MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will return the first group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, U.S. and Mexican officials said, marking the start of a major policy shift by the Trump administration.
The policy dubbed the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) and first announced on Dec. 20 will return non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to wait in Mexico while their asylum requests are processed in U.S. immigration courts.
The plan is aimed at curbing the increasing number of families arriving mostly from Central America who say they fear returning to their home countries due to threats of violence. The Trump administration says many of the claims are not valid.
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The plan is aimed at curbing the increasing number of families arriving mostly from Central America who say they fear returning to their home countries due to threats of violence
[The Wire] While everyone was having a panic attack because a high school kid smiled at a Native American, a far more egregious act went entirely unnoticed. Owen Shroyer, a reporter with Infowars, was sexually assaulted by a demonstrator at the Women's March. The act occurred on camera and the woman openly admitted to it.
Put aside however you may feel about Infowars. That should make no difference here at all. The facts remain the same. A woman walked over to Shroyer and groped his genitals, announced that she had "grabbed [him] by the balls," and then proudly said "yes" when asked if she had committed sexual assault. Meanwhile a group of police officers stood literally feet from the incident and did not intervene or arrest the sex predator.
I need not point out the obvious, but I will. If the roles had been reversed and a man walked over to a woman, grabbed her genitals, laughed about it, and then bragged that he'd committed sexual assault and wouldn't be arrested, there would hysterical outrage across the country. If the deed was politically motivated and the man had assaulted the woman because he disagreed with her liberal ideas, the reaction would be apocalyptic in scale. The man's name and face would be plastered on every newscast. The "toxic masculinity" thinkpieces would rain down on our heads like hail. And the man would certainly be arrested.
This is from another website, Reddit, which I usually wouldn't link to here but this is too delicious not to enjoy. There's a lot of "inside baseball" talk which you might not understand, because these forums get insular after a while. The conversation bod might not make a lot of sense. Still, just click some links from the summary and enjoy the red-on-red conflict.
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That Reddit subgroup is like several lunatics wearing sandwich boards and screaming at anyone walking by while having an arguement. Tough to follow but sereral funny posts.
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Well, if the Left in American doesn't want to recognize the Constitutionally elected leader here, why should we recognize anyone they think should be there?
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Funny how we don't hear much about Chile. Last I heard they'd officially moved into the first world. A number of major earthquakes and they seem to have put themselves back together without any outside assistance.
What is their economic system again? The rest of Latin America should give it a go. Duplicate success, avoid copying failure. LEfties have that absolutely reversed.
Graphic depicts Chinese marines training South African soldiers on Chinese weapons. [Small Wars] Introduction - Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China following the victory of the Chinese Communist Party over the Nationalists in 1949, Beijing has viewed its interaction with the larger world predominantly within a construct of concentric defensive rings, with nearly the entirety of its security apparatus focused on defense of the Chinese homeland against threats to the Party. However, the Chinese government’s announcement of its intention to establish a permanent military support facility in Djibouti in 2015 signaled a significant departure from China’s long-term defense-focused strategy, which had steadfastly sought to avoid enduring overseas deployment of military personnel.[i] The decision to institute a military presence in Djibouti also marked a profound perception shift within the ruling Chinese Communist Party as it reassessed its strategic interests and roles in the Horn of Africa as well as within the broader global community. As a rising world power, China sees many advantages in expanding its engagement in the Horn of Africa as it increases its diplomatic influence, overseas military posture, and access to some of the fastest-growing economic markets and natural resource deposits on the planet. This evolving outlook has, and will continue to have, significant impact on the development of Chinese military strategy and its capabilities, particularly as it relates to the Peoples Liberation Army’s force projection modalities, counterterrorism and counterpiracy operations, peacekeeping contributions, and multinational military training and exercises.
This strategic shift confers substantial advantages to the PRC, but also comes with notable disadvantages as China acquires more diverse security obligations that expose its key military assets to potential isolation from the homeland. Beijing must carefully weigh these advantages and disadvantages as part of its strategic calculus. Finally, China’s increased security engagement in the Horn of Africa has important implications for United States’ policies equally in the region and globally. China’s expansion presents both risks and opportunities that the United States should judiciously consider and leverage to ensure continued stability and the advancement of interests shared between the U.S. and China.
