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Thursday, September 23, 2021

Surf's Up Lake Michigan ! - Steve Bannon - Adding Info On Haiti Don't Miss AP's Pictorial On Port au Prince Shocking - Latest TIJ Execution Stats


  It looks cold and choppy - storm surf we used to call it, I guess my question is, what do these guys do the rest of the year ?

  ~ From The Chicago Tribune  - 09/23/21

 

 Surf's Up In Lake Michigan 

 

Brrrrr !

 

~~~~~

 

Here, Paris had her stitches out this afternoon and I am still a mess. Two areas where I received the chemical shots(there were four big areas) became infected and last night I had to take 50mg of Tramadol  & antibiotics which sent me to the moon. Nothing hurt after that. I'm still waiting for the Bob Woodward book (Peril) which I ordered and attempting to keep up with the news.

 

 Haiti

 

They are saying the agents were not actually "whipping" the migrants, but these cowboys were knocking them down and aggressive to the max, brutal & uncalled for.








 

 


Biden as you know is getting hit from all sides regarding the  Haitian migrants. I did a bit of reading and found out that the UN  is attempting to gather together 190 million dollars for aid, the US has sent an additional 32 million and we have a ship down there treating the injured.  Mexico has also been quite generous with extra aid this time around. Mike said that everyday people on the streets will probably not get most of the aid because of the gangs and the corruption, with the wealthiest people grabbing the loot. Where do you put 14K people during a pandemic? 

edit Adding Info On Haiti :

Thought I should add some factoids on Haiti - took a heavy duty tylenol & after this, taking a nap so I can make the Basque chicken - Mike picked up the serrano ham from Spain in town, using that & serrano chiles and stuffed green olives.

Okay, I first read this in Osbourne's newsletter which you cannot copy & paste. Luckily I found it on the internets, worth the read:

 

 ~ From Foreign Policy: 

 

 The View From Haiti

 

Latin America Brief

A one-stop weekly digest of politics, economics, technology, and culture in Latin America. Delivered Friday.
 
By , the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly Latin America Brief. 

 

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief.

 

"The highlights this week: Haitians react to mass deportations from the U.S.-Mexico border, Latin American leaders slam vaccine inequity at the United Nations General Assembly, and the decade-old regional forum CELAC withers.

‘America Has Lost Its Humanity’

On Wednesday, a few days after images circulated of horse-mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents confronting Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas—some appearing to brandish their reins like whips—Haiti’s largest newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, ran a front-page cartoon depicting the U.S. ambassador and the top U.N. envoy to the country at the moment the events unfolded. In the drawing, the two officials sit on the back of a prostrate Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, whose arms are bound to his sides with rope.

The Border Patrol agents were corralling the migrants as part of efforts to expel them from the United States by the hundreds. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the United States has conducted 12 deportation flights to Haiti since Sept. 19, which carried a total of more than 1,400 migrants. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday warned that the U.S. expulsions might have violated international law.

In a Tuesday editorial, Le Nouvelliste slammed not only what it described as cruel U.S. deportations but also a feeble response from Henry’s government. Henry was installed with support from U.S. and other international backers after the July assassination of then-President Jovenel Moïse.

The newspaper wrote that the Haitian government did not immediately delegate legal assistance for the Haitians in Del Rio. Nor did Henry himself seem to strongly object to the deportations: In a short Sept. 18 Twitter thread, the Haitian prime minister wrote that he “shares [migrants’] suffering while saying welcome home.”

“America has lost its humanity and Haitian diplomacy its usefulness,” read the Nouvelliste editorial. On Wednesday, U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Daniel Foote, a career foreign service official, similarly cited both the deportations and Washington’s support for Henry as part of its “deeply flawed” Haiti policy in a blistering resignation letter.

“I will not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs in control of daily life,” Foote wrote.

The chaotic expulsions unleashed a slew of criticism in Haiti and elsewhere in Latin America about U.S. immigration policy under President Joe Biden and highlighted tensions—both current and historical—in U.S.-Haiti relations.

The role of racism. Title 42, the rule the Biden administration used to deport the Haitians, was imposed by the Trump administration in March 2020 as part of an ostensible effort to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The measure effectively allows U.S. authorities to block people from applying for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Biden has moved to abolish some Trump-era immigration policies, such as the program known as Remain in Mexico, but his administration has maintained Title 42, while waiving it for unaccompanied children and some migrant families without issuing clear criteria on which families can expect such waivers. Enforcement has varied based on the nationality of migrants and the part of the border they approach.

In a victory for migrant rights groups that have long argued Title 42 is illegal, a U.S. federal judge on Sept. 16 ruled it could no longer be used to expel migrants, effective Sept. 30. The Biden administration has appealed the ruling.

In the meantime, Customs and Border Protection invoked Title 42 after thousands of mostly Haitian migrants entered Texas last week—prompting criticism that the administration’s actions were “rooted in racism,” as the Haitian social entrepreneur Daphné Bourgoin wrote on Twitter. The Mexican historian León Krauze called the Haitian migrants “victims of abuses and racism.”

U.S. policy problems. Many Haitians have suggested that U.S. immigration policy should take into account Washington’s role in perpetuating the instability and violence that cause people to flee Haiti.

A story in Haiti’s AyiboPost looked at the flow of U.S. guns to Haiti and how those weapons arm the country’s deadly gangs. It cited a new Center for American Progress report on how weak U.S. gun laws contribute to violent crime abroad.   

Some Haitians pointed to what they called weak leadership by Haitian heads of state whom Washington helped prop up, such as Moïse and Henry. Emmanuela Douyon, the director of the nongovernmental organization Policité, tweeted, “If America doesn’t want Haitian migrants at the borders then America needs to change its policies towards Haiti and stop supporting a cruel regime.”

Hemisphere-wide strains. Many of the Haitian migrants camping in southern Texas this week did not come directly from Haiti but rather left the country after its devastating 2010 earthquake and lived abroad for years in countries such as Brazil and Chile. In 2018, Chile eliminated a pathway to work permits for Haitian migrants, spurring many to move again.

The economic hardship of the pandemic also prompted many Haitians to migrate once COVID-19 travel restrictions began to ease this year. In June, Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes wrote in Foreign Policy about the dangers a growing number of migrants—many of them Haitian—face as they trek northward through the Darién Gap jungle crossing between Colombia and Panama.

The Biden administration has said it aims to improve migration management. The steps the White House could take to do so are straightforward and include increasing capacities for evaluating asylum claims, the Washington Office on Latin America’s Maureen Meyer and Adam Isacson recently wrote.

Meanwhile, much of Washington’s migration cooperation with Latin American governments has focused on physically blocking migrants from reaching the United States. An alternative would be to engage in dialogue with regional governments about how all countries, including the United States, can offer more legal pathways for migration to better reflect the realities of a new era of Latin Americans on the move."

