[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump has decided to go 'nuclear' on the migrant crisis by allowing the military to take control of a 'buffer zone' near the Southern border with Mexico.
Trump's ambitious plan would turn the 60-foot deep buffer zone into a military installation at the border and allow US troops to temporarily hold migrants who cross over into the America.
A defense official told The Washington Post that the migrants would be held until legally detained by civilian law enforcement.
The president has made fixing the migrant issue the top of his second term agenda and has seen success early on with illegal crossings plummeting from the record highs under predecessor Joe Biden.
Now, Trump's homeland security team is reportedly set to announce plans to take greater control over the partition in a section in New Mexico.
If the initial plan is termed a success by the administration, officials believe the zone would eventually stretch west to California.
The stretch of land in New Mexico that would serve as a test is federal land Theodore Roosevelt set aside specifically for protecting the border in 1907.
The designation would allow the Pentagon to deploy resources from its massive $800billion budget on the border crackdown.
When reached by DailyMail.com, a Pentagon spokesperson said they 'have nothing to announce at this time.' DailyMail.com has reached out to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
The military is largely prohibited by federal law from many law enforcement duties by the Posse Comitatus Act.
Trump has gotten around the law during his second term by using Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain migrants and then moving them.
The Pentagon is seeking counsel from the military on whether or not this could cause legal problems.
A legal theory for how this would work is comparing migrants entering the buffer zone to trespassing upon a military base.
'It's very, very careful on that wording. It's not 'detention' because once you go into detention it has the connotations of being detained for arrest. This is holding for civilian law enforcement,' a Defense official said.
Troops would then give the migrants over to the proper authorities.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has previously backed using the military at the border.
'We have defended other places and other spaces. We will defend this line,' he said in February.
The stretch of land in New Mexico that would serve as a test is federal land Theodore Roosevelt set aside specifically for protecting the border in 1907.
Over a century ago? Sounds like a precedent to me.
Prescient
The land is usually monitored by the Department of the Interior, though in the past, pieces have been given over to the Pentagon, as recently as Trump's first term.
Federal law allows government transfers of federal land from Interior to DOD of 5,000 acres at a time without having to go through Congress.
The Trump White House has been experimenting with ways to deploy the military to the border since returning to office.
A Navy destroyer ship has been sent to the southern border in an effort to bolster national security, amid President Trump's plan to 'reclaim the Panama Canal.'
The USS Gravely recently spent nine months in the thick of conflict in the Middle East, fighting off continuous assaults from Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.
But now the 509ft guided-missile destroyer is en route to the US southern border as President Trump ramps up security to fight what he describes as an 'invasion' of American territory and rampant drug cartels.
The ship, which carries dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles, will be stationed in waters typically patrolled by the US Coast Guard. It will also operate in international waters.
According to US Northern Command General Gregory Guillot, the Gravely will help 'to protect the United States territorial integrity, sovereignty and security.'
The deployment will contribute to 'a coordinated and robust response to combating maritime related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction, and illegal seaborne immigration,' Defense officials added.
Trump campaigned on a mass deportation policy and set to work cracking down on illegal immigration as soon as he returned to the White House.
He vowed to send an additional 10,000 troops to the border with Mexico to bolster security measures and reinstate his remain in Mexico policy, which requires migrants who are seeking asylum in the US to wait for their court date in the country from which they crossed.
While few details have been made about Gravely's next mission, authorities made it clear that it was in response to Trump's executive order to secure the borders.
Upon returning to the White House, Trump declared a national emergency at the border with Mexico.
The Gravely will house a squad of US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment - elite operators who specialize in maritime missions like fighting piracy and intercepting drug trafficking rings.
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BTW: Given the DOD Generals running their mouths, that Trump had no business using the Military to protect and guard our southern border? Has Trump planned to "retire" a few?
