always gets downgraded after all the data comes in.
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Productivity is pretty hard to compute. For example, Govt is considered a 'product', so if, say, the Dept of Def. spends $1B using 1000 employees, its not as productive as if they spent $1B using 1010 employees. There are also problems with high quality products (say, high definition panels replacing regular panels). Then there is the problem of garbage production. When companies sell $1B of snake oil with 10 people and the next year they sell $2B with 10 people, that is a big increase in productivity.
The number that is published is an estimate.
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[LI] Pay attention, college students. The debt you accrue obtaining your degree never goes away.
Social Security benefits were withheld from an estimated 114,000 individuals of at least 50 years in age as of 2015 in order to repay their student loan debts, a congressional watchdog reported Tuesday.
"An increasing number of older Americans have defaulted on their federal student loan debt," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote in a blog post. "To recover this debt, the federal government can withhold a portion of Social Security payments -- a process known as offsetting."
The 114,000 total borrowers assessed marks a fourfold increase since 2002.
"This number is expected to continue to grow given the increasing number of older borrowers and their high rates of default," the blog post said.
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Bill Clinton insisted I pay federal income taxes on my Social Security checks (money I earned, paid into the fund, and never touched for 55 years), so don't forget to add interest charges to theirs.
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...And it's only going to get worse. I for one believe that the 'nuclear option' for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate will be calling for realignment or flat-out forgiveness of a LOT of student loan debt.
Gonna be hard to fix though - for instance, a BIG part of the building boom in downtown Columbia (SC, that is, a few miles away) is student apartments that have all the amenities one could ask for...and all of which can be paid for by student loans. Something's gotta give.
Mike
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If you co-signed on your son's or daughter's student loan and they defaulted your social security benefits will be withheld as well.
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This is a massive volcano that is way over due for an eruption.
The question is can a vent open the releases the pressure without blowing up big time.
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Doubt it Alan. This is a balloon bubble that the government made, promoted and now is fighting to the death over.
Collage enrollments are already declining, some especially rapidly (see law schools) and when this bubble bursts most collages will collapse with it.
Long past time, IMHO. The growth of administrators and SJW classes comes directly from these programs and if collages are forced to be profitable on their own, these will be the first cut.
Turkey and Greece have become embroiled in a fresh rift over the Kardak islets in the Aegean Sea, which are claimed by both countries, and which almost led the two sides to war 21 years ago.
Tensions in the Aegean are the highest they have been in years, with Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and his top brass visiting the area near Kardak with a naval war ship on Jan. 29, prompting condemnation from the Greek side. Coast guard vessels of the two countries have also come head to head around the islets.
The islets, Imia in Greek and Kardak in Turkish, are two small uninhabited rocks in the Aegean Sea, situated between the Greek island chain of the Dodecanese
Which belonged to Italy until the end of World War 2...
and the southwestern mainland coast of Turkey. Greece and Turkey nearly went to war over the islets in 1996 in an escalation that resulted in each side landing soldiers on one islet.
Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos visited the air space over the Kardak islets, located about one nautical mile from Turkey’s tourism resort of Bodrum, on Feb. 1 to leave a wreath in the Aegean Sea in memory of three Greek soldiers who died in a helicopter accident during the 1996 crisis between the two countries over sovereignty of the islets.
Kammenos’ visit came three days after Akar, accompanied by the commanders of Turkey’s land, naval and air forces, on Jan. 29 paid a visit with two assault boats to the islets, the Turkish Armed Forces announced on the same day.
This move prompted a reaction from Athens, with Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos on Jan. 30 describing the visit as a “serious violation” that he hoped would not be repeated.
On Jan. 31, two Greek Coast Guard vessels passed the Kardak islets and entered Turkish territorial waters, after which Turkish Coast Guard vessels intervened and forced the Greek vessels to leave Turkish waters, Doğan News Agency reported. Tension was high for around 45 minutes around 11.00 a.m. (08:00 a.m. GMT), when all this took place.
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You'd think Turkey has enough on its plate at the moment, without stirring up the Greeks, who probably wouldn't mind a distraction from their economic woes.
[Deplorable Don Surber] Orrin Hatch may be a 82 and in the Senate way too long, but he has learned a new trick: Forget 'em.
Ann Althouse, a retired law professor, captured Hatch's new attitude with this headline:
"I don't care what they want at this point," said Orrin Hatch. "They" = Senate Democrats.
This is a new and refreshing attitude for Republicans, well in keeping with President Trump's demeanor.
Democrats have been throwing post-election tantrums for three months now. It is time to ignore their belligerence and incivility.
Hatch heads the finance committee which needed to vote on Steve Mnuchin before the Senate can vote to confirm him as Secretary of Treasury, and on Tom Price as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Cheered on by a complacently liberal media, Democrats boycotted the meeting, in an effort to avoid confirmation. Committee rules require at least one Democrat be present before a vote occurs.
The cartel leaders might want to re-think their threats...
