On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower in New York City between three senior members of the Donald Trump presidential campaign – Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort – and at least five other people, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. The meeting was arranged by publicist and long-time Trump acquaintance, Rob Goldstone.
The "Trump Talk" about this meeting is that the Russians had nothing to provide about Hillary Clinton and spoke about sanctions relief. Jared Kushner is stated to have left the meeting abruptly in disappointment.
WikiLeaks began to release DNC emails, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, in July 2016.
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Russia is to have been known to hack the DNC from sometime in 2015. But, after the Trump Tower Meeting, the Russians learned they needed to up their game and get Trump elected in order to receive sanction relief.
Putin never received his sanction relief and quite the contrary the US Congress passed more sanctions and Trump signed it. The Russians didn't realize enough Republicans and Democrats were not Trump loyalists.
Donald Trump, as President, provided plenty of Russian election propaganda with the meeting of the Russian Foreign Minister in the Oval Office where he provided classified information to them as well. The pictures taken were by Russian photographers. Donald Trump was and probably still is an icon to the Russian people as someone who sees the potential of an alliance with Russia over NATO. The meeting in the Oval Office with the Russians was within hours after Trump fired Comey.
The lack of reception of NATO's general by Donald Trump today is more propaganda to provide THE ILLUSION cast for the benefit of maintaining President Putin as a propaganda ally. President Trump is not a loyal American.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
MS 13 is not a drug cartel. It has no direct relationship with Mexican, Central or South American cartels.
MS 13 is also not a terrorist network. It is organized crime in the USA and in places outside the USA where it is destabilizing because of the weak governance structure.
I am not defending organized crime, but, President Trump wants to chase MS13 to end the illicit drug trade in the USA. MS13 is not the way to do that.
MS13 is not responsible for illegal immigration. The label MS13 is a network that will allow members to travel throughout it's member gangs. Why do they do that? To avoid the law. Let's say a member is wanted for extortion in Los Angeles and believes he will get caught and go to prison; why not leave the city and/or the country where he is not known and can protect from arrest.
MS13 is a symptom and not the problem.
Graph (click here)
Approximately 16 percent to 19 percent of those incarcerated in the USA are Latinos. They have three times the problem in obtaining legitimate jobs in the USA before and after they are incarcerated.
The Latino population incarcerated in the USA have to face racism, a language barrier and if they are illegals they have a limited access to work.
Let me say this up front; if any person, American or not, has a criminal record, innocent or guilty; they have a terrible time obtaining work, especially cookie cutter jobs of Wall Street. The thing with innocent people wrongly arrested and charged, is that the arrest and the charges are still on their background check. Honest. Innocent people if arrested and charged have permanent marks on their background checks. In most Wall Street cookie cutter restaurants and the like see crime on the background check; they run in the other direction. The corporate structure identifies these innocent people as high risk anyway.
So, let's take that reality one more step. When an inmate serves his or her time, also known as "debt to society," they face not just an uphill battle to find a legitimate job, but, more or less a mountain climb. That is their reality. Now, place in that SPACE a Hispanic man without a clue as to how to expunge his record or obtain work or housing and where do they turn? MS13.
Turning away from crime for many men and women in the USA is not easy. Honest. MS13 is a support group to these people. MS 13 is no different than any other gang in the USA, there is some kind of social structure that maintains it's focus. These gangs, including MS 13 are deadly. That cannot be understated, but, if the gang serves as a place where a man or woman can be protected while carrying out crime to have money in their pockets, it is then home. It is well known these gangs are just as much a presence in a prison stay as any criminal activity in the community. By the way, guns support these people as well.
So, while Mr. Trump and AG Sessions wants to end gang related violence, MS 13 is not unique. These gang members do not really have the same longevity as average Americans. Their lifestyles are exceptionally high risk and do not reflect any normal mortalities of the majority of Americans. Realizing that, the members are within the gang because they do not have alternatives.
