A continuation of events surrounding the drug war and related social issues of Baja California and Mexico. Keeping an eye on Seig Heil Trump. We are still trying to restore all blogs from 2006 which were hacked by Linton Robinson and his team, famous for supporting the Baja Trump Towers on one of his real estate sites. Highlights of Paris-Simone's favorite music !!
The Silence Of The Republicans & Everyone Who Supports Them Is Just Tacit Approval Of Trump's Racism. Seig Heil Everyone !
What's that? The drug war conditions here in Baja or the Trump nightmare or the USBP's disgusting racist Facebook participation or your eyesight?
Actually, my eyes are pretty bad, the surgery for the cataracts won't be until the very end of November, so I am blinking and squinting a lot and those little images in the squares you have to click on google to find out if you are a robot or not are driving me crazy, especially the bicycles. My face is right up on top of the screen. I can't see shit...I was making a recipe that called for cumino, and instead I grabbed the curry powder. At the last minute I looked at the spice jar and was saved by the bell; the sunshine is murder, now I know how Dracula felt. So, what's new? This is how the HMO's work especially in San Diego...you have to wait. Oh well.
Meanwhile, Trump has been on a rampage since his visit to England. Did the 4th of July events in D.C. turn your stomachs? Did ours. How about his private get together at the White House with some of the top Nazis of America? Wow, NPR didn't cover that one. And, the threat of ICE raids throughout the country which didn't happen? Well, not yet anyway. And how about Mr. Pence claiming conditions are acceptable at the concentration camps set up for the migrantes ? Nothing squalid or shameful about them, totally acceptable...right asshole. And of course, more climate change/global warming denial. But Trump's latest racist tweets -
I have to mention that there hasn't really been any coverage that I could see of the USBP's sordid involvement with Facebook down here, which also involved San Diego Sector Agents and Chiefs so don't miss the articles on the Intercept. My eyes are giving out...will be back by Friday with the latest stats, they are horrible. Courtesy Mr. Jeffrey St. Clair:
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UPDATE/EDIT - 07/17: TIJUANA STATS
Finally, TIJ stats for the last two months, and it is grim. Is there anyone aside from us and a few others who have actually talked about conditions here who want to leave? One gringo neighbor said to Mike: "California is too expensive and crowded and Florida is too hot and humid. We are just using this as a base camp and really looking around." Join the crowd. Not hearing anything from the Mexican Nationals, mum's the word.
" According to statistics from the Attorney General's Office in the State, in Tijuana, during June 217 people were deprived of their lives.
The last 8 events occurred during the course of Sunday 30. Around 07:20 hours on a dirt road at the Las Palomas Boulevard in Valle de San Pedro, a lower extremity was located half buried. Then the corpse of a stranger, aged 45, was found wrapped in a brown blanket on the Carrillo alley in the Chula Vista neighborhood. In the General Hospital, a 27-year-old male died. The victim had various wounds caused by a firearm. Inside an address a stranger was found dead in San Agustín street, lot 8, block 27 in the Todos Los Santos neighborhood. A young man of 25 years, without identifying, was assassinated of a bruised blow in the face, when he was inside the elementary school February 5 located in the avenue Rome in the colony Montes Olímpicos. Javier Ayala Mancillas, 27, was shot to death when he was located on Calle Villa Hermosa in the Sanchez Taboada neighborhood. With gunshot wounds to the head, the bodies of two men were found in the courtyard of an address located on Garcia del Fraccionamiento Villas Avenue in Baja California. First murder of July Around 07:30 hours of this first of July, one woman was killed and another bullet wounded, when they were located in an address in Monte Scandinavo of the neighborhood Lomas Residential Complex. One of the victims was left without life on board a vehicle that was parked in the garage. While another female was injured, so it was attended at the scene by paramedics from the Red Cross who arrived at the site."
~~~~~
~ July:
Earlier this afternoon, Zeta reported in this month of July, Tijuana is up to 132 executions making the year to date total in Tijuana alone @ 1, 231 (one thousand two hundred and thirty one) dead. Expect these numbers to increase.
"The number of homicides so far this year reached 1,231 victims, of which 132 were registered in July. The last six deaths occurred on Tuesday 16. First, in the Fast Western Route, in the Federal Employees colony, the corpse of a subject wrapped in a white blanket was located. The victim had puncture-wound wounds to the neck. Then an unidentified victim was killed by firearm, Miguel Aleman street in the colony Infonavit Presidents. A subject identified as José Guadalupe Baños Ayala was shot dead when he was located on Biznaga Street in the Sanchez Taboada neighborhood. In the armed attack another man identified as Missael Rubio Morán was injured. Luis Edel Hernández Frías, 34, and Samuel Barraza Rivas, 35, were executed in the parking lot of Plaza Galerías. The victims had head injuries. At the scene of the crime, four .40-caliber gun shells were found, known as "matapolicías". Anoher unidentified victim was shot to death when he was in the private Lantana del Fraccionamiento Villa del Alamo. A firearm was located near the body."
~~~~~~~~
Ensenada:
Courtesy Zeta: " According to the 67th Infantry Battalion, the two men said they had been hired four days earlier by an armed group"
This is only the tip of the iceberg so to speak of some of the activities going on down in Ensenada, which left us at least wondering....how many more of these weapons and ammo are being hoarded and what exactly are these folks preparing for ?
"ENSENADA.- Two men were detained at Punta Colonet weekend, in possession of 6 R-15 caliber .223 rifles, 43 loaders, 1,230 cartridges .223 and 5.56 millimeters, confirmed on Monday the 67th Infantry Battalion.
The Ministry of National Defense announced in a statement that during ground reconnaissance in the area of El Pedregoso, military personnel observed a gray vehicle parked on a dirt road, with several people on board.