 ~~~~~

 But I am not sure about the US losing its humanity - take a look at all the aid we have been sending Haiti - additionally, it is my understanding that the "thousands'"allowed to enter the US from Del Rio were unaccompanied children, whole families, pregnant women. At least Biden was not separating families and we are all aware that no longer will Mexico take back unaccompanied children, they do not have the resources to take care of them - yet this was not mentioned at all in the MSM. C'mon you guys.

Check out the aid: 

 ~ From the White House Briefing Room: 

 FACT SHEET: U.S. Assistance to Haiti

 Not to mention an additional 32 million:, etcetera:

  ~ From NPR:

The US Is Pledging Aid To Haiti But The Success Of Past Efforts Has Been Mixed 

 

~~~~~

 Latest From Today (09/25/21):

  ~ From AP News:

Texas Border Crossing where Migrants Make Camp to Reopen 

- today
 
~~~~~

end edit. Other than Mike says Haiti is a "lost cause".


Update 09/26: Don't Miss AP's Current Pictorial On Port Au Prince. Even though Mike says Haiti is a lost cause, what I am wondering is how do you fix this ? It seems that all the tea from China (i.e. monetary and other aid) just is not working:


How Do You Fix This ?


  ~ From AP:

 

  Haitians Returning To A Homeland That's Far From Welcoming

 

 By ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD - today

 

 end edit.

 

~~~~~

 

 

 Meanwhile look at this creep:

 ~ From CNN:

 Steve Bannon Was Knee-Deep In January 6

Updated 12:19 PM ET, Thu September 23, 2021

 

 

 

More of everything here:

  Democracy Now!|Democracy Now!

 

~~~~~ 

Locally:

Yesterday, there were 8 executions in TIJ bringing the month of September up to 94 and YTD for TIJ to 1,473 executed.  At this point, Baja California stands at 2,285 executions.

All the news here; 

Zeta Tijuana 

 

Update/edit 09/25:  We are now up to 109 executions this month in TIJ, bringing the YTD tally in TIJ  to 1,490 executed.

 end edit.

~~~~~

I feel really bad for Gabby Petito, but so many red flags...like him hearing "voices"...why did she stay with him? Apparently now the FBI has issued an arrest warrant for Laundrie. (The Daily Mail  an incredible conservative gossip rag always seems to get the scoop). Adding this: I despise Fox News & the Daily Mail however the MSM so far has not reported this: Dog the Bounty Hunter is hot on the trail of Laundrie. We never did watch the Dog's show, except for once catching a glimpse, and it was bizarre. But there you have it. Yet, I agree with the Dog, Laundrie is not in the reserve - he never was.

 

Over & Out...down for a nap with Paris and Totsie. 

 

I remember we would swoon when this came on the radio...we were just gremmies.. teenie boppers in the spring of 1963, and I had a Velzy.

Take care y'all 

 


 

 

.........................

Surf's Up Lake Michigan ! - Steve Bannon - Adding Info On Haiti Don't Miss AP's Pictorial On Port au Prince Shocking - Latest TIJ Execution Stats


  It looks cold and choppy - storm surf we used to call it, I guess my question is, what do these guys do the rest of the year ?

  ~ From The Chicago Tribune  - 09/23/21

 

 Surf's Up In Lake Michigan 

 

Brrrrr !

 

~~~~~

 

Here, Paris had her stitches out this afternoon and I am still a mess. Two areas where I received the chemical shots(there were four big areas) became infected and last night I had to take 50mg of Tramadol  & antibiotics which sent me to the moon. Nothing hurt after that. I'm still waiting for the Bob Woodward book (Peril) which I ordered and attempting to keep up with the news.

 

 Haiti

 

They are saying the agents were not actually "whipping" the migrants, but these cowboys were knocking them down and aggressive to the max, brutal & uncalled for.