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AH, now comes the money drain. China's natural nationalistic pride has caused alienation with all other nations. They are a poor neighbor. Blood purity is a priority. In Africa they have made inroads basically mixing with the locals. Blood purity is lost. Homeland and traditional Chinese will look upon them as something else. Certainly the new mixed bloods will recognize this quickly.
[Al Jazeera] Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi has been sworn in as the president of 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... , succeeding Joseph Kabila in the vast central African country's first transfer of power through an election in 59 years of independence.
In his speech before a cheering crowd of supporters on Thursday, Tshisekedi said that the country will not be one of "division, hate or tribalism".
"We want to build a strong Congo in its cultural diversity. We will promote its development in peace and security. A Congo for each and everyone, where everybody has his or her own place," he said.
Tshisekedi's speech, however, was momentarily disrupted when he "collapsed on the podium", according to Al Jazeera's Fahmida Miller, who was at the inauguration in the capital Kinshasa.
Tshisekedi was able to resume after a few minutes.
Tshisekedi's victory in the December 30 election was marred by accusations he struck a backroom deal with the outgoing president to deny victory to the strong opposition candidate, Martin Fayulu.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States and Britannia said on Thursday that Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... is not legitimate, while Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... expressed their support to the legal authorities.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro not to use force against mass demonstrations and urged further international support for the self-declared acting president.
"The time for debate is done. The regime of former president Nicolas Maduro is illegitimate," Pompeo said.
"His regime is morally bankrupt, it's economically incompetent, and it is profoundly corrupt, and it is undemocratic to the core," he said.
Britannia said Nicolas Maduro was "not the legitimate leader of Venezuela" and that London would support the presidential claim made by opposition leader Juan Guaido.
"The United Kingdom believes Juan Guaido is the right person to take Venezuela forward. We are supporting the US, Canada, Brazil and Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... to make that happen," Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in a statement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... on Thursday called his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro and expressed support, the Kremlin said.
"The President of Russia expressed support for the legitimate authorities of Venezuela in the context of a domestic political crisis that has been provoked from the outside," it said.
Putin said that any intervention by other countries "violates the fundamental norms of international law," according to the statement.
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Will the Military chose Maduro or the Peoples Assembly and the Supreme Court. I think the Military needs to turn NOW.
Or do you want to prolong the agony until what you cowards?
Russia and China will be paid back slowly
it IS the only stability option and I want it used
a fast open to a non situation
and I need it now. right now
[PRESSTV] The United States is attempting to push Venezuela in to a civil war by recognizing un-elected opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president, an American human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... expert and peace activist says.
"Clearly they’re trying to foment a coup and possibly push the country into civil war," said Daniel Kovalik, who teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in the state of Pennsylvania.
"They’re recognizing someone who wasn’t only not elected, he didn’t even run for office," Kovalik told Press TV on Thursday.
Guaido, the president of Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly, declared himself interim president of the country on Wednesday, and was immediately recognized by the administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... .
"There’s no constitutional basis in Venezuela for this man to announce that he’s president and there’s no basis for Trump to recognize him," Kovalik said.
"So clearly the US is behind this, as they have been behind so many coups in Latin America in the past century or more," he added.
Shortly after Trump's recognition of Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president, President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... said he was severing diplomatic and political ties with Washington, claiming that the US has given "orders" for a coup in the socialist Latin American country.
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Well, when CIA is busy fomenting a coup & civil war in some Latino-American country, it's not fomenting coup and civil war in USA.
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Well, when CIA is busy fomenting a coup & civil war in some Latino-American country, it's not fomenting coup and civil war in USA.
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They're simply attempting to return to their core competencies of political chaos and global shi* disturbing. Intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination is difficult and boring.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The Minister for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, said on Thursday that the FAN recognizes only Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela.
The declaration comes from the Simón Bolívar room of the Ministry for Defense, in the Fort Tiuna Military Complex, Caracas.
The minister said that the FAN does not recognize any "parallel government" to that of "legitimate president Nicolás Maduro".
He also noted that "the FANB is here to avoid at all costs a confrontation between Venezuelans, it is not a war between brothers that will solve the problems, it is through dialogue, we will not do anything outside the Constitution."