Four of the suspects fled, who were in the back of the truck with a report of theft, while the pilot and the co-pilot stayed on the site, as they could not start the vehicle's engine. The two detainees said they had been hired four days earlier to work with an armed group, according to the official version of SEDENA. In total, two people were insured, a GMC Denali truck, California 4XTR628 license plates, serial number 1gkek63u42j29962, with theft report; six long guns R-15 caliber .223; 43 chargers for R-15, thousand 290 cartridges caliber .223 and 5.56 millimeters. The weapons, the detainees and the vehicle were placed at the disposal of the Attorney General of the Republic, based in the city of Ensenada."
The Silence Of The Republicans & Everyone Who Supports Them Is Just Tacit Approval Of Trump's Racism. Seig Heil Everyone !
What's that? The drug war conditions here in Baja or the Trump nightmare or the USBP's disgusting racist Facebook participation or your eyesight?
Actually, my eyes are pretty bad, the surgery for the cataracts won't be until the very end of November, so I am blinking and squinting a lot and those little images in the squares you have to click on google to find out if you are a robot or not are driving me crazy, especially the bicycles. My face is right up on top of the screen. I can't see shit...I was making a recipe that called for cumino, and instead I grabbed the curry powder. At the last minute I looked at the spice jar and was saved by the bell; the sunshine is murder, now I know how Dracula felt. So, what's new? This is how the HMO's work especially in San Diego...you have to wait. Oh well.
Meanwhile, Trump has been on a rampage since his visit to England. Did the 4th of July events in D.C. turn your stomachs? Did ours. How about his private get together at the White House with some of the top Nazis of America? Wow, NPR didn't cover that one. And, the threat of ICE raids throughout the country which didn't happen? Well, not yet anyway. And how about Mr. Pence claiming conditions are acceptable at the concentration camps set up for the migrantes ? Nothing squalid or shameful about them, totally acceptable...right asshole. And of course, more climate change/global warming denial. But Trump's latest racist tweets -
I have to mention that there hasn't really been any coverage that I could see of the USBP's sordid involvement with Facebook down here, which also involved San Diego Sector Agents and Chiefs so don't miss the articles on the Intercept. My eyes are giving out...will be back by Friday with the latest stats, they are horrible. Courtesy Mr. Jeffrey St. Clair:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
UPDATE/EDIT - 07/17: TIJUANA STATS
Finally, TIJ stats for the last two months, and it is grim. Is there anyone aside from us and a few others who have actually talked about conditions here who want to leave? One gringo neighbor said to Mike: "California is too expensive and crowded and Florida is too hot and humid. We are just using this as a base camp and really looking around." Join the crowd. Not hearing anything from the Mexican Nationals, mum's the word.
" According
to statistics from the Attorney General's Office in the State, in
Tijuana, during June 217 people were deprived of their lives.
The last 8 events occurred during the course of Sunday 30.
Around 07:20 hours on a dirt road at the Las Palomas Boulevard in Valle
de San Pedro, a lower extremity was located half buried.
Then the corpse of a stranger, aged 45, was found wrapped in a brown
blanket on the Carrillo alley in the Chula Vista neighborhood. In the General Hospital, a 27-year-old male died. The victim had various wounds caused by a firearm. Inside an address a stranger was found dead in San Agustín street, lot 8, block 27 in the Todos Los Santos neighborhood.
A young man of 25 years, without identifying, was assassinated of a
bruised blow in the face, when he was inside the elementary school
February 5 located in the avenue Rome in the colony Montes Olímpicos. Javier Ayala Mancillas, 27, was shot to death when he was located on Calle Villa Hermosa in the Sanchez Taboada neighborhood.
With gunshot wounds to the head, the bodies of two men were found in
the courtyard of an address located on Garcia del Fraccionamiento Villas
Avenue in Baja California. First murder of July
Around 07:30 hours of this first of July, one woman was killed and
another bullet wounded, when they were located in an address in Monte
Scandinavo of the neighborhood Lomas Residential Complex. One of the victims was left without life on board a vehicle that was parked in the garage. While another female was injured, so it was attended at the scene by paramedics from the Red Cross who arrived at the site."
~~~~~
~ July:
Earlier this afternoon, Zeta reported in this month of July, Tijuana is up to 132 executions making the year to date total in Tijuana alone @ 1, 231 (one thousand two hundred and thirty one) dead. Expect these numbers to increase.
"The number of homicides so far this year reached 1,231 victims, of which 132 were registered in July. The last six deaths occurred on Tuesday 16.
First, in the Fast Western Route, in the Federal Employees colony, the
corpse of a subject wrapped in a white blanket was located. The victim had puncture-wound wounds to the neck. Then an unidentified victim was killed by firearm, Miguel Aleman street in the colony Infonavit Presidents.
A subject identified as José Guadalupe Baños Ayala was shot dead when
he was located on Biznaga Street in the Sanchez Taboada neighborhood. In the armed attack another man identified as Missael Rubio Morán was injured. Luis Edel Hernández Frías, 34, and Samuel Barraza Rivas, 35, were executed in the parking lot of Plaza Galerías. The victims had head injuries. At the scene of the crime, four .40-caliber gun shells were found, known as "matapolicías". Anoher unidentified victim was shot to death when he was in the private Lantana del Fraccionamiento Villa del Alamo. A firearm was located near the body."
~~~~~~~~
Ensenada:
Courtesy Zeta: " According to the 67th Infantry Battalion, the two men said they had been hired four days earlier by an armed group"
This is only the tip of the iceberg so to speak of some of the activities going on down in Ensenada, which left us at least wondering....how many more of these weapons and ammo are being hoarded and what exactly are these folks preparing for ?
