BBC Accepts Iran’s Demand Of Blackout On Its Persian Sites Amid Regime’s Attacks On Press

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85), center, the Royal Australian Navy Canberra-class landing helicopter dock HMAS Canberra (L02), left, the U.S. Navy Los Angeles-class submarine attack USS Key West (SSN 722), far left, and the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), during Talisman Sabre 2019.

Liz Sheld:

“…President Trump continued to exchange words with THE SQUAD over the weekend. I didn’t follow it because I usually avoid the news and social media on weekends because I have a life. THE SQUAD, for those that don’t know, are the four anti-American, intersectional, Jew-hating wrecking ball congressmen: Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC and Ayana Pressley. Oh and Hillary Clinton woke up from her chardonnay-infused nap to get involved.

All these people are attacking each other on social media and the Pulitzer-winning corporate media breathlessly run with the story. THE SQUAD is a one-hit-wonder saying Trump is a racist fear-monger, Pelosi was forced to side with them against Trump. Trump is clever. Now Pelosi, who is desperate to moderate the nutters to keep the House under Democrat control, gets lumped in with them anyway.

These public bit*h fights just empower THE SQUAD with their intersectional mob, especially when the president told them to go back to their sh!thole countries. I do wonder why someone like Omar, who is an immigrant, is even here since she seems to hate the operating principles of America. The beauty of this soap opera is that Trump is doing a good job of tying these hateful wenches around the necks of the Democrats and they are out of touch with everyone except their twitter mobs. Let’s see how this plays out at the ballot box…”

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LIZ SHELD:

“…Someone “leaked” that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be conducting raids this past weekend to remove criminal aliens from the U.S. The targets are illegal immigrants who have been through the legal system and ordered removed by a court. There was a media and Democrat meltdown because it’s racist to remove criminals from the U.S. and its racist to expect people who are released into the U.S. to respond to court orders and it’s racist to expect people to appear at their asylum hearings.

“These are individuals who have come into this country illegally, had the opportunity to make an asylum claim in front of an immigration judge, and most of them chose not to avail themselves at the opportunity, and didn’t even show up to their first hearing,” ICE Acting Director Matthew Albence said.

Democrats, especially Democrats who are trying to win the nomination for president, were dishing out advice on how to avoid removal and hide from the ICE agents. Amazing.  So what happened with the raids?

An official who spoke with The Wall Street Journal confirmed ICE was active Saturday in two New York City neighborhoods — Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and the Manhattan’s Harlem section. Federal immigration authorities were unable to make any arrests, however, they reportedly plan on coming back to those same locations at a later time.

 

NPR reports there was no sign of any raids. “The ACLU has not heard reports of any raids today,” Ruthie Epstein, the American Civil Liberties Union’s deputy director for immigration policy, told NPR.

Jake Tapper of CNN asked U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acting Director Ken Cuccinelli if children would be separated from their parents in the raids. Cuccinelli refused to say. “I’m not going to say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to anything like that because then certain people out there can write themselves off the list or find a way to play a loophole,“ Cuccinelli said on CNN’s clown show. “And the loopholes in our legal system are what we’ve been screaming to be fixed.” Americans who go to jail for crimes are also separated from their children.

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Mark Tapscott:

…“Contrary to the constant predictions that religion is doomed, there is abundant evidence of an ongoing world-wide religious awakening. Never before have four out of five people on Earth claimed to belong to one of the great world faiths,” Stark writes.

“Today, there are millions of devout Protestants in Latin America; not so long ago, there were none. Even so, Latin American Catholics are far more religious than ever before.

“Sub-Saharan Africa is now home to more church-going Christians than anywhere else on Earth, and North Africa and the Middle East are ablaze with Muslim fervor.

“Hinduism has never been stronger and India’s transport system are straining to meet the demands of pilgrims. The Chinese have rebuilt tens of thousands of temples destroyed by the Red Guards, and million have converted to Christianity.

“Only in parts of Europe are the churches still rather empty, but this is not the reliable sign of secularization it has long been said to be; it is, rather, a sign of lazy clergy and unsuitable religions. As has been said, ‘Europe is a continent of believing non-belongers.’”…

…“Liberal churches are hemorrhaging members. Churches that are bailing on Christian orthodoxy — those denying the deity of Christ; rejected the reality of sin; doubting the historical reality of Christ’s death and resurrection; and embracing abortion, gay and gender politics — are all in drastic free fall. People are leaving those churches as though the buildings were on fire. They can’t get out fast enough,” Stanton writes.

“Biblical churches are holding strong. Churches that are faithfully preaching, teaching and practicing biblical truths and conservative theology are holding stable overall. Some are seeing steady growth and others are exploding …

“Church attendance is at an all-time high. More Americans in raw numbers and as a percentage of the population, attend church today than at any other time in our nation’s history, including the colonial days…

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RICK MORAN:

Democrats are sounding the alarm that swing voters know and dislike socialism, warning it could cost them the House and the presidency. The poll is making the rounds of some of the most influential Democrats in America…

…1,003 likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education…

…These are the “white, non-college voters” who embraced Donald Trump in 2016 but are needed by Democrats in swing House districts…

• • Ocasio-Cortez was recognized by 74% of voters in the poll; 22% had a favorable view.
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota — another member of The Squad — was recognized by 53% of the voters; 9% (not a typo) had a favorable view.
  • Socialism was viewed favorably by 18% of the voters and unfavorably by 69%.
  • Capitalism was 56% favorable; 32% unfavorable.
  • “Socialism is toxic to these voters,” said the top Democrat.

I think these poll results explain the President’s latest tweet attack against the 4 young congresswomen.

 

Sundance:

“…Ultimately an openly hostile and aggressive position by China is exactly what President Trump would prefer.  Pretense is a painstakingly annoying negotiation strategy and President Trump is predisposed to be a notoriously ‘get-to-the-nub-of-it’ type of negotiator.  Down South the term would be: ‘he doesn’t suffer fools’.

The current status-quo, where international investment is paused to wait and see what happens (while corporations make alternate plans), is buckets more favorable to President Trump than Chairman Xi.  Essentially, the current stalemate has nimble companies departing China, the Belt-and-Road initiatives shrinking and Beijing is burning through cash to subsidize their current manufacturing base. [The currency devaluation is ongoing]

Existing tariffs remain a financial drain on China, not U.S. consumers. In actuality U.S. inflation continues to decline. Meanwhile President Trump is hitting Xi with public questions about Beijing purchasing U.S. agricultural products; a previous promise.

In actuality President Trump knows the purchase promises were the typical false-promises of Beijing; but, well, the lies have a value in calling out Panda’s duplicity.

The potential tariffs (25 percent on $300+ billion in goods) sit on the table as a weapon President Trump would love to start using.  However, in the dance with the dragon Lighthizer and Ross have to wait to allow the panda mask to fully drop.  Currently Chairman Xi Jinping is trying to keep the financial/investment class from noticing the panda mask is slipping.  However, that ruse can’t last too much longer.  Thus the dance continues.

At the 30,000/ft level China appears to have accepted that President Trump isn’t going to concede an inch. Therefore their position in the trade stand-off is timed to exhaust around the 2020 presidential election.  Despite what the U.S. media are claiming, Beijing is making very visible moves to withstand more than a year of status quo strain…”

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