These statements come one day after the head of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, was sworn in as president in charge of Venezuela, a fact that received the support of the United States and several countries of the international community.
Through a statement, the FAN ratified on Thursday its recognition of Nicolás Maduro as the "only legitimate and constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."
"As we stated in a solemn, public and notorious act on January 10, 2019, we recognize as legitimate President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, our Commander in Chief, the citizen Nicolás Maduro Moros, who was elected by the great majority of the voters, in free, universal, direct and secret elections, held on May 20, 2018 ", remarked the text released by Padrino López.
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[Free Beacon] Several nations, including China and Russia, are building powerful nuclear bombs designed to produce super-electromagnetic pulse (EMP) waves capable of devastating all electronics‐from computers to electric grids‐for hundreds of miles, according to a newly-released congressional study.
A report by the now-defunct Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack, for the first time reveals details on how nuclear EMP weapons are integrated into the military doctrines of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
The report discloses how those states could use EMP attacks in theaters of battle in the Middle East, Far East, Europe, and North America.
"Nuclear EMP attack is part of the military doctrines, plans, and exercises of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran for a revolutionary new way of warfare against military forces and civilian critical infrastructures by cyber, sabotage, and EMP," the report states.
"This new way of warfare is called many things by many nations: In Russia, China, and Iran it is called Sixth Generation Warfare, Non-Contact Warfare, Electronic Warfare, Total Information Warfare, and Cyber Warfare."
Nuclear-electronic warfare also is called "Blackout War" because of its effects on all electronic devices.
EMP attacks will be carried out at such high altitudes they will produce no blast or other immediate effects harmful to humans. Instead, three types of EMP waves in seconds damage electronics and the strikes are regarded by adversaries as not an act of nuclear war.
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You can make your electrical grid EMP resistant, but that would employ a bunch of burly toxic masculinity in work. Why do that when you can better spend the money on a million illegals for the next voting cycle. Not a hard decision for one part of the political animal. Now if one of those suckers goes off, everything becomes decentralized and local eliminating the entire point of corrupting a centralized swamp. It's worth the gamble isn't it? /rhet question
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*snorg!*
Farging nuclear clock scam now includes climate change.
It is a wonderful picture, generation cupie fire ant marching to Beijing after their smart things get zapped. Can't you see 'thar jillette blades 'gleaming!
As soon as they figure how to use a paper map. Or a compass. Or a can opener.
I take comfort in the fact that the worm has turned from 'go rural cuz that where food comes from' to 'Go to Whole Foods cuz that's where food comes from'.
Excluding those in the inner sanctums, if the world's power got shut off, I'd take North America as the first to recover.
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Excluding those in the inner sanctums, if the world's power got shut off, I'd take North America as the first to recover.
Rural midwest and southeast would be why. Lots of prepper, and rural folk still have skills.
Add in Texas, has its own powergrid not part of the east or west grid, plenty of petroleum and refineries that could be recovered quickly. Not to mention large amounts of military there. Just fence off Houston and Austin and Dallas until the urbanites collapse.
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Politicians that didn't make our infrastructure EMP resistant back during the cold war should be sued for malpractice.
Having said that an EMP that would kill people vs one that would blackout a nation look the same when coming inbound on a missile. Such a move would be suicide if aimed at a nuclear power.
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An opening for some inventor to devise a better way to make transformers, mayhap a transformer that is more resistant to power surges like lightning strikes and EMP pulses. The Sun will hit us with another Carrington Event coronal discharge eventually.
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My comment is the electric power grid is a friking bad idea.
Look at it's losses!
It makes more sense to get electric power from natural gas at your own home. Generators with moving parts are not good so ecelerated R&D on natural gas fuel cells make a boat load of sense.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The United States sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday in the first such operation this year, the Taiwanese government said, as it increases the frequency of transits through the strategic waterway amid tensions with China.
The voyage risks further heightening tensions with China, which considers Taiwan its own and has not ruled out the use of force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
[BBC] An Australian woman "jumped off her seat" after being bitten by a snake on the toilet, a reptile handler says.
Helen Richards, 59, received the non-venomous strike in the dark at a relative's house in Brisbane on Tuesday.
She received minor puncture wounds from the 1.5m (5ft) carpet python.