"ENSENADA.-
Two men were detained at Punta Colonet weekend, in possession of 6 R-15
caliber .223 rifles, 43 loaders, 1,230 cartridges .223 and 5.56
millimeters, confirmed on Monday the 67th Infantry Battalion.
The Ministry of National Defense announced in a statement that during
ground reconnaissance in the area of El Pedregoso, military personnel
observed a gray vehicle parked on a dirt road, with several people on
board.
Four
of the suspects fled, who were in the back of the truck with a report
of theft, while the pilot and the co-pilot stayed on the site, as they
could not start the vehicle's engine.
The two detainees said they had been hired four days earlier to work
with an armed group, according to the official version of SEDENA.
In total, two people were insured, a GMC Denali truck, California
4XTR628 license plates, serial number 1gkek63u42j29962, with theft
report; six long guns R-15 caliber .223; 43 chargers for R-15, thousand 290 cartridges caliber .223 and 5.56 millimeters.
The weapons, the detainees and the vehicle were placed at the disposal
of the Attorney General of the Republic, based in the city of Ensenada."
More currently, Reuters reports that Presidente AMLO at his press call on this last Tuesday said the Mexican National Guard had not been instructed to carry out such detentions:
We'll see what happens. ~~~~~ June is not quite but almost over and we are up to almost 180 executions in Tijuana, more down Ensenada way over control of the drug routes. Once again, I'm sort of incapacitated, this time it is both of my eyes - I kept telling Mike "Gawd, I can't see anything". So I have two cataracts which need to be removed and I can't see really well...so you are on your own til I get the surgery which according to one of my neighbors is a breeze. Go here for all the latest: Zeta
~~~~~
THE BOSS IS BACK !!!
Meanwhile, I love this new Bruce Springsteen album, and in the world we are living in, it is much needed..it just soothes the soul.. Check it out :
More currently, Reuters reports that Presidente AMLO at his press call on this last Tuesday said the Mexican National Guard had not been instructed to carry out such detentions:
We'll see what happens. ~~~~~ June is not quite but almost over and we are up to almost 180 executions in Tijuana, more down Ensenada way over control of the drug routes. Once again, I'm sort of incapacitated, this time it is both of my eyes - I kept telling Mike "Gawd, I can't see anything". So I have two cataracts which need to be removed and I can't see really well...so you are on your own til I get the surgery which according to one of my neighbors is a breeze. Go here for all the latest: Zeta
~~~~~
THE BOSS IS BACK !!!
Meanwhile, I love this new Bruce Springsteen album, and in the world we are living in, it is much needed..it just soothes the soul.. Check it out :
Did you have that awful feeling Thursday that we were all (and I mean all of us in the entire world) in for both terrorist and a potential nuclear catastrophe ? That afternoon Mike said, "It won't surprise me one bit if he calls for a strike against Iran." According to some writers - it could still happen. Here - although select conventional media have been working their little hearts out is some of the best coverage of the Iran fiasco, caused and brought to you by Donald the Madman:
"Hmmm,,,,I think he and "them" knew everything from the get-go. This was planned; to freak everyone out number one (because he thrives on chaos), then for numero dos to make him look like the hero who staves off an impending war because he was concerned about 150 lives? No way, and he appears to be deeply concerned after he created this entire mess himself. Oh they are saying, "...we just must vote for Trump again and keep him in - he saved the world from destruction!" Oh bullshit. He is a psychotic liar.
Anyway, I really did not flash on this until watching his latest interview on CNN and the timetable, etc. However I did being an oldie flashed immediately on the Gulf of Tonkin.
Great job Mr. Mackey !"
Note: there sure are a lot of Trump supporters in that peanut gallery.
"The Trump administration went to court this week to argue that migrant children detained at the United States-Mexico border do not require basic hygiene products like soap and toothbrushes in order to be in held in "safe and sanitary" conditions. Trump's team also argued that requiring minors to sleep on cold concrete floors in crowded cells with low temperatures similarly fulfilled that requirement.
Arguing in a 9th district San Francisco court about the conditions that they must hold migrant children in, the administration said that they did not violate a precedent set by a landmark 1985 class action lawsuit which established guidelines for the way minors held in federal immigration detention must be treated. The case, Jenny Lisette Flores v. Edwin Meese, created rules around the timely release of migrant minors to their parents, and said that those not released must be kept in facilities that are "safe and sanitary."
But on Tuesday, the Justice Department's Sarah Fabian claimed that the ruling did not list specific requirements like "toothbrushes" or "towels," to establish a sanitary condition. "One has to assume it was left that way and not enumerated by the parties because either the parties couldn't reach agreement on how to enumerate that or it was left to the agencies to determine," Fabian said to the three Clinton-appointed federal judges on the court. "You're really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn't a question of safe and sanitary conditions?" U.S. Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon asked Fabian.
Other judges also expressed outrage.
"Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and you've got an aluminum foil blanket?" U.S. Circuit Judge William Fletcher asked Fabian. "I find that inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary." Still, Fabian said that the Trump administration plans to apply for a motion of reconsideration and continue to appeal the ruling.
"Have you considered whether you might go back and consider whether you really want to continue this appeal?" replied Berzon. "There doesn't seem to be a whole lot left of it, considering that life has moved on now. I just feel like we're litigating ancient history at this point."
At least seven migrant children have died in U.S. custody since late 2018 when the president began his policy of detaining them separately from their families. John Sanders, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection warned today that his agency would need at least another $4.6 billion in emergency funding to prevent more deaths.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Sanders said that "The death of a child is always a terrible thing, but here is a situation where, because there is not enough funding … they can't move the people out of our custody."
The exact number of children who had died under the care of the federal government is unknown because of a law that does not require various agencies to report deaths.
This week, the ACLU found a migrant teenager in the care of Texas border control nursing her prematurely-born baby without any proper medical care."
