How touching.Singha wrote:
His views are in stark contrast with those of Theresa May, who has accused President Assad’s regime of perpetrating “atrocious violence” and said that the long-term future of Syria must be “without Assad”.
Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, has accused Russia of perpetrating war crimes over the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
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Mihaylo wrote:Followed this thread since Trump's nomination a few months ago. I just have to say that for people who didn't follow the MSM, this is not a surprise at all. We saw the the Trump Train coming for a few months now and knew he was going to win. She was not a better candidate period. And no matter what the MSM threw at him his support never waned. That should have told smart people something, but then again, people following the MSM are not smart. Just my two cents and #MAGA
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Good interview and some very good answers ! I saw a pretty smart president elect out there...but then perhaps I need somebody 'enlightened' like the erstwhile Hillary-bhakts on this board, to explain to us plebians why Trump's buffoonery shines through in this interview ? Any takers ?Austin wrote:Donald Trump's First Interview Since Winning The Election: Key Highlights And Full
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-1 ... transcript
Trump says he will talk with FBI Director Comey before deciding whether to ask his resignation, says "I respect him a lot"
Trump, on pledge to appoint special prosecutor to investigate Clintons, says "I don't want to hurt them. They're good people"
Trump says he is "fine" with same-sex marriage; says He Does Not Intend To Overturn Supreme Court Ruling on Gay Marriage
Trump confirms he will forego salary as president
Trump tells protesters: "don't be afraid"
Trump condemns harassment of minorities
Trump vows to name pro-life, pro-gun rights Supreme Court justices
Come to think of it, these are no different then aapians who see kejri as their massiah.Yagnasri wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiX-pPQMgXc
People weeping and all that. Really, they have no courage or take capacity take a hit and keep going.
Because of this ??Kati wrote:Trump sees India as its Asia Pivot...
(Some meat to chew on - for BRFites)
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/13/us-econo ... -ally.html
uddu wrote:Is it that what actually happened in the United States was a fight between Jihadis on one side and Crusaders on the other side?
LokeshC wrote:Complaining about electoral college after the election is already over is like playing a NFL football (american) game prepared and dressed up as a baseball player and then cry after getting the everloving sh1t kicked out of you.
But some folks are now going further: Playing football prepped properly, understanding all the rules of the game, losing sorely on the metrics needed to win and then complaining that the rules are not of baseball where the metrics might have been better.
“If there’s an explosion or a fire somewhere,” said Matthew Boyle, political editor for Mr Bannon’s website, Breitbart, “Steve’s probably nearby with some matches.”
“I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats,” Mr Bannon told Bloomberg.
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“I became a huge Reagan admirer. Still am.
“Many former employees of Breitbart News are afraid of Steve Bannon,” wrote Ben Shapiro, a former editor-at-large of Breitbart, who resigned in disgust at the site’s fawning coverage of Mr Trump.
“He is a vindictive, nasty figure, infamous for verbally abusing supposed friends and threatening enemies. “Bannon is a smarter version of Trump: he’s an aggressive self-promoter who name-drops to heighten his profile and woo bigger names, and then uses those bigger names as stepping stools to his next destination.”
Mr Shapiro, who wrote in August about his shock at the appointment, savaged his former boss and issued a dire warning.
“Trump may be his final destination. Or it may not,” he wrote. “He will attempt to ruin anyone who impedes his unending ambition.”
Stephen Bannon, the newly appointed chief executive of Donald Trump’s campaign, is a virulent opponent of the H-1B visa programme that brings thousands of Indian skilled workers to the U.S. Breitbart News, the right-wing website that he runs, campaigns against the visa programme and Mr. Bannon, while interviewing Mr. Trump in November 2015 lamented that two thirds of Silicon Valley CEOs were Asians.
When Mr. Trump argued that getting talented job creators through legal channels into the U.S. was required, and he “felt strongly about it,” the interviewer – Mr. Bannon – countered him saying the country is “not only an economy.”
In the interview, Mr. Trump - though he got the details wrong -- cited the case of Snapdeal founder Kunal Bahl, who could not stay on in the U.S. after studies as his application for an H-1B visa was turned down.
“We have to create job creators. One man went to Harvard, did well, but was not allowed to stay, went back to his home in India, started a company, which is now a very successful company with thousands and thousands of employees. He wanted to do it here. We have to be careful about this. We have to keep the talented people in this country,” Mr. Trump said.
