Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015


A dreary, overcast, rainy day...

A good day for newsbiting...

 
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William R. Barker said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraqis-think-the-us-is-in-cahoots-with-isis-and-it-is-hurting-the-war/2015/12/01/d00968ec-9243-11e5-befa-99ceebcbb272_story.html

* FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, FOLKS...

On the front lines of the battle against the Islamic State, suspicion of the United States runs deep.

* I WONDER WHY?

(*SMIRK*)

Iraqi fighters say they have all seen the videos purportedly showing U.S. helicopters airdropping weapons to the militants, and many claim they have friends and relatives who have witnessed similar instances of collusion.

Ordinary people also have seen the videos, heard the stories and reached the same conclusion — one that might seem absurd to Americans...

* Er... NO... DOESN'T SEEM "ABSURD" TO ME. FOLKS... IT'S NO DOUBT TRUE! NO. NOT CONSISTENTLY. BUT THE FRIENDS/ENEMIES CALCULUS IS CONSTANTLY SHIFTING AND SO "YES," WE HAVE ARMED AND SUPPORTED ISIS IN THE PAST - AND I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF WE'RE STILL SUPPORTING CERTAIN FACTIONS AS I TYPE!

...but is widely believed among Iraqis — that the United States is supporting the Islamic State for a variety of pernicious reasons that have to do with asserting U.S. control over Iraq, the wider Middle East and, perhaps, its oil.

U.S. military officials say the charges are too far-fetched to merit a response. “It’s beyond ridiculous,” said Col. Steve Warren, the military’s Baghdad-based spokesman. “There’s clearly no one in the West who buys it, but unfortunately, this is something that a segment of the Iraqi population believes.”

(*GUFFAW*)

* SERIOUSLY...?!?!

* FOLKS... THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO COVERED-UP THE PAT TILLMAN FRIENDLY FIRE "INCIDENT."

(*SIGH*)

The perception among Iraqis that the United States is somehow in cahoots with the militants it claims to be fighting appears, however, to be widespread across the country’s Sunni-Shiite sectarian divide...

* WHICH IS TELLING IN AND OF ITSELF. (REMEMBER, FOLKS... SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION!)

December 2, 2015 at 8:06 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-02/hungary-s-orban-says-germany-struck-secret-turkey-refugee-deal

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a staunch opponent of accepting refugees into the European Union, said Germany struck a “secret pact” with Turkey to take in as many as half a million people.

European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans dismissed reports of a covert deal as “nonsense.”

* I'D BELIEVE ORBAN OVER TIMMERMANS.

A German government official, requesting anonymity because EU-Turkey talks are ongoing, said Orban’s claim that Germany made a secret deal is false.

* I DON'T BELIEVE THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL.

* WE'LL SEE...

December 2, 2015 at 11:01 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://freebeacon.com/issues/congress-more-than-179000-criminal-illegal-immigrants-roaming-free-in-u-s/

More than 179,000 illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes, including violent ones, continue to roam free across the United States, with reports indicating that these illegal immigrants commit new crimes “every day,” according to lawmakers and the director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, also known as ICE.

* WITH THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP BEING:

Sarah Saldana, ICE’s director, disclosed to Congress on Wednesday that the agency is apprehending and removing fewer illegal immigrants than in past years.

(*SILENCE*)

The Washington Free Beacon disclosed in August that the Obama administration had been keeping secret the release of violent criminal illegal immigrants and only began notifying local law enforcement agencies about this within the last several months.

The administration is continuing a policy of hiding information about this issue, as “several administration officials informed the committee they were unable to testify because the hearing wasn’t ‘in response to a particular crisis,’” Grassley said.

* ISSUE SUBPENAS.

Saldana revealed at the hearing that somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 illegal immigrants previously convicted of crimes have been released from custody in recent years due to legal restrictions on how long the agency can detain an individual.

* INSANITY.

“Whether it’s a result of protracted appeals or refusal of a country to accept its nationals back, this decision accounts for somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 convicted criminal alien releases in recent years,” Saldana said, noting that the number has dropped over time.

“Many criminals remain in our communities,” Sen. Charles Grassley said. “When will enough be enough? Even those with violent criminal histories aren’t being removed as promised … American citizens are paying the price while law enforcement officers are instructed to look the other way.”

There have been “thousands of victims” of crimes committed by illegal immigrants and “many of the agency’s own officers are unable to do the job they signed up to do,” he said.

The Obama administration is removing fewer total illegal immigrants from the United States than it was just a few years ago, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions. “Not only are total removals down, but the number of removals of criminal aliens from the interior of United States, the so-called priority, has decreased significantly,” he said. “The reason for this decrease is not because there are fewer criminal aliens in the U.S. today then just a few years ago, there are hundreds of thousands of known criminal aliens in the U.S.”

“New crimes are committed every day by criminal aliens, so while we’re not seeing a decrease in crimes committed across this country, we are seeing a decrease in the removals of criminal aliens,” Sessions said.

This cannot be blamed on a lack of financial resources, Sessions said, as Congress has increased funding.

Still, deportations have plummeted and the administration is “doing substantially less with substantially more.”

“Our goal should be to keep 100 percent of all criminal aliens out of the United States,” Sessions said. “There’s nothing wrong or controversial about such a policy.”

Saldana confirmed that “overall apprehensions on the border are declining” and the agency’s “removal numbers are lower than they have been in recent years.”

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told lawmakers that ICE is deporting just a small fraction of the criminal illegals currently residing in the United States.

“Last year ICE managed to deport just over 63,000 criminal aliens from the interior out of an estimated criminal alien population of over 2 million,” Vaughan said.

December 2, 2015 at 11:11 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/02/judge-bans-high-school-performing-live-nativity-scene/76676294/

An Indiana public high school will not be allowed to portray a Nativity scene with live performers as part of the 2015 Christmas Spectacular, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Jon E. Deguilio granted a preliminary injunction in a federal lawsuit against Concord Community Schools, writing in the order that the show "conveys a message of endorsement of religion, or that a particular religious belief is favored or preferred."

* THIS JUDGE IS A MORON AND SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE REMOVED FROM THE BENCH VIA IMPEACHMENT AND CONVICTION.

December 2, 2015 at 11:13 PM

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