U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi on Tuesday discussed improving and maintaining a "mutually beneficial economic relationship" between the United States and China, the State Department said. Tillerson and Yang, China's top diplomat, affirmed the importance of "regular high-level engagement" between the two countries during their meeting in Washington, and discussed North Korea's nuclear program, the State Department said in a statement. China's state news agency, Xinhua, quoted Yang as saying China was willing to work with Washington "to enhance exchanges on all levels from top down" and to broaden communication and coordination on regional and global issues, while respecting "each other's core interests and major concerns." "This will help promote sustained, steady and healthy development of the China-U.S. relations, which will benefit the peoples of not only both nations but also the whole world," Xinhua quoted Yang as saying. The meeting was the latest exchange aimed at resetting relations between the world's two largest economies following a rocky start after the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. On Monday, Yang, who outranks China's foreign minister, met at the White House with Trump, who has attacked China on issues from trade, to the South China Sea and North Korea. They discussed shared security interests and a possible meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to a senior U.S. administration official. The State Department said Yang invited Tillerson to visit Beijing, and that Tillerson expressed interest in doing so. Yang's visit to the United States follows a phone call between him and Tillerson last week, during which they affirmed the importance of a constructive U.S.-China relationship. Yang's visit follows months of strong rhetoric from Trump, who has accused China of unfair trade policies, criticized its island-building in the strategic South China Sea, and accused it of doing too little to constrain its neighbor, North Korea. In December, Trump incensed Beijing by saying the United States did not have to stick to the "one China" policy, under which Washington acknowledges the Chinese position that there is only one China, of which Taiwan is a part. He later agreed in a phone call with Xi to honor the policy. In an interview with Reuters last week, Trump urged China to do more to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. China later dismissed Trump's remarks, saying the crux of the matter was a dispute between Washington and Pyongyang.


The White House has launched an internal investigation into the use of private email by senior aides, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from their private accounts, Politico reported on Thursday. Citing four unnamed officials, Politico said the effort began this week after it reported that President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, and other senior White House officials had used private email accounts to exchange messages for government business. A U.S. House of Representatives committee asked the White House on Monday for information about the Politico report. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, asked if Trump was concerned about the reported use of private emails, told reporters earlier on Thursday, "The White House has been clear and instructs all staff to fully comply with the Presidential Records Act. All staff has been briefed on the need to preserve those records, and will continue to do so." During Trump's 2016 election campaign, the Republican real estate developer attacked Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server for official correspondence when she was secretary of state under President Barack Obama. Some of Clinton's messages were later determined to contain classified information. The White House probe could take several weeks or even months to complete as officials are searching for all emails sent or received about government business, Politico reported. "The White House counsel's office is reviewing the accounts to determine if the messages are germane to any investigations such as the ongoing Russia probes by Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller," Politico reported. Mueller is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion with Trump associates. Russia has denied any such efforts, and Trump has dismissed any talk of collusion. Politico earlier reported that other senior Trump aides had also used private email accounts, including former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, former chief strategist Steve Bannon and economic adviser Gary Cohn. The New York Times reported on Monday that private accounts were also used by the president's daughter Ivanka Trump after she became a White House adviser and by Stephen Miller, a senior Trump adviser.


SEOUL, South Korea — He seemed like an ordinary passenger in the departure hall of the airport for Malaysia's capital, awaiting a flight to Macau. Moments later, he felt dizzy and was carried out on a stretcher, apparently dying from punctures or perhaps a toxic liquid splashed on his face by two women who ran away. The ruckus caused by the man's death on Monday at the international airport for Kuala Lumpur was minor news until a thunderbolt from the South Korean and Malaysian news media a day later: The victim was Kim 45, the estranged older half brother of Kim the unpredictable and ruthless leader of North Korea. The death immediately turned into an international assassination intrigue connected to the opaque regime of the Kim family, which has ruled North Korea for more than 60 years. It came as Kim 33, who has ordered scores of subordinates executed when he questioned their fealty, has further shaken up the ranks of his closest aides, purging the chief of the secret police less than two weeks ago. In addition, Kim has stoked a new international crisis with a ballistic missile launching and threats of more nuclear weapons tests. The South Korean news channel TV Chosun said that two women had stabbed Kim with poisoned needles and fled in a taxi and that the local police were searching for them. The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, quoted the police as saying the victim had sought help from a departure hall receptionist after someone "grabbed him from behind and splashed liquid on his face. " He died as medics rushed him to a hospital. Political experts on North Korea's politics immediately speculated that Kim had ordered the assassination of his older half sibling, who at one time had been the heir apparent and had been favored by China, the country's ally and principal benefactor. "Maybe Kim was about to do something drastic that would either compromise the regime or the family," said Jae H. Ku, director of the U. S. Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "By the nature of things in North Korea, the fact that he is in the bloodline represented a threat. " Others were even more emphatic in their suspicion that Kim had been responsible, partly because Kim had been publicly critical of the transfer of power that made Kim the top leader after the death of their father, Kim in 2011. "The apparent murder today of Kim in Malaysia by agents of his brother is the latest explosive turn in Pyongyang's vicious palace intrigue," said Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who specializes in North and South Korea at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "The question remains: Do these deadly measures secure his rule or serve to undermine it?" There also was speculation that Kim might have ordered Kim killed because China might have been planning to support him as a replacement for Kim who has angered Chinese leaders with his provocative weapons and missile tests. "Kim reportedly has been Beijing's favorite, which may mean one day the Chinese Communist Party may overthrow Kim and install Kim " said Lee a North Korea expert at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The Royal Malaysia Police identified the dead man as Kim Chol, an alias that South Korean officials said had been used by Kim . A police statement said the cause of death was under investigation. In Seoul on Wednesday, Prime Minister Hwang who is serving as acting president during the impeachment trial of President Park called a meeting of cabinet ministers and urged his government to work closely with the Malaysian authorities to help uncover who killed Kim . "If he was killed by the Kim regime, it will be an example of its cruelty and inhumaneness," Mr. Hwang said. North Korea's media has said nothing about the reports. Kim the eldest son of Kim had been widely considered next in line to succeed him until 2001, when he was caught trying to take his son to Tokyo Disneyland with a fake visa. He was detained for several days, then deported to China. Other analysts in South Korea say Kim fell out of the succession race after his mother, Sung was rejected by the North Korean leader, who favored Kim 's mother, Ko . Ms. Ko and Kim had another son, Kim who was seen at an Eric Clapton concert in London in 2015. North Korea began grooming Kim as heir after his father had a stroke in 2008. As his youngest brother consolidated power, Kim lived in abroad. Until recently, he was sometimes seen in Macau. TV Chosun said he had also been visiting Singapore and Malaysia, where he had girlfriends. Kim 's son, Kim had once studied in Bosnia and later in France. In an interview with a European television channel in 2012, the son said he did not know how his uncle, Kim "became a dictator. " Kim was once questioned in Macau by a reporter about the likelihood that his half brother would take over, and he seemed to accept his fate. "It is my father's decision," he said. "So, once he decides, we have to support. " But at other times, he was critical of Kim 's ascendance. "I believe that my father originally was against the notion of a third generation succeeding him," Kim interviewed in November 2010, told the Japanese journalist Yoji Gomi in the book "My Father, Kim and I. " "There must have been some internal reasons that made him change his mind. " Kim also once predicted doom for his half brother's rule while talking to reporters from Japan, North Korea's sworn enemy. His criticism fueled speculation that China and certain generals in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, might be protecting him in case anything should go wrong with Kim 's rule. Mr. Gomi said in an interview on Tuesday that the last time he had contacted Kim in January 2012, he had said North Korea should follow China's economic path. China supported Kim financially for many years because if Kim died, North Koreans, indoctrinated to venerate the Kim family, would look to Kim to step in as leader, according to Kang Chunnu, 51, a distant relative of the Kim family who lives in Britain. "Kim is a person which China can control and the North Korean people can trust," she said by telephone. There seemed little question in South Korea that Kim was behind his half brother's death. A spokesman for South Korea's governing Liberty Korea Party, Kim said the killing was a "naked example of Kim 's reign of terror. " Since taking power, Mr. Kim has executed more than 140 senior party and military officials deemed a threat to his authority, often ordering them killed by machine guns and even flamethrowers, according to the Institute for National Security Strategy, a research group affiliated with the South's National Intelligence Service. Thae who was the North's No. 2 diplomat in London until his defection to South Korea last summer, said he had fled partly because of Kim 's ruthlessness. In 2015, South Korean officials said that Gen. Hyon the defense minister, had been executed with an antiaircraft gun in Pyongyang after dozing off during military events and Mr. Kim's orders. In August last year, they said Mr. Kim found fault with a deputy premier's "disrespectful posture" during a meeting and had him executed by firing squad. Relatives were not spared. An uncle and the country's No. 2 official, Jang was executed in 2013 on charges of factionalism, corruption and sedition. Defectors from North Korea live in fear of retaliation. In 1997, Lee a nephew of Kim 's mother, was shot and killed in Seoul. South Korean officials suspected that a North Korean agent killed Mr. Lee, who had become a bitter critic of the government in Pyongyang after defecting to Seoul in 1982. Cheong a longtime researcher on the Kim family, said that the killing of Kim could have been carried out only on the orders of Kim . Ken E. Gause, a specialist in leadership studies at the CNA Corporation, a research group in Alexandria, Va. said the assassination also might have been meant as a warning to all North Korean expatriates. "Given the recent defections," he said, "Kim felt the need to show that the regime could get to anyone who may be contemplating opposing the regime. "


