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Aircraft Carrier Wasn’t Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested

MS-13 Murderers – Unvetted Gang Members Part Of 60,000 “Refugee Children” Obama Import

Gang Members Brought Into US Under Obama UAC Scheme Now Held For Murder

Three individuals participated in the execution-style shooting of the Everett, MA youth. One remains anonymous, the other two are in custody awaiting trial. All three are believed to have been brought to the United States as part of the criminal, terrorist and social parasite recruitment program, the unaccompanied minor importation scheme of Obama. Most of the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) originate in El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras.

We're told they come to America to flee the gangs, but for many the opposite is true. They come to America as the land of gang opportunity. Judicial Watch detailed the MS-13 and other gangs problem, the role the supposed children played in this incident and the general violent gang explosion in America. They reported in part:

"Shortly after the first batch of UAC's arrived in mid-2014, Judicial Watch reported that many had ties to gang members in the U.S., specifically MS-13. Homeland Security sources directly involved with the UAC crisis told JW that street gangs, including MS-13, went on a recruiting frenzy at U.S. shelters housing the illegal alien minors and they used Red Cross phones to communicate.

The MS-13 is a feared street gang of mostly Central American illegal immigrants that has spread throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution, murder, rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism and other violent crimes. The Justice Department's National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.

The affiliation between gangs and the hordes of illegal immigrant youths that the Obama administration keeps taking in is a story Judicial Watch has been reporting for more than a year. Last fall the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that the MS-13 is a top tier gang thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that have crossed into the state recently. The number of MS-13 members encountered by U.S. Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley sector has increased each year, accelerating in 2014 and coinciding with increased illegal immigration from Central America during the same period, the agency disclosed in a report linked to JW's story. This clearly refers to the UAC crisis that saw over 60,000 illegal immigrants, many with criminal histories, storm into the U.S. in a matter of months."

WASHINGTON — For more than a week, media reports in the U.S. and around Asia routinely have mentioned the approach of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson's carrier strike group, seemingly implying an attack on North Korea could be imminent.


Those same officials did not push back on reports that the Vinson would return to Korean waters, where the strike group operated for much of March as part of the annual U.S.-Korean Foal Eagle exercises. While declining to confirm a specific date, they did not dispute speculative media reports from South Korea that the strike group could be in the region by April 25 or so.

“She's stationed there in the western Pacific for a reason,” Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon. “She operates freely up and down the Pacific, and she's just on her way up there because that's where we thought it was most prudent to have her at this time. There's not a specific demand signal or specific reason why we're sending her up there.”

The constant flows of unaccompanied minors from Central America illegally crossing the border from Mexico to the United States have been met with rather welcoming measures by this administration. After trying to fit them under the trafficking umbrella, the U.S. government opted to treat these children as potential refugees. Given the limited scope of the Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program, new mechanisms are being developed with the help of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to process these children in the region and then fly them directly to the United States. The question remains: Why bring these "child refugees" here since UNHCR, among others, stresses family reunion or placement in a family from the child's own culture? Unless, of course, family members are already in the United States and this entire process is nothing but a disguised vehicle for family reunification.

The initial response of the Obama administration to the surge in 2014 was to present these minors as victims of human trafficking, covered by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2008.... the Obama administration dropped the trafficking lead for the simple reason that it could not be upheld. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson concluded about UACs: "It's our observation and our experience that almost all of them are smuggled."7 With the exception of specific cases of trafficking, another umbrella has yet to be found for Central American children who want to come to the United States.

Special rules apply for UACs from contiguous countries (i.e., Mexico and Canada). They can be turned back if they are apprehended at the border as long as they have no credible fear of persecution and no trafficking indicators. Children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are to be processed by the Border Patrol and turned over within 72 hours to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is part of the Health and Human Services Department (HHS).