Handler Jasmine Zeleny, who retrieved the reptile, said it was common to find snakes seeking water in toilets during hot weather.
Ms Richards told local media she had felt a "sharp tap".
"I jumped up with my pants down and turned around to see what looked like a longneck turtle receding back into the bowl," she told The Courier Mail newspaper.
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Some serpents might give one a fright --
Intruders, entitled by right,
Slick creatures that crush,
Problematic to flush --
But some are just pythons that bite.
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At 1.30 am about a week ago, my wife announces “there’s a snake on the bed” and throws the blanket on the floor. I chase it around the room - a brown tree snake of about 6 feet, and a really good climber- get it on a broom stick and out the door. We have a cup of tea and go back to sleep.
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To be fair.
Not too long ago, I was seated upon the commode.
A wasp came wondering by
between the water and my seat he did fly
Well that isn't dandy
What this human done hand me
At least the sting was not on the guy.
[Breitbart] An Ohio steel mill, forced into closure by free trade and imports, is reopening this year thanks to President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariff on foreign steel imports.
Republic Steel executives told Cleveland.com that the rolling steel mill is set to reopen in Lorain, Ohio, with 60 employees being initially hired to restart production.
"Over 60 employees have been hired and completed training, and the mill has undergone a complete refurbishment," executives said in a statement. "We have successfully run internal production trials, and now anticipate receiving sufficient orders to support moving to a production mode in the 2nd Quarter of this year."
[DAWN] Claims for jobless benefits last week sank to the lowest level in nearly 50 years, signalling continued strength of the US labour market despite a slowing economy, according to data released on Thursday.
The decline came despite a spike in US government workers filing for unemployment benefits amid the longest government shutdown in history.
The sudden drop in claims also marked a recovery from increased layoffs following the back-to-back natural disasters of late 2018 and pointed to another strong month of job creation in January.
For the week ending January 19, first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell by 13,000, sinking below the 200,000 threshold to 199,000 ‐ the lowest since November 15, 1969, the Labor Department reported.
The four-week moving average also fell by 5,500 to 215,000.
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Don't worry, with the recent legislation in Kalifornia, etc. number of jobs will drop.
BLUF:
[Hot Air] The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN...
According to options being considered, the administration could pull: $681 million from treasury forfeiture funds, $3.6 billion in military construction, $3 billion in Pentagon civil works funds, and $200 million in Department of Homeland Security funds, the official said.
If the declaration is made, the US Army Corps of Engineers would be deployed to construct the wall, some of which could be built on private property and would therefore require the administration to seize the land, which is permitted if it’s for public use.
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What's the monthly payroll of 800,000 laid off federal workers? I'm guessing about $4 billion per month, w/o including the health care premiums the gov still pays. Could be the ultimate slush fund.
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If he declares a national emergency and brings everyone back to work simultaneously, he might have a winner. It's got to be linked to an immediate return to work. If a leftest federal judge steps in to block it, POTUS must send everyone back to the bench at once.
[Yiddish Book Center Store] Available for the first time in translation, Mendel Mann’s stories follow his life in reverse, from Israel in the 1950s to his experiences in the post-War Soviet Union and his childhood in Poland. With psychological insight and a focus on the tension between remembrance and reinvention, Mann provides indelible portraits of survivors as they confront the past and struggle to create a meaningful existence in the fledgling state of Israel.
[SacramentoCBS] Investigators say a private electrical system that was next to a home is to blame for sparking the destructive Tubbs Fire in 2017.
Cal Fire released their findings on Thursday.
The Tubbs Fire started in Oct. 2017 and, helped by strong wind gusts, exploded in size in a matter of hours.
By the time it was contained later in the month, 36,807 acres and more than 5,500 structures were burned. Officials say 22 people were killed in the fire.
Thousands of the structures destroyed were in Santa Rosa. One neighborhood, Coffey Park, was leveled by the fire. Bye-bye "Deep Pockets."
[USA Today] The United States Department of Defense has enlisted the online travel agency Priceline to create a new leisure travel site for current and retired U.S. military personnel.
The new website, American Forces Travel, will give the military community access to hotel, flight, car rental and cruise deals. There will also be negotiated prices on vacation homes, apartments and packages for savings up to 60 percent.
More than 1 million hotel deals will be available in more than 71,000 destinations around the world.