U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said a missile fired by Yemen s Houthi group toward Saudi Arabia on Tuesday bears all the hallmarks of previous attacks using Iranian-provided weapons as she pushed the U.N. Security Council to act. Saudi air defenses shot down the ballistic missile and there were no reports of casualties or damage. In contrast, a U.N. human rights spokesman said coalition air strikes had killed at least 136 noncombatants in war-torn Yemen since Dec. 6. Saudi-led forces, backing Yemen s government, have fought the Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen s more than two-year-long war. Iran has denied supplying the Houthis with weapons, saying the U.S. and Saudi allegations are baseless and unfounded. We must all act cooperatively to expose the crimes of the Tehran regime and do whatever is needed to make sure they get the message. If we do not, then Iran will bring the world deeper into a broadening regional conflict, Haley told the council. Haley said she was exploring, with some council colleagues, several options for pressuring Iran to adjust their behavior. However, Haley is likely to struggle to convince some members, like veto powers Russia and China, that U.N. action is needed. Russia s Deputy U.N. Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov told council on Tuesday: We need to abandon the language of threats and sanctions and to start using the instruments of dialogue and concentrate on broadening cooperation and mutual trust. Most sanctions on Iran were lifted at the start of 2016 under the nuclear deal brokered by world powers and enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution. The resolution still subjects Tehran to a U.N. arms embargo and other restrictions that are technically not part of the nuclear deal. Haley said the Security Council could strengthen the provisions in that resolution or adopt a new resolution banning Iran from all activities related to ballistic missiles. Under the current resolution, Iran is called upon to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons for up to eight years. Some states argue that the language of the resolution does not make it obligatory. We could explore sanctions on Iran in response to its clear violations of the Yemen arms embargo, Haley said. We could hold the IRGC (Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) accountable for its violations of numerous Security Council resolutions. A separate U.N. resolution on Yemen bans the supply of weapons to Houthi leaders and those acting on their behalf or at their direction.


THE DELETER OF THE FREE WORLD Hillary's 33,000 emails might not be 'missing' after all Files backed up on multiple platforms never subpoened by FBI Published: 19 mins ago  (New York Post) For months now, we've been told that Hillary Clinton's 33,000 missing emails were permanently erased and destroyed beyond recovery. But newly released FBI notes strongly suggest they still exist in several locations — and they could be recovered, if only someone would impanel a grand jury and seize them.  In a May interview with FBI agents, an executive with the Denver contractor that maintained Clinton's private server revealed that an underling didn't bleach-clean all her subpoenaed emails, just ones he stored in a data file he used to transfer the emails from the server to Clinton's aides, who in turn sorted them for delivery to Congress.  The Platte River Networks executive, whose name was redacted from the interview report, said PRN tech Paul Combetta "created a 'vehicle' to transfer email files from the live mailboxes of [Clinton Executive Services Corp.] email accounts [and] then later used BleachBit software to shred the 'vehicle,' but the email content still existed in the live email accounts."


Donald Trump is so petty about not getting his way on healthcare that he is literally hoping that our healthcare system fails.On Friday, House Republicans were forced to cancel a floor vote on their Trumpcare bill for the second time because it was heading for a massive defeat.It was a humiliating blow for a party that controls the House, Senate, and the White House.The Republican healthcare plan would have repealed the Affordable Care Act. Over 20 million Americans would have lost their health insurance and premiums would have skyrocketed.Only 17 percent of Americans supported the bill, which makes it far less popular than the Affordable Care Act.Trump immediately reacted by blaming Democrats, but again, Republicans control Congress so that excuse won t fly.On Saturday morning, Trump reacted again by expressing his hope that the healthcare system will collapse and told everyone not to worry because he will create a plan for the people, even though his previous attempt would have hurt millions.ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry! Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2017What you just witnessed is a sitting president literally desiring the failure of our healthcare system. Also, notice that Trump has stopped saying that the Affordable Care Act is imploding and is instead now saying that it will explode. It sounds like Trump just admitted that the Affordable Care Act was not crumbling as he previously claimed. Now he is just making a prediction.Of course, Twitter users responded by humiliating Trump for failing to gut the Affordable Care Act and torched him for hoping that healthcare fails in America.@realDonaldTrump To be clear: Trump s plan at this point is to try to slowly degrade health care then blame the ACA. Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) March 25, 201724 million people keeping healthcare = exploding https://t.co/zCnumlKzMx Jordan Uhl (@JordanUhl) March 25, 2017.@realDonaldTrump gleefully hoping the current health plan explodes shows what a truly heartless, disturbed man you actually are Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) March 25, 2017.@realDonaldTrump So, we should not worry, because the health insurance market will collapse ? Great logic. Simon Hedlin (@simonhedlin) March 25, 2017@realDonaldTrump The only thing exploding is your orange head, after realising you can t always get what you want, as your fave song goes. Mike P Williams (@Mike_P_Williams) March 25, 2017@realDonaldTrump Trumpcare exploded first. Mark Pygas (@MarkPygas) March 25, 2017@realDonaldTrump Maybe make a better plan now and work with both sides? This isn t a reality show, you turd. Ben Berkon (@BenBerkon) March 25, 2017@realDonaldTrump Great leadership! Hoping a program that insures millions will fail cause you COULDN T CLOSE THE DEAL! Erich McElroy (@erichmcelroy) March 25, 2017u r a creep @realDonaldTrump ROSIE (@Rosie) March 25, 2017@realDonaldTrump The fact that you re so gleeful about the possibility of millions of people dying if healthcare does fail, speaks volumes. Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) March 25, 2017@nickbilton @realDonaldTrump to be clear, it was imploding earlier this month. Why the change in talking points? Ben Fox Rubin (@benfoxrubin) March 25, 2017.@realDonaldTrump so, just to recap, you d like Americans to die from losing health insurance or terrorism just so you can yell TOLDYA! Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) March 25, 2017A lot of people will die if Trump s wish comes true and he ll likely try to make it come true by killing regulations and funding in order to sabotage the Affordable Care Act. Trump is not a patriot and he s definitely not a human being. He s a f*cking monster.