 

 


Biden as you know is getting hit from all sides regarding the  Haitian migrants. I did a bit of reading and found out that the UN  is attempting to gather together 190 million dollars for aid, the US has sent an additional 32 million and we have a ship down there treating the injured.  Mexico has also been quite generous with extra aid this time around. Mike said that everyday people on the streets will probably not get most of the aid because of the gangs and the corruption, with the wealthiest people grabbing the loot. Where do you put 14K people during a pandemic? 

edit Adding Info On Haiti :

Thought I should add some factoids on Haiti - took a heavy duty tylenol & after this, taking a nap so I can make the Basque chicken - Mike picked up the serrano ham from Spain in town, using that & serrano chiles and stuffed green olives.

Okay, I first read this in Osbourne's newsletter which you cannot copy & paste. Luckily I found it on the internets, worth the read:

 

 ~ From Foreign Policy: 

 

 The View From Haiti

 

Latin America Brief

A one-stop weekly digest of politics, economics, technology, and culture in Latin America. Delivered Friday.
 
By , the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly Latin America Brief. 

 

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief.

 

"The highlights this week: Haitians react to mass deportations from the U.S.-Mexico border, Latin American leaders slam vaccine inequity at the United Nations General Assembly, and the decade-old regional forum CELAC withers.

‘America Has Lost Its Humanity’

On Wednesday, a few days after images circulated of horse-mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents confronting Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas—some appearing to brandish their reins like whips—Haiti’s largest newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, ran a front-page cartoon depicting the U.S. ambassador and the top U.N. envoy to the country at the moment the events unfolded. In the drawing, the two officials sit on the back of a prostrate Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, whose arms are bound to his sides with rope.

The Border Patrol agents were corralling the migrants as part of efforts to expel them from the United States by the hundreds. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the United States has conducted 12 deportation flights to Haiti since Sept. 19, which carried a total of more than 1,400 migrants. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday warned that the U.S. expulsions might have violated international law.

In a Tuesday editorial, Le Nouvelliste slammed not only what it described as cruel U.S. deportations but also a feeble response from Henry’s government. Henry was installed with support from U.S. and other international backers after the July assassination of then-President Jovenel Moïse.

The newspaper wrote that the Haitian government did not immediately delegate legal assistance for the Haitians in Del Rio. Nor did Henry himself seem to strongly object to the deportations: In a short Sept. 18 Twitter thread, the Haitian prime minister wrote that he “shares [migrants’] suffering while saying welcome home.”

“America has lost its humanity and Haitian diplomacy its usefulness,” read the Nouvelliste editorial. On Wednesday, U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Daniel Foote, a career foreign service official, similarly cited both the deportations and Washington’s support for Henry as part of its “deeply flawed” Haiti policy in a blistering resignation letter.

“I will not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs in control of daily life,” Foote wrote.

The chaotic expulsions unleashed a slew of criticism in Haiti and elsewhere in Latin America about U.S. immigration policy under President Joe Biden and highlighted tensions—both current and historical—in U.S.-Haiti relations.

The role of racism. Title 42, the rule the Biden administration used to deport the Haitians, was imposed by the Trump administration in March 2020 as part of an ostensible effort to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The measure effectively allows U.S. authorities to block people from applying for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Biden has moved to abolish some Trump-era immigration policies, such as the program known as Remain in Mexico, but his administration has maintained Title 42, while waiving it for unaccompanied children and some migrant families without issuing clear criteria on which families can expect such waivers. Enforcement has varied based on the nationality of migrants and the part of the border they approach.

In a victory for migrant rights groups that have long argued Title 42 is illegal, a U.S. federal judge on Sept. 16 ruled it could no longer be used to expel migrants, effective Sept. 30. The Biden administration has appealed the ruling.

In the meantime, Customs and Border Protection invoked Title 42 after thousands of mostly Haitian migrants entered Texas last week—prompting criticism that the administration’s actions were “rooted in racism,” as the Haitian social entrepreneur Daphné Bourgoin wrote on Twitter. The Mexican historian León Krauze called the Haitian migrants “victims of abuses and racism.”

U.S. policy problems. Many Haitians have suggested that U.S. immigration policy should take into account Washington’s role in perpetuating the instability and violence that cause people to flee Haiti.

A story in Haiti’s AyiboPost looked at the flow of U.S. guns to Haiti and how those weapons arm the country’s deadly gangs. It cited a new Center for American Progress report on how weak U.S. gun laws contribute to violent crime abroad.   

Some Haitians pointed to what they called weak leadership by Haitian heads of state whom Washington helped prop up, such as Moïse and Henry. Emmanuela Douyon, the director of the nongovernmental organization Policité, tweeted, “If America doesn’t want Haitian migrants at the borders then America needs to change its policies towards Haiti and stop supporting a cruel regime.”

Hemisphere-wide strains. Many of the Haitian migrants camping in southern Texas this week did not come directly from Haiti but rather left the country after its devastating 2010 earthquake and lived abroad for years in countries such as Brazil and Chile. In 2018, Chile eliminated a pathway to work permits for Haitian migrants, spurring many to move again.

The economic hardship of the pandemic also prompted many Haitians to migrate once COVID-19 travel restrictions began to ease this year. In June, Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes wrote in Foreign Policy about the dangers a growing number of migrants—many of them Haitian—face as they trek northward through the Darién Gap jungle crossing between Colombia and Panama.