MS13 is most commonly Hispanic because of the language and cultural barriers of it's members. MS13 is a SYMPTOM of a failed society and not a desired lifestyle. To say, MS13 is a cartel of immigrants in the USA is incorrect. It is a street gang and nothing else. There is no limiting importation of illicit drugs by focusing on MS13. The reality is that while USA law enforcement chase MS13, the drug cartels will have an open lane for their drug trafficking. Basically, focusing on MS13 will be nothing more than police chasing their tails if the purpose is to stop drug and human trafficking.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions are grossly wrong on this issue and will cause less focus on drug traffickers and American deaths will increase.
March 20, 2018
By Steven Dudley
...I spent three years (click here) at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies chronicling the MS13’s criminal exploits for the National Institute of Justice. Our study proves that MS13 is neither a drug cartel nor was it born of illegal immigration.
That misconception is fueling failed US policies that, in my assessment, will do little to deter the MS13....
...The MS13 was born in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, when scores of Salvadorans, many of them fleeing the country’s civil war, arrived to California. Like other Latino immigrant groups, the new arrivals formed a youth gang of the sort proliferating in Los Angeles at the time.
Then as now, the MS13 acted as a surrogate family for its members, though not a benign one. The MS13 created a collective identity that was constructed and reinforced by shared experiences, particularly expressions of violence and social control.
It has since spread to at least a half-dozen countries on two continents and has become a prime source of destabilizing violence, particularly extortion, in Central American countries like El Salvador and Honduras....
...In the early 2000s, one MS13 boss named Nelson Comandari tried to use the gang’s national criminal infrastructure to establish a drug distribution network. Comandari was well positioned to do it. He was powerful in Los Angeles, had underworld family connections from El Salvador to Colombia and enjoyed strong ties to the feared Mexican Mafia, a US-based prison gang with connections to Mexican cartels.
Yet within a few years Comandari was frustrated. MS13 members turned out to be inept at drug smuggling and resistant to the whole idea. Our research found that the gang frowns upon those who put their personal business above the collective’s....
...One reason the MS13 has failed so roundly at becoming a drug cartel is that it is more of a social club than a lucrative criminal enterprise. Its members benefit from the camaraderie and support that comes with membership — not the heaping monetary rewards that never arrive.
Entrepreneurs who hope to leverage its network for their personal financial gain see the same strong resistance that scuttled Comandari’s plans.
Perhaps more critically, the MS13 is a decentralized organization with no clear hierarchy. The gang is broken into local cells called “cliques” — or “clicas” in Spanish — that are more loyal to each other than to the various leadership councils that operate around Central America and the United States....
I am not defending organized crime, but, President Trump wants to chase MS13 to end the illicit drug trade in the USA. MS13 is not the way to do that.
MS13 is not responsible for illegal immigration. The label MS13 is a network that will allow members to travel throughout it's member gangs. Why do they do that? To avoid the law. Let's say a member is wanted for extortion in Los Angeles and believes he will get caught and go to prison; why not leave the city and/or the country where he is not known and can protect from arrest.
Graph (click here)
Approximately 16 percent to 19 percent of those incarcerated in the USA are Latinos. They have three times the problem in obtaining legitimate jobs in the USA before and after they are incarcerated.
The Latino population incarcerated in the USA have to face racism, a language barrier and if they are illegals they have a limited access to work.
Let me say this up front; if any person, American or not, has a criminal record, innocent or guilty; they have a terrible time obtaining work, especially cookie cutter jobs of Wall Street. The thing with innocent people wrongly arrested and charged, is that the arrest and the charges are still on their background check. Honest. Innocent people if arrested and charged have permanent marks on their background checks. In most Wall Street cookie cutter restaurants and the like see crime on the background check; they run in the other direction. The corporate structure identifies these innocent people as high risk anyway.
So, let's take that reality one more step. When an inmate serves his or her time, also known as "debt to society," they face not just an uphill battle to find a legitimate job, but, more or less a mountain climb. That is their reality. Now, place in that SPACE a Hispanic man without a clue as to how to expunge his record or obtain work or housing and where do they turn? MS13.
