[American Thinker] The shooting death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes in Houston set off a media frenzy when the mother and sister of the victim described the shooter as a white male, "with blue eyes, a thin build and no beard. They say he 'looked sick' with sunken cheekbones and a pale face with a 'five o'clock shadow.' He was wearing a black hoodie."
The sister was even more helpful, giving authorities enough information to develop a sketch of the "killer" who, the mother says, "intentionally" targeted her daughter.
Authorities arrested Robert Cantrell, whose red pickup truck was identified by the mother as the vehicle the shooter fired from.
Justice done? Not exactly. A few hours after Cantrell was picked up, authorities arrested two black men for the crime.
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he then shot at a car he thought belonged to those he rowed with
The Saga of Eric the Black... er,
The Viking of Color: A whacker
Of kids or their mothers,
He rowed with his brothers
And magically passed for a cracker.
#2
Amazing how even in their grief they managed to redirect their anger against an imaginary white guy rather than try to catch their family member's murderer. If that's the way they want it ....
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The media also remain generally silent about south-side Chicago, Illinois crime. The theme of 'hate crimes' perpetrated by whites might be a bridge too far even for the more ardent of social justice warriors. Better simply to ignore the crime and move on.
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The grievance crowd has never been inclined to let stray facts get in the way of a good bitchfest.
The killer's trial should be entertaining, though.
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The only hate crime is what the MSM are trying to do to white people.
[Gateway Pundit] A former Law Enforcement Officer named Roscoe B. Davis unveiled a number or tweets over the weekend tying the attack in Benghazi to the Clinton Foundation. The foundation reportedly made millions gun running and General Flynn was allegedly attacked because he knew too much.
The tweets are as follows and start with information about the Taliban having US Stinger missiles:
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Who was the director of the DIA at the time Benghazi went down and who was warning HRC and the Sate Dept, & Leon Panetta that an attack was planned? @GenFlynn and now you know why they were so desperate to get Flynn out of the seat of National Security Advisor. He knew the truth.
Napolitano suspects the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed in the Benghazi attack, Christopher Stevens, was aware of the Clinton gunrunning operations through Benghazi. Stevens also knew that weapons shipped by Clinton clandestinely to Libya ended up in the hands of ISIS terrorists fighting Assad in Syria, the former judge said.
Intel chairman, House speaker implicated
Kristi Clemens Rogers, the wife of then-House intel chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., was an intermediary on the ground who received the weapons and transferred them to militias in Libya opposing Gadhafi, Napolitano said.
“As a result, Mike Rogers and his wife made money from the gunrunning,” he said. “To avoid being exposed and prosecuted, Rogers left a very secure district in Michigan and decided to retire from the Congress.”
Kristi Clemens Rogers in 2011 was CEO of the American Arm of Aegis Defense Systems, a security-contracting firm with global operations that reportedly held the lucrative private contract to protect the U.S. compound at Benghazi.
Napolitano argued that then-House Speaker John Boehner not only signed off on Clinton’s secret gunrunning plan in Libya in 2011 but also chose members of the Benghazi committee to insure the lid would remain on the cover-up.
“Boehner wanted to make sure the wealth achieved by Mike Rogers and his wife, as well as the fact Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had signed off on Clinton’s plan were never made public,” he said.
[Townhall] DUBLIN, Ireland -- The Irish government is proposing rebates to a carbon tax it recently imposed to households that comply with what it considers "low-carbon lifestyles." The rebate, according to Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, might be in the form of a check, an increase in welfare benefits or a tax credit for people who live the way the government thinks they should.
Some believe that if implemented, the rebate could reduce tensions seen in many parts of Europe, but especially in France, where the "yellow vest" movement that began as a protest against President Emmanuel Macron's big tax increase on gasoline, since rescinded, made a gallon of petrol among the most expensive in Europe with the tax accounting for more than half the cost. I'm doubtful. People don't like their governments forcing them to accept a lesser lifestyle because of an ideology some believe has yet to be definitively proved, while the elites continue to live as they like.
So strong is the faith of the climate change cult that McDonald's, the world's largest purchaser of beef, is considering "meat alternatives" because of alleged environmental damage from traditional farming methods, according to a story in the Financial Times.
In the United States, Chuck Todd, host of NBC's "Meet the Press," resembled the media in totalitarian countries when he announced that henceforth he would not give air time to climate change deniers. Todd says that's because climate change is "settled science." The many legitimate scientists with knowledge and experience in climate who disagree are to be isolated in an ideological gulag for not toeing the party line.