Email  Petty tyranny is alive and well in the home of the Magna Carta, thanks to a sweeping 2014 crime act. According to a new report from the Manifesto Club, a British civil-liberties organization, U.K. residents are being cited and fined — under the threat of criminal prosecution for failure to comply — for such offenses as not weeding their gardens, crying too loudly in their own homes, posting signs critical of local government policies, or even feeding wild birds.  The Anti-social Behavior, Crime and Policing Act — passed at the urging of Theresa May, then home secretary and now prime minister — gave local officials the authority to issue Community Protection Notices (CPNs) to individuals 16 or older whenever officials believe that "the conduct of the individual … is having a detrimental effect, of a persistent and continuing nature, on the quality of life of those in the locality."  An official may issue a CPN on the spot, with only minimal warning to the individual being cited, for any offense he deems worthy, including things occurring within someone's home. The CPN may demand that the cited individual either refrain from a particular activity or take specific actions, or both; and it may impose a fine of up to $124. In addition, if an individual refuses to comply with a CPN, he may be subjected to criminal prosecution and, if convicted, fined as much as $3,100.  CPNs, noted the Manifesto Club, do "not have to go through a magistrates' court, and the standard of proof is significantly lower" than that for civil injunctions. "CPNs therefore give council officials unprecedented powers to direct the behavior of particular individuals, backed up by the force of the criminal law."  The group found that between October 2014 and October 2015, councils issued 3,943 CPNs and 9,546 CPN warnings. Between April 1, 2015, and December 31, 2015, there were 254 prosecutions for failure to comply with a CPN; 200 of those were successful.  A number of CPNs concerned activities taking place inside the home. Most were related to noises that could be heard in adjoining properties, including apartments. Shouting, swearing, and even crying that could be overheard were forbidden, as was "noise from televisions, sound equipment (stereo systems), radios, musical instruments, domestic appliances and power tools."  Four councils issued CPNs prohibiting people from feeding birds in their gardens — this despite the fact that the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds actually encourages people to do just that.  "Such orders," wrote the Manifesto Club, "undermine the privacy and sanctity of the home. If you cannot cry within your own house, or feed the birds in your garden, then the home has no significant meaning as a private space which is protected from the demands of the outer world." Moreover, "The noise restrictions specified in these orders are unrealistically low: it is rare that TVs or music cannot be overheard to some extent in adjoining properties, and a certain background noise is part and parcel of living in a flat or terraced house. It may be that some of these individuals' behavior would qualify as a statutory nuisance, but the issued CPNs set the conditions so low as to criminalize very ordinary behavior."  Many, if not most, of the CPNs concerned the conditions of people's yards, or "gardens" in British parlance. While some requested the removal of waste such as sofas, others were merely for gardens that were not kept up to the standards of the official issuing the CPN. Several councils issued CPNs to individuals unfortunate enough to have Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant species, pop up in their gardens. Should those individuals fail to eradicate the weed — a lengthy and difficult process requiring deep excavation — they could end up with criminal records.  "Councils can also use the measures to stifle criticism of council policy," the Manifesto Club found.  A man in East Lancashire was threatened with a CPN ordering him to take down "inflammatory" signs that criticized a new housing development sanctioned by the council. The signs were on his back gate and on a tree on the edge of his property. The council's community protection coordinator said: "This notice would ultimately give the council the ability to enter the land and remove the signs."  CPNs have been used to force people to maintain their houses in keeping with others' tastes. One homeowner was threatened with prosecution if he did not clean his windows both inside and out. Another was cited for keeping a bicycle collection on his property.  Furthermore, CPNs can require people to take expensive remedial actions. If an individual refuses to comply, the council can have the work performed and then bill the homeowner for it. Sources of overheard noise can be seized and destroyed.  "There appears to be little respect for the rights of home ownership or the notion that your house or garden are [sic] places that you can manage as you see fit," observed the Manifesto Club. "Now it is the complainant outsider, and not the home owner or occupier, who appears to have the weight of authority and the balance of the law on their side."  Councils have also used CPNs to target particular individuals' public behavior rather than going through the messy and public process of enacting general restrictions or obtaining civil injunctions. At least two councils have no laws against begging or public sleeping — one, in fact, was forced to withdraw a previous order prohibiting them because of public protest — but have used CPNs to enforce de facto bans on these activities. Some CPNs were issued to people who clearly needed help rather than prosecution, such as a homeless, mentally ill man who insisted on sleeping in the woods on hospital grounds but was harming no one.  It's not hard to figure out why local officials love CPNs: They can make up "laws" on the spot — some councils' CPN forms don't specify particular offenses but allow officers to write in whatever they please — and enforce them (and collect fines) without the bother of proving their case in court.  "It is a principle of law that more specific powers should be preferred to more general ones," argued the Manifesto Club. "In fact, we are seeing the opposite: the more general CPN power is being preferred to more specific powers. A quick-fix, all-purpose measure is being used in areas where other powers could be used, which means that the punishment of offences such as neighbor nuisance is occurring beyond the purview of formal law and procedure."  The Manifesto Club, along with other civil-liberties organizations, is calling on the government to greatly curtail the use of CPNs. They also note that individuals can appeal CPNs in court and encourage more to do so.  The good news, the group's Josie Appleton told CNSNews.com , is that the CPN statute hasn't become entrenched law yet.  "I think it's very early days," she said. "I'm hopeful." Please review our Comment Policy before posting a comment  Thank you for joining the discussion at The New American. We value our readers and encourage their participation, but in order to ensure a positive experience for our readership, we have a few guidelines for commenting on articles. If your post does not follow our policy, it will be deleted.  No profanity, racial slurs, direct threats, or threatening language.  No product advertisements.  Please post comments in English.  Please keep your comments on topic with the article. 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He s a controversial, conservative artist and he s coming after the Left. He s an outspoken, brave, modern-day Patriot, and he s not afraid to venture where conservatives have never gone. Sabo (his pseudonym) has shocked many liberals, and conservatives alike with his edgy artwork. It would be an understatement to say that he is constantly pushing the envelope. Whether you agree or disagree with him, conservatives should be thanking Sabo for utilizing his 1st Amendment Right, as he takes the fight against the Left to the streets of cities across America.If you want to help Sabo to create more of these important anti-Left messages leading up to the next election and beyond, please consider donating to him HERE. He s working to get an important message out to Americans, and more specifically to the younger voter. The only thing that pays for his supplies and his bill are donations from his supporters. Please consider helping him out. Here is his website: unsavoryagents.com and his STOREHere is an example of Sabo s most recent work: Here is one of our personal favorites: Hillary s baggage When Democrat candidates come to town for a fundraiser, Sabo tries to have a surprise message waiting for them, like this great piece waiting for Hillary in Greenwich, CT: Here s a great welcome sign waiting for Hillary on the way to one of her fundraisers (courtesy of Sabo): And then there were the special mile markers created just for the Los Angeles Marathon: The Obama Drone signs are some of our personal favorites. If Americans were smart, they d forgo a few hours of entertainment and stop funding these Hollywood freaks who support the destruction of our nation: He s not afraid to call out race baiters like Al Sharpton: And cry-baby college students looking for safe spaces are not immune to his counter-message. This poster mocks the #BlackLivesMatter (Anti-White) movement, and was plastered across the street from a college fraternity house: Sabo used this great illustration to point out the entitlement mentality of the Clinton Crime Syndicate who believes the throne (our White House) rightfully belongs to Hillary: Sabo makes no secret of his support for Ted Cruz. He has been a loyal supporter for years. This piece of art he created illustrates the kick ass, take-no-prisoners style of Ted Cruz that both the GOP and Left despise: Here is an interview with Glenn Beck that explains what motivates Sabo, and why he chose to use street art to get a conservative message out to Americans:Is it any wonder when Sabo saw this message from Obama s Secret Service hanging on his door, he wasn t too surprised? Sabo called the agent listed on the door hanger and scheduled a meeting at his home for 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Before the interview, Sabo posted the above image and alerted his Facebook friends and Twitter followers about the pending visit. Shortly after the Secret Service visit, Sabo posted a video that claims to cover most of the entire interview. Sabo told TheBlaze there was a little more to it, but I just wanted to get it out. You can watch the video of the visit here: (Warning: The video has some objectionable images and the dialogue contains profanity)Here is one of the tweets that supposedly brought the Secret Service to Sabo s door:A MESSAGE TO THE SECRET SERVICE. I HAVE $10,000 IN HAND WHICH I WILL USE BUY A MONTH OF COLUMBIAN HOOKERS FOR YOU TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY. unsavoryagents (@unsavoryagents) September 29, 2014Here is a video showing how Sabo creates his street art:// <![CDATA[ (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); // ]]>THE BITCH IS BACKPosted by Unsavoryagents on Sunday, October 23, 2011From Sabo s Website unsavoryagents.com : Bush the Younger was elected President and the claws came out in Hollywood. I lost my friends along with a great deal of peace. It was not a good time to be a Republican in Hollywood. There was no place I could go where I wasn t punched in the face by some sort of art defining who I was for being a Republican. Evil, Bigotted, Homophobic, Out of Touch, Rich, Greedy, on and on. And then I snapped. Why was the Left allowed to define me and where are the dissenting voices from the Right setting the record straight? Creatively speaking, no one. I believe the Right has a great message, sadly the only people telling it are those on the Left and they do a damn fine job making us look like ass holes and what do Republicans do about it, NOT A DAMN THING!!! Fuck it! I guess it s just going to have to be me, I thought. My aim as an artist is to be as dirty, ground level, and mean as any Liberal artist out there, more so if I can. Use their tactics, their methods, appeal to their audience, the young, urban , street urchins with a message they never hear in a style they own. My name is SABO, I m an UNSAVORYAGENT.