~~~~~~
~ "When They See Us"
We haven't had a chance to watch "When They see Us" from Netflex, but are going to try to start it this weekend . We all know this type of injustice happens all the time in the United States, and yet Trump said he would not apologize (he said this twice) for the ad he took out and his remarks urging for the death penalty against these five young men, who have since been proven innocent beyond any reasonable doubt.
Locally, the violence is horrible throughout Baja California with the exception so far of today - to hold you over here is Zeta - you can thumb through the Daily Reports, June summary coming up with great interview of Padre Patrick Murphy and Ex- Ambassador to Mexico, Roberta S. Jacobson.
The next project here is to put together three badly needed linen closets, so I have my hands full because I have a feeling this is going to take forever. Everyone else is good; Paris gets a bath tomorrow, Daca Bob has been trying to organize the Baja Malibu kittens and speaking of kittens, Susan gave birth so I really am turning into the loca cat lady. I found another old Heissner Gnome and finally replaced my 20 year old Simplex Tea Kettle (which was already 15 years old when I bought it). - not new, used but it was still pricey ugh. I wanted to get the one from Japan, but being cast iron I knew it would rust here on the ocean. Oh, and I have new "Nasty Woman" pins to hand out. Over and out for now.
"Writing the music for this, I was originally inspired by old Italian zombie exploitation film soundtracks. There are too many to mention, but some of my favourite composers of this era include Nico Fidenco, Roberto Donati/Fiamma Maglione and The Goblins. It also references PiL, horror-film disco — Ms. 45 — and The Gun Club. To extend the theme politically — and unsophisticatedly — I had wanted the music to reflect both capitalism and fascism as deadly viruses operating behind the scenes and controlling us subtly until we’re all infected. It could also be a fun new dance: ‘Do the Death March!’
[Verse 1] Oh no On no, no, no This can't be how it all falls apart Constant fear of explosion Crypto-fascist contagion
[Verse 2] Oh yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah They took no time to unwind it all Manufactured suggestion Wag the dog and then drown him
[Refrain] How hate keeps passing on This is how the hate keeps passing on
[Verse 3] Oh no On no, no, no This can't be how it all whimpers out Live to die in the gutter Empty ivory towers
[Verse 4] Oh yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah They pay no mind just to wind you up Informed autosuggestion State-sanctioned assassination
~ Well if that's too radical for you, maybe the migrantes who stay here and work on the Mayan Railroad might like this one, I couldn't find an old Chinese "Coolie" Railroad song anywhere....remember the "coolies" ? Then, after they built the railroad lines in the USA (slave labor), they were deported back to China. Christ.
Did you have that awful feeling Thursday that we were all (and I mean all of us in the entire world) in for both terrorist and a potential nuclear catastrophe ? That afternoon Mike said, "It won't surprise me one bit if he calls for a strike against Iran." According to some writers - it could still happen. Here - although select conventional media have been working their little hearts out is some of the best coverage of the Iran fiasco, caused and brought to you by Donald the Madman:
"Hmmm,,,,I think he and "them" knew everything from the get-go. This was planned; to freak everyone out number one (because he thrives on chaos), then for numero dos to make him look like the hero who staves off an impending war because he was concerned about 150 lives? No way, and he appears to be deeply concerned after he created this entire mess himself. Oh they are saying, "...we just must vote for Trump again and keep him in - he saved the world from destruction!" Oh bullshit. He is a psychotic liar.
Anyway, I really did not flash on this until watching his latest interview on CNN and the timetable, etc. However I did being an oldie flashed immediately on the Gulf of Tonkin.
Great job Mr. Mackey !"
Note: there sure are a lot of Trump supporters in that peanut gallery.
"The Trump administration went to court this week to argue that
migrant children detained at the United States-Mexico border do not
require basic hygiene products like soap and toothbrushes in order to be
in held in "safe and sanitary" conditions. Trump's team also argued
that requiring minors to sleep on cold concrete floors in crowded cells
with low temperatures similarly fulfilled that requirement.
Arguing in a 9th district San Francisco court about the conditions
that they must hold migrant children in, the administration said that
they did not violate a precedent set by a landmark 1985 class action
lawsuit which established guidelines for the way minors held in federal
immigration detention must be treated. The case, Jenny Lisette Flores v. Edwin Meese,
created rules around the timely release of migrant minors to their
parents, and said that those not released must be kept in facilities
that are "safe and sanitary."
But on Tuesday, the Justice
Department's Sarah Fabian claimed that the ruling did not list specific
requirements like "toothbrushes" or "towels," to establish a sanitary
condition.
"One
has to assume it was left that way and not enumerated by the parties
because either the parties couldn't reach agreement on how to enumerate
that or it was left to the agencies to determine," Fabian said to the
three Clinton-appointed federal judges on the court.
"You're
really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn't a
question of safe and sanitary conditions?" U.S. Circuit Judge Marsha
Berzon asked Fabian.
Other judges also expressed outrage.
"Are
you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring
you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night
long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and you've got an
aluminum foil blanket?" U.S. Circuit Judge William Fletcher asked
Fabian. "I find that inconceivable that the government would say that
that is safe and sanitary."
Still, Fabian said that the Trump
administration plans to apply for a motion of reconsideration and
continue to appeal the ruling.
"Have you considered whether you
might go back and consider whether you really want to continue this
appeal?" replied Berzon. "There doesn't seem to be a whole lot left of
it, considering that life has moved on now. I just feel like we're
litigating ancient history at this point."
At least seven migrant
children have died in U.S. custody since late 2018 when the president
began his policy of detaining them separately from their families. John
Sanders, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection warned
today that his agency would need at least another $4.6 billion in
emergency funding to prevent more deaths.