Mr. Bahl did not go to Harvard, but to Wharton Business School – which is Mr. Trump’s alma mater too. The Bahl story is repeatedly cited by supporters of immigration such as AOL founder Steve Case. “They have 5,000 employees now in India,” Mr. Case said once. “Those 5,000 employees could have been in the United States.” In Congressional hearings on immigration also, proponents of immigration have repeatedly cited Mr. Bahl’s case.
Mr. Trump continuously makes the distinction between “job creators” and other immigrants - including in this particular interview. “It is not good. We have to do something about it. People are coming in and they are taking jobs. They are getting paid less money,” the candidate told Mr. Bannon who said American technology companies were “letting go highly trained IT workers, and even forcing them to train their foreign replacements” brought in through the H 1B visa programme. While agreeing with the interviewer, Mr. Trump added a rider. “One of the things that I said before, and I feel strongly about this. When somebody is going to Harvard or Princeton, Pen, Stanford and they graduate and we throw them out of the country. And they can’t get back in. I think that is terrible. We have got to be able to keep great people in the country,” he said and cited the Bahl story.
“I think you agree with that. Do you agree with that?,” Mr. Trump asked Mr. Bannon. “Well. I got to be tougher…when two thirds or more of the CEOS in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or Asia…A country is more than an economy. We are a civic society,” the chief executive of the Trump campaign replied. “We have to keep them legally,” responded Mr. Trump. “When people come in, they have to come in legally. I want people to come in, Steve. And I have said many times. I am building a wall. Like Israel did. When these characters say the wall does not work..The wall in Israel works. I still want people to come in. Those people who are waiting in queue for years to get in are being bypassed by illegal people,” said Mr. Trump.
)A lesson the media will never forget.
By Balbir Punj | 12th November 2016
The one big revelation from the US presidential election campaign is the widening gap between the “liberal” media and the people of America. For days together during the campaign the media went on to tell the world — not just Americans — that Donald Trump was not fit to be the President of America.
Trump has been elected by the same America that had twice elected a black as the President. It has now turned against the ‘minoritism’ that raised the once suppressed or the ordinary to the White House – the haberdasher Truman, the Catholic Kennedy, the non-academic Ronald Reagan and the African-American Obama.
The overflow of liberalism in the US saw ideas like same-sex marriage, bearing children via surrogacy, the surge in divorce reducing over 40 per cent families to single parent ones, the huge outflow of American jobs to other countries, the Lehman collapse and the resultant popular anger against the Washington establishment — added up to a return to the conservative core that made America what it is: honour for the man who fights his battle alone, wins and makes his billions by taking enormous risks.
In the case of the Republican nominee Trump, besides his self-made billions, there was the straight talk that if elected, he would not allow America to be swamped by immigrant Muslims from North Africa and West Asia and will not treat the terrorist jihadis of the IS with kid gloves. The US media failed to get to the heart of growing American anger against the religious liberalism that was enabling many American Muslims to become a jihadi.
In this growing anger against international jihadism, Americans are not alone. The election results in Germany, France and public opinion in Britain are turning against the new demon of self-proclaimed destroyer of all that is not its version of Islam in a war against civilized values of humanity.
After the drubbing the US media got in this election, the media elsewhere, especially in India should take notice. It should rethink its attempt to be the evangelist of every dissident countrymen who think it is their basic right to condemn their own country as the one which needs to be broken down to pieces and the country’s detractors elevated to heroes instead of being sent to the gallows.
The upset victory of the straight-talking and no-nonsense real estate billionaire in the US should be a warning that across the globe, especially in India, that often it is the intellectuals claiming to be liberals who, by seeing virtues in felons and fifth-columnists alike are weakening a nation’s defence against the determined infiltrators and the death-spewing jihadi terrorists.
Today, France that has been hit hard by jihadi killers in Paris. Belgium also has been affected by similar killers who targeted the Brussels airport. Britain, Germany, Spain that had a taste of such barbarism are ruing the day that they had allowed North African and West Asian “refugees and immigrants” to enter freely.
In our country, several districts in Assam, West Bengal, Bihar etc., have witnessed a change in religious demography. There is a sharp rise among the Muslims in Hyderabad and North Malabar under the influence of the IS. It has resulted in over 21 couples — many recent converts — opting to join the IS and organisations seeking to impose by force a Sharia rule in their area as a parallel law to India’s civil and criminal law.
