COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Wednesday, February 08, 2017

When the president's immigration policy is to protect Americans: Some piss-ant judge announces that his authority exceeds that of the president.

A MANIAC IS RUNNING OUR FOREIGN POLICY! (IT'S NOT TRUMP)


If only we were able to deport citizens, we could use Trump's new policy of excluding those who are "hostile" toward our country to get rid of Judge James Robart. 

Judge Robart's veto of Trump's travel ban notwithstanding, there is not the slightest question but that the president, in his sole discretion, can choose to admit or exclude any foreigners he likes, based on "the interests of the United States.” 

The Clinton administration used the executive branch's broad power over immigration to send a 6-year-old boy back to a communist dictatorship. The courts were completely powerless to stop him. 

As explained by the federal appellate court that ruled on Elian Gonzalez's asylum application: "It is the duty of the Congress and of the executive branch to exercise political will," and "in no context is the executive branch entitled to more deference than in the context of foreign affairs," which includes immigration. 

The court acknowledged that Elian might well be subjected to "re-education," "communist indoctrination" and "political manipulation." (Then again, so would enrolling him at Sidwell Friends.) It didn't matter! Sending little boys back to communist dictatorships was the policy of the Clinton administration. 

The Obama administration's immigration policy was to ensure that millions of poverty-stricken foreigners would come here and help turn our country into a Mexican version of Pakistan. 

When Arizona merely tried to enforce the federal immigration laws being ignored by the Obama administration, the entire media erupted in rage at this incursion into the majestic power of the president over immigration. They said it was like living in Nazi Germany! 

The most reviled section of the act, melodramatically called the "Papers Please" law, was upheld by the Supreme Court. But the other parts, allowing state officials to enforce federal immigration laws, were ruled unconstitutional. A president's policy choice to ignore immigration laws supersedes a state's right to enforce them.


The court conceded that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens were arrested in Arizona each year, that they were responsible for "a disproportionate share of serious crime," and that illegals constituted nearly 6 percent of Arizona's population. 

But Arizona was powerless to enforce laws on the books -- if those laws happened to be about immigration. The president's authority over immigration is absolute and exclusive, as part of his authority over foreign policy. 

To review: 

-- When the president's immigration policy is to promote international communism: The president wins. 

-- When the president's immigration policy is to transform America into a different country: The president wins. 

-- But when the president's immigration policy is to protect Americans: Some piss-ant judge announces that his authority exceeds that of the president. 

This is exactly what I warned you about in Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole. Nothing Trump does will be met with such massive resistance as his immigration policies. 

The left used to attack America by spying for Stalin, aiding our enemies, murdering cops and blowing up buildings. But, then liberals realized, it's so much more effective to just do away with America altogether! 

Teddy Kennedy gave them their chance with the 1965 immigration act. Since then, we've been taking in more than a million immigrants a year, 90 percent from comically primitive cultures. They like the welfare, but have very little interest in adopting the rest of our culture. 

In many parts of the country, you're already not living in America. Just a few more years, and the transformation will be complete. There will be a North American landmass known as "the United States," but it won't be our country. 

The only thing that stands between America and oblivion is a total immigration moratorium. We are well past the point of quick fixes -- as Judge Robart's delusional ruling proves. 

The judiciary, both political parties, the media, Hollywood, corporate America and approximately 1 million lobbying groups are all working frantically to bring the hardest cases to our shores. Left-wing traitors, who used to honeymoon in Cuba and fight with peasant revolutionaries in Peru, toil away, late into the night, to ensure that genocidal Rwandans can move to America and immediately start collecting food stamps, Medicaid and Social Security. 

No matter how clearly laws are written, government bureaucrats connive to import people from countries that a majority of Americans would not want to visit, much less become. Federal judges issue lunatic rulings to ensure that there will never be a pause in the transformation of America. 

Congress could write laws requiring immigrants to pay taxes, learn English, forgo welfare and have good moral character. It could write laws giving the president authority to exclude aliens in the public interest. 

Except it already has. Those laws were swept away by INS officials, federal judges and Democratic administrations -- under ferocious pressure from America-hating, left-wing groups. 

The country will not be safe until the following outfits are out of business: 


The ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project; the National Immigration Forum; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; the Office of Migration and Refugee Services; the American Immigration Law Foundation; the American Immigration Lawyers Association; the Border Information and Outreach Service; Atlas: DIY; the Catholic Legal Immigration Network; the Clearinghouse for Immigrant Education; the Farmworker Justice Fund; Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship; the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force; the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service; the National Association for Bilingual Education; the National Clearinghouse on Agricultural Guest Worker Issues; the National Coalition for Dignity and Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants; the National Coalition for Haitian Rights; the National Council of La Raza; and the National Farm Worker Ministry. 