In an interview with the
Associated Press, Sanders said that "The death of a child is always a
terrible thing, but here is a situation where, because there is not
enough funding … they can't move the people out of our custody."
The
exact number of children who had died under the care of the federal
government is unknown because of a law that does not require various
agencies to report deaths.
This week, the ACLU found a migrant
teenager in the care of Texas border control nursing her
prematurely-born baby without any proper medical care."
~~~~~~
~ "When They See Us"
We haven't had a chance to watch "When They see Us" from Netflex, but are going to try to start it this weekend . We all know this type of injustice happens all the time in the United States, and yet Trump said he would not apologize (he said this twice) for the ad he took out and his remarks urging for the death penalty against these five young men, who have since been proven innocent beyond any reasonable doubt.
Locally, the violence is horrible throughout Baja California with the exception so far of today - to hold you over here is Zeta - you can thumb through the Daily Reports, June summary coming up with great interview of Padre Patrick Murphy and Ex- Ambassador to Mexico, Roberta S. Jacobson.
The next project here is to put together three badly needed linen closets, so I have my hands full because I have a feeling this is going to take forever. Everyone else is good; Paris gets a bath tomorrow, Daca Bob has been trying to organize the Baja Malibu kittens and speaking of kittens, Susan gave birth so I really am turning into the loca cat lady. I found another old Heissner Gnome and finally replaced my 20 year old Simplex Tea Kettle (which was already 15 years old when I bought it). - not new, used but it was still pricey ugh. I wanted to get the one from Japan, but being cast iron I knew it would rust here on the ocean. Oh, and I have new "Nasty Woman" pins to hand out. Over and out for now.
"Writing the music for this, I was originally inspired by old Italian
zombie exploitation film soundtracks. There are too many to mention, but
some of my favourite composers of this era include Nico Fidenco,
Roberto Donati/Fiamma Maglione and The Goblins. It also references PiL,
horror-film disco — Ms. 45 — and The Gun Club.
To extend the theme politically — and unsophisticatedly — I had
wanted the music to reflect both capitalism and fascism as deadly
viruses operating behind the scenes and controlling us subtly until
we’re all infected.
It could also be a fun new dance: ‘Do the Death March!’
[Verse 1] Oh no On no, no, no This can't be how it all falls apart Constant fear of explosion Crypto-fascist contagion
[Verse 2] Oh yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah They took no time to unwind it all Manufactured suggestion Wag the dog and then drown him
[Refrain] How hate keeps passing on This is how the hate keeps passing on
[Verse 3] Oh no On no, no, no This can't be how it all whimpers out Live to die in the gutter Empty ivory towers
[Verse 4] Oh yeah Oh yeah, yeah, yeah They pay no mind just to wind you up Informed autosuggestion State-sanctioned assassination
~ Well if that's too radical for you, maybe the migrantes who stay here and work on the Mayan Railroad might like this one, I couldn't find an old Chinese "Coolie" Railroad song anywhere....remember the "coolies" ? Then, after they built the railroad lines in the USA (slave labor), they were deported back to China. Christ.
Just for the time being, it is all smiles from the Morena-AMLO Camp as millions of people on both sides of the border breathed a deep gasping sigh of relief with the news that the Trump threats to impose trade tariffs on Mexico failed. Presidente AMLO is being viewed as the hero of the hour, with a knock 'em out appearance here in Tijuana where tens of thousands of Mexican Nationals swooned and cheered him on for standing up to Trump and saving the dignity of Mexico. Despite the fact that many are viewing the "deal" as capitulation to Trump's racist standards and Mexico being a willing partner to building Trump's Wall on her southern Border, as The Guardian reported,“[AMLO] doesn’t pay a political price for repressing migrants. And he may gain something of a bonus here and there,” said Federico Estévez, political science professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. “They fundamentally do not enjoy support in Mexico.”
But wait hold on to your horses: according to The New York Times, there wasn't a "deal" - the "deal" had already been made months ago; apparently there was plenty of previous knuckling under to the Orange Madman:
"WASHINGTON — The deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great fanfare on Friday night consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in prior discussions with the United States over the past several months, according to officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations.
Friday’s joint declaration says Mexico agreed to the “deployment of its National Guard throughout Mexico, giving priority to its southern border.” But the Mexican government had already pledged to do that in March during secret talks in Miami between Kirstjen Nielsen, then the secretary of homeland security, and Olga Sanchez, the Mexican secretary of the interior, the officials said.
The centerpiece of Mr. Trump’s deal was an expansion of a program to allow asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico while their legal cases proceed. But that arrangement was reached in December in a pair of painstakingly negotiated diplomatic notes that the two countries exchanged. Ms. Nielsen announced the Migrant Protection Protocols during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee five days before Christmas.
And over the past week, negotiators failed to persuade Mexico to accept a “safe third country” treaty that would have given the United States the legal ability to reject asylum seekers if they had not sought refuge in Mexico first.
It was unclear whether Mr. Trump believed that the agreement truly represented new and broader concessions, or whether the president understood the limits of the deal but accepted it as a face-saving way to escape from the political and economic consequences of imposing tariffs on Mexico, which he began threatening less than two weeks ago.
Having threatened Mexico with an escalating series of tariffs — starting at 5 percent and growing to 25 percent — the president faced enormous criticism from global leaders, business executives, Republican and Democratic lawmakers, and members of his own staff that he risked disrupting a critical marketplace.
After nine days of uncertainty, Mr. Trump backed down and accepted Mexico’s promises.
Officials involved with talks said they began in earnest last Sunday, when Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, met over dinner with Mexico’s foreign minister. One senior government official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the closed-door negotiations that took place over several days, insisted that the Mexicans agreed to move faster and more aggressively to deter migrants than they ever have before.