The United Arab Emirates has information that Tunisian women or women traveling on Tunisian passports might commit terrorist acts in the Gulf country, Tunisia s state news agency TAP said. Tunisia late on Sunday suspended flights from Dubai carrier Emirates to Tunis, with officials saying the airline was refusing to carry female Tunisian travelers. Emirates has given no reason for not allowing female Tunisians to board its flights since Friday. A spokesman for Tunisia s presidency did not elaborate on the security threat in a brief TAP article. Emirates had stopped its Dubai-Tunis connection on Monday. In Tunisia, anger has been building after women said they had been banned at Tunis airport from boarding Emirates flights to Dubai. Tunisian civil organizations and political parties called on the government to respond. Foreign Minister Khemais Jhianoui told a local radio station the UAE should apologize for the travel ban, which he said its authorities had not informed Tunisia about.


If there s one conclusion to draw from the horrific shootings that have been happening over the course of this past week, it s that we, as a society, need to have more understanding and compassion for one another. No one deserves to die, especially not for merely existing, or protecting your community.Two black men were shot and killed by police officers who didn t even try to keep them alive for reasons yet to be determined, and five police officers were shot and killed, with seven more injured while serving and protecting protesters who were out voicing their concern over police brutality.Many have been offering their opinions on the violence that s been happening, but one voice of reason seems to really get at the heart of what needs to be heard, and that is the voice of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).The simple, yet solid truth of all the killings that have occurred over the past week was summed up in this tweet by Warren: Black Americans shouldn t be killed in routine traffic stops, and police shouldn t be killed while protecting and serving their communities. Black Americans shouldn't be killed in routine traffic stops, & police shouldn't be killed while protecting & serving their communities. Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) July 8, 2016It s really that simple. We can be on both sides of this issue and not be against the other side. We can have compassion for the rights of Black Americans to exist without fear of being shot and killed by the police, and we can also have compassion for police officers who are merely trying to protect the community they serve.We need to stand up to and against violence wherever it is, period.


Cyber security experts and U.S. officials said on Monday there was evidence that Russia engineered the release of sensitive Democratic Party emails in order to influence the U.S. presidential election. The FBI said it was investigating a cyber intrusion at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which has led to discord as the party's convention in Philadelphia opens on Monday to nominate former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton as its candidate. Although the hacking of the DNC was known to officials and cyber security experts a month ago, the timing of the release of the contents of communications within the party is what is causing concern for U.S. authorities. A U.S. official involved in the investigation said that the classified information collected on the hack so far "indicated beyond a reasonable doubt that it originated in Russia." The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the timing of the release of emails "has all the hallmarks of a classic intelligence operation intended to damage a perceived adversary." The official said, however, that it may be impossible to prove definitively that Russian President Vladimir Putin's government directed the attack. The emails, released by activist group WikiLeaks at the weekend, appeared to show favoritism within the DNC for Clinton over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran a close race for the nomination for the Nov. 8 election. The committee is supposed to be neutral and the disclosure forced chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a congresswoman from Florida, to resign. The U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee has been briefed and will seek information on any potential connection to Russia or any other state, said Representative Adam Schiff, the senior Democrat on the panel. "That foreign actors may be trying to influence our election - let alone a powerful adversary like Russia - should concern all Americans of any party." Schiff said in a statement. On Sunday, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told CNN that the campaign had been told by "experts" that the emails were released by suspected Russian hackers to help Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. The businessman's campaign dismissed the allegation as absurd. Trump has often praised Putin, calling him a "strong leader." Trump is a critic of NATO and last week he told The New York Times that he might not back countries in the alliance if they were attacked by Russia, unless he was sure they had made sufficient contributions to the group. Russia has long been considered among the most elite U.S. adversaries in cyberspace, though its actions are generally viewed as efforts at covert intelligence gathering. "Usually, the Russians are not ham-handed," said Jim Lewis, a cyber security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He said Russia was believed to have hacked Democratic and Republican campaigns in 2008, but that it did not leak material. "It would be a bold move to try and shape the election, but we can't rule it out," Lewis said. CrowdStrike, a cyber firm that helped clean up the breach, said last month it had identified two hacking groups that infiltrated the DNC and that both were believed to be working on behalf of two competing arms of the Russian government. Its findings were later supported by similar conclusions reached by FireEye's (FEYE.O) Mandiant unit and Fidelis, two other U.S.-based cyber companies. Experts said that forensic analysis of the breach also links the same hackers to attacks at the White House, the State Department, the German Bundestag and private companies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation declined to say when its probe of the hack began. "A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously, and the FBI will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace," it said in a statement. WikiLeaks released more than 19,000 DNC emails on Saturday. On Twitter it rejected as speculation claims made that Russia was the source of the cache. The group also said that there would be more leaks related to the U.S. election. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he could not speak to the veracity of private sector conclusions pointing to Russia as the culprit in the DNC hack, but that he was confident the FBI would thoroughly investigate the matter.


The explosion of a nuclear missile in the heart of heavily populated Europe would be an unprecedented act that would kill hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of people. Donald Trump told MSNBC s Chris Matthews that he would refuse the suggestion that he take such a horrible idea off the table.The exchange occurred during a televised town hall interview between the current Republican frontrunner and the MSNBC host.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCj0B7HhEFsWhen host Chris Matthews asked if the real estate mogul could definitively say he wouldn t use nuclear weapons, he responded: I would never say that. I would never take any of my cards off the table. Matthews pressed him, asking if he would consider using nuclear weapons in Europe. No, I don t think so, Trump said, but he again said he wouldn t definitively write off the option.In a New York Times interview published over the weekend, Trump stressed the importance of unpredictability in his foreign policy. He told Matthews Wednesday that you d be a bad negotiator for taking any strategy off the table.Trump s comments ironically echo the sentiments of 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, who is considered the first person in the mold of a modern conservative to be a major party nominee in America.In an interview, Goldwater said he would consider the use of low-yield atomic bombs in North Vietnam, in order to defoliate forests, and to destroy bridges and railroad lines leading to China. The policy was so extreme and out there, that it became the basis of what is one of the most famous political ads ever, Daisy, released by Lyndon Johnson s campaign. The ad contrasted Goldwater s casual support of atomic war versus the policies of the Johnson administration.The ad only aired once. Johnson went on to one of the largest electoral victories in U.S. history. He won 61% of the popular vote and 486 electoral votes to Johnson s 52 (his home state of Arizona and the 5 states in the pro-segregation south).