The Biden administration has said it aims to improve migration management. The steps the White House could take to do so are straightforward and include increasing capacities for evaluating asylum claims, the Washington Office on Latin America’s Maureen Meyer and Adam Isacson recently wrote.

Meanwhile, much of Washington’s migration cooperation with Latin American governments has focused on physically blocking migrants from reaching the United States. An alternative would be to engage in dialogue with regional governments about how all countries, including the United States, can offer more legal pathways for migration to better reflect the realities of a new era of Latin Americans on the move."

 ~~~~~

 But I am not sure about the US losing its humanity - take a look at all the aid we have been sending Haiti - additionally, it is my understanding that the "thousands'"allowed to enter the US from Del Rio were unaccompanied children, whole families, pregnant women. At least Biden was not separating families and we are all aware that no longer will Mexico take back unaccompanied children, they do not have the resources to take care of them - yet this was not mentioned at all in the MSM. C'mon you guys.

Check out the aid: 

 ~ From the White House Briefing Room: 

 FACT SHEET: U.S. Assistance to Haiti

 Not to mention an additional 32 million:, etcetera:

  ~ From NPR:

The US Is Pledging Aid To Haiti But The Success Of Past Efforts Has Been Mixed 

 

~~~~~

 Latest From Today (09/25/21):

  ~ From AP News:

Texas Border Crossing where Migrants Make Camp to Reopen 

- today
 
~~~~~

end edit. Other than Mike says Haiti is a "lost cause".


Update 09/26: Don't Miss AP's Current Pictorial On Port Au Prince. Even though Mike says Haiti is a lost cause, what I am wondering is how do you fix this ? It seems that all the tea from China (i.e. monetary and other aid) just is not working:


How Do You Fix This ?


  ~ From AP:

 

  Haitians Returning To A Homeland That's Far From Welcoming

 

 By ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD - today

 

 end edit.

 

~~~~~

 

 

 Meanwhile look at this creep:

 ~ From CNN:

 Steve Bannon Was Knee-Deep In January 6

Updated 12:19 PM ET, Thu September 23, 2021

 

 

 

More of everything here:

  Democracy Now!|Democracy Now!

 

~~~~~ 

Locally:

Yesterday, there were 8 executions in TIJ bringing the month of September up to 94 and YTD for TIJ to 1,473 executed.  At this point, Baja California stands at 2,285 executions.

All the news here; 

Zeta Tijuana 

 

Update/edit 09/25:  We are now up to 109 executions this month in TIJ, bringing the YTD tally in TIJ  to 1,490 executed.

 end edit.

~~~~~

I feel really bad for Gabby Petito, but so many red flags...like him hearing "voices"...why did she stay with him? Apparently now the FBI has issued an arrest warrant for Laundrie. (The Daily Mail  an incredible conservative gossip rag always seems to get the scoop). Adding this: I despise Fox News & the Daily Mail however the MSM so far has not reported this: Dog the Bounty Hunter is hot on the trail of Laundrie. We never did watch the Dog's show, except for once catching a glimpse, and it was bizarre. But there you have it. Yet, I agree with the Dog, Laundrie is not in the reserve - he never was.

 

Over & Out...down for a nap with Paris and Totsie. 

 

I remember we would swoon when this came on the radio...we were just gremmies.. teenie boppers in the spring of 1963, and I had a Velzy.

Take care y'all 

 


 

 

.........................

Friday, August 18, 2017

# 3 Updates: Charlottesville: Bannon Is Out & Confederate Statues Are Coming Down

One person asked me, "...with this crisis of the rise of the neo-nazi movement and the division in the United States, does this mean you are not going to be blogging about the executions in Baja California anymore"? No, one of the problems I am having is that the local press has not been reporting an up to date August number of the homicidios dolosos as they have in the past, and at this point we are somewhere over 50 this month just in Tijuana not counting Rosarito Beach, Mexicali and Ensenada but that is not official.  So, stay tuned.

Finally from Zeta  a report on the departure of Steve Bannon:

Zeta - 08/18/17

Bannon, su Estratega En Jefe
por, Carlos Alvarez



DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE?

Bannon will simply return to Breitbart and mobilize the neo-nazis which Trump has emboldened and enabled.  The White House  & Government of the United States will still have an abundant number of racists in control while Bannon musters the troops. Well at least French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted support for the protesters against Fascism and Nazis yesterday in his response to the terrorist attack in Spain:

From The Guardian:

"The French president, Emmanuel Macron, appeared to take on Trump in his Twitter reaction to the Barcelona attack. An initial tweet offered solidarity for the victims of and the pledge: “We remain united and determined.” But in a follow-up, Macron – who has repeatedly acted as a foil to Trump on the world stage – said: “We stand beside those who fight racism and xenophobia. It is our common fight, in past and present.” He added the hashtag: #Charlottesville."

Full Report here:

The Guardian 
08/17/17

"Trump Responds to Barcelona Attack By Reviving Debunked Myth"


**********


This just in moments after I typed that -  from The Intercept comes this report, with super tweet from Glenn thrush of the New York Times:


"The answer is pretty simple and straightforward: Trump shares Bannon’s worldview. Or as the New York Times’ Glenn Thrush tweeted: “Ultimately you don’t need a Bannon when you are a Bannon.”