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In 1972 I was a USMC Reservist member of a Counter-Intelligence Team participating in an exercise at Camp Pendleton. The exercise scenario was a limited US military incursion to rescue AmCits from a Caribbean country in the midst of a civil war. One exercise threat we were dealing with was "host nation" para-military guerrilla forces (portrayed by USMC Reservists from the Miami area) attempting to infiltrate the beachhead. As a part of the exercise, "captured" guerrilla prisoners were to be brought in for interrogation and assessment by USMC infantry units after detection on the perimeter. As planned, about 2am we were presented with three "prisoners" brought in by 6x6 trucks over rough terrain, hog-tied, hooded and gagged and much the worse-for-wear after the ride up from the beach in the back of the trucks. As soon as they were dumped in the interrogation tent and the hoods were removed and the gags removed, their long hair, fearful eyes and instant pleas to be returned to Mexico made it clear these were illegals sneaking up the I-5 corridor through Pendleton and not the USMC role-play Marines from Miami. The USBP agents who were called to pick them up for processing told us they had never seen more terrified illegals in their careers.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... condemned recent deadly Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s carried out by the US and British warplanes on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ''Washington 'indiscriminately' targeted civilians and property in Yemen by mobilizing air and naval forces, including an aircraft carrier,'' the KCNA state news agency quoted Ma Dong Hui, North Korea's ambassador to Yemen as saying.
''The military attack by the United States is a violent mostly peaceful violation of the U.N. Charter and international law, and is a blatant infringement on the territorial illusory sovereignty of another country that cannot be justified by any means,'' Ma said.
While condemning the US-led attacks on Yemen, the North Korean envoy said that Washington was ''obsessed with realizing geopolitical ambitions'' through ''illegal and reckless military actions.''
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One has to wonder if all the Houthi's toys are coming from Iran.
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I recall the US nuke strategy expert answering a Japanese reporters question about what would happen if NKor would launch 1 nuke toward the USA.
The answer was the USA would launch 82 pre-assigned nukes at NKor. The reporter was kind of horrified and then ask what would happen if NKor launched 100 nukes at the USA. The answer was still 82.
So she asked why 82.
The answer: "The 82 nukes we have set aside for NKor are enough to cover ever sq inch of NKor with a nuclear blast!"
The reporter was shocked. The expert said to her. We are the USA. You should expect that level of response.
[IsraelTimes] At least 30 Wikipedia editors work together to inject the online encyclopedia with misinformation bias, watchdog claims
At least 30 Wikipedia editors are acting together in a coordinated campaign to fill the collaborative online encyclopedia with widespread antisemitic and anti-Israel bias, in likely violation of Wikipedia’s policies, according to a report Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League.
It looks like the university anti-Israel protests were the ADL’s come to Jesus moment, reorienting them back to their original purpose instead of all the leftwing nonsense they’d drifted into in recent years.
The ADL report is the latest volley in a battle between the antisemitism watchdog and one of the most popular websites in the world. While the ADL has repeatedly complained that editors use the platform to spread antisemitic rhetoric and misinformation, Wikipedia has dubbed the group a "generally unreliable" source of information on the Israel-Paleostinian conflict, including it on a list of banned and partially banned sources.
The ADL said that at least 30 Wikipedia editors "coordinate to change pages related to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, downplaying Paleostinian antisemitism, violence, and calls to destroy Israel while promoting criticism of Israel."
These editors made twice as many edits over the past 10 years as comparable editors of other topics, and communicated with each other up to 18 times more actively, the ADL report said.
These edits have ramped up since the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... attack and include the systematic removal of citations to reputable sources and tandem voting to retain content critical of Israel while removing coverage of Paleostinian violence and terrorism, it added.
In addition, Arabic-language pages of Wikipedia were found to glorify Hamas and perpetuate pro-Hamas propaganda, flouting Wikipedia’s rules on neutrality, the report said.
"Most readers assume Wikipedia is a reliable online encyclopedia, but in reality, it has become a biased platform manipulated by agenda-driven editors on many topics," said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. "Recent Wikipedia efforts toward neutrality are nothing but a Band-Aid on a problem that’s getting worse, with persistent antisemitic and anti-Israel bias still far too present."