In case you have been living under a rock, we recently learned that Hillary Clinton is human through a series of reports about That One Time She Coughed and The Time She Got Pneumonia. Yes, somehow anytime Clinton gets the sniffles, the Right pounces on it, using anything and everything they can to push absolutely bonkers conspiracy theories about the former Secretary of State s health (she s on her deathbed, don tchaknow).During an interview with ACB s Sarina Fazan Wednesday, the reporter asked Clinton perhaps one of the dumbest f*cking questions she has been asked regarding her health: if she would undergo neurocognitive tests to appease inflated, only-existing-on-Trump s-side-of-the-aisle concerns about whether or not her presidency will be like a four-year-long edition of Weekend at Bernie s.Hillary just laughed in her face. I m very sorry I got pneumonia, I m glad antibiotics took care of it, and that s behind us now, the former Secretary of State said, somehow managing to avoid knocking the reporter for starting off by claiming 9/11 was last week. Clinton explained that her health meets and exceeds the standards anyone else running for office has met, but Fazan was all so, ummmm, you gonna take those tests? There s no need for that, Clinton said firmly, surely wondering how the f*ck this woman got hired in the first place. The information is very clear. Hillary wasn t the only person laughing at Fazan, who also beat the dead horse that is the email scandal. Twitter lit up with people mocking the reporter for having the gall to waste time during an exclusive interview badgering the 2016 Democratic nominee about her health:@hannahfc and you are reporting this nonsense as if it is legitimate. Is this why you became a journalist? @danmericaCNN @abcactionnews (((David Galiel:-))) (@davidgaliel) September 22, 2016@Women4Trump @hannahfc @dmartosko @abcactionnews her career needs to die a hideous death Naked Punditry (@NakedPundit) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @abcactionnews oh jesus christ Chris (@hugetinymistake) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @danmericaCNN @abcactionnews No wonder media has an even higher negative rating than Trump these days. What dumb question! Violetta Argueta (@Vva10967) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @danmericaCNN @abcactionnews Wanna ask her if she covered up benghazi next? Any other conspiracy theories yall wanna fan flames of P. Williamson (@PWilliamson2006) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @albamonica @abcactionnews Has this reporter asked Trump if he'll undergo psychological tests? At least it's OBVIOUS he needs to. Peggy Holtman (@holtmapa) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @danmericaCNN @abcactionnews Sarina who (?) had the fucking you asked her WHAT??? Go back to school. Find a new career. (((bartnbeka))) (@bartnbeka) September 22, 2016@SarinaFazanWFTS Well at least people are talking about you for awhile even if it's for being a terrible journalist. Enjoy it while it lasts mattydean (@mattydean) September 22, 2016As some pointed out to this simpleton, Hillary released her medical records just after the 9/11 anniversary, which was more than a week ago. She was diagnosed with a mild, non-contagious bacterial pneumonia, was given antibiotics, and had to practically be tied down to keep her from rushing back out on the campaign trail because she has traditionally insisted on being f*cking Superwoman.What s next? Gonna ask her about Benghazi? Maybe she knows where Obama s real birth certificate is hidden. Could she have some inside information on a second gunman involved in the JFK assassination? Quit your job, Sarina. Seriously.


Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont cast his ballot in a banned referendum on independence from Spain on Sunday morning, images from TV3 television channel showed. He voted in the village of Cornella del Terri in the province of Girona, the regional government said, not in the village originally planned where police broke down the door of the voting station.


Thanksgiving Secret Door II Thanksgiving Secret Door II Date Thursday - November 24,  On this festive night, George Noory tried to guess the identity of four surprise guests who were behind the secret door. First through the door was someone speaking in an Irish brogue, whom George correctly guessed was Steve Quayle . Working on a new episode for his True Legends series, he interviewed Zuni elders in the American Southwest who spoke about opening up "gates" for giants to come through. He also talked about his contention that after WWII, the Nazis formed a new country/ underground base called Neu-Schwabenland in Antarctica, and operated advanced aerial technology akin to UFOs.  The next person through the door performed a spot-on imitation of notorious caller J.C. Webster. George was stumped as to his real identity, which turned out to be the host of Cinema Insomnia , Mr. Lobo. He addressed the popularity of binge watching TV shows, and talked about how the movie business has become increasingly fragmented. Mirroring the country's widening divide between the poor and wealthy, films seem to be either low budget independents or bloated expensive epics, he commented. Comedies seem to be making a comeback of late, he added.  Third through the door, was a strange male voice named "Estelle" who spoke with a New York accent and insistently claimed not to be a previous C2C guest, but a New Jersey housewife who paid for $65 for a church parish prize to appear on the show. Producer Tom popped on to share that the guest had actually been on the show before...many times, but George was baffled. Estelle was finally revealed be none-other-than Ian Punnett . Ian then talked about his new true-crime book, which covers the 1936 murder of his family member Verna Garr Taylor, and recently received coverage in People .  Last through the door was stock market analyst Joe Meyer , whom George correctly identified. In the short term, he foresees the stock market going as high as 20,000 in the Dow. Eventually, there'll be a big correction possibly triggered by a rise in interest rates, or uncertainties with the EU and IMF, he cited. The Dow could drop back to 14,000 or even its year 2000 top-- 11,780, he continued. The American dream is not dead, but has been "very badly wounded," Meyer remarked, but "hopefully, we're now on a healing path to take care of that."  Couldn't catch this episode of the show? Sign up for Coast Insider to listen at your leisure and never miss another program again! Website(s):


Donald Trump has a new fundraising scheme. He s raffling off lunch with his son Eric and a tour of the Trump campaign headquarters. While this is pretty standard political fundraising fare, it does show how ridiculous and disingenuous Trump s latest attacks against Hillary Clinton actually are.The latest revelation about Clinton is that as Secretary of State, she sometimes held meetings with donors to the Clinton Foundation. She also often ignored the requests for meetings, which is completely overlooked by the right-wing press.Trump has taken the report and run with it, calling it pay to play, and noting that it s illegal. A couple of very bad ones came out, and it s called pay for play, he said. And some of these were really, really bad and illegal. If it s true, it s illegal. You re paying and you re getting things. Source: Politico Paying and getting things, isn t illegal. That s called capitalism. Paying government officials to get things that only government officials can give that s called pay to play and yes, that is illegal. There s no evidence that Hillary Clinton did that, unless you count an occasional meeting as getting things. Ask absolutely anyone in Hollywood what a meeting means; hell, ask Donald Trump what a meeting means, and you d find that with successful people, a meeting is as much a way of shutting people up as it is an exchange of ideas, let alone favors. Meetings never have and never will imply obligation.Now, let s talk about actual pay to play, the highly illegal type. Donald Trump has actually bragged about bribing politicians and judges. That s unethical at best and illegal at worst. I was a businessman, Trump smarmed at a debate earlier this year. He was being pressed about the piles of dough he has deposited in Democratic coffers through the years for his pals the Clintons (including the Clinton Ca-ching Foundation), Schumer, Reid, Pelosi, Cuomo, Rahm, and the rest of the gang. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. You know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me. . . . And that s a broken system. Source: National ReviewYes, that is a broken system one Trump is happy to keep broken.Oh, but it gets worse. Trump also allegedly bribes people, as he allegedly bribed people involved in the Trump University case.The trouble started in June, when the Associated Press reported that Bondi personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump in 2013 right around the time she was deciding whether or not to investigate alleged fraud at Trump University. Trump University, of course, is the controversial for-profit school owned by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.It was only four days after Bondi announced she might join an investigation into Trump University when a Trump family foundation gave $25,000 to a political group supporting Bondi s re-election. After that money came in, Bondi said she would not pursue a lawsuit against Trump University. Two years later one day before Florida s crucial primary election Bondi endorsed Trump for president.Source: Think ProgressThat, if it happens as alleged, is pay to play. Holding meetings with donors is not, whether the meeting is with Secretary Clinton or Eric Trump.