And that's only a small fraction of the anti-American immigration groups assiduously dragging the Third World to our shores -- while you were busy working. 

Look at that list -- look at Judge Robart's ruling! -- and ask yourself: Is it possible that anything short of a total immigration moratorium can save this country? Only when there is no immigration to bellyache about will these nuts be forced to think of a new way to destroy America. 

COPYRIGHT 2017 ANN COULTER 
DISTRIBUTED BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Europeans have had enough of the suicidal policies created by their leaders and are rejecting uncontrolled immigration

Majority of Europeans say Muslim immigration should be stopped – poll


Majority of Europeans say Muslim immigration should be stopped – poll
More than 55 percent of Europeans say that immigration from Muslim-majority countries should be stopped, a poll from a London-based think tank says.
The poll, carried out by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, also known as Chatham House, a group which analyzes major international issues and current affairs, was released on Tuesday.  

More than 10,000 people from 10 European states took part in the survey. The respondents were given the following statement: “All further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped.”

“Overall, across all 10 of the European countries an average of 55 percent agreed that all further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped, 25 percent neither agreed nor disagreed and 20 percent disagreed,” the think tank said, adding that in no country “did the percentage that disagreed surpass 32 percent.”

The group says that the research “points to significant and widespread levels of public anxiety over immigration from mainly Muslim states.”

The countries most opposed to further immigration were Austria, Poland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Germany, and Greece, “despite these countries having very different sized resident Muslim populations,” they said.

“With the exception of Poland, these countries have either been at the centre of the refugee crisis or experienced terrorist attacks in recent years.”

According to the poll, the opposition to Muslim immigration is “especially intense among retired, older age cohorts while those aged below 30 are notably less opposed.”


Also, those with less education display more negative attitudes towards Muslims: 

“Of those with secondary level qualifications, 59 percent opposed further Muslim immigration. By contrast, less than half of all degree holders (48 percent) supported further migration curbs.”

The authors of the survey said that the poll was carried out prior to the implementation of US President Donald Trump’s controversial ‘Muslim ban.’

“Our results are striking and sobering. They suggest that public opposition to any further migration from predominantly Muslim states is by no means confined to Trump’s electorate in the US but is fairly widespread.”

This is not the first poll which indicates that EU citizens tend to have negative attitudes towards Muslims. In July 2015, a survey from the Pew Research Center, an American think tank, revealed that many Europeans rate Muslims “unfavorably.” The highest opposition towards Muslims was recorded in Hungary (72 percent), Italy (69 percent) and Poland (66 percent). 

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Solidarity and Democracy Depend on the Nation State - This is Make or Break Time





Mark Blyth--"Liberalisms' great trick has been to naturalize very difficult political contests."

 

Saturday, February 04, 2017

Americans can't handle the truth!

Wait till the shocked and awed  bullshit artists start tearing the bark off this one. Trump is right, we are one of the greatest killing machines in this millennium.




American Psychos







🙂 Putin Offers His Insight Into McCain

Sens. Graham and McCain Visit Ukraine Troops, Urge Offensive

Graham Vows 2017 Is 'Year of Offensive' Against Russia

The United States has never been particularly supportive of efforts by European nations to negotiate a ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine. Perennial hawks Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) and John McCain (R – AZ) took things a step further, however, visiting Ukrainian troops on the frontlines and openly urging new military offensives against the ethnic Russian rebels.

Addressing the troops alongside Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Graham declared 2017 to be “the year of offensive” against Russia, insisting Ukraine’s fight was America’s fight, and that he was determined to make the Russian “pay a heavier price.”

Sen. McCain concurred, insisting that the US could not allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to “succeed” in Ukraine, because if he does he’s liable to also “succeed” in other countries around the world.

Graham is also said to be pushing a draft resolution aiming to impose a new round of sanctions against Russia for “trying to interfere with our election.” He insisted he would “never be satisfied” until the US punishes the Russian government.

Jason Ditz

Antiwar

Thursday, February 02, 2017

CHAOS

Why chaos in the Trump White House is bad for business
Donald Trump thrives on chaos, but American businesses don’t.

RexNutting


In the first 13 days of his four-year term, the new president has unleashed a torrent of inconsistent and, at times, incoherent orders, threats and promises that have only increased the uncertainty that business leaders say they abhor.

Increasingly, American citizens and businesses are beginning to realize what a Trump administration means: A national government untethered to the rule of law or to constitutional principles, devoid of an overarching ideology or purpose except blind nationalism, and the care and feeding of a wounded child-president’s ego.