The Intercept

Steve Bannon Is Gone But His Bigotry Stays In the White House 
by, Mehdi Hasan 



Steve Bannon Is Gone But His Bigotry Stays in the White House


The writing was on the wall for Steve Bannon on Tuesday afternoon. Speaking in the gilded lobby of the Trump Tower in New York, the president of the United States took a short break from defending neo-Nazis and attacking “fake news” to comment on the future of his chief strategist -—who he pointedly refused to call “Steve.”


“Look, I like Mr. Bannon,” Trump told reporters. “He is a friend of mine, but Mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. I went through 17 senators, governors and I won all the primaries. Mr. Bannon came on very much later than that, and I like him.” Trump added: “We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon.”


Well, it didn’t take long: Bannon, as of Friday morning, is out, six months after his controversial switchover from Trump campaign CEO to White House chief strategist. He joins Gen. Michael Flynn, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Kate Walsh and Anthony Scaramucci on the outside. As Oscar Wilde nearly remarked, to lose one member of your inner circle may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose six in six months looks like sheer chaos.


Let’s be clear: Trump’s sacking of “Mr. Bannon” is not a repudiation of Bannon-esque, or Breitbartian, white nationalism. Rather, it is a clear consequence of Bannon, like Icarus flying too close to the sun. As his remarks on Tuesday indicated, Trump wanted to make clear to the world that he is his own man — or as he once declaimed in an early-morning tweet: “I call my own shots.” For the thin-skinned, egomaniacal and attention-hungry president, White House staffers have only one mission: to boost him, not themselves.


Thanks to the relentless leaking from inside the White House, we have known for some time that Trump has been bothered by the rise and rise of Bannon. He was annoyed by the Time magazine cover story that asked whether the chief strategist was now “the second most powerful man in the world.” He was irritated by the #PresidentBannon hashtag on Twitter and upset over the SNL sketch showing Bannon running the White House while the president sits at a kid’s desk playing with toys. And, in recent days, Trump was angered by the much-discussed new book by Joshua Green, “Devil’s Bargain,” which suggests that it was the former Breitbart boss who paved the way for Trump’s shock victory over Hillary Clinton. “That fucking Steve Bannon taking credit for my election,” Trump recently told a friend, according to Buzzfeed News.


For the Narcissist-in Chief, who perhaps values and cherishes his electoral college win more than he does four of his own five children, it was the final nail in Bannon’s coffin. Whatever else you say or do, don’t you dare take credit from The Donald!


History, however, will remember the hiring, not the firing, of Bannon. How on God’s green earth did a president of the United States bring into his White House as chief strategist a man who proudly called his Breitbart News website “the platform for the alt-right”; published pieces on Breitbart, during his tenure as executive chairman, with headlines such as “Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?” and “Political Correctness Protects Muslim Rape Culture”; allegedly objected to the number of “whiny” Jews at his daughters’ school; took inspiration from notorious Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl; produced a closing ad for the Trump presidential campaign that, according to the Anti-Defamation League, used “images and rhetoric” that “anti-Semites have used for ages”; suggested disenfranchising black voters might not be “such a bad thing”; said he wanted women who “lead this country” to “be feminine” rather than “a bunch of dykes… from the 7 Sisters schools”; declared “Islam is not a religion of peace” but “a religion of submission” and also called it “the most radical” religion in the world; warned the U.S. could turn into the “Islamic States of America” and dubbed American Muslim organizations a “Fifth Column”; seemed to approvingly cite Italian fascist thinker Julius Evola; repeatedly nodded to a “stunningly racist French novel” called “The Camp of the Saints” which warns of a migrant invasion of the West; expressed admiration for the anti-Semitic French philosopher, and hero to the European far right, Charles Maurras; joined the controversial and secretive Council for National Policy, or CNP, alongside extremists, who according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “regularly defame LGBT people with utter falsehoods” and “describe Latino immigrants as… rapists and disease-carriers”; and whose White House appointment in January was welcomed by America’s leading white nationalists and neo-Nazis, including David Duke and Peter Brimelow, who called it “excellent” and “amazing”?


The answer is pretty simple and straightforward: Trump shares Bannon’s worldview. Or as the New York Times’ Glenn Thrush tweeted: “Ultimately you don’t need a Bannon when you are a Bannon.”


Look, the Great Manipulator, as Time called Bannon, may have encouraged Trump’s worst, most crude, most bigoted tendencies — but they were Trump’s tendencies to begin with. The White House chief strategist, for instance, was reportedly one of the key architects of the “Muslim Ban” but does anyone seriously expect that ban to be lifted now he is gone? Remember: the president was promising a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in December 2015, long before Bannon joined Team Trump.


The Leader of the Free World has form on nativism, xenophobia and racism, as I have pointed out before. Consider the past few days: Bannon may have influenced Trump’s response to the domestic terror attack in Charlottesville but he did not force Trump to provoke howls of outrage across Capitol Hill, the business community and the wider West on Tuesday by referring to the “very fine people” on the neo-Nazi, KKK-aligned side; nor did Bannon dictate Trump’s dog-whistling tweet on Thursday praising the “beauty” of Confederate monuments.