In recent months, Wikipedia’s arbitration committee has banned several editors from the Israel-Paleostine topic area. In February, eight editors were barred from making changes to articles on the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict — six from the pro-Paleostinian side and two from the pro-Israel side — and new rules were introduced to help prevent further distortions.
"It’s clear that Wikipedia needs to do far more to address the very active antisemitic and anti-Israel bias and coordination," said Daniel Kelley, interim head of the ADL’s Center for Technology and Society, which conducted the research for the report. "And until then, other platforms that rely on Wikipedia as a source — from Google Search to large language models like ChatGPT — must deprioritize unvetted Wikipedia’s content on issues related to Jews, Israel and the Middle East conflict so that they do not perpetuate this bias."
Battles over narrative in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict have raged for years on Wikipedia, where almost anyone can edit articles according to the site’s collaboration policies. The intensity has ramped up since October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched its war with Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 in a brutal attack.
Wikipedia editors regularly argue over whether terms like "genocide," "settler colonialism" and "apartheid regime" can be applied to Israeli actions.
However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese... according to the report, the group of editors repeatedly removed references to acts of sexual violence and terror committed by Hamas. They also rewrote pages about Hamas to reframe the terror organization as a political and social entity, while presenting Zionism as a land-grabbing movement that seeks to eliminate Arab ties to Israel.
Conservatives, including billionaire Elon Musk, have increasingly been complaining that Wikipedia’s claim to neutrality is being used to help promote progressive agendas. Many news outlets, including Bloomberg and Pirate Wires, have reported on the efforts of pro-Hamas editors to hijack the site’s Israel-Paleostine narrative.
The ADL offered several recommendations for Wikipedia, including the creation of a "reputable expert program" to review pages relating to the conflict, as well as a committee to vet "closure editors" who can make final decisions about contentious topics. (Currently, this is generally done by majority vote.) It also recommended that Wikipedia evaluate its existing tools for identifying bad-faith behavior to determine whether they are adequate.
The report also suggested that policymakers work with academics, Wikipedians, and others to identify and combat antisemitic bias on the site.
Last June, Wikipedia classified the ADL as "generally unreliable regarding the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict," despite the protests of more than 40 Jewish organizations that accused the online encyclopedia of "stripping the Jewish community of the right to defend itself from the hatred that targets our community."
That decision was based on a two-month discussion with more than 120 Wikipedia volunteers, Wikipedia said at the time. Editors argued that the ADL’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism allows it to silence criticism of Israel, and that the organization had undermined its credibility by categorizing pro-Paleostinian protests as antisemitic incidents.
The ADL is still considered a credible source for topics outside of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, it noted.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] France is set to issue a survival manual to households across the country, warning citizens how to respond to an invasion or any other 'imminent threat'.
The dramatic move comes as tensions rise in Europe and fears grow over Russia's aggressive tactics.
The new 20-page booklet, reportedly packed with 63 measures, will advise the French on how to protect themselves and their families in the event of armed conflict, natural disasters, industrial accidents or even a nuclear leak.
It will include tips on how to create a 'survival kit' with essentials including six litres of water, canned food, batteries, a torch and basic medical supplies such as paracetamol and bandages.
Crucially, it will offer advice on what to do if an attack is imminent, including how to join local defence efforts, such as signing up for reserve units or firefighting groups.
Citizens will also be told to 'lock their doors' in the event of a nuclear incident - advice that has already drawn ridicule from commentators.
Despite the alarming content, the French government insists the booklet is not a direct response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
President Emmanuel Macron has previously warned that Europe must be prepared to confront the 'Russian threat' and adapt to the possibility that America could scale back its military support.
Earlier this week, Macron revealed that French fighter jets equipped with new generation hypersonic nuclear missiles will be sent to the German border as part of his bid to renew France's airborne nuclear deterrent.