Turning away from crime for many men and women in the USA is not easy. Honest. MS13 is a support group to these people. MS 13 is no different than any other gang in the USA, there is some kind of social structure that maintains it's focus. These gangs, including MS 13 are deadly. That cannot be understated, but, if the gang serves as a place where a man or woman can be protected while carrying out crime to have money in their pockets, it is then home. It is well known these gangs are just as much a presence in a prison stay as any criminal activity in the community. By the way, guns support these people as well.
So, while Mr. Trump and AG Sessions wants to end gang related violence, MS 13 is not unique. These gang members do not really have the same longevity as average Americans. Their lifestyles are exceptionally high risk and do not reflect any normal mortalities of the majority of Americans. Realizing that, the members are within the gang because they do not have alternatives.
MS13 is most commonly Hispanic because of the language and cultural barriers of it's members. MS13 is a SYMPTOM of a failed society and not a desired lifestyle. To say, MS13 is a cartel of immigrants in the USA is incorrect. It is a street gang and nothing else. There is no limiting importation of illicit drugs by focusing on MS13. The reality is that while USA law enforcement chase MS13, the drug cartels will have an open lane for their drug trafficking. Basically, focusing on MS13 will be nothing more than police chasing their tails if the purpose is to stop drug and human trafficking.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions are grossly wrong on this issue and will cause less focus on drug traffickers and American deaths will increase.
March 20, 2018
By Steven Dudley
...I spent three years (click here) at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies chronicling the MS13’s criminal exploits for the National Institute of Justice. Our study proves that MS13 is neither a drug cartel nor was it born of illegal immigration.
That misconception is fueling failed US policies that, in my assessment, will do little to deter the MS13....
...The MS13 was born in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, when scores of Salvadorans, many of them fleeing the country’s civil war, arrived to California. Like other Latino immigrant groups, the new arrivals formed a youth gang of the sort proliferating in Los Angeles at the time.
Then as now, the MS13 acted as a surrogate family for its members, though not a benign one. The MS13 created a collective identity that was constructed and reinforced by shared experiences, particularly expressions of violence and social control.
It has since spread to at least a half-dozen countries on two continents and has become a prime source of destabilizing violence, particularly extortion, in Central American countries like El Salvador and Honduras....
...In the early 2000s, one MS13 boss named Nelson Comandari tried to use the gang’s national criminal infrastructure to establish a drug distribution network. Comandari was well positioned to do it. He was powerful in Los Angeles, had underworld family connections from El Salvador to Colombia and enjoyed strong ties to the feared Mexican Mafia, a US-based prison gang with connections to Mexican cartels.
Yet within a few years Comandari was frustrated. MS13 members turned out to be inept at drug smuggling and resistant to the whole idea. Our research found that the gang frowns upon those who put their personal business above the collective’s....
...One reason the MS13 has failed so roundly at becoming a drug cartel is that it is more of a social club than a lucrative criminal enterprise. Its members benefit from the camaraderie and support that comes with membership — not the heaping monetary rewards that never arrive.
Entrepreneurs who hope to leverage its network for their personal financial gain see the same strong resistance that scuttled Comandari’s plans.
Perhaps more critically, the MS13 is a decentralized organization with no clear hierarchy. The gang is broken into local cells called “cliques” — or “clicas” in Spanish — that are more loyal to each other than to the various leadership councils that operate around Central America and the United States....
There is no leadership in Israel or Palestine that reflects reality. Each side of the conflict carry messages that work for them internationally.
Both Israel and Palestine are small plots of land recognized as nations of people. Both want the same exact land for their people. Israel was granted power over Palestine and the outcome today reflects that power.
If Israeli settlers are moving into the West Bank with the intention of populating the entire area, that should be ruled an international crime. It is a form of genocide and the United Nations knows it. All Israeli settlers in the West Bank need to be removed by a peacekeeper force that will defend the borders of the West Bank from aggressive and/or passive occupation by Israel.
The reason there is no allowance for Palestinians anywhere in the occupied territories is that Israel has convinced other major powers it can rule over land in peace and every person within those lands will have an opportunity for greater quality of life.
Every major power in the world is convinced Hamas is the real authority in Palestine and to validate them as leaders will only escalate the conflict. That is incorrect. Hamas is the only POWER within Palestine that is proven to hold on to land.