Yes, Bannon has finally gone and we can all rejoice. Sebastian Gorka and maybe even Stephen Miller might eventually follow him out of the White House doors. But Trump remains. That’s the inescapable, unavoidable, undeniable problem; that’s the orange-skinned gorilla in the room. I hate to agree with Trump but Bannon or no Bannon, Gen. John Kelly or no Gen. Kelly, the president does indeed call his own shots. Especially the racist ones."





**********

Meanwhile from The Hill:



"Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said he was happy that Bannon would be gone but that the departure "cannot wash away the harm he and the president have done."


"It can't reverse the Muslim Ban. It can't reverse the President's inappropriate attacks on a Federal judge of Mexican heritage. And it can't reverse the White House's reluctance to denounce white supremacists," Cicilline said in a statement. "


More reactions from The Hill:

Dems celebrate Bannon's exit




Dems celebrate Bannon's exit
© Greg Nash

Democrats are cheering the news that Stephen Bannon is out as White House chief strategist.
Bannon has long been one of the least-liked figures in the White House on the left, and many Democrats have criticized his influence.
Democrats have ripped the former leader of Breitbart News for promoting nationalist policies that they see as thinly disguised racism.
Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) said Bannon should never have been given his position by President Trump.

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At the same time, several Democrats questioned whether Bannon's ouster would really change the White House or Trump's policies.
"Steve Bannon's firing is welcome news, but it doesn’t disguise where President Trump himself stands on white supremacists and the bigoted beliefs they advance," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.

"President Trump's growing record of repulsive statements is matched by his repulsive policies. Personnel changes are worthless so long as President Trump continues to advance policies that disgrace our cherished American values," she said.

Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said he was happy that Bannon would be gone but that the departure "cannot wash away the harm he and the president have done."
"It can't reverse the Muslim Ban. It can't reverse the President's inappropriate attacks on a Federal judge of Mexican heritage. And it can't reverse the White House's reluctance to denounce white supremacists," Cicilline said in a statement.
Other House Democrats chimed in with similar messages.


Bannon's departure comes nearly a week after white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a Confederate statue, spurring violence with counterprotesters.
Various Democrats were quick to incorporate the events in Charlottesville in their reactions to Bannon, who was seen as a prominent voice in the white supremacist community, leaving.
Bannon's departure comes after speculation swirled that his future at the White House was up in the air.
The president garnered backlash from Republicans and Democrats alike for his reaction to Charlottesville, which was seen as an attempt to appease white nationalists and other far-right extremist groups. "

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Excellent report on the confederate statues and memorabilia from Robert Mackey of The Intercept with links:

The Intercept don't miss all of the reports !

As Trump Adds Fuel to the Fire, Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Dead of Night



After President Donald Trump inflamed the national debate over monuments to the Confederacy on Tuesday, telling reporters that white supremacists willing to use deadly violence to defend a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville included some “very fine people,” the City of Baltimore removed four statues honoring the defenders of slavery in the early hours of Wednesday.
Witnesses to the late-night operation, which was completed by 5:30 a.m. local time, shared images and video of workers removing the statues, including a massive one of Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Baltimore’s Wyman Park Dell.
Baltimore’s mayor, Catherine Pugh, was spotted overseeing the operation just before 3 a.m. by Alec MacGillis, a Pro Publica reporter.
Pugh told The Baltimore Sun that her decision to act quickly was partly an effort to avoid the kind of violence sparked by neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville, where an antiracist protester, Heather Heyer, was killed by a white supremacist.
A mayoral commission appointed by Pugh’s predecessor had recommended last year that the statues of Lee and Jackson be removed, along with a monument to Roger Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the notorious Dred Scott decision in 1857, ruling that African-Americans could not be American citizens.
Both of those monuments were removed overnight, along with one dedicated to Confederate women and another honoring Confederate soldiers and sailors, which had been doused in blood-red paint over the weekend.
Pugh acted after activists had vowed to destroy the monuments if the city delayed any longer.
Officials in Durham County, North Carolina, were less inclined to share the viewpoint of antiracist protesters, arresting a 22-year-old woman accused of helping to topple a Confederate statue there, and charging her with rioting and vandalism.
Trump’s intemperate defense of the white supremacists at a news conference in Trump Tower on Tuesday was widely condemned, but seemed to delight his neo-Nazi supporters, including David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, and Richard Spencer, who coined the term “alt-right” to rebrand white supremacy.
Trump’s latest defense of white supremacists reminded many close observers of his career that his father, Fred Trump, was reportedly arrested at a KKK rally in Queens in 1927.

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# 3 Updates: Charlottesville: Bannon Is Out & Confederate Statues Are Coming Down

One person asked me, "...with this crisis of the rise of the neo-nazi movement and the division in the United States, does this mean you are not going to be blogging about the executions in Baja California anymore"? No, one of the problems I am having is that the local press has not been reporting an up to date August number of the homicidios dolosos as they have in the past, and at this point we are somewhere over 50 this month just in Tijuana not counting Rosarito Beach, Mexicali and Ensenada but that is not official.  So, stay tuned.

Finally from Zeta  a report on the departure of Steve Bannon:

Zeta - 08/18/17

Bannon, su Estratega En Jefe
por, Carlos Alvarez



DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE?