In addition to the normal sources of uncertainty, American businesses must now contend with chaos. They must recognize that the usual procedures, the institutionalized checks and balances, and the continuity of American traditions and values no longer apply.

So far, foreign-student applications to major U.S. colleges are stable or have increased for the next academic year, but higher education officials are bracing for the potential impact of President Trump’s executive order to temporarily suspend travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. Here’s what’s at stake. Photo: Rajah Rose for The Wall Street Journal

I’m not exaggerating. Trump promised to change the way Washington works, and he has.

Chaos is Trump’s signature move in business, on his reality-TV shows, in campaigning and now in governing, writes political reporter/pundit Chris Cillizza. Trump likes to make the decisions, and he likes to keep his underlings guessing what he’ll do next.

That kind of management structure can produce spectacular successes, but also spectacular failures. That might be acceptable in a private business owned by a single person, but not in a democracy of 325 million, particularly when the president did not win a plurality of votes, much less a majority.

“His presidency is in chaos, and it’s apparent to all but most of his serious defenders,” said Carl Bernstein on CNN.

It’s not just liberals and reporters who think it’s been a mess so far.

Newt Gingrich, a big supporter of the president, said the early days of the Trump administration were like an off-Broadway play that wasn’t quite ready for the big time. And one anonymous White House official lamented that Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was “under-competent.”

As harmful as chaos is to our democracy, it’s really bad for business.

If the president can declare unilaterally that hundreds of thousands of people who have entered America legally and who have complied with all of our laws for decades are suddenly too dangerous to enter the country, what else could the president do? wondered Matt Levine of Bloomberg View. “The reason the U.S. is a good place to do business is that, for the last 228 years, it has built a firm foundation on the rule of law. It almost undid that in a weekend,” Levine wrote.

“Investors need to feel that there is fairness and a set of rules that everyone must adhere to,” said Josh Brown on The Reformed Broker blog. “No one would build a house on quicksand and no one would exchange currency for pieces of paper in an environment where legal protections no longer mattered.”

Stunning incompetence


It’s not just the words of Trump’s executive orders that makes these observers call Trump’s style “chaotic.” It’s also the process of stunning incompetence, in the words of Benjamin Wittes, editor of the Lawfare blog, which specializes in national security policy.

Rex Tillerson Sworn In as U.S. Secretary of State

Former Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State by Vice President Mike Pence in the presence of President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

The executive order to ban the entry of visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries didn’t go through the normal channels of government, with input from experts who could assess its legality and its wider implications. The process was chaotic and insular, leaving even the White House chief of staff uncertain as to what the order actually required. The people at Customs who had to implement the order were equally in the dark.

This is a pattern in the Trump White House, and it’s probably a deliberate one.

Most businesses want a policy process that’s transparent, fair and orderly, but what they get from Trump is a process that depends a lot on what is on Trump’s mind (or what his gut feels) at the time the decision is made. Instead of laws, regulations and principles guiding us, we have the whims of one man.

We’re only 13 days into the administration, but already we’re more uncertain than ever about what Trump will mean for a lot of really important issues.

Trade, taxes and the dollar policy


For instance, what will Trump do about foreign trade? Already, he’s withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, signaled his intention to withdraw from NAFTA if it can’t be renegotiated to his satisfaction, and angered our third-most important trading partner by demanding that it pay for the Mexican border wall. His top trade adviser has said that American companies need to eliminate their global supply chains and relocate them to America.

Will Trump brand companies that have global operations as un-American? Will he declare China to be a pariah? Impose punitive tariffs on imports from China, Mexico or perhaps on all imports? Will he start a trade war with Germany? We don’t know, and we don’t know how these decisions will be made.

What about corporate tax reform? Trump has been vague and contradictory about Republican proposals for a border adjustment tax as part of a comprehensive reform plan. In another display of stunning incompetence, his press secretary first told reporters that Trump wants to slap a 20% tax on Mexican imports to pay for the wall, then he told them that the tax would apply to all imports, and then he backtracked on the idea, saying it was just one of many options.

That’s not the way to gain the confidence of business leaders, or of our global partners. Or of reporters. Not that Trump cares about any of that.

What about the foreign-exchange value of the dollar? Does Trump want a weaker dollar to encourage American manufacturing, as trade czar Peter Navarro has been saying? Or does he want a stronger dollar, as incoming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said? Trump himself, as on so many issues, seems to have endorsed both views.