Officials from the General Secretariat for Defence and National Security (SGDSN), which oversaw the booklet's creation, claim the aim of the survival guide is simply to bolster France's resilience in the face of 'all types of crises'.
The decision to draft the booklet reportedly dates back to 2022, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, as part of a national strategy to improve public preparedness.
But the timing of its release - expected before summer if approved by Prime Minister François Bayrou - has raised eyebrows.
French newspaper Le Figaro noted that the kit's rollout 'could easily suggest that the state is reacting to the unstable international situation'.
Macron has recently called for Europe to rearm in the face of Russia's aggression in Ukraine and America's wavering commitment to upholding European security under Donald Trump.
He initiated a doubling of the French defence budget over the course of his two terms and recently set an even higher target, saying the country should increase defence spending to 3-3.5 per cent of economic output from the current 2 per cent.
France's public investment bank Bpifrance will launch a €450million (£377million) fund dedicated to financing defence projects as part of the country's efforts to ramp up military spending, finance minister Eric Lombard said on Thursday.
'French citizens will be able, by tranches of €500 (£419), to invest their money in the long term,' Lombard told TF1.
French companies in the defence sector will need more than five billion euros in additional equity capital over the next few years, according to both the finance and the defence ministries.
[IsraelTimes] 4 receive light sentences for roles in last year’s Amsterdam riots after soccer match with Maccabi Tel Aviv; critics note prosecutors didn’t charge perpetrators with antisemitism
A criminal court in Amsterdam on Wednesday sentenced four perpetrators of a "Jew hunt" in November to prison terms ranging from 11 days to three months. The four defendants were part of a group of as many as several hundred rioters who attacked Israeli supporters of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer club after its match against local club Ajax on November 7.
In response to the sentences, Gidi Markuszower, a Jewish parliamentarian for Geert Wilders’s right-wing, pro-Israel Freedom Party, said of the prosecutors and judges: "They made one thing very clear: ’Dutch Jews, you can run, but you can’t hide.’"
The "hit-and-run" style attacks lasted through the early hours of November 8, leaving 10 injured, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry, while hundreds were unable to emerge from their hotels.
Organized through WhatsApp groups, local Arab and Moslem gangs attacked Israeli soccer fans and searched and demanded identification from passersby to check if they were Israelis or Dutch Jews. In their WhatsApp conversations, the rioters themselves spoke of a "Jew hunt." Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema labeled the attacks a "pogrom" before retracting the comment days later, after political blowback.
Cenk D., considered one of the central figures in the attacks, was sentenced to three months incarceration, one month more than the public prosecutor’s office had asked for — an atypical occurrence. (In Dutch court cases, only the first letter of a defendant’s surname is used in communication with the media.) Three other defendants received lower sentences.
In a WhatsApp group called "Buurthuis 2," or "Community Center 2," Cenk D. had shared the location of Jewish soccer fans with 1,000 other members, calling on them to go on the attack: "A dead Jew is better than a living Jew."
Cenk D. also sent pictures of Anne Frank, which the court considered downplaying the Holocaust, a criminal offense in the Netherlands.
Taxi driver Mounir M. was sentenced to six weeks, minus 26 days for time served during the investigation. Mounir M. used the same WhatsApp group to tell the rioters where they could find Jews and how to evade the police that night.
Kamal I., another taxi driver, received one month with the same deduction; prosecutors had asked for a year of jail time. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... even though Kamal I. had videos of some of the assaults on his phone, the court did not see enough proof to conclude that he had personally participated in the violence.
Mohammed B. was convicted of assault and received a sentence of 11 days. He will not have to go to prison, since the sentence is the same as the number of days he had already spent in jail. The mild sentence was given despite Mohammed B.’s previous record of violent mostly peaceful offenses, and Dutch newspaper Het Parool wrote that Mohammed B. had been seen at other anti-Israel rallies, including one at the Amsterdam Central Train Station on the night before his sentencing.