Bannon will simply return to Breitbart and mobilize the neo-nazis which Trump has emboldened and enabled.  The White House  & Government of the United States will still have an abundant number of racists in control while Bannon musters the troops. Well at least French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted support for the protesters against Fascism and Nazis yesterday in his response to the terrorist attack in Spain:

From The Guardian:

"The French president, Emmanuel Macron, appeared to take on Trump in his Twitter reaction to the Barcelona attack. An initial tweet offered solidarity for the victims of and the pledge: “We remain united and determined.” But in a follow-up, Macron – who has repeatedly acted as a foil to Trump on the world stage – said: “We stand beside those who fight racism and xenophobia. It is our common fight, in past and present.” He added the hashtag: #Charlottesville."

Full Report here:

The Guardian 
08/17/17

"Trump Responds to Barcelona Attack By Reviving Debunked Myth"


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This just in moments after I typed that -  from The Intercept comes this report, with super tweet from Glenn thrush of the New York Times:


"The answer is pretty simple and straightforward: Trump shares Bannon’s worldview. Or as the New York Times’ Glenn Thrush tweeted: “Ultimately you don’t need a Bannon when you are a Bannon.”



The Intercept

Steve Bannon Is Gone But His Bigotry Stays In the White House 
by, Mehdi Hasan 



Steve Bannon Is Gone But His Bigotry Stays in the White House


The writing was on the wall for Steve Bannon on Tuesday afternoon. Speaking in the gilded lobby of the Trump Tower in New York, the president of the United States took a short break from defending neo-Nazis and attacking “fake news” to comment on the future of his chief strategist -—who he pointedly refused to call “Steve.”


“Look, I like Mr. Bannon,” Trump told reporters. “He is a friend of mine, but Mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. I went through 17 senators, governors and I won all the primaries. Mr. Bannon came on very much later than that, and I like him.” Trump added: “We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon.”


Well, it didn’t take long: Bannon, as of Friday morning, is out, six months after his controversial switchover from Trump campaign CEO to White House chief strategist. He joins Gen. Michael Flynn, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Kate Walsh and Anthony Scaramucci on the outside. As Oscar Wilde nearly remarked, to lose one member of your inner circle may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose six in six months looks like sheer chaos.


Let’s be clear: Trump’s sacking of “Mr. Bannon” is not a repudiation of Bannon-esque, or Breitbartian, white nationalism. Rather, it is a clear consequence of Bannon, like Icarus flying too close to the sun. As his remarks on Tuesday indicated, Trump wanted to make clear to the world that he is his own man — or as he once declaimed in an early-morning tweet: “I call my own shots.” For the thin-skinned, egomaniacal and attention-hungry president, White House staffers have only one mission: to boost him, not themselves.


Thanks to the relentless leaking from inside the White House, we have known for some time that Trump has been bothered by the rise and rise of Bannon. He was annoyed by the Time magazine cover story that asked whether the chief strategist was now “the second most powerful man in the world.” He was irritated by the #PresidentBannon hashtag on Twitter and upset over the SNL sketch showing Bannon running the White House while the president sits at a kid’s desk playing with toys. And, in recent days, Trump was angered by the much-discussed new book by Joshua Green, “Devil’s Bargain,” which suggests that it was the former Breitbart boss who paved the way for Trump’s shock victory over Hillary Clinton. “That fucking Steve Bannon taking credit for my election,” Trump recently told a friend, according to Buzzfeed News.


For the Narcissist-in Chief, who perhaps values and cherishes his electoral college win more than he does four of his own five children, it was the final nail in Bannon’s coffin. Whatever else you say or do, don’t you dare take credit from The Donald!


History, however, will remember the hiring, not the firing, of Bannon. How on God’s green earth did a president of the United States bring into his White House as chief strategist a man who proudly called his Breitbart News website “the platform for the alt-right”; published pieces on Breitbart, during his tenure as executive chairman, with headlines such as “Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?” and “Political Correctness Protects Muslim Rape Culture”; allegedly objected to the number of “whiny” Jews at his daughters’ school; took inspiration from notorious Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl; produced a closing ad for the Trump presidential campaign that, according to the Anti-Defamation League, used “images and rhetoric” that “anti-Semites have used for ages”; suggested disenfranchising black voters might not be “such a bad thing”; said he wanted women who “lead this country” to “be feminine” rather than “a bunch of dykes… from the 7 Sisters schools”; declared “Islam is not a religion of peace” but “a religion of submission” and also called it “the most radical” religion in the world; warned the U.S. could turn into the “Islamic States of America” and dubbed American Muslim organizations a “Fifth Column”; seemed to approvingly cite Italian fascist thinker Julius Evola; repeatedly nodded to a “stunningly racist French novel” called “The Camp of the Saints” which warns of a migrant invasion of the West; expressed admiration for the anti-Semitic French philosopher, and hero to the European far right, Charles Maurras; joined the controversial and secretive Council for National Policy, or CNP, alongside extremists, who according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “regularly defame LGBT people with utter falsehoods” and “describe Latino immigrants as… rapists and disease-carriers”; and whose White House appointment in January was welcomed by America’s leading white nationalists and neo-Nazis, including David Duke and Peter Brimelow, who called it “excellent” and “amazing”?


The answer is pretty simple and straightforward: Trump shares Bannon’s worldview. Or as the New York Times’ Glenn Thrush tweeted: “Ultimately you don’t need a Bannon when you are a Bannon.”