Their promise to deploy up to 6,000 national guard troops was larger than their previous pledge. And the Mexican agreement to accelerate the Migrant Protection Protocols could help reduce what Mr. Trump calls “catch and release” of migrants in the United States by giving the country a greater ability to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico.
But there remains deep skepticism among some American officials — and even Mr. Trump himself — about whether the Mexicans have agreed to do enough, whether they will follow through on their promises, and whether, even if they do, that will reduce the flow of migrants at the southwestern border.
In addition, the Migrant Protection Protocols already face legal challenges by immigrant rights groups who say they violate the migrants’ right to lawyers. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from implementing the plan, but an appeals court later said it could move forward while the legal challenge proceeds.
During a phone call Friday evening when he was briefed on the agreement, Mr. Trump quizzed his lawyers, diplomats and immigration officials about whether they thought the deal would work. His aides said yes, but admitted that they were also realistic that the surge of immigration might continue.
“We’ll see if it works,” the president told them, approving the deal before sending out his tweet announcing it.
On Saturday, Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, said the government looked forward to reducing illegal immigration and making the border “strong and secure” by working with Mexico to fulfill the agreement.
Mr. Trump’s decision to use trade as a bludgeon against Mexico was driven in part by his obsession with stopping what he falsely calls an invasion of the country and in part by a desire to satisfy his core supporters, many of who have grown angry at his inability to build his promised border wall.
Many of his top advisers, including those who oversee his political and economic agendas, were opposed to the tariff threat. But the president’s ire is regularly stoked by the daily reports he receives on how many migrants have crossed the border in the previous 24 hours.
Mr. Trump’s top immigration officials had repeatedly warned the president that results from their work to curb the flow of migrants might not be evident until July, and urged patience.
But that effort became more difficult in May, when the numbers spiked to the highest levels of his presidency. During the week of May 24, 5,800 migrants — the highest ever for one day — crossed on a single day. That was quickly followed by a group of 1,036 migrants who were caught on surveillance cameras crossing the border en masse.
Mr. Trump later tweeted out the video, and the tariff threat soon followed.
Throughout the week’s negotiations, officials on both sides worried about what Mr. Trump would be willing to accept in exchange for pulling back on his tariff threat. That question hung over the talks, which were led one day by Vice President Mike Pence and included Mr. Pompeo and Mr. McAleenan.
Mexican officials opened the negotiations with the offer to deploy their new national guard troops against migrants, using a PowerPoint presentation to show their American counterparts that doing so would be a breakthrough in their ability to stop migrants from flowing north through Mexico, often in buses.
In fact, Mexican officials had already made the same promise months earlier when Ms Nielsen met in Miami with Ms. Sanchez and aides to Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister. The purpose of the meeting, according to people familiar with it, was to press the Mexicans to act faster.
Ms. Sanchez also told Ms. Nielsen that the Mexican government’s new national guard, which had been created just a month earlier to combat drugs and crime, would be redirected to the border with Guatemala, the entry point for most of the Central American migrants.
At the time, Ms. Nielsen and the other American negotiators referred to the Mexican promise as the “third border” plan because the Mexicans proposed creating a line of troops around the southern part of their country to keep migrants from moving north.
Mexicans had begun to follow the plan, but not quickly enough for the Trump administration, which said that only about 1,000 Mexican national guard troops were in place by May.
Friday’s agreement with Mexico states that the two countries “will immediately expand” the Migrant Protection Protocols across the entire southern border. To date, migrants have been returned at only three of the busiest ports of entry.
But officials familiar with the program said Saturday that the arrangement struck by the two countries last December always envisioned that it would expand along the entire border. What kept that from happening, they said, was the commitment of resources by both countries.
In the United States, migrants must see immigration judges before they can be sent to wait in Mexico, and a shortage of judges slowed the process. The Mexican government also dragged its feet on providing the shelter, health care, job benefits and basic care that would allow the United States to send the migrants over.
The new deal reiterates that Mexico will provide the “jobs, health care and education” needed to allow the program to expand. But the speed with which the United States can send more migrants to wait in Mexico will still depend on how quickly the government follows through on that promise.
Perhaps the clearest indication that both sides recognize that the deal might prove insufficient is contained in a section of Friday’s agreement titled “Further Action.”
One official familiar with the negotiations said the section was intended to be a serious warning to the Mexican government that Mr. Trump would be paying close attention to the daily reports he received about the number of migrants crossing the border. The official said that if the numbers failed to change — quickly — the president’s anger would bring the parties back to the negotiating table.
“The tariff threat is not gone,” the official said. “It’s suspended.”
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Thank You, New York Times. Since that report, Trump has blasted the NYTimes as "fake news"....but wait, there's even more...check it out:
"WASHINGTON — President Trump asserted on Sunday that there were secret, undisclosed elements to his new immigration agreement with Mexico as he sought to deflect criticism that he achieved less than he had claimed with his threat to impose punitive tariffs.
Mr. Trump insisted that Mexico had agreed to take significant actions to stem the flow of migrants at the border with the United States that it had not previously taken and that some of them had yet to be revealed. But he vowed to revive his plan to place tariffs on imports if Mexico does not follow through.
“We have been trying to get some of these Border Actions for a long time, as have other administrations, but were not able to get them, or get them in full, until our signed agreement with Mexico,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Importantly, some things not mentioned in yesterday press release, one in particular, were agreed upon. That will be announced at the appropriate time.”
Mr. Trump’s tweets came as he assailed The New York Times over a report that the deal that he announced with such fanfare on Friday night consisted largely of actions that Mexico had previously agreed to take in prior discussions. “Another false report in the Failing @nytimes,” Mr. Trump wrote.
The Times issued a statement standing by its article. “We are confident in our reporting, and as with so many other occasions, our stories stand up over time and the president’s denials of them do not,” the statement said.