#1
“Congratulations! Here is your reward for choosing to freeze in the dark like they did in the old days. If you could see your way clear to dying at 35 as well, the reward will be doubled.”
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British Columbia has a ~revenue neutral carbon tax.
In its early years, when the tax wasn't too high it worked pretty well because it was relatively easy to offset the carbon tax with reductions in various business taxes and fees and a income tax credit. As the carbon tax went up, it has gotten more difficult to offset because, with more $C at state, the various groups wanting the reductions have gotten more aggressive and also, the rewards for gaming the system by using accounting tricks has become greater
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[Climate Change Dispatch] Very often, when I talk to the public or the media about global warming (a low-frequency positive trend in global temperature in the last 120 years or so), they ask me the unfortunate question if I "believe" in global warming.
And I say "unfortunate" because when we are dealing with a scientific problem "believing" has no place. In science, we either prove or disprove.
We "believe" only when we cannot possibly prove a truth. For example, we may "believe" in reincarnation or an afterlife but we cannot prove either.
One may argue that when we are dealing with a scientific problem, such as global warming, for which we cannot obtain unquestionable experimental confirmation as to what is causing it (for the simple reason that we cannot repeat this experiment; we only have one realization of climate evolution), we may form an opinion based on the existing scientific evidence in hand, current knowledge, possible theories and hypotheses.
But we should be skeptical of claims that the science of a complicated and unpredictable system is settled.
Nobody argues that the temperature of the planet is not increasing in the last 120 years or so. Yes, the temperature is increasing overall. But there are a lot of questions regarding why that is.
In the current state of affairs regarding global warming, opinion is divided into two major factions.
A large portion of climate scientists argues that most, if not all of the recent warming, is due to anthropogenic effects, which originate largely from carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
Another portion is on the other extreme: Those who argue that humans have nothing to do with global warming and that all this fuss is a conspiracy to bring the industrial world down.
The latter group calls the former group "the catastrophists" or "the alarmists," whereas the former group calls the latter group "the deniers."
This childish division is complemented by another group, the "skeptics," which includes those like me who question the extreme beliefs and try to look at all scientific evidence before we form an opinion (by the way, the former group also considers skeptics to be deniers).
In the realm of deniers, skeptics, and believers, science has been compromised. I usually don’t bother with pseudo-scientists, media, and ignorant people abusing the freedom of the Internet by writing and posting nonsense comments. But what a brilliantly constructed global cause célèbre for the Deep State to exercise control through the media, and funding. The funding (funneled through respected international agencies) would of course be necessary to gain the insights and loyal support of scientists worldwide.
But I have grown wary of what is going on with the debate on the overblown and misdirected issue of global warming ‐ a case in point is "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd saying he will no longer give time to global warming "deniers" and also that the "science is settled."
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Andra J. Wolfe, Freedom's Laboratory, The Cold War Sruggle for the Soul of Scientists, page 15:
At the point in the project when I interview Grobman, I still thought it important to understand whether scientists realized they were working with covert government agencies. I was, in other words, still looking for heroes and goats. It was only once I got deeper into the archival and declassified records that I understood how far a distinction between overt, covert, and private propaganda activities missed the mark. Gorbman, like Glass, Polanyi, Rabinowitch, and Brock, saw no conflict in accepting any kind of US government funds to promote his version of scientific freedom, so long as he retained direct control over the message being disseminated. Put another way, these scientists' belief in their autonomy as scientists - their commitment to scientific freedom - limited their ability to recognize that their ideas were being put to use in campaigns over which they had no control.
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During my lifetime, this 'phenomenon' has changed from 'global cooling' to 'global warming', then to 'climate change'. Hmmm - I'm supposed to believe the climate did a complete 180 in the span of mere decades, a relative blink of the eye in geological terms?
The solution's always been the same - raise taxes and expand some level of government. The fact that the label's changed at least twice would tell a reasonably suspicious person that you're being conned.
#4
dN=dT
Changes in the amount of atmosphere change the pressure (as gravity aint changing) and that says how much heat the atmosphere can hold, which defines the temperature.
The varying determinant of atmosphere? Water vapour, of course water vapour forms clouds that prevent more water vapour and the system stabilises around that.
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Said in part fact and part humor.