The US Presidential campaign saw the conservative Donald Trump getting demonstrative support from a good section of influential Indian Americans there. America is now fully aware of the perfidy and double talk of Pakistan using American aid – latest Congressional reports indicate 33 billion dollars – to build up its armed force for allegedly helping American interests but actually to attack India, thrice in direct war and now continuing terrorist thrusts.
China is seeking to build up Pakistan as a client state against Indian interests and continues to oppose New Delhi’s entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The country is also blocking the effort of the international community to declare JeM’s Masood Azhar as a terrorist.
Trump’s entry into the White House will coincide with a resurgence of China’s “One Belt, One Road”, Asian domination under Beijing’s diktat, the Chinese bid to grab the South China Sea Islands in which there are seven other claimants from the neighbouring Pacific rim countries and its claims on everybody else’s land to its south and east.
The Trump presidency will also coincide with the comparative decline in the growth of the Chinese economy and growing awareness of its neighbours from Japan to South-east Asia and India about Chinese imperial ambitions. If Trump is to reassert America as the global leader he will have to accept India as a firm partner in an Asian alliance against Beijing’s ambition to dominate Asia. The hopeful sign is that Donald Trump has captured American imagination with a denouncement of the Washington cabal that is more eager to balance for peace rather than going along with it.
It may be historic that while India has had two years and more of a pragmatic, no-nonsense Prime Minister who can take bold decisions as he demonstrated in fighting deeply entrenched black money with a courageous but risky move by demonitisation of high value notes, America too now will have a no-nonsense President. That gives hope for a stronger India-America partnership for keeping the peace and curbing jihadi undergrowth and ambitions.
Balbir Punj is a former Rajya Sabha member and a Delhi-based commentator on social and political issues
Email: punjbalbir@gmail.com
Bannon and Breitbart are looking to build a Trumpian media empire in Europe by courting its most mediagenic right-wing extremists.
Bannon’s support for European far-right parties runs far deeper than his interest in Marion Maréchal-Le Pen or the National Front. He brags about his international Breitbart operation as “the platform” for the American alt-right, and has for years been thinking globally, with an affinity for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the Party for Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands, all of which have earned glowing coverage on the pages of Breitbart.
But the election of Bannon’s man Donald Trump as president of the United States has made the globalization of Breitbart and its message infinitely more plausible than it ever was before, and politicians once considered Europe’s deplorables are now rushing to bask in the gilded glow of Trump and Bannon.
On Saturday, Britain’s Nigel Farage, whose blatant and acknowledged lies helped convince his countrymen to opt out of the European Union in the Brexit vote, visited the president-elect in his eponymous Fifth Avenue tower.
Farage emerged from the meeting looking like he’d just won the jackpot at one of the pre-bankruptcy Trump casinos, suggesting that the new president’s “inner team” was not too happy with Tory Prime Minister Theresa May, since she’d been skeptical of Brexit before the vote. Would that “inner team” be Bannon? In our post-factual world, maybe we can say, “People say…”
Breitbart, which currently has operations in London and Jerusalem, certainly has plans to expand in France and Germany with new bureaus to cultivate and promote the populist-nationalist lines there.
“He has long wanted to work with all of those parties, but that was only in promoting them with Breitbart,” a source close to Bannon told The Daily Beast. “Now he has the power of the White House to do it.”
Bannon, elevated Sunday night from the head of Trump’s favorite public-relations outfit masquerading as news outlet to a White House senior counselor, is right now the direct line between the European far-right and Donald J. Trump, leader of the free world.
“If Stephen gets the offer to be Chief of Staff and says yes, then he runs the show,” a Trump aide told The Daily Beast before Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was picked for that job, and Bannon received his very, very senior position.
That’s more than a little bit disturbing, considering that Bannon was openly influenced by Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl, who rose to prominence as a blonde bombshell before producing such masterpieces of propaganda as “Triumph of the Will.”
So strong are the winds of right-wing change at the moment—even if it’s not clear whether they’re just gusts or sustained—that when the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, convened EU foreign ministers for an urgent dinner Sunday night to discuss the impact of the Trump victory, two quickly declined: Britain’s once and future Brexiteer, Boris Johnson, which was not much of a surprise; and France’s Jean-Marc Ayrault, who demurred as if he had something better to do. In fact, his Socialist government is scrambling to find right-wing credibility before elections next spring: a Sisyphean task given polls showing President François Hollande now has an approval rating of 4 percent (you read that right: 4 percent).