The idea that the agreement included secret provisions could once again roil relations between the two countries, which have been fraught since Mr. Trump took office. Angry that the number of apprehensions at the border has soared to the highest level in 13 years, Mr. Trump threatened at the end of May to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports starting on Monday and escalating up to 25 percent. He called off the tariffs on Friday night after securing the agreement by Mexico to do more to stop the flow.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico was already under pressure at home not to cave in to what critics called the bullying tactics of a bombastic American leader. As it was, some critics were accusing him of building Mr. Trump’s border wall but on Mexico’s own southern border with its own troops. The suggestion that Mr. López Obrador made additional concessions that have not been disclosed could increase domestic pressure on his government.
Mr. Trump did not elaborate on what secret provisions he was referring to, and the White House did not respond to requests for clarification on Sunday. He may have been hinting at a “safe third country” treaty that the administration has long sought but failed to secure with Mexico.
Under such a treaty, migrants entering Mexico would have to apply for asylum there. The United States would then have the legal ability to reject asylum seekers who tried to enter the country if they had not sought refuge in Mexico first.
But officials from both countries said the two sides reached no commitment on such a treaty, and they said the provisions that were included in the deal were essentially reaffirmations of actions Mexico had already agreed to in previous discussions. American officials argued privately that the value of the agreement may be greater dedication by Mexico to actually follow through on such commitments to avoid another threat of tariffs by Mr. Trump.
Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, said the agreement did advance Mexico’s commitment to fighting border crossings beyond previous discussions, citing in particular a promise to deploy a newly formed national guard to its own southern border as well as elsewhere in the country.
“All of it is new,” Mr. McAleenan said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I mean, we’ve heard commitments before from Mexico to do more on their southern border. The last time they deployed down there is about four or five hundred officers. This is more than a tenfold commitment to increase their security in Chiapas. That’s where people are entering from Guatemala and southern Mexico.”
Mr. McAleenan did not explain Mr. Trump’s tweets except to say that the two countries would continue to talk about what they could do to combat illegal immigration. “There are going to be further actions, further dialogue with Mexico in immigration, on how to manage the asylum flow in the region,” he said.
While critics questioned the value of the deal after Mr. Trump called off the new tariffs, Mr. McAleenan said the threat made a difference. “People can disagree with the tactics,” he said. “Mexico came to the table with real proposals.”
But the two sides offered divergent descriptions of what would count as success. Mr. McAleenan said Mexico’s actions had to result in “a vast reduction in those numbers” of people crossing the border, which reached a 13-year high in May. But Mexico’s ambassador said the goal was to have the numbers “go down like to previous levels that we had maybe last year or in 2018.”
Ambassador Martha Bárcena Coqui said Mexico had already been deploying its national guard but would increase it starting on Monday. She described the agreement as less concrete and more of a start to a more precise accord.
“It’s a joint declaration of principles, which is the base that gives us the base for the road map that we have to follow in the incoming months on immigration and cooperation on asylum issues and development in Central America,” she said on “Face the Nation” on CBS.
She suggested there could be elements that had yet to be publicly disclosed. “I think there are a lot of the details that we discussed during the negotiations and during the conversations that we didn’t put in the declaration because this is different — different paths that we are to follow,” she said.
The president’s opposition said Mr. Trump had little credibility in claiming a great victory. “In February, @realDonaldTrump declared a bogus emergency to build a wall he said will ‘solve’ immigration,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, wrote on Twitter. “Then he made a bogus tariff threat even GOP in Congress rejected Now he claims a bogus ‘deal’ Mexico volunteered to do months ago Common thread? All bogus.”
In his own tweets on Sunday, Mr. Trump threatened to turn to tariffs again if Mexico did not live up to the agreement and reduce the flow of migrants at the border. He also attacked The Times and CNN for their reporting on the agreement. “The Failing @nytimes, & ratings challenged @CNN, will do anything possible to see our Country fail!” he wrote. “They are truly The Enemy of the People!”
In its statement, The Times responded that “calling the press the enemy is undemocratic and dangerous.”
Undaunted, Mr. Trump repeated his claim in another tweet on Sunday evening: “The Failing @nytimes story on Mexico and Illegal Immigration through our Southern Border has now been proven shockingly false and untrue, bad reporting, and the paper is embarrassed by it. The only problem is that they knew it was Fake News before it went out. Corrupt Media!”
Mr. Trump has repeatedly denied stories in The Times that were later confirmed as true. Just last week, he assailed The Times and CNN for reporting that he called Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, “nasty” despite a recording where he was clearly heard using the word.
Most notably, he tried to get his White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, to draft a memo falsely denying a Times report that the president had told him to fire Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, according to the report by Mr. Mueller.
Thank You uno mas tiempo New York Times. So, last night I asked Mike, "Who do you believe, Trump or the New York Times? " He answered: "Anyone who believes Trump is a fucking idiot." It is fair to say and being the nasty woman that I am, we're going with the Times. (;
- Update/Edit 06/11: More Trump Lies - so what's new? Oh, guess what no secret Immigration Deal Exists ! No special BS Agriculture deal exists !! - From MSN/The New York Times
" WASHINGTON — The Mexican foreign minister said Monday that no secret immigration deal existed between his country and the United States, directly contradicting President Trump’s claim on Twitter that a “fully signed and documented” agreement would soon be revealed.
Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s top diplomat, said at a news conference in Mexico City that there was an understanding that both sides would evaluate the flow of migrants in the coming months. If the number of migrants crossing the United States border is not significantly reduced, he said, both sides have agreed to renew discussions about more aggressive changes to regional asylum rules that could have a bigger effect.
“Let’s have a deadline to see if what we have works, and if not, then we will sit down and look at the measures you propose and those that we propose,” Mr. Ebrard said, describing the understanding reached by negotiators last week.