Look, the Great Manipulator, as Time called Bannon, may have encouraged Trump’s worst, most crude, most bigoted tendencies — but they were Trump’s tendencies to begin with. The White House chief strategist, for instance, was reportedly one of the key architects of the “Muslim Ban” but does anyone seriously expect that ban to be lifted now he is gone? Remember: the president was promising a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in December 2015, long before Bannon joined Team Trump.


The Leader of the Free World has form on nativism, xenophobia and racism, as I have pointed out before. Consider the past few days: Bannon may have influenced Trump’s response to the domestic terror attack in Charlottesville but he did not force Trump to provoke howls of outrage across Capitol Hill, the business community and the wider West on Tuesday by referring to the “very fine people” on the neo-Nazi, KKK-aligned side; nor did Bannon dictate Trump’s dog-whistling tweet on Thursday praising the “beauty” of Confederate monuments.


Yes, Bannon has finally gone and we can all rejoice. Sebastian Gorka and maybe even Stephen Miller might eventually follow him out of the White House doors. But Trump remains. That’s the inescapable, unavoidable, undeniable problem; that’s the orange-skinned gorilla in the room. I hate to agree with Trump but Bannon or no Bannon, Gen. John Kelly or no Gen. Kelly, the president does indeed call his own shots. Especially the racist ones."





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Meanwhile from The Hill:



"Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said he was happy that Bannon would be gone but that the departure "cannot wash away the harm he and the president have done."


"It can't reverse the Muslim Ban. It can't reverse the President's inappropriate attacks on a Federal judge of Mexican heritage. And it can't reverse the White House's reluctance to denounce white supremacists," Cicilline said in a statement. "


More reactions from The Hill:

Dems celebrate Bannon's exit




Dems celebrate Bannon's exit
© Greg Nash

Democrats are cheering the news that Stephen Bannon is out as White House chief strategist.
Bannon has long been one of the least-liked figures in the White House on the left, and many Democrats have criticized his influence.
Democrats have ripped the former leader of Breitbart News for promoting nationalist policies that they see as thinly disguised racism.
Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) said Bannon should never have been given his position by President Trump.

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At the same time, several Democrats questioned whether Bannon's ouster would really change the White House or Trump's policies.
"Steve Bannon's firing is welcome news, but it doesn’t disguise where President Trump himself stands on white supremacists and the bigoted beliefs they advance," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.

"President Trump's growing record of repulsive statements is matched by his repulsive policies. Personnel changes are worthless so long as President Trump continues to advance policies that disgrace our cherished American values," she said.

Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said he was happy that Bannon would be gone but that the departure "cannot wash away the harm he and the president have done."
"It can't reverse the Muslim Ban. It can't reverse the President's inappropriate attacks on a Federal judge of Mexican heritage. And it can't reverse the White House's reluctance to denounce white supremacists," Cicilline said in a statement.
Other House Democrats chimed in with similar messages.


Bannon's departure comes nearly a week after white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a Confederate statue, spurring violence with counterprotesters.
Various Democrats were quick to incorporate the events in Charlottesville in their reactions to Bannon, who was seen as a prominent voice in the white supremacist community, leaving.
Bannon's departure comes after speculation swirled that his future at the White House was up in the air.
The president garnered backlash from Republicans and Democrats alike for his reaction to Charlottesville, which was seen as an attempt to appease white nationalists and other far-right extremist groups. "

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Excellent report on the confederate statues and memorabilia from Robert Mackey of The Intercept with links:

The Intercept don't miss all of the reports !

As Trump Adds Fuel to the Fire, Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Dead of Night



After President Donald Trump inflamed the national debate over monuments to the Confederacy on Tuesday, telling reporters that white supremacists willing to use deadly violence to defend a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville included some “very fine people,” the City of Baltimore removed four statues honoring the defenders of slavery in the early hours of Wednesday.
Witnesses to the late-night operation, which was completed by 5:30 a.m. local time, shared images and video of workers removing the statues, including a massive one of Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Baltimore’s Wyman Park Dell.
Baltimore’s mayor, Catherine Pugh, was spotted overseeing the operation just before 3 a.m. by Alec MacGillis, a Pro Publica reporter.
Pugh told The Baltimore Sun that her decision to act quickly was partly an effort to avoid the kind of violence sparked by neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville, where an antiracist protester, Heather Heyer, was killed by a white supremacist.
A mayoral commission appointed by Pugh’s predecessor had recommended last year that the statues of Lee and Jackson be removed, along with a monument to Roger Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the notorious Dred Scott decision in 1857, ruling that African-Americans could not be American citizens.
Both of those monuments were removed overnight, along with one dedicated to Confederate women and another honoring Confederate soldiers and sailors, which had been doused in blood-red paint over the weekend.
Pugh acted after activists had vowed to destroy the monuments if the city delayed any longer.
Officials in Durham County, North Carolina, were less inclined to share the viewpoint of antiracist protesters, arresting a 22-year-old woman accused of helping to topple a Confederate statue there, and charging her with rioting and vandalism.
Trump’s intemperate defense of the white supremacists at a news conference in Trump Tower on Tuesday was widely condemned, but seemed to delight his neo-Nazi supporters, including David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, and Richard Spencer, who coined the term “alt-right” to rebrand white supremacy.
Trump’s latest defense of white supremacists reminded many close observers of his career that his father, Fred Trump, was reportedly arrested at a KKK rally in Queens in 1927.

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And of course the best interviews and latest updates from:


Democracy Now !


Democracy Now - Charlottesville 


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