When President Donald Trump was elected last November, Republican lawmakers enthusiastically joined his call to rewrite the tax code and dismantle Obamacare in the first 100 days of his presidency. But as congressional Republicans gathered for an annual policy retreat in Philadelphia on Wednesday, the 100-day goal morphed into 200 days. As the week wore on, leaders were saying it could take until the end of 2017 - or possibly longer - for passage of final legislation. Trump had a different idea when he spoke to lawmakers in Philadelphia, telling them: Enough talk. Time to deliver. The divergent views on the timetable were among many indications of tensions that simmered just below the surface at the three-day Republican retreat. Before the cameras, Trump and Republicans sought to convey an image of a happy, unified family, playing down differences over tax policy, whether to reinstate torture interrogation techniques and investigating 2016 election fraud. And clearly there is none of the open warfare that has sometimes erupted among Republicans, such as when Senator Ted Cruz infuriated many of his colleagues by leading a standoff over Obamacare that partially shut down the government in 2013. But barely visible in Philadelphia, there are potential flashpoints of disagreement within the Republican rank-and-file in Congress as well as between Republican lawmakers and the unorthodox new president. These include how and when to replace Obamacare if Republicans succeed in their quest to repeal it; how to revamp the multi-layered tax code, whether to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico and the nature of the U.S. relationship with Russia. When it comes to tax reform, senior congressional aides said the spring of 2018 might be a more likely time than this year for the passage of legislation. Republican lawmakers lavished praise on Trump in public. In dozens of interviews, many said they felt he would be an energetic champion of issues they cared about. But some also voiced fears that his big agenda would drive up deficits and said they were still searching for details on his plans. Several Republican lawmakers and aides said they were wary of the cost of his plan to build a wall on the border with Mexico. Republican leaders have said the wall proposal under discussion would cost $12 billion to $15 billion cost but some congressional aides say it could end up easily topping $20 billion. Republican Representative Will Hurd, whose Texas district partially borders Mexico, went a step further, calling the wall an ineffective tool for stopping illegal immigration. Others warned a border adjustment tax on foreign goods to pay for that wall could hurt U.S. companies' profits, raise costs for American consumers and spark retaliation by foreign trading partners. Some lawmakers also worry that some of their constituents could be at risk of losing healthcare coverage if the push to repeal Obamacare moves too quickly. Republican Representative Tom Cole said rank-and-file lawmakers have an incentive to fall in line behind Trump. "You don't want to be the reason why we weren't successful in getting these things done," he said. Still, Cole said Republicans are taking stock of the potential cost of the biggest items on Trump's agenda such as the wall, infrastructure projects, tax cuts and beefing up military spending. "I think they worry about it," Cole said. Following Trump's speech to the lawmakers on Thursday, Senator James Risch said that no decisions had been made on the replacement of Obamacare, a complex law that has expanded healthcare insurance to millions of Americans. "It's going to take a while to resolve it," Risch said. Asked by reporters whether Republicans had a clear idea of what Trump would like to replace Obamacare with, Risch responded, "In detail, no."


The Trump administration plans to publish regulations that will end people-to-people individual travel to Cuba, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday. "The President instructed Treasury to issue regulations that will end individual people-to-people travel," the department said in a statement. It added that the changes will not take effect until new regulations are issued.


Tanzanian opposition lawmaker Tundu Lissu, a fierce critic of President John Magufuli s government, was seriously wounded in a gun attack on Thursday, police and party officials said. Magufuli condemned the shooting and ordered the country s security forces to investigate the incident. Lissu underwent emergency surgery after being shot in the abdomen and other parts of the body by unknown gunmen outside his residence in the administrative capital Dodoma, they said. Lissu has suffered multiple gunshot wounds and is being treated at the main public hospital in Dodoma, said Tumaini Makene, spokesman for the main opposition CHADEMA party. We strongly condemn this attack and are closely monitoring his condition, the party said in a separate statement. James Kiologwe, a doctor at Dodoma regional hospital, said Lissu was in stable condition. Police said an investigation had been launched into the attack on Lissu, a senior lawyer and CHADEMA s parliamentary chief whip. Police said they did not know what had motivated the attack and the suspects were still at large. I have been saddened by reports of the shooting of Hon. Tundu Lissu. I pray for his quick recovery, Magufuli said on Twitter. Law enforcement agencies should hunt down all those involved in this barbaric act and bring them to justice. Lissu is a vocal opponent of Magufuli and has been arrested on several occasions and charged with incitement. He was detained most recently in July after having called Magufuli a dictator. He was subsequently released. The authorities must take steps to reassure Tanzanians and the world that this shooting was not politically motivated, rights group Amnesty International said in a statement.


President Trump lashed out at the nation's intelligence agencies again on Wednesday, saying that his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, was brought down by illegal leaks to the news media, on a day of new disclosures about the Trump camp's dealings with Russia during and after the presidential campaign. "From intelligence, papers are being leaked, things are being leaked," Mr. Trump said at a White House news conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel. "It's a criminal action, criminal act, and it's been going on for a long time before me, but now it's really going on. And people are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the Democrats had under Hillary Clinton. " With his statement and a burst of posts he made on Twitter, Mr. Trump tried to shift attention from damaging questions about contacts with Russia by Mr. Flynn and others close to the president, arguing that the outrage is not those contacts, but the leaks about them. He revived his charge that the allegations of a "Russian connection" were nothing more than a Democratic conspiracy, fed to a receptive news media to distract from the mistakes made by Mrs. Clinton during the campaign. The White House has said that Mr. Trump demanded Mr. Flynn's resignation on Monday night, after it was revealed that Mr. Flynn, a retired Army general, had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his conversations with a Russian diplomat. But on Wednesday, the president said that Mr. Flynn had "been treated very, very unfairly by the media," undercut by "documents and papers that were illegally — I'd stress that, illegally — leaked. " Earlier, he had posted on Twitter, "Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI? ). Just like Russia" The New York Times and The Washington Post had reported on the contacts Mr. Flynn had with Russia's ambassador to Washington, Sergey I. Kislyak. Mr. Flynn initially told Mr. Pence and others that he and Mr. Kislyak did not discuss matters of substance, like United States sanctions against Russia, but in the days after Mr. Trump's inauguration, the Justice Department notified the White House that he had not been forthright about the conversations. The Times also disclosed broader contacts between Russian intelligence officials and people with ties to the Trump campaign and Mr. Trump's business empire during and after the campaign, and other news organizations followed with similar reports. The president declined to address that revelation and, as he has at other times in recent days, took questions at his news conference only from conservative news organizations and ignored more challenging questions shouted to him as he left the podium. So far, the White House has had little success in trying to shift the narrative from the Russian contacts to accusations about the leaking of sensitive information by the intelligence agencies, as well as by the F. B. I. Mr. Trump used a similar strategy during the transition, after disclosures that the intelligence agencies presented him with a dossier containing potentially compromising — but unsubstantiated — information that Russian officials had collected on him during his travels to Russia. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said on Twitter, "The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!" The president also praised a column by Eli Lake of Bloomberg View, which criticized the selective leaking of intercepted communications between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak. Mr. Lake went on to suggest, however, that Mr. Flynn had been sacrificed to protect other officials, potentially including the president himself. Mr. Trump, as he has before, rejected allegations that his policy toward Russia was being compromised. "Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?" he posted on Twitter.


Share on Facebook If you remember the Texas primaries, then you would surely remember that Donald Trump shook the world when he said that he was in favor of Libya, and his views on not killing Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were/are the same. He went on, saying that if both of them had been alive right now, then the US would not have been involved in this mess, as both the leaders were killing terrorists. He further went on saying that he never supported what they were doing, but he further questioned the mess that the US has involved itself with. According to Donald Trump, it's better if the politicians take a day off, rather than go into a war. However, his views on the Syrian conflict do not differ. When asked about his views on President Assad and the US support, Trump simply explained that President Assad is not a good guy, but if we replace the man there, then who knows if the next one will be worse. He further commented that the money spent on the people there, to help them support the war, is outrageous. Donald Trump was invited into CBS for an interview over his views on the Syrian conflict and Russia's involvement. Take a look below at what he has to say. Related:


Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here's the .) Let's turn it over to Jennifer Medina, a correspondent based in Los Angeles, for today's introduction. Another day, another example of California's continued fight with the Trump administration. The State Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation Monday that essentially turns California into a "sanctuary state" for undocumented immigrants. The bill expands protections for immigrants at a time when the Trump administration has expanded who is considered a priority for deportation. The legislation prohibits any state or local law enforcement agency from using resources to investigate, detain, report or arrest people for immigration violations. Under the legislation, county jails would not be able to allow officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to work inside the jails or notify them when a prisoner is being released. After the bill came under fierce criticism from the California State Sheriffs' Association, it was amended to allow local law enforcement officials to notify ICE of the release date of serious and violent felons. It also enables local law enforcement officers to alert federal officials if they come across someone who has a violent felony record and has been previously deported. Language in the bill was also changed to explicitly allow local agencies to participate in task forces even if they include immigration enforcement in investigations. The amendments did little to mollify the opposition. One Republican senator warned that the Legislature would be "kicking the president right in the groin," with the law and warned that "he will strike back. " After the vote, Kevin de León, the leader of the state Senate and sponsor of the bill, said, "Our communities will become more, not less, dangerous if local police are enlisted to enforce federal immigration laws. " He called the passage of the bill a "rejection of President Trump's false and cynical portrayal of undocumented immigrants as a lawless community. " Just before the Senate passed the sanctuary state bill, lawmakers approved legislation to start a fund that would pay for lawyers for undocumented immigrants facing deportation. Several Republicans spoke out against the legislation, saying it was an unfair use of taxpayer money and also contradicted the idea that the state wants to stay out of immigration enforcement. Both bills will now move to the Assembly. Gov. Jerry Brown has not indicated whether he would sign either one. (Please note: We regularly highlight articles on news sites that have limited access for nonsubscribers.) • Fight, negotiate or beg: California Democrats are debating how to respond to President Trump. [The New York Times] • For struggling Kern County, Mr. Trump represents hope and change. [San Francisco Chronicle] • Slide Show: A first look at proposals for a border wall with Mexico. [San Diego ] • With uncertainty over a program that lets tech companies import foreign workers, a rush for visas has become an scramble. [The New York Times] • Calexit might be but redrawing California's state boundaries isn't. [Opinion | The New York Times] • Today, Los Angeles voters are choosing a member of Congress to fill the vacancy left by Xavier Becerra. [Los Angeles Times] • A Los Angeles County judge denied a bid from Roman Polanski to have his sexual abuse case resolved in his absence. [The New York Times] • Studying surfers could offer clues to whether antibiotic resistant genes move from the seas into humans. [The New York Times] • Tesla surpassed Ford in market value for the first time and moved within striking distance of General Motors. [The New York Times] • Gary Austin died at 75. He helped changed the shape of American comedy as the founder of the theater company the Groundlings. [The New York Times] • The Athletics opened the baseball season with new optimism — on a field named after Rickey Henderson. [San Francisco Chronicle] • Photos: What 10 gallery crawlers wore to an opening in downtown Los Angeles. [The New York Times] • Vin Diesel decided to make himself a star after Hollywood didn't give him a chance. [The New York Times] Some visitors to Big Sur go bird watching or relax with a novel at a seaside resort. Others suspend themselves high above the Pacific's crashing waves on a narrow strip of nylon known as a slackline. Billy Rudiger, a reader in Carmel, shared a photo he captured of a slackliner traversing a cove just south of Monterey last November. Rope walking has existed for centuries. But the origins of the modern slackline, flat webbing strung loose enough to bounce like a trampoline, usually between two trees, is traced to Yosemite rock climbers in the early 1980s. It quickly grew into a sport. In the last five or so years, social media has helped to propel its popularity. The pinnacle of the sport is a variation known as highlining, meaning the line is affixed at height. Highliners wear tethers, though a small number of elite practitioners sometimes go without. Injuries can happen, but they are usually of the sprained ankle variety and involve lines a few feet off the ground, said Sonya Iverson, president of Slackline U. S. a group that promotes the sport. "We aren't daredevils or " she said. Slackliners talk about the practice as a metaphor for the art of living — "balancing everything on the line to demonstrate life's possibilities," as the famed climber and highliner Dean Potter put it. For Ryan Robinson, 34, the highliner in Mr. Rudiger's photo, the blue ocean juxtaposed against the jagged rocks represented a cathedral of sorts. "It's such a beautiful place," he said. "It's nice to pay respect in a very unique way. " California Today goes live at 6 a. m. Pacific time weekdays. Tell us what you want to see: CAtoday@nytimes. com. The California Today columnist, Mike McPhate, is a Californian — born outside Sacramento and raised in San Juan Capistrano. He lives in Davis. Follow him on Twitter. California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from U. C. Berkeley.


BREAKING – Investigative Journalist Found Dead, Was Working For…  Talk about Hillary and a bad way and there is a very good chance you could wind up dead. Is that what happened here?  Gavin MacFadyen, the WikiLeaks Director and Founder of the Center for Investigative Journalism, has died. WikiLeaks has officially confirmed it on their Twitter by posting a tribute to the man, saying that he is now taking "his fists and his fight to battle God." ( inquisitr.com )  This Twitter message was signed JA, referring to the WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange. Somehow even with massive restrictions, Assange was able to post his message.  Wikileaks also shared a statement from MacFadyen's wife, Susan Benn. The statement was published on MacFadyen's Center for Investigative Journalism site where she noted that he was a "fierce defender of justice and human rights around the world."  Susan states her husband was a strong force behind the ever-changing world of journalism, and had always been committed to ethical, yet hard-hitting, journalism. She even quoted him, saying, "Good journalism is always political journalism."  This man was Assange's mentor and closest friend, as well as the mentor for many other people in the industry.


Trump has invited an interesting and powerful line-up up guests to accompany him to Mexico for his historic meeting with Mexico s President. Could this be a sign that Trump considering former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his Secretary of Homeland Security?LifeZette has confirmed that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will travel to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with Mexican President Enrique Pe a Nieto.Sources, that include Mexican officials involved in the planning of the visit, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, stated the meeting would cover a broad variety of topics ranging from trade to security to immigration and the contentious issue of border enforcement.It is expected that Trump advisor and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, along with high-ranking Mexican officials, will attend the meeting.The meeting will occur, despite concerns from both Mexican security services and the U.S. Secret Service.Officials expect the two leaders to make some statement following the meeting, but do not expect a full press conference.The trip is particularly historic for Trump in that no previous non-incumbent presidential nominee of a major party has ever travelled to Mexico as part of his campaign.The stakes for both Donald Trump and the Mexican president are high.For Nieto, the meeting represents a tremendous opportunity to offer Trump, the potential next President of the United States, an olive branch. Nieto has made negative comments about Trump in the past, including a suggestion Trump was like a fascist dictator. The meeting will offer Nieto the chance to clear the deck with the potential next leader of a nation on which his own is almost entirely economically reliant and earn goodwill for himself and his country among Trump supporters.For Trump, the historic meeting comes at a time when the GOP nominee is ramping up a high-stakes bid to win over support from traditionally Democratic minority voters in the United States. Republican presidential nominees usually aren t bold enough to go into communities of color and take the case right to them, and compete for all ears and compete for all votes, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said in an August 28 interview with ABC, They ve been afraid to do that. So, Mr. Trump deserves credit for at least taking the case directly to the people. Trump surrogate Dr. Ben Carson laid out the key objectives Trump is pursuing in his outreach to minority communities. He wants to find out from a lot of different sources what people perceive the problems to be and what they perceive the solutions to be, Carson said in an interview with Michel Martin on NPR. He also wants to hear about things that have effectively moved people out of the position of dependency and put them on a ladder to success. Tying the ecomic message geared towards minority voters into the campaign s overall theme Carson said, you cannot be great if you have large pockets of people who are failing. Here s a message from a Latino Trump supporter from Oakland, CA:Democrats keep minorities voting for them by simply pulling out the race card. #Getwoke #Staywoke #LatinosForTrump pic.twitter.com/QNmQwPHO23 Oak-Town Unfiltered (@hrtablaze) August 11, 2016A new report from Gallup indicates Trump s effort may be finding success with U.S.-born Hispanic voters.The analysis of found Hispanics who were born in the United States, those who constitute most of the Hispanic demographic s total voters, only find view Clinton more favorably than Trump by a 14-point margin. To put that in context, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney lost the Hispanic vote by a whopping 44 percent.