Regarding Global Cooling, Global Warming, Climate Change or whatever they dream up as they are disproven again and again. The human population has increased from 2.3 Billion to over 6.4 Billion in the last 100+/- years and each human body generates 25,000 BTUs. That is 3.9B x 25K more BTU's being released on the environment. An this is not counting the raise in needed food animals to feed them.
Or how about the increase use of air conditioning (HVAC) displacing on average 1300 sq/ft back into the environment for the estimated 10 billion HVAC buildings in the world.
It seems what we need is not a Carbon Tax for some some politicians spend and funnel to their donors. But a good clean quick War, or plague to drop the world population back to 1 to 2 billion.
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@Steve Jackson
Well volunteered. Have your family turn up to the camp and step into the "showers".
#7
Think of the carbon footprint to build Camp Showers for 4 Billion☻.
How about DNA modification that limits a female to 2 births.☺ It would trim the population to 1/2 in 20 years or so given illness, defects, accidents and etc...
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The science is SETTLED™.
Except the temperature in northern Europe was 1C warmer in Roman times than now and there were no Roman SUVs driving around...
#10
*GASP* Bright Pebbles, how DARE YOU speak the truth. Never mind that during the hottest years of the 90's the temperatures of Mars and other planetary bodies near the sun also increased. It's mere chance.
#13
Mars has showed heating and cooling trends similar to the Earth.
Saturn's rings are now showing slight signs of diminishing and show real signs in a few million years.
These are not the results of man-made anything. They might not be related to what is going on upon Earth but any scientist that hand-waves them away is a zealot and not a scientist.
[PJ] In recent years, certain advocacy groups have criticized private Jewish schools, generally known as yeshivoth, claiming that the schools provide a substandard education. At issue is the interpretation of a New York state law passed in the late 19th century that requires private schools to provide an education "substantially equivalent" to that offered in the public schools. Through the decades, the various private school networks, whether religious or non-sectarian, have managed to meet this vague requirement to the satisfaction of local authorities and the New York State Education Department (NYSED).
Until now. Under substantial pressure from an organization called Young Advocates for Fair Education (YAFFED), which has actually filed suit against NYSED to try to force the matter, NYSED recently issued detailed guidelines concerning its interpretation of "substantially equivalent." The guidelines contain a precise syllabus that must be followed, and also dictate how many hours per week are to be devoted to each of the secular subjects by grade level.
The result threw the world of private education in New York into a tizzy. Most glaringly, the guidance from NYSED required 35 hours a week of secular studies in grades 5 through 8 -- a requirement which would have left virtually no time for sacred studies, the raison d’être of religious schools.
Under intense public pressure via petitions, telephone calls, and emails, NYSED revised the guidelines. It eliminated the time requirements in grades 5 and 6, and cut the amount of time required for secular education in grades 7 and 8 roughly by half.
While that represented an improvement, it does not change the fact that suddenly, after over a century of peaceful co-existence, New York’s public education authority is attempting to dictate the content and form of secular education in private schools with different value systems.
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requires private schools to provide an education "substantially equivalent" to that offered in the public schools.
The students will just have to accept that substandard level: faddish curricula, crime in the classrooms, ignorant teachers, and general disruptions
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Under intense public pressure via petitions, telephone calls, and emails, NYSED revised the guidelines. It eliminated the time requirements in grades 5 and 6, and cut the amount of time required for secular education in grades 7 and 8 roughly by half.
Tempest in a teapot? I don’t know enough to comment.
The Forward’s take can be read here. It should be noted that The Forward caters to the Progressive antireligious socialist stream of New York Times-reading New York City Jews — it’s the most astoundingly parochial news purveyer I have ever encountered.
I will note that this will only impact a small segment of ultra-Orthodox yeshivas. The Zionist Hebrew day schools, aimed at getting their students into Harvard, cover secular subjects more intensively than the public school curriculum requires.
[YeshivaWorld] In April 2016, New York State promised yeshivas and other private schools millions of dollars in funding for teaching science, technology and math.
A Yeshiva World News investigation has uncovered that more than two-and-a-half years later, the State has still not distributed the first dollar to a single institution.
But this is worse than merely taking credit for something and failing to follow through. Politicians do that all the time.
What the State engineered here was a far more devious and damaging bait-and-switch.
Earlier this year, the State solicited applications for the new STEM funding from private schools. As part of the application process, all the private schools had to complete a questionnaire asking questions about their curriculum and had to attach their daily schedule of classes.
