[Politico] President Donald Trump allowed the Iran nuclear deal to survive through 2017, but the new year will offer him another chance to blow up the agreement ‐ and critics and supporters alike believe he may take it.
By mid-January, the president will face new legal deadlines to choose whether to slap U.S. sanctions back on Tehran. Senior lawmakers and some of Trump's top national security officials are trying to preserve the agreement. But the deal's backers fear Trump has grown more willing to reject the counsel of his foreign policy team, as he did with his recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The decision represents an opportunity for Trump to deliver on a campaign promise to rip up the Iran deal, one he has repeatedly deferred at the urging of senior officials.
When Trump last publicly addressed the status of the Iran agreement, in mid-October, he indicated his patience had worn thin with what he has called "the worst deal ever," and demanded that Congress and European countries take action to address what he considers the deal’s weakness.
"[I]n the event we are not able to reach a solution working with Congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated," Trump said in an Oct. 13 speech.
The three months since then have shown little progress toward such a solution.
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He needs to drive a cadmium stake through the heart of the so called agreement.
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#2
The cash was already transferred, the previously blocked products have already been bought; at this point what difference does it make whether the deal is killed or not?
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The cash was already transferred, the previously blocked products have already been bought; at this point what difference does it make whether the deal is killed or not?
Because found treasure is quickly spent on day-to-day items, equipment has to be replaced all the time and parts acquired just to maintain existing equipment. With the sanctions on, companies have to choose between doing business with the US and doing business with Iran. This means that for Iran, in order to get around sanctions, every import item is more expensive, and every export item gets it less revenues than without sanctions. Over time, this has greatly weakened the regime. A re-imposition means Iran will never get the headroom for economic expansion that China has gotten for 4 decades.
[Wash Times] Two professors from San Diego State University claim in a new book that farmers’ markets in urban areas are weed-like "white spaces" responsible for oppression. You will be told what you may eat here at Airstrip One.
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco are part of an anthology released this month titled "Just Green Enough." The work, published by Routledge, claims there is a correlation between the "whiteness of farmers’ markets" and gentrification.
"Farmers’ markets are often white spaces where the food consumption habits of white people are normalized," the SDSU professors write, the education watchdog Campus Reform reported Wednesday.
The geology professors claim that 44 percent of San Diego’s farmers’ markets cater to "households from higher socio-economic backgrounds," which raises property values and "[displaces] low-income residents and people of color."
"The most insidious part of this gentrification process is that alternative food initiatives work against the community activists and residents who first mobilized to fight environmental injustices and provide these amenities but have significantly less political and economic clout than developers and real estate professionals," the academics write.
The men claim that negative externalities of "white habitus" formed at farmers’ markets can be managed through "inclusive steps that balance new initiatives and neighborhood stability to make cities ’just green enough.’"
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While you know nothing liberal indoctrinators at your knuckle dragging universities are busy spouting of bs, the white folk are too busy to listen. Grow your own corn.
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Who in their right mind wants to remove feedback loops and social norming that tend to increase better and healthier food habits on people?
Farmers markets tend to push less processed, lower carb foods which are actually an improvement to the high carb, highly processed foods that "people of color" have come to make the front and center feature of their cuisine over the past fifty years and are responsible for the epidemic of obesity and diabetes they are suffering.
Leftists blaming a diet promoted by farmers markets for the dietary problems of the urban poor and people of color is much the same as leftists blaming white cops for being a major cause of the death of black people when thousands of times more are killed by the violent culture of the ghetto. In other words, illogical in both cases.
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Geology Profs. STFU
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How are the markets working in Zimbabwe? I'm sure a Go Fund Me program for you to move there for a lifetime study might probably fly.
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As a former Geology prof, I view these idiots with a heavy heart. Geology is a science of how the Earth works. It is not a pseudo-science of how they think man works. Sad to see the intellectual rot of the left has infected what used to be pure science.