In case you haven t heard about the nasty Eminem rap about President Trump, we bring you the diamond and silk version We think it s much better! Has-been rappers are so boring diamond and silk spice it up a bit in the video below .@DiamondandSilk clap-back at Eminem and them. When you come for President Trump, we are going to come for you, boo . pic.twitter.com/LyPbrrPk9n Diamond and Silk (@DiamondandSilk) October 12, 2017CHECK OUT THE LYRICS BELOW TO THE 4 MINUTE FREESTYLE RAP FROM HAS-BEEN RAPPER EMINEM: It s the calm before the storm right here Wait, how was I gonna start this off? I forgot oh, yeah That s an awfully hot coffee pot Should I drop it on Donald Trump? Probably not But that s all I got til I come up with a solid plotGot a plan and now I gotta hatch it Like a damn Apache with a tomahawk Imma walk inside a mosque on Ramadan And say a prayer that every time Melania talks She gets a mou Ahh, Imma stopBut we better give Obama props Cause what we got in office now s a kamikaze That ll probably cause a nuclear holocaust And while the drama pops And he waits for s**t to quiet down, he ll just gas his plane up and fly around til the bombing stops Intensities heightened, tensions are risin Trump, when it comes to giving a s**t, you re stingy as I am Except when it comes to having the b***s to go against me, you hide em Cause you don t got the f**king n**s like an empty asylum Racism s the only thing he s fantastic for Cause that s how he gets his f**king rocks off and he s orangeYeah, sick tan That s why he wants us to disband Cause he cannot withstand The fact we re not afraid of Trump F**k walkin on egg shells, I came to stomp That s why he keeps screamin Drain the swamp Cause he s in quicksandIt s like we take a step forwards, then backwards But this is his form of distraction Plus, he gets an enormous reaction When he attacks the NFL so we focus on that Instead of talking Puerto Rico or gun reform for NevadaAll these horrible tragedies and he s bored and would rather Cause a Twitter storm with the Packers Then says he wants to lower our taxes Then who s gonna pay for his extravagant trips Back and forth with his fam to his golf resorts and his mansions? Same s**t that he tormented Hillary for and he slandered Then does it moreFrom his endorsement of Bannon Support for the Klansmen Tiki torches in hand for the soldier that s black And comes home from Iraq And is still told to go back to Africa Fork and a dagger in this racist 94-year-old grandpa Who keeps ignoring our past historical, deplorable factors Now if you re a black athlete, you re a spoiled little brat forTryina use your platform or your stature To try to give those a voice who don t have one He says, You re spittin in the face of vets who fought for us, you bastards! Unless you re a POW who s tortured and battered Cause to him you re zeros Cause he don t like his war heroes capturedThat s not disrespecting the military F**k that! This is for Colin, ball up a fist! And keep that s**t balled like Donald the b**ch! He s gonna get rid of all immigrants! He s gonna build that thang up taller than this! Well, if he does build it, I hope it s rock solid with bricks Cause like him in politics, I m using all of his tricks Cause I m throwin that piece of s**t against the wall til it sticks And any fan of mine who s a supporter of his I m drawing in the sand a line: you re either for or against And if you can t decide who you like more and you re split On who you should stand beside, I ll do it for you with this:F**k you! The rest of America stand up We love our military, and we love our country But we f**king hate Trump


BREAKING : LGBT Group Endorses Trump, Says, "Hillary is Detrimental for Gays" BREAKING : LGBT Group Endorses Trump, Says, "Hillary is Detrimental for Gays" Breaking News By Amy Moreno November 1, 2016  Hillary is NOT a champion for gays.  She takes MILLIONS from countries who abuse, imprison, and execute gays.  Clinton turns a BLIND EYE to these grotesque atrocities to gays (and women) so she can keep lining her pockets.  She even laughed when Trump asked her to return the BLOOD MONEY to these hateful countries.  On top of that, Clinton wants to FLOOD America with Muslin refugees from these "moderate Muslim" countries that abuse, imprison, and execute gays and women.  These people do not want to assimilate to Western culture – they come here and spread their 7th-century HATE.  This is why so many gays support Trump.  From Washington Examiner :  The Miami chapter of LGBTQ Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) announced on Monday its decision to break with the national organization to support GOP nominee Donald Trump for president.  "We, as Log Cabin Republicans of Miami, we're Americans first, we're Republicans second, and we happen to be gay or allies of the LGBT community. American national security is our government's first and foremost responsibility, then the economy – those two issues really are paramount to any American," Miami chapter president Vincent Foster told the Washington Examiner on Monday evening.  "Our membership has gotten behind the Republican national nominee and it's unfortunate that other Republicans are unable to do so. Regardless of differences, we understand that a Hillary Clinton presidency is only going to be detrimental to the LGBT community and the general American population."  LCR announced on Oct. 22 that it would not support Trump despite his being "perhaps the most pro-LGBT presidential nominee in the history of the Republican Party" because he has "concurrently surrounded himself with senior advisers with a record of opposing LGBT equality."  Foster said the national organization's decision was a "big surprise" and prompted the South Florida chapter to re-evaluate the matter. On Oct. 26, the 20 members of Miami LCR unanimously voted to endorse Trump.  The Miami chapter has had a long-standing relationship with Trump, Foster explained. The billionaire businessman's campaign initially reached out to the group months ago to work together in the battleground state. Foster added the campaign attended the group's Lincoln Day dinner and has been fully supportive of them.  "To have a Republican presidential nominee who cares so much, especially after Orlando – that resonated so much," Foster said.  Although LCR typically does not allow local chapters to support other candidates, the organization is allowing for flexibility in this election. The Washington, D.C.-based national group is permitting regional chapters to endorse or not endorse Trump in this election.  Log Cabin Republicans in Cleveland, Los Angeles, Orange County, Texas and Georgia have also endorsed Trump, according to Angelo. This is a movement – we are the political OUTSIDERS fighting against the FAILED GLOBAL ESTABLISHMENT! Join the resistance and help us fight to put America First! Amy Moreno is a Published Author , Pug Lover & Game of Thrones Nerd. You can follow her on Twitter here and Facebook here . Support the Trump Movement and help us fight Liberal Media Bias. Please LIKE and SHARE this story on Facebook or Twitter.


In what amounts to the first pang of just how profound America's Election Day screw up truly was, Trump's campaign is reportedly already working on a plan to scrub that last eight years of progress out of existence on Trump's very first day in office . No Obama accomplishment will remain. They even have a name for the plan: The First Day Project.  Organized by the Heritage Foundation, the goal is to deprive Obama of any lasting effect to his time in office. It's a perverse sort of vengeance from a group of clowns who have spent the last decade smearing the president at every possible step of the way.  Trump aides are organizing what one Republican close to the campaign calls the First Day Project. "Trump spends several hours signing papers—and erases the Obama Presidency," he said. Stephen Moore, an official campaign adviser who is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, explained, "We want to identify maybe twenty-five executive orders that Trump could sign literally the first day in office."  Thinking back over Obama's list of wins – from gay rights to healthcare to the economy – the idea that these achievements can be erased by a collective of spiteful, bitter men in a matter of hours is almost too much to bear. The suffering to the people whose rights will surely be rolled back will be immense.  And on a separate, but equally terrifying front, Trump's campaign surrogate Omarosa told reporters that Trump has been compiling an "enemies list"– an assortment of people on the right and left who openly stood against him – and he plans on punishing those on the list when he gets to office.  "I would never judge anybody for exercising their right to and the freedom to choose who they want. But let me just tell you, Mr. Trump has a long memory and we're keeping a list."  Erase his predecessor, punish his enemies. In this way, with pen and sword, Trump plans to dismantle a democracy. The oldest, greatest one in the world – up until the point when it wasn't.


Saudi Arabia s Shura Council, a top advisory council to the government, is studying proposals for protection of people who report financial crime, local media reported, following the government s anti-corruption crackdown. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has launched an inquiry into graft that has resulted in the detention of a dozens of princes, senior officials and businessmen. The Shura Council does not have legislative powers, but it can propose laws to the king and the cabinet. It said in a tweet on Monday that it had agreed on the appropriateness of the draft proposal for whistleblower protection for financial and administrative corruption. The Arabic-language newspaper al-Riyadh reported on Tuesday that the council had agreed to study two proposals on the matter that also included protection of eyewitnesses who report violations such as financial crime. A top official said earlier this month that Saudi authorities have questioned 208 people in an anti-corruption investigation and estimate at least $100 billion has been stolen through graft. The Government of Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is working within a clear legal and institutional framework to maintain transparency and integrity in the market, Attorney General Sheikh Saud Al Mojeb said in a statement on Nov. 9. The investigation has spread to the neighboring United Arab Emirates, as the UAE central bank asked commercial banks and finance companies there to provide details of the accounts of 19 Saudis detained in the crackdown. The UAE central bank governor said last week the request by the central bank for local banks and finance companies to provide details of the accounts of 19 Saudi Arabian citizens was just an information-gathering exercise.


The South Korean army said on Wednesday it conducted a successful air-to-air missile firing drill from Apache helicopters which was designed to respond to any provocation from the enemy . It was the first time the South Korean army test-fired Stinger missiles from Apache attack helicopters, which were introduced to the army in May last year, the South s army forces said in a statement. The statement did not mention whether the drill was conducted specifically to address North Korean provocations.