The Department of Defense has about 1.3 million people in active service around the world.
But at launch, American Forces Travel will be open to more than 6.5 million active and retired members of the U.S. military community.
All five branches of the U.S. armed forces ‐ including the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard ‐ will be part of the program. Others who are eligible to become users are Medal of Honor recipients and American Red Cross and USO paid personnel serving outside of the USA.
Department of Defense civilians serving within and outside of the USA will also be able to sign up. Family members of all of these groups will be able to use the site.
[Wash Examiner] In a sweeping move to further influence federal courts with conservative picks, President Trump on Wednesday renominated 51 judges who saw no action in the last Congress.
The list showed 37 nominees to district courts, nine to circuit courts, two each to the International Trade and Federal Claims courts, and one to the Military Commission Review.
One, Naomi Rao, was picked to replace the opening left when federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh won a seat on the Supreme Court.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said in a statement, "I truly appreciate the prompt attention President Trump and his White House team have shown to judicial nominations. I also appreciate the list of 51 impressive judicial nominations to fulfill the Senate’s constitutional role in advice and consent." He added that his panel will try to "confirm as many as possible, as soon as possible."
The president is already on a historic pace to change the courts and fill vacancies with conservative picks. According to one tally, he has put 30 judges on the United States courts of appeals and 53 judges for the United States district courts.
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70 nominations were returned after the last Congress ended. All Trump has done is renominate 51 of them. We still have something like 140 vacancies -- more than when Trump first took office.
[Twitchy] If you had any doubt that the media were trying to make themselves look even worse with the Covington Catholic High School story look no further than Noah Berlatsky’s take on Nick Sandmann.
Well, on Nick’s hat.
This has truly become the Left’s ’the skirt was too short’ moment, doncha think?" Very humorous until you realize the accuser is serious and not alone.
Merriam-Webster will probably have to "evolve" their definition of "literal" (If they know what's good for 'em.)
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Well "Nazi" is a term of opprobrium with these people. I wouldn't bet xim knows who or what Nazis were - which's a pity, because then xim might have noticed the similarities to ximself and xim's friends.
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Oh, press? Please keep dropping your knickers
And showing your pass, as Nick snickers
At coverage that hovers
Above all us lovers
Of him and his new n--- n-----s!
#7
Watch the shocked expressions on their faces when the guy in MAGA hat punches back. Then they'll claim that the guy in the MAGA hat was the racist agressor.
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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.
MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will return the first group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, U.S. and Mexican officials said, marking the start of a major policy shift by the Trump administration.
[Small Wars] Introduction - Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China following the victory of the Chinese Communist Party over the Nationalists in 1949, Beijing has viewed its interaction with the larger world predominantly within a construct of concentric defensive rings, with nearly the entirety of its security apparatus focused on defense of the Chinese homeland against threats to the Party. However, the Chinese government’s announcement of its intention to establish a permanent military support facility in Djibouti in 2015 signaled a significant departure from China’s long-term defense-focused strategy, which had steadfastly sought to avoid enduring overseas deployment of military personnel.[i] The decision to institute a military presence in Djibouti also marked a profound perception shift within the ruling Chinese Communist Party as it reassessed its strategic interests and roles in the Horn of Africa as well as within the broader global community. As a rising world power, China sees many advantages in expanding its engagement in the Horn of Africa as it increases its diplomatic influence, overseas military posture, and access to some of the fastest-growing economic markets and natural resource deposits on the planet. This evolving outlook has, and will continue to have, significant impact on the development of Chinese military strategy and its capabilities, particularly as it relates to the Peoples Liberation Army’s force projection modalities, counterterrorism and counterpiracy operations, peacekeeping contributions, and multinational military training and exercises. 
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The United States sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday in the first such operation this year, the Taiwanese government said, as it increases the frequency of transits through the strategic waterway amid tensions with China.
[Yiddish Book Center Store] Available for the first time in translation, Mendel Mann’s stories follow his life in reverse, from Israel in the 1950s to his experiences in the post-War Soviet Union and his childhood in Poland. With psychological insight and a focus on the tension between remembrance and reinvention, Mann provides indelible portraits of survivors as they confront the past and struggle to create a meaningful existence in the fledgling state of Israel.