The public statement served as an official response to several days of tweeting by Mr. Trump, who has reacted angrily to the suggestion that he withdrew his threat of tariffs on all Mexican goods in exchange for a weak deal on immigration.
Mr. Trump has insisted that the agreement reached with Mexico on Friday evening is a strong one, rejecting criticism that it largely called upon the Mexicans to take actions to reduce the flow of immigration that they had already agreed to months earlier.
In a Twitter post on Monday morning, he said, “We have fully signed and documented another very important part of the Immigration and Security deal with Mexico, one that the U.S. has been asking about getting for many years. It will be revealed in the not too distant future and will need a vote by Mexico’s Legislative body!”
American officials said Monday that what Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to was the agreement in principle to revisit the migration situation, and they said it gave the United States strong leverage over Mexico to live up to its promises. The numbers will be reviewed in 45 days and again in 90 days, officials said.
The “U.S.-Mexico Joint Declaration” that Mr. Trump announced with fanfare on Friday did include a mention of possible “further action.” It said the two countries agreed to “continue their discussions on the terms of additional understandings to address irregular migrant flows and asylum issues, to be completed and announced within 90 days, if necessary.”
One idea that Washington has proposed for years is a “safe third country” arrangement in which migrants who flee persecution in Central American countries would first have to apply for asylum in Mexico. Those who do not could be turned away if they seek refuge in the United States. Mexico has long opposed the idea.
But there appeared to be a significant disagreement on Monday between the Mexican government and American officials about what the negotiators actually agreed to regarding further action and the possibility of implementing a “safe third country” arrangement.
Administration officials characterized the Mexicans as having all but agreed to asylum changes that would effectively mimic the benefits of “safe third country” as long as it was done regionally, including countries like Guatemala.
Mr. Trump did not specifically mention the idea, but said Monday that “we have an agreement on something they will announce very soon. It’s all done.”
But that was not the understanding described by Mr. Ebrard at his Monday news conference. He told reporters only that Mexican officials would discuss changing asylum rules if the flow of migrants was not substantially reduced in the next several months.
“They will propose safe third country,” Mr. Ebrard said, describing what he expects would be the United States position in any future discussions. “We said it will have to be with the U.N.H.C.R., it will have to be regional,” he said, referring to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Mr. Ebrard said Mexico preferred a regional asylum agreement that would review the flow of migrants across Mexico and Central America, with a number of countries, including Panama and Brazil.
But Mr. Ebrard said any agreement on the asylum changes would have to be negotiated and then approved by the Mexican Senate before it could go into effect. He said the agreement announced Friday effectively delayed that discussion, giving Mexico time to prove to Mr. Trump that it would help reduce the flow of immigration that has so infuriated him since the beginning of his presidency.
Mr. Ebrard also denied that there was an agreement reached on Mexico purchasing additional agricultural goods from the United States, rejecting a claim Mr. Trump made twice on Twitter.
The deal Mr. Trump announced on Friday included two main provisions that he said would slash the number of immigrants flowing into the United States.
One of those was a promise by the Mexicans to deploy their newly constituted national guard to the border with Guatemala. Mexico had agreed to do that in March, but officials said the Mexican government agreed to send more troops more quickly last week.
The other provision in Friday’s agreement was an expansion of a plan to allow the United States to force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their legal case proceeds. The declaration said that “this means that those crossing the U.S. southern border to seek asylum will be rapidly returned to Mexico, where they may await the adjudication of their asylum claims.”
A person close to Mr. Trump said Monday that the new agreement was broader than a deal called the Migrant Protection Protocols, which the United States reached with Mexico in December, arguing that the older deal was merely a pilot program at three ports of entry.
But that is not the way Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary at the time, described that deal when she announced it at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Dec. 20.
“Today, I am announcing historic measures to bring the situation under control,” Ms. Nielsen said, telling lawmakers that under the agreement, the United States had the authority to send asylum seekers to Mexico to wait while their cases are processed.
“I cannot overstate the significance of these developments. We are taking lawful, unilateral action to stop illegal entry now,” Ms. Nielsen said at the hearing. “Our two countries have committed to a major regional plan to solve this crisis.”
In a four-page “ACTION” memo to her top deputies on Jan. 25, Ms. Nielsen directed the Border Patrol and other agencies to implement the agreement. She did not describe it as a pilot program and made no mention of any limitations on where asylum seekers could be made to wait in Mexico.
That same month, Mexican officials said publicly that they had agreed to begin taking some asylum seekers at the Tijuana crossing from the United States, leaving it ambiguous about how quickly the program would expand to other parts of the border.
The program’s speed soon became a source of tension between the two countries, with American officials demanding to move more quickly and the Mexican government arguing that it was not ready for such an acceleration.
A federal judge in the United States briefly made the disagreement moot when he suspended the program after it briefly went into effect. But after an appeals court reversed that order at the beginning of May, the United States began quickly forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico.
There are about 10,000 migrants waiting in Mexico for their asylum cases to be processed. But with 144,000 migrants crossing the southern border illegally or without documentation in May alone, the program has been overwhelmed.
In a brief news conference on Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that the new agreement with Mexico was more substantial than the one Ms. Nielsen negotiated.
“The scale, the effort, the commitment here is very different from what we were able to achieve back in December,” Mr. Pompeo told reporters. “It’s a fundamentally different commitment about doing this across the entire border at scale.”
Asked about whether there were any other agreements with Mexico that had not been revealed, Mr. Pompeo said: “There were a number of commitments made. I can’t go into them in detail here.”
Michael D. Shear reported from Washington, and Maggie Haberman from New York. Edward Wong contributed reporting from Washington, and Elisabeth Malkin and Kirk Semple from Mexico City.
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