Victor Loonstein, a lawyer for 35 of the Israeli victims, said the sentences were in line with Dutch guidelines. He noted, however, that the court took several ostensibly mitigating circumstances into account, such as the part Maccabi fans allegedly played in the violence, and in the cases of Paleostinian suspects, their "trauma" since the start of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... in October 2023.
Loonstein blamed local politics for the changing narrative since last November.
"Where at first the riots were labeled a ’Jew hunt,’ this quickly changed under the influence of politicians and pro-Paleostinian organizations," he said. "Suddenly, the events had to be viewed in a different context, and we were supposed to understand the motives of the perpetrators. I call this the ’October 7 mechanism.’"
Loonstein pointed out the refusal of the public prosecutor’s office to charge the rioters with an antisemitic motive, which carries heavier penalties in the Netherlands, despite numerous references to "hunting Jews," not "Israelis," both in their communications on WhatsApp and in videos of the assaults that were put on the internet the same night.
"The penalties are low, but unfortunately that is a part of the Dutch legal system," said Naomi Mestrum, director of the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel. "Only last week, the Upper Chamber of Parliament in The Hague approved a new law that gives harsher punishment for crimes of a discriminatory nature like antisemitism. We hope and expect that in future cases these aggravating circumstances are weighed in the sentencing."
In total, the Amsterdam police are eyeing some 120 suspects for the violence, of whom allegedly 10 are Israeli. Last week, police showed unblurred footage of another 22 suspects of the November attacks who have not yet been identified.
"The prison terms of the sentences are so mild that the Dutch legal system actually incentivizes the ’Jew hunters’ for another round of hunting," said Markuszower. "It’s very clear that mainstream media and mainly politicians from the left are more comfortable providing cover for their fellow antisemites than protecting the Jews in our country."
Loonstein agreed to a certain point with Markuszower’s view on the role of the Dutch media.
"Dutch public television now calls it the Maccabi riots. It’s the world upside down," he said.
Tofik Dibi, a former politician and now a high-ranking civil servant of the city of Amsterdam, last week spoke on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
of an "Arab hunt" by Maccabi fans — a conspiracy theory that has been debunked by many eyewitnesses — without being countered by anyone on the program.
Dibi has justified the November riots and has often toed the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, calling for an intifada, wishing disease upon politicians attending a pro-Israel rally, and seemingly comparing Israel supporters to cockroaches — though Halsema, a member of the same left-wing political party as Dibi, has not initiated any action as a result.
"Immediately after the Ajax-Maccabi match, many false narratives were started," said Mestrum. "It was claimed that Maccabi fans started the fighting. Later, it was proven that the attacks were planned days ahead."
Still, Dutch media is afraid to give an unbiased account of what happened that night, said Mestrum.
"It is now treated as ’normal’ violence around a football match, which tends to receive less media attention," she said. "This is sad since we know it was a premeditated and carefully organized attack. The football element is now used as an excuse."
[BREITBART] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> wants protesters to rise up across the U.S. and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and challenge the renewed Israeli military campaign in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... The Times of Israel reports Khamenei made his call for action in a speech designed to rally anti-Israel activists everywhere, ''to strongly oppose this treacherous, horrendous act.''
''Once again children are being killed, homes are being destroyed, and civilians are being displaced. The people must stop this tragedy,'' Khamenei says in a Nowruz address, according to an English transcript posted on his website.
His call echoes a long standing Iranian opposition to everything the U.S. is involved in with threats made on an almost monthly basis against both Washington's interests and Israel.
Khamenei adds that recent deadly U.S. strikes on the Tehran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... gunnies in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... are a ''crime that must be stopped.''
The Iranian leader praises the country for sending aid to Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... , but makes only passing reference to Israeli actions that decapitated the Hezbollah terror group, an Iranian proxy.
''Various events took place in Tehran and later in Lebanon, resulting in the loss of valuable figures for both the land of the Medes and the Persians and the Islamic [world],'' he says. ''These were indeed bitter tragedies.''