The international community gave the Jewish people a place on Earth where they could live without others having power over them and then left the rest of the timeline to fate. That was an error.
Israel obviously has strong allies that provide all kinds of weapons to rule the land, but, the Palestinian people are completely disarmed to protect their land and as a consequence, they have lost enormous swaths of land over the decades. My revelation, while not unique, is the impetus that will only increase the resolve of Israel to not only take the West Bank and Gaza but, to expand further into countries near their borders and beyond. The Israeli leadership today are expansionists with no determined end to their plans. Of course, they will deny that, but, it is true. Israel eyes Syria and believes it is best to rule the land and provide for all people.
There is no leadership in Israel or Washington, DC today that will allow peacekeepers on the land to protect Palestinians. The fact the USA backs Israeli ideologues should be a crime as well. The USA has a veto power within the UN Security Council and that is what maintains the conflict between the two nations of people and provides for Israeli expansion.
NO ONE can deny Israel has expanded from the original land granted to the Jewish people. I don't want to hear there is a better solution for the region because of Israeli leadership's grandiose ideas that have worked. That is a lie. If their ideas worked there would not be dead unarmed Palestinians. There are dead unarmed Palestinians because the world believes they are violent people as defined by Israel. They are violent people because they have no other choice, ie: Gaza.
Israel has set itself on a path of expansion for decades now and it has reached it's limit. Currently, Netanyahu has plans to expand Israel at any cost under the guise of establishing peace. Israeli settlers have to leave the West Bank and Gaza has to be provided relief from persecution by Israel. The people are suffering and it needs to stop. Israel cannot continue to impose suffering as a measure to require peace. Stop demanding President Abbas bring Hamas under control, that will never happen because Abbas has not been able to end the occupation and settlements, even in the West Bank.
Current Israeli leadership is grossly inadequate to end violence in the lands. That has to be a fact the international community has to recognize. Israel has been completely unable to establish peace between the two peoples while its settlements and occupation have created an intractable circumstance. That is the truth and the international leadership must impose that value on Israel. It has an extremist ideology, no different than Palestineans at this point in history.
Israel is not capable of peace because of the power it has compared to the land it occupies. Israel, in the past, has been a beacon for all Jewish people. Its leadership has been instrumental in providing for peaceful existence for it's diaspora. That is Israel's mission. Increasing violence in the land of Israel is destroying that mission.
The current leadership in Washington, DC and Israel are capable of a war that will move borders. They are capable of creating a protracted war that will last for generations. Stop it now. Israel is wrong and outside of it's internationally recognized borders. That is the truth and the tragedy of the Palestinian people is directly related to the passive occupation of Palestinian lands.
It is proven there is no leadership in Israel capable of peace. Prime Minister Sharon was the world's last hope.
The Arab nations have to stand together to prevent opportunistic war since the end of Daesh with both Israel and Iran. The siege of Saudi Arab has to end as well. Both Israel and Iran are now fighting opportunistic wars where stabilization and normalization should be occurring. I believe sanctions of both Israel and Iran are in order if the violence does not end.
There needs to be an official map of the region. This map is completely disproportionate.
By Wajahat Ali
Should I lie to an Israeli soldier in order to be allowed to pray? (click here) This was a theological dilemma I never studied in Sunday school, one I never thought I would have to confront.
Anxious and on edge, the soldier was standing in front of me, rifle in hand, blocking my way, and all I had to do was tell him I was 50 years old, and then I could pray at one of Islam’s holiest sites. One minor problem: I’m 37. Typically, when violence happens in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israeli authorities ban men younger than 50 from entering Haram al-Sharif, the compound known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount. And there had just been a small—by Middle Eastern standards anyway—spasm of violence. Three Palestinians had shot and killed two Israeli police officers near al-Aqsa Mosque inside Haram al-Sharif, which led to Israeli retaliations, which led to mass Palestinian protests, which led to yet another predictable round of stories datelined Jerusalem about the legendary Middle Eastern “cycle of violence.”...
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