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How are the markets working in Zimbabwe? I'm sure a Go Fund Me program for you to move there for a lifetime study might probably fly.
The same social justice kak disturbers who brought hope and change to Zim (Cubans, Russians, Chinese) are responsible for leftest ideologues right here. Same table, same cloth. They're just on a slightly different schedule.
#9
Judging one by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. A great man would define that as racism. KKK is taken so I guess BLM will do.
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Doesn't America produce enough self-haters that we now have to import them from Europe?
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Funny enough, a good portion of the sellers are Latinos that either have extra from the pick or have their own farms they sell excess at these farmer markets.
I've also seen a wide spectrum of customers from all walks of live and color.
So I would go back to the drawing board with this pile of steaming theory, you asshats.
#12
Most of the sellers at our nearby urban farmer's market are black and muslim. They make a point of putting up signs that EBT cards are welcome too. Is this an example of racism against white working folks?
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Warthog, don't forget there are two strains of Geology, the science people and then the One-Earthers from 'Environmental' studies. They are the heretics who should be burnt at the stake.
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Beo: in Zimbabwe they preached social justice but practice garden-variety mercantilist colonialism from the 18th century with the Chinese in the drivers' seat. I'm torn between hating them and wanting to hire someone like Xi or (since Xi is busy) Hu to run the State Department. They're a whole lot better at actually getting profits and growth and employment for their nation even though the whole process is corrupt.
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Profs Tweedledee and Tweedledumb apparently don't get out much. At any of the farmer's markets that I've been to for years in CA, most of the sellers are folks of ethnicity. In addition, Dee and Dumber don't seem to have heard of Mother Michelle O's alleged food deserts and their local solutions.
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Ever consider that the "habits of white people" are both normal and of value to society? That in the past history of Western Civilization that the "habits of white people" have contributed immensely to the quality of life, to the benefit of mankind, and to the success of the Western world. Jackasses!
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Farmers markets tend to push less processed, lower carb foods which are actually an improvement to the high carb, highly processed foods that "people of color" have come to make the front and center feature of their cuisine
From casual observation at grocery store checkout lines, overweight EBT card holders get plenty of protein. Maybe too much protein.
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As a SDSU alumni Life Member, they signed me up for a year subscription to San Diego Magazine. Today's issue arrived with an unfortunate cover: Inside San Diego's Big Farmers' Market Boom. I think I'll let the Magazine and Alumni Association know :-)
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[Conservative Free Press] Sen. Marco Rubio hasn’t always been the most steadfast supporter of the Trump administration, but he ‐ like many Republicans ‐ was distressed by what he witnessed on Thursday when the United Nations General Assembly voted 128-9 to condemn the U.S. for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In a tweet following that disgraceful vote, the Florida senator said it might be time for America to seriously think about pulling its investments out of the increasingly-hostile international organization.
"Given its tendency to be a forum for anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, reevaluation of US role as single largest donor to #UN is long overdue," wrote Rubio.
President Donald Trump and Ambassador Nikki Haley have also said that the vote will weigh heavily when it comes to America’s relationship with member countries, to say nothing of the organization as a whole.
"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us," Trump said Wednesday. "Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care."
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While Jeff Sessions does absolutely nothing to bring Hillary Clinton (and even Obama, but we'll settle for Clinton...for now) to justice, here is more blah-blah-blah from the administration. True enough, the UN is a joke, but the empty words get tiresome.
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Send in the forensic accountants and expose just how deep the corruption has spread through the UN. Then slash our contributions by that amount. Every time that we threaten to do this the screams rise to the sky.
#10
Eliminate diplomatic immunity for the representatives to the UN. They aren't accredited to the US government. It's like giving diplomatic immunity to representatives to any trade group or industry regulatory body. That would shake up the group quickly but technically not hinder their deliberations. And think of the parking ticket revenues
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[Wash Times] Two professors from San Diego State University claim in a new book that farmers’ markets in urban areas are weed-like "white spaces" responsible for oppression.