President Donald Trump threatened in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop "bad hombres down there" unless the Mexican military does more to control them, according to an excerpt of a transcript of the conversation obtained by The Associated Press.
The excerpt of the call did not detail who exactly Trump considered "bad hombres," nor did it make clear the tone and context of the remark, made in a Friday morning phone call between the leaders. It also did not contain Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's response.
Still, the excerpt offers a rare and striking look at how the new president is conducting diplomacy behind closed doors. Trump's remarks suggest he is using the same tough and blunt talk with world leaders that he used to rally crowds on the campaign trail.
A White House spokesman did not respond to requests for comment. The Mexican government said the account was not accurate.
The phone call between the leaders was intended to patch things up between the new president and his ally. The two have had a series of public spats over Trump's determination to have Mexico pay for the planned border wall, something Mexico steadfastly refuses to agree to.
"You have a bunch of bad hombres down there," Trump told Pena Nieto, according to the excerpt given to AP. "You aren't doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn't, so I just might send them down to take care of it."
A person with access to the official transcript of the phone call provided only that portion of the conversation to The Associated Press. The person gave it on condition of anonymity because the administration did not make the details of the call public.
There's someone who needs to be told, "you're fired!"
The Mexican website, Aristegui Noticias, on Tuesday published a similar account of phone call, based on the reporting of journalist Dolia Estevez. The report described Trump as humiliating Pena Nieto in a confrontational conversation.
Mexico's foreign relations department denied that account, saying it "is based on absolute falsehoods," and later said the statement also applied to the excerpt provided to AP.
"The assertions that you make about said conversation do not correspond to the reality of it," the statement said. "The tone was constructive and it was agreed by the presidents to continue working and that the teams will continue to meet frequently to construct an agreement that is positive for Mexico and for the United States."
Trump has used the phrase "bad hombres" before. In an October presidential debate, he vowed to get rid the U.S. of "drug lords" and "bad people."
"We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out," he said. The phrase ricocheted on social media with Trump opponents saying he was denigrating immigrants.
Trump's comment was in line with the new administration's bullish stance on foreign policy matters in general, and the president's willingness to break long-standing norms around the globe.
The fresh fight with Mexico last week arose over trade as the White House proposed a 20 percent tax on imports from the key U.S. ally to finance the wall after Pena Nieto abruptly scrapped his Jan. 31 trip to Washington. The U.S. and Mexico conduct some $1.6 billion a day in cross-border trade, and cooperate on everything from migration to anti-drug enforcement to major environmental issues.
Trump tasked his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner — a real estate executive with no foreign policy experience — with managing the ongoing dispute, according to an administration official with knowledge of the call.
At a press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May last week, Trump described his call with Pena Nieto as "friendly."
In a statement, the White House said the two leaders acknowledged their "clear and very public differences" and agreed to work through the immigration disagreement as part of broader discussions on the relationship between their countries.
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Trump should play good cop and bad cop with the Mexican President while agreeing to let the US Special Forces (with air assets) conduct a few raids to take some of the big wig drug barons out.
Once the cartels are leaderless the Mexicans can take over the war against them.
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Gen. Pershing tried the equivalent in 1916 without significant success. It did however provide some real-world experience that arguably made the US able to win WW I (without US entry they might still be stalemated...)
"“The assertions that you make about said conversation do not correspond to the reality of it,” the Mexican government said in a statement.
“The tone was constructive … and it was agreed by the presidents to continue working and that the teams will continue to meet frequently to construct an agreement that is positive forMexico and for the United States.”
The White House seemed pleased to have someone else calling out the U.S. media for a change.
“Reports that the President threatened to invade Mexico are false. Even the Mexican government is disputing these reports,” a White House official said.
The AP isn't the only one to have reported fake news about the call. According to the report, Mexican website Aristegui Noticias said Trump humiliated Nieto, an allegation that “is based on absolute falsehoods," Mexico’s foreign relations department said."
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[PJ] Thousands of anarchists and students are swarming the University of California, Berkeley campus to protest a planned speech by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulous. There is currently a large fire blazing in front of the student union, which is surrounded by a ring of protesters, many of whom are clad in black. The protesters reportedly include a mix of students, professors, and the usual anarchist rabble rousers. Some are protecting themselves with cardboard shields as police try to disperse the crowd. There are reports of broken glass at the student union in addition to the fire.
China continues to make strides in its aircraft carrier program, with a number of milestones achieved in 2016 and looks set to make more in 2017. The country’s sole carrier, the refurbished Soviet-era Kuznetsov-class ship, now renamed the Liaoning, was declared “combat ready” in November by Senior Capt. Li Dongyou, the political commissar onboard the ship as it departed for a training cruise that included a stopover at the purpose-built pier at the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) base near Sanya on Hainan island on the edge of the South China Sea. 
Turkey and Greece have become embroiled in a fresh rift over the Kardak islets in the Aegean Sea, which are claimed by both countries, and which almost led the two sides to war 21 years ago.