Health care and federal spending

There’s just as much chaos in other important areas. Will there be a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and what will it look like specifically? Will there be a big increase in federal spending on infrastructure, and how will those dollars be apportioned?

Will Trump crack down further on legal immigration, as suggested by a report that he wants to deport immigrants who take jobs from Americans and deport immigrants who don’t have jobs? Are there any immigrants — aside from Melania — that he doesn’t want to kick out?

Will Trump continue to shame and bully American companies that have global operations? Will CEOs continue to cower before him? Will he eliminate regulations that businesses depend upon to ensure a level playing field and a vibrant economy? Will Trump use his office and the entire government apparatus to further his own business interests, which are shrouded in the utmost secrecy? Will Trump pack the Federal Reserve to maintain low interest rates forever? Will he gut Social Security and Medicare, as congressional Republicans and his own budget director want?

Fear of Trump

Perhaps the most important unknown is how much independence Congress will assert over these matters. So far, the Republican leaders have completely fallen behind Trump, and not because they think Trump is a wise ruler. The Republicans fear their president more than they admire him.

It’s normal for the early days of an administration to be bumpy and uncomfortable, but what makes the Trump administration so different is that no one knows what Trump (and his small inner circle) wants, beyond a vague promise to put America first.

Where is Trump’s North Star — in his navel?

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has told us that we need to judge Trump on what’s in his heart, not on what he says. But businesses need more clarity than that: They want a nation where the laws and rules are written in books after due process, not in the fickle heart of one man ruled by emotions.

Wednesday, February 01, 2017

German Strength Through Diversity - Swedish Strength Through Diversity

 DIVERSITY TRAINING


Tunisian IS suspect arrested over attack plot in Germany

BERLIN –  Published February 01, 2017  Associated Press

Authorities have raided dozens of locations in western Germany and arrested a Tunisian man suspected of being a recruiter for the Islamic State group and rounding up supporters to carry out an attack in Germany.

Frankfurt prosecutors said 54 apartments, business premises and mosques in the region were searched early Wednesday. They said the investigation was directed against 16 people in total, aged between 16 and 46.

The 36-year-old main suspect was arrested in Frankfurt. He's believed to have been a recruiter and smuggler for the IS group since August 2015.

Prosecutors say plans for a possible attack were at a very early stage and no concrete target had been chosen.




Gangs of Muslim Refugees Take Over Mall in Sweden

Shayne HeffernanJanuary 16, 2017


The type of Islam you are fighting is the same type of Islam Muslims all over the world are fighting, it is also, for whatever reason the branch of Islam that Obama has thrown his weight and America’s money behind,it is called Sunni Wahhabism and the world is riddled with it, it is the enemy.

Muslim Migrants in Gothenburg, Sweden have the local police on special alert at the country’s leading mall. Many are afraid to visit Nordstan mall, as citizens are openly harassed and even attacked, Expressen reports, citing police.

According to Expressen, local police are also being intimidated, and have been forced to implement special measures due to an increase in threatening behavior toward shoppers and business owners.

Sales are reported to have taken a massive hit. Although not the largest mall in Sweden, Nordstan is said to bring in the most business.

According to the Swedish paper, trouble starts around 8pm, once the shops begin closing. In some cases, the gangs of young people outnumber the police.

“We have seen an increase since last autumn, with mostly unaccompanied minors who are staying here in Nordstan,” one of the police managers, Jonas Bergqvist, told Expressen.

“In the evening they deal drugs and violence between fractions sometimes occurs. If there are conflicts from their home countries, they bring them here.”

Police also say the gangs are becoming increasingly aggressive towards them.

Bergqvist remembers a group of teens numbering around 150 people, who surrounded him and his colleagues around New Year’s Eve during an operation.

Authorities view this rise in cases as going hand in hand with the increased arrival of undocumented migrants, as incidents particularly involve youths from Syria, Afghanistan, and Morocco – some of them street children.

Some incidents escalate to seriously dangerous situations: one teenager was said to have been robbed with broken glass held to his throat. A shopkeeper had tried to intervene, but was also threatened.
There are legal problems with bringing offenders to justice, as many lack identification. This forces the police to hand over the offenders to social services.

“I’ve had people in front of me that look like they are 35, but who claim to be 15. I can’t prove they’re lying so we have to release them,” Rikard Sorensen, another officer, says.

As a result, the shopping mall becomes a place of almost total lawlessness after 8pm, joining other spots in Sweden now labeled as no-go zones, according to the local media report. To be considered a no-go zone, the area usually has to be marked by a dangerous incidence of muggings, robberies, harassment, and sexual assault. In September 2016, the number reportedly rose to 55 areas.