Migration and Refugee Services, an office within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB/MRS), is responsible for, among other things, ensuring "safe and appropriate family reunifications for unaccompanied, undocumented children who are in immigration proceedings." It noted in a 2014 presentation that 90 percent of the children are released to families in the United States while they undergo immigration proceedings.

most conventional Republicans disdain climate change regulations, and many are climate change skeptics or outright deniers. Remember, pretty much all the other GOP presidential candidates fit this mold. And so, if the administration does remain in the Paris accord, it would represent a partial victory over some of the worst elements of both Trumpism and GOP orthodoxy

DoD recognizes the reality of climate change and the significant risk it poses to U.S. interests globally. The National Security Strategy, issued in February 2015, is clear that climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources such as food and water.1 These impacts are already occurring, and the scope, scale, and intensity of these impacts are projected to increase over time.

It it your contention that the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, the US military is so flaky and so without integrity in their role as defenders of the US such that they will speak and plan based on the snowflake whims of the Sierra Club?

It is gratifying as well though to read and understand that the US military is capable of using the MSM to their advantage at time.

The Pentagon military analyst program was a propaganda campaign of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that was launched in early 2002 by then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke.[1] The goal of the operation is "to spread the administrations's talking points on Iraq by briefing retired commanders for network and cable television appearances," where they have been presented as independent analysts;[2] A Pentagon spokesman said the Pentagon's intent is to keep the American people informed about the so-called War on Terrorism by providing prominent military analysts with factual information and frequent, direct access to key military officials.[3][4] The Times article suggests that the analysts had undisclosed financial conflicts of interest and were given special access as a reward for promoting the administration's point of view. On 28 April 2008, the Pentagon ended the operation.[5] A DoD Inspector General investigation found no wrongdoing on the part of the DoD.

What the **** is wrong with the conservatives here that deny the science of GW and the certain dire consequences of it (which are not merely about US security but also about human suffering that could be on an historical scale)?

It it your contention that the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, the US military is so flaky and so without integrity in their role as defenders of the US such that they will speak and plan based on the snowflake whims of the Sierra Club?

It is not clear who you presume to be addressing here.

However, it is clear that during the Obama Administration, the civilian leadership of the DoD did just that.

Here we go again, is it global warming or climate change? The reason sane people don't take your rhetoric seriously is because none of the predictions have proven to be true or even close to true. Sure the temps have changed but nothing on the level that was predicted 20 years ago when this BS started.

Top officials in the West Wing — including President Trump and Steve Bannon — will closely monitor Tuesday's special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district. (The vote is to replace Tom Price, the new Health and Human Services Secretary.)

Why Trump cares: Whether he likes it or not, the media will portray this election as an early verdict on his presidency. The year’s first special election, in Kansas’ usually reliable deep-red 4th district, was way closer than it should’ve been. A loss in Georgia would further weaken Trump and make his legislative agenda — which relies on him holding his popularity like a knife over recalcitrant Republicans — a fair bit tougher.

That only proves you don't now our history.

I am hopeful saner heads than Trump and Pence will win out in the end, and bring down the male chest thumping a notch or two. For the world's sake.

Baldimo wrote:
Here we go again, is it global warming or climate change?

The US Republican party is changing tactics on the environment, avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global warming, after a confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic issue on which George Bush is most vulnerable.

The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz, concedes the party has "lost the environmental communications battle" and urges its politicians to encourage the public in the view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gases.

"The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science," Mr Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based campaigning organisation.

"Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly.

"Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate."

The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", Mr Luntz says

I think the US may be the next to feel the raft since the last time we were the first to give the experience to others. It is written in Matthew 26:52 that he who lives by the nuke shall die by the nuke.

In 1988 the WMO established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The US state department had earlier noted as well that there were "irregularities on voting day".
But the "cleansing of all state institutions”, what Erdoğan promised and already did, the sacking or detaining tens of thousands, and closing media outlets - that seems to be okay as long as he is seen by Trump as an important ally against Isis.

Oh yes. I love cream pie assassins. They are among my favorite humans.