Here’s what happened next:
The State didn’t give out any money, but it did issue new guidelines requiring yeshivas to transform their schedules and to change their curriculum.
As Yeshiva World News has previously reported, these new State guideline require yeshiva elementary schools to provide nearly seven hours a day of secular studies classes.
What chutzpah!
The State held out the promise of money to get yeshivas and other religious schools to share their curriculum and schedules, and then used that information to impose new regulations on yeshivas, and all without actually giving yeshivas a nickel.
The new guidelines for yeshiva curriculum were announced with great fanfare by the Education Commissioner at a press conference in which she threatened that if yeshivas do not comply with her edict, “parents would be notified they need to transfer students within a reasonable time frame of six weeks to two months,” and that “if a student remains at the school after that, they’d be considered truant and that’s another whole process that gets triggered.”
[WND] What if all the interventions in the 2016 presidential election by "Russians" actually were Democrats posing as Russians?
Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh tossed that bombshell into the political discussion Monday, saying it wouldn’t surprise him because he has evidence the Democrats did exactly that in the 2017 special Senate election in Alabama.
He cites a tech billionaire’s confession to paying the bill.
WND reported the Democrats researched how Russians used social media to influence the 2016 election and deployed the same tactics against Judge Roy Moore in the special election in Alabama.
Later, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman admitted partly funding a group of Democrats that used "disinformation tactics" in the race, which was won by Democrat Doug Jones.
Facebook later suspended five accounts tied to the disinformation campaign, and elections officials in Alabama said they were investigating.
"They created misleading Facebook pages, urged Republicans in Alabama to support a write-in candidate instead of Roy Moore, and ’created false evidence that bots were backing Moore on Twitter’ to spur misleading news headlines," a report about the dark web tactics said.
[Rush] RUSH: Just to give you a flavor of some of the sound bites... I’m telling you, the first 16 sound bites are the media blaming me for all this, still ‐ and they’ve added some blonde to the list of criticism here. This is Friday night in Philadelphia at Philadelphia International Airport. Vice President Joe Bite Me ‐ former Vice President Bite Me ‐ speaking to CNN correspondent Randi Kaye about the government shutdown...
BIDEN: Republicans overwhelming voted to keep the government open. Then, uh, Rush Limbaugh and the conservative blonde woman said he’s losing his base ‐ and so he’s changed his mind!
RUSH: Right. Grab sound bite No. 1. We put together a montage once again. This is what Americans heard who were watching cable news throughout the two-week break...
[American Thinker] Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece, "In America’s Absence, the TPP Goes On," bemoaning how Trump’s withdrawal from TPP has hurt exporters. But somehow it left out information about how total exports are actually doing. (It must be an innocent oversight and not based on any agenda.)
If the WSJ would look at actual total exports, they are up substantially year over year in every quarter of 2018 over 2017, and in 2017 they were up substantially over 2016 in every quarter.
So how exactly are exporters being hurt if total exports are continually up? Especially since the worldwide economy is slowing.
The WSJ predicted that Trump’s trade policies and tariffs would harm the economy and cause higher inflation. Neither is true. The economy is growing faster than any time since 2005 and import price inflation for November 2018 vs 2017 was only .7%, lower than the overall rate inflation.
It seems that no matter what the facts are on trade and no matter how far off previous predictions were by the WSJ and others, the narrative remains the same.
It is bad enough to read this stuff in the NYT, WP and by the AP. It is worse to read it in what used to be a newspaper that was much more balanced.
It was always abject ignorance to believe countries would stop trading with the U.S. if Trump wanted bilateral trade agreements that the U.S. controls in place of global agreements under some global body. Why would countries be so stubborn to stop trading with the richest and biggest economy in the World?
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Tariffs should equalise the difference in land prices (which represent the difference in wages) to do set them lower will "merely" export jobs and importers will collect those wages.
Tariffs are much better option than sales tax (deferred income taxes).
#3
A pity. The WSJ used to be pretty dependable, particularly on business and economic news. It is sad now to have to fact check even them.
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#3; No kidding. The WSJ was a paper one never questioned even considering political mindset. This turn of events is not the new norm, I hope.
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Why should NYT, WP and by the AP have all the fun of just making stuff up?
Sigh.
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Tariffs are much better option Whenever I read opinion pieces against imposition of tariffs, they are made out to be worse than legalized cannibalism.