From the Netherlands, The Daily Beast’s Nadette De Visser reports that Geert Wilders (famous for his dyed blonde hair) is tapping into Trump's one-liners: “We will make the Netherlands great again,” he tweets, adding: “I will give the Netherlands back to the Dutch because the Netherlands is our country.”
“Everywhere democratic revolutions are underway. They will drive the elites from power,” says Wilders, whose Twitter feed seems to mirror Trump’s—or is it Bannon's?—at every turn.
Similartly, Wilders has no qualms about using the Kremlin’s RT television network to broadcast his message. In an interview with RT, Wilders said, “Politics will never be the same and what I call the ‘patriotic spring’ is an enormous incentive. What I say to the Europeans is, ‘Look at America, what America can do, we can do as well.’”
And up to a point the strategy appears to be working. Geert Wilders’s PVV is on the rise in some of the polls, which suggest it will be the biggest political party in the Netherlands. After Trump’s victory, the PVV went from 27 to 29 potential seats in the Dutch parliament, which would make it the single biggest bloc. But Wilders's record shows he’d find it almost impossible to pull together coalition partners in the 150-seat assembly. So where he’ll continue to build his notoriety will be on the international stage—a mission Breitbart is likely to make very possible.
Barbie Latza Nadeau reports from Rome that Matteo Salvini of the Northern League, who may be the most blatantly racist and xenophobic of all the West European wingnuts, says he’s offered to help Trump make inroads in European politics. “If Brexit teaches us something, if the election of Donald Trump teaches us something,” Salvini tweeted, “it is that today we get going to take over the power.”
But not everybody is as flattered by Trump/Bannon’s attentions as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, and Matteo Salvini have shown themselves to be. And the least flattered, most offended of all may be the European leader most often compared to Donald Trump in terms of background and style.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is patently offended by the analogy. “Of course there are some similarities in that he is an entrepreneur who decided to use his expertise to help his country,” Berlusconi said of Trump to Corriere della Sera. “But I have never opted for protectionist or isolationist policies that would hurt the country,” and “politics has taught me that people are not judged by programs, but by their behavior. Let’s see him at work.”
Good idea. And once the Trump tsunami has passed, let’s see what is left of Europe.
Err...what would you have recommended that he do ?Gus wrote:Not drawing salary, while handing over business to kids and claiming there will be no conflict of interest is.... What is the word to use ?
presidents are supposed to put all business interests into a blind trust whilst they are in office. his son has previously refused to do soArjun wrote:Err...what would you have recommended that he do ?Gus wrote:Not drawing salary, while handing over business to kids and claiming there will be no conflict of interest is.... What is the word to use ?
in the not too distant future we will see tsar putinovich take credit for this orange revolutionhnair wrote:Kind of ironic that khan foments all sorts of color-revolutions around the world and yet this "Orange Revolution" happened right at American heartland without warning.
Do not want to be around, if wikileaks come out at some point with emails from Putin that he helped organize this. too much nook-nudity right there
You might find this tweet interesting:LokeshC wrote:Complaining about electoral college after the election is already over is like playing a NFL football (american) game prepared and dressed up as a baseball player and then cry after getting the everloving sh1t kicked out of you.
But some folks are now going further: Playing football prepped properly, understanding all the rules of the game, losing sorely on the metrics needed to win and then complaining that the rules are not of baseball where the metrics might have been better.
Spoken like a true Bharat Rakshak.LokeshC wrote: I am happy, regardless of what happens to me here.
Au contraire, That might be Trump's Carpe Diem moment and his ability to think on his feet will prove something which might help Americans.Austin wrote:
Trump has to be Really Lucky and May God Save him that a Crash and worst then 2008 would not happen under his watch.
There is a huge difference in complaining before entering/(results) the game versus whining after loosing the game!Dipanker wrote: You might find this tweet interesting:
Something that has no conflict of interest that does not depend on a person's say so?Arjun wrote:Err...what would you have recommended that he do ?Gus wrote:Not drawing salary, while handing over business to kids and claiming there will be no conflict of interest is.... What is the word to use ?