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[IsraelTimes] Source quoted by Axios describes letter proposing renewed talks to Khamenei as ‘tough,’ threatening consequences if no accord achieved
Trump’s version of dawa (outreach). “We’re offering you surrender. Please take the offer, otherwise we’ll have to insist with the hard jihad of the sword.”
The letter US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... sent to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> earlier this month included a two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal, according to a Wednesday report by Axios.
The letter, delivered to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi via an Emirati diplomat, proposed renewed nuclear talks between the US and Iran, while threatening Tehran with consequences should it continue pursuing its nuclear program, the report said.
A source speaking to Axios described the letter as "tough," since it reportedly ruled out open-ended negotiations and set a time limit for the parties to reach a deal.
It is unclear whether the two-month countdown began on the day the letter was delivered, or with the start of negotiations.
According to a US official and another unnamed source who spoke to the outlet, the White House briefed several US allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , and the UAE, about the letter’s contents before it was delivered to Iran.
Trump revealed the letter’s existence in an early March interview with Fox Business News.
"I’ve written them a letter saying, ’I hope you’re going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing,’" Trump said. "You can’t let them have a nuclear weapon."
He added that there are "two ways Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal... I would prefer to make a deal, because I’m not looking to hurt Iran. They’re great people."
The next week, Khamenei appeared to reject holding negotiations with the US, calling the proposal "deception" from Washington, designed to make it seem as if Iran was refusing to negotiate.
He claimed that negotiating with the Trump administration, which he said had excessive demands, "will tighten the knot of sanctions and increase pressure on Iran."
An Iranian foreign ministry front man later told Rooters that Iran would respond to the letter "after full scrutiny."
In 2018, Trump withdrew the US from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and reimposed sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy. Tehran reacted a year later by violating the deal’s nuclear curbs.
While leaving the door open for a nuclear pact with Tehran, Trump has reinstated the "maximum pressure" campaign he applied in his first term as president to isolate Iran from the global economy and drive its oil exports towards zero.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Lebanese Hezbollah strongly condemned on Tuesday the resumption of the Israeli attack on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and the targeting of children, women, and defenseless civilians as they slept.
Condemning is about all they’re able to do, after Israel wiped out their manpower, matériel, and money.
In a statement, Hezbollah noted that this aggression comes at a time when the people of Gaza are suffering under a stifling siege and severe starvation and considered it a flagrant violation of humanitarian and international laws and conventions. *SNORT*
Hezbollah indicated that the decision of the ''terrorist'' Netanyahu government to backtrack on the ceasefire and resume the war in full partnership with the US administration, amid shameful international silence, clearly demonstrates the Zionist entity's and the US administration's lack of respect for agreements and commitments.
It also explained that this partnership reveals the United States' ongoing goals to destabilize the region by supporting aggression against Paleostine, Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , Syria, and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .
The statement stated that ''the Zionist entity, which has failed over 15 months of brutal war to break the will of the resistance, will not achieve its goals through this renewed aggression, whether by eliminating the just Paleostinian cause or displacing the Paleostinian people from their land.'' It affirmed that Paleostine will remain the central issue of the nation.
Hezbollah also emphasized that the Paleostinian people, despite the brutal wars waged against them, will not submit to the occupation's policies. It called on Arab and Islamic peoples and the free people of the world to expose this American-Zionist partnership, which aims to exterminate the Paleostinian people.
The statement also called on the international community, especially the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organizations, to take immediate action to halt Israeli crimes, noting that the continuation of this aggression will only lead to more suffering and unjustified destruction.
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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
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump has decided to go 'nuclear' on the migrant crisis by allowing the military to take control of a 'buffer zone' near the Southern border with Mexico. 
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..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
[IsraelTimes] 4 receive light sentences for roles in last year’s Amsterdam riots after soccer match with Maccabi Tel Aviv; critics note prosecutors didn’t charge perpetrators with antisemitism
[BREITBART] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah 
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