[Victory Girls] President Trump‐the antithesis of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‐is scheduled to deliver an address to the nation this evening, straight from the Oval Office. Guesses as to what he’ll discuss range from telling Americans the truth of what’s happening at our southern border, to suggesting he’ll declare the crisis a national emergency and thus will dip into the pool of funds dedicated to just that.
Meanwhile, the House’s shiniest, newest big government/open borders Socialist, the aforementioned Ocasio-Cortez, is busy spreading the word about her grand ideas. In case you missed it:
That ought to fix the job market. And someone might want to remind this economic genius that high earners already pay "a disproportionately large share of the federal tax burden"‐some of them also employ a heckuva lot of people‐and that soaking them even further to fund the left’s Climate Change/Medicare for All scams would fail regardless. The math just doesn’t add up. Mind you, this woman holds a degree in economics.
In response, at least one of the "ladies" on The View is criticizing Ocasio-Cortez’s big mouth:
[Raymond Singer, Ph.D., Fellow, American Board of Professional Neuropsychology] My work in neurotoxicity and neuropsychology was cited by US Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016. They reviewed work that I had accomplished in a death penalty case, where I had presented evidence that the convicted murderer had actually been poisoned as a child and young adult ‐ and that the poisoning created neuropsychological conditions that made him susceptible to violent crime later in life. The Supreme Court justices based their opinion (in part) on the proof that I presented that the violent offender had indeed been poisoned; that his brain had been permanently damaged from the poisons; and that this damage reduced his ability to think, plan, manage, remember, and control. Without these human neuropsychological functions, humans are reduced to animals who are controlled by reflexes ‐ not by reason ‐ or they may respond as machine-like automatons under conditions of extreme stress. A person in that reduced state of human functioning, according to law, is less guilty for their actions, however deplorable, and may have the death penalty abated. The death penalty is reserved for those who knowingly and with full human faculties commit murder.
This case sets a precedent for evaluating the true costs and effects of neurotoxic poisoning in our society. At times, industry carelessly pollutes our environment ‐ as occurred in this case. The pollution can have devasting effects on the human nervous system and human behavior many years later. The horrible effects of neurotoxic pollution may manifest many years later in a tragic murder due to brain illness. Unfortunately, people suffering from neurotoxicity often cannot even get a proper diagnosis, let alone treatment and rehabilitation. This lack of proper diagnosis and treatment is often due to the lack of education among treating doctors regarding the possible effects neurotoxicity, resulting in misdiagnosis of patient’s illnesses.
Adding insult to injury, some lawyers assist in the injustice by denying neurotoxicity cases their just compensation for their illnesses when they appeal to courts for help with their illness, and sometimes persuading judges to prevent a jury from even learning about possible neurotoxic causes of a plaintiff’s illness. The result is obviously an unfair trial.
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Therefore, diminished mental capacity, neurotoxic, neurological issues isn't either. You commit the act, you pay the price. ANY other result is immoral and unjust.
“Elmore was born in 1951 in central Oregon, where he lived until his teens. He was exposed to powerful neurotoxins from a young age. Elmore’s house in Oregon was located next to an airport from which crop dusters regularly sprayed pesticides. Decades after Elmore moved away, the state environmental agency took soil samples that showed toxin levels over 4,500 times the maximum amounts allowed by state law. Later, Elmore worked on cars and oil pipelines where he regularly melted lead batteries and handled solvents without gloves. And when Elmore left home at age 17 to serve in the Vietnam War, he was tasked with repairing Agent Orange pumps without protective equipment.
That kind and level of exposure ended decades ago. Nowadays it’s probably limited to illegal immigrants and some suburban lawncare workers.
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I have loads of woodland salamanders in my little pocket wood in the backyard, Woodrow. They like to brumate under the flowerpots set into the ground.
[Sultan Knish] The United States of America (1787-2018) came to a swift and sudden end last week as the government shut down. The nation which had survived Pearl Harbor, the War of 1812 and Jimmy Carter ceased to exist.
The savage population, which had only been kept in line through a policy of rigorous gun confiscations, food stamps and lectures on the environment unleashed its pent up rage in a spree of riots, looting and mass murder that had only previously been encountered in Somalia, Russia and a Walmart in downtown Atlanta.
"The government shut down! We can do anything we like," shouted Sam Hasbley of Grassley, Iowa, while tearing the tag off a mattress despite an explicit warning label forbidding such a dangerous course of action. "Tear yours off. The government is shut down. It can't stop you."
Eyewitnesses spoke of further horrors. On a quiet street in suburban Massachusetts, a man brought out a set of highly illegal lawn darts. In Maryland, there were allegations that an entire family had begun digging ditches to collect rainwater runoff. In Alabama, a farmer fed his hogs homegrown lettuce that had been certified by the state, but not by the Federal Trilateral Hog Commission
With the fall of the government, citizen activists took it upon themselves to chronicle the culture of lawlessness. Men heated their homes with coal stoves. Women bought cold medicine without a photo ID. Children went hours without hearing lectures about the environment.
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Suggestion on the Border Wall issue.
Just tax all monetary wire transfers send to any foreign country by any person that is not a US Citizen, or a holder of a valid Green Card, or a valid US issued work Visa.
Even Wall St. & Forbes estimate the Illegals send back to their home countries between $32 Billion and $54 Billion each year, which is never taxed having been earned under the table.
Pick a Tax Rate:
Socialist rate is about 70%,
Liberal-DINO rate is about 39%,
RINO rate is 13% for lower incomes.
So If even a 10% duty tax is imposed it would result in $3.2 Billion to $5.4 Billion per year for ICE & border control enforcement budget.
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Those sneaking cartel money across the border will sneak remittance money back the other way. Or, the cartel will just setup exchanges to reduce movement and transportation (ie shipping and handling) costs.
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Senator Cruz re-submitted a bill to use confiscated drug money to pay for the wall. Seems like a good idea to me, and really puts the Dems in an awkward position when they vote against it.
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Another thing that would put the Dems in an awkward position would be to tax Remittances to Mexico at 5% and publish monthly along with the jobs figures how much progress was being made on funding the wall. Dems would probably want to lump all remittances to all countries together to bury that figure.
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Redirect the foreign aid money that we send to Mexico toward the wall. Apparently, the amount of money the federal government sends to Mexico fluctuates every year. In 2010 it was $718 million but in 2018 it was down to $29 million. After that little caravan stunt I'd say redirect the foreign aid that we send to Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua too.
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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.
[Gateway Pundit] A former Law Enforcement Officer named Roscoe B. Davis unveiled a number or tweets over the weekend tying the attack in Benghazi to the Clinton Foundation. The foundation reportedly made millions gun running and General Flynn was allegedly attacked because he knew too much.
[Climate Change Dispatch] Very often, when I talk to the public or the media about global warming (a low-frequency positive trend in global temperature in the last 120 years or so), they ask me the unfortunate question if I "believe" in global warming.
[PJ] In recent years, certain advocacy groups have criticized private Jewish schools, generally known as yeshivoth, claiming that the schools provide a substandard education. At issue is the interpretation of a New York state law passed in the late 19th century that requires private schools to provide an education "substantially equivalent" to that offered in the public schools. Through the decades, the various private school networks, whether religious or non-sectarian, have managed to meet this vague requirement to the satisfaction of local authorities and the New York State Education Department (NYSED).
[Victory Girls] President Trump‐the antithesis of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‐is scheduled to deliver an address to the nation this evening, straight from the Oval Office. Guesses as to what he’ll discuss range from telling Americans the truth of what’s happening at our southern border, to suggesting he’ll declare the crisis a national emergency and thus will dip into the pool of funds dedicated to just that.
[Raymond Singer, Ph.D., Fellow, American Board of Professional Neuropsychology] My work in neurotoxicity and neuropsychology was cited by US Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016. They reviewed work that I had accomplished in a death penalty case, where I had presented evidence that the convicted murderer had actually been poisoned as a child and young adult ‐ and that the poisoning created neuropsychological conditions that made him susceptible to violent crime later in life. The Supreme Court justices based their opinion (in part) on the proof that I presented that the violent offender had indeed been poisoned; that his brain had been permanently damaged from the poisons; and that this damage reduced his ability to think, plan, manage, remember, and control. Without these human neuropsychological functions, humans are reduced to animals who are controlled by reflexes ‐ not by reason ‐ or they may respond as machine-like automatons under conditions of extreme stress. A person in that reduced state of human functioning, according to law, is less guilty for their actions, however deplorable, and may have the death penalty abated. The death penalty is reserved for those who knowingly and with full human faculties commit murder.
[Sultan Knish] The United States of America (1787-2018) came to a swift and sudden end last week as the government shut down. The nation which had survived Pearl Harbor, the War of 1812 and Jimmy Carter ceased to exist.
